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* One to Heroes
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--->'''Sheldon:''' They can't just cancel; a show like Alphas. They have to help the viewers let go. Firefly did a movie to wrap things up, BuffyTheVampire continued on as a comic book, Heroes gradually lowered the quality season by season, til we were grateful it ended.
--->'''Sheldon:''' They can't just cancel; a show like Alphas. They have to help the viewers let go. Firefly did a movie to wrap things up, BuffyTheVampire continued on as a comic book, Heroes gradually lowered the quality season by season, til we were grateful it ended.
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*** It's also very sweet, in its way, since the Sheldon we know and love usually does not hesitate to force his own preferences on other people.
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*** It's also very sweet, in its way, since the Sheldon we know and love usually does not hesitate to force his own preferences on other people. (He's ''terrible'' at friendship, but he's ''trying. Awww.)''
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** "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" tabs at card battle games with the guys being initially disgusted with "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a'"s latest expansion adding Wild West characters to a fantasy-themed world, but find themselves unable to resist buying and playing it.
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** "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" tabs takes a jab at card battle games with the guys being initially disgusted with "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a'"s latest expansion adding Wild West characters to a fantasy-themed world, but find themselves unable to resist buying and playing it.
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* TookALevelInBadass: For a certain qualification of "badass." Leonard started off the series being painfully shy and uncertain of himself, it took him the entirety of the first season to officially ask Penny out. It's implied that interacting with Penny has helped boost his sense of self-worth and he progressed from being a [[NiceGuy nice]], [[TheGenericGuy generic guy]] to becoming one of the more scathing {{Deadpan Snarker}}s and having a relatively successful love life (even outside of Penny). By season five he had several moments where he demonstrated a personal backbone ([[spoiler: Being assertive with Penny when they go on a "non-date" and standing up to his high school bully]]), though he still needs work on [[IdiotBall when and where to choose his battles]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: For a certain qualification of "badass." Leonard started off the series being painfully shy and uncertain of himself, it took him the entirety of the first season to officially ask Penny out. It's implied that interacting with Penny has helped boost his sense of self-worth and he progressed from being a [[NiceGuy nice]], [[TheGenericGuy generic guy]] to becoming one of the more scathing {{Deadpan Snarker}}s and having more of a relatively successful potential love life (even outside of Penny). By season five he had several moments where he demonstrated a personal backbone ([[spoiler: Being assertive than just with Penny. Just with his interactions with Penny when they go on a "non-date" he is much more comfortable being assertive and standing up teasing her than he was before, no longer feeling he has to his high school bully]]), though he still needs work be submissive to stay on [[IdiotBall when and where to choose his battles]].her good side.
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** Played with in The Bozeman Reaction, where Raj ends it quickly.
--> '''Sheldon''': General Tso’s Chicken is no longer listed under specialties. It’s now under chicken.
--> '''Raj''': So?
--> '''Sheldon''': Yes, General Tso.
--> '''Raj''': Not Tso the chicken, so the question. So?
--> '''Sheldon''': General Tso’s Chicken is no longer listed under specialties. It’s now under chicken.
--> '''Raj''': So?
--> '''Sheldon''': Yes, General Tso.
--> '''Raj''': Not Tso the chicken, so the question. So?
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* WomenPreferStrongMen: All of Penny's ex-boyfriends are muscular and dumb.
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* WomenPreferStrongMen: All of Penny's ex-boyfriends are [[DumbMuscle muscular and dumb.dumb]].
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** In "The Psychic Vortex" Raj and Sheldon managed to acquire dates with two very hot, intelligent and slightly geeky girls (one of whom played by [[TheWonderYears Danica McKeller]]) named Abby and Martha, and even got a second date shortly after. What made these girls really unique was that the ice-breaker was Sheldon carrying Franchise/GreenLantern's power battery at a party and ''they [[GeekyTurnOn fully knew what it was]];'' they ended up playing ''RockBand'' back at Sheldon's apartment. Not to mention that Sheldon even appeared to enjoy talking with Martha (discussing ''{{Flatland}}'' among other things) with Raj and Abby making out on the chair. It can be assumed that Sheldon's {{asexual}} nature really disappointed Martha, and that took Abby away from Raj. But these were girls who could relate to them in interests, intelligence and were attracted to them ''because'' of it (not even Penny can really claim that with Leonard), with no follow up episode it almost seems to be a waste.
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** In "The Psychic Vortex" Raj and Sheldon managed to acquire dates with two very hot, intelligent and slightly geeky girls (one of whom played by [[TheWonderYears Danica McKeller]]) named Abby and Martha, and even got a second date shortly after. What made these girls really unique was that the ice-breaker was Sheldon carrying Franchise/GreenLantern's power battery at a party and ''they [[GeekyTurnOn fully knew what it was]];'' they ended up playing ''RockBand'' back at Sheldon's apartment. Not to mention that Sheldon even appeared to enjoy talking with Martha (discussing ''{{Flatland}}'' ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'' among other things) with Raj and Abby making out on the chair. It can be assumed that Sheldon's {{asexual}} nature really disappointed Martha, and that took Abby away from Raj. But these were girls who could relate to them in interests, intelligence and were attracted to them ''because'' of it (not even Penny can really claim that with Leonard), with no follow up episode it almost seems to be a waste.
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* TrainingMontage: Parodied when Sheldon and Raj intently study a whiteboard... complete with fast cuts and "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background. ''Twice.''
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* TrainingMontage: Parodied when Sheldon and Raj intently study a whiteboard... complete with fast cuts and "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background.background to a bunch of different camera angle cuts. ''Twice.''
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While this may not be true for the beginning of the show, some of the main cast may or may not have devolved into this.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While this may not be true Sheldon's self-centered egotism and condescending behavior often ends up making him the source of conflict for the beginning any given episode, even just by being sick and asking for help (his obnoxious neediness at that stage is dreaded by everyone). Howard's CasanovaWannabe and outright pervy behavior of the show, earlier seasons were also not meant to be endearing, although he gradually grew out of it. That said the show is based on every character being unfairly humiliated at some of the main cast may or may not have devolved into this.point, which has occasionally made them [[DracoInLeatherPants more sympathetic than intended]].
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* WalkAndTalk: Lampshaded by Sheldon:
--> '''Sheldon''': Why on Earth are you telling me all this ([[spoiler:about Howard and Bernadette]])?\\
'''Leonard''': I don't know... Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy.
** The central hallway set is redecorated to represent three floors that the characters consistently have to climb (usually OnceAnEpisode). They use it for a WalkAndTalk in addition to a couple of {{Uncomfortable Elevator Moment}}s.
--> '''Sheldon''': Why on Earth are you telling me all this ([[spoiler:about Howard and Bernadette]])?\\
'''Leonard''': I don't know... Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy.
** The central hallway set is redecorated to represent three floors that the characters consistently have to climb (usually OnceAnEpisode). They use it for a WalkAndTalk in addition to a couple of {{Uncomfortable Elevator Moment}}s.
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* WalkAndTalk: Lampshaded by Sheldon:
--> '''Sheldon''': Why on Earth are you telling me all this ([[spoiler:about Howard and Bernadette]])?\\
'''Leonard''': I don't know... Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy.
**The central hallway set is redecorated to represent three floors that the characters consistently have to climb (usually OnceAnEpisode). They use it for a WalkAndTalk in addition to a couple of {{Uncomfortable Elevator Moment}}s. The creators are actually quite proud of this, as it is a unique piece of set design that no other show can claim. Similar shows only get away with an "L" shaped hallway.
--> '''Sheldon''': Why on Earth are you telling me all this ([[spoiler:about Howard and Bernadette]])?\\
'''Leonard''': I don't know... Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy.
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** Sheldon would often make awkward analogies and {{Double Entendre}}s and not recognize what he was saying as sounding weird or odd, with everyone else having to explain why. When the group offered to help Sheldon overcome his stage fright they suggested he could considered them his {{X-Men}}. Sheldon appreciated the sentiment but suggested that since the X-Men were named after Charles Xavier, his team should be named after Sheldon Cooper and be called the C-Men.
