- Jossed: we did not see their wedding. And when a wedding of sorts happened onscreen (series nine-ten?), the family surname was not referred to.
- Jossed.
- Jossed
- Partly correct! In the 21st episode of that season, Amy expresses jealousy of that easy friendship, while understanding that it is completely platonic. (The quasi-resolution is that Penny takes Sheldon to a psychic who advises him to be closer to his girlfriend.)
- Jossed
- Leonard's mother is a far closer match
- Does no one remember Ms. Hathaway from The Beverly Hillbillies?
- Jossed
- After getting back together She wastes no time in having lots of sex with him, including once while Leonard is at work.
- This is guessing? I'd take it as canon.
- The surprising thing is that so does Leonard, in fact obviously his sex drive and know how is enough to keep Penny satisfied!
- While a fun point, this show takes place in California while Barney lives in New York. Also not would have taken place around the same time as HIMYM Season 3 where Barney was staying in New York and definitely n't go to California at any point
- This is now canon in my mind :)
- Penny IS short for Penelope.
- Jossed
- As Sheldon says, "Numbers don't lie."
- Not exactly. Howard specifically said that Hawking needed an experimental physicist. Leonard fits the bill, whereas Sheldon is a theoretical physicist.
- Wow, they've been to Antarctica as well?
- ca. 1998
- Leonard Graduates from high school and moves to Pasadena to attend Cal tech
- ca. 1999
- Raj and Sheldon graduate from high school and move to Pasadena to attend Caltech;
- But Raj's school-level education would have been in India? The Indian school system is ferociously academically competitive, so this makes sense.)
- Howard Graduates from high school and attends Caltech
- 2002
- The events of The Staircase Implementation
- ca. 2003
- The four Graduate from Caltech undergrad
- Howard decides to go to MIT for Grad school He has Raj, Leonard and possibly Sheldon check on his mother from time to time.
- ca. 2004
- Penny graduates from high school and moves to California to pursue acting she shorty meets Kurt and the two date.
- ca. 2005
- Howard Receives a masters degree gets a Job at Caltech
- ca. 2006-2007
- Raj Leonard and Sheldon receive their doctorates
- 2007
- Penny breaks up with Kurt and decides to movie to Pasadena to start fresh.
- Two little problems with this
- The four don't meet until they're already working at Cal Tech. Leonard meets Sheldon when he answers an ad for a roommate that the latter put out, and then meets Howard and Raj when they help him move a couch up to the apartment. Howard and Raj may have known each other before this.
- The staircase implementation points out Leonard was already friends with Howard and Raj when he moved in with Sheldon which is stated to be in 2002 which makes them far too young (minus Sheldon who was working on his PhD at 14), very early 20's, to have even been college graduates let alone be working at a college. Though it could be possible that they finished school two years early making them working there as grad students, but it's stated that Howard spent grad school at MIT. Realistically the characters would have had to be closer to 30 or late 20's to have PhDs and that's back in 2002.
- there are inconsistencies in these events such as an earlier episode stating that the elevator was broken before Leonard moved in. also inconsistencies about when they moved in So it can be theorized that later episodes are more fact and any previous episodes facts that contradict this can be considered retcon.
- Sheldon is about the same age as the rest of them, and he was already qualified enough to teach undergrad before he was 18.
- The four don't meet until they're already working at Cal Tech. Leonard meets Sheldon when he answers an ad for a roommate that the latter put out, and then meets Howard and Raj when they help him move a couch up to the apartment. Howard and Raj may have known each other before this.
- Raj telling Howard that he dreamed they lived in adjacent mansions, and there was a tunnel connecting his back yard to Howard's front yard. from the Bus Pants Utilization practically confirms this.
- However "The Thespian Catalyst contradicts this with Raj wishing a relationship with Bernadette repeatedly daydreaming a series of scenarios that would involve Howard giving him permission to have sex with Bernadette one of them Howard dying. He even says, "Apart from the musical number, I'm definitely not gay."
- Also Raj gets and erection from hugging Penny in the first episode immediately followed by heavy Ho yay with Howard. It's mostly his Camp Straight tendencies that have been flanderized.
- It's too bad there are No Bisexuals.
- Or it could be a case of If It's You, It's Okay.
- Raj has flaming, girly tendencies because he watches Sex and the City, read Twilight and all this stuff in an effort to understand women, and has now been influenced by these works. Including how to treat your BFF.
- Raj did those things because he has a purple streak.
- Jossed, she was played by June Squibb.
- Howard's mother is usually described as being more attractive and with a more pleasant personality.
- Howard's mother is consistently described as morbidly obese and unattractive (though sometimes with a I Was Quite a Looker touch). Her personality is consistent with Jewish Mother stereotype — she's caring, demanding, obsessed, one time she wants her son out, next time she doesn't want him to move in with his wife. Rosanne Barr could play her, but they should put her in a fat suit and give her scary, unflattering make-up.
- Howard's mother, although she's never seen, is played by Carol Ann Susi. If she's ever fully revealed, they'll likely put her in a fat suit and makeup. Also, given the tensions on the Roseanne set, it's unlikely Chuck Lorre will work with her again.
- Except that Howard's mother is supposed to be unattractive, if not mistakable for a man and frightening.
- How would he be in two places at once? I think this could only work if they did a 70s Show-style flash sideways.
- Jossed Sadly, she is never appearing on screen now.
- But like a kosher Grendel's mother, she has been glimpsed: in the episode where she smothers Raj with brisket and cheesecake, a huge barely-glimpsed silhouette was seen in the background passing across the light cast by the kitchen door. As with Grendel's mother in one screen adaptation of the Beowulf myth, this was more unsettling and disturbing than a full realization of the awful reality. Imagination drew the picture.
- And she wasn't so unutterably hideous that Howard's dentist was not put off from having an affair with her... there's a dentist for every cavity, I suppose.
- Mrs Wallowitz is not unspeakably ugly. Howard is forced to envision his mother as being uglier than she is because his shallowness is the only thing that keeps him crossing "that line" with his mother. Since, minus physical appeal, his mother basically embodies his ideal woman and he has basically no luck with women outside his own family.
- It has been stated that Penny's mother will appear in a future episode, but Kaley Cuoco wants Lisa Kudrow to play her. Whether or not that will happen is a WMG for another day.
- Jossed
- Jossed. Penny's brother Randall was played by Jack McBrayer.
- Jossed, In season 4 episode 9, Penny's dad was played by Keith Carradine.
