But...they have died. Many, many times.
Maybe whenever they return from Purgatory, Hell, Heaven, etc., their head trauma odometer dials back to zero and leaves them with virgin craniums.
Unique Properties of Television Worlds
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But...they have died. Many, many times.
Maybe whenever they return from Purgatory, Hell, Heaven, etc., their head trauma odometer dials back to zero and leaves them with virgin craniums.
^That's it! You have solved it. 
No doubt, but it bugged me when I was a kid. How can straight-shooter cops like Steve Keller and Mike Stone drive around in such a blatantly out-of-code car?
I see, thanks. I'm going to try to catch that one.
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A unique property of the (remake of) Battlestar Galactica is how its human civilization is such an absolutely accurate carbon copy of our own - in defiance of all laws of logic and probability. Hell, they even came up with "All Along The Watchtower" 150,000 years before we did!
That just proves that true classics are ageless.
Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.
Or else the video software can magically give resolution where it didn't exist.
Literally?
I've always wondered why some of the characters don't make more money. I mean, yeah, they're geeks and losers, but they're also super-geniuses.
When it comes to sitcoms, everybody in the world has a paralyzing fear of change. Their love for their friends and family overpowers all desire they may have for career advancement or romantic fulfillment. Also, everybody they ever date will be completely devoted to them for a while, then a couple months later, the littlest of things will be a deal breaker.
In House: All diseases in the world will look a lot like two or three other diseases based on the symptoms.
In Community: Everybody will absolutely devote themselves to a game because it has a nice prize, but nobody will cheat no matter how easy it would be to do so. (Just take off your shirt that has the paint on it!)
In House: All diseases in the world will look a lot like two or three other diseases based on the symptoms.
In Community: Everybody will absolutely devote themselves to a game because it has a nice prize, but nobody will cheat no matter how easy it would be to do so. (Just take off your shirt that has the paint on it!)
In Sheldon's case, his position at the university is covered by grant money for research so he's not going to be raking it.
None of them have tenue which would give them better pay and job security.
At the end of the day they aren't in commercial research which is probably where the money could be made.
But it's still not lupus.
In one of the later episodes it was, or perhaps I'm imagining things...
In the sense that he's an enigma with secrets throughout that he doesn't easily divulge, yes. To someone who initially meets him, he comes across as rather strange and mysterious, a little kooky at times. It's both a part of who he is and what he does, though. As a character, he's one of the best characters I've seen recently on TV.
Raj does have access to more money than the other, owing to his parent's wealth. In one episode he was able to buy a gold-digger girlfriend a new car as a gift.
it's suggested that Sheldon has more money than the other men, perhaps savings from not dating for so many years.
Bernadette probably makes the most amount of money in the group.
Uh, I suspect you mean "figuratively". "Literally" doesn't mean "in the sense" of anything. The only thing it means is "actually"; i.e. he's an actual walnut.
On the other hand, if the character is actually/biologically a walnut from the genus Juglans, then congratulations, you've sold me on the show.
Sorry, bit of a digression there. Resume your disorder.
Uh, I suspect you mean "figuratively". "Literally" doesn't mean "in the sense" of anything. The only thing it means is "actually"; i.e. he's an actual walnut.
To be fair, the use of "literally" as emphasis for figurative expressions goes back centuries. It's common enough that it's hard to really justify calling it wrong -- just undesirable for pedants.
Raj does have access to more money than the other, owing to his parent's wealth. In one episode he was able to buy a gold-digger girlfriend a new car as a gift.
it's suggested that Sheldon has more money than the other men, perhaps savings from not dating for so many years.
Bernadette probably makes the most amount of money in the group.
It's pretty much stated she does and if nothing else it's definiately a lot more than Howard (something that irked him in the sense that he wouldn't be looking after her, she would be looking after him).
Uh, I suspect you mean "figuratively". "Literally" doesn't mean "in the sense" of anything. The only thing it means is "actually"; i.e. he's an actual walnut.
On the other hand, if the character is actually/biologically a walnut from the genus Juglans, then congratulations, you've sold me on the show.
Sorry, bit of a digression there. Resume your disorder.
No, you're quite right. Thanks for pointing it out
But in my original post, I was trying to be funny in the way I was describing it... guess it didn't quite work?
