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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly and shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]]. This gets Howard [[GoneHorriblyWrong reported to Human Resources]] that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he has to drop Sheldon's class]].

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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly and shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]]. This gets Howard [[GoneHorriblyWrong reported to Human Resources]] that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he has to drop Sheldon's class]].class]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Sheldon actually ''planned'' to do this with his class, which would have served as a KickTheDog moment. He brought some Fig Newtons for his class and was going to ask them what scientist invented calculus and had a cookie named after him, expecting them all to answer Issac Newton and then tell them they were wrong and they are actually named after a town in Massachusetts and then throw them all away. He's dissapointed when nobody signed up for the class, meaning his cookies are wasted anyway.

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Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but he finds he can't stand Sheldon either. Guest starring Creator/ReginaKing as Janine Davis from Human Resources.

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Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but he finds he can't stand Sheldon either. Guest starring Creator/ReginaKing as Janine Davis (Creator/ReginaKing) from Human Resources.
Resources has a solution for Sheldon's quandary: promote him to junior professor[[note]]more commonly called "assistant professor" or "associate professor" in American universities[[/note]] so that he's not restricted to string theory.

But that means he'll have to teach a class. Sheldon begrudgingly agrees and schedules a class. But no one enrolls. According to the department secretary, Sheldon has "a reputation for being obnoxious." It could also be that the class was not added to the course catalog in a timely manner.

Howard decides to enroll. Instead of trying to teach Howard, Sheldon instead focuses on stumping Howard, who is actually more knowledgeable about physics than Sheldon expected. The situation gets out of hand, culminating with Howard shooting a spitball at Sheldon.

Meanwhile, Bernadette is annoyed that Penny seems to not be studying the materials Bernadette put together for Penny's first day at her new job as a pharmaceutical sales rep. Amy actually enjoys listening to Penny complain about Bernadette and Bernadette complain about Penny.


* ContinuityNod: Sheldon plans to bring some Fig Newtons to class just so he can point out that they're not named after Isaac Newton before throwing them away so that no one can eat them. Sheldon pointed out the same thing back in Season Three's "The Gorilla Experiment".

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* ContinuityNod: Sheldon plans to bring some Fig Newtons to class just so he can point out that they're not named after Isaac Newton before throwing them away so that no one can eat them. Sheldon pointed out the same thing back in Season Three's [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS3E10TheGorillaExperiment "The Gorilla Experiment".Experiment"]]. %% Are you sure this is a Continuity Nod and not a Call Back or something like that?
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'''The Junior Professor Solution''' is an episode from the 8th season of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.

Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but even he can't stand Sheldon either.

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'''The '''"The Junior Professor Solution''' Solution"''' is an episode from of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' that first aired on September 22, 2014, the 8th season of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.

same night as the Season 8 premiere. Directed by Creator/MarkCendrowski. Teleplay by Jim Reynolds, Creator/MariaFerrari and Creator/TaraHernandez, based on a story by Steven Molaro, Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland.

Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but even he finds he can't stand Sheldon either.
either. Guest starring Creator/ReginaKing as Janine Davis from Human Resources.
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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly and shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]]. This gets Howard reported to Human Resources that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he has to drop Sheldon's class]].

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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly and shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]]. This gets Howard [[GoneHorriblyWrong reported to Human Resources Resources]] that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he has to drop Sheldon's class]].
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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly, shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and finally quitting Sheldon's class]].

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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly, loudly and shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]] mouth]]. This gets Howard reported to Human Resources that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and finally quitting he has to drop Sheldon's class]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Sheldon gets all of Howard's relatively difficult questions all related to engineering correct.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Sheldon gets all of Howard's relatively difficult questions all related to engineering correct. Well, all except one...
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** However this is inaccurate for three reasons. One, it was actually the work of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a Soviet scientist. Two the experiments where attempts to hybridize with chimpanzees, not gorillas. And three Stalin himself hated the idea of genetic experimentation.

