Amy was just in shock about the phone call, so her reaction is not surprising. Seems like The Call might take longer even from the Stockholm side, but they had to get everything into less than 19 minutes of show. And they couldn't have Amy just sit there for 30 seconds and then say "thank you" or whatever.

I thought they kinda sped up Sheldon a bit, again just to squeeze things into less than 19 minutes of actual show time. But that said, it seems like maybe the elevator doors would have just been opening when Sheldon got to the first floor, not that Penny would have time to get out and over by the main entrance.

@Knixon said:

Amy was just in shock about the phone call, so her reaction is not surprising. Seems like The Call might take longer even from the Stockholm side, but they had to get everything into less than 19 minutes of show. And they couldn't have Amy just sit there for 30 seconds and then say "thank you" or whatever.

Yes- I thought the call was too short in part because there wasn't enough time for the Stockholmians to say their spiel on the other end. In my OP I acknowledged the need for calls to be short in sitcoms, and it didn't need to be REALLY long...just a bit longer than it was with more words. It just seemed awkward...like the people on the other end were probably wondering, "Is that all she's gonna say?" And that is what they wondered because they called me later and I had to comfort them for hours.

I thought they kinda sped up Sheldon a bit, again just to squeeze things into less than 19 minutes of actual show time. But that said, it seems like maybe the elevator doors would have just been opening when Sheldon got to the first floor, not that Penny would have time to get out and over by the main entrance.

Agreed

Also the comment about that bartender (possibly) spitting in Sheldon's drink made me wonder something that I've wondered before. Do you guys think restaurant employees really spit on people's food sometimes? I admit to being terribly naive but good grief, that's disgusting!

@Lemons said:

Also the comment about that bartender (possibly) spitting in Sheldon's drink made me wonder something that I've wondered before. Do you guys think restaurant employees really spit on people's food sometimes? I admit to being terribly naive but good grief, that's disgusting!

Not if they follow the Food Server's Code Of Ethics.

Oh wait, that's just something they made up to fool Sheldon.

@Knixon said:

@Lemons said:

Also the comment about that bartender (possibly) spitting in Sheldon's drink made me wonder something that I've wondered before. Do you guys think restaurant employees really spit on people's food sometimes? I admit to being terribly naive but good grief, that's disgusting!

Not if they follow the Food Server's Code Of Ethics.

Oh wait, that's just something they made up to fool Sheldon.

The sad thing is, until I read last sentence, I, like Sheldon, believed you.

Okay, I'll take care of that for you.

Not if they follow the Food Server's Code Of Ethics.

Oh wait, that's just something they made up to fool Sheldon and Lemons.

@Lemons said:

I re-watched the last two episodes last night and here are my most important thoughts/questions. Please feel free to comment on any or all of them.

1.Amy and Leonard tussled over who had earned the right "more" to slap Sheldon. I say Leonard. DUH.

2.When the Nobel prize people called Amy on the phone to tell her they'd won, all she said was "I see. OK thank you." Click. I know they have to keep phone calls short on sitcoms, but she still didn't say enough stuff.

3.Penny got downstairs way too fast in the elevator to have beaten Sheldon (who took the steps) down there. Is the elevator actually a Star Trekkian transporter?

4.Howard was eating on the floor at the end- not Raj! Raj is movin' on up!

1. I say all of us who had to put up with him over the years

2. It seems like it only took a day or two from coming up with super-something or another to winning the Noble.

3. I think that inside the elevator is a fire-mans pole or a slide to get one from one floor to another. Or maybe it is s very special elevator like Superman and Bill and Teds phone booth, the Dr. Whos Tardis, the Phantom Tollbooth, and the closet in Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe books. Everyone needs a fancy transportation device. What is yours ?

4. As you might remember I was in and out of the show so I missed that.

@znexyish said:

@Lemons said:

I re-watched the last two episodes last night and here are my most important thoughts/questions. Please feel free to comment on any or all of them.

1.Amy and Leonard tussled over who had earned the right "more" to slap Sheldon. I say Leonard. DUH.

2.When the Nobel prize people called Amy on the phone to tell her they'd won, all she said was "I see. OK thank you." Click. I know they have to keep phone calls short on sitcoms, but she still didn't say enough stuff.

3.Penny got downstairs way too fast in the elevator to have beaten Sheldon (who took the steps) down there. Is the elevator actually a Star Trekkian transporter?

4.Howard was eating on the floor at the end- not Raj! Raj is movin' on up!

1. I say all of us who had to put up with him over the years

2. It seems like it only took a day or two from coming up with super-something or another to winning the Nobel

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@znexyish said:

@Lemons said:

I re-watched the last two episodes last night and here are my most important thoughts/questions. Please feel free to comment on any or all of them.

