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** TL;DR This series is about the pop-culture conception of nerds, not actual modern-day nerds. By necessity they have to confine themselves to the most mainstream definition of nerdery, or risk losing their non-nerd viewers. While the general public is aware of the existence of anime and manga, it's only in the vaguest sense of "those weird cartoons from Japan". Aside from Pokemon there are precious few animes that are considered household names, and even that would be pushing it.
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** TL;DR This series is about the pop-culture conception of nerds, not actual modern-day nerds. By necessity they have to confine themselves to the most mainstream definition of nerdery, or risk losing their non-nerd viewers. While the general public is aware of the existence of anime and manga, it's only in the vaguest sense of "those weird cartoons from Japan". Aside from Pokemon there are precious few animes that are considered household names, HouseholdNames, and even that would be pushing it.
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** I have wondered that too and I would say it's just meant to be RuleOfFunny out of universe. In universe honestly don't know.
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* Near the end of The Tam Turbulance Sheldon imagines life if Tam had moved to Califonia with him, which starts with Leonard showing up at the apartment and getting turned away beause Sheldon already has a roommate. From a Doyalist perspective I get that the point of the scene was to show that if Tam lived with Sheldon, Leonard would never have move in with him, but from a Watsonian one, why is he there? In the scene he does claim to have called Sheldon about the appartment, but when Sheldon already has a roommate, why would he be advertising the appartment as being for let?
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* Near the end of The Tam Turbulance Sheldon imagines life if Tam had moved to Califonia with him, which starts with Leonard showing up at the apartment and getting turned away beause Sheldon already has a roommate. From a Doyalist perspective I get that the point of the scene was to show that if Tam lived with Sheldon, Leonard would never have move in with him, but from a Watsonian one, why is he there? In the scene he does claim to have called Sheldon about the appartment, but when Sheldon already has a roommate, why would he be advertising the appartment as being for let?
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** That makes sense. He’d know first-hand whether he was being sarcastic himself, others it’s less direct and thus less clear.
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** If I'm not mistaken the title in question was ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', which is an occult horror comic. It contains about as much sex as a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie, which is to say not zero but it's not the main [[JustForPun thrust]] of the title either.
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** If I'm not mistaken the title in question was ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', which is an occult horror comic. It contains about as much sex as a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie, which is to say not zero but it's not the main [[JustForPun thrust]] "thrust" of the title either.
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*** How is said paycheque ''enough'' to cover rent?
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** Clearly, he doesn't remember that there aren't any lyrics to it. Alternatively, it may be that he hopes that if he finds the right words, it'll help clue him in to the rest of the song.
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* So Sheldon can't remember which song that riff comes from. He actually gets it slightly wrong, but let's put that aside for a second. It's a riff from the song; at no point are any section of the lyrics sung with those notes. So why is he trying to remember it by singing various lyrical snippets to it? That isn't going to work even if he sings a section of Darlin', because he'll still be singing the wrong tune for the words.
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* So Sheldon can't remember which song that riff comes from. He actually gets it slightly wrong, but let's put that aside for a second. It's a riff from the song; at no point are any section of the lyrics sung with those notes. So why is he trying to remember it by singing various lyrical snippets to it? That isn't going to work even if he sings a section of Darlin', because he'll still be singing the wrong tune for the words.
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* It's worth pointing out that none of the characters in the show actually grew up in Pasadena; the closest is Amy, who comes from Glendale. (This troper lives in LA and has never heard of the 'Pasadena accent' either, but that's another issue.) As a result, none of them have it.
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** I disagree with that page, Pasadena doesn't have it's own separate accent.
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*** Yes - she has at least half a dozen friends just in the subset of "people who like to watch Nebraska football".
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** If it's not an exaggeration, then even if they use up 100 containers a year, it'll take them 40 years to run out of them. That's a long way down the line to kick the problem.
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** Going off of a couple of implications in the show, it's implied that there's a fair amount of paintball and Wii sports going on. While this isn't much, it does mean that they're not just sitting at home reading comic books/watching TV all day when not at work. It's also possible that the cast mostly eat healthy food, with takeout once or twice a week that just seems more regular because we're not watching the episode where they have pasta and fish.
