05-27-2015, 05:53 PM
This is brilliant! And it occurs to me that an interesting project (which I might undertake) would be to scour the transcripts for references to Sheldon's skills, talents, ideas and knowledge, within the parameters established above, i.e. not related to work or gaming.
Just in the pilot alone Sheldon:
1. Is mulling an idea for a t-shirt (a photon directed through a plane with two slits in it)
2. References a series of stairstep experiments he did when he was 12 (in which his father broke his clavicle)
3. References his work with lasers (after which he was sent to boarding school)
Yes this stuff is a bit wacky (it IS a sitcom after all), but the point is that we learn right off the bat that Sheldon has a fertile, restless brain always thinking thinking thinking and looking for outlets.
Plus there's this exchange:
Sheldon: I really think we should examine the chain of causality here.
Leonard: Must we?
Sheldon: Event A. A beautiful woman stands naked in our shower. Event B. We drive half way across town to retrieve a television set from the aforementioned woman’s ex-boyfriend. Query, on what plane of existence is there even a semi-rational link between these events?
Leonard: She asked me to do her a favour, Sheldon.
Sheldon: Ah, yes, well that may be the proximal cause of our journey, but we both know it only exists in contradistinction to the higher level distal cause.
Which, yes, leads to a penis joke, but still...
Mr. Lorre, Mr. Prady, why is dialogue like this no longer being written?
Just in the pilot alone Sheldon:
1. Is mulling an idea for a t-shirt (a photon directed through a plane with two slits in it)
2. References a series of stairstep experiments he did when he was 12 (in which his father broke his clavicle)
3. References his work with lasers (after which he was sent to boarding school)
Yes this stuff is a bit wacky (it IS a sitcom after all), but the point is that we learn right off the bat that Sheldon has a fertile, restless brain always thinking thinking thinking and looking for outlets.
Plus there's this exchange:
Sheldon: I really think we should examine the chain of causality here.
Leonard: Must we?
Sheldon: Event A. A beautiful woman stands naked in our shower. Event B. We drive half way across town to retrieve a television set from the aforementioned woman’s ex-boyfriend. Query, on what plane of existence is there even a semi-rational link between these events?
Leonard: She asked me to do her a favour, Sheldon.
Sheldon: Ah, yes, well that may be the proximal cause of our journey, but we both know it only exists in contradistinction to the higher level distal cause.
Which, yes, leads to a penis joke, but still...
Mr. Lorre, Mr. Prady, why is dialogue like this no longer being written?
OH PLEASE...