About

Name: Sheldon Cooper (prodigy)

(The two principal characters, "Sheldon" and "Leonard" from BBT, were named after Sheldon Leonard who was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.)

Height: 6,2 ft / 189 cm
IQ: 187

Occupation: Theoretical physicist, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
(Master's degree and 2 PhDs)(string theory)

Lives: Apartment 4A
Colleague and roommate: Leonard Hofstadter (experimental physicist)

Sheldon also has common qualities associated with being a prodigy, such as an inflated ego, social ineptness, and an inability to identify emotionally with others. He fails to understand not only the simplest sarcastic jokes made by Leonard, but also regards Penny's sadness over her break up with blatant disgust. That isn't to say Sheldon doesn't have a conscience; he's simply more likely to do what's scientifically ethical (not donate to a "high IQ sperm bank" because his sperm won't guarantee high IQ offspring) rather than morally and socially ethical (break into Penny's home to organize her things). Sheldon also remains unswayed by Penny's beauty. He also has symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder and Asperger Syndrome; when he finds Penny's apartment messy, he sneaks in during the night and cleans it up because he can't stand being in the same hallway with something so disastrous. Also, he refuses to sit anywhere other than his designated spot on the couch. He is calculating and cynical, believing that Leonard is only setting himself up for disappointment as he continues to crush on Penny.



Doctor Sheldon Cooper...

1. ... was born in a K-Mart.
2. ... loves to eat at Big Boy, an American restaurant chain.
3. ... doesn't drink coffee.
4. ... doesn't drink alcohol.
5. ... likes drinking diet coke.

6. ... enjoys "diet virgin cuba libres" (which is essentially, a diet coke in a tall glass served with a lime wedge.)

7. ... eats at the Cheesecake Factory on Tuesday nights (presumably before the occasional Klingon Boggle game) which replaces eating at Big Boy. Big Boy may have moved to Thursdays replacing Soup Plantation.

8. ... sorts his cereal numerically by fiber content.

9. ...wakes up at 6:15 every Saturday, pours himself a bowl of cereal, adds a 1/4 cup of 2% milk, turns on BBC America and watches Doctor Who.

10. ... likes Chinese food.
11. ... likes Thai food.
12. ... was raised in an aluminum trailer in east Texas.
13. ... has a Master's degree and two PhDs.

14. ... went to college at eleven years old, entered graduate studies at fourteen years old, and received his first PhD at sixteen years old.

15. ... was a visiting professor in Germany at fifteen years old.
16. ... took four years to write his thesis.

17. ... has recently switched his research from bosonic string theory to heterotic String theory.

18. ... conducts research at the California Institute of Technology, primarily in String theory.

19. ...continues to be baffled and repulsed by human relationships.

20. ... does not believe that three-tined forks are, in actuality, forks, but tridents, and refuses to eat with them.

21. ... has 212 friends on Myspace.
22. ... is allergic to bees and cats (despite having a pet cat as a child).
23. ... has asthma.
24. ... cannot detect sarcasm.
25. ... showers twice a day and washes his hands as often as he can.
26. ... loves Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and Scrubs.

27. ... 's IQ is 187. (Though Sheldon says that his IQ is incapable of being accurately measured by any IQ test)

28. ... considers himself to be a "homo Novus." A new, evolved species of homo sapien.

29. ... and his friends play Age of Conan.

30. ... and all of his friends play multiplayer online games. He is a rogue night-elf in World of Warcraft.

31. ... and his friends play Halo every Wednesday night, they call this ritual "Halo Night".

32. ... doesn't believe in luck or coincidence, instead citing the Law of Large Numbers (LLN) in Statistics as the explanation for such phenomena.

33. ... was sick a lot as a child.

34. .... agrees with the theory that 75-80% of any Rock-Paper-Scissors games you play with a person end up in a tie, he prefers the variation Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock (Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock).

35. ... has two siblings, one of whom is a (fraternal) twin sister who hostesses at Fuddrucker's.

36. ... keeps his toothbrush in a Plexiglass case under a UV lamp.
37. ... used a Doppler Effect costume for Halloween.
38. ... loves superheroes, especially Batman, Green Lantern and The Flash.
39. ... likes to wear vintage t-shirts adorned with superhero logos.
40. ... has got a t-shirt of The Greatest American Hero's costume.

41. ... goes to the Comic Book Store every Wednesday so he can see all the new comics on, "New Comic Book Day"

42. ... uses his Green Lantern's action figure as a safe place for his emergency money.

