Perhaps situation comedies are not your cup of tea. Perhaps you’d prefer more reality-based dramatic entertainment with genuine emotional displays, like The Bachelor.
Double nitpick. Howard was launched with one American (real life astronaut Mike Massimino) and one Russian.
There are six episodes left. It’s been revealed Shamy will have several children. Penny would have to change her mind really fast, because she’s on record as not wanting children. And Raj would have to change his mind even faster and more strongly, because for 11.5 seasons it’s been pretty clear that he prefers women but he’s inept with them.
I like sitcoms, but not when they resort to cheap tricks like this. We’ve gotten more sophisticated than Good Times. What’s next, the cast taking part in a talent show?
When Sheldon was trying to show that the Fermi duo had no idea what they were talking about, it was stupid of him to present them with an either/or question. Instead he should have asked them to explain the super-asymmetry theory and how their work contributed. An open-ended question, in other words. (Although now that they’re traveling around trying to promote their candidacy, I assume they’d have some canned answers to explain this stuff.)
What? No, the gang has been invited to a live-action murder-mystery dinner party, but after entirely too long they’ll eventually realize the guy is actually dead.
If that is your take away you totally missed the humor. Sheldon for once bit his lip as instructed and didn’t do the rant, but then suddenly normally calm Amy unexpectedly took over and went crazy. Also, Sheldon finally recognized how bad what he normally would have done looked.
Maybe not the highlight of the series… the season… or the episode but it is better than anything ever done on Good Times.
Plus you quoted two catch phrases from 30 or 40 years ago that everyone recognizes so they must have some relevance. Ok, even I can’t keep a straight face saying that.
I see your point and yes, the show is much better written than Good Times. That’s why I was so disappointing in the Amy rant. I thought it was lazy writing.
I’m not necessarily saying anybody’s being “slammed.” Just that, like any creative endeavor, before getting a publisher interested in a book (even a simple children’s picture book), one likely goes through a lot of rejection before even the slightest sniff of success.
Somebody who’s actually done the work and paid the dues might be miffed at how easy they’re making the process look, is all.
While Stuart is part of the regular cast, his contract is apparently for slightly less episodes (and money) than Sheldon, Leonard, etc. Denise is part of the recurring cast, and her contract is apparently for slightly less episodes (and money) than Stuart. There are very precise conditions in the contracts about all of this. Because Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Raj, and Howard began in the first year of the show and Amy and Bernadette didn’t begin until the third year, Amy and Bernadette make slightly less money than Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Raj, and Howard, even though all of them appear (I think) in every episode this year. Excuse me for referring to them by their characters’ names, not the actors’ names.
Triple nitpick: The book shows Howard in the middle. He was actually on the left. (Rezinov was in the middle, Massimino on the right.)
As to ending. It has to end back where it started. At the sperm donor clinic. With Vernee Watson as Althea, of course. Leonard is there to bank for when Penny changes her mind (Penny also doing egg donations). Sheldon because getting Amy pregnant the “regular way” is just “too icky”.
One across is “Aegean,” eight down is “Nabokov,” twenty-six across is “MCM,” fourteen down is - lift finger - “phylum,” which makes fourteen across … “Port-au-Prince”.
Not at the clinic…walking up the stairs to the apartment. They chat on the way, echoing the conversation in the first episode. Then when they get to the 4th floor, the elevator dings and someone gets off. They comment “Oh, look! They got the elevator fixed.” and head to their respective apartments. The End.
Where would this person be going? It seems as if there are only two apartments per floor in their building. Which would make the building pretty lobsided considering how much bigger The guys apartment was in comparison to Penny’s (now P & L’s apartment compared to S & A’s).
I have seen blueprints for TV apartments, I wonder if anyone has done a building blueprint for TBBT.
Almost all television apartments are impossible in the real world. Because they don’t care. They also have to have their sofas in the middle of rooms so people can walk behind them.
There could be more than two. Note that the layouts given in Drum God’s link have no windows across the front of the apartments (where the televisions are). That’s evidence that one or two more apartments led off the entryway across from the elevator. Those are on the front of the building and have street-facing windows, while the ones we see face the rear.
Just a minute!*** I ***have my sofa in the middle of the room. And much like Sheldon’s spot, it’s because the light is better, it has fewer fluctuations in ambient comfort and it forms a nice little “conversation pit.”