That was the great thing about the movie I Love You to Death.
Because it was more polite and refined. According to Miss Manners, food should never be served at table in the packaging it came in. Very uncouth.
My grandmother used to serve milk in a pitcher, because the packaging it came inwouldn’t fit on the table.
Miss Manners can come do my dishes if she doesn’t want my catsup bottle on the table.
Penny is struggling. Remember her little money-making operation making hair doodads, that Sheldon ruined for her?
Meanwhile, the PhDs eat every single lunch in the cafeteria and every single dinner is at a restaurant or takeout. There have been allusions to the schedule, Chinese one night, Thai another, Cheesecake Factory (which isn’t cheap and certainly doesn’t have their servers in uniforms like Penny’s) another night, and so on. They’re probably spending $500 a month on restaurant food each. That plus all their latest and greatest computer equipment and their gaming consoles and games? All that gets spendy. I don’t think it’s a stretch to see that the apartment sharing is financially conducive to their lifestyles.
I don’t follow. You didn’t have massive parties in your town? Mine sure did. Hell, I threw some of them.
You’re overthinking.
Penny is living a bit outside of her means, while Sheldon and Leonard are living way below theirs. Sheldon moved out in a huff in one episode and Leonard never gave finances a second thought. He just basked in the solitude and said he could get used to this. The implication was pretty clear that Leonard would have no trouble keeping the apartment by himself.
Sheldon, meanwhile, has tons of extra cash just laying around that he happily lends to friends without concern for it being paid back in any kind of timely fashion.
Also note that the guys’ apartment is something like twice the size of Penny’s.
I asked my local bartender about that. I asked him, if I paid for the full unopened bottle, if my friends and I could get five glasses and pour ourselves. Could he legally sell us a whole bottle? He said he honestly didn’t know, and would have to check on it. You’d be paying for the bottle at the shot rate anyhow, so it’d be quite pricey.
On HBO’s Deadwood, perhaps the first episode, they let their longtime customer Elsworth pour his own, but they instructed him to keep an honest count.
From cartoons, dunce caps and bombs that look like a cannonball with a fuse.
Cite, please. That doesn’t sound like Miss Manners.
Unless you’re using “Miss Manners” to refer to other so-called etiquette experts, in which case, please stop. It’s an insult to the real Miss Manners, who is practical, realistic, and focuses on human interaction rather than table settings and frippery.
Me too…I’m not saying I inhaled…but I seem to remember a bong made from a plastic honey container.
Most stoners I knew didn’t have the cash to own glass. It would have been spent on more weed. Plastic melts, in case the po-pos knock on the door.
About the ordering just a “beer” in a bar, I was watching an old Gene Hackman movie the other night that poked fun at this.
Gene Hackman asks the bartender for a beer, and the bartender remarks that they have many different types of beers. Gene Hackman says that he can never decide and for the bartender to just pick one. I thought that was great…
I always assumed that she wore it at Mike’s insistence!
Which Miss Manners have you been reading? The first etiquette book by Judith Martin (creator of the Miss Manners syndicated column), entitled “Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior,” is full of information about “table settings and frippery” (as well as human interactions). You can use that link to search the text and find the following pronouncements:
p. 655: “Serving food in commercial packages is the invention of overzealous health departments or lazy restaurants.”
p. 142 [Regarding serving carry-out food at home]: “Many Americans are under the mistaken impression that small paper cartons with metal handles are correct serving dishes in China (or Taiwan), and that large flat cardboard boxes are in Italy. Transfer the carry-out food into your own serving dishes.”
p.136 [On picnics]: Food should be chosen that can be served at its proper temperature, and it should be repackaged so that it may be served with no commercial containers appearing on the table or the grass."
If she is against having commercial containers on a picnic, she must, a fortiori, be against them at the home dining table at any time.
I haven’t read her column in years, maybe decades, so perhaps she has changed her views, but as of 1982, when that book was published, her rule definitely was no commercial packages on the table. If she’s modified it since, I’d be interested in seeing a cite.
Nitpick: It was actually Leonard who screwed things up by including a rush order option on the website. Sheldon’s input was (surprisingly) helpful.
I remember this well because this was the first episode of the show I ever saw, and then thanks to reruns it also became the third episode I saw!
These two things are actually related.
If you know people who have some real money, it’s likely that they put their sofas in the middle of the room. I’m not kidding. I think it has to do with having more space to begin with, and decorators.
People who, when driving a car, rock the wheel from side-to-side every few moments in a way, which, in real life, would have them slewing all over the road.
Villains, who instead of just offing the hero once they have him in their power, stand there and explain their satanic plan in profuse detail.
Criminals who devise clumsy and overly complicated ways of assassinating their victims which invariably trip them up in the end (think CSI: Miami)
People who, on hearing a noise in the old, dark cellar, immediately go and investigate armed with nothing more lethal than a flash-light “You come one step closer and I’ll switch it on! I’ll make his eyes blink.”
Alas, I’ve only seen the first season, on DVD, after my sister loaned me hers and insisted I would love it (I did)
Weird. In one of the first season episodes, while bickering with Leonard, Sheldon specifically makes a remark about how “If I could afford the rent by myself …” he would cheerfully live alone. Or does Leonard make considerably more than Sheldon? I know Leonard is supposed to be older than Sheldon, but with Sheldon being eight years younger when he got his PhD I had assumed they’d both been employed at the university for about the same amount of time.
That I hadn’t noticed.
This is known as the Law of Reruns: If you only watch one episode of a TV show and then happen sometime later to watch the show again, it will be the same episode you saw the first time.
My theory is that this was a holdover from the days when milk didn’t come in plastic or paper containers from the supermarket. Either you got your milk from the milkman, or you got it from a cow in the backyard, or from a neighbor who had a cow.
So people had milk pitchers because milk didn’t come in convenient table-sized containers, you had to provide your own. Then around the 50s, milk delivery changed to supermarket packaging, and you didn’t need a milk pitcher anymore. But set designers kept the milk pitchers around longer than most people really used them, because they were more visually pleasing than a paper carton. But by the 80s the notion of a milk pitcher became ridiculous to the public since most had grown up when they were obsolete, so they were dropped.