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** Sheldon would often make awkward analogies and {{Double Entendre}}s and not recognize what he was saying as sounding weird or odd, with everyone else having to explain why. When the group offered to help Sheldon overcome his stage fright they suggested he could considered them his {{X-Men}}.ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. Sheldon appreciated the sentiment but suggested that since the X-Men were named after Charles Xavier, his team should be named after Sheldon Cooper and be called the C-Men.
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** Just for the record, it's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotacism rhotacism]].
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* WhamLine: Raj: Sorry [[spoiler: Those are the first words he speaks to a woman while sober. Well, squeaked.]]
*** Well, the first time he spoke ''directly'' to a woman while sober. However in a late first-season episode, he gets lost in the dialogue among the guys and since Penny is in the kitchen and not in the conversation, Raj forgets himself and says "Good story". At Penny's shocked expression, he immediately covers his mouth, clamming right up.
** [[spoiler: Penny(to Leonard): ...you know I love you...]]
*** Well, the first time he spoke ''directly'' to a woman while sober. However in a late first-season episode, he gets lost in the dialogue among the guys and since Penny is in the kitchen and not in the conversation, Raj forgets himself and says "Good story". At Penny's shocked expression, he immediately covers his mouth, clamming right up.
** [[spoiler: Penny(to Leonard): ...you know I love you...]]
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* WhamLine: Raj: Sorry [[spoiler: Those are When Raj behaved obnoxiously while drunk with Penny as his date to a People Magazine function, he tried to apologize while sober via handwritten letter. Penny refused to read the letter and demanded something verbal, after a few seconds of mustering up the courage he squeaked out "Sorry." which was the first words he speaks has consciously spoken to a woman while sober. Well, squeaked.]]
*** Well, the first time he spoke ''directly'' to a woman while sober. However in a late first-season episode, he gets lost in the dialogue among the guys and since Penny is in the kitchen and not in the conversation, Raj forgets himself and says "Good story". Ather without alcohol.
** After over two seasons of Leonard wondering what Penny'sshocked expression, he immediately covers feelings were towards him they had an argument over his mouth, clamming right up.
** [[spoiler: Penny(to Leonard): ...neurotic, jealous behavior and she says "You're too hard on yourself, [[TheILoveYouStigma you know I love you...]]you]] so can you please relax because you are driving me crazy." Both are stunned almost to the point of tears.
** When Sheldon permits a rumor that he and Amy are having sex (to distract from his subpar work) Penny asked him straight up if they will ever have sex. [[spoiler: After a short monologue about his struggles in dealing with emotional and physical intimacy he concludes with "It's a possibility."]] Once he turns his back Penny silently starts freaking out, clawing Leonard's arm.
*** Well, the first time he spoke ''directly'' to a woman while sober. However in a late first-season episode, he gets lost in the dialogue among the guys and since Penny is in the kitchen and not in the conversation, Raj forgets himself and says "Good story". At
** After over two seasons of Leonard wondering what Penny's
** [[spoiler: Penny(to Leonard): ...
** When Sheldon permits a rumor that he and Amy are having sex (to distract from his subpar work) Penny asked him straight up if they will ever have sex. [[spoiler: After a short monologue about his struggles in dealing with emotional and physical intimacy he concludes with "It's a possibility."]] Once he turns his back Penny silently starts freaking out, clawing Leonard's arm.
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* UnclePennybags: Sheldon, surprisingly. When Penny falls behind on her rent and her car breaks down, he freely gives her enough money to pay for both of them. Despite her assumption that Sheldon's obsessive tendencies would lead him to hound her, it turns out that he's incredibly lax when it comes to lending his money. He honestly doesn't care ''when'' its paid back, as long as it ''eventually'' is.
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* UnclePennybags: Sheldon, surprisingly. When Penny falls behind on her rent and her car breaks down, he freely gives her enough money to pay for both of them. Despite her assumption that Sheldon's obsessive tendencies would lead him to hound her, it turns out that he's incredibly lax when it comes to lending his money. He honestly doesn't care ''when'' its it's paid back, as long as it ''eventually'' is.
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* TrueLoveIsBoring: by Season 6, when they finally have a stable relationship, Penny starts to have her doubts about Leonard.
** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in "The 43 Peculiarity": [[spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Before Leonard, Penny only ever dated the dimwitted, JerkJock types. Leonard is the exact opposite, a brilliant, nice guy (he's really not that athletic). No points for guessing which relationship the series revolves around. But then... Well, see above.
** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in "The 43 Peculiarity": [[spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Before Leonard, Penny only ever dated the dimwitted, JerkJock types. Leonard is the exact opposite, a brilliant, nice guy (he's really not that athletic). No points for guessing which relationship the series revolves around. But then... Well, see above.
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* TrueLoveIsBoring: by Season 6, when they finally have a stable relationship, Penny starts to have her doubts about Leonard.
**TrueLoveIsBoring[=/=]TrueLoveIsExceptional: Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in runs the sixth season is largely about her realizing that gauntlet of both tropes with Leonard *is* and Penny. Penny's "type" at the person beginning was the [[DumbMuscle dimwitted, muscular]], JerkJock kind of guy and gave Leonard a shot because he was so different and interesting. They enjoy being together but Penny was attracted to the other guys because [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys they seemed a little dangerous]] and doesn't feel that kind of excitement with Leonard. Because he and the guys she wants used to be with. She gets jealous date were both boring and exceptional in different ways her dating life crashed in season four.
** Season six alone plays to both ends, as Penny teased the idea of breaking up with him (again) because while she loved him it was acoworker "different, boring kind of his, rediscovers just how love," ultimately backing off only because of his intelligence is a turn on, and PuppyDogEyes. But when encouraged by the girls to visit him at work she was awestruck over seeing him in his comfort zone, finding the exceptional part of course him again. A few episodes later in "The 43 Peculiarity": Peculiarity" [[spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you she said "you know that I love you...."]]
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Before Leonard, Penny only ever dated the dimwitted, JerkJock types. Leonard is the exact opposite, a brilliant, nice guy (he's really not that athletic). No points for guessingyou...", which was the first time she said it to him,]] and that manages to stabilize their relationship the series revolves around. But then... Well, see above.on both ends remarkably well.
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** Season six alone plays to both ends, as Penny teased the idea of breaking up with him (again) because while she loved him it was a
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Before Leonard, Penny only ever dated the dimwitted, JerkJock types. Leonard is the exact opposite, a brilliant, nice guy (he's really not that athletic). No points for guessing
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* WhamLine: Raj: Sorry [[spoiler: Those are the first words he speaks to a woman while sober]]sober. Well, squeaked.]]
***Well, the first time he spoke ''directly'' to a woman while sober. However in a late first-season episode, he gets lost in the dialogue among the guys and since Penny is in the kitchen and not in the conversation, Raj forgets himself and says "Good story". At Penny's shocked expression, he immediately covers his mouth, clamming right up.
***Well, the first time he spoke ''directly'' to a woman while sober. However in a late first-season episode, he gets lost in the dialogue among the guys and since Penny is in the kitchen and not in the conversation, Raj forgets himself and says "Good story". At Penny's shocked expression, he immediately covers his mouth, clamming right up.
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** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in The 43 Peculiarity: [[spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
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** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in The "The 43 Peculiarity: Peculiarity": [[spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
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-->'''Howard''': I think its like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''...we mentioned his name too many times!
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-->'''Howard''': I think its it's like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''...we mentioned his name too many times!
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** VoiceForTheVoiceless: Howard, who usually just relays what Raj whispers into his ear (though sometimes Howard's annoyed comebacks imply what Raj said well enough).
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** VoiceForTheVoiceless: Howard, who usually just relays what Raj whispers into his ear (though sometimes Howard's annoyed comebacks imply what Raj said well enough). There are also times when Howard will lie about Raj said in order to deflect blame from one of the girls on to Raj. Since Raj can't talk to them, he has no way of refuting the comments.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: Averted. When Kaley Cuoco (Penny) fractured her leg at the beginning of season 4, Penny was absent for two episodes and no reference was made to her not being around. Once she returned the writers decided that her character would have a new bartending assignment at the Cheesecake Factory and be shot from the waist up behind the bar. A VanityPlate was dedicated to new rules to ensure the safety of cast members, including any extreme activities (Kaley was injured while riding horses).
