# The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 20 (April 6, 2017) -- "The Recollection Dissipation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879 "2017-04-06T13:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/21 "2017-04-07T16:59:15Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > yIjatlhQo’ jachtaHvIS, yIjatlhQo’ jachtaHvIS, yIjatlhQo’ jachtaHvIS > quiet growl, quiet growl, quiet growel Quiet growl. So Klingon cats don’t even purr. I love this! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/22 "2017-04-07T18:11:10Z")
Yeah this was a pretty good episode. The cast does seem a little bored though. Two more seasons seems crazy to me. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/23 "2017-04-07T18:51:44Z")
I love any episode in which Sheldon dances. I used to raise praying mantises, and I didn’t know their bodies could move like that. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/24 "2017-04-07T19:56:01Z")
Where have I seen that bartender before. On a sit-com, I think. With a hot wife maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/25 "2017-04-07T20:21:35Z")
His name is [Joel Murray](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615063/) and he’s quite a prolific character actor. It says he’s been in over 250 sitcom episodes. Plus, he’s the youngest of the Murray brothers. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/26 "2017-04-07T20:49:09Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Where have I seen that bartender before. On a sit-com, I think. With a hot wife maybe? Pete Kavanagh, Dharma & Greg’s pal. Jane was his wife. Also he starred in the film **God Bless America** in 2011. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/27 "2017-04-07T20:50:15Z")
**Mad Men**! That’s where I knew him from. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/28 "2017-04-07T20:51:59Z")
It’s Dharma & Greg I was remembering him from. Thanks. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/29 "2017-04-07T20:55:27Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > …a little more time with Bernadette’s story. That got wrapped up to neatly. There needs to be a part 2 where she actually goes back to work, with a little suspense. Without her, they have a backlog of their quota of infectious outbreaks and terrible lab accidents to fulfill. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/30 "2017-04-08T07:00:23Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > Pete Kavanagh, Dharma & Greg’s pal. Jane was his wife. Thanks so much! I’ve been wracking my brain, trying to remember where I knew him from. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/31 "2017-04-08T17:10:21Z")
Both Jim Parsons and Sheldon Cooper are from Texas. It’s about time they got him into a cowboy bar. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/32 "2017-04-09T21:06:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > So it’s an expletive. 😉 _All_ Klingon words are expletives! ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/33 "2017-04-09T21:13:13Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > Without her, they have a backlog of their quota of infectious outbreaks and terrible lab accidents to fulfill. Yeah! I kinda surprised they didn’t do “Soft Kitty” in Hebrew, since Mayim Bialik actually speaks that. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/34 "2017-04-09T21:23:21Z")
Yeah, but there’s no reason that Amy Farrah Fowler would speak Hebrew. The character isn’t Jewish. In one episode she explicitly says that she isn’t Jewish. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/35 "2017-04-09T21:35:00Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Yeah, but there’s no reason that Amy Farrah Fowler would speak Hebrew. The character isn’t Jewish. In one episode she explicitly says that she isn’t Jewish. AFF isn’t Navajo or Mandarin either, and she’s never shown any evidence of speaking German before. The only thing she’s ever said was that she once spent a semester in Norway. It would have been a funny in-joke if she’d done it in Norwegian. Actually, Bialik speaks Yiddish too. Maybe that’s why German. I’ve never tried to memorize anything in German, but I’m told it’s easy because the languages are close. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/36 "2017-04-09T21:53:12Z")
It’s pretty common to require a reading knowledge of a foreign language (usually French or German) to get a Ph.D. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/37 "2017-04-09T21:58:10Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > yIjatlhQo’ jachtaHvIS, yIjatlhQo’ jachtaHvIS, yIjatlhQo’ jachtaHvIS > quiet growl, quiet growl, quiet growel Are Klingons the only race to have invented interstellar travel before the vowel? ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/38 "2017-04-09T22:03:38Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > It’s pretty common to require a reading knowledge of a foreign language (usually French or German) to get a Ph.D. My father got his with Russian, and my mother knew eight languages, but none of them was French or German-- 'course, her degree was in Slavic linguistics. I would think that for neuroscience, you might need Latin. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/39 "2017-04-09T22:41:39Z")
Do you know anyone with a Ph.D. in neuroscience? I don’t know of any science Ph.D. program where the language requirement is in Latin. Latin may be required in certain fields of history, philosophy, or theology, but I don’t think it is required in any science. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879/40 "2017-04-09T22:42:50Z")
Also, yes, the third most common language for a language requirement for a Ph.D. is Russian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-20-april-6-2017-the-recollection-dissipation/783879.md?page=3)