Maybe the women all have a bit of "forbidden fruit" or some kind of "jungle fever" going on? And this kind of thing has been more and more up-front in TV shows - and movies - over the past several years, far surpassing what you're going to see in real life. I remember someone on imdb mentioned that too, both about TBBT in particular and TV shows and movies in general. So I would not say "it's a sitcom," more like "it's politically correct." Maybe both because that's partly the agenda they're pushing, and also in part because they might figure if women turn Raj down, no matter what the actual reason is, the women - and the writers - might be perceived as racist. (It seems like Raj certainly would, at least. And that was his last-ditch explanation for Dr Nowitzki rejecting him.)

The actor Kunal Nayyar, who plays Raj, is married to Miss India 2006, so in real life it does seem possible for him to attract beautiful women.

Who knows, in the end his character will have a stable relationship and marry on the show, too.

@wonder2wonder said:

The actor Kunal Nayyar, who plays Raj, is married to Miss India 2006, so in real life it does seem possible for him to attract beautiful women.

Who knows, in the end his character will have a stable relationship and marry on the show, too.

That makes sense, for Kunal, but Raj is NOT anything like Kunal from a personality standpoint which is a testament to his acting. The character is also potrayed a lot less stylish than his actor counterpart.

I see where Fox is coming from. But I think the fact he's seen as"exotic" is why he's able to get so much attention from the girls.

BTW Fox, saying Raj almost bedded Penny is like saying Mars is almost inhabitable. 😏

@CalabrianQueen said:

I see where Fox is coming from. But I think the fact he's seen as"exotic" is why he's able to get so much attention from the girls.

Howard and Leonard see Raj making out with a girl.

Howard: "Lucky bastard. It's got to be that stupid accent of his."

Howard tries it on a girl (Indian accent): "Hello, I'm Sanjay Wolowitz from Bombay."

He is rebuffed.

Howard:" Okay, I'm stumped."

BTW Fox, saying Raj almost bedded Penny is like saying Mars is almost inhabitable. 😏

They didn't go all the way, but still:

Raj: "After we got undressed and jumped in bed, you asked if I had protection."

Penny: "Oh, you did, didn't you?"

Raj: "Of course, I'm always packing. Anyway, I had trouble putting it on and you tried to help and... that was all she wrote..."

It's left open as to how far she went in trying to help. So she might have just looked at it.

The thing is, Raj is good-looking and when he initially meets girls he appears to have a sweet naivete. I think some girls find that appealing until they realize that his sweet naivete is actually a symptom of some pretty deep insecurities.

@ArcticFox12 said:

I enjoyed the episode but somebody please explain this to me, and I know "it's a sitcom "so don't give me that speil , this should be taken as an in bbt universe question, not a viewer question.

What is it about Raj that allows him to bed so many attractive women? Claire, Rushi, Emily almost Penny, now Nell?

He's not particularly interesting , successful charismatic , or anything that screams "ladies man" ,yet he's somehow having one night stands left and right. Just seems too far-fetched to me ,even with Disbelief suspended.

What's true to character is how he screws up every potential relationship. But what isn't is how these relationships spark in the first place.

Are you saying you’d understand the “draw” if they were all unattractive women?

Are you saying that a guy needs one set of attributes to attract "dogs" and another to attract "dolls" ?

@wonder2wonder said:

@CalabrianQueen said:

I see where Fox is coming from. But I think the fact he's seen as"exotic" is why he's able to get so much attention from the girls.

Howard and Leonard see Raj making out with a girl.

Howard: "Lucky bastard. It's got to be that stupid accent of his."

Howard tries it on a girl (Indian accent): "Hello, I'm Sanjay Wolowitz from Bombay."

He is rebuffed.

Howard:" Okay, I'm stumped."

Well of course the obvious problem there is that "everyone knows" the politically correct name now is Mumbai. So Howard torpedoes himself right from the start, even when he's faking.

It's a sitcom.

@Taylorfirst1 said:

It's a sitcom.

I'm afraid if we just answered everything with "It's a sitcom" there'd be no point for discussions or message boards.

Same thing happened with Leonard in the early days. What is it about the powers that be on the show that they continue with this ? It's a sitcom is not enough. It is just lazy cliched writing and thinking. My biggest problem with the show, first with Leonard and now Raj is the total waste of some fine actresses with these lame repetitive shows. I originally was not going to watch the show because I expected this to happen but did anyways and found it worse than I expected. Why even have guest stars if they are given such lousy material. Its not just a sitcom its a bad sitcom. At worse I could quote Kripke and say that it all "Sucked the big hairy meatball".

@Knixon said:

Well of course the obvious problem there is that "everyone knows" the politically correct name now is Mumbai. So Howard torpedoes himself right from the start, even when he's faking.

Cover your eyes people I am about to quote Mr. K. Its not "politically correct" in the cheesy American definition. Bombay is Mumbai now because of Indian politics, the same way that Madras is now Chennai. Although I am not going to call my Madras shirts Chennai shirts.

Or as The Four Lads once sang

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks 

That's some useful information, but I think there's more to it than that. Basically, it's more like Bombay was always the Anglicized/Americanized version of the name Mumbai which was (probably always) the real Indian name for the place. It's part of a larger pattern. For another example, Germany is not called Germany by Germans, especially in Germany. It's called Deutschland. And not just now, or starting recently, but "always." But there's no social or PC pressure for Americans to use the proper name of Deutschland, likely because the German/Deutsch people are white Europeans. People in India are "people of color" so in order to show "respect" we're expected to use their names for their places.

Same goes for Peking vs Beijing, etc.

@Knixon said:

That's some useful information, but I think there's more to it than that. Basically, it's more like Bombay was always the Anglicized/Americanized version of the name Mumbai which was (probably always) the real Indian name for the place. It's part of a larger pattern. For another example, Germany is not called Germany by Germans, especially in Germany. It's called Deutschland. And not just now, or starting recently, but "always." But there's no social or PC pressure for Americans to use the proper name of Deutschland, likely because the German/Deutsch people are white Europeans. People in India are "people of color" so in order to show "respect" we're expected to use their names for their places.

Same goes for Peking vs Beijing, etc.

And German towns and cities are known by their proper pronunciation in the language not the way the words are pronounced in another language. As for Mumbai/Bombay I found that there is more internal politics within India that changed the name which not all the people in that region agree with. As long as I can still order Peking Duck, I am okay. But then I never had Peking Duck. People in India might be "people of color" in the US but I doubt that they refer to that as themselves.

Of course not, but it's people in the US who end up deciding if people in the US call it Bombay or Mumbai. To that end, people from the PC side apply pressure to get people to do it the way they think is "correct." And to them, people in India are "people of color" but people in Germany/Deutschland are not.

@Taylorfirst1 said:

It's a sitcom.

He specifically said NOT to reply with that and I get why. It adds nothing to the discussion .