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]
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- Nov 15, 2021
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