I was trying to go with some kind of contrast and imagery. As in, 'This guy is so nutty, he seems from a different planet.' kind of deal. It's the kind of society that he belongs to, that we learn more of throughout the series, and that the main character eventually becomes part of. So, maybe not literally a walnut, no. But fun to imagine it that way...
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Uh, I suspect you mean "figuratively". "Literally" doesn't mean "in the sense" of anything. The only thing it means is "actually"; i.e. he's an actual walnut.
To be fair, the use of "literally" as emphasis for figurative expressions goes back centuries. It's common enough that it's hard to really justify calling it wrong -- just undesirable for pedants.
"Virtually" is another one that some people misuse.
How so?
I heard it a lot when I lived in the midwest, so it may have been regional. They seemed to use 'virtually' as meaning the same as 'absolutely'.
^OY. That would drive me freaking spare.
ANYWAY...back to the topic.
Another unique property of TV land that I've noticed is that rarely do people ever say "goodbye," or something similar, when talking on the phone; they just hang up on each other. In my world, that is considered extremely rude, especially in a very personal conversation and very much so for a business call. I notice this a lot on sitcoms or melodrama. It always bothers me.
They also do this, somewhat famously, in the movies.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUQeQalRsU[/yt]
ANYWAY...back to the topic.
Another unique property of TV land that I've noticed is that rarely do people ever say "goodbye," or something similar, when talking on the phone; they just hang up on each other. In my world, that is considered extremely rude, especially in a very personal conversation and very much so for a business call. I notice this a lot on sitcoms or melodrama. It always bothers me.
They also do this, somewhat famously, in the movies.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUQeQalRsU[/yt]
Those of us who've been reviewing The Adventures of Superman on MeTV lately have spotted a phenomenon peculiar to that show. Not only do Clark's best friends not recognize him as Superman when he's wearing his glasses...they also don't recognize him as Superman when he's not wearing them! Halfway into the series, there've been multiple episodes in which his supporting cast has gotten a good eyeful of him with his glasses off without even commenting on the resemblance.
Having lurked somewhat in the M:I thread around here, I'm surprised somebody hasn't brought up the topic of how masks worked on that show....
God, I gotta watch those movies again....
Having lurked somewhat in the M:I thread around here, I'm surprised somebody hasn't brought up the topic of how masks worked on that show....
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO88NI16g84[/yt]
God, I gotta watch those movies again....
A lot less than halfway, actually, since we're early in season 3 and it ran for 6 seasons.
But yeah, I was thinking that maybe it was the costume that did it, but there was one yesterday where Superman put on a hat and coat as a disguise and Jimmy, who was standing right there, didn't notice that he looked exactly like Clark Kent.
But they did this on radio too. There was a story where Kryptonite exposure caused Superman to lose his memory, and he ended up becoming a record-breaking baseball pitcher. Lois and Jimmy went to interview this pitcher, who didn't wear glasses, spoke in Superman's deep voice, and had demonstrated feats of superhuman athletic ability, and they immediately recognized him... as Clark Kent!
That evolved over the first season. In the pilot, it was fairly plausible -- they brought in Rollin Hand to impersonate someone he already strongly resembled, using various prosthetic pieces, and when he later used a full-face mask to impersonate Dan Briggs (the original lead character), it was very brief and his eyes were hidden behind sunglasses, and he still spoke in his own voice. (I'm convinced that in some shots it actually was Martin Landau wearing a Steven Hill mask.) Later in the season, such a mask was totally convincing at close range and the voice could be perfectly duplicated, but one still couldn't eat while wearing the mask -- although I think it was in the same episode that David Opatoshu's character briefly wore a Rollin mask and magically lost his paunch while doing so. But by the end of the season, in "Shock," there was an enemy agent who wore a full-face mask for days of imprisonment, ate through it, sweated through it, even underwent electroshock therapy through it, all without the mask sustaining the slightest damage. So in less than a year it went from plausible to pure magic.
But speaking of the rules of fictional universes, what gets me is that, given how ubiquitous perfect masks are in M:I, you'd think that every nation's security forces would learn to check for latex masks as a routine part of a search.
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