Season 2 finale, people! See you at 8:30p (ish).
Sheldon
That’s odd, I got an e-mail to meet the president of the university at 8:30 tomorrow. It must be an emergency because everyone knows I eat breakfast at 8 and move my bowels at 8:20.
Leonard -
Yes, what did we do before twitter?
Oh, and Penny knocking back on her side and interrupting Sheldon’s pattern of knocking, :).
Ep was funny but I am left feeling underwhelmed. Expected more Leonard/Penny drama I guess. Guessing when the show comes back they will be home, since they are using normal calendar times (it was a summer trip, summer is about now)?
Oh, I loved that part.
Knock knock knock Penny
Knock knock knock Sheldon
She finally got him!!
Okay, educate me…the Arctic Circle during the summer…won’t they have something like 20 hours of daylight? And why do they need to eat 5000 calories a day to maintain their body weight? It’s not like they’re going to go jogging every day.
I liked how they set up the station like the apartment at home. And I must have missed it…how did Raj and Howard convince the parental units to let them go?
“In the entire country of India, how is there no Outback Steakhouse”
One of the funniest lines in the whole season.
I knew, the moment I heard “Bozinga” That it was going to be repeated.
That wasn’t revealed. I just watched it online.
This episode was extremely funny, but it felt like a two-parter, as they set up a conflict without resolution (Penny and Leonard.) This made it feel like it was over too fast. I’m hoping that the next episode will finish the story, even if it has to be done in a flashback so the show can continue its dating scheme.
“Three months with Sheldon in the Artic Circle and I’ll be reincarnated as a well hung billionaire with wings.”
But they WILL be burning a ton of calories just to keep their core body temperature within its optimal range.
Oh, is that how that works? So people in colder climates have an easier time losing weight?
And what is a monopole, anyway?
A hypothetical magnet with only one side.
It like a dipole, only with one less pole.
No, seriously. It’s a theoretically possible magnet with only a + (or -) electromag pole, rather than the usual one plus, one minus we’ve got on our rock. More on the subject : here.
Hijack
Do you guys think, that “The Big Bang Theory” was actually the name of the Pilot episode?
We first meet Sheldon and Leonard talking about how to act in a sperm bank.
/Hijack
I knew the question sounded familiar : The Master speaketh.
I can’t watch the show anymore. It’s 80% Sheldon being neurotic and the other people making sarcastic / hateful comments. Can’t stand that kind of negative humor.
Also, how could “uranium-238” possibly be the mistake.
Another great episode. I laughed several times. The Penny/Sheldon knock was fun, but there were plenty of fun things. Maybe a little more something was needed since it was a season finale, but it was still a fun episode.
One of his most ignorant answers ever btw. Exercise is of course vital for many reasons but the crap about “you’re not going to be burning the right calories. When your metabolism is in ‘rest’ mode, you burn mostly glucose, the simple sugar that’s found in your blood. Your fat cells remain untouched, and you don’t lose any weight.” is stupid. Increase your metabolic demand and burn more calories than you take in over each 24 hours and you will metabolize fat for energy. Yes exercise is a better way to increase your metabolic demand than staying out in the cold is, for many reasons, but “the right calories”? What crap.
As to the calorie needs for cold weather metabolism - here’s one serious answer:
Inuit populations require approximately one third more calories per day than more temperately located individuals for basal metabolic needs to deal with the cold.
Anyway, a fun ep. I just wonder how long they can continue the unrequited love relationship before it grows as tiresome as Cheers did.
Oh, can anyone explain how a North Pole expedition would be used to search for evidence of magnetic monopoles anyway? And Sheldon claimed that finding them would prove String Theory, yet many other modern theories also predict the existence of magnetic monopoles as well, don’t they?
When Sheldon first announced the expedition, he said he was going to the magnetic North Pole. It’s still way up in the Arctic Circle, but they didn’t keep the terminology consistent throughout the show. I assume the idea is that any magnetic monopoles caught in the Earth’s magnetic field would be channeled toward one of the poles. I have no idea if that has a basis in fact.
I’m pretty sure the existence of magnetic monopoles would not conclusively prove String Theory (there are multiple versions anyway), but it would probably help their case.
The show does tend to sacrifice scientific accuracy for the sake of comedy on occasion. It still does a far better than you’d have any right to expect from a sit-com though.