# The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 16 (February 16, 2017) -- "The Allowance Evaporation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000 "2017-02-16T19:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/1 "2017-02-16T19:12:26Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/2 "2017-02-16T20:19:07Z")
Howard is the only one on the show to get an allowance, IIRC. Wonder what he did this time? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/3 "2017-02-16T20:20:52Z")
Something stupid, I’ll bet. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/4 "2017-02-16T20:35:54Z")
Paying for sex again? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/5 "2017-02-16T20:42:47Z")
We might be completely off here. It might be that Howard’s allowance evaporates because of the additional costs of having a sprog, and he has to deal with not being able to do/buy/have something the rest of the guys get. Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/6 "2017-02-16T20:45:03Z")
Maybe Howard and Bernie are giving Stuart an allowance (Raj has a job and wealthy parents to fall back on - Stuart, not so much). ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/7 "2017-02-16T20:45:18Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Howard is the only one on the show to get an allowance, IIRC. Wonder what he did this time? Actually, from the looks of things, it is going to be Raj. His father is going to “cut him off” from the family fortune. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/8 "2017-02-16T21:02:36Z")
Ouch. It seems to me that Raj can really only afford his lifestyle because of his parents giving him money. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/9 "2017-02-16T21:11:01Z")
Double ouch. The only thing Raj has going for him in the first place is money. Without that he’s nothing but a pathetic loser that even Stuart would reject. Maybe now the producers can finally send him to that farm upstate. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/10 "2017-02-17T04:51:15Z")
Yay, Bert was in this episode. I like Bert. What was that gadget called in the opening scene? An oil something. Cool. Looks like they’re trying to evolve Raj away from the loser character a bit. Whatever happened to the cleaning lady he was starting to get involved with? And Sheldon continues to mature and learn how to read emotions in others. Sometimes accurately. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/11 "2017-02-17T04:55:17Z")
An Euler’s Disk. [Euler's Disk - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_Disk) [http://www.eulersdisk.com/physics.html](http://www.eulersdisk.com/physics.html) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/12 "2017-02-17T11:43:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Double ouch. The only thing Raj has going for him in the first place is money. Without that he’s nothing but a pathetic loser that even Stuart would reject. > > Maybe now the producers can finally send him to that farm upstate. Yes, and they made it clear that NOBODY wants Raj living with them… not even knowing what a great live-in maid and cook he’d be. And I loved the fact that it was Sheldon who asked Bert to join them at the table. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/13 "2017-02-17T12:13:34Z")
Brian Posehn is as ever excellent ( starting to look a bit Father Christmas despite being only 50 ) and he and the British Indian chap who plays Raj’s dad were the best things about this episode. The endlessly dreary Amy appears to have taken over Leonard’s motive for existence of whining and looking exasperated. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/14 "2017-02-17T12:30:52Z")
Did anybody else get that Priya must be married? If all Raj’s brothers and sisters are married, that includes Priya. I guess he didn’t mention it so as not to weird Leonard out. EDIT: Also, kinda surprised Raj didn’t play the one really good arrow in his quiver-- he’s afraid to get married now that his parents are in the middle of a bad break-up. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/15 "2017-02-17T12:46:19Z")
I loved the opening scene. A bunch of intelligent adult males doing something stupidly juvenile while the women berate them for it? Yeah, I’ve only lived through that a few hundred times since college. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/16 "2017-02-17T13:05:59Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Did anybody else get that Priya must be married? If all Raj’s brothers and sisters are married, that includes Priya. I guess he didn’t mention it so as not to weird Leonard out. Yeah, I picked up on that too. The Euler’s disk reminded me of the time they mixed something and poured onto a speaker and when they turned up the bass the substance bounced around. That was cool too. I liked Amy in this episode. Sheldon loves her enough to want to fix things when he screws up. He’s come a long way. BUT he got his license and didn’t tell anyone because he feels important when he’s chauffered around. Oh, Sheldon. I think Raj broke up with the cleaning lady…he mentioned he was dating someone from the university but they broke up. So much for that. So now Raj has to grow up. I bet now he finally finds someone. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/17 "2017-02-17T13:31:28Z")
Priya must have married the guy she was cheating on Leonard with. Wasn’t he an old boyfriend anyway? Plot hole: whose car did Sheldon use to take his drivers test? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/18 "2017-02-17T13:32:48Z")
Maybe he rented one? He does ride the bus. How long before g-harmony becomes a thing? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/19 "2017-02-17T13:33:28Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I think Raj broke up with the cleaning lady…he mentioned he was dating someone from the university but they broke up. So much for that. That happened a few episodes ago - it’s what inspired him to interview all his old girlfriends. “What’s going on with that woman you’re dating?” “I broke up with her.” “Why?” “She said she didn’t want to see me anymore and I found that insulting.” ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000/20 "2017-02-17T13:34:50Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I think Raj broke up with the cleaning lady…he mentioned he was dating someone from the university but they broke up. So much for that. Yeah, in the cold open of last week’s episode (or was it two weeks ago?), Leonard asked about “that woman you’ve been seeing,” and Raj said that she dumped him. That’s what prompted him to gather his exes together so they could all tell him how much he sucks. While they didn’t specify that “that woman” was Isabella, she’s the only likely suspect. It seems kind of weird that they would devote a whole episode to establishing her, and then never have her appear again, but the show is getting a little sloppy about that kind of thing these days. Edited to add: Darn! Ninjaed! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-16-february-16-2017-the-allowance-evaporation/780000.md?page=2)