Stupid “only in a sitcom” premise: Howard (and Bernadette) get the house. They move in (hey, a free house plus Howard always wanted to continue to live there). But there’s a proviso that Stuart has to be allowed to continue to live in the house. Hilarity ensues (in the minds of the writers).
More plausible: Mrs. Wolowitz’s net wealth is tied up in Stuart’s comic book store. He and Howard are business partners.
Maybe the death of his mom pushes Howard to get his PhD (which they’ve been hinting at).
I find the Emily debate here very interesting. Me, I find her to be exactly the sort of person I would enjoy hanging out with - yeah, they’re trying to make her “TV creepy” but I agree that she delivers it in such a sly way that she comes off as into the joke. Yet the people who are supposed to be the core of the show would be horrible people in real life to hang out with (Sheldon, Howard, Bernadette to some extent).
They didn’t think the guys rued missing their proms. The script has the girls missing their prom. The whole re-prom thing was the girls’ idea; the guys just went along with it.
She’d be torn. Sheldon is her man but Penny is her Bestie and Amy remembers all too well what it was like to be unpopular and lonely. And then there’s the underlying sexual draw she feels toward Penny…
She might actually be weighing a threesome until Bernadette screeches, “What are you, nuts?” and talks Amy into letting one of her monkeys eat Penny’s face off IF Bernadette will be her BFF.
To which Bernadette enigmatically replies, “What do you think?”
A. They would not be above it. Nor below it. Or anything at all.
B. There would be no fray.
It just wouldn’t be part of their world. Many geeks wouldn’t even know there was a prom or when it happened. So why all of a sudden would they care now?
In high school? In America? They would know. You can’t miss it. In every class, all over the campus, in the announcements…even geeks in the Chess Club knew about prom. And unless they were so totally checked out of normal life as to be sociopathic, they cared a little. Their parents would at least be asking if they were planning on going.
Not necessarily. My mother never expressed any interest in whether I was going to my prom, and from what we’ve seen of Leonard’s mother I can see her doing the same.
But Sheldon and Howard would know. I can’t see Mary Cooper passing up an opportunity to get Sheldon doing social stuff. He wouldn’t go, but she’d ask him about it. Howard probably had a date and blew it. Or maybe he took his second cousin to prom!
This is silliness. For Sheldon, you’re right. Because Sheldon is a robotic approximation of a human.
For the rest of the guys, you’re crazy. They’re actual people, and they like girls. There’s no way they had no opinion about prom. Hell, Howard took his cousin to prom.
The reason they wouldn’t have gone to prom is because they were losers who couldn’t get dates. And then they would have said they didn’t go because they didn’t care about it as a self-defense mechanism.
It is possible to be a giant nerd and not care about the prom. It’s even possible to be a giant nerd and not care about prom while having a girlfriend.
That’s because I went to her prom because she wanted to go, but I did not go to my prom because none of my friends were going and I wasn’t interested. Her prom turned out to be pretty boring too because very few of her friends attended. Thus, we also didn’t go to any of those fabled after-prom parties.
I went to quite a few Proms in high school (four in my Junior year alone.) That’s because I always went with my nerd friends from church who didn’t have a date but wanted to go. I was happy to help, but never went to my own school’s prom, because I wasn’t interested. And while I was a closet nerd, my classmates would have told you I was a “cool kid.” (They didnt inform me until my 30’s. Too bad, I would have enjoyed knowing) :rolleyes:
Penny keeps saying that she is putting off the wedding date in order to prove that she isn’t pregnant, which would seem to guarantee that she becomes so in the interim.
And yeah, where is the triumphantly fraught return to the comic book shop? That oughta be a total cringefest.
Could the whole “Debbie is never seen” meme been simply because they knew she might not make it to the end of the run? ::shudder:: That’s deep.