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* WrittenInInfirmity: Averted. When Kaley Cuoco (Penny) fractured her leg at the beginning of season 4, Penny was absent for two episodes and no reference was made to her not being around. Once she returned the writers decided that her character would have a new bartending assignment at the Cheesecake Factory and be shot from the waist up behind the bar. A VanityPlate was dedicated to new rules to ensure the safety of cast members, including any extreme activities (Kaley was injured while riding horses). This did result in Penny being less seen wearing shorts and skirts, as Kaley got a fairly major scar from the whole thing.
** Mayim Bialik injured her hand in a car accident before filming for season six began. Similarly to Kaley, no mention was made and they simply filmed around the injury by hiding it via camera angles and scenery obstructions.
** Mayim Bialik injured her hand in a car accident before filming for season six began. Similarly to Kaley, no mention was made and they simply filmed around the injury by hiding it via camera angles and scenery obstructions.
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** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in The 43 Peculiarity" [[Spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
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** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in The 43 Peculiarity" [[Spoiler: Peculiarity: [[spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
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** Ultimately averted, while Penny has her doubts at first, her arc in the sixth season is largely about her realizing that Leonard *is* the person she wants to be with. She gets jealous of a coworker of his, rediscovers just how his intelligence is a turn on, and of course in The 43 Peculiarity" [[Spoiler: "You're the one I'm with; you know that I love you...."]]
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* Unishment: Amy pretends to be sick far longer than she's actually ill because Sheldon takes it upon himself to treat her illness, including chest rubbing and bathing her. When he finds out she's been lying, he regretfully informs he has to spank her. She can't believe her luck.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: In-universe and PlayedForLaughs. When Leonard is invited to see the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland on Valentine's Day and insists on making it a romantic holiday with Penny, instead of taking Sheldon as was agreed to in the Roommate Agreement, Sheldon is very angry and plays a driving game with him called "Traitors" where he names three historical traitors and Leonard is to put them in the order of the magnitude of their treachery. First round: Benedict Arnold, [[Literature/TheBible Judas]], and Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. When Leonard protests against being included in the same category as these men, Sheldon even hints that Judas ranks somewhere ''below'' Leonard.
** When talking about the horrible things that would happen at his birthday parties, Sheldon confessed to Penny with great anguish that he got a motorized dirtbike instead of a titanium centrifuge. Sheldon simply could not understand what child would like such a gift, and was genuinely perplexed when Penny said that most kids would love it.
** When talking about the horrible things that would happen at his birthday parties, Sheldon confessed to Penny with great anguish that he got a motorized dirtbike instead of a titanium centrifuge. Sheldon simply could not understand what child would like such a gift, and was genuinely perplexed when Penny said that most kids would love it.
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** After a long episode of slagging off ''StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' ("Dude, ''Star Trek V'' is the standard by which all badness is measured!"), the VanityCard included the following, after the main text: "Oh, and WilliamShatner, director of ''Star Trek V''? Go ahead. Sue us."
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** Bernadette has one when leaving an argument with Amy, talking about a feud between Howard and Sheldon over a parking spot. "I'm going home and I'm going to have SEX with my husband! Maybe we'll even do it in the parking spot! (blinks twice) That sounded dirty but I didn't mean it that way!"
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'''Sheldon:''' I really have no idea, I don't really excell at reading facial expression and body lang...\\
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* TakeThat: Quite a few, largely to non-geeky movies.
-->'''Bernadette:''' "So we are just going to sit here and wait for something to happen?"\\
'''Howard:''' "I did that with you when we watched ''TheNotebook''..."
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--->'''Sheldon:''' ...and after breakfast I thought we'd watch the final season of ''Series/BabylonFive'' with director's commentary
--->'''Leonard:''' But you HATE ''Babylon 5''!
--->'''Sheldon:''' I do, [[RuleOfThree it fails as drama, science fiction and it's hopelessly derivative...]] but you like it and you're my friend.
** "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" tabs at card battle games with the guys being initially disgusted with "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a'"s latest expansion adding Wild West characters to a fantasy-themed world, but find themselves unable to resist buying and playing it.
* ThanksForTheMammary: Sheldon, to Penny. He didn't bump into her, though; he was [[NotWhatItLooksLike helping her get dressed]] when she dislocated her shoulder in the bathtub -- with his eyes closed.
** Although he later admits that he was ''lying'' when he said he hadn't looked.
** Amy was constantly wanting more physical contact with Sheldon, even coercing him to snuggle one night. Later Sheldon and Leonard went to pick her up from a liquor store parking lot Leonard was the one to help her to her feet and walk to the car and she happily exclaimed "Looks like someone finally found 'Second Base!'"
* ThatCameOutWrong: In "The Roommate Transmogrification" when Raj proves himself to be a better roommate than Leonard, Sheldon compares Leonard to Homo Erectus saying that he, like Homo Erectus, has been replaced by something better. Raj then makes a comment he regrets.
-->'''Raj''': I'm the new homo in town... that came out wrong.
** Sheldon would often make awkward analogies and {{Double Entendre}}s and not recognize what he was saying as sounding weird or odd, with everyone else having to explain why. When the group offered to help Sheldon overcome his stage fright they suggested he could considered them his {{X-Men}}. Sheldon appreciated the sentiment but suggested that since the X-Men were named after Charles Xavier, his team should be named after Sheldon Cooper and be called the C-Men.
--->'''Howard''': Oh, no... that's not a good name.
** Penny when she's doped up on painkillers and she asks Sheldon to help her get into bed.
---> '''Penny''': *''laughs''* I just asked Sheldon to get me into bed!
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Sheldon is not good at reading people's emotions at all, so about the only way to tell they are upset or uncomfortable at all is for them to tell him outright.
-->'''Penny:''' Of course this makes me uncomfortable, can't you tell?\\
'''Sheldon:''' I really have no idea, I don't really excell at reading facial expression and body lang...\\
'''Penny:''' I'M UNCOMFORTABLE SHELDON!\\
'''Sheldon:''' ...thank you that's very helpful.
* ThemeTuneCameo: Subverted. Howard's ringtone is the theme tune, but the one from the unaired pilot.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Sort of. When Penny walks into a comic book shop, all the guys - and there are only guys - stop and stare. A far more [[UnfortunateImplications egregious]] example: a RunningGag to the effect that, while female scientists exist, [[DoubleStandard few if any are "doable", so they don't really count as women.]] Of course, the latter was said by ''Howard''.
** Also inverted as that was the only reason Amy Farrah Fowler was found as match to Sheldon.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Played with, Penny couldn't sleep in her hotel room due to Amy's night terrors and asked Leonard to stay with him and Sheldon, who was already asleep. One look at Sheldon's bed (and his idiosyncratic method of sleeping, described as "Like getting into Dracula's coffin") and Penny knew she couldn't share his bed. So she and Leonard tried sharing a bed as platonic friends, with awkward enough results.
* ThinkHappyThoughts:
-->'''Sheldon''': Look on the bright side.\\
'''Leonard''': What bright side?\\
'''Sheldon''': It's only nine more months until Comic-Con.\\
'''Leonard''': ''[smiling]'' Oh yeah!
* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: In the flashback episode at the end of Season 3. While making out the roommate agreement, Leonard asks if Friday night being ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' night needs to be in the agreement. Sheldon responds that they might as well decide now, because the show is going to be on for years.
* ThisLoserIsYou: At least if you're a {{nerd}}. Or [[JerkJock if]] you're [[TheDitz not]] a [[DumbBlonde nerd]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Howard and Raj, and their "ersatz homosexual marriage". Although they aren't as directly connected to Sheldon, Leonard and Penny (by virtue of not being neighbors or roommates), they do manage to do activities seperate from each other and the others but do play up the HoYay undertones in certain episodes.
* AThreesomeIsManly: Raj drunkenly reveals during Howard's bachelor they once had a threesome with a overweight woman dressed as Manga/SailorMoon;
--> '''Raj''': Don't worry, nothing happened between me and Howard! *{{Beat}}* Not with 200lbs of Manga/SailorMoon between us!
