, Sheldon is mad at Leonard for “betraying” HIM by dating Priya. He mentions they went to BB, and that he had a patty melt.
No, Sheldon accuses Leonard of betraying Howard (Raj too) by mentioning Bob’s. It’s later that Sheldon adds himself to the betrayed via violation of the roommate agreement.
Speaking of Richard Feynman: “I don’t care if he was a purple dinosaur that lives in my butt!”
(I came in here to post this, but you beat me to it. Well done.)
Just saw an old repeat where Raj sneeze and Sheldon refuses to let him sit with them and then he leaves the group early to start a course of prophylactic antibiotics. Since most upper respiratory infections are viral in origin, antibiotics would most likely not do any good and there is the added concern of creating resistant bacteria by taking antibiotics when it is not necessary.
Speaking of Wil Wheaton, Sheldon wasn’t bright enough to see through his me-maw sob story.
Watched S01E07 The Dumpling Paradox and S01E08 The Grasshopper Experiment.
The first contains one of the show’s all-time great mistakes. Raj talks in front of Penny. (“Oh sure, cut the foreigner in half …”) Not drunk or anything. (That he can talk to woman after a sip of booze is revealed in the next episode.)
Sheldon doesn’t notice this or say anything. And yet in the very next episode he shushes Leonard to see how long it will take Raj to notice that he is talking to Penny. So he is very aware of the oddity of Raj doing this.
Secondly, Sheldon respects and obeys other people’s conventions. E.g., when Howard pretends Leonard is dead to him because Leonard started dating Dr. Stephanie. Sheldon played along until Howard started talking to Leonard directly.
This is something that Sheldon would have noticed and commented on.
The show starts on “Halo Night” which is later stated to be Wednesday. The next morning Sheldon wants to watch Dr. Who as usual on Saturday morning but Penny is asleep on the couch. Later discussion makes it clear that this is the next morning and not several days later.
Three of the gang are invited to go dancing with Penny, but they decline. Sheldon points out that he doesn’t dance. But in S04E21 he mentions he was an excellent dancer thanks to the Texas culture he was raised in.
In the second episode, Sheldon mentions that love as a basis for marriage only dates to the 19th century. This is one of those standard “smart guy” errors that gets repeated over and over. While in some cultures arranged marriages were common, in most of Europe for most people they picked their own spouses.
Western literature is chock full of examples of people falling in love and marrying going back to the earliest writings. Is Sheldon completely unaware of the writings of Shakespeare, for example?
(Leonard makes a mistake at the end when he refers to an earlier line and asks who is going to tell Sheldon’s parents they are not going to have any grandchildren. Even by this point it’s been established that Sheldon’s father is dead. He only has one parent. And since his brother and sister have been mentioned, why would Sheldon’s lack of procreation ruin Mary’s chance of being a grandmother? Which has definitely occurred as of Season 7.)
Checking back on “The Luminous Fish Effect” states that Penny’s car weighs about 4000 pounds (English units again). Not sure of the actual weight of her car, but that’s gotta be off by a factor of 2. (TBBT Wiki says it’s a “Volkswagen Rabbit (Golf Mk 1)” and weighs 2000lbs max. Not sure about that.)
Saying “I don’t dance” is different from saying “I can’t dance.” And even if Sheldon said he can’t dance, nobody is above lying to get out of doing something they don’t like doing.
That can’t be the exact quote, because that does need a “were.” It must have been something like “I wouldn’t have cared if he was…”
Unlike Sheldon, Leonard is quite capable of speaking non-literally and using exaggeration, stock phrases, and figures of speech. (Actually, Sheldon can too, but he generally tries to avoid it.)
Most of your other points seem to be minor continuity errors in the production, not “stuff Sheldon is wrong about”.
I gave the gist of the line. Sheldon says “Assuming we could dance, which we can’t …” Raj is well known to be able to dance, even on roller skates. Plus Leonard dances with Amy at a wedding reception in Season 7. So it is wrong on all three points.
That’s assuming the scene in S01E03 The Fuzzy Boots Corollary where all 4 guys go to a dance studio is an aberration. (This scene might be cut in syndication.)
Sheldon is pathologically averse to lying. He knows he does it badly. Most attempts to convince him to lie are faced with his overt opposition. Cf. S01E10 The Loobenfeld Decay and many other instances.
Anyway. Today’s episode: S01E09 The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization. The biggest error in the episode is the video uploaded to YouTube is different from the earlier scene of Leonard and Sheldon fighting. Shouldn’t Mr. Eidetic have noticed this?
In the episode “The Vacation Solution” (S05E16), Sheldon hauls out the old chestnut that Einstein failed math in school.
In the episode “The Skank Reflex Anaylysis” (S05E01), Sheldon claims pinworms exit the anus at night to breathe. They exit to lay eggs.
I could have gone the whole rest of my life without knowing that and been just fine.
Could you really grown your own Mr. Spock from Leonard Nimoy’s saliva?
His theory is that there will be skin cells on the napkin, and he can get Nimoy DNA from it, so if he has an ovum and a uterus, he can replace the DNA in the ovum with the Nimoy DNA, get it to replicate (this is the hard part), and then insert it into the uterus, let it gestate for nine months, and have a baby Nimoy-- the baby part, he clearly has not thought out well. It’s cloning 101, but it works a lot better in theory than in practice.
The Germans have not always been “a comforting people”.
Yeah, but (a) he is, after all, a theoretical physicist, and (b) Sheldon has an active disregard for biological sciences, so it’s not surprising this is a gap in his knowledge.
But he thinks he is knowledgeable in biological sciences. So much so that he tries to tell Amy, the one with the PhD in neurobiology, that she is slicing her brain wrong. And that is another thing Sheldon is wrong about.
The idea that a group of cats is called a “clowder” or a “glaring” comes from a 15th century book of such terms that was probably written as a joke, and not taken from current words in use. In other words, if anyone ever used those terms, it’s because they looked them up in a fake reference source written for humor. It was called The Book of St Albans, and contained a lot of real information on hunting and heraldry, and other 15th century stuff, but the section on “venery,” or terms for collective groups of animals, something important to hunters, contained lots of obviously facetious terms for animals that were not hunted, as well as for groups of humans (like “a supfluyty [superfluity] of nuns,” “a fightyng [fighting] of beggers,” and “a malapertness of pedlars”).
Sheldon probably Googled “what do you call a group of cats?”* and didn’t bother to check on the validity of the source.
*OK, the writers.
The writers are a group of cats?
Now there’s a theory.