# Big Bang Theory 5/17 "The Staircase Implementation"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 18, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-5-17-the-staircase-implementation/539873 "2010-05-18T13:12:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-5-17-the-staircase-implementation/539873/41 "2010-05-21T07:20:20Z")

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This was a pretty good episode. Unfortunately, based on the premise, I was expecting a really great episode, so I only enjoyed it as much as a regular episode. They probably could have done more with it.

> [@ftg](#):
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> I don’t buy Leonard deciding to take the room given the circumstances.

Based on empathy with Leonard’s mix of curiosity, nerdishness, and passivity, I totally buy it. He didn’t desperately want the apartment, although it did have an attractive inexpensiveness, but the minor annoyance of dealing with a strange person was balanced by the interestingness of the situation combined with the challenge of passing a test combined with the desire to see something through to the end due to having already invested effort in it.

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