# The Big Bang Theory, May 8, 2014 -- "The Gorilla Dissolution" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978 "2014-05-08T15:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/61 "2014-05-09T18:01:43Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if, having given up acting, her dream role suddenly falls into her lap. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/62 "2014-05-09T18:02:33Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Does anyone think that Penny will choose some other showbiz career, I don’t know make-up or something, and suddenly be successful? In an older thread there was speculation about her getting cast in good sci-fi series or movie giving her cred with the brainiacs. I hoped things would go down that road. Maybe she’ll get a voice-over job or something instead. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/63 "2014-05-09T18:03:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > She already has experience as an acting coach. Well that would work both as an extension of her renewed “love of the craft” while still stopping acting herself and as a conduit for guest appearances. I am not a devoted follower of the show, who did she coach? eta: TriPolar,Nonsuch, didn’t she explicitly say she was giving up acting? While both your plot points could happen, it’s not like her ape-ist role is gonna get her a bunch of cold calls for new jobs. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/64 "2014-05-09T18:05:18Z")
Why not have Penny move in with Leonard and Sheldon? That would keep the Penny-Sheldon interaction going. Looking forward to Penny’s bridal shower and having her model all the lingerie gifts. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/65 "2014-05-09T18:06:53Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I am not a devoted follower of the show, who did she coach? Sheldon, when he realized his delivery on lectures needed improvement. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/66 "2014-05-09T18:16:21Z")
Season 4, Episode 14. _ **Sheldon:** It has been suggested to me that acting techniques could improve my lecturing, at which, if certain tweets and blogs are to be believed, I suck the big one._ ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/67 "2014-05-09T18:19:31Z")
Thanks. Guess I could have guessed that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/68 "2014-05-09T18:25:06Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > But that didn’t keep you from looking at it, did it? :dubious: Are kidding? I paused the dvr so I could enjoy a nice long ogle, like I do every episode. Even covered in coarse black hair, that woman can still make funny things happen in my pants. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/69 "2014-05-09T18:29:27Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Why not have Penny move in with Leonard and Sheldon? That would keep the Penny-Sheldon interaction going. she has been over there day and night. there is a dining room table that could be used if she wants to do small scale mail order business. sounds doable because there would be a bedroom door for Sheldon to knock on. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/70 "2014-05-09T18:40:13Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Why not have Penny move in with Leonard and Sheldon? That would keep the Penny-Sheldon interaction going. I’m thinking if Penny and Leonard actually do get married, they’ll take over the big apartment and Sheldon will move across the hall. Does anyone else think Penny and Leonard will drive each other crazy if they live together? They’ve already shown that they get irked by each other’s personal habits, and I’d think that would only be magnified if they had to live in the midst of them all the time. Especially since Penny, who’s the more disorganized/slobby/terrible with money half of the couple, is also the dominant personality. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/71 "2014-05-09T20:48:08Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Out of curiosity: Is Wil Wheaton, in real life, so hard-up for money that he would take a job in a D-Movie? [Celebritynetworth.com](http://Celebritynetworth.com) is down right now, but I looked him once a long time ago and I think he was worth $500K. Not bad, but could be chump change in his industry. My explanation for that would be: Wil Wheaton is not playing himself. He is playing a character named “Wil Wheaton,” former child TV star. Drawing a fine distinction between them. It seems rather meta, but it is meaningful. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/72 "2014-05-09T20:59:46Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Well, he’s just gotten his own series on SyFy, to premiere later this month, which is being billed as “Talk Soup for Geeks.” > > He produces and stars in the Youtube series “Tabletop,” in which celebrity guests play tabletop board games. The first two seasons were sponsored by Google/Youtube; Wheaton sought to expand the third season to other online outlets and turned to Indiegogo to fund it, raising $1.3 million to produce 20 new episodes of the show and simultaneously fund a season-long single RPG show as well. > > I’d say he’s not clipping coupons, except for fun, but he’s not crazy wealthy either. Based on things he’s said on his website there were definitely some lean years while he was coming to terms with his lost star status but in the last 5 years or so he’s made a pretty solid comeback as the voice of the geek in both writing and in a return to acting. Basically he has said that his Big Bang “evil” Wil Wheaton is pulled from those lean years where he felt underappreciated and fairly desperate to prove that his early success was not a fluke. Once he had some success with his writing he relaxed about the auditions and his acting career improved too. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/73 "2014-05-09T21:15:01Z")
