LoneHaranguer

Students are often advised not to pay off their loans until they're successful and don't need to be in debt at all anymore; educational loans generally carry a favorable interest rate compared to the alternatives. The fact that Leonard was able to buy Penny a car when she needed one says that he does have some savings despite his spending habits and relative lack of success in his career, and I'm sure that amongst the junk he's collected over the years are at least a few items of real value should he be willing/forced to sell.

Because fantasy is the obvious choice for someone who was inspired by haunted houses and is into Star Wars gaming?

All of the guys have spending problems. Sheldon has an advantage in that he has earmarked money for things that don't exist yet, and won't for years. Presumably he only cashes checks as he needs to, but that will sometimes be because the check is about to expire, so he'll often have extra cash on hand he's "not using" and can loan out.

I've seen it suggested that it's a red flag if a product is not available in stores; if it were any good, somebody would be happy to have it on their shelves. I think that ignores the possibility that the manufacturer doesn't want to share the profits, but I'm sure there's quite a bit of truth in the idea.

She might have if she thought it would do something about Leonard being her "disappointing child".

The difference is that going home at the beginning is embarrassing, while going home near the end is frustrating; two different kinds of suckitude that the contestants should be able to make clear, as other reality contestants have before. It would still be stating the obvious, but TH's like this are just intended as filler. A few seconds one way or the other and it might have been dropped or replaced with a filler of a different length.

He didn't have to be. Not conforming would mean that his time there would be limited, but so what? He could get what he could and leave better off.

The Doctor Who writers have partially explained this as being a critical time in human history. Why so many aliens seem compelled to keep visiting Great Britain (it's not always London) is an open question,

No, Leonard is insecure about their relationship and what he's bringing to the table, so letting him know that she's now financially independent is something she would have wanted to put off as long as possible. She recognized that she had other passions and didn't need to be a success at acting to be happy. Just because she stopped looking doesn't mean she was going to turn down a chance if one came along unexpectedly. Yes, but the director had enough footage that he didn't need them any more to finish the film.

I would agree that he doesn't need to take the job for the plaintiffs to get their due. And he doesn't need to take it to try to get Chuck's respect, because that won't happen. But why isn't he taking it for himself?

A non-regular could still just come back or check around and find them. But, it does mean that it's worth trying to figure out if he's just passing through and won't be around long enough to do that.

Really more stripper than porn star. Maybe he watched Rock of Love; that's the kind of women the producers were casting for Bret Michaels to pick from.

Knowing that this dude was the one who contacted the show and that that wouldn't have been long after he started chatting with her (given the typical delay before filming), Nev and Max's persistence was a bit unsavory. Dawaun's only interest may have been to take advantage of a woman would had been going through tough times and might be vulnerable to the person who had been lending a sympathetic ear, if there was a way to smooth over having lied about his identity (enter Nev and Max).

Attending to details should be automatic for someone working at an upscale law firm, so commenting on it and suggesting writing things down comes off as very condescending, but I think Chuck was just afraid that Ernesto would get fed up and half-ass the tasks, claiming he "forgot" some of what Chuck asked for.

The difference is that with a celebrity, there's a much greater chance that she'd think she would get something of value out of it (even if its just bragging rights), making the situation akin to a hooker discovering she was paid in counterfeit bills.

I really liked the undertaker because it was a great execution of a new concept. The elements fit the character, so they weren't something you've seen before (so much that one of the judges was thrown by the respirator). A sheriff has been done to death, and a bank robber is so similar, they really should have associated a banker with the bank instead. Somebody must have wanted to see a mechanical gun arm.

I presume it has something to do with the fact that different materials shrink by different factors when they cool and you reach a point where the piece is solid enough that it could be damaged by the stress of cooling further in the mold. It's not unusual for a contestant to open a mold the next day and find cracks or tears. OTOH, you can't open things up before the piece is ready to hold together on its own, and we've seen that too. Emily decided that waiting was the bigger risk, although she was probably influenced by how stressed she'd be overnight not knowing where she stood with her sculpt.

What Peter Gould said sounds suspiciously like it's not something they entirely worked out and are looking for viewers to fanwank what happened.

Jimmy told Hamlin that the paper that was being delivered still had to be brought inside by somebody. He should get an old-fashioned ice box. Properly insulated, ice will last a long time; originally, the ice that icemen delivered to homes was harvested from ponds during the winter.

When schooling declined enough that hardly anybody knew what the word "venereal" meant.

IMU exposing yourself to someone can be classified that way under current law. I don't think that would have been true back when Jimmy did it. True, and I can totally see the Rolex con working, but the bar is pretty high for the coin. Claiming that the head of the coin is upside down from what it's supposed to be would probably be an easier sale.

I think it would have made more sense if Jimmy had found Marco in a bloody heap, because that's much more likely for a guy hanging out in a dark alley after conning a montage full of people than a surprisingly well-timed heart attack. I don't see how anyone would fall for the coin scam. I could see how someone might not know which way the face should be pointing, but there's no plausibility. A mint worker doesn't like the design, so he makes up his own dies and slips them into production? Then there's somebody in the bar who happens to have one of the rare coins and would rather sell it for whatever a random stranger can cough up than to a coin dealer or pawn shop? Even if the mint story wasn't BS, you could count on the coin being counterfeit.

It's possible that Howard wouldn't have even considered lending his TARDIS to anyone at the time and that wasn't his we saw, but with the threat of losing it, we should have heard him arguing the possibility of renting it out (even if the plot demanded that Bernie not agree to it).

They do around here (Massachusetts). It takes a few seconds to punch in what you want to do so that you can get a number starting with the right letter (for plates, licenses, etc), then you have a seat in the waiting area.

I just hope the writers don't get lazy. They did on Quantum Leap and what the main character became each week turned into a meaningless throwaway, leaving viewers with a formulaic detective show.