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** It refers to that one OneMillionBC film where the Caveman word for "dinosaur" was "neetchya". Sheldon referring to an obscure Sci-Fi movie fits. '''But''' Sheldon did not go on and on and on about Dinosaurs and Humans being in totally different time periods. So the explanation raises more questions than it resolves.
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** It refers to that one OneMillionBC HollywoodPrehistory film where the Caveman word for "dinosaur" was "neetchya". Sheldon referring to an obscure Sci-Fi movie fits. '''But''' Sheldon did not go on and on and on about Dinosaurs and Humans being in totally different time periods. So the explanation raises more questions than it resolves.
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*** Compared to some real life professors, he's actually fairly decent. Also, RuleOfFunny.
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*** ...Why would anyone in their right mind trust ''Sheldon Cooper'' of all people to ''teach''?! He's more mature in ''Series/YoungSheldon'' than he is in the Big Bang Theory!
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** Also, I got the feeling that the relationship was strained already--as noted above, long distance relationships are ''hard.'' They were long-distance, already starting to drift apart, and then both of them cheated on each other with someone else. That pretty much signals the end of the relationship.
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* This episode bugged me in a few ways. first, Leonard claims him parents pushed him into science, since they were both scientists. However, his mother is in biology and his father anthropology, so why would they push him towards physics? Moreover, his brother's a lawyer, and Leonard's mother suopported him, so clearly science wasn't the issue. Maybe she just thought the chances of a short white kid from Jersey being a rapper was unlikely? On top of that, why did the presentation focus only on Howard's trip to space, with no mention of engineering whatsoever? I'm pretty sure that would have helped, seeing as engineering was what got him to space in the first place
** Maybe they didn't push him towards physics in particular, but instil an interest in science in general? Most people don't specialise in a particular field until their late teens, so when he was a kid they probably pushed him towards scientific subjects at school over others such as English Lit, History, languages, etc and by the time he came to go to university to get a degree or even selecting classes in the last few years prior to starting his degree he'd decided that he preferred/was more adept at physics than other branches. As for his brother being a lawyer, maybe his parents put emphasis on the sciences for all their children, but his brother decided to study law instead; Leonard (who it's regularly established has parental issues/maternal related neuroses) may have then felt even more obligated to follow their wishes (or even that it might finally earn his mother's love). And speaking of his mother issues, it's also possible that he's just making excuses. And yet another alternate explanation stemming from this is it could have been part of an experiment by his mother (remember she's written multiple papers and books with Leonard as a case study so she's not above using her own children as lab rats). Also, I forget what it's been stated that Leonard's sister does, but iirc it's established that she also has a high paid career, so maybe their parents pushed each of them to a different field?
** As for Howard and the presentation, maybe they were planning on it but got blindsided by the girls they were giving the presentation to? Maybe the plan was to go "hey girls, being an astronaught is cool right? Well I'm an astronaught and do you know how I got to be one? Engineering!" But they were cut off at the "you didn't fly the ship and you didn't go to the moon, lame!" comment one of the girls made. That and astronaught sounds better than 'space plumber' as he's been called when he's told people about how he designed the ISS's waste disposal system.
** Maybe they didn't push him towards physics in particular, but instil an interest in science in general? Most people don't specialise in a particular field until their late teens, so when he was a kid they probably pushed him towards scientific subjects at school over others such as English Lit, History, languages, etc and by the time he came to go to university to get a degree or even selecting classes in the last few years prior to starting his degree he'd decided that he preferred/was more adept at physics than other branches. As for his brother being a lawyer, maybe his parents put emphasis on the sciences for all their children, but his brother decided to study law instead; Leonard (who it's regularly established has parental issues/maternal related neuroses) may have then felt even more obligated to follow their wishes (or even that it might finally earn his mother's love). And speaking of his mother issues, it's also possible that he's just making excuses. And yet another alternate explanation stemming from this is it could have been part of an experiment by his mother (remember she's written multiple papers and books with Leonard as a case study so she's not above using her own children as lab rats). Also, I forget what it's been stated that Leonard's sister does, but iirc it's established that she also has a high paid career, so maybe their parents pushed each of them to a different field?
