It doesn’t end with him getting time on the Open Science Grid Computer, though.
It’s an exercise that ends with Sheldon passed out and swinging from the safety ropes, many feet off the ground. (Luckily, Leonard is there to prevent the disaster Sheldon’s about to find himself in when he asks young Rebecca if she wants to go to the zoo with him.) Sheldon’s last-ditch effort at befriending Kripke involves going indoor rock-climbing. That turns into something completely different when he innocently bonds with a little girl at the bookstore, while trying to learn lessons in friendship-making from Stu the Cockatoo Is New at the Zoo. It is a sweetly weird idea, Sheldon’s complete inability to see friend-making as a social exercise that isn’t best circumnavigated by an algorithm of some kind. And when making his current companions fill out a 211-question survey on his most likable qualities also fails to help him, he goes shopping to “acquire a book that summarizes the current theories in friend-making.” He thinks it’s a good thing to offer his friendship to Barry, in spite of his reputation for being “altogether unlikable” … but mentions Barry’s reputation to him during the proffer of friendship.
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But because, again, Sheldon’s in the naïve stages of his understanding of sarcasm and how to forge a friendship (a relatable situation even the most friendly among us occasionally tangle with, I’d suggest), he goes about it in a most counterproductive manner. In “The Friendship Algorithm,” it’s early days for that evolution, as the episode opens with Raj, Leonard, and Howard tormenting Sheldon by thwarting his need to spill his thoughts on the dangers of tapioca pudding.ĭespite that unpleasant exchange with those who are his friends, Sheldon embarks on a project to gain a new friend: Barry Kripke, his jerk of a colleague whom Sheldon believes controls access to the university’s supercomputer he needs for his research.
Four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons has skillfully, subtly, and appealingly crafted an organically evolving character who has retained many of his more annoying traits, but who strives for more understanding of and from, and connections with, his fellow humans.
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We have to start with a Sheldon-centric episode, for while there’s no denying the sharp performances the rest of the cast have brought to the series all these years, it’s still Sheldon’s show.