# 3/30 Big Bang Theory: The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372 "2009-03-30T23:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/61 "2009-04-02T09:56:12Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Didn’t they have a whole discussion with Sheldon about him refusing to erase BSG from his TIVO? Well, the whole discussion wasn’t entirely about that, but yes, it was mentioned in the teaser to the train ep. He had too much stuff recorded for the time in which they’d be gone, I guess, and was nervous about opening up the case to futz with the hard drives. Leonard just sort of suggested something about deleting BSG to get him to agree. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/62 "2009-04-02T09:56:25Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > This is exactly what I thought. Sheldon would never date anyone even kind of like him, he’d be too upset over slight differences of opinion on astrophysicists and such. Sheldon and Penny are from different worlds, and two characters totally different but eventually falling in love is a time honored sitcom strategy. Oh hell no! That’d be worse than Data/Tasha Yar. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/63 "2009-04-02T14:30:25Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > This is exactly what I thought. Sheldon would never date anyone even kind of like him, he’d be too upset over slight differences of opinion on astrophysicists and such. Sheldon and Penny are from different worlds, and two characters totally different but eventually falling in love is a time honored sitcom strategy. I can almost see Penny falling for Sheldon because he is so pure and so oblivious to her obvious physical charms. And Sheldon, there has to be spark of animal sexuality in there somewhere right? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/64 "2009-04-02T19:13:11Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Oh hell no! That’d be worse than Data/Tasha Yar. I thought that was a brilliant match! But my money is on Sheldon remaining a-sexual. there would be something just wrong about it. He cna only really be involved with someone MUCH younger - otherwise it’s like mental-age statutory rape. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/65 "2009-04-02T20:16:05Z")
I image Sheldon sees sex, like everything else, purely on an intellectual level. Which means he goes EEEEWWWWW just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/66 "2009-04-02T20:23:39Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I image Sheldon sees sex, like everything else, purely on an intellectual level. Which means he goes EEEEWWWWW just thinking about it. The closest they’ve come to addressing it was when Leonard’s mom (Christine Baranski) visited. I loved the “I must insist you try it with me… I experience a fabulous array of endorphins afterwards” ‘seduction’ scene with her that led to their karaoke number. Now that Sheldon can grow his own Leonard Nimoy (courtesy of Penny to whom he has a life-debt) any need to sexually reproduce is long removed. Though he did have an interest in who his twin sister would mate with- perhaps he’ll ultimately go Egyptian to try and recapture his own sequences. One of my favorite moments was when he picked up a guy while trying to find a boyfriend for Penny. “Excuse me… are you currently in a sexual relationship? Well would you like to be? Can I have your phone number then? See how easy that was…”. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/67 "2009-04-03T00:12:38Z")
Don’t forget the scene where Sheldon is in the children’s section of a bookstore talking with a little girl. Leonard had to come get him (and hide his face from the security camera) not because he was doing anything wrong, but that he just didn’t get how odd it would be for a grown man to be chatting up a little girl who was a stranger to him. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/68 "2009-04-03T04:01:41Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Don’t forget the scene where Sheldon is in the children’s section of a bookstore talking with a little girl. Leonard had to come get him (and hide his face from the security camera) not because he was doing anything wrong, but that he just didn’t get how odd it would be for a grown man to be chatting up a little girl who was a stranger to him. That was quite possibly the funniest scene I’ve ever watched on a TV show. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/69 "2009-04-03T12:43:07Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Now that Sheldon can grow his own Leonard Nimoy (courtesy of Penny to whom he has a life-debt) any need to sexually reproduce is long removed. Though he did have an interest in who his twin sister would mate with- perhaps he’ll ultimately go Egyptian to try and recapture his own sequences… Very first episode- he knows that’s not at all likely. I mean, she’s a hostess at Fudruckers’! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/70 "2009-04-04T12:37:43Z")
A very good episode. Possibly my favorite this season. I laughed several times. Most everything I would say has been said, so I won’t be redundant. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/71 "2009-04-04T12:50:10Z")
> [@The\_Superhero](#): > > I’ve always thought he looked most [like a catfish](http://www.ri.net/schools/East_Greenwich/Eldredge/catfish.jpg). With those eyes, I always thought chameleon. In fact, with the squid head comment, I wasn’t sure I was thinking of the right character. (Ahhh, that seven-year-old nerd child’s Star Wars knowledge is still in my brain, somewhere! \) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/72 "2009-04-04T14:57:01Z")
It occured to me yesterday- We know Penny has girl friends from work, but at home, the boys are her only friends- mainly Leonard & Sheldon. And when we remove Leonard as “only a friend” due to the romantic tension… Sheldon is Penny’s platonic best friend. Ponder what stories can come from that being explored, especially as she realizes it & more remotely, IF he realizes it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/73 "2009-04-04T17:32:09Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Sheldon is Penny’s platonic best friend. I’m imagining the final scene of the series as the two of them in a nursing home with her helping him eat pumpkin pie ala best friends Hoke and Miz Daisy. One thing I love about the character of Penny is that she’s no dummy. In most rooms she wouldn’t lower the median IQ by much if at all- it’s just that Sheldon and Leonard’s living room isn’t most rooms. And she has a good sense of humor (the motorcycle lessons she gave Leonard for Christmas were one of my faves) and is a genuinely nice person (her nursing Sheldon- singing the kitty song and rubbing menthol on his chest even though she was ready to cut his throat)- she’s far from the stock “dumb-blonde-waitress-who-wants-to-be-an-actress” character. Of course one of my favorite of Sheldon’s bitchicisms was when she lied about having completed community college. > [@](#): > > Penny: Well, he was going on and on about this college and that grad school - and I didn’t want him to think I was some kind of stupid loser. > > Sheldon Cooper: You thought the opposite of stupid loser was community-college graduate? ---
**Author:** ![Stillwell\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stillwell\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stillwell_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372/74 "2009-04-05T15:06:37Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > This makes the three of us having Audio problems last night on the episode. Anyone Else? Yep. Same two scenes. Outside Howlowitz’s (sp?) door and the final scene. We have Comcast and a 15 year old TV that probably doesn’t have a DTS setting, whatever that is 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-30-big-bang-theory-the-dead-hooker-juxtaposition/491372.md?page=3)