A joke can't be funny AND show Sheldon being full of shit.

So I'm guessing your also going to take sheldons belief that geology isn't a real science at face value as well.

Your assuming Sheldon is all knowing and doesn't get anything wrong from time to time.

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"btw it's obvious that the audience is filled with people payed to laugh at just about anything"

That it's a HUGE misconception that big bang theory uses a laugh box. When it uses a studio audience.

Except the accepted term among pretentious critics of this show on the internet think of the laugh box. Not even bothering to do any research to back up that objectively wrong claim.

Penny dated him once because she was trying to replace Leonards presence with him.

"Bernadette was a complete airhead at first. Suddenly she then became a different person. She became a different character. The ditzy girl who didn't know what second base was just disappeared."

A good line can't serve more than one function? Theres also "fear? Thats my wheel house." He became the way he is now, because life became more depressing for him. It's not unheard of for sad sacks to regress to pathetic due to a desire for attention. Now whether that makes for good viewing YMMV.

Amy and Bernadette weren't rewritten, you just didn't know about other sides to their character right away.

You thought Stuart was normal? Puh-lease.

That was his debut episode. By his next episode, he's poking at his lack of confidence. And poking fun at his lack of luck with women, "it beats, you know I'm a dude right?"

If he did it wasn't much.

Frank Drebbin: "Well you certainly seem to be in touch with your anger."

It made sense because she was curious.

"Difference is Friends had constant quality until the end"

"because THAT plotline disappeared for about two entire seasons."

Stuart was always a sadsack character, even back in seasons 2-3.

I think you need to learn what a laugh track is.