The Friendship Algorithm
- Episode aired Jan 19, 2009
- TV-PG
- 21m
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Sheldon tries to make friends with Kripke in the hope that it will get him access to a coveted computer at the university.Sheldon tries to make friends with Kripke in the hope that it will get him access to a coveted computer at the university.Sheldon tries to make friends with Kripke in the hope that it will get him access to a coveted computer at the university.
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- TriviaThe scene where Sheldon (Jim Parsons) tries to befriend the little girl in the bookshop is used in a training film by London's Metropolitan Police. It is designed to show how people with social disabilities can sometimes be unintentionally inappropriate.
- GoofsSheldon refers to "little hominid children" as though that would not include modern human children. 'Hominids', however, include modern humans.
- Quotes
Barry Kripke: You afwaid of heights, Cooper?
Sheldon Cooper: Hardly. A fear of heights is illogical. Fear of falling, on the other hand, is prudent and evolutionary.
- Crazy creditsCHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #237 There's a funny moment in tonight's episode where Sheldon gets stuck on a rock-climbing wall and remarks, "What part of an inverse tangent function approaching an asymptote don't you understand?" I thought it'd be helpful to take a moment and examine that joke. A linear asymptote is essentially a straight line to which a graphed curve moves closer and closer but does not reach. In other words, given a function y=fn(x) with asymptote A, A represents a number that, no matter how big (or, given the function, small) you make x, y will never make it to A. The particular example Sheldon quotes is the inverse Tangent function, or Arctangent, which has two asymptotes. If you graph it, it sort of looks like a horizontal S: [shows a graph of atan x] No matter how big you make x (that is, how far you move to the right), the function is never going to hit that top line (pi/2), and no matter how small x gets (moving to the left), y is never going to be smaller than -pi/2. The more you know, the funnier it gets.
- ConnectionsReferences 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- SoundtracksHistory of Everything
(uncredited)
Written by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
[Series theme song played during the opening titles]
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The Friendship Algorithm
Jim Parsons is on absolute top form here as Sheldon in a wonderful episode.
So many sharp lines and interactions, this was a joy.
When it was good this series was very good indeed.
Well worth a watch.
So many sharp lines and interactions, this was a joy.
When it was good this series was very good indeed.
Well worth a watch.
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- Feb 21, 2022
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- Runtime21 minutes
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- 16:9
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