Character mistake: At the very beginning of the episode Leonard says "So you see what you're eating is not technically yogurt because it doesn't have enough live active acidophilus cultures." He is implying this is a scientific fact (he's not just giving his opinion on yogurt.) But to meet the U.S. standards for yogurt, only the starter cultures Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus are required, not Lactobacillus acidophilus. The presence or absence of L. acidophilus does NOT determine a food's identity as yogurt (which Leonard's line is implying). (00:00:05)
Continuity mistake: Right at the start of the episode, Leonard kisses Penny. When he starts kissing her his head is tilted to the right (opposite side to the wall with the camera). When they move to the camera image, his head is tilted to the left (on the side with the camera), and when they move back his head is back tilting to the right again. (00:00:30)
Continuity mistake: In the laundry room, Sheldon is holding a blue shirt in his hands and has a bit of extra material near his hands. When the shot changes, he is holding the shirt differently and the extra material has gone. (00:05:50)
Continuity mistake: When Sheldon is undoing a pair of socks that Penny has paired, Penny is seen holding a single sock. Camera changes and she now has nothing in her hands. This is an instant cut. No time to drop it. (00:05:50)
Continuity mistake: In the laundry room when Penny is talking to Sheldon, Sheldon takes some time arranging a blue shirt on his plastic laundry folder. Then it suddenly turns into a pair of socks, which he folds and then picks up the blue shirt again. There was not enough time for him to switch out the shirt for the socks. (00:06:30)
Continuity mistake: Leonard says that Sheldon has gone crazy and chucks his pen down on a red pad on the desk. When the shot changes, so does the position of the pen without being touched. (00:13:10)
Continuity mistake: When Sheldon is sitting with Raj in his apartment watching television, the can of soda on the table in front of him rotates itself a couple of times. (00:14:40)
Factual error: Raj and Sheldon are watching TV in Raj's apartment and we hear music playing. Sheldon asks if the woman on TV was Aishwarya Rai to which Raj says yes and then they argue about her and Madhuri Dixit. The song playing was from the Bollywood movie Kaho Na Pyar Hai, but neither of them are in the movie - the lead actress was Ameesha Patel. (00:14:50)
Continuity mistake: When Leonard shows Penny the leaflet at the end, she is holding it in one hand in shot but with 2 as the camera changes. (00:19:50)
Continuity mistake: When Leonard says he is happy Penny is moving on he has nothing in his hand. Camera cuts and now he is holding a bit of bread. (00:03:00)
Continuity mistake: When Leslie and Leonard are talking about starting a relationship again, the can of Diet Cola keeps rotating. In some shots from Leslie's point of view you can't see the logo and in others you can. (00:06:30)
Character mistake: When Sheldon arrives at the apartment with his Nintendo 64 in the box, he tells Leonard that they can play Super Mario 64. He then proceeds to say, upon finding a memory card, that they can pick up where he left off. Super Mario 64 does not make use of the memory card for progression, all of that data was saved on the cartridge. (00:07:25)
Continuity mistake: When Sheldon and Penny are talking at the end on the stairs, Penny's hands keep changing from clenched to hanging down.
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: At the start, after Penny has dropped one bag, there is an item in the top of the remaining bag. This item keeps appearing and disappearing. (00:01:20)
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: After Penny drops her bags of groceries whilst trying to unlock her door, the dropped items change their positions between shots (note the items against the wall.) (00:02:05)
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Penny explains she has bought the game, her grip on the laptop changes. (00:06:50)
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Penny sneaks into Sheldon's room at night to ask him about the online game, she leaves his bedroom door half open. But when she leaves, the door is shut. (00:07:35)
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Audio problem: When Penny walks out after Sheldon helps her with her game, we see Leonard start the music but the speaker doesn't start vibrating for over a second after the music has started. It should have started at the same time. (00:07:40)
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Revealing mistake: When Sheldon gets the sword for Penny in the game, Penny walks out and you can see the laptop isn't switched on. (00:07:55)
The Barbarian Sublimation - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Penny is talking to Sheldon in his bedroom, her hands are constantly changing positions between shots. (00:08:45)
Answer: Because Raj's selective mutism seems to be caused by women that Raj sees (on some sort of conscious or subconscious level) as a potential sexual partner. An attribute that wouldn't apply to either his sister or mother.