Pretty sure he is a general, but that doesn’t override the larger point.
I think our heroes don’t have any idea how procurement works. I guess in reality Cal Tech would be overseeing the work (I’m going to guess there is some sort of IP agreement their idea is subject to) and would help them navigate that bureaucracy, but rule of funny.
Also loved that Sheldon recognized that the mystery symbol was Charlie Brown’s hair.
Oh - and Amy isn’t going to want a larger bed until later in the relationship - she wants all the physical contact she can get, I think.
I loved Sheldon’s monologue about the satisfaction of working with one’s hands on something tangible and finite vs. the theoretical. I’m no physicist, but I can relate, having had both desk jobs and physical labor jobs.
This episode didn’t do a ton for me. It wasn’t terrible or anything, but given the hot streak they’ve been on, it was a bit of a let-down.
That said, what really stood out for me was the really obnoxious laugh-track. I’m aware that they always have one, but it’s seemed like in the last few seasons they’ve toned it down, not played it as loudly and have varied the clips of people cheering/applauding/laughing. Especially in the part before the credits, it sounded like they played the same clip, over and over and it was way too loud as well as really distracting.
Is it really a laugh track? I think what they do is play with the studio response. Like if they use the third take for technical reasons, and the audience response was wild at the first take, but toned down by the third take, they transpose it, and sometimes it doesn’t fit right. They splice in a double-take, or compress the laughter, or something to make it fit, and the effect is very artificial.
I don’t think Dean Norris understood the equation at all. He asked what it meant and they told him. It would make it smaller. That is what stuck in his head. He wants it.
Nothing in the show has realistically depicted how a research professor’s life is actually like at a place like CatTech. Why start now?
Yeah, noticed the shower curtain. Just general wear, tear and mold would have required Sheldon it replacing every year or two. He can Google for a replacement and he’d find that it’s just like the one on TBBT.
Don’t knock the fakey laugh track. Without it they’d have to come up with 5-10 more minutes of material per show.
Leonard: Oh nothing, just some math we don’t need.
Colonel: This is a different approach. Are you trying to get the guidance system even smaller?
Leonard: It’s just a theory. It’s not even worked out.
Colonel: Oh. (chuckle and pause) I want this.
He noticed it was new math that didn’t apply to their current solution, and realized without any prompting that it had to do with the size of the guidance system.
