(On The Big Bang Theory)
This sitcom stars a free-spirited beauty and her socially challenged scientist friends but does not demonstrate any family values. Instead, some of the main characters are rooming together with people just met (mostly problematic people), and all four leading men have dysfunctional relationships with one or both parents. In addition, the key character Sheldon Cooper is one of the most outspoken atheists in sitcom history, which leads to both religious and cultural friction with his devoutly Christian mother Mary as well as his Jewish colleague Howard Wolowitz and Hindu friend Dr. Raj Koothrapali. The show is widely considered to have stolen its characters' personalities and their relationships to one another from an earlier sitcom, Friends.[6][7][8]

(On Young Sheldon)
This prequel series to The Big Bang Theory follows the character Sheldon Cooper—one of the most outspoken atheists in sitcom history to the point where it creates religious and cultural friction with those around him, which is passed off as humorous—as he grows up in Texas from 1989 on (though, for reasons unknown, the show seems culturally frozen in that year).[63] As in The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon is a strong proponent of evolution who looks down his nose on creationists and Christians, thinking they are not as open-minded as they truly are. In an early episode, the young Sheldon publicly embarrasses his family by arguing with their church's pastor about God's existence during a sermon. For some reason, the pastor states during the argument that Charles Darwin was open to the idea of God. In reality, Darwin's claim that he was open to the idea of a Creator was simply a plan to fool the masses when pushing evolution.[64][65]