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Doctor Who?

In season 5 episode 14, Amy makes the unforgivable mistake of referring to the main character of "Doctor Who" as Doctor Who (as opposed to his title, The Doctor or Doctor). Even worse, in the room full of nerds, no one corrects her. No one.

For someone who has a machine that can travel anywhere in time and space, Doctor Who sure does have a thing for modern-day London.

As for Amy's comment, I think he spends a fair amount of time in places aside from London.

A space station orbiting Earth ('The End of the World')

Cardiff ('The Unquiet Dead', 'Boom Town')

Utah ('Dalek')

Satellite 5 ('The Long Game')

Gamestation ('Bad Wolf'/'The Parting of the Ways')

New Earth (in 'New Earth', 'Gridlock')

Victorian Scotland ('Tooth and Claw')

18th century France ('The Girl in the Fireplace'

A random planet orbiting a black hole ('The Impossible Planet'/'The Satan Pit')

Manhattan ('Daleks in Manhattan'/'Evolution of the Daleks')

A spaceship ('42')

a space cruiser ('Voyage of the Damned')

Pompeii in AD79 ('The Fires of Pompeii')

The Oodsphere ('Planet of the Ood')

Messaline ('The Doctor's Daughter')

The Library ('Silence in the Library'/'Forest of the Dead')

Midnight ('Midnight')

Shan Shen ('Turn Left')

Thanks to somedielookinforahandtohold for the correction.

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Scientific Panels

There is no way Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, Howard, Bernadette, and Amy Farrah Fowler would be on the same scientific panel at conferences they attend. I can see them at the same conference (as they all research at the Caltech), but definitely not on the same panel. Leonard and Sheldon are both physicists, however Sheldon is a theoretical physicist and Leonard is an experimental physicist. Howard is an engineer. Raj is an astrophysicist. Bernadette is a microbiologist. Amy Farrah Fowler is a neuroscientist. None of them do the same research.

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Glassware

In season 5 episode 16, Amy tells Sheldon to wash a tray of "beakers", but in fact only one of the items on the tray is actually a beaker; the rest are flasks. Beakers (aside from Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant on The Muppet Show) are straight-vertical-sided containers like a cup or mug but without a handle. Flasks are angled-sided or round containers with a narrow neck at the top.

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NASA Space Program

In season 5 episode 18, Howard is accepted into the NASA space program to go into space. He passes the physical and proceeds into astronaut training. It is impossible for Howard to pass the physical examination as Howard has a heart condition. NASA has extremely rigorous health checks and, although his fatal allergy to peanuts may be overlooked, a heart condition is a spaceflight deal-breaker. On the same topic, Howard, at one point, failed an FBI security check to participate on a secret government project. Failing a government security check would either parallel or nullify all chances of being sent to space. Furthermore, Howard's design for a toilet failed in action aboard the space station when the waste was ejected into the inside of the quarters. Not only would this be detrimental for the crew (as waste is processed into necessary drinking water), but it would also void Howard's chances of being sent to space as a payload specialist for his own previously malfunctioning components, after the fact.

Thanks to wowjordan2 for the correction.

Thanks to Matt for the re-correction on FBI, not CIA.

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