Intelligence of a leader

[Draka]

Yeah, humour is like that. It doesn't travel well.

Still, people with high IQs are not like Sheldon! So there!

Sheldon's thing isn't his high IQ, Leonard's is almost just as high. The character of Sheldon is also written to have many other issues, including a type of OCD, eidetic memory, and symptoms of Asperger syndrome. He also grew up with a very overly evangelical mother who treated him very differently due to his intelligence and other issues she refused to deal with. See, if you watched the show enough to get a background on the characters you'd understand they are not just superficial stereotypes. They have history and issues.

 

[Alceste]

Einstein was to the point that he had a hard time with basic math and tieing shoes. Any worse than Sheldon you get Rain Man!

See? I always thought that the "intelligent" stereotypes you see on TV act more like autistic people than intelligent people.

 

[Alceste]

Sheldon's thing isn't his high IQ, Leonard's is almost just as high. The character of Sheldon is also written to have many other issues, including a type of OCD, eidetic memory, and symptoms of Asperger syndrome. He also grew up with a very overly evangelical mother who treated him very differently due to his intelligence and other issues she refused to deal with. See, if you watched the show enough to get a background on the characters you'd understand they are not just superficial stereotypes. They have history and issues.

My parents and two of the people in my band love the show. They've made us watch it loads of times when we've visited (my friends even loaned us all the DVDs, but we never watched them all because my husband doesn't like the show much either, for the same reasons). I never personally found the characters got any more complex or authentic than my first impression. Back story isn't quite the same as complexity or authenticity, to me. Even Smurfette had "history and issues".

I don't think there's anything broken and wrong about liking the show, honestly. I got a few chuckles. It just doesn't appeal to me, and part of the reason for that is that in my opinion the characters, being based on tropes and stereotypes about intelligent people, are too predictable.