I kind of love how Sheldon repeatedly gives Howard crap because he “only” has a master’s degree.
Wasn’t there an episode where Sheldon visits Penny while she’s bartending, and she secretly gives him alcohol, and in the tag we see him playing the keyboard in the corner and singing? I remember being impressed with his voice then. 
It wasn’t. I noticed the same thing and commented on it to my wife.
One of these days Howard is going to snap and Sheldon will find himself on the receiving end of an engineer’s wrath. Could be dicey. 
I wonder why Howard doesn’t get a doctorate. Have they discussed this? Surely he’s smart enough, and could get a discount from CalTech.
Well it’s not like he’s the World’s Greatest Engineer, so how dicey could his wrath be? 
If I were Howard, I would refuse to get one just on principle.
I was a bit disappointed that they didn’t show them working together (or at least attempting to work together). That would have been fun!
The funniest part:
Raj (on seeing his coffee mug): World’s Greatest Astrophysicist? Awwww.
Howard (seeing his): Howard Wolowitz?
(Not sure this wasn’t a repeat, but it was the first time I had seen it).
Pretty funny episode, showing just how clueless and manipulative Sheldon is.
One quibble: when he was trying to bribe Raj and Howard, he gives them beer can chillers “in our school colors… Go Beavers!”. The colors were orange and black, which are the colors of Oregon State, and their team name is Beavers. Caltech’s colors are orange and white (and their team name is also Beavers). Was this a boo-boo or intentional?
Roddy
There’s already a thread for the episode here.
And he didn’t say ‘school colours’ he said ‘school mascot’.
Another issue: Sheldon said that as an engineer, Howard wouldn’t need to solve differential equations. In the real world, this would demonstrate how little he knew about engineering.
Merged Roderick Femm’s thread into the one started by Annie-Xmas.
It’s puzzling why Raj complained about being Aquaman, he clearly has a hard-on for the ocean. Every time they fantasize about being rich, Raj dreams of buying something sea-related like a jet ski or a submarine.
It doesn’t have to do with the ocean, but the (wrong) meme that Aquaman is lame, due to the limited usefulness of his ability to breathe either air or water, or his ability to command sea life (‘talk to fish’), and his weakness (must be wet at least once an hour).
I thought it was a nice touch to us real nerds that there was actually Objective-C code – the language in which an iPhone app is most likely to be written – on the whiteboard.
They have a consultant whose job is just to write what goes on the whiteboards.
While I agree that these are not the best eps, it isn’t that he’s a jerk per se. He really doesn’t get how to work with other people and really has no understanding of why his attempts to do so fail. While it is played for comedy, the character really is impaired in that way, and even this group, that generally makes some allowances for his dysfunction, can only tolerate so much. His “nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen” was honestly felt. Penny understands this and that is why she tries to help him.
I think the writers were going less for “he’s a jerk” than for the comediotragic pathos card. It’s just not working so well.
So wouldn’t the Lenwalapali app work for shoes as well? Presumably Lenwalapali works by matching pics to a database, which is the same as the shoe-app (to which add a hook-in to a shopping app once the shoes are identified, but price comparison apps are already in existence)? If so they need to combine efforts since the shoe app has enormous commercial potential once you expand it to include jeans, coats, eyeglasses, cars, cellphones, you name it (ID it & shop for it).
My ‘didn’t like’ about this episode is that Sheldon lies, claiming it was total coincidence the acronym he gave spelled SHELDON or that Project Nodlehs was Sheldon backwards when it clearly wasn’t. In earlier episodes we’ve seen that Sheldon has enormous difficulty with lying.
Nope. The differential equation solver would rely on both handwriting recognition and a variety of equation-factoring techniques. The shoe app, on the other hand, would rely on computer vision technology (probably a combination of edge-finding and other techniques) and a database of shoe models. The equation solver could conceivably use a database as well, but that would be almost the entire extent of their similarities.
I agree. I am definitely someone who is usuallly okay for a show to go anywhere for a laugh but at this point you have to wonder why they even bother with Sheldon. I hate to say it but they need to do a Very Special Episode (but a funny one) at some point to soften Sheldon a bit.
Not only that, it was a Spaceballs reference. It went along nicely with him doing the Star Wars theme earlier.
He was - badly - playing the Star Trek theme (which didn’t, actually, use a theremin), not the Star Wars theme.