# The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 9 (November 17, 2016) -- "The Geology Elevation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293 "2016-11-17T22:37:13Z")\ **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:** [November 17, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/1 "2016-11-17T22:37:13Z")
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:** [November 17, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/2 "2016-11-17T22:40:44Z")
The title suggests that Bert will be in this episode, which is cool. I like him. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/3 "2016-11-18T02:09:12Z")
18 minutes of “meh”. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/4 "2016-11-18T02:20:25Z")
My husband is not a super-fan like I am. He absolutely _hates_ Sheldon, so much so that it interferes with his enjoyment of the show. He watched this episode and laughed and laughed and laughed. Which I found strange because this episode wasn’t bad but it wasn’t up to all the other episodes this season except for the premier. I should mention he didn’t see last weeks episode. I think it would have slayed him. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/5 "2016-11-18T02:35:41Z")
I don’t understand how grants work…they don’t have to use it for research? Bert mentioned now that he was rich he could do better than Amy. I loved how Penny got Sheldon to see how good his life was going, “Maybe you’re right.” The Stephen Hawking Toy was cute. I could see me using it to torment the cat. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/6 "2016-11-18T02:42:47Z")
It was ok. I knew Hawking would like the RC wheelchair, I don’t know why they thought it was offensive. > [@ivylass](#): > > I don’t understand how grants work…they don’t have to use it for research? This isn’t a grant that is applied for, it’s given to people based on past accomplishments and they can use the money any way they want. Most grants are awarded based on proposed work that the money must be used for. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/7 "2016-11-18T03:03:20Z")
They need to write in physical comedy for Sheldon more often. His limping was funny, just like a few episodes ago when he was meeting with Military officer. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/8 "2016-11-18T06:59:24Z")
Is this the first they’ve mentioned penny growing her hair back out? I assume it’s Kaley Cuoco’s own hair, but in Hollywood, who knows. ---
**Author:** ![stosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/9 "2016-11-18T12:43:50Z")
I used to look forward to this show and I still watch it, but it’s going downhill fast. Before, I never noticed the " laugh track". Now, it just serves to tell me whats supposed to be funny and it’s really annoying. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/10 "2016-11-18T12:54:45Z")
A bit of a letdown compared to recent episodes. Bernadette is becoming an unlikeable humorless shrew. The Hawking toy wasn’t that over the top offensive, if offensive at all. Sheldon’s jealously seemed a bit too much, but his physical comedy was gold. Penny does look 10x hotter with longer hair, now she looks about as good as her Wonder Woman costume days. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/11 "2016-11-18T14:07:07Z")
I so want a miniature motorized talking Stephen Hawking! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/12 "2016-11-18T14:25:22Z")
I _liked_ Penny’s, or rather Kaley’s, short hair. This week wasn’t as funny. It felt like a treading water episode, with no point. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/13 "2016-11-18T14:34:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > My husband is not a super-fan like I am. He absolutely _hates_ Sheldon, so much so that it interferes with his enjoyment of the show. He watched this episode and laughed and laughed and laughed. Presumably because Sheldon was growing progressively more injured throughout the story. 🙂 I didn’t care for this one too much. Bert is perhaps an acquired taste, and I’m afraid I haven’t acquired it so far. I don’t believe that I have ever enjoyed Brian Posehn in anything that I’ve seen him in. He’s just not my cup of tea. The only thing that I chuckled at this week was that they incorporated the widespread negative reaction to Kaley’s short hair into the show itself. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/14 "2016-11-18T14:35:46Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > The only thing that I chuckled at this week was that they incorporated the widespread negative reaction to Kaley’s short hair into the show itself. Actually, they touched on it before. When Sheldon ran away and came back, he took one look at Penny and said something like “You changed your hair, I’m leaving!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/15 "2016-11-18T14:40:54Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > > [@ivylass](#): > > > > I don’t understand how grants work…they don’t have to use it for research? > > This isn’t a grant that is applied for, it’s given to people based on past accomplishments and they can use the money any way they want. Most grants are awarded based on proposed work that the money must be used for. The idea with the [MacArthur Fellowships](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program) is to identify people who are doing interesting work and to free them from the necessity of making a living for a few years. I think they try to get people early in their careers and, based on the names that have gone on to be well-known or winners of other prizes, I think they succeed fairly often. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/16 "2016-11-18T16:21:37Z")
Seems to me that Amy is getting progressively less padded, and Leonard now wears a blatantly obvious hairpiece. (Watch him when he raises his eyebrows. His hairline doesn’t move along with his forehead.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/17 "2016-11-18T16:47:06Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I so want a miniature motorized talking Stephen Hawking! I knew Hawking would like the idea. They set up the gag to make Howard look insufferable so they wouldn’t tell him at the end. Hawking’s identity is wrapped up in the wheelchair and robot voice, and clearly he enjoys his place in popular culture. There must have been some other way to play this with more laughs resulting. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/18 "2016-11-18T17:06:46Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > They need to write in physical comedy for Sheldon more often. His limping was funny, just like a few episodes ago when he was meeting with Military officer. I enjoyed “limping Sheldon”, as well. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/19 "2016-11-18T17:07:16Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I knew Hawking would like the idea. The wife called that the second Barry thought it was funny. I thought the episode was a step down from the previous few. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293/20 "2016-11-18T17:16:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Actually, they touched on it before. When Sheldon ran away and came back, he took one look at Penny and said something like “You changed your hair, I’m leaving!” Oh, I had forgotten about that! 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-9-november-17-2016-the-geology-elevation/772293.md?page=2)