# The Big Bang Theory - "The Raiders Minimization" (10/10/2013) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985 "2013-10-11T15:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/61 "2013-10-11T18:10:28Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > She didn’t volunteer her opinion. She gave it only after being pressed. Sheldon was trying to control her, and was vexed when she wouldn’t submit. This is an excuse? After n-years dating him, Amy ought to realize by now just how much this film, and his other passions, matter to Sheldon. While he certainly doesn’t get a pass on his own thoughtless, dickish behaviour, I do believe Sheldon was lashing out not just because Amy picked apart one of his favorite movies, but because in his own idioscyncratic way he was reaching out to her for greater intimacy. The film obvously means a great deal to Sheldon, and in sharing it with his girlfriend, he hoped she would love it as well and it would become a common interest they could both share together, thus a new level of intimacy in their relationship that he would be comfortable with, as it isn’t physical. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/62 "2013-10-11T18:16:24Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > The Leonard using his mom’s book to manage Penny was lame. Even Penny should have seen it without any help from Bernadette. It was kinda nice to see him in control for once. Penny’s worn the pants in that relationship from Day One. Though now, I gotta wonder if maybe he’s going to give her a ping pong set for Christmas or something… ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/63 "2013-10-11T18:36:35Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Penny in the teddy was worth the price of admission. I agree wholeheartedly! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/64 "2013-10-11T18:41:34Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > (The thread merges and starting this post earlier and coming back is messing with the continuity. Sorry if things don’t flow right.) > > Stuart (gotta remember how to spell that) and Raj: So it’s loser Stuart again. He can’t think of any positive attributes. Raj mentions being a great artist and a business owner. Stuart responds that those didn’t help him get women. Umm, you mean like Penny who he dated after he drew her picture at his business? (BTW: Stuart is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.) Loser Stuart was funny for a while, but it is getting a bit old now. I remembered the old Stuart getting a date with Penny, as well. Of course, he was unable to “keep” her; perhaps that is what started him on his current downward spiral. That, and the fact that his comic book store hasn’t been doing well for the last few years! At least he has Raj… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/65 "2013-10-11T19:09:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Pregnant. > > (Dear God, please, no.) I do not want to imagine the homunculus that would arise from such a union. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/66 "2013-10-11T19:19:26Z")
The writers should have made _Blossom_ one of AFF’s favorite TV Shows and let Sheldon pick apart any continuity problems in that show. Assuming there are any continuity problems. I don’t think I ever watched an episode of _Blossom_. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/67 "2013-10-11T19:21:39Z")
It’s a sitcom, odds are pretty high that there are continuity errors. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/68 "2013-10-11T19:39:50Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > It’s a sitcom, odds are pretty high that there are continuity errors. Ironically, Blossom’s most common gaffe was the main character’s waffling opinion over whether or not she was interested in losing her virginity. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/69 "2013-10-11T19:58:50Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They could have been doing it for research purposes only. Or, in the past, Beverly simply didn’t want to admit in front of Leonard and his friends that she and her husband at one time actually _enjoyed_ sex (whether recreational or procreational). It wouldn’t have been consistent with her normally uptight character. > > After her experiences with Sheldon and Penny, she may just have lowered her defenses a bit. Beverly could still be frigid and merely indulging her husband. Or it could’ve just been part of foreplay and she was trying to get pregnant again. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/70 "2013-10-11T20:20:33Z")
Or maybe he’d just been a very, very naughty boy. ---
**Author:** ![Calder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Calder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calder)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/71 "2013-10-11T22:09:31Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Actually, no. I’ll grant that Marian would have died without Indy’s intervention, but if he’d kept his nose out of the affair after rescuing her the first time (and drawing her into the ultimately pointless quest), the Nazis would still have gotten the Ark and been killed by it. Except they would have been killed in a secret Nazi base that only the Nazi know about which would mean that new Nazi would eventually come back and then take the ark and use it to conquer the world. While Indy originally wanted the ark in a Museum even he I think would change his mind about that after finding out how powerful the Ark is. No one would want something like that in a Museum. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/72 "2013-10-11T22:24:10Z")
> [@Calder](#): > > While Indy originally wanted the ark in a Museum even he I think would change his mind about that after finding out how powerful the Ark is. No one would want something like that in a Museum. Doesn’t the movie end with him demanding it be given to a museum **after** he’s witnessed it kill a bunch of people? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/73 "2013-10-11T22:49:32Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > Doesn’t the movie end with him demanding it be given to a museum **after** he’s witnessed it kill a bunch of people? No, it ends with him demanding it be studied. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/74 "2013-10-11T23:02:17Z")
While we are on the subject of useless, in the Star Wars series, does anything an official Jedi does ever matter? Luke isn’t a Jedi yet when he blows up the Death Star. As far as I can tell, Lucas seems to be making a point that the Jedi don’t ever actually accomplish anything through violence. R2D2 on the other hand rules the universe. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/75 "2013-10-11T23:21:18Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Or getting laid. The problem is that most chicks of this inclination who attend such conventions look good enough to boink only after you’ve consumed mass quantities of alcohol. ☹ Hmmmm. I met Pepper Mill at a WorldCon. I didn’t drink any alcohol all weekend. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/76 "2013-10-12T00:03:30Z")
i was under the impression that jones was the one who figured out where ravenwood was looking for the staff of ra. and the nazi fellow followed him to the location. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/77 "2013-10-12T00:20:33Z")
a) Boyfriends and girlfriends mock each other’s interests all the time. AFF was solicited and unmaliciously offered a rather objective point about the movie. How that could be construed as wrong, bitchy, or offensive is beyond me. b) Bernadette still looks extra-hot this season vs the other seasons to me. c) Penny was good looking but super trashy in that teddy. I’d probably go with Bernie in the bath. d) Toning down the pathetic on Raj and Stewart would probably actually increase the funny imo. e) On one hand, Amy has grown and Sheldon not. On the other, it’s up to the writers. Amy was changed from female Sheldon to a relatively normal if homely girl and it stuck. Sheldon though oscillates between petulant child and unfeeling android basically on a whim. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/78 "2013-10-12T00:23:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Hmmmm. > > I met Pepper Mill at a WorldCon. > I didn’t drink any alcohol all weekend. “So…what position did she play?” ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/79 "2013-10-12T02:50:56Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > … Sheldon’s a jackass. As Amy has observed, she is the best girlfriend he is likely to get, but the converse isn’t true … Bernadette’s comment the other week that Amy could do better really is true. If only Bernadette had the ovaries to stand behind her statement as a validation of Amy more than as a depreciation of Sheldon. Not that these writers follow through with what they hint at but they do _seem_ to be building to her recognizing that herself. Sheldon more clearly Aspergerish, as he was earlier in the show’s run, was more interesting than how he is now. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985/80 "2013-10-12T03:27:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Hmmmm. > > I met Pepper Mill at a WorldCon. > I didn’t drink any alcohol all weekend. Your point being…? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-the-raiders-minimization-10-10-2013/670985.md?page=5)