Shame they're still not funny even if that's the case. And you're still expected to sympathize with them several times anyway.
Funny is subjective.
I've only fully seen Season 1, and only caught glimpses of the later stuff so far.
But.... I don't find the protagonists nearly as insufferable as you do. I can at least somewhat relate with 2/4 of them and the other 2 are funny, so... Not sure what to say there.
I actually thought that the nerd references at least averted Small Reference Pools.... some of the time.
Yes.. and subjectively I find the show's humor as funny as watching a beached whale slowly die. Why do I have to explain myself on this? Is there some sort of problem with me not finding this show funny in your eyes?
As to your stateent Nova, the earlier seasons was the best part of the show, where the characters were funny, snarky and you could feel sympathetic at times. Come the most recent seasons, anything sympathetic has been more or less eradicated to be replaced with concentrated assholery.
On the contrary, it seems you have a problem given your latest response. I just pointed out a troupe, explaining that in that case it may just not be your kind of humor, which I reiterated later when I said that funny is subjective. You pointed out that you're still expected to sympathize with the characters, which is also part of the troupe. So take it easy man.
Alright, I'll explain it to you this way- if the leads of a sitcom are assholes from the getgo, mainly in British sitcoms like Peep Show and Inbetweeners for whatever reason, then I don't mind. I don't need to think about character derailment of hating characters I used to like. This series though starts off with mildly likable leads, and then over time I grew to strongly loathe their reprehensible behaviour because of how they used to be.
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Maybe if The Leads Weren't so Insufferable...
I've watched through several seasons of the Big Bang Theory, another of Chuck Lorre's bloated sitcoms, and with every season I sat through I felt a distinct sensation of bile boiling in the pit of my stomach that culminated in the most recent horrible seasons. Where to start? Well the title should be a give away- I really don't like the 'protagonists' of this show. It seems that all they do is bitch and snark at each other most of the time, acting like petty assholes and generally reflecting every negative aspect of the classic 'geek' stereotype taken to absurd lengths.
Raj is probably the worst of the lot, as at least with Sheldon there is some reason as to why he acts like he does (thought he universe bends over backwards to let him off scott free for his jerkiness a little too often...). A two-faced jerk who serves as both the ethnic stereotype and the Camp Straight character rolled into one and generally the biggest whiner of the bunch in the later seasons. He doesn't have a girlfriend, can't imagine why...
Oh but that's not to say the other characters are any better. Penny has been shown several times to be a pretty crappy individual, most notably stealing from charity and bullying her 'friends' into doing her college work for her. Amy is a spoiled brat most of the time and somehow comes off as more insufferable than Sheldon at times. Bernadette is the most tolerable of the bunch and even she has her lapses into the asshole zone.
Another thing that irks me is that this show is under the grand pretension that it's a 'geek show.' Oh no no no... First of all there's the previous point of the four main characters being dicks and a rather shoddy representation of a group. Steve Urkel is a better representation... Any reference to geek culture in the show is usually left as vague as possible to draw in a wider audience like 'lel Aquaman is lame' and the like. Most punchlines are just 'lol these guys like Dungeons and Dragons' and there's the infuriating common trend of 'lel girls don't like comic books or geek stuff.'
The early seasons were perhaps the high point of the show, and it was only in the most recent ones that the most dreadful aspects crept into existence. I really wish it would slink away...