* ToiletHumour: Toilet Humour [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]] to be specific, and done rather well for once in "The Classified Materials Turbulence", where the gang has to fix a malfunctioning zero-gravity toilet. To quote Sheldon: "Apparently there is no law of diminishing comedic returns with space poop".
-->'''Howard''': All right, this is an exact duplicate of the Wolowitz zero-gravity human waste disposal system as deployed on the international space station.\\
'''Raj''': Don't you mean the Wolowitz zero-gravity human waste ''[[InsistentTerminology distribution]]'' system?
** Sheldon had some flatulence problems after eating brussels sprouts in an episode where he becomes hyper health-conscious.
** Sheldon insists on anyone spending the night to have a specific time to use the bathroom (which doesn't interfere with his time), and is proud to say that he is "as regular as a German train schedule."
** There are many jokes referencing Leonard's lactose intolerance too, which makes him flatulent; although, this is never shown on-screen.
* ToiletSeatDivorce: During Leonard's brief "official" relationship with Leslie, she broke up with him over the fact he had a preference towards String Theory (which Sheldon brought up) while she is on the Loop Quantum Gravity. To the average viewer this is ridiculous, but to these super-geniuses it is SeriousBusiness.
** Also played as DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
---> '''Leslie:''' How can we have a relationship if we don't believe the same thing? How are we going to raise the children?\\
'''Leonard:''' I guess we'll wait until they're old enough and let them decide what theory they would like for themselves.\\
'''Leslie:''' You can't let them decide, Leonard; THEY'RE CHILDREN!
* TooMuchInformation: Usually involving Amy Farrah Fowler.
* TookALevelInBadass: For a certain qualification of "badass." Leonard started off the series being painfully shy and uncertain of himself, it took him the entirety of the first season to officially ask Penny out. It's implied that interacting with Penny has helped boost his sense of self-worth and he progressed from being a [[NiceGuy nice]], [[TheGenericGuy generic guy]] to becoming one of the more scathing {{Deadpan Snarker}}s and having a relatively successful love life (even outside of Penny). By season five he had several moments where he demonstrated a personal backbone ([[spoiler: Being assertive with Penny when they go on a "non-date" and standing up to his high school bully]]), though he still needs work on [[IdiotBall when and where to choose his battles]].
** In parallel CharacterDevelopment, we've also seen Penny Take A Level In Nerd. (The first one is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXBqs1flqQ wonderfully illustrated]] with a DoubleTake ''at herself'', while the studio audience applauds.) In addition to random science-fiction analogies, she has quite a bit more patience and higher standards when it comes to dating.
** In ''The Werewolf Transformation", after missing one haircut, Sheldon "enters a world of chaos" and becomes about as badass as he could be.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Whenever the five main characters are eating together, it's Chinese food. Although it's not so much trademarked for Sheldon as it is ISO 9000 specified.
--> '''Sheldon''': Did you get the chicken shredded?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Even though the menu says it's cubed, not shredded?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Did you get the low-sodium soy sauce?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Did you get the good spicy mustard?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Excellent. (beat) What took you so long?
** But when it's just the four nerds together, they seem to have (slightly) greater variety in their diet. They go to various restaurants, including the Cheesecake Factory where Penny is a waitress. Also, at work they have generic cafeteria food together in some cafeteria presumably on the Caltech campus.
*** It completely covers Sheldon though. He has a strict menu that he eats per day, for all three meals, and presumably snacks as well. The Chinese food ''has'' to be from Szechuan Palace. (Unfortunately for Sheldon, they closed two years ago. Now his cashew chicken comes from Golden Dragon.) He's similarly disappointed to see that they've gotten Indian food from Mumbai Palace, not their usual Tandoori Palace. When Penny makes french toast for breakfast, he complains that it's "oatmeal day". When Leonard and Penny leave, he comments that the food does smell good, then finishes with "too bad it's not french toast day" and dumps the rest into the trash. He also seems quite fond of milk and tends to drink it more often than might be expected, ''especially'' if the other diners have wine or champagne.
** Inverted with Raj, who has expressed his distaste of Indian food many times.
** And then there was the time Sheldon was alone for the night and ordered Kadai Paneer. Consider: He can only order it when the others are away, because of Raj's distaste for Indian food, Howard's peanut allergy, and Leonard's lactose intolerance. His meals are usually very regimented, but in this instance he was willing to ''break the pattern'' to order it. No wonder he called it "a symbol of my independence."
*** It's also very sweet, in its way, since the Sheldon we know and love usually does not hesitate to force his own preferences on other people.
* TrainingMontage: Parodied when Sheldon and Raj intently study a whiteboard... complete with fast cuts and "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background. ''Twice.''
* TrueLoveIsBoring: by Season 6, when they finally have a stable relationship, Penny starts to have her doubts about Leonard.
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Before Leonard, Penny only ever dated the dimwitted, JerkJock types. Leonard is the exact opposite, a brilliant, nice guy (he's really not that athletic). No points for guessing which relationship the series revolves around. But then... Well, see above.
* TruthTellingSession: On "The Irish Pub Formulation", Leonard's confession of [[spoiler:having slept with Raj's sister Priya]] snowballs into one of these.
* TVGenius: Parodied in one episode, where Sheldon and Raj have a HardWorkMontage to ''Eye of the Tiger''. It's literally just them staring at a whiteboard of equations.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed, as Leonard is considered to be handsome and looks good together with Penny but he is ever aware that she is normally out of his league. The trope is deconstructed in the sixth season when he explains that it is hard to have guys far more attractive than him (at the least taller) hit on her when they are out together.
* UnclePennybags: Sheldon, surprisingly. When Penny falls behind on her rent and her car breaks down, he freely gives her enough money to pay for both of them. Despite her assumption that Sheldon's obsessive tendencies would lead him to hound her, it turns out that he's incredibly lax when it comes to lending his money. He honestly doesn't care ''when'' its paid back, as long as it ''eventually'' is.
** Lampshaded by Leonard as one of his saving graces;
---> '''Leonard''': It's actually one of the few idiosyncrasies of his, that ''doesn't'' make you want to kill him.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: The elevator's been broken for the entire series, so instead, awkwardness occurs while climbing the stairs. Penny and Raj's sister Priya share one of these (intentionally drawn out to make the audience uncomfortable) in Season 4.
* {{Understatement}}: After he worked up the nerve to ask her out in the first season finale, Penny admitted to Sheldon that she knew Leonard had "a little crush" on her. Sheldon responded with "A ''little'' crush. I suppose so, like how Menelaus [[TheTrojanWar had "a little crush" on Helen of Troy]]."
* UndisclosedFunds: Raj's parents are apparently "RichieRich"-rich, according to Sheldon. When asked how much that is, he just says that it's somewhere between "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]"-rich and "[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]"-rich.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Partially averted. While the characters have a very extensive wardrobe, they do repeat outfits from time to time, mostly the guys.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Leonard/Penny/Priya
* TheUnsmile:
** Sheldon provides the current page image in the episode "The Griffin Equivalency":
---> "We're here to see Koothrappali, not kill Batman!"
* TheUnfairSex: Priya towards Leonard.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Frickity Frack, not this again!"
* UnwantedGiftPlot: Amy gives Penny a bad painting of the two of them in "The Rothman Disintegration".
* ValleyGirl: Penny falls into this from time to time, even though she's originally from Nebraska.
* VanityPlate: The Chuck Lorre Production notes which give you a split second to read a long paragraph. Even the short ones with a picture and a caption usually takes a FreezeFrameBonus to appreciate.
* VerbalTic: Penny likes to call people "Sweetie." In a bout of confusion Sheldon used it as evidence that she has feelings for him.
-->'''Penny:''' "I call everyone sweetie."\\
'''Sheldon:''' "You tramp."
* VisualPun: Coupled with StealthPun. Raj enters the comic book store with a [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/a5bf/ speaker shirt]] playing [[StarWars the Imperial March]]...which of course means he's wearing a loud shirt. Leonard even tells him to turn his shirt off.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sheldon with everyone.
