The Retraction Reaction
- Episode aired Oct 2, 2017
- TV-14
- 21m
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Leonard angers the University and the Physics Community when he gives an embarrassing radio interview. Bernadette and Amy compare their successes at work.Leonard angers the University and the Physics Community when he gives an embarrassing radio interview. Bernadette and Amy compare their successes at work.Leonard angers the University and the Physics Community when he gives an embarrassing radio interview. Bernadette and Amy compare their successes at work.
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- TriviaRichard Feynman is really interred in Altadena, CA. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Founders Lawn, Lot 4390, Grave 11, Curb No. 1617.
- GoofsWhen we first see the three whiteboards, the left board has red ink on it but when Leonard visits Sheldon, the board has black ink on it.
But there is no way to know how much time has passed, so he could have erased and changed it all. He was working all day.
- Quotes
Leonard Hofstadter: If we weren't physicists, what would we be?
Howard Wolowitz: I don't know. Popular?
- Crazy creditsCHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, # 563
When I was a little boy the Russians were coming. At least once a week, I was instructed to hide in the school basement because the Russians were coming. I actually spent six years learning to speak Russian because when they got here, I wanted to know how to say, "Don't shoot!" ("two words in Cyrillic") And now, more than half a century later, after their dumbass system of government imploded, the friggin' Russians are still coming. How is that possible? How are we still being tormented by a nation that has yet to build a decent refrigerator or toaster, let alone a cell phone or a car? By a culture that thinks borscht is a good idea? By the people who somehow managed to contribute less to rock music than the French? I mean, sure, kudos on vodka, but how is it that these people are still making us miserable? And more importantly, why? Is world domination still a thing? And if it is, let's say they succeed. What then? The future supreme rulers of planet Earth are gonna rock the casbah with balalaikas? Forgive me, but in the words of their favorite son, Orange Julius, that is "sad."
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek (1966)
- 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 Power of Doubt
This episode seemed to revolve around doubt. Leonard doubted his career and physics at Cal Tech publicly on radio. The majority of the rest of the episode deals with him trying to save his job - and the donation money that would be lost if he didn't write an apology. The situation leads to Sheldon to also doubt physics too. Bernadette and Amy brag to each other about their professions, to a fault. The episode gets better the later on it goes, but I didn't see the need to go to a cemetery, if only for a deceased physicist. Still, good episode. Great job by cast and crew.
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- reallynoreilly
- Oct 1, 2017
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