- Jossed. In the Luminous Fish Effect, it is revealed Sheldon's dad is dead.
- There are always flashback episodes.
- likely jossed there too. His young Sheldon actor, Lance Barber, will likely appear in any flashbacks, since his death isnt that far removed from that time period.
- There are always flashback episodes.
- Given that Leslie was Put on a Bus and otherwise has been Out of Focus meaning any return will be minimal, this might as well be jossed.
- Jossed
- Or, he'll be played by Chevy Chase, as Johnny Galecki played Rusty Griswold in Christmas Vacation.
- Jossed. He is played by Judd Hirsch
- Jossed. Word of God says no.
- If Sheldon had a mental illness, then it would make laughing at his socially maladjusted antics faintly reminiscent of those Victorians who visited asylums to laugh at the inmates. You Bastard!!
- Officially, no, he doesn't. He really couldn't without it becoming a major point in the show. It would suddenly be "Oh that's awful, they're making fun of disabilities!" and they'd have to play it as sympathetic. But as one of the spergin', there are a LOT of things that would indicate him as an extreme case of Asperger's. And a lot more things that are looking at a funhouse mirror version of my own tendencies.
- Jim Parsons addresses this in an NPR interview. The writers deliberately incorporate aspects of Aspberger's into Sheldon's character, without labeling it, as stated above.
- Asperger's isn't a mental illness; it's a higher functioning level of Autism. Calling it a mental illness is a highly controversial thing to say. You Bastard!!
- As someone who happens to HAVE Asperger's, I have to agree with the above troper. It's not a disability or mental illness. It just makes you less socially adept with a few little quirks thrown in.
- This is formally listed in the relevant section of Alternative Character Interpretation.
- The Writers probably don't know Asperger's as well as we do.
- That's why they wrote him as such?
- Some of them don't know Sheldon as well as we do.
- The Writers probably don't know Asperger's as well as we do.
- Just being smarter than the average bear and not understanding most (completely contrived) social conventions doesn't mean you're mentally ill. Sheesh.
- While this is true, Sheldon obviously has more than just those two symptoms of the syndrome. He's very anal about his schedule, in the flashback episode he seemed to have trouble with eye contact, and he doesn't read emotions very well. All of these are major signs of Asperger's. As someone who was diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of 8 and has done plenty of research on the topic (mostly so I could fully understand why I think the way I do), I should know. (Though I'm not an expert by any means.)
- Sheldon has also displayed a pointed tactile aversion and is asexual.
- Recently Sheldon has said that "coitus with Amy is not completely off the table at a possible point in the future. He is likely not completely asexual just most of his life has been more focused on science than on woman. His relationship with Amy proves that he is not completely asexual.
- Well, asexuals can still have sex, especially if they are not repulsed by sex and have a partner that would desire sexual activity. So, acknowledging that sex may become a possibility sometime in the future does not preclude Sheldon being asexual because sexual orientation is about attraction, not behavior.
- It's possible that Sheldon only believes he's asexual because he's not attracted to anyone on a physical basis. What if he were sapiosexual? He considers himself so brilliant that he doesn't think anyone else is on his level, and therefore would never be attracted to anyone. Amy is one of the few people who has actually taught him new things, so it's possible that he's starting to regard her as his intellectual equal and is feeling attraction for the first time. The reason he hasn't acted on it yet is because of his germophobia, but eventually his attraction to Amy will become strong enough to overcome it and they will have a physical relationship.
- Eventually confirmed and its clear that Sheldon both enjoys (and is actually surprisingly good at) sex.
- Recently Sheldon has said that "coitus with Amy is not completely off the table at a possible point in the future. He is likely not completely asexual just most of his life has been more focused on science than on woman. His relationship with Amy proves that he is not completely asexual.
- While the writers of the show say no, the actor who plays Sheldon nods towards Asperger's as his main inspiration for the character. For the record, this troper has Asperger's Syndrom and wasn't offended at all. In fact, he enjoys finding similarities in between Sheldon and his Aspy friends and him.
- Parson's has said he never heard of AS untill many fans began to speculate, but has since became familiar with it and has read the book Don't Look Me In The Eyes
- It's his aspie-ish tendencies that make me (an aspie) like him so much.
- That is sort of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as Parsons didn't know about Aspergers until fans kept bugging him about it. He recognizes the connections and it helped him understand his character better, but "Sheldon has Aspergers" was not part of the performance that made people think of it to begin with.
- My own interpretation is that the people who Lorre and Prady knew that inspired how they wrote the character were likely autistic (there's a lot of it about), but obviously awareness of autism and Asperger's sydrome has only become prevalent in the past ten-fifteen years so the traits they were riffing on were deemed just independant idiosyncracies, taken together though they present enough evidence to allow for a pretty watertight diagnosis of Autism/Aspergers. I think it was Bill Prady who said that in universe Sheldon was never officially diagnosed so they don't diagnose him either. There was a very telling line of dialogue in one episode when Mary confirms that although she had him tested, they didn't follow up with the 'specialist' in (i think it was) Dallas and later laments that she didn't. I think that that is as clear a nod as the writers are prepared to give to the potential for it.
- There are of course very good reasons for not confirming Sheldon as having autism/aspergers, since doing so would turn him into an 'issue' character- they couldn't get away with treating him as antagonistically as they do and every story would have to go through a kind of comittee process to ensure accuracy and inoffensiveness effectively neutering him. However, as someone with Asperger's I wouldn't insist on such political correctness myself- they have treated Sheldon pretty fairly so far, balancing his pathetic and unsympathetic aspects against moments of outright heroism and pathos. Based on his current treatment i'd be perfectly willing to greenlight any plot or character trait if it meant autistics finally had a media champion after a decade of 'antisocial mavericks' clearly in the autistic mould but unconfirmed by nervy creators scared of labelling their characters (House, Sherlock, Monk et al.)
- I'm no expert on autism (though I do have a friend with Asperger's), but from what I know I certainly see Sheldon as an extreme case of it. I never thought of Monk as autistic, but rather as an extreme case of OCD (although I've heard from people who should know that Monk is not OCD, even as an extreme case). If I were autistic and given the choice between Sheldon and Monk as a "media champion", I'd take the more likeable Monk. Sheldon's funny to watch, but if I found myself in a universe in which The Big Bang Theory was real and I ran into Sheldon, I'd avoid him like the plague and sure wouldn't be nice to him. I wouldn't seek Adrian Monk out in his universe (unless I needed a murder solved), but I'd be much nicer to him if I ran into him.
