Nice point of view on TBBT. But I can't help thinking it's a bit bitter. Not every season is great, and there is much that could be made better, and yes, sometimes the humour is acid and aggressive and mocking rather than sharing and laughing. But that is when the show is not funny. What I like of the show, on the contrary, is precisely that they make fun of the (many) little oddities of a world to which I feel I belong. Because, let's be honest, some of them are really stupid, and we should be able to see them and laugh about them: I am likely to have a predilection for certain spots in places I go to frequently, I am likely to treat anything I collect the way the guys treat their action figures, I do play the same board games as they do, I attend gaming conventions, I like them very much, I am making nerdy physics or mathematics or philosphy jokes with my friends; hey, we are more similar to the guys fro TBBT (ok, less extreme, that's right) than what we would like to admit. And yes, all this things are funny. Extremely funny. That's part of why I like my friends, beacuse they are funny and crazy and surprising and unpredictable, and -not boring-. And I am mostly like them. I have friends obsessive-compulsive with filing and alphabetical classifications, and order, but even if I am fond with the way their things are organized and how their houses look like, I see it's ludicrously funny to see them classifying even the most useless things. I can't help laughing my a** off. But I deeply respect them anyway. Because... Well, it's like James May. We all laugh at his meticulously ordinated workbench, and yet I love his precision and technicality. Because in that he's way better than I am or I could possbly be. And so are my friends.
Sometimes TBBT overdoes it, and it's not funny anymore, because it gets vicious, but for the most part, it just extremizes what these people do (and I with them).
And it's not like TBBT is not making fun of "normal" people either. Penny is monumentally daft, at times, she does incredibly stupid things, she has a shitty life too, she is a hopeless wanna-be actress; and the shows introduces us numerous "normal" people who are even dafter. Is she a character mad so that the audience can identify with her and mock the others? That would make the audience look pretty silly and stupid too.