[rchaud]

TBBT is not a "parody". It is your standard-issue broadcast network sitcom about 3 males, 3 females and their friendships as they date and break up with each other, marry each other and have kids. This is a successful premise that has stood for decades in American TV. Friends and How I Met Your Mother followed the same principles almost to a tee. That's how you get a show that runs for 10 seasons in this day and age.

Pointing out that TBBT's parody is poor is like saying Will & Grace did not portray a representative picture of gay urbanites.

[InitialLastName]

It's funny that you compare TBBT to Will & Grace, since they have very different receptions among their subjects.

I know lots of gay urbanites who feel well-represented by Will & Grace. I know lots of people in the "trad nerd" set, but none of them see The Big Bang Theory and say "yep, that's me".