- Not to go off topic here, but House is not autistic. He reads people to the point that it borders on telepathy; something an autistic person could never hope to do. It is true he's a prodigy with diagnostic medicine and he's socially awkward, but that doesn't automatically make him an autistic savant. If anything, House is a psychopath.
- I believe, as someone who has autism that Sheldon is an undiagnosed autistic. When Sheldon was young he was tested, but the doctor didn't identify the Autism so he is resistant to accept it in the modern day. (In primary school I was referred to a doctor behind my mother's back and the doctor failed to deliver that diagnosis so my Mother resisted suggestions until I nearly finished Junior School). The reason I suspect outside is Unfortunate Implications. Think about it, if Sheldon is neurotypical then his behavior is his fault and the mocking/annoyance the gang has given him is a fair and justified response, if he is on the spectrum however the his behavior is, at least in part, the result of a condition he cannot control. Think of how everyone else would react to that...
- As a fellow autistic I agree. Let's look at it this way: Sheldon grew up in rural Texas in the 90s when his mom had him tested. I really don't believe it's a stretch to believe the doctor simply didn't recognize high functioning autism.
- I'm not an expert at neurodiversity but I have looked into it a bit (I have friends who are on the spectrum as well as managing staff who are almost certainly) and I believe the appropriate saying is "When you know one person with autism then you know one person with autism". It is perfectly possible for Sheldon to be both neurodiverse in some respect AND be a massive asshole, the one doesn't rule the other out. Sheldon has his foibles but also willingly lets these foibles ruin other people's lives.
Throughout the series, it seems that Sheldon had no friends before going to college at a very early age — he only had bullies, including his twin sister. In college, he was extremely young in comparison to any peer, so he would not make any real friends at all. With time, he became (more) eccentric and had no chance to be sociable until meeting Leonard and more importantly, Penny.
Sheldon's social skills have seriously improved since meeting Penny for the first time. He even learned sarcasm.
- This isn't a WMG. It's a statement of fact.
- Sheldon exhibits highly ritualized behavior, seemingly based on irrational and disturbing thoughts (for example, thinking the world would somehow fall into chaos if he did something different on certain nights), and gets very frustrated when someone doesn't see the logic in his approach.
- Amy (a neurobiologist who would certainly know it when she saw it) has even referred to his behavior as "obsessive compulsive" multiple times.
- Sheldon insists he isn't crazy because his mother had him tested. He couldn't have been diagnosed with a personality disorder as a child, due to diagnostic protocol. Further, his mother once said something to the effect of, "He's not crazy, I had him tested. But I wish I'd followed up with the specialist in Dallas." The specialist could have been a therapist who specialized in personality disorders or obsessive-compulsive thinking/behavior.
- Thinking of it, this would sort of imply that Sheldon's father is also from the Worker Caste, since his mother seems to be from the Religious Caste. Also, his hate for Babylon 5 is either some sort of cosmic irony or a disguise.
- Or it could be because it depicts the lives of Delenn and Valen in so much depth with no regard for their privacy that any Minbari would find it hideously embarassing and offensive to see their great leaders in such a manner.
- He dislikes it because it spends too much time dwelling on the fickle lives of unimportant people (humans, the Religious and Warrior Castes, the First Ones, etc.) and completley glosses over the centrally important Worker Caste.
- Or it could be because it depicts the lives of Delenn and Valen in so much depth with no regard for their privacy that any Minbari would find it hideously embarassing and offensive to see their great leaders in such a manner.
- He have first Minbari soul reincarnated among humans.
- Implausible. We know that Minbari souls reincarnate among humans since the last Great War against the Shadows, which was around 1300 A.D.
- Technically, Minbari souls never reincarnated, the Minbari just misinterpretted what the triluminaries actually do.
- Implausible. We know that Minbari souls reincarnate among humans since the last Great War against the Shadows, which was around 1300 A.D.
- He often states that he feels like an alien due to his difficulty conforming to social norms (and the rest of the cast often jokes that he is), so him being one of the Fair Folk isn't that farfetched. His idiosyncratic humor is often prank oriented, and his lack of empathy and brutal honesty are notorious, which somewhat resembles traditionally fairies both Seelie and Unseelie. Finally, his roommate and relationship agreements are long, filled with clauses, seemingly contradictory, and interpreted to his convenience, which is very similiar to the pacts mortals sign with the Unseelie Court.
- Let's just hope he never discovers his magical potential.
- ...this theory is possibly the only thing that could make "The Maternal Congruence" even squickier than it already is.
- It does sound like something Leonards mother would do in some sort of weird nature VS nurture experiment.
- If Leonard's mother did her postgraduate work at a university in Texas, the scenario could work out nicely.
- This is unlikely, judging by the heights of the two characters. Sheldon's mother and sister are both above average in height, like Sheldon, while Leonard is below average in height. Similarly, Leonard's mother wears glasses like he does, which may imply that bad eyesight is carried in there family.
- Penny isn't Socko's cousin, Penny is Socko's sister.
- So does that mean Socko cooks meth?
- No, that would be their third brother Matthew.
- Or their sister Crystal.
- So does that mean Socko cooks meth?
- He's not crazy. His mother had him tested.
- Though she never followed up with that specialist in Houston.
- I know people like this. But you have ruined the show for me, curses!
- Ruined the show? I would be surprised if this wasn't one of the reasons why Sheldon acts the way he does- in my opinion this makes him more awesome.
- Leonard: I love you.
Penny: I know.- Can we all get a heartfelt 'hallelujah' that this was not the case?
- No.
- That's likely to be a line in a season finale if not the series finale.
- Alternately he didn't intentionally break up Penny and Leonard, but lets Sheldon think he did because he likes screwing around with the crazier fans.
- Well, if I was Wil Wheaton, I'd do everything I can to destroy the lives of those who won't let me forget I'm Wil Weaton.
- Yes, but Wesley Crusher was Sheldon's favorite character. His hatred of Wil has nothing to do with that, if it did Wil (hating the character himself) would probably sympathize more. Wil knows what an egotistical jerk Sheldon is and delights in knocking him down a peg. He's not evil, he's just doing what needs to be done.
- Hmmmm. By messing with his friends life?
- Except we don't know that he did it on purpose, just that he likes letting Sheldon think he did. Honestly, the breakup was coming sooner or later anyway.
