When a present runs for a very very long time, continuity errors and storyline errors are sure to pop up — however this one from “The Massive Bang Idea” feels just a bit bit egregious, to be trustworthy. So what’s it? Sheldon Cooper, as performed by Jim Parsons, is meant to be allergic to cats, however then a complete episode facilities round the truth that he adopts like, a dozen cats.

On the very starting of the collection — the present’s third-ever episode “The Fuzzy Boots Corollary” — it is firmly established that Sheldon is allergic to felines, which does not really feel significantly stunning primarily based on his character; he is obsessive about cleanliness and order, so an allergy to family pets dovetails properly together with his want for all the things to be correct and excellent (all of us love our pets, however they make messes).

This character trait solely turns into an issue within the present’s fourth season — particularly, within the season’s third episode “The Zazzy Substitution” — when Sheldon, smarting from a latest breakup together with his first and solely girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), will get a complete horde of cats as a “substitute” for his ex-girlfriend. He even names them issues like Robert Oppenheimer, Otto Frisch, Enrico Fermi, and, uh, Zazzles, the final of which doesn’t appear to be the title of a well-known scientist. Sheldon’s cat scenario spirals so wildly uncontrolled that his greatest good friend Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) will get Sheldon’s mother Mary Cooper (Laurie Metcalf) concerned, and the cats transfer out of the house quickly after she intervenes. Nonetheless, it is bizarre, and much from the one egregious error yow will discover all through “The Massive Bang Idea” in case you listen.

“The Massive Bang Idea” ran for 12 years and as many seasons, so once more, it stands to motive that the author’s room would sometimes make selections that straight contradicted occasions or character traits the present confirmed at an earlier level. There are nonetheless a ton of them, although; listed here are only a few examples.

Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) would by no means have been permitted to enter area, which he does in season 6, because it’s firmly established that he has a myriad of well being points and lots of of these would stop him from changing into an astronaut. (Additionally, that plotline stunk; the present is best when the entire gang is collectively, so separating them for any prolonged interval makes the present worse.) Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) has “selective mutism” for lots of the present, that means that he cannot speak to girls except he is extraordinarily drunk — a questionable trait to start with — nevertheless it ebbs and flows round Penny (Kaley Cuoco), presumably as a result of the writers forgot and wanted Raj to say one thing. Sheldon has some bizarre gaps in his encyclopedic popular culture data, with probably the most egregious occasion being that he would not appear to know that in “Star Wars,” Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker wields a inexperienced lightsaber. There’s a complete subplot the place Leonard dates a North Korean spy that has a critically wonky timeline (and the entire thing is simply extremely bizarre in addition). Mayim Bialik is a solid member on the present, however in-universe, the characters speak about Bialik’s present Blossom.

Nonetheless, that is all forgivable. Sitcoms go on for years and years, and never all the things will all the time match up; hell, the identical man who performed Leonard’s highschool bully on “The Massive Bang Idea,” Lance Barber, later performs Sheldon’s dad on “Younger Sheldon.” That is film magic for you, I assume. “The Massive Bang Idea,” inconsistencies and all, is streaming on Max now.