I noticed that too. When they started, I assumed that half of them would be ‘bad’. As in something along the lines of “I just couldn’t handle having a kid” or “I met someone else and ran off with her” or “I just didn’t love your mom”. But they were all basically good. Varying degrees of good, but it’s not like half of them were “He loves me but had to leave” and the other half were “He hates me/mom and wanted to leave” and Howard could chose his adventure. The basically told him what it said.
At the very least, they could have made them wildly different. Howard could have had no idea at all what the letter said. So one person could have said “I had to leave, but I was at your graduation” and someone else could have said “I was young and scared and didn’t know what to do so I ran” and another could have said “I was called to duty and if you got this, I was killed in action”. Someone else could say “Here’s my contact information, call me and we’ll talk” etc etc.
I could see Penny having more than one vibrator and if it isn’t the current favorite it could have made it to the closet. But yes, she has at least one that she knows exactly where it is.
That’s what I was thinking! This show isn’t a drama – it’s supposed to make us laugh! I guess the writers wanted to showcase Howard’s “I was abandoned by my father as a child” predicament at the expense of the usual mirth and merriment that we expect.
Yes, I hate character development in comedies. But that’s just my preference, comedy for comedy’s sake. Possibly the timing is factor here, February sweeps are over, they’ve just highlighted their best stuff but they have some weaker stuff in the can that still has to be aired. One episode that I didn’t prefer isn’t going to turn me off from this show though, or even several more. I just hope Bernadette doesn’t end up pregnant.
I definitely felt like the writers were leading us to accept Bernie’s story as the one true version. I like the possibility that others have raised that all five of the serious ones were part of the whole, but I don’t think that jives well with Sheldon’s part, or with the way it seemed Raj added his details about the card on the fly. It seems more believable to me that the friends did just what they told Howard they were going to do.
And about Sheldon’s not having a tic: is it possible to lie to someone when you tell them beforehand that you are presenting the truth ambiguously? I think that if the writers ever felt the need to explain Sheldon’s relative ease with his part of the fiction, they could construct some kind of logical loophole around that question for him to use.
I was thinking at the time that he looks just like a mushroom.
My favorite line of the night was when Amy and Raj were sitting on the couch and she looks at him and says, “If you let me pierce your brain with a hot needle in the right place, you’d be happy all the time.”
It’s completely possible to graduate from high school when you’re 17. In fact, it’s completely normal, depending on when your birthday is, and how your school district decides you’re old enough for first grade.
Where I grew up, a birthday after the last day of classes pretty much guaranteed you’d be 17 when you graduated (and, if your birthday was after the first day of classes, when you started college).
