The Emotion Detection Automation
- Episode aired Feb 2, 2017
- TV-14
- 19m
Penny wants to help her brother get a job with her company. Sheldon learns of a machine that will help him understand human emotions. Raj reunites some of his old girlfriends to figure out w... Read allPenny wants to help her brother get a job with her company. Sheldon learns of a machine that will help him understand human emotions. Raj reunites some of his old girlfriends to figure out why he is still single.Penny wants to help her brother get a job with her company. Sheldon learns of a machine that will help him understand human emotions. Raj reunites some of his old girlfriends to figure out why he is still single.
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- TriviaThis episode features appearances of several (regular) guest actors who all played Raj' girlfriends: Kate Micucci as Lucy (last seen 78 episodes ago in The Itchy Brain Simulation (2013)); Laura Spencer as Emily Sweeney (last seen 20 episodes ago in The Application Deterioration (2016)); Alessandra Torresani as Claire (last seen 16 episodes ago in The Fermentation Bifurcation (2016)); and Katie Leclerc, who made one previous appearance as Deaf Emily in The Wiggly Finger Catalyst (2011). This is also the last appearance of all four characters in the series.
- GoofsWhen all of Raj's ex-girlfriends are in his apartment, explaining to him why each of them broke up with him, Lucy says, "Can I just say something?" In the next shot, the deaf Emily turns toward Lucy, as if she heard what Lucy said. A deaf person would not have looked toward a sound she couldn't hear.
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Penny Hofstadter: So, did you wind up sending that machine back?
Sheldon Cooper: I did .Uh, I'm not even sure how accurate it was. I took it to the trains store; it said everyone was sad.
Bernadette Rostenkowski: I finally got Halley to sleep.
Penny Hofstadter: You know, I just read a study that suggests new mothers are better at sensing emotions for up to two years.
Amy Farrah Fowler: It's true. Pregnancy causes physiological changes in the brain that result in increased empathy.
Penny Hofstadter: Oh, so all we need to do is get Sheldon knocked up.
Leonard Hofstadter: Can't. He was already fixed when I found him at the shelter.
Sheldon Cooper: Hey, uh, Bernadette, let's test this theory. What do you think I'm feeling right now?
Bernadette Rostenkowski: Let's .see. You're better than us, a little bit sorry for us, but mostly glad you don't have to be us.
Sheldon Cooper: [to Howard] Keep filling this one with babies; she's good.
- Crazy creditsCHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #550
Trucks and miscellaneous construction equipment emit a piercing 'beep-beep-beep' noise when they back up. I've always assumed this sound was a response to past litigation. Insurance companies, seeking to avoid lawsuits, decided this was a defendable way to warn stupid people that a large vehicle was sneaking up on them. In other words, flattened morons can't sue a construction company if they are duly alerted by a series of shrieking beeps. Now I should make clear, I'm totally in favor of signaling dumbasses. But what I do not support is the 'beep-beep-beeping' happening every friggin' morning at the break of friggin' dawn. Who's up to be run over that early?! And I'll take it one step further. I think the drivers of these vehicles back up way more than necessary. I think they secretly enjoy the fact that they're waking up people for miles around. I think they think, "I'm up early, so screw you, you get up too." So anyway... that's what I think. I have no solution to this situation. I just wanted these people to know that I'm on to them, and I hate them.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek (1966)
- SoundtracksHistory of Everything
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Written by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
[Series theme song played during the opening titles]
These writers have no idea what to do with him. What, another girl dumped him, who saw that coming? I know, bloody everyone! That's who!
Why do they insist on dragging this arc on? Probably because they don't want to face the truth, this character can go nowhere else! Either they continue this trend of girls dumping him making the show repetitive and dull, or the give him a girl and make his role in the show redundant. After all, Raj is the only character in this show that doesn't tell the same story of relationship drama and awkward romance.
I've complained before about Raj's role in this series. The fact that he has no real story to keep him in the series, and so that pin him to Howard and Bernardette's stories makes him irrelevant to the point of annoying!
I think some reduced screen time for the whole cast could help the rut that this show is in. Not just Raj but all of these characters are tedious to the point of irrelevant, and it's not enough to make them get angry at each other all the time! There's no substance, which means there's no reason for the audience to care, and I don't anymore!
As for the rest of the episode, Sheldon's "Emotion Detector" I think is pushing it even for this show, but it's a comedy so I'll buy it. It presents some funny moments and Sheldon has some good lines, but far from the show's best!
The return of Raj's girlfriends was a nice return for some great characters, especially Emily who I think should have become a main, but I feel like there's something wrong with their accounts of their relationship, and what I remember from the show. Not sure but, something feels wrong!
Howard and Bernadette get little to do here, which is good because it gives the writers more time to find things to do with Raj... oh no wait!
There still feels like a lack of humour, which is a shame considering this show showed what it could do with The Brain Bowl Incubation early on this series, honestly the best episode in about 4 years, but it soon reverted to this horrible incarnation of what was once a brilliant series. Darn it!
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- Feb 4, 2017
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