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I don't think that was an actual development to be expected (Amy moving in with Penny) if anything it was more just a beat to end the scene on (Penny's dread reaction) or perhaps a call back to Amy's strange semisexual obsession with Penny.  I think Raj's arc is coming, if we imagine that tonight's story was intended

Mytly>> while Sheldon is highly concerned about his own needs, he has been shown to be understanding of other people's needs.  There was a great opening joke a few seasons back where the guys were trying to find a theater they coudl see a film in with Sheldon's predelictions in mind.  In the end, they left him at

Oh, I think it's explainable, in context, (most notably, it isn't the straw to break their relationship) but I do think that it was intended to be a clue to show how odd the reaction was for Leonard at the time.

I was under the impression that this was how Leonard spelled his name on the show.  If I am mistaken, I take the correction, I know that is not the traditional spelling but I have seen it spelled that way in the past.

Oh, yes, I understand your point, he is sort of a less noble Job on the show, and in the early seasons I always felt that the parody was intentional, then, Alan was much more of a decent human being given a hard life in the earlier episodes, lately he's been much more of a coniver (perhaps to make his sad situation

There is no reason to assume Sheldon is Asexual, in fact, during Amy's encounter with…I forget his name but Penny's ex, Sheldon is the one who suggests dealing with your sexual urges using Kolinahr (Vulcan emotional supression) as a method of dealing with it.  Clearly Sheldon has had urges which he has supresed over

It doesn't make much sense for her to leae Sheldon given that she is no prize peach by most standards, and she has true feelings for Sheldon.  Her behavior was to be expected, much like her previous (successful?) attempt to seduce Sheldon, she approached moving in as a logical course of action given an unexpected

I would imagine they will have her in a fat suit similar to how they did it tonight.  Either that or do as has been done in the past, have the character udnergo a dramatic weight loss through diet and exercise as an off camera mention.  Given that the purpose of showing her in the episode I imagine was just to break

Except that most human beings don't kill themselves or their family, and most don't have malibu beach houses in which to live rent free.  Jon Cryer's character has been handed a number of lousy hands in life, many of which notably he dealt himself, but like most people whose lives have taken bad turns, he carrys on

It seemed fairly obvious to me, that the fight was a construction intended to give Leonerd an excuse to ingratiate himself on Penny, that is, Leonerd was waiting for the next transgression of Sheldon in order to throw a tantrum and storm out and into the waiting arms of his lady love.  This was fed to the audience

That's one way to think of it, but then really awful shows would get consistently good grades since, well we don't expect much.  Shows might get graded on a curve based on past performance, but they are still judged against a platonic ideal of a perfect show that exists in the reviewers mind.  So when X works more

I took the situation to be quite the opposite with Penny being aware of the issue at play (note her realization that she had just made a spoiler after it leaves her mouth) but just didn't think about before saying it.  As to Sheldon's character, again it isn't like Dumbledor's death is a surprise.  Sort of like

Well, I think you've hit the nail on the head as it were, though perhaps there can be disagreement about what the nail means here.  Essentially, Penny and Sheldon are often seen here as the emotionally stunted ones, that neither can commit, and neither has true feelings for their paramour.  However, as you so rightly

We all age…at least none of the characters are supposed to be ageless vampires…that just winds up being silly.

The exact relationship progression of Sheldon and Amy doesn't necessarily have to end in cohabitation, however, as this is Amy's intnetion (she has a plan to marry Sheldon currently in the works) it is something that needs to be addressed, and soemthing Sheldon does have to deal with.

In your opinion…which is something about the subjectivness of comedy…there were probably dozens of witty rejoinders tossed around the writers room, but in the end, they came to a less is more persepective relying on the comic talents of Mr. Parsons to carry the gag.  I thought he did, you thought he didn't…and thus

Actually the humor here is that Sheldon, despite being (by his own opinion) the smartest person on the show is still wraped up in the silly quackery that others have tossed off.  Essentially, that things that are not his particular pervue are as much a mystery to him as anything, and he engages in such silly thought

The comedy of the scene derives from Sheldon, typically always haveing an answer for everything having none.  It was also important because it shows that Sheldon really doesn't want to hurt Amy's feelings.  Without blunt honesty as a tool, and no logical argument, he is stiffiled, which is an unusual situation for the

To come to Sheldon's defense, as seems more and more necessary of late, Even Penny expected most of the major plot points regarding Harry Potter to have been known even to non readers at this point in history (really, I knew Dumbledor died, even though I've never read the books or seen the films, the Ron's sister

I could be mistaken, but I think Fiasco means, that a concept existed that might have had a good execution but the execution in the final analysis failed.  A failure means that there is not anythign redeamable about the project, and a secret success of course means that the review liked the program even though others