8 Times The Big Bang Theory Failed At Science

7. Howard Enters An Entirely Wrong Command

Before Howard Wolowitz became a devoted husband, he was something of a pervert. And not like Raj and his preference for Asian porn, we're talking Quagmire levels of perversion with predilections including, but not limited to, incest, bestiality and necrophilia. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before he turned his "attention" to robots. In the opening episode of Season 4 Howard designs a robotic arm to assist astronauts in space and ends up using it to serve food for the gang. After commanding the robot to massage his shoulders he remarks that it feels "just like a real hand". With this revelation, he attempts to do what any self-respecting pervert would do and enters a series of commands into his computer to program the hand. Unfortunately he enters the wrong command and somehow programs the hand to twist as if it were handling a screwdriver. Without getting into too much detail, there's a big difference between twisting a screwdriver and... Howard's first choice. How he would enter such a command is anyone's guess, but earlier in the episode we see Howard competently typing out the lengthy machine code necessary to get the robot arm to simply pass the soy sauce. It seems strange that when entering a very... specific command, Howard would suddenly forget what exactly he wanted the arm to do and very nearly paid the ultimate price for his lack of attention to detail. It also doesn't help that he was then outsmarted by a nurse whose first idea was to simply turn the arm off and back on.
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