I seem to have had a brain freeze reading this since “tat” just wasn’t registering, so I decided the “w” had been inadvertently left out of “Penny’s tat”. :o
Uh, bad things happen to Garfield disproportionately on Mondays, including, but not limited to, pies being thrown into his face out of nowhere, getting caught up in window blinds, and diets being implemented. So I’d say he has darn good reason.
Everyone raves about this show and I’ve never seen a single episode. I think I should get Himself to download it for me. Hey, I might even learn something.
If that’s true, I haven’t seen that episode yet.
Anyway, this is my cite.
Sheldon was a very strong supporter of String Theory until the last 4 or so episodes of season 7. His loss of faith in String Theory is one of the reasons he went on Walkabout at the end of Season 7.
Practical gifts are better than useless trinkets.
Zachary Quinto
And very often, spiders. We can’t forget spiders.
We mustn’t . . . EVER . . . forget spiders. (shudder)
Trains and trolleys? Love’em!
Flags? Damn right!
String theory? Well…I believe it’s turtles all the way down.
Howard doesn’t know Russian either. He tried to call Penny a “beautiful girl” in Russian once, and really mangled the pronunciation. (Cite: the year I lived in Moscow.) Also, the word he used for girl is a word that Russians use pretty much for a female child-- a literal girl. Even though in English “girl” can refer to a grown woman, even in contexts that are not offensive, I don’t recall it being used in Russian that way (caveat: I haven’t really spoken Russian since I was a kid, so it could have evolved a lot since then, particularly in the direction of Western usage; still, Howard mangled the pronunciation horribly).
Regarding the “soup” tattoo: I think Sheldon is basing that on seeing the word on Chinese restaurant menus, not learning from Howard. If you Google “soup” and “courage,” there’s more than one sign for courage, but one of them does look like soup turned on its side, and missing a line; if Penny has that tattoo, sideways, and had some clothing covering one line, then they’re both right, sort of. Penny, because she got her tattoo sideways, and assuming she wants it to be understood by other people when she’s standing up, she goofed by not realizing that you can’t turn the characters around like English words, but she probably walked into the tattoo parlor with the right picture, and Sheldon, if the tattoo is visible mainly when she’s wearing a bathing suit, and it looks like “soup” in that case.
Trains are cool.
If you live in Pasadena, you really ought to have a plan in place in case of earthquakes. Not to mention a disaster preparedness kit in the house.
If your mind is stuck in a loop while trying to figure out a problem, it’s helpful to switch to some non-mental physical task for awhile - like being a busboy. It rests and refreshes your brain.
Do you mean String Theory? That isn’t even a real theory, IMHO. It’s more like a sci-fi concept, or maybe even a philosophy. But as a scientific theory, it’s pretty threadbare.
I can’t verify his claim about the tattoo on Penny’s butt but I’d love to give it a shot.
He’s right about how the order in which sandwich ingredients are placed makes a difference in how it tastes.
He’s right about the fundamentals of football.
His reviews of science fiction TV series are often spot-on. He’s right to hate Babylon 5 because “it fails as drama, science fiction, and it’s hopelessly derivative.” He’s also right that “Heroes gradually lowered the quality season-by-season till we were grateful it ended.”
He’s definitely right about flags; I’ve loved learning about 'em since I was a kid. Vexillology rules!
That was my reaction too. We can’t necessarily know Sheldon’s right about what Penny’s Chinese tattoo says — indeed, it’s quite possible Sheldon doesn’t know the correct word for soup.
He’s pretty clearly right in his analysis of Star Trek: The Motion Picture being worse than Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. His main point (as I recall) was that Star Trek 5 had specific failures whereas Star Trek 1 was an across the board disaster: art direction, costumes, etc.
He’s right to worry about the visitors who arrive on the dancing tongue of Leonard’s subtropical girlfriend.