1.Amy and Leonard tussled over who had earned the right "more" to slap Sheldon. I say Leonard. DUH.

2.When the Nobel prize people called Amy on the phone to tell her they'd won, all she said was "I see. OK thank you." Click. I know they have to keep phone calls short on sitcoms, but she still didn't say enough stuff.

3.Penny got downstairs way too fast in the elevator to have beaten Sheldon (who took the steps) down there. Is the elevator actually a Star Trekkian transporter?

4.Howard was eating on the floor at the end- not Raj! Raj is movin' on up!

1. I say all of us who had to put up with him over the years

Of course. Leonard was his roommate for almost 15 years. We only spent 279 times maybe 20 minutes with him.

1. It seems like it only took a day or two from coming up with super-something or another to winning the Noble.

That's what comes from binge-watching, I suppose. It was at least from September to May, and remember it says "Two months later..." just at the start of the very last episode. So maybe that makes it July?

Still though, nobody really gets the Nobel (not Noble) that quickly.

@znexyish said:

1. I say all of us who had to put up with him over the years

2. It seems like it only took a day or two from coming up with super-something or another to winning the Noble.

3. I think that inside the elevator is a fire-mans pole or a slide to get one from one floor to another. Or maybe it is s very special elevator like Superman and Bill and Teds phone booth, the Dr. Whos Tardis, the Phantom Tollbooth, and the closet in Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe books. Everyone needs a fancy transportation device. What is yours ?

4. As you might remember I was in and out of the show so I missed that.

1.Now Z, you know we couldn't all slap him. We're at home watching on TV. If we tried to slap him we'd bonk our fingers into the TV screen and that would hurt. It would be like stubbing our toes, except we'd be stubbing our fingers. And if we're not careful we might accidentally knock our TVs off of their stands and they'd fall on our feet and give us flat smushed spatula feet like the blue-footed boobies that Tim sent the other day. Now I know you wouldn't want that.

2.Indeed it did, Z.

3.I like the fireman's pole idea and that would make sense. My fancy transportation device to the land of "forget the real world" is coming to this board. No lie.

4.That's why I'm going to watch all future finales with you and sit on your remote.

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OK Bratface, I just have to ask because it has been driving me mildly crazy. Were you on the old IMDb board, and was your name bratface there? I apologize if you were and I'm not remembering. It has been a while.

@Lemons said:

@znexyish said:

1. I say all of us who had to put up with him over the years

2. It seems like it only took a day or two from coming up with super-something or another to winning the Noble.

3. I think that inside the elevator is a fire-mans pole or a slide to get one from one floor to another. Or maybe it is s very special elevator like Superman and Bill and Teds phone booth, the Dr. Whos Tardis, the Phantom Tollbooth, and the closet in Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe books. Everyone needs a fancy transportation device. What is yours ?

4. As you might remember I was in and out of the show so I missed that.

1.Now Z, you know we couldn't all slap him. We're at home watching on TV. If we tried to slap him we'd bonk our fingers into the TV screen and that would hurt. It would be like stubbing our toes, except we'd be stubbing our fingers. And if we're not careful we might accidentally knock our TVs off of their stands and they'd fall on our feet and give us flat smushed spatula feet like the blue-footed boobies that Tim sent the other day. Now I know you wouldn't want that.

Also, if you slap your TV NOW, you're not slapping Sheldon NOW, because he's not there NOW. You're trying to slap where he was a week ago, or more! And that doesn't work.

It's like astronomy and stuff. When you want to go to the Moon, you don't aim for where the Moon is in the sky NOW. You aim for where it WILL be when you get there!

So you needed to slap Sheldon on your TV a week or more prior, when the episode was being taped.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

@Lemons said:

@bratface said:

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OK Bratface, I just have to ask because it has been driving me mildly crazy. Were you on the old IMDb board, and was your name bratface there? I apologize if you were and I'm not remembering. It has been a while.

I was all over IMDb's boards, but not the TBBT board (I might have commented once or twice, can't remember). I spent most of my time on the 'Poll' board. Yes, my name was the same.

@bratface said:

I was all over IMDb's boards, but not the TBBT board (I might have commented once or twice, can't remember). I spent most of my time on the 'Poll' board. Yes, my name was the same.

OK, thanks! I guess that's why I was having trouble remembering if you were not on TBBT board.

@Lemons said:

@bratface said:

I was all over IMDb's boards, but not the TBBT board (I might have commented once or twice, can't remember). I spent most of my time on the 'Poll' board. Yes, my name was the same.

OK, thanks! I guess that's why I was having trouble remembering if you were not on TBBT board.

I re-watched the Cheesecake Factory scene. Did not even look like the CF of old. It was a chintzy display of cheesecakery.