The Pancake Batter Anomaly - S1-E11
Corrected entry: When Leonard is standing outside the apartment his hair is tucked under the band of the wireless cam he has on his head, but when he is crawling on his hands and knees through the apartment his hair is out from under the band and is hanging in front of his face.
The White Asparagus Triangulation - S2-E9
Corrected entry: Sheldon is an obsessive compulsive and picky person and he picks a pre-designated seat in all places. When he enters Penny's apartment to talk to her he promptly sits on the couch, which was not where he chose 'his seat' to be in the last episode of the first season. It seems out of character that he would sit there when he has a ready-chosen spot and that his nature is as it is.
The Financial Permeability - S2-E14
Corrected entry: When Leonard returns from talking with Penny, the guys are playing Talisman. Stat counters are randomly placed on the board, when they should always be associated with cards. Then Howard rolls "double sixes" - in Talisman you advance your character by rolling a single die. Raj then acquires a sword without rolling - only the character that rolled would have acquired an item without additional gameplay. (00:13:45)
Correction: Fountain of Wisdom, Pool of Life, and Magic Stream all put stat counters on the board to be picked up by whomever lands on them. A Horse allows one to roll two dice for movement, and Market Day or Acquisition would allow someone to acquire items out of turn.
Corrected entry: In the discussion between Raj and Howard about "shiksa goddess" plus Sheldon's later mispronunciation of the word and Howard's correction, it is never clarified that the term applies only to a Gentile girlfriend of a Jewish man. No other relationship qualifies.
Correction: This is incorrect as it also applies to a Gentile woman who is the object of desire by a Jewish man. However, like many words, the appropriation of the word by English speakers has transformed it into any Gentile woman (although usually an attractive woman) and is as such, commonly used as a term of endearment rather than an insult.
The Lizard-Spock Expansion - S2-E8
Corrected entry: Sheldon suggests Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock as an alternative to Rock, Paper, Scissors because "Anecdotal evidence suggests that in the game of rock-paper-scissors, players familiar with each other will tie 75 to 80% of the time due to the limited number of outcomes." As a devout scientist, Sheldon would know that anecdotal evidence is no basis for reaching a conclusion because it is based on individual experience and subject to bias. (00:00:30)
Correction: Presumably the "anecdotal evidence" is his own experience; within his group of friends they tie 75-80% of the time.
The Pants Alternative - S3-E18
Corrected entry: Sheldon refers to the "Hillbilly Peace Prize" in connection with Penny. Sheldon would have corrected anyone else who said such a thing. He would point out that that word "hillbilly" refers to people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the US primarily in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and other less well-known mountain chains. Nebraska, where Penny is from, is rural, but being a Great Plains state, has no connection at all to the term, not to mention a lack of mountains.
Correction: Hillbilly is also an insult to those who live in farming and rural areas, which Penny's story certainly invoked.
Corrected entry: While the group are trying to figure out how to play Halo without Howard, Leonard jokingly suggests cutting Raj in half. Raj responds, "Oh sure, cut the foreigner in half. There's a billion more where he came from." But Penny is in the room with them, so there's no way he should be able to talk in front of her, or even if he's been drinking, the fact alcohol helps him isn't realised until the next episode, so the fact he can speak with her there should have surprised everyone, including him.
The Bon Voyage Reaction - S6-E24
Corrected entry: Sheldon gets everyone's attention by tapping a glass and saying "that's a B flat, for those that don't have perfect pitch." It's not a B flat, it's a B.
Correction: The note is a dead-on Bb, assuming the western standard of A=440 Hz.
The Thanksgiving Decoupling - S7-E9
Corrected entry: Penny states that she did not know that a Vegas wedding is an actual wedding, however in season 5 episode 24, The Countdown Reflection, she states that she knew tons of people who got married in Vegas. (00:02:55 - 00:03:40)
Correction: Just because she knows people who got married in Vegas doesn't mean she didn't know the weddings were real.
Corrected entry: Sheldon says something about drinking red bull, but he doesn't drink coffee because it's a drug, so he would avoid red bull even more.
Correction: Sheldon said that he accidentally had a sip of Red Bull. It was an accident. He didn't do it on a purpose.
The Wiggly Finger Catalyst - S5-E4
Corrected entry: Five minutes into the show, Sheldon has written down what a dice roll will tell him what to do. He rolls the dice, pauses and looks at the list to see what he has to do for that dice roll. The problem is he has an Eidetic memory and wouldn't take the time to look at the list when he can already see it in his head.
