FolkLorre

[FlyingMonkey]

Bottom line: a truly funny comedy is not about "becoming a better person", because "a better person" is then defined to mean "that which will never offend or confuse anyone, so that we can have the largest number of viewers and make the most money." Meanwhile, it's okay for certain characters to be cruel or hypocritical or dishonest, as long as they are reinforcing the values of the viewer. You don't actually have to be good, you just have to be "nice."

There was no "growth" on Seinfeld. No one became a "better person". The characters were exactly the same at the end as they were at the beginning. The only concern of TPTB was to be funny. They mocked the "better person" approach in the bizarro world episode with the sickeningly sweet versions of the characters. That's what TBBT is becoming - a bizarro world where all the original characters are totally different from the way they started.