* VocalDissonance: Bernadette normally has a fairly high pitched, squeaky voice. But there are times when she yells and sounds ''exactly'' like Howards mom. Which he finds to be ''[[OedipusComplex hot]].''
** Howard being the stereotypical television Jewish man will never be rid of his mother, ''in any form.''
* VocalEvolution: Melissa Rauch's voice for Bernadette was always pitched higher than her own natural voice, but her first few episodes it was still fairly natural sounding. Later episodes it is quite higher, almost to HeliumSpeech. Funny enough, when Bernadette gets angry her voice ''lowers'' in pitch.
** Carol Ann Susi as the voice of Mrs. Wolowitz has always had NoIndoorVoice, but was slightly more muted and with less enunciation in her earlier "appearances."
* TheVoice: Howard's mother, Mrs. Wolowitz, [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]].
* TheVoiceless: Rajesh, whenever he's with a woman -- unless he's drunk.
** VoiceForTheVoiceless: Howard, who usually just relays what Raj whispers into his ear (though sometimes Howard's annoyed comebacks imply what Raj said well enough).
* VolleyingInsults: Sheldon hates Leslie Winkle for being the only woman able to be actually more deliberately unpleasant and insulting to him than he could be to anybody else. Cue their constant rows when both meet.
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* WackyMarriageProposal: Howard pulls this on Bernadette when she asks where their relationship is going.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-i8MRnnbwA subsequent retraction]] of the proposal for an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove is both cringeworthy and utterly hilarious. Subverted in that Bernadette sees it as the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for her.
* WalkAndTalk: Lampshaded by Sheldon:
--> '''Sheldon''': Why on Earth are you telling me all this ([[spoiler:about Howard and Bernadette]])?\\
'''Leonard''': I don't know... Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy.
** The central hallway set is redecorated to represent three floors that the characters consistently have to climb (usually OnceAnEpisode). They use it for a WalkAndTalk in addition to a couple of {{Uncomfortable Elevator Moment}}s.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In a variation Sheldon balked at switching up his regimented dinner plans and refused to go to Raj's place with everyone else. The rest of the group spent the Sheldon-free evening talking about how annoying he could be, only to realize the group felt empty without him around.
-->'''Sheldon'''(knocking on the door): [[RuleOfThree "All my friends." "All my friends." "All my friends."]]
-->'''Howard''': I think its like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''...we mentioned his name too many times!
* WhamLine: Raj: Sorry [[spoiler: Those are the first words he speaks to a woman while sober]]
** [[spoiler: Penny(to Leonard): ...you know I love you...]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: In-universe and PlayedForLaughs. When Leonard is invited to see the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland on Valentine's Day and insists on making it a romantic holiday with Penny, instead of taking Sheldon as was agreed to in the Roommate Agreement, Sheldon is very angry and plays a driving game with him called "Traitors" where he names three historical traitors and Leonard is to put them in the order of the magnitude of their treachery. First round: Benedict Arnold, [[Literature/TheBible Judas]], and Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. When Leonard protests against being included in the same category as these men, Sheldon even hints that Judas ranks somewhere ''below'' Leonard.
** When talking about the horrible things that would happen at his birthday parties, Sheldon confessed to Penny with great anguish that he got a motorized dirtbike instead of a titanium centrifuge. Sheldon simply could not understand what child would like such a gift, and was genuinely perplexed when Penny said that most kids would love it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Season 2 has a three-episode arc where Leonard dates a medical doctor, Stephanie, who sort of stealth-moves into his apartment. He spends that whole third episode [[CanNotSpitItOut trying to find a way]] to get her to move back out, but being diverted because she keeps jumping his bones. She isn't explicitly stated to have broken up with him (when he finally ''does'' spit it out, her response is to, well, jump his bones)... and by the next episode Leonard appears to be single again, with no mention of Stephanie.
** This was also played with in an episode where Penny decides to stay in Leonard and Sheldon's apartment for the night. Raj walks out of the shot right before she walks into the room and asks to stay. Leonard, Penny, and Sheldon all have the whole argument about her staying there and then, once that's all over and it's decided that Penny stays, they turn out the lights and all go to bed. Cut to Raj, who was in the middle of eating a sandwich in the kitchen. He quietly leaves the room, looking like he has no idea what just happened.
** In "The Psychic Vortex" Raj and Sheldon managed to acquire dates with two very hot, intelligent and slightly geeky girls (one of whom played by [[TheWonderYears Danica McKeller]]) named Abby and Martha, and even got a second date shortly after. What made these girls really unique was that the ice-breaker was Sheldon carrying Franchise/GreenLantern's power battery at a party and ''they [[GeekyTurnOn fully knew what it was]];'' they ended up playing ''RockBand'' back at Sheldon's apartment. Not to mention that Sheldon even appeared to enjoy talking with Martha (discussing ''{{Flatland}}'' among other things) with Raj and Abby making out on the chair. It can be assumed that Sheldon's {{asexual}} nature really disappointed Martha, and that took Abby away from Raj. But these were girls who could relate to them in interests, intelligence and were attracted to them ''because'' of it (not even Penny can really claim that with Leonard), with no follow up episode it almost seems to be a waste.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: When Barry Kripke is first introduced with his strange speech impediment (reminiscent of Elmer Fudd), Raj asks "What part of America is that accent from?", but his question is summarily ignored.
* WhosOnFirst: Done in "The Alien Parasite Hypothesis" with Amy telling Sheldon about her reaction to Penny's ex, Zack. "Hoo."
* WillTheyOrWontThey: For the first two seasons, Leonard and Penny. [[spoiler:In the first episode of season 3, they do, although they break up at the end of the season.]]
* WimpFight: Leonard and Sheldon get into a fight at a seminar in the first season, which is largely a push, shove and slap fight. They are subsequently shown on Website/YouTube and are clearly embarassed over how silly they look:
--> '''Leonard''': Oh geez. Does this suit really look that bad?
--> '''Sheldon''': Forget your suit, look at my arms waving. I'm like a flamingo on Ritalin.
** The wrestling match between Howard and Raj also counts, which consisted of over a half-hour of circling each other on the mat. Leonard fell asleep waiting for something resembling a fight to happen.
** Also the time Sheldon and Barry played one-on-one basketball for a vacant office. (They chose sports so that they would have a level playing field, since it's the one thing they're both equally bad at.) They go forty-five minutes without sinking a single basket.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: It's not entirely clear on why Leonard, Howard and Raj are friends with Sheldon and vice-versa. The three have little tolerance for his personality quirks, see him as a source of irritation, make fun of him behind his back, and are often mocking and unsympathetic when he's humilated. Sheldon meanwhile shows them no respect, ridicules Leonard and Howard's work, and is so stubborn, selfish and demanding that the gang agrees with whatever he wants to do because it's easier than arguing with him.
** Penny once questioned why the other guys stay friends with {{Jerkass}} Sheldon. The answer: "We like Leonard." Sheldon managed to save Leonard's life and kept Leonard out of prison, so he's indebted to Sheldon, but Howard and Raj fall back to "We like Leonard".
** Although a scene in one episode has them begin with cheerfully toasting having effectively driven Sheldon out of their lives, it ends with them all lamenting that they actually ''miss him''. Apparently despite his personality faults and aggravation, they actually do like him... they're usually just distracted from doing so by how annoying he is.
* WomenAreWiser: Played with. Usually Penny or another female character is the one with the most common sense of the group, but sometime Leonard or others, including Sheldon are the ones to point out things the others never seen.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: All of Penny's ex-boyfriends are muscular and dumb.
* WrittenInInfirmity: Averted. When Kaley Cuoco (Penny) fractured her leg at the beginning of season 4, Penny was absent for two episodes and no reference was made to her not being around. Once she returned the writers decided that her character would have a new bartending assignment at the Cheesecake Factory and be shot from the waist up behind the bar. A VanityPlate was dedicated to new rules to ensure the safety of cast members, including any extreme activities (Kaley was injured while riding horses).
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: An in-universe example. Sheldon complains that a renaissance fair gets away with any inaccuracies simply by writing "Ye Olde" in front of everything.
* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: When Penny tells Leonard that everything goes wrong with their relationship when they talk, she adds that she had an 8 month long relation with a guy named T.J. and they never talked.
