I, for one, am happy that "The Big Bang Theory" is finally retiring.
Why? Because all those people were caricatures. None of them was a credible character. They only work within the strained reality that was created for them.
Who am I to judge? I am a scientist.
For example:
- Scientists aren't asocial hermites. We go to parties. And on those occasions we drink alcohol within responsible limits.
- We listen to music. Especially rock and heavy metal. (Those weirdo economics majors prefer pop-music.)
- We do not have two dozen different hobbies that each cost a shit-ton of money and time.
- Unlike in Leonard's career, we don't jump between radically different projects. We don't go from testing quantum-mechanical theorems to building holographic devices. And nobody will send us to the Arctic on a whim. Why? Because once you do research at PhD-level, people expect research of a certain quality and that quality only comes if you have years of experience in a field.
- And we hold lectures. And if you are as much an offensive, insufferable and childish pain in the ass as Sheldon Cooper, it is your students who will suffer. And if that happens too often, the university-administration will take a look at you.
- Not once have I seen them grading written exams. Or doing oral exams.
- How does Raj hold lectures or presentations or do oral exams if he can't talk to women?
- What do you think how fast Howard's reputation of being a sexual creep would spread among students?
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