History YMMV / TheBigBangTheory

** [[ImageBoard On /co/]], the generic references and [[strike:[[AvertedTrope laugh track]]]] audience are commonly made fun of in variations of "Hey guys, Green Lantern!" (Audience laughter shakes the studio)

** [[ImageBoard On /co/]], the generic references and laugh track are commonly made fun of in variations of "Hey guys, Green Lantern!" (Audience laughter shakes the studio)

** Enough that Chuck Lorre even commented on that prospect, saying that while they have an amazing rapport Penny would probably kill Sheldon if they hung around each other too much. Other TV writers have remarked that just the idea of Sheldon being ''[[{{Asexual}} Sheldon]]'' is what makes their relationship work is the lack of romantic entanglement. Going for SlapSlapKiss is too generic a description of their chemistry.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: "Shamy" in the Season 4 Premiere for Sheldon and Amy.

* DudeNotFunny: DependingOnTheWriter, Sheldon can go from humorously abrasive to [[JerkAss just plain abrasive]], particularly if the episode is about him -- which [[EnsembleDarkhorse a lot of them are]].
** Whether or not Sheldon happen to be the resident JerkAss - when he is scared to sleep alone in the apartment after somebody broke in, the LaughTrack suddenly feels...[[UnderStatement inappropriate.]]
* EarWorm: [[RealSongThemeTune "Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state..."]] ([[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "The history of everything"]] by the BarenakedLadies)

* FanPreferredCouple: Sheldon/Penny. [[OppositesAttract For good reason.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: After Sheldon forms his own team for the Physics Bowl, the other guys try to find a replacement. A rather inane conversation about replacing her with the "chick who played {{Blossom}}" ensues. After the idea is rejected, Winnie from The Wonder Years is suggested in a throw-away reference. The joke is that Danica [=McKellar=] is now a mathematician. Oh, and to make this even better? Danica [=McKellar=] and Mayim Bialik (a.k.a. Blossom) both show up in incredibly geeky guest parts in the third season-- with the latter having an even more permanent role in the fourth.
** The reason Amy's more blunt and socially awkward than Sheldon? Its shown that until Penny, she never had a "Leonard" to help with socialising.
** In the second {{season finale}} Penny appears to get unusually emotional with the prospect of Leonard leaving for a whole summer, which Leonard picks up on and (for whatever reason) asks Sheldon for his thoughts on the matter. Leonard was worrying that if he did leave, Penny would eventually get over him and find someone else while ''at that moment'' he might have a chance with renewing their relationship. Sheldon says that if those feelings are happening because of the simple prospect of him leaving then ''he must go'' because truthfully nothing has actually happened yet (Basically, Leonards impressions are simple theory and Sheldon is suggesting the most effective method of experimentation). When he '''does''' return she practically throws herself at him, having the summer to muse about their relationship. Considering it was his advice that got them there, ''Sheldon'' is indirectly responsible for Leonard and Penny finally hooking up.
* HoYay: Lots -- pretty much all of it intended by the writers / directors / actors. A disproportionate amount is between Rajesh and Howard. In Leonard's case, it often borders on FoeYay, as when he describes one of Penny's [[RomanticFalseLead boyfriends]] as "dreamy."
** A recent episode featured a dream of Sheldon's where Wolowitz and Raj had stopped holding desperately to the Ring of Power, [[SleepCute and were instead holding each other.]]

* TearJerker: Combined with ShoutOut [[WildMassGuessing and maybe a little]] TakeThat. C'mon, you know you shed a little tear with this dialog, when Leonard and Sheldon are signing the Roommates Agreements:
--> '''Sheldon''': (Reading) "Roommates agree that Friday nights should be reserved for watching Joss Whedon's brilliant new series ''{{Firefly}}''".
--> '''Leonard''': Does that really need to be in the agreement?.
--> '''Sheldon''': Might as well settle it now, it's gonna be on for years.
** Sheldon's meltdown in "The Guitarist Amplification", [[YourMileageMayVary to some.]]
** Sheldon's fanscript in "The Thespian Complex" with him leaving his mother to go to the future.
* UnfortunateImplications: Drunkenness can be the answer. Raj and women, Leonard's wish for being hugged.

* JerkAssWoobie: Leonard. Yeah, he may be considered a DesignatedHero and an ass, but the insults that [[JerkAss Howard]] and other characters throw at him about his height or romance life can seem mean a lot of the time. Also his [[AmbiguouslyAutistic mother]] can be quite a [[TheScrappy bitch.]]

