# Big Bang Theory 11/17 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200 "2008-11-17T23:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/21 "2008-11-18T20:01:25Z")
Thin, blonde and on **Two and a Half Men**? Say it ain’t so! She has always been attractive because she was comfortable with being at a healthy weight. Thank Og I don’t watch that show. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/22 "2008-11-18T20:54:16Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Thin, blonde and on **Two and a Half Men**? Say it ain’t so! She has always been attractive because she was comfortable with being at a healthy weight. [Picture on the right is more or less how she looked on 2.5 Men](http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/features/magstories/060109/srue.jpg), although IIRC her character was about 8+ months pregnant. FWIW, according to NIH, a healthy weight for someone of her height is anywhere between 118 and 160 pounds. Less than that is underweight, more than that is overweight. To me she looks to be a “healthy weight” in both pictures, although I doubt it’s healthy to swing that much between the two. Also, in research, I find that she is also a Roseanne alum. And I apologize for impugning your one true love; she’d have been more attractive to me in the show with a different 'do, a different dress and a lot less cleavage. I’m not about the boobs in the face, personally. J’regret. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/23 "2008-11-18T22:15:40Z")
My fave was when Penny asked Leonard if they had slept together and when he asked why, she said she was just being nosy! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/24 "2008-11-19T02:11:14Z")
> [@](#): > > So tell me, is she a doctor doctor or a you kind of doctor? Hilarity ensued 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TJVM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@TJVM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJVM)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/25 "2008-11-19T02:35:02Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > And they go for Spock every time. I thought that was funny, too, since the whole point of the new system was to avoid ties. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/26 "2008-11-19T03:49:28Z")
> [@Another\_Stranger\_Me](#): > > Oh, and I just found a reference to Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock from May of 2005. Had anyone heard of this version before last night’s episode? It’s been around for a while. But would you believe [**Rock** Gun Dynamite Nuke Lightning Devil Dragon Alien Water Bowl Air Moon **Paper** Sponge Wolf Cockroach Tree Man Woman Monkey Snake Axe **Scissors** Fire Sun](http://www.gonewacko.org/T2003/GamesWePlay/rps25.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/27 "2008-11-19T09:12:51Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > It’s been around for a while. > > But would you believe [**Rock** Gun Dynamite Nuke Lightning Devil Dragon Alien Water Bowl Air Moon **Paper** Sponge Wolf Cockroach Tree Man Woman Monkey Snake Axe **Scissors** Fire Sun](http://www.gonewacko.org/T2003/GamesWePlay/rps25.jpg)? Eh? You have to have at least semi-plausable or memorable reasons why x beats y. Tree beats cockroach seems like it could just as well go the other way. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/28 "2008-11-19T15:34:19Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Eh? You have to have at least semi-plausable or memorable reasons why x beats y. Tree beats cockroach seems like it could just as well go the other way. Hey, I never claimed it made sense. But the demented cretin who created it also came up with a full [list of outcomes](http://www.umop.com/images/rps25_outcomes.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/29 "2008-11-19T16:00:33Z")
Please use the title of the episode in addition to, or instead of, the episode air date. For some series this doesn’t bother me, but I’ve just loved the last few episode titles. This season’s episode titles, to date: The Bad Fish Paradigm The Codpiece Topology The Barbarian Sublimation The Griffin Equivalency The Euclid Alternative The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem The Party Pinata Polarization The Lizard-Spock Expansion Next week: The White Asparagus Triangulation Just as geeky and fun as the episodes. And I bet those titles would pull in some more suckers, er, I mean devotees. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/30 "2008-11-20T13:53:07Z")
Next week’s TV Guide names Sheldon as the “Hot Geek.” As actor Jim Parsons points out, Sheldon can say what he does because he is not being internationally mean and trying to hurt anyone’s feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/31 "2008-11-20T15:56:22Z")
> [@Another\_Stranger\_Me](#): > > I’m trying to like that it [_the Penny-Leonard relationship_] fizzled out. I could see that the writers didn’t want that theme to become an overused plot crutch. But it seems forced that Leonard would pine over her for so long and then just drop it after one date. Especially since they showed Penny’s own interest and jealousy on more than one occasion. I guess I was just looking forward to at least a few episodes featuring their inevitably awkward dates. I agree with this; I would like to see more (attempted) romance between Leonard and Penny. The Penny-Sheldon conflicts are comedy gold, I’ll admit- much more so than Sheldon’s clashes with Leslie Winkle, who basically just calls Sheldon a dumb-ass. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200/32 "2008-11-21T14:15:17Z")
> [@Gus\_Gusterson](#): > > I don’t notice the laugh track when a show is actually funny, as this one is. It’s the shows where you hear people laughing at stuff that’s not funny that really stand out. That was the biggest problem I had with the show in season 1, and I almost couldn’t watch. All Sheldon has to do is enter a room and the laugh track sounds like the audience is rolling out of their seats on LSD. “Not a lot of women could look as hot as you do, with such greasy hair.” 😃 That was funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-11-17/473200.md?page=1)