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The last few episodes of The Big Bang Theory have been fairly eventful, with Howard and Bernadette announcing their pregnancy, Howard desperately searching for a way to provide for his growing family and Raj managing to screw up his relationships with both his steady girlfriend Emily and his new crush Claire. All of those conflicts fed into "The Application Deterioration" this week. It made for a solid episode, even if Raj's subplot threatened to derail the whole train at times.
In the previous episode, Howard, Leonard and Sheldon put their heads together and came up with a way to monetize Leonard and Sheldon's quantum super-fluid theory. They hit a major hurdle this week when they discovered that the university not only was entitled to the lion's share of their profits, but that legally Howard wasn't allowed to be cut in at all. This conflict required a fairly large suspension of disbelief in terms of the characters being blindsided by this revelation. That sort of arrangement between researchers and universities is pretty standard, as far as I'm aware. It makes sense. Why would a university pay your salary, provide all sorts of expensive equipment and fund your research and then not expect to profit from any potential applications of said research? Heck, as much as Sheldon's love of excessively long contracts was a focus this week, why wasn't he at least aware of that stipulation?
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The last few episodes of The Big Bang Theory have been fairly eventful, with Howard and Bernadette announcing their pregnancy, Howard desperately searching for a way to provide for his growing family and Raj managing to screw up his relationships with both his steady girlfriend Emily and his new crush Claire. All of those conflicts fed into "The Application Deterioration" this week. It made for a solid episode, even if Raj's subplot threatened to derail the whole train at times.
In the previous episode, Howard, Leonard and Sheldon put their heads together and came up with a way to monetize Leonard and Sheldon's quantum super-fluid theory. They hit a major hurdle this week when they discovered that the university not only was entitled to the lion's share of their profits, but that legally Howard wasn't allowed to be cut in at all. This conflict required a fairly large suspension of disbelief in terms of the characters being blindsided by this revelation. That sort of arrangement between researchers and universities is pretty standard, as far as I'm aware. It makes sense. Why would a university pay your salary, provide all sorts of expensive equipment and fund your research and then not expect to profit from any potential applications of said research? Heck, as much as Sheldon's love of excessively long contracts was a focus this week, why wasn't he at least aware of that stipulation?
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