09-11-2014, 10:17 PM
I'm putting this in the Raj thread instead of the Howard thread, because this thread seems a bit neglected...
(like the character himself? Hmm...)
Anyway, today I was recalling that Raj whispering in Howard's ear and Howard being his "translator" is* such a classic thing. So cute and funny. And who knows if Howard's version of what Raj said was even accurate, lol. Sometimes I think it wasn't.
If the "Raj can't talk" thing was getting old and people were getting tired of it, then IMO they could've just phased it out gradually, without making a big deal about it or devoting a whole episode to it. As someone here pointed out, recently, being able to talk does not seem to have benefited Raj, hardly at all. It's like he was almost better off with the mutism: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt", as the saying goes.
But anyway, I think that's just such a cute and classic H-R interaction, a constant feature of the early seasons, a special part of that early-seasons dynamic in the group.
*I don't like saying "was", when I'm talking about the older seasons and the classic characters. That makes me sad. And besides, it's not like our DVDs of S1 and S2 don't exist, anymore. Nothing can change them...
(like the character himself? Hmm...)
Anyway, today I was recalling that Raj whispering in Howard's ear and Howard being his "translator" is* such a classic thing. So cute and funny. And who knows if Howard's version of what Raj said was even accurate, lol. Sometimes I think it wasn't.
If the "Raj can't talk" thing was getting old and people were getting tired of it, then IMO they could've just phased it out gradually, without making a big deal about it or devoting a whole episode to it. As someone here pointed out, recently, being able to talk does not seem to have benefited Raj, hardly at all. It's like he was almost better off with the mutism: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt", as the saying goes.
But anyway, I think that's just such a cute and classic H-R interaction, a constant feature of the early seasons, a special part of that early-seasons dynamic in the group.
*I don't like saying "was", when I'm talking about the older seasons and the classic characters. That makes me sad. And besides, it's not like our DVDs of S1 and S2 don't exist, anymore. Nothing can change them...