The Big Bang Theory, a couple of questions about Raj

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When Penny first meets Raj, Howard says that Raj couldn’t talk to women. But later it is stated that he can’t talk to attractive women. But it somehow morphed back into (almost) all women.

If I remember that scene right, I interpreted that as Howard hitting on Penny (“Oh, he can’t talk about attractive women [like you]”)

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In S01E07 The Dumpling Paradox, Raj has a line “Oh, sure. Cut the foreigner in half. There’s a billion more where he came from.” when Penny is standing a few feet away.

Was he aware penny was there and did he have a beer? I seem to recall he spent a lot of the first 4 seasons with a beer bottle in hand so he could talk.

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Clearly Raj could talk to his sister and mother. Not sure about the extent of that exception.

I think he just can’t talk to women he wants to sleep with, but since he’s ultra-desperate, that’s every woman he’s not related to.

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Being on the Physics Bowl team, he could answer questions in front of a crowd that included Penny and had Leslie Winkle near him.

I think that’s just that he isn’t talking TO women.

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So the writers basically didn’t care when his selective mutism was in effect. It’s a effect of the Law of Funny.

That’s for damn sure.