8.22 The Graduation Transmission (April 23)

[Louise]

Wolowitz questions his engineering abilities

Of course he does. Because Howard can't make a toy airplane fly, just like Penny can't use glue. They're all incompetent morons.

Raj is a grown fracking man that makes good money for Gods sake!

And so is Howard. This show's ideas about money are just *utterly* bizarre and unrealistic. This has become one of my main beefs with the show, this season, personally. Their vision of money-issues is just flat-out divorced from reality. The show seems to actually be *discouraging* people from pursuing a career in the sciences. Plus, this idea of Raj's parents splitting up is just so unpleasant and pointless and unnecessary, IMO.

Howard in jeans and a pretty normal looking cowboy plaid shirt and then charcoal grey slacks and a maroon top (yawn) how boring, how bland.... Just like Howard's personality now.

I was pretty weirded-out the first time I saw Howard wearing jeans that were actually...denim-colored. It's just wrong.

They have to downplay and downgrade the characters' careers to show that NOTHING is important except romance/marriage. Nothing. These guys would have nothing, and *be* nothing, without their Gurlz. Their careers and talents and abilities don't have value, either intrinsically or monetarily. They might as well just give up and be house-husbands. That's the message