--> '''Leonard''': "Wait, if you guys never talked, what did you... Never mind. Stupid question."
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: Penny mentions Leonard hasn't let her talk him into [[IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable cooler dressing/hobbies]] as much as he let Priya.
* YourFavorite: For Sheldon - Strawberry Quik
--> '''Sheldon''': "Strawberry Quik!!! My favorite pink beverage! Just beating out Pepto-Bismo!
** When Amy decides it's time their relationship moved ahead (much to Sheldon's protests), she decides to get him to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning associate all his favorite things with her]]. In addition to the above [[ThroughHisStomach strawberry Quik and spaghetti with little hot dogs cut up in it]], she played the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' theme song and played doctor ''Franchise/StarTrek'' style, uniform and all. [[spoiler:It worked, despite Sheldon's constant insistence that it would not.]]
** For Leonard - German Chocolate Cake.
* YourMom: Invoked by Raj in order to try to get Howard to let go of "The One Ring". Then Sheldon gleefully notes that if they turn on each other, he will get The Ring by default, Raj and Howard to decide to [[EnemyMine team up]] against him. Sheldon lists his mother's faults before they get a chance to, leaving them to bring out the big guns.
--> '''Raj''': Alright, not your mother. How about... your ''grandmother''.
--> '''Sheldon''': [[AnythingButThat No!]] I call no Mee-maws!
** Howard's mother is a ''living'' YourMom. It's implied that every single thing said about Mrs. Wolowitz is true, but since [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen she's never visible on-screen]], the audience simply must [[TakeOurWordForIt Take Their Word For It]] per RuleOfFunny.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNflEUQeUQ Sheldon]] has his own take on the insult.
-->'''Bernadette:''' "So we are just going to sit here and wait for something to happen?"\\
'''Howard:''' "I did that with you when we watched ''TheNotebook''..."
** There are several examples of "geeky" movies and series taking a slam too
--->'''Sheldon:''' ...and after breakfast I thought we'd watch the final season of ''Series/BabylonFive'' with director's commentary
--->'''Leonard:''' But you HATE ''Babylon 5''!
--->'''Sheldon:''' I do, [[RuleOfThree it fails as drama, science fiction and it's hopelessly derivative...]] but you like it and you're my friend.
** "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" tabs at card battle games with the guys being initially disgusted with "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a'"s latest expansion adding Wild West characters to a fantasy-themed world, but find themselves unable to resist buying and playing it.
* ThanksForTheMammary: Sheldon, to Penny. He didn't bump into her, though; he was [[NotWhatItLooksLike helping her get dressed]] when she dislocated her shoulder in the bathtub -- with his eyes closed.
** Although he later admits that he was ''lying'' when he said he hadn't looked.
** Amy was constantly wanting more physical contact with Sheldon, even coercing him to snuggle one night. Later Sheldon and Leonard went to pick her up from a liquor store parking lot Leonard was the one to help her to her feet and walk to the car and she happily exclaimed "Looks like someone finally found 'Second Base!'"
* ThatCameOutWrong: In "The Roommate Transmogrification" when Raj proves himself to be a better roommate than Leonard, Sheldon compares Leonard to Homo Erectus saying that he, like Homo Erectus, has been replaced by something better. Raj then makes a comment he regrets.
-->'''Raj''': I'm the new homo in town... that came out wrong.
** Sheldon would often make awkward analogies and {{Double Entendre}}s and not recognize what he was saying as sounding weird or odd, with everyone else having to explain why. When the group offered to help Sheldon overcome his stage fright they suggested he could considered them his {{X-Men}}. Sheldon appreciated the sentiment but suggested that since the X-Men were named after Charles Xavier, his team should be named after Sheldon Cooper and be called the C-Men.
--->'''Howard''': Oh, no... that's not a good name.
** Penny when she's doped up on painkillers and she asks Sheldon to help her get into bed.
---> '''Penny''': *''laughs''* I just asked Sheldon to get me into bed!
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Sheldon is not good at reading people's emotions at all, so about the only way to tell they are upset or uncomfortable at all is for them to tell him outright.
-->'''Penny:''' Of course this makes me uncomfortable, can't you tell?\\
'''Sheldon:''' I really have no idea, I don't really excell at reading facial expression and body lang...\\
'''Penny:''' I'M UNCOMFORTABLE SHELDON!\\
'''Sheldon:''' ...thank you that's very helpful.
* ThemeTuneCameo: Subverted. Howard's ringtone is the theme tune, but the one from the unaired pilot.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Sort of. When Penny walks into a comic book shop, all the guys - and there are only guys - stop and stare. A far more [[UnfortunateImplications egregious]] example: a RunningGag to the effect that, while female scientists exist, [[DoubleStandard few if any are "doable", so they don't really count as women.]] Of course, the latter was said by ''Howard''.
** Also inverted as that was the only reason Amy Farrah Fowler was found as match to Sheldon.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Played with, Penny couldn't sleep in her hotel room due to Amy's night terrors and asked Leonard to stay with him and Sheldon, who was already asleep. One look at Sheldon's bed (and his idiosyncratic method of sleeping, described as "Like getting into Dracula's coffin") and Penny knew she couldn't share his bed. So she and Leonard tried sharing a bed as platonic friends, with awkward enough results.
* ThinkHappyThoughts:
-->'''Sheldon''': Look on the bright side.\\
'''Leonard''': What bright side?\\
'''Sheldon''': It's only nine more months until Comic-Con.\\
'''Leonard''': ''[smiling]'' Oh yeah!
* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: In the flashback episode at the end of Season 3. While making out the roommate agreement, Leonard asks if Friday night being ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' night needs to be in the agreement. Sheldon responds that they might as well decide now, because the show is going to be on for years.
* ThisLoserIsYou: At least if you're a {{nerd}}. Or [[JerkJock if]] you're [[TheDitz not]] a [[DumbBlonde nerd]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Howard and Raj, and their "ersatz homosexual marriage". Although they aren't as directly connected to Sheldon, Leonard and Penny (by virtue of not being neighbors or roommates), they do manage to do activities seperate from each other and the others but do play up the HoYay undertones in certain episodes.
* AThreesomeIsManly: Raj drunkenly reveals during Howard's bachelor they once had a threesome with a overweight woman dressed as Manga/SailorMoon;
--> '''Raj''': Don't worry, nothing happened between me and Howard! *{{Beat}}* Not with 200lbs of Manga/SailorMoon between us!
* ToiletHumour: Toilet Humour [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]] to be specific, and done rather well for once in "The Classified Materials Turbulence", where the gang has to fix a malfunctioning zero-gravity toilet. To quote Sheldon: "Apparently there is no law of diminishing comedic returns with space poop".
-->'''Howard''': All right, this is an exact duplicate of the Wolowitz zero-gravity human waste disposal system as deployed on the international space station.\\
'''Raj''': Don't you mean the Wolowitz zero-gravity human waste ''[[InsistentTerminology distribution]]'' system?
** Sheldon had some flatulence problems after eating brussels sprouts in an episode where he becomes hyper health-conscious.
** Sheldon insists on anyone spending the night to have a specific time to use the bathroom (which doesn't interfere with his time), and is proud to say that he is "as regular as a German train schedule."
** There are many jokes referencing Leonard's lactose intolerance too, which makes him flatulent; although, this is never shown on-screen.
* ToiletSeatDivorce: During Leonard's brief "official" relationship with Leslie, she broke up with him over the fact he had a preference towards String Theory (which Sheldon brought up) while she is on the Loop Quantum Gravity. To the average viewer this is ridiculous, but to these super-geniuses it is SeriousBusiness.
** Also played as DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
---> '''Leslie:''' How can we have a relationship if we don't believe the same thing? How are we going to raise the children?\\
'''Leonard:''' I guess we'll wait until they're old enough and let them decide what theory they would like for themselves.\\
'''Leslie:''' You can't let them decide, Leonard; THEY'RE CHILDREN!
* TooMuchInformation: Usually involving Amy Farrah Fowler.
