Talk:The Speckerman Recurrence/@comment-4755820-20120113194441

I think the writers really dropped the ball on this. Considering that: 1) a good portion of the audience are geeks who were quite possibly bullied, 2) the amount of attention that bullying is *finally* getting in the media, and 3) the wave of "it gets better" videos that have been produced over the last few years, it was short-sighted and to have the episode end the way it did.

A much more satisfying -- I'll even go so far as to say appropriate -- scenario would have been to have Sheldon come up with a solution such as using the "Bird Death Ray" or the hand buzzer on Speckerman, revealing that the french toast was made with something to which Speckerman is deathly allergic, having Bernadette stumble in and go Mrs. Wolowitz on him, or even falling back on the old "corn fed from Nebraska" kick to the crotch from Penny cliché. As it was, this episode was extremely off-putting and struck me as quite irresponsible.

I will probably keep watching, but after 4-1/2 glorious years, the honeymoon is finally over.