Personally, if that envelope is the only attempt at communication in the 20 years since he left then I don’t see how any of them are sweet. They would all be emotionally manipulative and tragic for their very isolation.
But this is a show from which I want no real drama or very-special-episodes so I think it best that they just ignore this story line ever happened.
Yeah, but Raj *would *know all the Far Side cartoons by heart.
I feel pretty certain that they are foreshadowing a Bernadette pregnancy. I predicts that’s the season closer - or at least an is-she-or-isn’t-she. . .
Thank you. Now I can finally get my brain to shut up about it!
Nitpick: I believe that Howard’s father left when he was eleven and the envelope was left for him when he was eighteen, so it was the only attempt at communication in seven years, not twenty. (Although for all we know, he was in communication with Howard’s mother.)
The second Bernadette turns up pregnant I quit the show for good. You hear that, Chuck? The very second!
I fucking hate TV kids.
Unless Howard is sitting on a pile of unopened envelopes that Sheldon missed, my assumption is that the envelope is the only communication between when dad left and the current day (thus my 20 years number).
The only pregnancy I’d want to see on this show is Amy’s.
Good Lord, can you imagine the twist, turns and leaps it would take to get Amy pregnant?
I dunno. Sheldon firmly believes that anything which feels good to him should immediately become his center of existence. Once he gives in and tries it I foresee some serious overindulgence. WE’re talking Zazzy all over again. I imagine a scene with a thoroughly disheveled Amy coming out of Sheldon’s bedroom wrapped in a bedsheet and rummaging in the refrigerator for Gatorade. ;)
The last time Sheldon contemplated reproducing it involved a petri dish, so that would represent some growth of the character. 
“Sheldon, no. Sheldon, I have to go to work. Sheldon…”
<sotto voce> It’s worse than dropping an electrode into his brain. At least then I could pull the cord. </sotto voce>
In my experience, most people are 17 when they graduate high school. I didn’t turn 18 until my first month in college.
I can imagine Sheldon reading up on parenting practices, getting enthusiastic about one and trying to convince Amy to practice it. Attachment parenting is an obvious choice but I’m sure there are other parenting techniques that have comic potential.
Yes, when you sit in a chair, that area does touch the chair.
Um . . . are you implying that guys with big dicks tuck them down between their legs and sit on them?
Try to follow the conversation. We were discussing scrota, and now we’re finished.
Lab monkeys + cocaine = volatile mixture. And Sheldon would have a complete breakdown when the kid grew up and got the Nobel before he did.
Amy’s in for a real treat once Sheldon starts obessively experimenting with every pleasuring technique known to man.
I picture Sheldon as being more into the Ferb er method.
Hell, so is Sheldon. Amy’s hotter than her clothing choices suggest, and appears to be a very eager bed mate…
Meh. If Sheldon and Amy ever do hook up, the show is over. I can wait.
AFF will have to stick with her 5 year plan for continuity.
Sheldon will not allow AFF to implant electrodes so Bernie will have to come up with some pill.
Penny will need to supply advice to AFF to pull that off.