# Big Bang 4/28--The Agreement Dissection **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050 "2011-04-28T16:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/21 "2011-04-29T15:23:50Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > She’s got a monkey on her back, ha! ha! And the monkey on her back has a monkey on its back. It’s monkeys all the way . . . up? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/22 "2011-04-29T15:33:05Z")
The mystery of why Leonard bothers to put up with Sheldon continues. Threatening your relationship with your girlfriend and her relationship with her parents over an imaginary contract is pretty psychopathic. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/23 "2011-04-29T15:41:09Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > The mystery of why Leonard bothers to put up with Sheldon continues. Threatening your relationship with your girlfriend and her relationship with her parents over an imaginary contract is pretty psychopathic. And Priya forgot to point out that a contract signed under duress isn’t valid. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/24 "2011-04-29T15:55:52Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > The mystery of why Leonard bothers to put up with Sheldon continues. Threatening your relationship with your girlfriend and her relationship with her parents over an imaginary contract is pretty psychopathic. Yeah, I woulda kicked his ass long ago - or at least kicked it to the curb. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/25 "2011-04-29T16:00:14Z")
I would have bet the roommate agreement has some sort of clause against pets. Yet, earlier this season, Sheldon had cats, cats, and more cats in the apartment. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/26 "2011-04-29T16:04:55Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > The mystery of why Leonard bothers to put up with Sheldon continues. Threatening your relationship with your girlfriend and her relationship with her parents over an imaginary contract is pretty psychopathic. Well, Sheldon did save Leonard’s life. That still counts for something, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/27 "2011-04-29T16:59:48Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > And Priya forgot to point out that a contract signed under duress isn’t valid. I thought the same thing. OTOH, while the agreement was invalidated as a ‘legal contract’, it’s going to be enforceable as blackmail until Priya either is able to accept the consequences or finds her own leverage. I was disappointed that Sheldon got interrupted though before we could see exactly what Leonard’s ‘fine’ would have been. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/28 "2011-04-29T17:16:00Z")
AFF kisses a girl and likes it, kisses a guy and barfs for hours. this show might be going somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/29 "2011-04-29T17:47:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Well, Sheldon did save Leonard’s life. That still counts for something, I guess. He (Leonard) also was dating a North Korean girl (spy I’d assume) when the elevator explosion happened. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/30 "2011-04-29T18:02:24Z")
Which means HS would ship him off to Gitmo in a picosecond. Now if this show was on HBO, they could run with the AFF/Penny 'ship and we’d really crank up the ratings! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/31 "2011-04-29T18:15:38Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > He (Leonard) also was dating a North Korean girl (spy I’d assume) when the elevator explosion happened. I think that Leonard was about to give out classified info to the sexy North Korean spy girl, too! My memory is a bit hazy about that, though… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/32 "2011-04-29T18:23:08Z")
That is correct. He was sleeping with Joyce Kim, who was a North Korean spy. He was trying to impress her with purloined nuclear material when the elevator incident happened. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/33 "2011-04-29T19:09:20Z")
Did anyone else think that the vanity card at the end about the unreliable coked up monkey was also another non to subtle shot at Charlie Sheen? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/34 "2011-04-29T19:26:48Z")
Nope. It must have been so subtle I missed it. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/35 "2011-04-29T19:45:10Z")
> [@Mikemike2](#): > > Did anyone else think that the vanity card at the end about the unreliable coked up monkey was also another non to subtle shot at Charlie Sheen? Subtle? More like Obtuse. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/36 "2011-04-29T20:09:12Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. > > When Amy Farrah Fowler said, “You smell like a sexy toddler” I almost lost it. “I don’t know how to process that.” I loved Amy coming onto Sheldon - was he more confused or uncomfortable? Hard to say - good job, Jim Parsons. 🙂 I liked the upset Penny-knocking, too - how many different ways to knock has he shown us now? 15? I thought Leonard would rein Priya in when she was lawyering Sheldon, because he knows that means that Sheldon is just going to make it worse, but he was enjoying it far too much. 😃 ---
**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 29, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/37 "2011-04-29T20:18:50Z")
Remember Leonard’s mother is very much like Sheldon, so he has experience at dealing (or not dealing) with someone like Sheldon. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/38 "2011-04-29T20:59:41Z")
Didn’t Leonard’s mother kiss Sheldon? If so, Sheldon seems to forgot that. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/39 "2011-04-29T21:01:14Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Didn’t Leonard’s mother kiss Sheldon? If so, Sheldon seems to forgot that. She did, didn’t she? I forgot that. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050/40 "2011-04-29T21:14:06Z")
That would have been an interesting answer to Penny’s question of “have you ever kissed a girl?” My mom, my sister, my meemaw… oh and Leonard’s mom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-4-28-the-agreement-dissection/580050.md?page=3)