- Sheldon and Wheaton have now made peace, though this could of course be temporary.
- Essentially Jossed; Wheaton has made numerous subsequent appearances as Sheldon's friend, though Spiner hasn't appeared again.
- IT would explain why they seem to keep coming back after the massively hurtful comments, the ridiculous rules, the Housemate agreement...
- Jossed Leonard sticks around because Sheldon didn't rat him out to the landlord when he detonated the elevator and stopped Leonard from selling secrets to an attractive foreign spy. Raj and Howard put up with Sheldon because they think Leonard's worth it.
- He did more than that. He actually SAVED Leonard's LIFE by throwing the explosive concoction into the elevator himself just before it detonated.
- Someone who could put up with Sheldon would be a pretty cool friend for someone a little more normal.
- It is not that hard, remember Howard's quote He came with a manual. In fact, he is so predictable that it makes it easy to avoid most of his annoyances. Oh, and he would not hesitate to lend you money if you needed it.
- Sheldon shuts up pretty quickly when told, that makes him a lot more tolerable.
- Jossed Leonard sticks around because Sheldon didn't rat him out to the landlord when he detonated the elevator and stopped Leonard from selling secrets to an attractive foreign spy. Raj and Howard put up with Sheldon because they think Leonard's worth it.
- Not quite. a) Sheldon often tries to read emotion/behave properly. He fails (partially because of his limitations partially because it is his "hobby" not profession) but he tries. He sometimes resigns but often when he considers "the problem" as too hard. His jokes are probably bad attempts rather then malice - he read about social structure in book but he didn't grasp all nuances. b) Sheldon helps. He helps creating flowers for Penny. He lends Penny money. He is willing to risk life for Leonard, whom he hardly know at this point and save him..
- Candy: Because it would be sexy.
- Worth: She's related to a certain butler. Which means Batman exists in the BBT universe, which is awesome.
- Foryourthoughts: Unlikely, but possible.
- Baggs: Because Puns.
- Lane: Because The Beatles are awesome.
- Nichols: Even though it's been done.
- Wise: Which is kinda creepy, when you think about it.
- Arcade: Again, Puns!
- Perry: Added Alliterative Appeal.
- Penny-Penny: And it turns out that Sheldon is being formal when he knocks on her door.
- Wyatt: Because that is what her dad was called in season 4, even though he had been referred to previously as "Bob" in season 2. He is a farmer who probably goes by his last name to distinguish himself from all the other Bobs in Nebraska. Therefore his full name is Bob Wyatt, therefore Penny's last name is Wyatt.
- Priddy: Because The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is awesome.
- Hofstadter: Because the show is really a daytime drama.
- Dreadful: Pun with added Nightmare Fuel potential.
- Royal: Pennyroyal is a naturally occuring abortofacient. The plant extract was used by mediaeval herbalists as a sort of "morning-after pill" to prevent conception. Even today, aromatherapists are warned not to use this essential oil on pregnant women. Given that Penny's lifestyle has caused her pregnancy scares in the past...
- Blossom (s) : Her Penny Blossoms business name was actually her full name. With Mayim Bialik on the show, there's great potential for a Blossom joke.
- Loafer: Pun, and reason enough not to want attention drawn to it.
- ?enny: Any name that rhymes would work, with the added bonus that if they get married, they'll be Lenny and Penny ?enny.
- Harrington As a Shout-out to Kaley Cuoco's role in "Brandy and Mr Whiskers.
- "Penny Harrington, of the Nebraska Harringtons."
- Farthing: Pun yet again.
- Pasta, Withgarlicsauce, or some other penne pun
- Wisepoundfool
- a name with Copper in it (i.e. Copperfield)
- There are references around the Web to Chuck Lorre having said, in interviews, that Penny's family name, yet to be revealed on show, is "Barrington". So far actual proof in the form of an interview transcript is elusive.
- Want. Because a Guild/BBT crossover would be... special.
- Wouldn't it make more sense the other way around? We know Wil Wheaton exists as an actor in the BBT universe, maybe he just calls himself 'Fawkes' online.
- His turtleneck probably conceals some sort of anti-persperation device.
- She certainly needs to break away from being the show's bike. Even a small acting role would be nice, just to remind viewers that she does actually have a life beyond bringing the guys food and having sex.
- Confirmed as of season 6.
- She certainly needs to break away from being the show's bike. Even a small acting role would be nice, just to remind viewers that she does actually have a life beyond bringing the guys food and having sex.
- Not necessarily, reading Chinese and speaking Chinese are two entirely different things. It's entirely possible that Sheldon can read Chinese and not be able to speak it, considering his Texan accent (Chinese is a largely tonal language). Hell, it's possible he was speaking Mandarin, and it was translated by someone who speaks Cantonese!
It probably says something like "aardvark" instead.
Don't you think Leonard's mom is a lot like Lilith?- Leonard's mom is more like a female version of Sheldon (which explains a lot). Lilith may be logical and calm to the point of seeming emotionless, but it's just a front she puts up. Lilith is actually a very caring person; she just doesn't show it except in certain circumstances. Leonard's mom doesn't seem to have any warmth to her at all.
- Yet in Frasier, it is revealed that Lilith, with Frasier's connivance, used their baby son Frederick as a lab-rat in a series of maze experiments: Lilith says, with pride, that when put in the maze, Frederick was commendably quick at finding his way to the bottle of milk. As a WMG with some substance to it, can we postulate:
- That Beverley and her husband also used Leonard as an infant lab-rat in behavioural studies experiments?
- OK, more of a Frasier WMG: Frederick Crane will grow up scientifically brilliant. But with similar parents, he will develop into another Leonard and end up in a place not unlike Caltech. Conversely, Leonard at twelve would have been as awkward and nerdy as Frederick. Frederick also had the woes associated with the middle name "Gaylord". What embarrassing middle name does Leonard have?
- Dissapointingly, Frasier's mother Hester - a psychologist who named her two sons for favourite lab rats - and Beverley Hofstadter are played by different actresses (Rita Wilson and Chrstine Barancki respectively.) But when Frasier's mother makes appearances in that show (once on family film and once in a fantasy sequence) and is dressed conservatively with 1960's hair... the resemblence to Beverly Hofstadter is incredible, as if the BBT producers were consciously basing Beverley on Hester Crane. So perhaps there is a deliberate connection - but not to Lilith. As a Freudian, of course Frasier's complex would be oedipal... and he'd look for a girl just like mom.