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** However this is inaccurate for three two reasons. One, it was actually the work of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a Soviet scientist. Two And two the experiments where attempts to hybridize with chimpanzees, not gorillas. And three Stalin himself hated the idea of genetic experimentation.chimpanzees as they’re genetically closer to us than gorillas.
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** However this is inaccurate for three reasons. One, it was actually the work of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a Soviet scientist. Two the experiments where attempts to hybridize with chimpanzees, not gorillas. And three Stalin himself hated the idea of genetic experimentation.
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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly, shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and finally quitting Sheldon's class]].

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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{Troll}} [[{{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly, shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and finally quitting Sheldon's class]].
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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adroit in physics as Sheldon. Howard retaliates by singing loudly, shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth and finally [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quitting Sheldon's class]].

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* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adroit adept in physics as Sheldon. [[{Troll}} Howard retaliates by singing loudly, shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth and finally mouth]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and finally quitting Sheldon's class]].

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* ContinuityNod: Sheldon plans to bring some Fig Newtons to class just so he can point out that they're not named after Isaac Newton. Sheldon pointed out the same thing back in Season Three's "The Gorilla Experiment".

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* ContinuityNod: Sheldon plans to bring some Fig Newtons to class just so he can point out that they're not named after Isaac Newton.Newton before throwing them away so that no one can eat them. Sheldon pointed out the same thing back in Season Three's "The Gorilla Experiment".



* JerkassHasAPoint: Sheldon gets all of Howard's relatively difficult questions all related to engineering correct.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Sheldon gets all of Howard's relatively difficult questions all related to engineering correct.correct.
* SadistTeacher: Sheldon when he gets Howard as a student only wants to psychologically attack Howard and try to get him to admit that he's not as adroit in physics as Sheldon. Howard retaliates by singing loudly, shooting a spitball into Sheldon's mouth and finally [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quitting Sheldon's class]].
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* InterspeciesRomance: Sheldon brings up Joseph Stalin tried creating half-ape half-man warriors by impregnating human women with gorillas. Penny while eating is appalled from hearing this.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Sheldon brings up Joseph Stalin tried creating half-ape half-man warriors by impregnating human women with gorillas. While everyone else finds this fascinating and adds in their own input onto this trivia, Penny while eating is appalled from disgusted of hearing this.
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* AndYourRewardIsEdible: In the end, the guys agree not to challenge each other's intellectual superiority anymore and just enjoy candy for being such geniuses.

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* AndYourRewardIsEdible: In the end, the guys agree not to challenge each other's intellectual superiority anymore and just enjoy candy for being such geniuses. play a science-related pop quiz where the (first) winner gets candy.
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* AndYourRewardIsEdible: In the end, the guys agree not to challenge each other's intellectual superiority anymore and just enjoy candy for being such geniuses.



* HardOnSoftScience: The main conflict here is Sheldon thinking that Howard isn't smart enough to take his class because he's just an engineer.

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* HardOnSoftScience: The main conflict here is Sheldon thinking that Howard isn't smart enough to take his class because he's just an engineer.engineer.
* InterspeciesRomance: Sheldon brings up Joseph Stalin tried creating half-ape half-man warriors by impregnating human women with gorillas. Penny while eating is appalled from hearing this.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Sheldon gets all of Howard's relatively difficult questions all related to engineering correct.
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Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but even he can't stand Sheldon either.

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Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but even he can't stand Sheldon either.either.

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* AccidentalAimingSkills: Howard is very impressed that he managed to get a spitball right into Sheldon's mouth.
-->'''Howard:''' Is that going to be on the test? Because I don't think I can do it again!
* AttackTheMouth: In a downplayed example, Howard shoots a spitball at Sheldon, who just happens to turn around at that very moment and it goes straight into his mouth. Naturally, it doesn't hurt him, but he does freak out about having Howard's spit inside him.
* ContinuityNod: Sheldon plans to bring some Fig Newtons to class just so he can point out that they're not named after Isaac Newton. Sheldon pointed out the same thing back in Season Three's "The Gorilla Experiment".
* HardOnSoftScience: The main conflict here is Sheldon thinking that Howard isn't smart enough to take his class because he's just an engineer.
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'''The Junior Professor Solution''' is an episode from the 8th season of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.

Sheldon (begrudgingly) becomes the professor for a graduate-level physics course at [=CalTech=] but nobody enrolls because they find him arrogant and unpleasant. Howard offers to take up the class, but even he can't stand Sheldon either.

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