CherryAmes

My husband is an engineer and he gets a kick out of Sheldon and the way he sneers at "the Oompa Loompas of science". I guess it's a bit like being Canadian and laughing when a show makes a reference to Canada, eh. It's just nice to be noticed 🙂 .

Like others I don't think this is the route the show is going to take. Not when it's counting down to its grand finale. I really don't care one way or another if Sheldon and Amy end up with a Nobel but I would be very surprised if they write it in such a way that they lose it to those two clowns. BBT has sometimes gone down paths I wasn't happy with (Howard an astronaut?? Oh please!) but I can't think of a time when they threw any character under the bus the way they'd be throwing Sheldon and Amy under the bus if they were to have that happen.

We're househunting right now - the good news is it's a seller's market where I live which should mean our house will sell quickly. The bad news is it's a seller's market where I live which means anything good is going fast and for well over the asking price. Dammit. And totally agree with comments above about every house (it seems) being open concept. I had to laugh at a show I was watching the other day where one of the characters said "Oh yes let's get a house where we can cook dinner in the living room" 🙂!

For that matter what ever happened to the contents of Amy's apartment!

I don't think camping in a trailer is necessarily glamping. I sure didn't feel glamourous back in the day when we camped in our boler with two little kids and a dog. On the other hand the trailer friends of ours have now has a nicer kitchen than mine 🙂 ! And we love it when we get invited along - my tenting days are well behind me now!

So much this! My mother-in-law came to Canada as a war bride from Scotland and while her childhood home certainly couldn't be compared to life in a third world country it was small, smoky and inconvenient. She would have laughed at anyone who went to live in Scotland (in the 40s needless to add) and decided that the only way to experience life in a different country was to live as the poorest citizens of said country lived. Anyway lots of people deliberately choose to live uncomfortable lives for any number of reasons but the key word here is choice. Aside from which when I talked about putting one's life at risk I was actually thinking more of why expats might prefer a gated community. We have close friends who lived in Kenya for a number of years (he was with the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi) and there was no way they were going to put themselves and their children at risk for the dubious benefit of being able to say they were living like the locals.

I see your point but there are situations where you can still experience a new culture without putting yourself and your family at risk or making yourselves uncomfortable.

We've seen Sheldon in a plane when he flew to Texas with Howard. It's also been referenced a few times that he's in Texas or has recently been to Texas. We've also had at least one reference to him having been to Toronto (I caught that because I'm Canadian 🙂 ). So no reason for Sheldon not to take that plane to pick up his award.

Like others I think this was a throwaway line (which I admit as a former babysitter I found funny) but in fairness to the writers they've spent a lot of time painting Howard as a spendthrift. Even in the episode with the 3-D printer at the end he had to carry a packed lunch because, as he told Raj, he wasted his lunch money on comics 🙂. I think the message, constantly, is that Howard is a 12 yr old at least where money and household responsibilities are concerned. As I've noted though (and what a surprise to find a sitcom isn't consistent!) is that they don't always stick to this version of Howard - only when it suits the story.

Possibly. Lots of families crash and burn when one of the parents dies or is incapacitated. Tragic fact of life. Which won't be a place they go on BBT fortunately! And still doesn't really resolve the short term problem of dealing with Howard the Manchild. Bernadette is smart if she's at all concerned that Howard would be unable to pull it together and put the kids first she's likely made contingency plans to have someone else take over the finances. LOL -- I think we are all way overthinking this though 🙂

They seem to be setting up Sheldon and Amy this season for potentially winning a Nobel Prize. I guess they're setting Raj up for a possible marriage, maybe Penny and Leonard for a baby - no idea if they're setting anything up for Howard and Bernadette. In any event I hope they do have an epilogue at the end of the last episode to tell us "what happened next". I don't want updates through YS - as you note not everyone watches it for one thing and for another it's Sheldon's show not anyone else's so why would the voiceover reference future events of people we (theoretically) don't know. Satisfy my curiosity in the next few episodes or in an epilogue in the finale! Please powers that be 🙂 .