- Pantsing someone that just goes away and doesn't call the police = not going to prison.
- On the other hand, the same guy is later mentioned as having a bench warrant and as having urinated on a police car, so his ongoing pattern of criminal behavior may have caught up with him.
- Might be more of a Hilarious in Hindsight.
- That's the likeliest explanation. Leonard ended up as the whiner mainly because he's the straight man surrounded by characters defined by negative traits (most especially Sheldon). That one line was a joke partly meant to reinforce the unpleasantness of Sheldon, but yes, in the long view it sounds like breaking the forth wall.
- True, but there is more. Raj is, for sure, an ass even when sober, and complains about having an hard life when he received everything on a silver plate. But, the one time he thought to be drunk (with analcoholic beer), acted like a charming and well mannered person, the same way he acts to his superiors. My opinion is that he is always an ass with people when he fells to be in a higher position, and being drunk is just the self-confidence booster that makes him insufferable to everyone. Technically, it's called "coward dick".
- Now that he's been Flanderized to be ever more effeminate, his misogyny (or whatever it may be called) has given way to putting women on a pedestal.
- Hell, that needs to be the four-part Grand Finale.
- There's going to be a four-part Grand Finale?!
- The show's still going on with no talk of it ending anytime soon, calm down and keep your pants on.
- Howard/Raj allusions were present from the beginning of the series, and grew stronger with time. Maybe they're both bisexual. His attraction to women is as well.
- His "definitely not gay" in the episode with his Bernadette dreams made it sound as if he'd been wondering if he was gay - and in the same episode he mentioned "accidentally" ending up in a gay bar (apparently by himself, as none of the other guys know what he's talking about)
- Of course, we must remember that Raj wasn't raised in America, and therefore wasn't influenced as much as a born-and-raised American on gender cues and identity (i.e. girls wear pink, boys wear blue, girls play with dolls, boys with trucks) because those differences are a culture thing.
- We must also remember that most of his village, including his family, assumed he was gay too.
- In the pilot he gets an erection after Penny hugs him, though the scene that follows is filled with Ho Yay between him and Howard.
- In season 6, he oggles Penny while she's wearing a black dress with massive cleavage.
- He has generally shown interest in women.
- To anyone not familiar with Indian film conventions, the mandatory big musical number in any Bollywood movie will look like the gayest thing on earth. Raj has a Bollywood moment with Bernadette in a fantasy sequence. This should certainly not be mistaken for evidence he is gay: the song and dance number in Bollywood is the big resolution of all the UST flying around the place, always heterosexual. To Indians it oozes the right sort of pheromenes. It's unfortunate the rest of us watch it and think "gay". All male film idols in Bollywood are, by Indian standards, as rampantly hetero as Chuck Norris or Van Damme. And Raj placed himself firmly in centre stage.
- Penny will get back together with Leonard and fall in love again. Sheldon will marry Amy Farrah Fowler and have a baby via a surrogate. They will all live in a house together since there's no way Sheldon could survive on his own.
- As of season 6 Penny and Leonard are back together
- Howard and Raj will realise their love for eachother and get into a menage a trois with Bernadette.
- Jossed.
- This is actually still plausible, he would easily turn on somebody when it came down to it.
- Likely Jossed as he has gradually become more closely friends with Raj and through him the group
- Jossed. Season 5, she finally lands a gig in a commercial. She was however, about to do just that before she got the call.
Sheldon considers Penny to be one of his closest friends (possibly the closest, considering she has done things for and knows things about him that others don't, and vice versa), but does not feel romantically inclined to her in the slightest. Earlier seasons had several Ship Tease moments between them, in particular the episode where Penny falls and breaks her arm in the shower and only Sheldon was around to help her, but as of lately they are almost non-existent.
Amy is basically Sheldon's female other half, and the fourth season has been slowly building up to move them closer and closer together, to the point where they'll probably become an actual (though still very odd) couple.
- I'd actually speculated in the past that Sheldon was going to ultimately get together with Leslie, a "Hate Becomes Love" deal but because the writers struggled with Leslie led them to ditch her character and bring in a new woman, Amy. Leslie did leave around the same time Amy showed up...
- [[spoiler Jossed They mutually get back together.]]
- Tensions will rise with Leonard and Sheldon, as Raj was seen as a superior roomate for Sheldon than Leonard has(though Leonard could make the arguement of him being similar to that when they started out)
- The wedding of Howard and Bernadette will be either an hour long ep or split for a two-parter
- A sherlock holmes style mystery with Sheldon and Leonard as Holmes and Watson, respectivly. And Will Wheaton as the Moriarty.
- That's not Manic-Depressive. If Penny wouldn't go to sleep for a few days, then had suicidal thoughts, she would be bipolar. She doesn't. Not even close.
- How do we know/there are multiple forms of MD. You can have bipolar depression to a lesser or greater degree of severity, and also someone suffering from bipolar disorder can have episodes which are years apart, so it's possible that Penny just hasn't had a depressive episode in the time we've seen her, only a manic episode or maybe even neither. Also, there are long periods where we don't really see what Penny's up to, so she could be doing anything, including not leaving her apartment because she's having an episode. We never really knew what she did while the guys were in Antarctica, for example, and she could have spent the whole time crying into her pillow and cutting herself for all we know. I'm not convinced of this WMG, but only because there's not enough information in the show to go on. So far nothing I've seen either confirms or denies it.
- It might even have been his own mother. Raj ruefully admits that when his parents first met, his father had a rather unorthodox view of her on the examination couch. Apparently they started dating some time after her gynae check-ups. And a hidden secret of Indian gynaecology is that quite often, the doctor is being paid on the side to report back to the parents that their daughter has kept her virginity intact. If it isn't, he knows a good plastic surgeon who will "restore", for a fee...
- Sheldon and Amy get together and go on and on about having a baby by Artificial Insemination. In the Lab, Bernadette the Microbiologist mixes the egg and sperm. Bernadette is distracted, another chemical is in the test-tube Carmina Burana, extreme Close-Up on the Test-tube, the egg mutates into an Eldritch Abomination.
- But it is Sheldon's 28th birthday. Sheldon and Amy are in the Lab gazing hopefully at the Test-tube, Carmina Burana. Then pon farr kicks in, Sheldon sweeps the table clear and makes mad monkey love with Amy. Slow-Motion as the Test-tube falls to the floor. Focus on the debris on the floor. Off-Screen, we hear Sheldon and Amy at it. A spider walks towards the debris and eats, spider's eyes glow red, Carmina Burana.