** Yeah, that pissed me off about him, this and him in the science confrence roadtrip ep a few weeks ago.

* TheScrappy: Leonard in later seasons, and Amy Farrah Fowler, the latter of which is basically a female Sheldon introduced to be his [[strike:LoveInterest]] [[strike:[[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]]]] LoveInterest. Both are even further despised by Sheldon/Penny fans, and Amy is seen as a further attempt by the writers to discourage that ship.
** Or to have a DistaffCounterpart that tells female-specific Sheldon jokes.
*** [[YourMileageMayVary But not much of his charm, unfortunately.]]
** YMMV, of course. Many people think Amy is a perfectly good character.
* SoBadItsGood: The failed, first attempt at a pilot.

* FridgeBrilliance: After Sheldon forms his own team for the Physics Bowl, the other guys try to find a replacement. A rather inane conversation about replacing her with the "chick who played Blossom" ensues. After the idea is rejected, Winnie from The Wonder Years is suggested in a throw-away reference. The joke is that Danica [=McKellar=] is now a mathematician.
** Oh, and to make this even better? Danica [=McKellar=] and Mayim Bialik (a.k.a. Blossom) both show up in incredibly geeky guest parts in the third season-- with the latter having an even more permanent role in the fourth.

* YourMileageMayVary: Generic SitCom or unique premise? You decide!
** In terms of ''global'' viewership figures (as in, tabulating countries that aren't America), it's one of ''the'' most popular TV shows on the air, so whatever it is, it's working out fine.
** The HollywoodNerd is nearly a DeadHorseTrope. Given the huge proportion of actual nerds among TV actors, writers, and watchers, it was about time someone [[{{ShownTheirWork}} showed their work]] and catered to a subculture full of loyal fans.
** The "loveable" part of LovableSexManiac as applied to Wolowitz. He comes off as just plain ''creepy'' to many people.
*** Though ironically planned or not, [[FridgeBrilliance those are mostly the times when he's single.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: Sheldon/Penny. [[OppositesAttract For good reason.]]

** There's also some Les Yay between Amy Farrah Fowler and Penny. For example, in "The 21-Second Excitation", Amy thinks that at slumber parties, girls often experiment with lesbianism, and tries it on Penny.

** The FamilyUnfriendlyAesop in that episode with Elizabeth (Dr. Plimpton, that girl Sheldon invited at his place) seems to be [[WallBanger "remember girls, if you hook up with a nerd and then (whether your love story lasts or not) break up with him, he'll forget about you very quickly"]]. Yeah. [[SarcasmMode That's very useful to all of the already unpopular-among-girls nerds who]] [[NeedsMoreLove need more love]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited since their own is never requited]].

* {{Fanon}}: Many fans and even ''[[http://www.avclub.com/articles/jim-parsons,27415/ the actors]]'' believe Sheldon has Asperger's Syndrome.

** Sheldon's meltdown in "The Guitarist Amplification", [[YourMileageMayVary to some.]]

* JerkAssWoobie: Leonard. Yeah, he may be considered a DesignatedHero and an ass, but the insults that [[JerkAss Howard]] and other characters throw him like his height or romance life can seem mean alot of the time. Also his [[AmbiguouslyAutistic mother]] can be quite a [[TheScrappy bitch.]]

** The FamilyUnfriendlyAesop in that episode with Elizabeth (Dr. Plimpton, that girl Sheldon invited at his place) seems to be [[WallBanger "remember girls, if you hook up with a nerd and then (whether you love story lasts or not) break up with him, he'll forget about you very quickly"]]. Yeah. [[SarcasmMode That's very useful to all of the already unpopular-among-girls nerds who]] [[NeedsMoreLove need more love]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited since their own is never requited]].

** Or to have a DistaffCounterpart that tells female-specific Sheldon jokes.

* HoYay: Lots -- pretty much all of it intended by the writers / directors / actors. A disproportionate amount is between Rajesh and Howard. In Leonard's case, it often borders on FoeYay, as when he describes one of Penny's [[ThePaolo boyfriends]] as "dreamy."

** The "loveable" part of LovableSexManiac as applied to Wolowitz. He comes off as just plain ''creepy'' to many people.

* EarWorm: "Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state..."

* SoBadItsGood: The failed pilot.
** What? The pilot was almost never picked up?

** Oh, and to make this even better? Danica [=McKellar=] and Mayim Bialik (a.k.a. Blossom) both show up in incredibly geeky guest parts in the third season-- with the latter having perhaps an even more permanent role in the fourth.

* The "loveable" part of LovableSexManiac applied to Wolowitz. Really guys, he is ''creepy'', borderline to CrossingTheLine.