Wishful Thinking...

[Louise]

There's always been plausibility issues. Like how can Penny not have a KNOWN surname when Leonard stole her mail in season one? And there have been arguments about how much the guys earn AND how Penny could afford that apartment on a waitresses income for years. I guess some things we have to take with a grain of salt. For me, the hardest to swallow are the emotional contradictions.

I can suspend a lot of disbelief, especially in a comedy, but again, it all depends on how *convincing* the writers can make this stuff. As you said, the emotional/psychological stuff is harder to swallow than running gags like "why hasn't the elevator been fixed?"

Does anyone know actually know a real woman who speaks is this tonal range, (who's not insane?)

The short answer is no. IMO it's a very, very strange acting-choice to make. That's the type of very broad comedy you'd expect to see on a sketch-comedy show like SNL or something. The other actors might change their speech patterns in subtle ways, but nobody else is adopting a totally fake voice. I find it gimmicky, OTT, and amateurish.

That's a marvelous list you've got there. Is there a sliding scale for a reason? I agree with it all ....except maybe the drinking, as I'm known for the odd tipple.

LOL, no, I just couldn't manage to keep it in a straight line!!! If anyone can find some deeper meaning in the shape of this list, feel free...

Oh, I enjoy my beers and my cocktails, too, and I wouldn't begrudge anyone a nice relaxing drink, but IIRC the guys were seldom shown drinking in the early seasons, and I liked that because it seemed sort of innocent. I would also imagine that with their various allergies and health issues, they have to be careful about what they consume.

Personally, I wouldn't want a divorce storyline, that's just too unpleasant. I don't have any hope of an H/B breakup. I *do* think there will be some stupid story where they *almost* get close to thinking about a divorce but then H. realizes that he's so lucky to have her and goes crawling back, yadda, yadda.

In a way, it doesn't affect me, because I haven't watched a full season since 3 and I don't watch the new eps, period. But, I think there's no hope of salvaging the H/B situation. I don't want them to get divorced; I want her to have never existed in the first place, and that ship has sailed, obviously.

I know I am probably too hard on MR, I'm sure it feels wonderful to be on the nation's #1 show and I don't begrudge her that, but B. is simply not a real character to me, period. I don't like her face. It's just that simple. Her presence just does not compute, for me. It's like "who is this person that wandered in from some other show?"

She reminds me of all those one-episode-only girlfriends from Seinfeld whose only purpose was to be annoyingly quirky: the High Talker, the Low Talker, etc. I find her literally unwatchable; I literally cannot get through a scene with her in it.

I almost mentioned Penny's apartment in the list, but that's been mentioned so often that I figured it would be repetitive.

Again, I haven't studied the Shamy situation or the Lenny situation as much as others have, so feel free to add to this List of Doom...

TBH, I think having *any* character get married halfway through the show's run is a disastrous choice. And again, I think it was a test to see how the audience would respond to this sort of thing, and H. is probably the one that the fangirls care about the least, because they don't find him cute*, so the hell with him. They couldn't bring on the Lenny and Shamy weddings, yet, so this was a little tidbit for the viewers who crave weddings.

* because they don't have good taste, like me

I've never watched the wedding ep, I think I would find it truly upsetting.

I just can't forgive B. for calling him an idiot and saying things like "Zip it, pervert!" She's really quite horrible. Damn it, you can't talk that way to people, you just can't! I've been less harsh than that to random weirdos on the subway, and this is the love of her life, supposedly? Gross. "Creepy Howard" never said "Shut up, bitch!" to a woman, or anything equivalent.