I don't think this was grocery money, this was god forbid Howard should cook a meal for himself so go crazy and order pizza money.

I hear what you're saying and in many circumstances would agree with you completely. The way the finances are conveyed for Howard and Bernadette though I disagree. As Howard himself put it he's on an allowance "until I learn the value of money". What else is Bernadette supposed to do? Let Howard throw their money away? I do hate the way they bang the Bernadette earns big bucks, Howard earns peanuts drum which comes up WAY too often but in fairness that's not the reason Bernadette controls the finances.

On Everybody Loves Raymond by the last season Robert was pushing 50 and his wife was early 40s, they talked about having kids but never in a "whoa we better step on it" kind of way. I see the same thing here on BBT. Granted they are all still clinging to their 30s (regardless of the real age of the actors involved) but still it would be completely plausible if Amy were to be concerned that she's missing a window of opportunity to start a family - especially that family of triplets and/or quints 😃!

I agree with you here but like I said earlier they can be pretty inconsistent with Howard. In an episode from earlier in the year Bernadette is burned out and comes home and hides in the Wendy house in their backyard Howard knows she's doing this and doesn't get mad at all and instead is picking up two babies from daycare. coming home and holding down the fort while giving Bernadette the space he knows she needs. Yet in this episode she leaves money on the table for him to buy take out and seems very unsure about whether he's capable of looking after the children for a week-end. 🤷‍♀️ like I said earlier, whatever fits the plot on any given day I guess. Oh well I still liked this episode a lot!

Howard didn't quit his job, as was mentioned upthread he got taken off the bank account and put on an allowance a few seasons back and not without reason! They're funny with Howard, in some ways he's being written as a former sleaze who grew up and accepted responsibility and yet they can't resist harkening back to the "mama's boy" image of him and still having him basically selfish and lazy. Guess whatever fits the plot on any given day.

I've got this on PVR but I'm hesitating to watch it. Last week I turned off the episode less than half way through it. I dunno. Somehow it feels like YS has taken a sad turn. Will I be pleasantly surprised if I watch? I just don't watch sitcoms for sadness.

Yeah I could totally buy Bernadette not wanting to leave him alone with access to a credit card...or a bank account. This is one aspect of "Bossy Bernadette" that I actually understand - they have been very good about showing that Bernadette has to be in control where the money is concerned because Howard is a total idiot who makes very bad decisions!

That's true but we've never been shown what Beverly is saying to her other children. It's possible she's playing the same mind games with them that she has always played with Leonard. I guess this is one potential storyline though that will never be pursued.

We know he has a much older sister and a brother. Depending on the episode it seems to me that the writer(s) du jour forgets whether it's an older or younger brother. Mostly though they do seem to go with younger. What I've always wondered about was if Leonard was the only sibling that got the special "mothering" from Beverly or if they all have a tale to tell!

I just saw this episode a few minutes ago (only way I will watch BBT is through the magic of PVR) and Leonard doesn't remember the tests from babyhood, the tests being done on the babies triggers childhood memories. Like the name of his cabin at camp being "Control Group" 😃

I really liked this episode. Laughed out loud a few times. My one criticism is that they've turned Penny into a mini-Bernadette where work is concerned. Can Lorre and his writers not comprehend that is is perfectly possible for a woman to be capable, even excel in the workplace, and not become a harridan? I guess they do allow for that with Amy but mostly they seem to show any woman in a position of power over others being a bully. I hate that 😞 .

I am old enough now to find that harsh and ridiculous! I know there are medical reasons behind it not Hollywood fluffery but it's still jaw droppingly dumb.

I don't recall them ever saying how old Amy or Bernadette are but I've always assumed that means they are within a few years of their respective guys in age otherwise you can bet that it would have come up! Which means since we know Howard and Sheldon are in their late 30s Amy and Bernadette can't be too far behind. I agree with your point about age and having babies as well. It's funny how this rarely comes up on sitcoms even when the potential parents are a lot older than Amy and Sheldon. There is a point where it has to be an issue and not just because getting pregnant might be harder. The older you get the harder it gets to get down on the floor and play with a kid!