Apparently Bernadette mentioned it to the office big mouth (Penny) also.
He is. The way the show has evolved over the years has rendered his character meaningless and annoying. There is no way his girlfriends will integrate with the trio, and he isn’t connected in any way to the central project the guys are working on. With the various couples set, he can’t even be the guy who is just part of the group any more. Time for Raj to be sent to the farm up-state.
Hell, *I *almost lost it on that one! :eek: :smack: :mad:
I kept looking around Bernadette’s office for the espresso machine. 
I REFUSE to believe an engineer from MIT does not know that the Death Star is Star Wars, not Star Trek. They set up plenty of lines for Sheldon to go mutely crazy over, let’s stay within the bounds of credulity.
I loved the retinal scanner bit. I kept waiting for it to say, “Sheldon Cooper, Access Denied.”
I think Bernadette was quite right to throw Penny out of her office. Very unprofessional of Penny to gossip like that at work.
So Raj will be at loose ends while the rest of the boys buckle down to shrink this gyroscope. Maybe we’ll see more Stuart.
They should do a spin-off where his divorced father comes to live with him in California. Kind of a cross between Big Shots in America and Frasier.*
Stuart could be the equivalent of Niles, the sole component of their social life.
*Do I get paid for this one? :dubious:
Dad sets up shop as a Beverly Hills gynecologist and Raj keeps hitting on his patients. Hilarity ensues. Coming this Spring on Fox!
I wouldn’t say that’s true. I’ve seen Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, and Melissa Rauch in interviews and all are noticeably different from their characters.
See? It almost writes itself! 
Hey, no love for the Mary/Alfred spin off?
A show with several funny bits here and there. A major deviation from the recent norm. The best was the Sheldon not-talking bits.
OTOH, the Penny-Bernadette stuff is more suitable for an ABC After School Special. Not a modern comedy.
Regarding actors vs. the real people.
If you’ve seen Jim Parsons on a talk show, you will realize that he is Sheldon in terms of voice and movement. He’s basically just saying his lines as himself. So the opposite if you want to laud someone for creating a new persona.
So the top “not playing themselves” in order are: Mayim/Amy, Kunal/Raj, Melissa/Bernadette. And even the latter just squeaks (!) by. She says she’s doing her mother’s voice, but the difference is fairly small. It’s the intensity she brings to the character that stands out.
This is not to say, for example, the Simon Helberg isn’t a very good actor. He does a really good job in Florence Foster Jenkins. Johnny Galecki used to be a really good actor (The Opposite of Sex), but has been just mailing it in for a while on TBBT. Oh, look. He’s doing the head tilt-squint thing again.
“Really good”? He practically stole the movie.