History Headscratchers / TheBigBangTheory

* Why aren't I able to become a fictional character on the show, and smash Howard in the face with a baseball bat for dumping Bernadette?
** Because the [[ThursdayNext Prose Portal]] would only allow you to enter the script and not the show itself, and it was never definitively shown that Howard (a known UnreliableNarrator, who I think never actually said anything that specific) dumped Bernadette?
** He never claimed to have dumped Bernadette. His ExactWords were, "We broke up weeks ago." He explains to Raj that he hadn't told anyone yet because he "hadn't gotten around to it", or something to that general effect. Translation: she broke up with him.
*** Why aren't I able to become a fictional character on the show, and smash Howard in the face with a baseball bat for doing whatever it was that he did that cause Bernadette to break up with him?
**** Why do you think it was something Walowitz did? She could have gotten bored of him (Leslie Winkle'd), realised they really didn't have that much in common and felt that one of them was holding the other back from being truly happy, cheated on him and smashed his mom's headlights and car windows with a baseball bat... Not that she is ''likely'' to have done something so out of character as that last one, I'm just making the point that it isn't ''just'' he who might have caused the breakup. It's perfectly possible that it was decided upon mutually, and he was trying to avoid bringing it up specifically ''because'' he knew he wasn't over her despite having agreed that it was for the best. Or she could have been eaten by a pterodactyl, and "we broke up" was his way of casting suspicion off of himself and his time-machine. ''You don't know the situation''.
***** In that case, Howard could be on his way to being a JerkAssWoobie if it was the "Being Winkle'd" option.

** The most common opener in traditional Rock-Paper-Scissors is Rock. People know that, so they play paper to cover rock. Other people also know that so they throw scissors first. Which causes people to throw rock, etc etc. The entire game (even with the extra options) is one vicious, um, triangle.

* In "The Pants Alternative", does anyone other than me (Archduke Cthulhu) think that Leonard and the gang performed a damn big MoralDissonance? They saw how alcohol made Sheldon and made no action whatsoever to stop him from humiliating himself. They could of stopped him before he took off his own goddamn pants and mooned the goddamn audience! and in the morning Leonard and Penny were laughing about it being on youtube! Yes he's annoying, but there are lines that shouldn't be crossed, especially if he really can't handle alcohol well. Also back in season 1 Penny gave him liqour and saw what it did to him, she really had no clue of it?

*** Sheldon legitimately doesn't understand proper human behavior and despite the fact that he thinks he's superior, he seems to legitimately TRY to be a decent person. I mean, I've only seen season 1 so far, so maybe his characterization's been derailed since then, but when he saw that Penny's apartment was a mess, he legitimitely seemed to want to help her out, despite not understanding how creepy that behavior was. Likewise, when he thought Daniel Kim was going to replace him, despite his lack of understanding of normal human behavior, he honestly seemed like he wanted to help his friends. I can think of numerous other examples, but the basic point is: Sheldon may be a bit of a dick a lot of the time, but he legitimately doesn't know better, meanwhile, Leonard, Raj, Howard, and Penny all know that Sheldon's a genuinely decent if heavily flawed person and should be more concientious of his lack of understanding. It doesn't matter that ComedicSociopathy is common in sitcoms or not, despite the fact that it's never been specifically stated onscreen, Sheldon has all the textbook symptoms of Aspergers Syndrome, or some similar disorder and it's like picking on a mentally challenged person when they act shitty towards him. Or, to put it in simpler terms: it's not cool in the slightest.

***** It's not any of the other characters either, though. At least Sheldon doesn't seem to go out of his way to be mean to his friends, though. For the most part, he legitimately thinks that his actions will help in the long run. The others, though, talk about him behind his back, and will take ''any'' opportunity to humiliate him.