A while back Raj took a job from Sheldon to keep from getting deported. Is he still working for him? Because if so, then unless the show doesn’t care about continuity, if Sheldon quits, Raj will have to find another job at the university ASAP. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/74 "2014-05-09T21:32:29Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > A while back Raj took a job from Sheldon to keep from getting deported. Is he still working for him? Because if so, then unless the show doesn’t care about continuity, if Sheldon quits, Raj will have to find another job at the university ASAP. Is he still working for Sheldon? If so, and if Sheldon quits there will be an opening at the university. And in general, is Raj even trying to become a citizen? He doesn’t sound like he ever wants to go back to India. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/75 "2014-05-09T21:49:23Z")
Penny also gave Sheldon lessons on how to be a better host in his flag podcasts. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/76 "2014-05-09T22:44:23Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Is he still working for Sheldon? If so, and if Sheldon quits there will be an opening at the university. > > And in general, is Raj even trying to become a citizen? He doesn’t sound like he ever wants to go back to India. I’m pretty sure he still is. Although if Sheldon quits, I didn’t think about Raj taking over. Of course the university might have to hold interviews even if they want Raj to have the job. But since this is fiction, maybe Sheldon quits and Raj just takes over. As for citizenship, I’m not sure. I knew an English guy going for citizen ship a few years back. It was taking a few years and several hundred dollars, so even if Raj applied, it might take a while. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/77 "2014-05-10T01:09:44Z")
I didn’t get to watch the episode live and went to watch it on CBS’s website this morning. The still from the episode is the proposal. Way to go, dumbasses. It’s not like it ruined it for me, but I would have liked to have been surprised in-episode. I prefer to watch things on Hulu, but CBS doesn’t put much of their content on it. One of the reasons I like Hulu is that in my queue, there aren’t spoilery pictures. I had to unlike TBBT on facebook too because there was the same picture in its feed. I was already spoiled at that point, but I don’t need it next time. I don’t see what is wrong with “Big surprises last night!” and show a still from early in the episode to generate discussion. I can’t understand why they’re determined to give away the ending on every platform. I’m not super angry or anything. I’m not ragequitting. Just annoyed. It was otherwise an ok episode. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/78 "2014-05-10T01:57:17Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I didn’t get to watch the episode live and went to watch it on CBS’s website this morning. The still from the episode is the proposal. Way to go, dumbasses. It’s not like it ruined it for me, but I would have liked to have been surprised in-episode. I prefer to watch things on Hulu, but CBS doesn’t put much of their content on it. One of the reasons I like Hulu is that in my queue, there aren’t spoilery pictures. I had to unlike TBBT on facebook too because there was the same picture in its feed. I was already spoiled at that point, but I don’t need it next time. I don’t see what is wrong with “Big surprises last night!” and show a still from early in the episode to generate discussion. I can’t understand why they’re determined to give away the ending on every platform. I’m not super angry or anything. I’m not ragequitting. Just annoyed. You thought that was a surprise? It ain’t exactly up there with “JAPAN SURRENDERS”; I’ve forgotten how many times one of them has proposed to the other. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/79 "2014-05-10T02:06:41Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Is he still working for Sheldon? If so, and if Sheldon quits there will be an opening at the university. > > And in general, is Raj even trying to become a citizen? He doesn’t sound like he ever wants to go back to India. It doesn’t appear that Raj in in the US on an immigrant visa. Nor does he want to go back to India. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978/80 "2014-05-10T02:24:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Penny and Wil drink Sierra Nevada. Neat. Leonard drinks Bohemia. Also neat. Leonard was drinking Negro Modelo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-may-8-2014-the-gorilla-dissolution/687978.md?page=5)