Sheldor the Conqueror

[Wisp]

It's very odd, because someone on the writing team clearly knows a bit about the general weirdery of various geniuses, and references them, but in a way that completely wrecks the whole thing. I assume Sheldon's subplot with a bird was supposed to reference Nikola T, anyway. (Now, there was a lunatic genius who altered the world.)

Making me realise that if the writers had a darker, more twisted streak to them, they could have pulled off some strange mental episodes (Think the bit in Community when Abed starts seeing everyone as claymation and they're all concerned?) that were unsettlingly funny rather than ooc and cutesy, e.g. the cat-binge from season 4. I would've liked to have seen Sheldon lock himself in his room, don a tinfoil cap and stay there for half a season, growing a mysteriously neat spock-beard while everyone worries about him...