* TookALevelInBadass: For a certain qualification of "badass." Leonard started off the series being painfully shy and uncertain of himself, it took him the entirety of the first season to officially ask Penny out. It's implied that interacting with Penny has helped boost his sense of self-worth and he progressed from being a [[NiceGuy nice]], [[TheGenericGuy generic guy]] to becoming one of the more scathing {{Deadpan Snarker}}s and having a relatively successful love life (even outside of Penny). By season five he had several moments where he demonstrated a personal backbone ([[spoiler: Being assertive with Penny when they go on a "non-date" and standing up to his high school bully]]), though he still needs work on [[IdiotBall when and where to choose his battles]].
** In parallel CharacterDevelopment, we've also seen Penny Take A Level In Nerd. (The first one is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXBqs1flqQ wonderfully illustrated]] with a DoubleTake ''at herself'', while the studio audience applauds.) In addition to random science-fiction analogies, she has quite a bit more patience and higher standards when it comes to dating.
** In ''The Werewolf Transformation", after missing one haircut, Sheldon "enters a world of chaos" and becomes about as badass as he could be.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Whenever the five main characters are eating together, it's Chinese food. Although it's not so much trademarked for Sheldon as it is ISO 9000 specified.
--> '''Sheldon''': Did you get the chicken shredded?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Even though the menu says it's cubed, not shredded?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Did you get the low-sodium soy sauce?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Did you get the good spicy mustard?\\
'''Leonard''': Yup.\\
'''Sheldon''': Excellent. (beat) What took you so long?
** But when it's just the four nerds together, they seem to have (slightly) greater variety in their diet. They go to various restaurants, including the Cheesecake Factory where Penny is a waitress. Also, at work they have generic cafeteria food together in some cafeteria presumably on the Caltech campus.
*** It completely covers Sheldon though. He has a strict menu that he eats per day, for all three meals, and presumably snacks as well. The Chinese food ''has'' to be from Szechuan Palace. (Unfortunately for Sheldon, they closed two years ago. Now his cashew chicken comes from Golden Dragon.) He's similarly disappointed to see that they've gotten Indian food from Mumbai Palace, not their usual Tandoori Palace. When Penny makes french toast for breakfast, he complains that it's "oatmeal day". When Leonard and Penny leave, he comments that the food does smell good, then finishes with "too bad it's not french toast day" and dumps the rest into the trash. He also seems quite fond of milk and tends to drink it more often than might be expected, ''especially'' if the other diners have wine or champagne.
** Inverted with Raj, who has expressed his distaste of Indian food many times.
** And then there was the time Sheldon was alone for the night and ordered Kadai Paneer. Consider: He can only order it when the others are away, because of Raj's distaste for Indian food, Howard's peanut allergy, and Leonard's lactose intolerance. His meals are usually very regimented, but in this instance he was willing to ''break the pattern'' to order it. No wonder he called it "a symbol of my independence."
*** It's also very sweet, in its way, since the Sheldon we know and love usually does not hesitate to force his own preferences on other people.
* TrainingMontage: Parodied when Sheldon and Raj intently study a whiteboard... complete with fast cuts and "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background. ''Twice.''
* TrueLoveIsBoring: by Season 6, when they finally have a stable relationship, Penny starts to have her doubts about Leonard.
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Before Leonard, Penny only ever dated the dimwitted, JerkJock types. Leonard is the exact opposite, a brilliant, nice guy (he's really not that athletic). No points for guessing which relationship the series revolves around. But then... Well, see above.
* TruthTellingSession: On "The Irish Pub Formulation", Leonard's confession of [[spoiler:having slept with Raj's sister Priya]] snowballs into one of these.
* TVGenius: Parodied in one episode, where Sheldon and Raj have a HardWorkMontage to ''Eye of the Tiger''. It's literally just them staring at a whiteboard of equations.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed, as Leonard is considered to be handsome and looks good together with Penny but he is ever aware that she is normally out of his league. The trope is deconstructed in the sixth season when he explains that it is hard to have guys far more attractive than him (at the least taller) hit on her when they are out together.
* UnclePennybags: Sheldon, surprisingly. When Penny falls behind on her rent and her car breaks down, he freely gives her enough money to pay for both of them. Despite her assumption that Sheldon's obsessive tendencies would lead him to hound her, it turns out that he's incredibly lax when it comes to lending his money. He honestly doesn't care ''when'' its paid back, as long as it ''eventually'' is.
** Lampshaded by Leonard as one of his saving graces;
---> '''Leonard''': It's actually one of the few idiosyncrasies of his, that ''doesn't'' make you want to kill him.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: The elevator's been broken for the entire series, so instead, awkwardness occurs while climbing the stairs. Penny and Raj's sister Priya share one of these (intentionally drawn out to make the audience uncomfortable) in Season 4.
* {{Understatement}}: After he worked up the nerve to ask her out in the first season finale, Penny admitted to Sheldon that she knew Leonard had "a little crush" on her. Sheldon responded with "A ''little'' crush. I suppose so, like how Menelaus [[TheTrojanWar had "a little crush" on Helen of Troy]]."
* UndisclosedFunds: Raj's parents are apparently "RichieRich"-rich, according to Sheldon. When asked how much that is, he just says that it's somewhere between "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]"-rich and "[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]"-rich.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Partially averted. While the characters have a very extensive wardrobe, they do repeat outfits from time to time, mostly the guys.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Leonard/Penny/Priya
* TheUnsmile:
** Sheldon provides the current page image in the episode "The Griffin Equivalency":
---> "We're here to see Koothrappali, not kill Batman!"
* TheUnfairSex: Priya towards Leonard.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Frickity Frack, not this again!"
* UnwantedGiftPlot: Amy gives Penny a bad painting of the two of them in "The Rothman Disintegration".
* ValleyGirl: Penny falls into this from time to time, even though she's originally from Nebraska.
* VanityPlate: The Chuck Lorre Production notes which give you a split second to read a long paragraph. Even the short ones with a picture and a caption usually takes a FreezeFrameBonus to appreciate.
* VerbalTic: Penny likes to call people "Sweetie." In a bout of confusion Sheldon used it as evidence that she has feelings for him.
-->'''Penny:''' "I call everyone sweetie."\\
'''Sheldon:''' "You tramp."
* VisualPun: Coupled with StealthPun. Raj enters the comic book store with a [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/a5bf/ speaker shirt]] playing [[StarWars the Imperial March]]...which of course means he's wearing a loud shirt. Leonard even tells him to turn his shirt off.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sheldon with everyone.
* VocalDissonance: Bernadette normally has a fairly high pitched, squeaky voice. But there are times when she yells and sounds ''exactly'' like Howards mom. Which he finds to be ''[[OedipusComplex hot]].''
** Howard being the stereotypical television Jewish man will never be rid of his mother, ''in any form.''
* VocalEvolution: Melissa Rauch's voice for Bernadette was always pitched higher than her own natural voice, but her first few episodes it was still fairly natural sounding. Later episodes it is quite higher, almost to HeliumSpeech. Funny enough, when Bernadette gets angry her voice ''lowers'' in pitch.
** Carol Ann Susi as the voice of Mrs. Wolowitz has always had NoIndoorVoice, but was slightly more muted and with less enunciation in her earlier "appearances."
* TheVoice: Howard's mother, Mrs. Wolowitz, [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]].
* TheVoiceless: Rajesh, whenever he's with a woman -- unless he's drunk.
** VoiceForTheVoiceless: Howard, who usually just relays what Raj whispers into his ear (though sometimes Howard's annoyed comebacks imply what Raj said well enough).
* VolleyingInsults: Sheldon hates Leslie Winkle for being the only woman able to be actually more deliberately unpleasant and insulting to him than he could be to anybody else. Cue their constant rows when both meet.
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* WackyMarriageProposal: Howard pulls this on Bernadette when she asks where their relationship is going.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-i8MRnnbwA subsequent retraction]] of the proposal for an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove is both cringeworthy and utterly hilarious. Subverted in that Bernadette sees it as the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for her.
* WalkAndTalk: Lampshaded by Sheldon:
--> '''Sheldon''': Why on Earth are you telling me all this ([[spoiler:about Howard and Bernadette]])?\\
'''Leonard''': I don't know... Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy.