** As for Howard and the presentation, maybe they were planning on it but got blindsided by the girls they were giving the presentation to? Maybe the plan was to go "hey girls, being an astronaught is cool right? Well I'm an astronaught and do you know how I got to be one? Engineering!" But they were cut off at the "you didn't fly the ship and you didn't go to the moon, lame!" comment one of the girls made. That and astronaught sounds better than 'space plumber' as he's been called when he's told people about how he designed the ISS's waste disposal system.
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* This episode bugged me in a few ways. first, Leonard claims him parents pushed him into science, since they were both scientists. However, his mother is in biology and his father anthropology, so why would they push him towards physics? Moreover, his brother's a lawyer, and Leonard's mother suopported supported him, so clearly science wasn't the issue. Maybe she just thought the chances of a short white kid from Jersey being a rapper was unlikely? On top of that, why did the presentation focus only on Howard's trip to space, with no mention of engineering whatsoever? I'm pretty sure that would have helped, seeing as engineering was what got him to space in the first place
** Maybe they didn't push him towards physics in particular, butinstil instill an interest in science in general? Most people don't specialise in a particular field until their late teens, so when he was a kid they probably pushed him towards scientific subjects at school over others such as English Lit, History, languages, etc and by the time he came to go to university to get a degree or even selecting classes in the last few years prior to starting his degree he'd decided that he preferred/was more adept at physics than other branches. As for his brother being a lawyer, maybe his parents put emphasis on the sciences for all their children, but his brother decided to study law instead; Leonard (who it's regularly established has parental issues/maternal related neuroses) may have then felt even more obligated to follow their wishes (or even that it might finally earn his mother's love). And speaking of his mother issues, it's also possible that he's just making excuses. And yet another alternate explanation stemming from this is it could have been part of an experiment by his mother (remember she's written multiple papers and books with Leonard as a case study so she's not above using her own children as lab rats). Also, I forget what it's been stated that Leonard's sister does, but iirc it's established that she also has a high paid career, so maybe their parents pushed each of them to a different field?
*** Yeah. I could see Leonard wanting to do something scientific to please his parents, but also in a field that's not theirs specifically in order to get away from them.
** As for Howard and the presentation, maybe they were planning on it but got blindsided by the girls they were giving the presentation to? Maybe the plan was to go "hey girls, being anastronaught astronaut is cool right? Well I'm an astronaught astronaut and do you know how I got to be one? Engineering!" But they were cut off at the "you didn't fly the ship and you didn't go to the moon, lame!" comment one of the girls made. That and astronaught astronaut sounds better than 'space plumber' as he's been called when he's told people about how he designed the ISS's waste disposal system.
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*** Yeah. I could see Leonard wanting to do something scientific to please his parents, but also in a field that's not theirs specifically in order to get away from them.
** As for Howard and the presentation, maybe they were planning on it but got blindsided by the girls they were giving the presentation to? Maybe the plan was to go "hey girls, being an
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** Is this a REALLY deeply embedded science joke? A sort of Easter Egg for scientifically minded viewers to discover? There's Literature/AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse, a classic science-fiction stor about a house that "implodes" through an additional dimension and becomes a ''tesseract'', a four-dimensional cube: which like a Tardis is both bigger on the inside ''and'' occupies a set of dimensions which are utterly impossible in normal three-dimensional space, but perfectly feasible in four and five dimensional space. Hell's bells, Heinlein's story is even 'set'' in Los Angeles. Is this the (tamed) Crooked House?
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** Is this a REALLY deeply embedded science joke? A sort of Easter Egg for scientifically minded viewers to discover? There's Literature/AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse, a classic science-fiction stor story about a house that "implodes" through an additional dimension and becomes a ''tesseract'', a four-dimensional cube: which like a Tardis is both bigger on the inside ''and'' occupies a set of dimensions which are utterly impossible in normal three-dimensional space, but perfectly feasible in four and five dimensional space. Hell's bells, Heinlein's story is even 'set'' in Los Angeles. Is this the (tamed) Crooked House?
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** Perhaps [[https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Bloody_Stupid_Johnson B.S. Johnson]] came to [[{{Literature/Discworld}} Rounworld]] and designed it if it is physically impossible?
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** Perhaps [[https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Bloody_Stupid_Johnson B.S. Johnson]] came to [[{{Literature/Discworld}} Rounworld]] Roundworld]] and designed it if it is physically impossible?
