# The Big Bang Theory 10/4-- The Decoupling Flucutation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735 "2012-10-04T19:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 4, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/1 "2012-10-04T19:59:53Z")
Sheldon once again has to keep a secret when he learns Leonard and Penny are going to break up. Howard keeps getting teased by his fellow astronauts in space. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/2 "2012-10-05T00:22:47Z")
i’m a fan of homeostasis. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/3 "2012-10-05T02:14:41Z")
You’re so cute when you try, **johnpost** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/4 "2012-10-05T02:59:13Z")
I thought it was a below average episode. We’ve seen the whole Sheldon can’t keep a secret thing before, and the stuff with Howard in space was pretty lame. Don’t really get why Sheldon is suddenly going out of his way to be a douche to Stuart. They seemed to get along before… ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/5 "2012-10-05T03:21:40Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > …Don’t really get why Sheldon is suddenly going out of his way to be a douche to Stuart. They seemed to get along before… He’s treating Stuart as an subsitute Wolowitz. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/6 "2012-10-05T03:40:52Z")
Amy hiding her right hand got obvious after a while. And AFAIK, the sleeping chambers on the ISS don’t have windows. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/7 "2012-10-05T06:57:08Z")
I’m really really over the whole make up break up Leonard Penny thing. They really need to wrap it up in the next two episodes for good one way or the other. I don’t mind them upping Stuart, but they need to get the ball rolling on promoting him and Raj away from sad sack status. The show needs to be more nerd/eccentric, and less loser. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/8 "2012-10-05T12:07:32Z")
Time for Howard to come back to Earth. If I ever meet Kaley Cuoco, I’m going to give her my best sad puppy eyes. Hey, it’s worth a shot. I don’t like the way the season is going. They seem to be trying to force fit Stuart into a bigger role and it just isn’t working. The Penny-Leonard thing needs to be resolved. This is getting too much like the second coming of Ross and Rachel. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/9 "2012-10-05T13:26:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The Penny-Leonard thing needs to be resolved. This is getting too much like the second coming of Ross and Rachel. or the third coming of Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/10 "2012-10-05T13:31:44Z")
Bets that there is at least one episode where he gets back on earth but gets stuck in Russia? The problem with Leonard and Penny breaking up is that means we’ll have to go through a whole season of Priya-substitute replacement(s) before they get back together again. C’mon, you _know_ that’s how it’s going to end. That’s part of the whole set-up in the very first episode. They won’t let the series end without those two together. So any decoupling now just means we have to go through all of this again in the future. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/11 "2012-10-05T13:50:55Z")
I’m greatly disappointed that “astronaut screaming for nine minutes” isn’t actually on youtube - how hard would it have been to put up a mask in a window and get Wolowitz to scream? Since when did Sheldon take a dislike against MIT in general? I know he’s not impressed that Howard only has a Masters, but sodomize him with a rusty spade for equating MIT to art college. muldoonthief, MIT '89 ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/12 "2012-10-05T13:59:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I’m greatly disappointed that “astronaut screaming for nine minutes” isn’t actually on youtube - how hard would it have been to put up a mask in a window and get Wolowitz to scream? We thought it would be there too, but were too lazy to check. The nine minutes is a bit of a giveaway though. Nine minutes is a LONG time. You try screaming for 9 minutes and let us know how that goes. > [@](#): > > Since when did Sheldon take a dislike against MIT in general? I know he’s not impressed that Howard only has a Masters, but sodomize him with a rusty spade for equating MIT to art college. > > muldoonthief, MIT '89 I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/13 "2012-10-05T14:07:52Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > We thought it would be there too, but were too lazy to check. > The nine minutes is a bit of a giveaway though. Nine minutes is a LONG time. You try screaming for 9 minutes and let us know how that goes. Yeah, it’s a shame there’s no editing tools available anywhere on Earth, much less to a major television studio, that could make 20 seconds of screaming appear to last for 9 minutes. > [@](#): > > I thought it was hilarious. So which art school did you go to? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/14 "2012-10-05T15:37:48Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > … > So which art school did you go to? MIT ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/15 "2012-10-05T15:50:43Z")
based on some thinking on Howard, it seems that a relationship is normalizing. Howard previous before Bernie, was kind of a horndog and showy, then with Bernie actually seemed to come closer to normal, mellowed. Now in space (without Bernie) he seems like whiny Howard. Sheldon seems to be caving in to some human emotional interaction with AFF. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/16 "2012-10-05T16:05:36Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So which art school did you go to? Same one as you. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/17 "2012-10-05T16:15:18Z")
Sheldon showing real concern over Leonard was. . . disconcerting. I missed the very beginning. How did Penny come to tell AFF she was breaking up with Leonard and what reasons did she give? I must know! This is very important! ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/18 "2012-10-05T16:36:02Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I missed the very beginning. How did Penny come to tell AFF she was breaking up with Leonard and what reasons did she give? I must know! This is very important! She was with the girls and in the course of a conversation they idly asked her if she thought she might marry Leonard some day ( AFF has a four year plan for Sheldon she isn’t sharing with him, so as not to frighten him off ). Penny avoided answering the question directly, then finally admitted she was unsure about the relationship. She never actually said that she was going to break it off, just that she was considering it. She was reasonably comfortable and happy in it, but wasn’t feeling any giddy passion anymore ( my words, not hers ). ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/19 "2012-10-05T16:42:10Z")
I liked Sheldon’s fascinatiom with fish that have tools on their heads. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735/20 "2012-10-05T16:44:30Z")
I truly love “Big Bang Theory” but Leonard’s character is the one that bothers me most now. Being with Pryia (sp?) should have proven to him that he can get a girl. He should be fed up with Penny’s unwillingness to show the least bit of commitment to him. Don’t care if he loves her, he needs to break it off. He is the true loser in the bunch right now. Everybody else has their funny moments. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-10-4-the-decoupling-flucutation/636735.md?page=2)