Oddly, I already suggested an homage to the final episode of Newhart, but that was before Raj got over his selective mutism.
Exceptions to the roommate agreement are decided by voting. In case of a tie, Sheldon breaks the tie. While theoretically this allows Sheldon unlimited power, the actual outcome can only be determined by going thru the vote. Predestination doesn’t exist in Sheldonverse.
Another Sheldon error: He thought the Zune was a smarter purchase than an iPod.
And also in that episode. He was torn between buying a PS4 and an XBoxOne. The specs he gave for each had multiple errors.
Nice!!! Had not seen that, sorry.
Sheldon thought that the TV series Firefly (2002–2003) was going to last for years.
I’ve never watched this show, and it’s for a very dumb yet geeky reason. During an early season, the gang was going to a comics convention and the blonde girl (Penny?) was dressed as Wonder Woman. One of the characters dismissively said, “In what universe is Wonder Woman blonde?” Every comic geek worth his salt knows that there have been several blonde Wonder Women in the multiverse, not the least of which the one portrayed by Cathy Lee Crosby on the TV movie. In my mind, the promo that showed this exchange robbed the series of any geek cred it ever claimed to have.
Was it Sheldon who said it? I don’t remember. At the time I saw the promo, I didn’t know anything about the characters.
MrKnowItAll, the series is entertaining because of the banter that goes on among the characters, and the character’s idiosyncrasies. They never claimed to be The Canon of All Things in Comic Books.
And Sheldon was probably wrong when he decided that spanking Amy would be a fitting punishment for her deceiving him. At least, it didn’t have the result he expected.
He’s also wrong if he thinks Curious George is a monkey. Curious George doesn’t have a tail, and as anyone know,if it doesn’t have a tail, it’s not a monkey*.
*Yes, I am aware of Barbary macaques, but George doesn’t look like a macaque; he looks like a juvenile chimpanzee.
When Sheldon stayed over at Howard’s (S02E01) he listed his favorite Catwomen as Julie Newmar, Michelle Pfieffer, Eartha Kitt and then Halle Berry.
Howard had to point out he forgot Lee Meriwether.
(Anne Hathaway was not yet eligible.)
Eidetic memory my gluteus maximus.
He also forgot to have an abort command in the foam prank in Kripke’s lab. But that clearly takes place in an alternate universe due to the person claimed to be President Siebert was not the same President Siebert shown in later episodes.
Sheldon also failed to recognize the nurse Althea in S05E18 The Werewolf Transformation. She was the sperm bank nurse in the pilot (but cut in syndication). She has appeared 5 times on the show including the unaired pilot but these are his only interactions with her.
And as anyone also knows, apes are a proper subset of monkeys, since the great apes and the old world monkeys are more closely related to each other than either are to the new world monkeys.
True, but I’m often surprised by the elements of geek culture that they do get right. They must have someone on their staff who knows what he’s doing.
Don’t rain on my adorable Veggie Tales song.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with Terry Prachett’s “Discworld” series, but one of the recurring characters is The Librarian. He’s the librarian at the Unseen University (where they train wizards). Early in the series, he got turned into an orangutan. He turned out to like it more than being human and never took any steps to be changed back. When people call him a monkey, he just picks them up by their ankles and bounces their heads against the floor until they notice that he has no tail, and is therefore an ape and not a monkey.
For a time in the 70’s, Vernee Watson-Johnson was the “Go-To” actress when you wanted to cast an attractive yet non-threatening black female as a high school student. She was one of Kotter’s Sweathogs but not as much of a trouble maker, rather as Boom-Boom Washington’s girlfriend.
They do have a Science Advisor as a member of the crew, besides Bialik. So they may very well have a Comic Book Geekdom Advisor on the crew also.
Not too sure about that, considering they go with the Superfriends version of Aquaman and complain that he sucks.
Oh yeah? Then where does he go to the bathroom? Actually, isn’t it only Raj who says Aquaman sucks?
Raj is the main complainer, but Sheldon doesn’t correct him - uncharacteristic for his to pass up an argument 
There are also numerous issues with their portrayal of D&D, but that’s probably because it wouldn’t be interesting to watch otherwise (although my argument for that would be: pick a more interesting roleplaying game to portray).
D&D is the one that non-gamers have heard of. And by the way, I used to love D&D, although in fairness, I haven’t played since I was about 20, and I started when I was maybe 12. I do have (and here’s geeky for you) the first edition of Deities and Demigods, with the Cthulhu myths.
Same idea, probably, for the Superfriendsy version of the Justice League. Not everyone reads comics, but everyone over about 37 remembers seeing Superfriends on Saturday morning, and I’m sure once cable and video killed the Saturday am cartoon thing, Superfriends was available on video, and probably played on a bunch of cable channels for a long time.
His interpretation of ST:TMP is wrong. There’s a scene where he explains to Amy that when Spock strays from the path of logic, he uses the mental discipline of kolinahr to suppress his emotions, and that Sheldon does the same. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Firstly, Sheldon is not using kolinahr. It’s a Vulcan thing, involving years of preparation culminating in a special ritual which he’s never undergone.
Secondly, Spock did not undergo kolinahr. He was going to, but was interrupted before he could complete the ceremony by Kirk’s thoughts, and was told he wasn’t ready.
Thirdly, Sheldon completely missed the whole damn point, because Spock’s arc in the movie was all about realising how wrong he’d been to attempt to suppress his emotions that way, that logic without feeling is barren and empty. “I should have known … This simple feeling is beyond V’Ger’s comprehension.”
In S04E05, The Desperation Emanation, Sheldon does a little song about the closest stars to him. (Ignoring Sol as the actual closest. Most people would. But Sheldon?)
Some effort went into making the list. Of course it is now out of date a little.
But I am puzzled about the list. The three stars in the Alpha Centauri system should come first. He gives Proxima and A but not B. He does instead give “Toli” or some such. Now, “Toliman” was a very old name for the Alpha Centauri system. Which might apply to A but certainly not B which was discovered in modern times. Why not say “B” like one normally expect? And where does this odd name come from?
Even the picture in the above link doesn’t include B, under any name.
This is just wrong.
In The Pilot, Penny states that she lived with Kurt for 4 years just before the series began. In S04E01, The Robotic Manipulation, Sheldon calculates the likely number of sexual partners Penny has had. But he doesn’t take this monogamous phase into account. (And he would not have any reason to believe that Penny continued her semi-promiscuous dating habit while living with Kurt.) He should have lowered his estimate by well over 50 on that basis alone. And figuring that she alternates monogamous periods with less so periods, even more.
Nitpick: V’ger’s thoughts.
Watched S01E05 The Hamburger Postulate last night. In the opening they are going to the Cheesecake Factory for the first time. Sheldon is unhappy:
“Can’t we just go to Big Boy? They only have one burger. The Big Boy.”
Of course Big Boy has several burgers. The one he is likely refering to is the “Classic”. (Big Boy also offers a make-it-yourself burger. Something that no doubt Sheldon would prefer and in the process drive everyone crazy by his ordering detail.)
The error is further highlighted by Penny’s listing of CF burgers, including their own “Classic”. They persuade Sheldon to order the Barbecue Burger since it’s like the Big Boy. Which wouldn’t be like the BB Classic. But probably more like the BB Barbecue Burger.
This episode also has the scene where Leslie fixes Sheldon’s whiteboard equations.