- Raj's dependence on alcohol is bound to backfire one day.
- Jossed. As of the season 6 finale, he can talk to women without being drunk.
- Raj? What about Penny? Her wine consumption is mostly played as a running gag, without much by way of adverse consequences. But it seems to be showing up increasingly often, and in the kind of quantity that may not cause immediate disasters, but has got to start having long-term effects eventually.
- Update: She seems to have backed away from that cliff, no harm done. Wonder what that says?
- Sheldon is using his Time Machine.
- Stewie uses his Hypno Ray; Brits believe that E4 has a big box of episodes and pulls them out of the box at random.
- The proof that Stewie's theory is false: videos have 4-5 episodes on them. If E4 were pulling videos out of a box, there would be 4 episodes in a row with the same continuity.
- Think of all the story possibilities! Autograph hunters! Sci-fi conventions! Penny having to point out several times that she is not [name of her role]!
- Yes! At least, they should do something with this. It doesn't have to completely take off necessarily (although it's not bad if they do it that way), but when I saw ads for the second Abrams Star Trek movie I thought they should write it in that Penny got a tiny one-line role in it, and despite how trivial her role was the guys came to idolize her (beyond sexual attraction) for it. They'd keep asking her to say her line...Leonard would want her to put the uniform she wore on and have sex...and many things that I can't think of but the superior comedic minds of TBBT writers could.
- It could also be a voice acting role, possibly to shed some light on how underrated voice actors are by comparison to screen actors.
- Which is why, if they ever made a Batman- centric episode, I'd like Kevin Conroy to appear instead of Adam West or Christian Bale. Sadly, that didn't happen.
- And either Leonard or Sheldon are accidently recruited as "science advisors" for her show or movie.
- And it will star Nathan Fillion opposite Penny!
- A fitting and ironic acting role: as the "eye-candy" in a series where a new scientist takes the revived role of Professor Proton. Penny gets the gig as his white-coated lab assistant - something the guys have trained her for!
- Based on that, he must not have watched Justice League either. Or he really just doesn't like Aquaman.
- Angel Grove is in California like Pasadena
- Rita is very shrill
- Zedd has a hint of jewish tendencies
- And someday Howard will grow to be Thrax
- Possibly she sees no real difference between hetero or homosexual relationships and just wants love one way or another.
- This is becoming a major series Running Gag — though just to play Devil's advocate, this could also be If It's You, It's Okay with respect to Penny.
- It would certainly explain why we haven't been told her last name!
- Dunno. We've never seen Penny wearing green pants.
- Yes it does.
- We've also seen him talking to a woman (Summer Glau no less) when drinking what turned out to be non-alcoholic beer, so this was confirmed a while ago.
- To add to this: the first time we ever saw the alcohol in effect, Raj didnt know about it before hand, and was just as surprised as everyone else when he realized he was actually talking to Penny for the first time. Since then hes just become so dependant on it as a cure for his problem that his dependence has fostered the placebo effect.
- In Series Seven, Howard and Amy bond during the scavenger hunt and discover a shared love of Neil Diamond, ending up with their visiting a karaoke bar and singing duet. Amy is getting more and more pissed off with Sheldon not noticing her sexual frustration. Howard fancies himself as a ladies' man. Amy wants to try sex at least once before she dies. Hmmm.... watch out, Bernadette.
- I hope this is true so the last words of the series can be:
- And that's how Penny's last name going to be revealed:'' Oh, hi, I'm Penny. Penny [her last name]...
- If the whole show has been in Leonard's head, how did he know what Penny's name was before meeting her?
- Better still, the daydream would end just before this reveal. Like, we dissolve to Leonard asking Sheldon what he thinks a good name for her would be, and Sheldon would say something like "Well, we already used a Polish name for that waitress microbiologist we decided she works with, so how about something Scandanavian?" Of course, this is a relative "better still" scenario; All Just a Dream is a hated way to end things for a reason. (Plus the show already did a decent fakeout ending for the 100th episode.) Arguably it would almost be worth it if the "real" Penny's first line revealed a deep understanding of physics or something.
- If the whole show has been in Leonard's head, how did he know what Penny's name was before meeting her?
- I hope so, cause I hate her. Say he finally gets a breakthrough in his work and makes a major discovery and he wins a award for doing so but his mother shows up as she is the one who will present it to him. During the speech she makes a snide remark over how one success doesn't make up for multiple failures but her genes were bound to rub off on him eventually. This causes him to lose it and Call her out over everything she's done to him. The neglect, the emotional abuse, (bringing up the hug machine he built as a kid) and always downplaying everything he's done as insignificant even calling him a disappointment when he was within earshot. She tries to defend herself claiming it was the best way she believed to raise him and he responds with this question "The best way for me? Or for you?"
He then snatches the award out of her hands and turns to all the faculty and his friends who are in stunned silence and says thanks for coming and walks off the stage.
- A nice touch could be given with Amy and Sheldon, as they used to be like Beverly but have gotten to be much more sociable. Sheldon could even find her off putting and tell her as a scientist she's brilliant but as a human being she is inferior.
- I also think Beverly is a horrible mother, however I also think she does love her children deep down, not sure if she is aware of it saying how cold she is.
- She doesn't even perform good science. So far the topics of her books have mainly been about experiments on Leonard all throughout his life, but she had nothing to compare the results to, no control if you will. Combine that with the assumptions she makes, not taking Leonards' opinions of the matter into consideration or even factoring it into her assumptions, She is practically a poor scientist for not considering this evidence, almost like she is cherry-picking data to fit her own shrink stratagem. Now re-read my post: A mother who doesn't care about what her children thinks or has to say about what she is doing to them, coming up with her own assumptions of the truth, for an experiment that not even the reason "For Science!!" can even attempt to absolve. She shouldn't be a doctor, and she shouldn't be a mother. She is due for someone to blow up on her, and when it does, it will be devastating, it will be brutal, it will be... sad really, because when she met Sheldons' mother she did show wanting to be better for her children. Maybe it is too late for her to be a better mother. We don't know what made her as she is. We don't know her parents, her fears, we only see the logical machine with several built-in faults. She suffered a divorce, her marriage was toxic, the experiment was probably the only way she could be with her son, and the emotional suppression was to keep the pain of the divorce she felt from reaching her child, unwittingly blocking out any other emotion and sense of empathy, of any motherly warmth. Or, she really could be that horrible. We don't know all the facts, but the few facts we do know about her don't paint a saint.
