Apparently, there's a test you can perform for at least a pre-screening of Down's before you get to the amniocentesis. If it registers positive, you go for the amnio so you can verify whether or not it's a false positive; if not, things should be okay.

Also, how awesome was Rose pulling off a wig to reveal equally luscious but blonde (Dottie Underwood?) locks underneath? That felt like both a completely gratuitous telenovela thing and a perfectly in-character thing to do.

That last scene is one of those things I will be obsessing over until next week. It hadn't even occurred to me that it might have been Aaron Zazo and I spent all this time thinking, "what the hell is going on?!"

But I want to buy a condo with Wilmer Valderando!

It COULD be a Phoebe/Ursula situation where this is the Douche's evil twin brother, the Douchier.

Really, that Eva Longoria appearance in the end threw me off as much as it did Jake, taking into consideration the three-episode SigOth structure normally reserved for such spots.

It's an old kids' rhyme. The first two lines are "Me Chinese, me play joke." You can search out the rest; I feel bad enough typing out those.

To be fair, Hawking knows Sheldon, so this could be his form of fucking around with them.

Only because the Segway hadn't been invented at that point.

I'm first-gen ABC, and I'm going to let my hypothetical children have fun whenever we decide to go visit the US and have them tell random strangers that they're Swiss if prompted.

Male. Both my parents believed we needed to learn to cook.

Your joke was about italics in general. I made a pun riffing off one of the old Asian ethnic stereotypes. Unless you fixed that in your edit post as well.

Yeah, you're right. Kumon exists in the US, which I know because one of my (Latino) classmates used to go there, but I never went myself. Chinese school was mostly to learn Chinese, but I vaguely recall a few other things, too, but they were probably all cultural things.

I was joking, actually, but damn I kinda wish I had those for my lunch. The idea of freshly steamed xiao long bao for lunch makes me kinda drool. Chinese food around here is serviceable, but none of them really give good dumpling.

Geneva, Switzerland (well, a small town outside of that, but most of these experiences were in Geneva proper—the town I actually lived in was so Francophone at the time that I had trouble trying to do anything there until my French improved). I heard a lot of heavy Beijing-accented Mandarin in the square just outside…

We had Kumon in the States, too, but I went to Chinese School—a weekend thing, not an after-school thing.

I really hope he shows up more frequently.

She has a non-Asian last name because that's what Hollywood wanted. She goes by Chloe Wang usually.

So I don't get to make jokes about slanted i's?

"Begetting" works here, too.