My thought when that joke was made was “Gee, that joke caught me totally by surprise and made me giggle… the first time I saw it. Last week. Now I’ve seen it twice since then and it’s just lame.”
I had that feeling too, but then aren’t all celebrity marriages doomed anyway?
This is a pretty dark beginning to the season. There will undoubtedly be more relationship strife, and it’s not like these guys had really stable relationships going anyway. This could all be a setup for some of the anticipated/dreaded/inevitable gimmicks, babies, divorce, and Sheldon doing it.
The kiss gave me false hope that the writers had figured out that Sheldon and Penny belong together. Maybe they’ll get it right in the end and do a big SO shift among the characters.
I can’t wait for Cousin Oliver.
You Penny and Sheldon shippers also give me the willies. Sheldon and Penny. . .brrrrgh.
Whatever happened to Howard’s brother? They introduced him, then he kind of fell off the map.
I’m guessing the actor went on to other things? Either that or they just kind of forgot about him. The show was built on a four person regular cast, and now they’re trying to find enough for seven people to do (eight if you count Emily, Raj’s girlfriend, who seems to have possibilities, and yet keeps dropping off the map, and nine if we keep Stuart in the mix).
We heard you the first 2 times. You trying to cast this negatively just because you don’t like it is amusing and pathetic.
Did I mention that Penny and Sheldon gave me the willies? Especially when Penny wraps a leg around him…
Did I mention how much the thought of Penny and Sheldon getting together sexually gives me the willies?
Their babies would be smart and beautiful.
IIRC, Raj got gradually turned off by Emily’s affection for horror and gore. Their last date was in a cemetery, and although he wimped out and said he loved her, we haven’t seen her since. So I’m assuming he’s just avoiding her, hoping she’ll take the hint.
Now that I think about it, Sheldon’s bad behavior over being dumped shows personal growth. At least he’s acting like a real boy. The last time they broke up, he went and got himself some pussies. Lots and lots of them. If I remember correctly, his mother had to be called in for an intervention.
Actually, that’s the part that made me crack up.
His mom isn’t going to bail him out of this one. He’s going to have to work it out for himself.
With a dose of extra creepy! Plus tendencies towards alcoholism and extreme social awkwardness…
Hey, good point!
Mmm. Hadn’t thought of that. Sheldon’s mom has repeatedly proven to be the only force in nature that can MAKE him sit down and think about what he’s done, and perhaps even admit to some guilt, even when he doesn’t want to.
Wonder how long that will continue to be funny?
Something else human men do that he didn’t quite understand. 
Didn’t he wimp out and say that he had something to tell her?
I assumed he dumped her there in the cemetary. But no one else seems to assume that…
Leonard, Penny, and Sheldon still need to work out their living arrangements. That’s a couple of episodes worth of material. IRL, I think Penny and Sheldon would just swap apartments. I think they Leonard could sell it to Sheldon by mentioning since people congregate at the larger apt, if Sheldon moved to the smaller one, less germs. He wouldn’t have to share his bathroom with ANYONE. And no roommate agreement would be necessary. But this isn’t IRL.
Sheldon voluntarily making as big a change as moving across the hall with all it entails? Not just the physical moving, but all the change of address forms, the switching names on the mailboxes, his retraining of his nervous system to be ready to turn right when he climbs the stairs to the fourth floor instead of turning left. As we are endlessly reminded, Sheldon is a firm advocate of homeostasis. This would never stand!