Everytime I think of that scene it reminds me of this.
Nope… unless I’m not remembering what it looked like… you nailed it.
http://www.beavercreek.k12.oh.us/Page/7702
I also played a Flutophone in 4th grade.
Oops… just re-watched the scene… it is indeed a white recorder.
Carry on.
I don’t think it was the dress- I think Penny would look good even if she wasn’t wearing a stitch.
Best of the year so far. No bitchy Bernadette, Raj was less annoying, no Stewart. Great song for Howard.
Must say, I didn’t like the “B” story. (watched on demand today, stopped b4 they played the song for Bernie.) The “A” story was awesome BTW.
I’m a little confused… you liked the A story which I assume was Sheldon’s discovery… but you didn’t like the B story which I assume was the romantic gestures piece.
BUT… you stopped watching before the song for Bernie… and what happens with Penny and Leonard.
Knock Knock
Who’s There
Myron
Myron who?
Never mind… I don’t like this one.
Yes, the Bernie-Howie relationship didn’t “speak” to me this week. Let me know what I missed, and why it was so special.
Howard’s song was awesome. Written entirely in nerd-speak, even including a little Klingon, clearly a labor of love…and a callback to how he first won her over with a horribly corny over the top disaster of a song that appealed to no one…except Bernadette. The rest of the gang as “doo wop girls” worked nicely.
Sadly, we did not get to see Raj shred it on his ukelaxe. No Penny in leather writhing with a tambourine, no Leonard as a hip blues-cellist, and no beat-nik Sheldon laying down the recorder groove…but it still rocked.
I was expecting her to announce her pregnancy at the end.
Speaking of pregnancy, Leonard should be double-wrapping his Whopper from now on. 
I was thinking she was going to vomit on the glass.
Because Sheldon has never grown up and sees her and Leonard as surrogate parents.
She wasn’t commenting on the effects of the drug but of the virus.
And she sang “Blow the man down” with Sheldon while making Penny Blossoms. Her voice is okay, but it has a fast vibrato that is a bit annoying.
I used to play violin and viola pretty well. Now I’m singing, and my previous instrumental experience has definitely helped.
Many years ago, a choirmaster friend wanted to recruit me for his choir. When I protested that I had only ever played instruments (piano and flute, in my case), he told me that having learned those instruments, I was familiar with printed sheet music, that I could recognize intervals and harmonies, and that I knew what the music was saying. “I need another bass voice who can read and understand music; if you get worried, just follow along with the other guys in the bass section of our choir, and you’ll be fine,” he said.
He was right, and I sang in his choir for many years; and (once I realized that I actually could sing) in other vocal ensembles subsequently. But I doubt that I could have done so, if I had not had instrumental training. It gave me what I needed to read vocal music confidently.
As for the episode, I did like the way the gang came together to sing backup to Howard. And I loved Amy being “in the zone.”
The song has been released on iTunes with the proceeds going to MusiCares. I read it in an interview with Kate Micucci. The interview also mentioned Lucy will be back. I hope she comes back to date Winkle.
I think you misunderstood what happened. Sheldon used the wrong number but the wrong number ended up being right. Had Sheldon done what he planned, he would have failed. He made a mistake that ended up being right. To him that is the same as being wrong. That’s why he was getting all the accolades: his discovery was real; he just doesn’t feel that he earned it because he was right by accident. For Sheldon, that’s unbearable. That’s why Amy calling him out on it was sweet by his point of view.
Though Joey P is right that someone would notice the mistake soon enough - the experimentalists were apparently so eager to make the discovery that Sheldon’s paper promised (and/or happened to have experimental apparatus that could be turned to that task very easily), that they didn’t check the math before running the experiment.
i wouldn’t put much hard thought into the show. what ever linkage to to any joke or subplot is used.
Sheldon has been repeatedly dismissive of any science that isn’t theoretical physics, including experimental physics.
I’m afraid you’re the one misunderstanding what Joey P is saying. In the real world, as soon as the paper was prepublished online - probably at a place like arxiv.org - the mistake would be found and no one would take it any farther. Only in a sitcom world could it have gotten to the point where Sheldon realizes his own basic mistake. Yet another example of the way the show uses real science imagery simultaneously with a total disregard for how science works.
They do the same thing with gaming. World of Warcraft does not work the way it has been portrayed in the show, and the fictional trading card game invented for the show, Mystic Warlords of Ka’a, has no discernible rules at all. They came reasonably close to a simulated version of D&D, but even that had problems.
As a made up game, Mystic Warlords of Ka’a can have any rules they want. As shown on screen, it’s basically a CCG version of Uno.
Here’s the gist of the rules to Mystic Warriors of Ka’a. The game was briefly available at a convention (GenCon, IIRC) the year after its first appearance on the show.
Each player begins the game with a deck of cards. The base game comes with eight pre-built decks of forty cards, although customizing decks for replayability and ultimate mischief is encouraged for experienced players.
Every round, each player may play up to two creature cards and one spell card. These cards are played one at a time and are meant to be announced with a flourish. Next comes a “pugilistic scrum” in which the creatures battle one another at the behest of their warlord masters, supported by any spells that have been played. Every victory in combat allows the winner to knock cards off of her opponent’s deck. Then all cards in play are wiped and the next round begins.
Once a player’s deck has run out, she must reshuffle her cards. If you can force your opponent to reshuffle her deck three times, you are declared the winner.