And some of us (I’m a postdoc in physics) are actually socially oriented and find glorifying social ineptitude—as if social skills are somehow distinct from other skills important to research and collaborative scientific output that adults are expected to learn—extremely problematic and a subtle reinforcement of the…

I don’t know that episode, so I can’t speak on that. It doesn’t make sense that they would have the physicist and engineer characters not recognize that type of diagram. Could it have been that they reacted to it in fear or dismay or something, not that they didn’t recognize it?

I beg to differ. They are definitely nerds, as well as being geeks. They are smart and make livings from nerdy stuff—science and math. Hence, nerds. But then they are obsessed with the details of certain things, like comic books and movies, video games, “Han Shot First,” etc. So also super geeky. 

Sure, but it’s one of those things that can just be left silently inferred. Explicitly saying on air “I used to jack-off to you before we were a couple” is kind of odd. 

I like Pete Davison, but talking about jerking off to your present girlfriend before you started dating her sounds a tad creepy.

Does Mark Wahlberg take an hour-and-a-half shower?

And I do mean literally “damned by god”.

At what time does he assault an immigrant?

My favorite thing about this show (that I watched haphazardly in the beginning because...Johnny Galecki) is that Cuoco and Galecki dated for two years in real life, broke up, and were able to work together for a decade afterward. 

This type of thinking is actually one of the first things they taught us in one of my freshman year Intro to Engineering classes. Designing for extreme needs will usually fit the norm as well.

When the show first aired, and for the first few seasons, I really enjoyed it. But then, after time, it became a caricature, another excuse to laugh at just how inept nerdy people are, no matter how brilliant they may be. I love the support it has received from Geek and Nerd community, but I became so sad when I saw…

A BIG YUP from this corner too. My parents love it, so I’ve seen the odd scene here and there when I’m in my hometown (and they are odd scenes, usually.) I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT to have a different cultural touchstone about STEM PhDs because this one is trash.

I was kicking it into position for you.

He’s the one who’s Jesse Eisenberg, right?

Nick and Norah’s Infinity War

Not a lot of people know that I dated neither of them. Where’s my story, AV Club? Where is my story?

... Him?

I assume their first date involved them going to get ice cream, with Aubrey Plaza silently staring at him while seductively licking her cold treat the entire time, and Michael Cera getting increasingly sweaty while rambling on about nothing in particular, until he finally gets so flustered that he dropped his entire…

She's funny and cool and weird!  He's...  well, they dated!