The episode was OK but far from the best. Resorting to bathroom humour is never a great thing and the whole “b” plot was nothing more than something you’d see on “Two And A Half Men,” which is masturbation plus bathroom jokes. C’mon the writers should be able to come up with something better than this, and the actors are so far above it, they actually look uncomfortable saying the lines.
Once again Penny and Sheldon show great chemistry. When you put those two together you get funny. Amy doesn’t matter much, 'cause all they do is put a Sheldon line in her mouth which she reads in monotone. So Amy is nothing more, so far, than a female Sheldon clone.
If they’re gonna keep her around, they’re gonna have to do something with her, or she’ll get old quickly.
I can’t imagine Sheldon going into a bathroom with a plastic cup and a magazine. There must be some way of extracting sperm with a hypodermic.
However, since Sheldon has clearly seen the error of his ways, this will not be an issue. But now I can’t remember exactly what Penny’s deciding argument was: stupid brain.
ETA: No, not the error of his ways. The incorrect data from which his evaluation of the desirability of reproduction was derived.
I do wish they had also included a reference to Sheldon’s “me-maw.” That always cracks me up (and if they ever show her, let’s continue with the Roseanne theme and have her played by Estelle Parsons).
Electro-ejaculation. I am at work, so I am not going to google it for you, lest I stumble upon something I don’t want to see, but that was how we harvested sea urchin sperm for a lab in college. I have a feeling that properly applied electrodes could elicit a similar response in a human.
Well, Amy Farrah Fowler seemed to have found that electronically-stimulated orgasm was acceptable, so perhaps Sheldon would too. But I have trouble imagining he’d find it anything but distasteful.
Well, presumably there would be a vessel at precisely the right position to trap all ejaculatory fluids as they exit the body, so not necessarily messy.
A little ironic trivia for you: look around the intrawebs and you’ll find the unaired pilot episode of Big Bang. That Sheldon is intensely aware of sex and the episode opens with Leonard and Sheldon at the sperm bank selling their … “legacies” to make some money fast.
Well, that’s just wrong. The Sheldon with whom I’m familiar has never even had an erection. Clearly, they had not thought this through at that time. Or that episode occurred on a different time-space continuum. Perhaps the infinite universes paradigm applies here.