Yes! - the new girl is better for Raj & the group. Emily must go - or at least pair her off with Stuart instead (whose character has been unfairly trashed by the writers.)
By the way - recently rewatched the episode where Sheldon left town basically because he couldn’t handle change. It seemed in retrospect like a comment on viewers who didn’t want the characters or show to change or grow.
I wish those darn writers would come up with an explanation of why Bernie changed her mind about having kids. I loved having a main female character who didn’t. But people do change their minds (I did). I wish the writers would at least address this - or have they and I missed it?
The companies I’ve worked for would typically give a $1000 bonus and a nice plaque for each patent. One even had an annual appreciation dinner. AIUI universities do commonly split royalties with their employees, if they even kept the idea after a review committee decided if they were worth the bother (MIT famously passed on patenting the strain gauge, so the faculty inventor made a fortune with it).
But there’s no guarantee of making any money at all. The idea is the *easy *part. And most ideas are crap.
If Emily gave Stuart some backbone and self-confidence, sure. But I’m afraid as they are now she’d eat him alive. What would be hysterical is if Claire hooks up with Stuart.
Didn’t Howard agree to take care of child care (which was the aspect of having children that bothered her - she had apparently taken care of her younger siblings all through her childhood)?
People’s views can change rapidly when it becomes real. Howard freaked, but only briefly. Bernie’s latent maternal instincts seem to have activated, too.
It was pretty plain to me. Bernie changed her mind about having kids when she discovered she was pregnant. Contraceptive failure and she’s still too Catholic to consider an abortion.
And I would have any contract Sheldon offered me to sign gone over by my own attorney.
Not only is Emily creepy, she doesn’t fit in with the rest of the cast and she’s contributed nothing to the few stories she’s been in. She’s basically there in the background so that Raj can have someone to be pussy-whipped by. Other than revealing she likes to cut people, and that slasher movies turn her on, the character’s a complete cypher, a null.
I too was thinking of how cool it would be if she turned out to be a serial killer. A great way to end the season would be if she attempted murder during bondage with Raj (I can already see him handcuffed or tied with nylons to her four bedposts). Then we’d have to wait until September to find out if he survives.
Remarkably, at the colleges I worked at, only the last one required faculty to sign an intellectual property rights agreement when starting a contract. The others sort of, kind of had policies. But they were “historical” and didn’t cover things like software which Computer Science folks like us were glad to know. And it wasn’t clear how well they would stand up in court.
The one I did have to sign was terribly written and was basically lawyer food. If I had something really valuable, I’d sic my lawyer on it and their case would be over by lunch.
IIRC, the standard percentage was 50%. A 75% rate would not be appreciated.
Re: Oh, right. The episode. When scrolling the forum I saw this thread and thought “Yeah, I gotta watch that sometime.” Then I remembered, I watched it last night. Barely remember it. It was so lacking in anything interesting.
The bit with Raj going back and forth with the two women, in particular, was as stale, old fashioned, trite, etc. as you can get. No modern sitcom should do such a petty bit.
I missed where Howard became a federal employee. At the beginning of the series wasn’t he part of the university staff but working on something (the 0g toilet) for NASA?
Even though he went into space, I thought he was no longer on the NASA payroll?
