This is a well made video. It shows our own cognitive dissonance about things like this. It is one of my favorite shows ever, but this video really makes you think. (and laugh) It is worth the watch. *promote

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I never liked the show for exactly the reasons this video talks about. I could never articulate it as well it as it did.
Best I could say is it makes fun OF nerds and geeks, not WITH.

I'm a total self-confessed geek. I play video games, I like sci-fi, Star Wars AND Star Trek and I was even given a Lego Saturn V for my 40th by my friends who are also geeks. Hell, I work as a computer programmer.

I should find this show hilarious.

But I hate it.

Aside from the creepy undertones, it's a really tired stereotype. Yeah, I'm a geek and I like geek things, but I'm also a martial artist, a snowboarder and a mountain biker. And the same is true of all my "geek" friends. The idea that just because you like comic books means you're Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons hasn't been true for decades.

I literally don't know anyone like the characters on this show (and that's not "none of my friends are like this", that's "I don't think many people like this exist").

And even if they are, that still doesn't justify what's going on in this show.

Lots of friends and family that love the show, but I never could get into it. So no love for it or urge to defend it. Also having not watched much of it I don't know how good/bad this aspect of the show is. However, I've stopped watching the video at the 7 minute mark as it feels an awful lot like an over analysis of flawed characters. When a show has flawed characters, and something like their ignorance, or sexism is exhibited in a way that the audience is supposed to laugh AT the flaws I don't see that as insidious.

Correct me if the rest of the video has more vulgar examples/clips but it sounds to me like protesting too much.

And that's exactly the reason I never liked the show, it's the same old, shitty stereotypes. This show masks its mocking of geeks and nerds by making them main characters and adding more detail to their interests.
Other than that, it's the same misogyny and lazy jokes that rely on the laughtrack to work at all that you can find in 'Two and a half men'. Yeah, Tigerblood Charlie Sheen was right, Chuck Lorre is a hack.