Correction: This is not at all accurate. The list he his looking at is the Cheesecake Factory menu, not one he created himself. Given the nature of the menu page Sheldon looks at, it's unlikely he's ever looked at that page before.
The Irish Pub Formulation - S4-E6
Corrected entry: Sheldon is playing an online game he found. He yells to Leonard "I'm trapped in quicksand, the axe is dragging me down." Leonard then tells him to "Drop axe." Shortly after, Sheldon heads to bed, but he comes back saying "I know how to get the bucket. I can turn the axe around and use the handle to reach it." However, he does not have the axe as he has already dropped it. (00:06:05 - 00:07:45)
Correction: Sheldon is playing an old text and type game, many of which have only one way to beat them, so once Sheldon died, he would be sent back to the start, eventually reclaiming the Axe.
The Holographic Excitation - S6-E5
Corrected entry: Penny observes that the pencil in the hologram is sharp but looking closely at the hologram shows that it's not.
Correction: She doesn't say that about the hologram; she says it about the actual pencil. Which it is, as Leonard puts the pointy end into the table that has equally spaced out holes in it, making it stand upright. The laser can't see below the hole in the table, which is why it doesn't appear to have a pointy end in the hologram.
The 21-Second Excitation - S4-E8
Corrected entry: Sheldon steals the 35mm movie canisters and 2 exterior metal cases for "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" so that they supposedly could see it at a later date. We then see Sheldon running with the movie canisters and cases. That would not even be remotely possible as the 2 sets of film weigh approximately 140-160 pounds. Each individual reel (of which there would be a total of 4) has a weight of somewhere between 30 and 35 pounds including the film and individual canister. If you add in the weight of just 2 canisters plus the carrying cases they come in, that's well beyond Sheldon's carrying capacity.
Correction: I worked with 35mm for 10 years. Each case weighed about 35 lbs for 3 reels.
The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification - S4-E2
Corrected entry: Sheldon gets Leonard to read the roommate agreement, and it talks about robots. Sheldon is not a robot, he's using a Virtual presence device, therefore Leonard is under no obligation to follow the rules of the roommate agreement. (00:13:10)
Correction: Like the Relationship Agreement, the Roommate Agreement is designed to be entirely for Sheldon's benefit. There's almost certainly an Exception Clause that lets him stretch the definition or alter it however he wants. Leonard would know this and probably not consider it worth fighting about.
Corrected entry: When Penny tells Sheldon that he forgot a plasma grenade, she presses the right trigger on the Xbox controller. On Halo 3, the right trigger fires weapons, not grenades. That's the left trigger.
Correction: In Halo 3 you can change around some features of the remote, including which trigger fires grenades and weapons.
Corrected entry: Penny storms into Sheldon and Leonard's apartment to throw her boyfriend's iPod out of their window and yell at her boyfriend who has just left. Raj then finds the iPod on his way in. However, according to the layout of the building with the front door being to the left of the elevator, the front side of their apartment building would be on Penny's side, so she should have thrown it out of her own apartment window. The window through Sheldon and Leonard's apartment would lead to the back.
Correction: There's no indication from the scene that she's catching him as he is stepping out the door. He could have had his car parked behind the building and was on his way round to the front.
The Terminator Decoupling - S2-E17
Corrected entry: On the train, the guys reference an eleven-hour train ride from Pasadena to San Diego, but it's only a 4 hour ride, at most. (00:10:00)
Correction: The train was actually headed to San Francisco and made at least one stop when Summer Glau got off the train, since Pasadena is nearly 350 miles from San Francisco and it was not a nonstop route, the ride could take approximately eleven hours.
The White Asparagus Triangulation - S2-E9
Corrected entry: Sheldon obviously changes the relationship status on Leonard's Facebook page to 'in a relationship with Stephanie Barnett'. At this point it would have been impossible for Penny to see the status update, because it only shows up after both parties have confirmed it.
Correction: You can see that a person is in a relationship before it is approved by the other person. It would simply say "[Name] is in a relationship" without the other person's name until it is approved, at which point it would say "[Name] is in a relationship with [other name]".
The Cushion Saturation - S2-E16
Corrected entry: At the end, Sheldon fires 5 shots at Leonard, who somehow ends up with 7 distinct paintball marks on his chest.
Correction: Paintball markers can easily fire two shots per trigger pull, especially when the CO2 in the tank is low.
Correction: They also find a gift bag in this time so it's clear there has been a gap of some time. Enough to sort the headband out.
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