And so is The Other Girl Whose Name I Can Never Remember. I thought it was interesting that, after all that “Raj is dating two women” stuff last season, they have apparently decided to just drop it this season, without even bothering to show us the breakups.
They do seem to have written themselves into a corner with Raj. Now that the show has become about couples, he’s the odd man out, but they don’t seem to have had much luck finding him a love interest who fits in with the group (not to mention that this would bloat an already large cast even further). Unless they actually do go ahead and make him gay and pair him up with Stuart, I’m not sure what else there is to do with him. I do know one thing: their current decision to make him a creepy hanger-on to Bernadette’s pregnancy is not the way to go!
Do you mean Lucy? They did show the break-up. There was a re-run episode the other day where Penny went and bitched her out for dumping Raj over email. So Lucy called him and he tried to get back with her but she said she had started dating someone else. So there was that break-up.
Also the explanation for Sheldon’s 3 knocks was perfect.
Yeah, I don’t see how they could possibly work as an actual couple. But they are hilarious together! (As a “pseudo-couple”, or whatever you want to call their nutty relationship.)
I agree that Sheldon and Penny always make for a good pairing. I waffle back and forth whether or not it would work romantically though but it definitely brings the funny.
The original Amy, before Penny turned her into a “downtown hipster party girl,” and she rather neatly went through all the developmental stages season by season in some of the best character transformation on TV, where she was a little kid, then a tween, then a teen, then a twenty-something, and now a real, well-rounded adult, was a lot like Leonard’s mother.
I’m telling you, he’s going to be Howard and Bernadette’s nanny.
And they don’t need to mellow Bernie out. She’s pregnant. Being pregnant sucks.
The gay cast member is covered by Sheldon taking the role of Penny’s gay best friend. They both know the relationship can never get physical so they can bond by talking smack about the others. (That used to be called a bitch session. Is there a modern term?) That’s why the pairing works so well in small doses. But neither of them satisfy any of the basic needs of the other.
