4. Sheldon Eats Vegetables And Fails To Recognize Symptoms Of Gas
In "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification" Sheldon suffers a midlife crisis after determining that he only has sixty years left to live and won't get to enjoy the benefits of future technology. Attempting to change his lifestyle in order to love longer, Sheldon starts eating more vegetables. Hey, we're amazed a constant diet of takeaway food and Cheesecake Factory hamburgers haven't killed him already! Anyway after a hearty dinner of brussel sprouts Sheldon awakes during the night in incredible discomfort. Waking Leonard up, Sheldon insists that he may have Cholera or appendicitis and needs to be driven to the hospital. Of course the answer turns out to be that the sprouts are giving him gas. Bravo Sheldon! What kind of Physicist with an IQ of 187 can't recognize an oncoming fart? How did he not expect it after the sudden change to sprouts? And why jump to such dramatic conclusions such as Cholera? Thankfully this was the only instance of the Big Bang Theory resorting to fart jokes.