- Exhibit A: her first words to Leonard after meeting Penny. What a mom, huh? But does he ever listen? Sigh.Beverly: If you want to have sex with that woman, find out what brand of cologne her father wore.
He will be hired as a consultant on a movie set in a fantasy version of Arabia (like a remake of Aladdin) with a director just as nerdy as he is, who is intent on getting all the physics in the film right.Ironically, on the day he begins his research, Leonard wins the Nobel Prize.
- Amy was the first Girl he ever went out on a date with, so unlikely .
- Although it is entirely possible that he simply researched sex when Leonard started bringing girls back.
- Not likely Sheldon has trouble just hugging people. Ample evidence suggests while he has some knowledge of sex he completely misses social cues from woman who would want to sleep with him.
- Reminds me of Granny Weatherwax, the old witch in the Discworld Esmerelda Weatherwax can act as very competent midwife. She knows how to make and prescribe potent aphrodisiacs. She knows exactly when to hand out her herbally-distilled Viagra and who to. She counsels young girls on sex and advises newlyweds on the, er, mechanics needed to produce children. She has her own Amy-to-Sheldon thing with a senior wizard at the local University. One thing is missing. She has been likened to a blacksmith-cum-vet who knows everything there is to know about horses. Except how to get in the saddle and ride one. It is entirely possible Sheldon has the same massive theoretical knowledge - perfect recall, after all - but lamentably little practical experience.
- Well, as of "The Opening Night Excitation, he's not anymore.
- Considering Kaley Cuoco's recent series of commercials as The Priceline Negotiator's daughter, the writers have a brilliant opening for it, too!
- It is quite possible to become extremely wealthy in medicine especially if one owns a clinic or even hosts seminars though there might be family money as well as even then you'd be talking millions not billions.
- Raj's father, like many Indian doctors, might well have trained and worked in Britain: many Indians will happily work in the UK and over twenty or so years save money which, while not spectacular by British standards, sets them up to live like millionaires back home in India. For a doctor or other professional, twenty years on a NHS salary - especially at consultant level - would certainly be more than ample as start-up capital to establish an independent practice at home serving other well-heeled Indians. This would also explain Raj's stay at Cambridge University: going to England would not be that big a dislocation for him, and if his parents were there at the time, it might well have been akin to Howard living at home with Mom...
- This would also imply that in "The Griffin Equivalency", the character that Raj has an encounter with at The Cheesecake Factory is in fact the real Charlie Sheen, not Charlie Harper from TaaHM.
- Charlie was shown watching Dharma and Greg in one episode. Another episode had a couple played by the actors looking at a house being sold by Evelyn, and the third that you are referring to (I think) with Frankie seems like the future of Dharma and Greg. Chuck Lore is a fan of CelebrityParadox
- There is a simple soloution to this. Dharma and Greg is a reality show in the universe they exist in
- Charlie was shown watching Dharma and Greg in one episode. Another episode had a couple played by the actors looking at a house being sold by Evelyn, and the third that you are referring to (I think) with Frankie seems like the future of Dharma and Greg. Chuck Lore is a fan of CelebrityParadox
- Unlikely. In one of the episodes, they are watching Oshikuru Demon Samurai, with the same song that was written by Charlie Harper in one of the episodes of Two and a Half Men.
- Partially confirmed. Mary and Beverly finally met each other in "The Maternal Combustion" and while they did get into a massive argument, they eventually made up. Though there may be other episodes that expand on this...
- It doesn't help that at times Sheldon causally talks about murdering someone to solve a problem(one time even thought of torturing a guy whom hacked his word of war craft character.) Granted at times he doesn't seem to mean it....other times.
- Jossed, for now: at the end of Series Nine she ends up with Leonard's father. Appalling both Leonard and Sheldon.
- He was always on lab accident from supervillain, and being disowned by the scientific community would create a motivation for his start of darkness. He always thought his villain name would be Dr. Arragonto, and was surprised how many supervillains got into doctorate school. Combine it with developing a death ray, a nuclear power plant, and an MRI when he was a little kid, (Leonard) his own personal minion bound by a contract, and his desire to have a button that blows up planets. If he can't inspire as Prof. Proton Jr., he will make everyone fear that name!
- 50% jossed. It's assumed, but not confirmed, that she quit her job after the Valentines day episode, so it's possible she could have given him a speech of that sort off screen.
- And where does Mrs. Cooper fit into this?
- More likely so Leonard wouldn't be required to do the patently ridiculous things in the agreement.
- Honestly, sounds like Priya. I'd say this one is pretty much confirmed, she has been shown to be quite manipulative.
- To clarify Raj is only sexually attracted to women, but can form romantic attachments with both men and women.
- A photo of his father holding Howard as a baby, with "Howard my son, my greatest gift" written on the back;
- A letter detailing his secret life and why he had to leave, that he was in the auditorium at Howard's graduation and cried because of how proud he was, and a message about family being the most important thing and not to abandon it, and;
- A The Far Side birthday card with "Happy birthday Howard. I love you" written on inside. Or, the letter was the birthday card.
- Bonus: Sheldon's was a lie only because they didn't let him in on the plan
- They've already hinted at this, plus she could probably keep him in line or intimidate him back to being quiet around women.
- Plus, there's no African Americans in the main cast.
- Jossed, at least partially. We're at the beginning of season 11, episode 2, so it's unknown whether or not Leonard even has a job, Penny and Leonard have been married, but Sheldon dying would be a sad and perfect way to end the show to make viewers say WTF, which is something we all know TV creators love to do.
- Multiple Comic-cons in different locations, at different points of the year.
- Why else would he not include Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant on the list of people he tried to invite to his comic convention? He could have also tried inviting Peter Capaldi to get the scoop on the new series of Doctor Who. Then again, either Capaldi would have been busy filming the series or Sheldon believes that Matt Smith is the only good actor who has played The Doctor and that Capaldi will not live up to the role.
- Sheldon has made it known that he dislikes Jar Jar Binks. So why would he include Ahmed Best on the list of people he tried to invite to his comic convention? The answer: to roast him. Either literally or metaphorically.
- Jossed they had sex in "The Opening Night Excitation".
- Jossed He and Amy had sex in "The Opening Night Excitation" and the show is still going.
- Jossed.
- It was the season 10 finale, the wedding was the season 11 finale
- Confirmed.
