I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode.
OMG, did I laugh last night. Great episode, but I will say by and large it is the women carrying that show. All three of them were on fire last night. A few funny moments with Sheldon and Howard. Amy in particular has been the star this season, but yeah Bernadette and Penny had me in stitches last night too (even if Bernadette’s betrayal was obvious, it was still done well and her running off down the stairs had me in tears).
Best moment was Bernadette:
“Is this your first day being a girl?”, flees down the stairs…
And Penny gaping after her like she couldn’t believe she’d been had.
That dress is truly hideous, but Amy loves it and so does Sheldon, so that’s all that matters.
Glad to see Stuart’s store doing better. Could a scientist of Sheldon’s caliber really get that much funding for a project?
So, everyone is married but Raj. I hope Denise comes back.
I kind of liked that dress. There are probably a couple of simple subtle ways to make it look more appealing without much effort.
Does Sheldon even know how to science? $500 million is Large Hadron Collider territory. It’s Human Genome Project territory. It’s Apollo Program. It’s Manhattan Project. You want to go to Congress for funding. He was talking about lasers-n-shit, so there’s probably some military applications. Go talk to the Defense Department.
I found Young Sheldon that came immediately afterwards to be funnier than this episode. Heck, just the last bit with the fish was funnier than this entire episode.
Holy cow, President Siebert is back! Haven’t seen him in years. Joshua Malina must have had a free day in his schedule. Although, in the continuing saga of how this show doesn’t understand the workings of higher education, there is no way the university president would be approving grants. They have committees for that. I know, I’ve served on that committee, and the president never dropped by. 
I actually thought that Amy was going to have to give up the dress, since Sheldon had seen her in it. I would think she would be big into wedding superstitions like that. Then she would have to concede to wearing that strapless one, all the while complaining about what a disappointment it was, or something like that.
Pretty good episode, all told.
Disappointed with Sheldon at the roulette table. As a scientist, he should know that in a properly constructed wheel, all outcomes are equally probable and are totally independent of past results. Furthermore, I can’t see why the staff would kick someone out for thinking he had a system for roulette, those kinds of players are their bread and butter.
Seems like Leonard’s role is diminishing over the years. Right now he’s the least interesting and least funny of the lot, other than Raj.
Leonard has always been a drag on the show. Not as much as Raj, but not a big contributor other than as straight man, which is arguably a harder job.
Oh, that was great!
Of course the way he went about asking for $500 million wasn’t realistic. This is a sitcom. It’s not meant to be a realistic portrayal of how science or universities work. That would be boring and unfunny.
If you need to wave it away, imagine that Sheldon is so sheltered that he really doesn’t understand how much money that is.
Thanks for explaining the concept of the show to me. Until now, I thought this was a documentary.
Glad to help. Let me know if you need any other basic concepts explained.
You may be right. In an early episode when Penny was short on cash Leonard told her to hit up Sheldon for a loan, because that’s one of the few things he’s not hung up about. He has enough for food, rent, savings, and the rest he stores in a cookie jar.
I thought that too, but Mayim doesn’t shave, so I don’t think having her in a strapless gown is going to happen.
I thought it was in Green Lantern’s ass.
That’s a fifty. The rest is in uncashed checks, because Sheldon doesn’t trust the bank’s computers.
“in a properly constructed wheel” which since they are used for years and are made by and installed by humans- they have bias.
However, of course Blackjack would be far better.
Uncashed checks become void after a period.
Which doesn’t matter, since he doesn’t cash them.