43. ... wears briefs.
44. ... knows Morse code very well.

45. ... is terrible and constantly asks for things when he is ill. His friends have a protocol to hide themselves from him when it happens.

46. ... has to sit on the left side of the couch. Wherever he goes, he has to choose the best sitting location based on such things as optimal television viewing, lighting, and cushion density.

47. ... hates it when someone stops him when he is trying to explain something. If this happens: a tic starts on his face until he can complete what he wants to say.

48. ... doesn't know how to lie or how to keep a secret.
49. ... has got Leonard Nimoy's DNA on a signed resturant's napkin.
50. ... does his laundry every Saturday night at 8.15 p.m.
51. ... 's favorite amino acid is Lysine.

52. ... thinks that his very strong attention to hygiene and his skill in writing Java Applets are main points of interest to his persona to his friends.

53. ... can play the keyboard and presumably the piano.
54. ... labels all home utensils, appliances, etc
55. ... loves trains and monkeys.
56. ... fears birds.

57. ... had a cat named Lucky when he was a child. This cat died because it was hit by a train - and he couldn't see the irony of the hit cat named Lucky.

58. ... learned how to swim (on the floor) online.
59. ... thinks chocolate pudding is the best one.
60. ... hates people who hiss at home.
61. ... cannot stand whistling.

62. ... doesn't like to go to the cinema alone because there is no guarantee that someone can help him with the heimlich maneuver in the case he chokes on his popcorn.

63. ... doesn't like to go to the cinema if he can't eat popcorn during the movie.
64. ... doesn't condone anyone on his place on the sofa (left side).
65. ... 's archenemy is Leslie Winkle.
66. ... thought about creating a griffin when he was a child.
67. ... loves to play Super Mario Bros.

68. ... would like to control people in the same way he can control Mario in the videogame Super Mario Bros.

69. ... 's favourite Star Trek movie is: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home".

70. ... thinks that to have more than four friends at the same time is much too stressful for him.

71. ... was very busy examining the range of diffusion in the supersymmetric N = 4, which brought him to re-exam the ultraviolet properties of supergravity N = 8 a loop.

72. ... 's expenses account for 46.9% of his after tax income.
73. ... cannot/will not drive. Someone must drive him always.
74. ... likes the movie Saturn 3.

75. ... loves Star Wars but thinks the latest stuff by George Lucas is not so good.

76. ... imposes and teaches behaviour lessons to any friend of his who disappoints him for 3 consecutive times.

77. ... nickname is "Shelly" (He is called this mainly by his mother Mary and sister Missy).

78. ... despises his nickname.

79. ... basically thrives off his work, if left jobless he loses all focus and moves onto a new experiment/obsession daily.

80. ... is terrified of teddy bears.
81. ... is considered 'one nuclear accident away from becoming a supervillain'.

82. ...is not asexual, having interest in sexual activity, but resilient and confused by such activity. "The pilot" shows clealy he is aware of his sexual organ.

83. ... loves having his brain scanned.
84. ... hates when people pronounce the "t" in often.

85. ... only shows genuine affection for one person, his grandmother (or "MeMa"), who he writes to.

86. ... only condones one of his nicknames, "moonpie", which his grandmother calls him.

87. ... plays bass guitar on rock band.




Quotes...


1. "Oh, Mario, if only I could control everyone the way I control you. Hop, you little plumber - hop, hop, hop!"

2. "Oh Gravity, Thou art a heartless b***h."

3. "Great news! My mom sent me my old Nintendo 64. You know what this means. Break out the Redbull, it's time to rock Mario - old school! "

4. "Do you know how I know we're NOT in the Matrix? If we were, the food would be better."

5. "There is no more 'Sheldon', I am 'the Sword Master!"



6. Leonard: "Sheldon, think this through. You are going to ask Howard to choose between sex and 'Halo'!"

Sheldon: "No, I'm not going to ask him to choose between sex and 'Halo 3'. As far as I know, sex has not been upgraded to include high-def graphics and enhanced weapon systems."



7. Leonard: "We need to widen our circle."

Sheldon: "I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on 'MySpace'."

Leonard: "Yes, and you've never met one of them."

Sheldon: "That's the beauty of it."



8. Leonard: "What secret? Tell me the secret!"

Sheldon: "Mom smokes in the car. Jesus is OK with it, but we can't tell dad."

Leonard: "Not THAT secret - the other secret."

Sheldon: "(Deep voice) I'm Batman..."