Why It’s So Cool To Hate The Big Bang Theory

2. It's Grown Stale

Going hand-in-hand with the fact it's stuck in the past is just how stale the show has become. In its formative years, the series did feel fresh; it was a new spin on a classic format, with characters who were different to the typical cool, good-looking archetypes found in many a post-Friends sitcom.

Over the years, though, those traits have only grown more annoying as the characters refuse to change, and the series hasn't done much in the past few years to attempt to really shake things up. Storylines and relationships have mostly progressed as much as they can, jokes and setups have been wrung-dry, the characters have almost nothing left to achieve, and people have been subjected to so much of them that they simply cannot take anymore.

Sheldon, as the show's main focus, is the prime example; he's a character designed to be irritating (at least at first), but also funny, but 11 years of someone so relentlessly annoying is, funnily enough, only going to end up annoying people.