** The central hallway set is redecorated to represent three floors that the characters consistently have to climb (usually OnceAnEpisode). They use it for a WalkAndTalk in addition to a couple of {{Uncomfortable Elevator Moment}}s.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In a variation Sheldon balked at switching up his regimented dinner plans and refused to go to Raj's place with everyone else. The rest of the group spent the Sheldon-free evening talking about how annoying he could be, only to realize the group felt empty without him around.
-->'''Sheldon'''(knocking on the door): [[RuleOfThree "All my friends." "All my friends." "All my friends."]]
-->'''Howard''': I think its like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''...we mentioned his name too many times!
* WhamLine: Raj: Sorry [[spoiler: Those are the first words he speaks to a woman while sober]]
** [[spoiler: Penny(to Leonard): ...you know I love you...]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: In-universe and PlayedForLaughs. When Leonard is invited to see the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland on Valentine's Day and insists on making it a romantic holiday with Penny, instead of taking Sheldon as was agreed to in the Roommate Agreement, Sheldon is very angry and plays a driving game with him called "Traitors" where he names three historical traitors and Leonard is to put them in the order of the magnitude of their treachery. First round: Benedict Arnold, [[Literature/TheBible Judas]], and Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. When Leonard protests against being included in the same category as these men, Sheldon even hints that Judas ranks somewhere ''below'' Leonard.
** When talking about the horrible things that would happen at his birthday parties, Sheldon confessed to Penny with great anguish that he got a motorized dirtbike instead of a titanium centrifuge. Sheldon simply could not understand what child would like such a gift, and was genuinely perplexed when Penny said that most kids would love it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Season 2 has a three-episode arc where Leonard dates a medical doctor, Stephanie, who sort of stealth-moves into his apartment. He spends that whole third episode [[CanNotSpitItOut trying to find a way]] to get her to move back out, but being diverted because she keeps jumping his bones. She isn't explicitly stated to have broken up with him (when he finally ''does'' spit it out, her response is to, well, jump his bones)... and by the next episode Leonard appears to be single again, with no mention of Stephanie.
** This was also played with in an episode where Penny decides to stay in Leonard and Sheldon's apartment for the night. Raj walks out of the shot right before she walks into the room and asks to stay. Leonard, Penny, and Sheldon all have the whole argument about her staying there and then, once that's all over and it's decided that Penny stays, they turn out the lights and all go to bed. Cut to Raj, who was in the middle of eating a sandwich in the kitchen. He quietly leaves the room, looking like he has no idea what just happened.
** In "The Psychic Vortex" Raj and Sheldon managed to acquire dates with two very hot, intelligent and slightly geeky girls (one of whom played by [[TheWonderYears Danica McKeller]]) named Abby and Martha, and even got a second date shortly after. What made these girls really unique was that the ice-breaker was Sheldon carrying Franchise/GreenLantern's power battery at a party and ''they [[GeekyTurnOn fully knew what it was]];'' they ended up playing ''RockBand'' back at Sheldon's apartment. Not to mention that Sheldon even appeared to enjoy talking with Martha (discussing ''{{Flatland}}'' among other things) with Raj and Abby making out on the chair. It can be assumed that Sheldon's {{asexual}} nature really disappointed Martha, and that took Abby away from Raj. But these were girls who could relate to them in interests, intelligence and were attracted to them ''because'' of it (not even Penny can really claim that with Leonard), with no follow up episode it almost seems to be a waste.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: When Barry Kripke is first introduced with his strange speech impediment (reminiscent of Elmer Fudd), Raj asks "What part of America is that accent from?", but his question is summarily ignored.
* WhosOnFirst: Done in "The Alien Parasite Hypothesis" with Amy telling Sheldon about her reaction to Penny's ex, Zack. "Hoo."
* WillTheyOrWontThey: For the first two seasons, Leonard and Penny. [[spoiler:In the first episode of season 3, they do, although they break up at the end of the season.]]
* WimpFight: Leonard and Sheldon get into a fight at a seminar in the first season, which is largely a push, shove and slap fight. They are subsequently shown on Website/YouTube and are clearly embarassed over how silly they look:
--> '''Leonard''': Oh geez. Does this suit really look that bad?
--> '''Sheldon''': Forget your suit, look at my arms waving. I'm like a flamingo on Ritalin.
** The wrestling match between Howard and Raj also counts, which consisted of over a half-hour of circling each other on the mat. Leonard fell asleep waiting for something resembling a fight to happen.
** Also the time Sheldon and Barry played one-on-one basketball for a vacant office. (They chose sports so that they would have a level playing field, since it's the one thing they're both equally bad at.) They go forty-five minutes without sinking a single basket.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: It's not entirely clear on why Leonard, Howard and Raj are friends with Sheldon and vice-versa. The three have little tolerance for his personality quirks, see him as a source of irritation, make fun of him behind his back, and are often mocking and unsympathetic when he's humilated. Sheldon meanwhile shows them no respect, ridicules Leonard and Howard's work, and is so stubborn, selfish and demanding that the gang agrees with whatever he wants to do because it's easier than arguing with him.
** Penny once questioned why the other guys stay friends with {{Jerkass}} Sheldon. The answer: "We like Leonard." Sheldon managed to save Leonard's life and kept Leonard out of prison, so he's indebted to Sheldon, but Howard and Raj fall back to "We like Leonard".
** Although a scene in one episode has them begin with cheerfully toasting having effectively driven Sheldon out of their lives, it ends with them all lamenting that they actually ''miss him''. Apparently despite his personality faults and aggravation, they actually do like him... they're usually just distracted from doing so by how annoying he is.
* WomenAreWiser: Played with. Usually Penny or another female character is the one with the most common sense of the group, but sometime Leonard or others, including Sheldon are the ones to point out things the others never seen.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: All of Penny's ex-boyfriends are muscular and dumb.
* WrittenInInfirmity: Averted. When Kaley Cuoco (Penny) fractured her leg at the beginning of season 4, Penny was absent for two episodes and no reference was made to her not being around. Once she returned the writers decided that her character would have a new bartending assignment at the Cheesecake Factory and be shot from the waist up behind the bar. A VanityPlate was dedicated to new rules to ensure the safety of cast members, including any extreme activities (Kaley was injured while riding horses).
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: An in-universe example. Sheldon complains that a renaissance fair gets away with any inaccuracies simply by writing "Ye Olde" in front of everything.
* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: When Penny tells Leonard that everything goes wrong with their relationship when they talk, she adds that she had an 8 month long relation with a guy named T.J. and they never talked.
--> '''Leonard''': "Wait, if you guys never talked, what did you... Never mind. Stupid question."
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: Penny mentions Leonard hasn't let her talk him into [[IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable cooler dressing/hobbies]] as much as he let Priya.
* YourFavorite: For Sheldon - Strawberry Quik
--> '''Sheldon''': "Strawberry Quik!!! My favorite pink beverage! Just beating out Pepto-Bismo!
** When Amy decides it's time their relationship moved ahead (much to Sheldon's protests), she decides to get him to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning associate all his favorite things with her]]. In addition to the above [[ThroughHisStomach strawberry Quik and spaghetti with little hot dogs cut up in it]], she played the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' theme song and played doctor ''Franchise/StarTrek'' style, uniform and all. [[spoiler:It worked, despite Sheldon's constant insistence that it would not.]]
** For Leonard - German Chocolate Cake.
* YourMom: Invoked by Raj in order to try to get Howard to let go of "The One Ring". Then Sheldon gleefully notes that if they turn on each other, he will get The Ring by default, Raj and Howard to decide to [[EnemyMine team up]] against him. Sheldon lists his mother's faults before they get a chance to, leaving them to bring out the big guns.
--> '''Raj''': Alright, not your mother. How about... your ''grandmother''.
--> '''Sheldon''': [[AnythingButThat No!]] I call no Mee-maws!
** Howard's mother is a ''living'' YourMom. It's implied that every single thing said about Mrs. Wolowitz is true, but since [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen she's never visible on-screen]], the audience simply must [[TakeOurWordForIt Take Their Word For It]] per RuleOfFunny.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNflEUQeUQ Sheldon]] has his own take on the insult.
