The Helium Insufficiency
- Episode aired Oct 26, 2015
- 19m
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Leonard and Sheldon go to great lengths to secure the helium they need during a nation-wide shortage. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang try to find Amy a new boyfriend on a dating app.Leonard and Sheldon go to great lengths to secure the helium they need during a nation-wide shortage. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang try to find Amy a new boyfriend on a dating app.Leonard and Sheldon go to great lengths to secure the helium they need during a nation-wide shortage. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang try to find Amy a new boyfriend on a dating app.
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- TriviaRegarding liquid helium, reference is made to party supply stores and to the national reserve. Both of those sources have helium as a gas. The really hard part of making liquid helium is not obtaining the gas but getting it cold enough to liquefy (about -269 degrees C). And because no container is perfectly insulated a tank of liquid helium will warm up and boil off in just a few days.
- GoofsWhen Amy answers the text from Dave on her phone she is actually holding the phone upside down.
- Quotes
Sheldon Cooper: He wears glasses, I'm a know-it-all. We're not built for prison.
- Crazy creditsCHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #506
Sometimes I have conversations with people who are not there. Not out loud conversations. No Thorazine yet, thank you very much. But I definitely catch myself having spirited debates and heated arguments with folks who exist only in my head. Which doesn't stop them from speaking forcefully, and, at times, eloquently on their own behalf. On occasion they are people I know. Other times they are purely fictional creations, brought into existence to question my thinking, my actions, or just piss me off. (Because there's not enough real people pissing me off, I've gotta make some up.) Anyway, the reason I thought this was worth discussing is that I'm fascinated by what I like to call "the bifurcated self." Consciousness that has split itself in two in order to create its own suffering. (Because there's not enough real suffering going on, we need to make more.) But I've recently become more fascinated by the idea that there is no self at all. That the solution to bifurcation is not reuniting warring selves, it's dropping the entire concept of self. The memories, emotions, thoughts and attitudes that combine to create the self are finally recognized as nothing more than ripples on the surface of a pond. And the truth of what we are, collectively and individually, is the pond itself. That which silently embraces the endless dance of form. Deep. Clear. Still. Reflecting the infinite and eternal, while receiving with equanimity both the beauty and the ugliness that falls into it - even the critical inner voice which is talking to me right now. Excuse me while I respond.
"Shut up, I am too a pond!"
- ConnectionsReferences Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
- SoundtracksHistory of Everything
(uncredited)
Written by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
[Series theme song played during the opening titles]
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Kripke is the highlight
How far has this show got left to fall?
Barry Kripke intentionally playing to the camera as he self-references is the highlight of the episode.
The show is so terrible now that the screenshot they have chosen for this episode on IMDb is of the guest star, who isn't even a star!
Really, I have to string this out for 10 whole lines before I can post it. I don't think it deserves that. Even just the brute force effort of wasting space with this filler is more than this episode deserves. My dog is having a nap and seems to be dreaming about chasing something. Maybe if I tape a ball point to his foot he can write next week's script.
Barry Kripke intentionally playing to the camera as he self-references is the highlight of the episode.
The show is so terrible now that the screenshot they have chosen for this episode on IMDb is of the guest star, who isn't even a star!
Really, I have to string this out for 10 whole lines before I can post it. I don't think it deserves that. Even just the brute force effort of wasting space with this filler is more than this episode deserves. My dog is having a nap and seems to be dreaming about chasing something. Maybe if I tape a ball point to his foot he can write next week's script.
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