Did she really care about not being invited, or was that just something she could throw back into Penny’s face when Penny started complaining about her? I assumed the latter.
I think Bernadette hit it on the head, thought it was obvious she didn’t like saying out loud. Beverly simply doesn’t love Leonard. She thinks she should, but she just doesn’t feel it; and, like Sheldon, she isn’t close enough to normal to fake it.
Not true. Beverly’s been responsible for her own orgasms since 1982.
Quite true. And it’s why I don’t understand why Leonard or Penny wants a relationship with her. Maybe they’ll try to soften her up on the show but real life doesn’t work that way.
I, too, have laughed my way through Bowfinger.
Simon Helberg (Howard) has a large role in an upcoming film starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. Florence Foster Jenkins is the story of the world’s worst opera singer, based on a true story. Meryl is Florence, Hugh is the producer who loves her and will do anything to keep her from knowing how bad she is, and Simon is a concert pianist who agrees to play for her in her dream to get to Carnegie Hall.
So what? The show isn’t real life, nor should it be. In “real life,” Leonard would have kicked Sheldon to the curb years sgo–certainly after the self-destruct incident.
Kicked him to the curb? Hell, in “real life,” one of them would have kicked Sheldon down that elevator shaft by now.
Yes, and I can’t wait to hear Meryl’s impersonation of Florence’s “singing” (though it may ruin her vocal cords forever). And we’ll finally get to see Helberg’s forehead!
In an early season episode, Beverly did not tell Leonard (but did tell Sheldon) about:
- the death of Leonard’s dog
- Pending divorce between Beverly and Leonard’s father
- Beverly’s Surgery
Sheldon is merely annoying, rejection by his mother goes way deeper than that.
I think Beverly’s griping about not being informed/invited to the wedding was just a defensive ploy when Penny caught her in a position where Beverly came out badly. They freaking eloped. Who invites parents to an elopement? And I don’t believe Beverly raised Leonard as a son, she raised him as a test subject.
The clip of her singing on the Wikipedia entry must be heard to be believed.
My point is that rule of funny trumps realism in a comedy. “Realistically,” the show would never happen, because Leonard would have moved out long before Penny became Sheldon’s neighbor.
And written “Sheldon must die!” In blood on his bedroom wall.
I have an entire CD of hers. It gets MUCH worse.
This is the reason why I think she is a Psychopath/Sociopath.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=781306&highlight=sheldon
It’s very weird…I loved all the individual parts of the episode, but…the whole of it didn’t gell for me. It’s like the Sheldon/Line Drama thing was building somewhere and then just fizzled, the Sheldon/Amy thing was building and just fizzled…the Penny/Leonard’s Mom thing at least kinda had a conclusion.
That said, there were a ton of funny bits but the whole was less than the sum of the parts. 
Wow. That reminds me of Carmen Ghia’s aria in* The Stoned Guest*, by PDQ Bach.
Wasn’t there also a dead uncle in there somewhere?
Did she invite Sheldon to a birthday party and didn’t tell Leonard?