Per Lucifer’s Hammer - it would be hyphenated: Kothrapalli-Smith.
I was going to say that we were never in Raj’s apartment, but that isn’t true - we did see his space in the garage. Did Cinnamon live with them in Leonard/Penny’s apartment when he was squatting there? Maybe he had to give her up (although that would seem like it should have been a plot point, and I certainly don’t remember it).
It would be funny if Raj ended up with Missy. For one thing, she acted like she liked him in that episode. For another, actor Kunal Nayyar is married to a gorgeous knockout wife, a former Miss India. So a Missy relationship would kind of mirror the real actor’s life.
Especially since there were so few people in the store at the time - you’d think the appearance of someone new would create some reaction.
I think I’d actually recognize Gaiman’s voice (there are a few SF writers that I’ve heard speaking enough (in RL or on podcasts, etc.) that their voices are recognizable to me - of course, my ability to recognize Asimov’s voice isn’t going to do me much good any more though). If you haven’t heard it, I suggest looking up Gaiman’s reaction to winning a Hugo a few years back (2007, I think).
Back to the show - I laughed at Penny and Leonard’s dialogue: “Who’s he mad at?” “Neil Gaiman” “Who’s that?” “Not us”
Are you sure? I haven’t heard that. His partner Amanda Palmer likes Australia, though, so maybe.
Here’s a couple of websites that claim that he’s moved to Australia or at least spends a lot of time there:
Other websites claim that he still lives near Minneapolis and still other ones claim that he lives near Boston, where Amanda Palmer was living when they got married.
I’m lost. I have no idea where he lives. Does anyone, including Gaiman, know where he lives?
According to his blog (http://journal.neilgaiman.com/) he lives in America (and is a naturalized U.S. citizen) but Amanda’s doing her residency in Melbourne, so they’re spending a lot of time there.
As far as I know, he still owns a house on Skye…
It sounds like Gaiman and Palmer are like a lot of celebrities. They own several houses. They spend significant amounts of time elsewhere in hotels. In his journal Neil says specifically that they haven’t moved to Australia, although they have visas that allow them to spend large amounts of time there:
Me, too.
A tolerable episode. Raj still needs to die, though. Maybe hit by a comet.
We’ve been in Raj’s apartment/house a handful of times. We were there when he was dating Kate Micucci. We were there when he was dating Emily, with the really dark sense of humor as well as Emily, the deaf girl. I can also recall Leonard and Penny going over there to tell him they lost Cinnamon (who was already there).
I’m sure there’s been other times as well, but that’s off the top my head.
Weren’t most of those at Raj’s old apartment, before his father stopped paying all his bills?
I know Raj, who now has to scrape by on the paltry salary of a Ph.D. astrophysicist, lives above Bert’s garage, but I prefer to think that he takes that space so Cinnamon can have the main house.
Plus doesn’t Raj also moonlight as the presenter at planetarium shows? Or is that instead of working at the university? Either way, he seems to be making a decent salary.
I think we’ve only seen the garage apartment a couple of times. In the garage apartment, the living room and bedroom are the same room (you can see the bed in the background when he sits on the couch) and the kitchen area is much smaller. I can’t remember if he had Cinnamon in Leonard and Penny’s apartment.
Yeah, I liked Denise, as well! I hope that they will feature her in more episodes.
I wonder if she was cast for her height, to make her seem a match for Sheldon and to make Amy feel threatened.
the dog food bowl were on the floor in his kitchen.
None of you geeks knows enough about astronomy to comment on the virtual impossibility of someone discovering a comet with a 9-inch scope from the top of a building located in the middle of one of the largest (and most light-polluted) urban areas in the world?
Or that if you were looking for Mercury your telescope would not be pointed about 60 degrees up from the horizon? Mercury is never more than 27 degrees from the sun, and is therefore never visible much more than about 20 degrees off the horizon, or for more than an hour after sunset or before sunrise. In any case no one with even the most basic understanding of astronomy would ever consider looking for Mercury in the heart of a city.
I thought this show was supposed to have good science advisors.
I caught all of that on first viewing as well. And if they’re looking for Mercury, it doesn’t just pop into view as they suggested; it’ll either be there or not be there (unless it’s cloudy, in which case they wouldn’t have been able to see the comet either).
Can you see any heavenly bodies in Pasadena? Besides Penny and Bernadette of course.
The first goal of the show is to entertain people. Accurate science is a secondary/tertiary goal. They wanted to do a ‘Raj is a jerk about naming the comet’ gag, and there was no way to get Penny out to the desert to see Mercury - they were lucky to get her up to the roof.