LoneHaranguer

Simple products aren't always easy to use - hula hoops for example.

They couldn't get cats to do it?

Since he starts college when he's 11, it won't be long before he'll be like Dennis Kim in The Jerusalem Duality, with schools willing to do whatever it takes to get Sheldon to pick them.

Is Sonic phasing out the two annoying guys? I've been seeing ads with two women lately. They take a dig at the guys in one of them.

We saw a brief scene regarding the death of Howard's mom in the episode shown 100 days after Carol Ann Susi died, and a storyline 121 days afterwards. If this season runs like last year, there are only 50 days left, so I expect anything more than something in a vanity card will have to wait until next season.

He knew, but he didn't think it was an excuse for Siri not to understand him. I can see his point; a voice recognition system on a personal device like a phone should have had a voice-training feature so that it could learn how its owner pronounces things.

Just to clarify this issue from the recap, Riley's profile had Savenia's number because Savenia's phone used to be Riley's. Savenia had broken hers. Riley didn't update her profile with her new number, likely not remembering she had ever put in her old one. This season is just supposed to be double the twists. For this episode, I'm guessing they're counting: a) she was the person in her picture, and b) she had actually been a model (albeit entry-level).

Penny once described Howard as "kosher only on the high holidays", so he doesn't entirely ignore his religious traditions. In some families, it's the tradition to name a first-born son after his father or grandfather, to honor that person. If that's what was going on with Bernie, Howard may have been reluctant to rile her by bringing up what he knew she'd dismiss as a silly superstition.

In both cases he was clearly cast for his physical appearance, like he was in Twins. He only plays one type of character, so he was miscast as The Penguin and in this ad, which was a bad idea to begin with. If you're going to have a humanized M&M saying "eat me", shouldn't it be the green M&M?

His phrasing does suggest that he didn't consider himself to have ever been a grandfather; perhaps it was stillborn. He can't help what he wants, and he did wait until Penny was out of the room. Leonard was more concerned about being out of the loop. Sheldon will go along with a "non-optional social convention", so he just needed to be told that Beverly lying about her age fit into that category, although he'd probably crumble if anyone asked him if she was really that age.

I think everyone who's gone through public school in the U.S. has seen film of the Tacoma Bridge collapse. I wasn't concerned until a slab crushed a car in Boston. They blamed the glue supplier, as though using a bit of epoxy to hold a multi-ton piece of concrete to the ceiling of a tunnel, rather than supporting it on the ends, was a good idea.

If her nephew was the son of her brother's now ex, and her sister's baby didn't survive, Penny's father would still be looking for grandchildren. Who says Beverly was only 60 when she celebrated her 60th birthday? She may be engaging in the social paradigm in which women feel compelled to misrepresent their ages.

The only problem with "Neil" is that some people will be inclined to spell it "Neal", but a quick google suggests that there are fewer famous people with that spelling, so most people ought to get it right.

There was a point in this episode where I was struck by how much Missy sounded like a younger version of the character we saw in TBBT. Rubbing alcohol is usually put out of reach of children for safety reasons, and tends to stay there even after they're old enough for it not to be a concern anymore.

From your tone, it sounds like you got lucky. Walmart doesn't seem to have any quality control. The one nearest me is abysmal, but a mediocre one is a reasonable drive away, and there's a better one I can swing by if I'm in that area for other reasons.

But then they'd have to raise prices. Oh, wait. They're already doing that with their $1/2/3 gimmick. They're advertising their sausage McMuffin for $3. They were just 2 for $3.33 (i.e. $1.67) a few months ago.

With everyone on the internet, would having initials of WWW be a good thing or bad thing for a kid going through school?

The second guy says "Don't we need that cable box to watch TV?", implying that the two of them live there. Not sure why he crashed through the window.

That may say something about what Max watches on TV. Even though Ruth's web site says they're an international chain with restaurants all over the U.S., I know them as a sponsor of TV game shows. For a while, I think they even got a prominent mention by Jerry Springer on Baggage because it's where they were sending couples for dates.

I don't know about the audience, but there are commentators who seem to be paid to be in awe of the competitors. If he were to fall, about all you'd hear from them is something like "ooh, that'll cost him" in a respectful tone.

There's a new version of the ad where he mentions being able to get the same coverage at his old company; some state regulator must have complained. The last part of the ad is exactly the same, so he comes off as even flakier than before.

I'd buy that if more of the others were even able to spell a word.

But he might have had another in good shape that just needed some deodorizing.

It's intended to be showy as a deterrent, like being torn apart by horses.

If he's too disorganized to have something decent available to wear, he might not have had that much time. Maybe a few spritzes of Febreze on something would have done the trick.