Series/The Big Bang Theory

I don't remember when it was.

I thought a big part of it would be so he wouldn't need to take the bus.

I thought it was made clear before that Sheldon has more disposable income than he needs. He keeps a stash of cash in a jar and doesn't even cash all of his paychecks. Maybe having Leonard live with him is what made that possible. Perhaps Sheldon will learn on his sojourn that he isn't the center of the universe and has no right to try to control the lives of others.

Would he still be Sheldon at that point, or just generic Sitcom Character #124?

Depends. Maybe they could upgrade him into Sheldon 2.0, the slightly less insufferable Sheldon. Or Supervillain Sheldon, if they really wanted to go off the rails.

It's a common topic brought up with the show. One, Sheldon did say "If I could afford it I wouldn't have YOU as a roommate." to Leonard mid-season one. You could chalk it up to Early-Installment Weirdness or whatever (taken literally it doesn't make sense, but Sheldon does rely on Leonard for a lot more than balancing out the rent), as their status afterwards has basically been that they have enough for their needs even if not obscenely wealthy. Two, they all work at a university, which tends to pay a little less but is more consistent in employment.

Realistically, everyone except Penny should be more than able to live by themselves in at least a small home with no issue, but the shows premise is mostly about singles living in apartments in a city, not families living in a home in the suburbs.

They're pairing everyone but Raj up, so they're halfway to having families in apartments in the city.

And I would imagine when that happens the show will be on its way out. I don't mean that in the strictly "quality" sense but that a certain premise can only be taken so far before it reaches its logical end point. For me the premise of the show has always been about the characters realizing there is more to discover about life than the small bubble they created for themselves, and they start expanding their universe. Hence the name "The Big Bang Theory." Once you start going domestic with kids you've come full circle.

Yeah, there are three more seasons ordered, but I think there's only one more season of story here.

We've got one married couple one engaged couple a couple who are slowly marching forward through the collective angst of their own social issues, and an Indian guy who continually shoots himself in the foot because he's a sitcom idiot. While I'm sure they'll manage three seasons without pushing too far ahead on those couples, I can't see them being good seasons. It wouldn't surprise me if, somehow, that second wedding is the series finale.

Just because they've already done wedding angst with Howard and Bernadette and I don't know why they'd roll with it a second time unless they were somehow going to get Amy and Sheldon to the altar within three seasons too. Or to whatever qualifies as an altar for those two. Maybe them actually doing the deed and Amy getting pregnant off the first time?

You know, I can see Leonard and Penny's engagement and actual wedding go completely different from Howard and Bernadette. Those two got engaged comparatively quick and so much of their engagement was still figuring each other out: personality quirks, family connections, shady past, etc. It was actually a good thing that the show went that direction with the whole thing, because it showed them actually going through a real courtship.

Leonard and Penny have seven years of history already, by which they pretty much already know who the other person is and the family they are marrying into. So I would imagine their story will be their adventures in actually planning the wedding and not the ups and downs of their relationship while doing so. I can imagine some humor from deciding just how much Romulan Ale will be available at the open bar.

Sheldon and Amy, well, nothing about their relationship is really what you would call normal. If marriage does become an option eventually then it's going to be a lot more than a certificate, probably an 85 page contract with regular updates every 6 months.

after see sheldon try to speak klingon in bernadette weeding you can totaly see him try to do a star trek theme weeding

edited 2nd Jul '14 1:16:37 AM by unknowing

He'll try, but considering Amy's track record with weddings, she's going to be controlling to the extreme. It'd be one more fight in the long line of fights they've already had. Amy has a lot of catching up to do to make up for her shitty childhood, so I doubt she's going to settle for anything less than a perfect wedding.

As long as she's marrying Sheldon, I have a hard time imagining how she'd make a "perfect wedding" actually happen.

you know, after see somes episode, i can said that leonard wasn kidding about sheldon being a supervillian:

when leonard get sick of the way that sheldon treat him and denid the rootmate agreement, sheldon make a enfort to bring leonard back because he pretty much depend of him for almost everything

And when Howard get to see Stephen hawkings, Sheldon act like ass and only apologies to see hawkins

So...what comic book mach better with sheldon? my bet is doctor doom

I just realized, Sheldon makes stuff so overly complicated. Like that bet on the cricket's species? Instead of capturing the blasted thing and dragging it down to Lewis Black's lab, they just could have changed the ambient temperature in the room. Sheldon DID say that Snowy Tree Crickets change frequency according to the ambient temperature, so if changing the thermostat altered the chirps in any way, it would have been a STC instead of a regular field cricket.

But the room temperature is defined in the roommate agreement, you can't just arbitrarily change it.

edited 19th Aug '14 10:42:00 PM by ZheToralf

For crying out loud, Sheldon has contingencies for shit that ain't even real. He SHOULD have had one for bets and experiments within his own orderly home. Or, I guess, he could have taken the cricket out of the house and into other places, counted the chirps, and did it that way. Of course, at that point, he would have been just as well off to visit the lab.

ETA: I know it's for Ruleof Funny and to give Lewis Black a reason to be there, so I'll stop arguing.

edited 20th Aug '14 2:00:56 PM by Journeyman

There was a conflict of interest inherent in the bet itself, as if Sheldon were to suggest the "change the temperature" idea Howard would argue that Sheldon would skew the results in his favor. Not to mention it would have to be quite an extreme temperature change not just in the apartment, but to make sure it reached wherever the cricket was. The only guaranteed way to properly conclude the bet would be to locate the cricket and have it identified by a professional.

Silly, yes. But no matter how you go about this plot, being a silly activity with high stakes was the point.

Indeed, the whole thing was an excuse to visit the crotchety bug expert played by Lewis Black.

Great season premiere. Love Penny's hair now. Also I got the final question on the Archimedean Solid with 20 triangular faces, 30 square faces, 12 pentagonal faces, 60 vertices and 120 edges. RHOMBICOSIDODEDAHEDRON!!! I've been teaching my nephew about 3d solids using polyhedral dice and Magformers. He is going to be such a geek. Mwah ha ha ha ha.

It's funny how you don't realize how much you miss a show until you see it come back on. Watching these first two episodes I just had a smile on my face. They play a lot with the idea of Status Quo Is God, but things do change on the show and it is done so effortlessly a lot of people don't realize it. True, the show doesn't aim to be as wild and unpredictable as other shows, but that doesn't mean it isn't good at what it is trying to do.

The line that stuck with me for the night, "Just tell them lots of things can cause rectal bleeding." It's taken Bernadette a while but she has finally grown into her own, uniquely hilarious character.

The show's resistance to change (which comes largely from its format and its formula being so popular) serves to make what change does happen all the more meaningful and satisfying.

I can totally get people not signing off to Sheldon's class though. If I imagine me having such a professor...*shudders*

I know they've said that it's Sheldon who's one lab accident away from becoming a supervillain, but frankly I could easily imagine it happening even easier to Bernadette given the right circumstances.

Worse, it's like she's half-way to actually causing her own lab accident.