The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory (2007)

5 corrected entries in season 8

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The Misinterpretation Agitation - S8-E7

Corrected entry: When the guys are locked in the basement, the door hinges are on their side. You would think a theoretical physicist, experimental physicist, astrophysicist, and NASA engineer could together figure out to simply take the pins out of the hinges.

Correction: It's not that they couldn't do it. It's that they're in a room full of stuff they find awesome. They're having too much fun to try that hard. They don't care if they get out.

Greg Dwyer

Correction: It wouldn't matter if they had. They hopelessly contaminated the sterile room by opening a window to allow the bird in in the first place. The bigger mistake is that some idiot allowed an unsealed window that could be opened in a sterile room in the first place.

The Locomotion Interruption - S8-E1

Corrected entry: Sheldon says he was in a fire while taking a train through Des Moines. The largest Des Moines in Iowa has not had passenger rail service since 1970, and the much smaller Des Moines in Washington and New Mexico have never had it at all.

Correction: There may not be a station operating in Des Moines, but there are passenger rail tracks that go through it, stopping at Osceola. The fire could have happened on the train, as he does not specifically mention being at a station there.

Greg Dwyer

The Skywalker Incursion - S8-E19

Corrected entry: Leonard refers to a never-ending game of "Bottle of Beer on the Wall" as having 'one times ten to the fourth' bottles of beer. One times ten to the fourth power is just one multiplied by itself a ridiculously large number of times, which equals one. That would be a very short game. Not a mistake a physicist would make.

PEDAUNT

Correction: One times ten to the fourth is 10,000.

Correction: After Amy says "How could you leave like that without saying goodbye and then call Leonard instead of me", and the shot changes to Sheldon looking at Leonard and then back to the three of them, it can be seen in the background that at the turn, the tarmac quality actually changes. Thus it is originally there and the footage is continuous.

The Countdown Reflection - S5-E24

Factual error: There is not a snowball's chance of Howard becoming an astronaut. He suffers from cardiac arrhythmia, something about which he is completely open. "Transient" or not this is easily detectable by a simple electrocardiogram, which is a fundamental part of the many medical examinations a potential astronaut will have to pass. He wouldn't even be allowed to start basic training. Note also that during his basic training he shows signs of severe stress and trauma which would inevitably trigger a cardiac episode. Even if it didn't the fact that he was falling apart at the seams would have him removed from the programme for his own good.

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Question: How come Raj has no problem speaking to his mother, but, when around other women, such as Penny, he immediately stops talking? Also, why does he have to whisper in someone's ear if he wants to ask Penny something?

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.

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