8 TV Character Changes That Worked Perfectly

While it's very difficult to find anything appealing about The Big Bang Theory now, if you re-watch the series from it's earlier years to the present day, the one thing that is oddly redeeming about it is how the once misogynistic and sexually aggressive Howard Wolowitz has changed throughout the years.

When he made his first appearance, Howard was everything the series proudly stood for in so many of the wrong ways. The show itself mocked the good qualities of nerd culture, and celebrated its most toxic facets, and while Howard's pining for any woman with legs and a pulse was humiliating and hilarious at first, his wicked ways grew to be more annoying and boring as the show went on.

It wasn't until he entered into his serious relationship with Bernadette that these disgusting traits started to disappear and while the manchild still had long-distance shouting matches with his mother or constantly needed to be "mommy'd" by the women in his life, at least in comparison to the rest of the nerdy quartet of the show, he wasn't as self-involved, narcissistic or unlikable as the rest.

Now if those writers could just fix the other three...