Listen, am I nuts or was there no audible dialog in the opening segment. I heard the audience but not the Big Bang Gang - they were just moving their lips. And nobody has mentioned it in this thread.
You are nuts.
Another vote for nuts
“It’s like talking to a chimp” was the best insight we’ve had, I think, into Sheldon’s psyche. His buddies are juuuuussst smart enough to understand that all human interaction is like chimp talking for Sheldon. They know that they are the smart chimps, his favorites, and are honored to be trusted by him. It helps that he has a childlike lack of arrogance about it.
And really, letting Sheldon take the train on his own would be like abandoning a five-year-old in Union station. They recognize his usefulness to society (well, THEIR society) and so protect him.
I have to say I’ve ridden trains three times (if you count the Boston train system, the BART, and a kickass way to get to the Grand Canyon. (By the way, if you get the chance to go that way and not take a car? I absolutely recommend it.) )
And I LOVED IT! I’d take trains if they were available here in Houston (I don’t live on the light rail line). So I thought Sheldon’s excitement was very fun.
I’m the odd person that would’ve been sitting there fascinated, then telling stories about “I met this neat guy on the train…that was soooo into trains!”
Oh, plus all the train movies! (None of which Sheldon has seen, I’m sure)
I do agree it was a bit of a flat episode, but I still like the show.
::shouts out to fellow Houstonian::
I wish we had the Katy to downtown train…
Really? What was that scene about anyway?
<slight hijack>
A freight train line runs thru the middle of Tomball where I work and there is talk of using that line for commuter trains. I wish it would happen. It would be like NYC and Connecticut, etc. But that’s just my .11
<hijack off>
But seriously, the traffic? ugh
I had audio issues on the DC station/Cox cable but was also having issues with the DVR so I chalked it up to that.
As obnoxious as Sheldon is, he is more like them than they are like the rest of society.
Moreover, as annoying as he is in many respects, in many other areas that are quite dear to them her is supremely talented. King Geek, as it were. For example - who would you rather play Halo or discuss comc books with? And if playing Halo and discussing comic books are sufficiently important to you, you might be willing to put up with a whole bunch of crap.
Did you record it? Try turning on the closed captioning . . .
Richmond to downtown would be awesome as well.
I thought the episode was quite good, and loved the fact that they stayed in the train because I was expecting most of it to take place at the conference. I always like it when sitcoms don’t go where I think they are going. Not a great episode, but good.
I liked the line: Caught between a rock and a crazy place. And Sheldon didn’t even seem to care: I hate when that happens.
It wasn’t so bad. I guess there have been better, but I enjoyed it. The sad truth is, there are so few good sitcoms, I’m just glad to have one that I can sit through.
I forgot: NPR had a nice little story about this episode.
Bumping this thread to point out something I noticed in last night’s rerun: When Sheldon first starts talking to Penny, Leonard is fixing a cup of tea (dumping the tea bag and putting in the sweetner).
When Penny finally finds the object, the cup is empty, upside down, and has about a dozen red stirrers in the bottom and the pink sweetner package on them.
That was one very long phone conversation.
Yeah, I was too. I knew that George wasn’t the Smoot of Harvard Bridge, but if anyone connected with the show was a True Geek, there would’ve been at least one reference to 364.4 Smoots plus (or minus) one Ear
Don’t you think they made up for it with the Fig Newton reference a few weeks ago?
I’ve only started watching the show this season, but 2 things in this episode absolutely didn’t ring true to me. First, Sheldon’s unwillingness to open the Tivo, just to preserve the warranty? I thought his genius was more powerful than his OCD, and no genius would hesitate to open a device just to see how it works, much less improve it.
Second - he’s forgotten the thumb drive with the paper, but he’s got his laptop with him? He didn’t have a copy of the paper on the laptop? Would have made a lot more sense if one of the others had pulled out their laptop for Penny to email the file to.
That’s really not that outrageous. It’s happened to me.