Sheldor the Conqueror

[Tuesday Pajamas]

For a show ostensibly based around a group of smart people, there's a very strong anti-intellectual streak to it. A deep-seated distrust of clever, because clever is different, and different is wrong, a threat in some way.

An individual who had self-confidence and was comfortable with his uniqueness wouldn't gel with the other characters, would just starkly illustrate their inadequacy as people and their desperation to fit in. He had to be broken.

I mentioned this earlier to a couple of chums. The show has definitely turned anti-intellectual. Sheldon doesn't often seem smart anymore, just crazy and childlike. The last episode he made a friend but of course this guy had to be brain damaged.

Also Bert, the rock guy, he was a moron.