- She's an apparently-successful sales representative for a pharmaceutical company with acting experience. Many, many drugs actually do have nationally televised commercials, and if her company decided to produce one, they would save time and money by making Penny their spokeswoman.
- At the end of series seven, Stuart, bereft of comic-book shop and uncertain if he'll get the insurance money (he was living in the back room of the store, don't forget, which is probably in breach of commercial insurance - and, in a store full of inflammable things, he cooked food in there, another good reason for the insurers to decline payment) takes a job as live-in personal assistant to Mrs Wolowitz. It solves his immediate problems re. somewhere to live and gives him a better salary than the comic book store ever did. He discovered he loved the job. And he's on first-name terms with Debbie. (SECOND WARNING RE. NEED FOR BRAIN BLEACH)
- What if... romance develops? Stuart is an ubergeek with very little actual experience with women. Less than any of the other guys, including Raj. He has self-esteem issues. Mrs Wolowitz, as the family dentist will testify, is not completely unattractive. She needs validation too. It is common for the nursed and the nurse to fall in love and get romantically entangled. Co-dependency beckons. Either Hell or happiness. Howard is horrified at a shifting dynamic that makes Stuart into his stepfather. Bernadette will also be justly horrified. And they are paying Stuart's wages. Need that Brain Bleach yet?
- Jossed: He's in Young Sheldon as a typical Texan dad.
- However, he does possess a little more emotional intelligence than Sheldon, if that counts.
- The problem with this theory is that CBS has already confirmed 3 more seasons...
- Although CBS is running into contractual (read: pay) snags with the cast.
- Jossed. It goes on until Season Twleve.
- Wasn't it Leonard who wet the bed?
- Sadly, jossed.
- Jossed, she's now Penny Hofstadter.
- Jossed. They got married. Oh well.
- As implied in "The Hot Tub Contamination", it was Emily who dumped him in the end. (Oh, and so did Claire)
- Meanwhile Amy will try everything she can to move on, then eventually near the end of the season she finally will. But when she looks around at what she has now, she'll realise she misses what she used to have.
- Both confirmed and it looks like Sheldon was successful in getting her back.
- Meanwhile Amy will try everything she can to move on, then eventually near the end of the season she finally will. But when she looks around at what she has now, she'll realise she misses what she used to have.
- Amy wouldn't have to put up with Dave's gushing over Sheldon because Dave would have his own relationship with him, and she'd have emotional backup for when Sheldon is being overly difficult.
- Sheldon wouldn't feel pressured to engage in coitus with Amy (and she wouldn't be sexually frustrated) if she has another male partner, and Dave is more than happy to pay Sheldon all the attention he wants.
- Dave wouldn't need to feel awkward about his appreciation for Sheldon conflicting with his affection for Amy, because it wouldn't be a conflict anymore.
- While I'm sure the polyamory won't happen, it will be a waste of a character if they never show Dave again. Sheldon, the fanboy of so many sci-fi creators (and the only living scientist Sheldon seems to admire more than Sheldon admires himself, Stephen Hawking), to the point that many have gotten restraining orders against him, having his own fanboy. There are a lot of fun ways for the writers to go with that, if they choose to.
- Jossed.
- You'd think, but no it's not. Bernadette got pregnant again, and it would actually make a lot of sense to have her miscarry the second baby.
- I could see her being less social and maybe angry, but not an outcast. If she finishes college, I could see her and Leonard meeting in the middle.
Sometime during Sheldon's insomnia trying to solve the equation, the name of the episode eludes me, but during that episode he became awakened and was given some Exhaustion powers over manipulating people through odds and provability while his Madness is String Theory, the ability to tug at the thread of the universe to unravel doors, walls, cars, people for a short time. At higher ends he could even tug at heart strings, or the red string to get his way.
Problem is he's used this too much and is at risk to pull so many strings at once they'll just envelop him and he'll become a second stringer.
Namely, (s)he resents/resented being called an Indian and considers himself Portuguese as he never accepted India invading/liberating Goa in 1961. As Raj (in my opinion) spent a lot of time with this grandparent as a child, that's where be gets his well demonstrated hatred of various aspects of Indian culture - however he doesn't know why as it is buried in his subconscious.
As of May 2017, there are two seasons left to air still before the presumable end of the series. Seeing how season 9 and 10 has featured some marital troubles (Leonard not 'trying enough', Penny being unsatisfied with her job, Leonard being insecure about Penny working with an ex, Penny getting along with Raj better than Leonard when they lived together...) as well as some 'foreshadowing' from Beverly ("Leonard and Penny insist on finding roommates"), and the fact that, from a meta point of view, the writers need to keep Leonard/Penny need to keep things 'spicy' so as to not bore the viewers, suggests that this couple will continue their on again off again relationship by breaking up once more. The fight will come about from all the issues that have arisen and haven't been solved and conclude on a temporary break. They may or may not divorce, but given the tone of the series they will no doubt reconcile by the series finale.
- Jossed.
Sometimes his literal retorts where he seems not to have got the metaphorical meaning come across more as him just being a twat. It would be hard to put it past him given his frequent assumptions of superiority just to to that to rub people's noses in it and show off. Also, this troper has found it is very difficult to pull that trope off yet finds it amusing himself.
- Possibly supported by Young Sheldon, where the two girls he expresses interest in are already his friends.
- Jossed
- Because at the end of the day, no matter how mad at them he was, they're still his friends and he cares about them.
- Not shown onscreen, but it could well happen afterwards.
- Jossed
- On The Wildebeast Implementation There's one scene where Amy gets a report from Bernadette (who is currently spying on Priya) and says "Priya just made a snide comment about your acting career", Penny asks what she said and Amy replies "She thinks its cool you're following your dream no matter what" which isn't snide at all and is actually kind of nice. Penny looks really confused for a second then reflexively says "That bitch!". The moral of the story: don't just assume someone is a bad person because the main characters don't like her.
- To be fair she does cheat on Leonard, and unlike him, she doesn't stop herself before going too far, and only seems to confess after Leonard did, citing that they'd 'both messed up a little' as a reason for him not getting mad.
So, who exactly were these spirits talking to the psychic? While spirit guides, it is said, don't have to be family or friends we knew when they were alive, it is not out of the realm of possibility. And just one episode after this psychic discussion, Sheldon mentions how losing his grandfather and father at a young age affected him. So the most likely candidates trying to get Sheldon on the right path towards a full life? His Dad and Poppop.