The Perspiration Implementation

One of the internet comments about Stuart's store mentions that the owner never blinked during an entire conversation. During the first scene in the store a poster can be seen behind Stuart with the text "Keep Calm and Don't Blink". (The poster is inspired by Doctor Who (2005) and the famous British "Keep Calm" poster.)

In the fifth season, Sheldon and Kripke compete for an office using sports as an equalizer since both are such bad athletes, yet now Barry is not only a fencer, but so proficient at it that he can teach others.

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #505

It seems to me that the biggest, most momentous choice of our lives is the one that none of us gets to make. I'm talking about the decision to be here, to be alive. Now before we digress into the choice of leaving this life, a subject best suited for handwritten notes left on the bed stand, let's investigate the initial premise. Simply put, we all arrive here screaming, crying and covered in goo, without prior consultation. Or so it appears. If in fact we were part of the decision to become cognizant, the memory of that process has been completely wiped from our consciousness. But what if it were retrievable? What if we could become aware of the primary decision to live, the fateful choice to participate in the world of time, energy and form? Wouldn't that improve our daily condition? No matter how difficult and confusing life was, we would always be clear on one thing, "I asked to be here. This is my choice." Of course, there's another option to consider. We are here against our will. The unending cycle of birth, life and death is a sentence. We are souls in prison. But that grim, Matrix-like scenario falls apart the minute you ask how hell on earth could possibly include gelato.

References Little Orphan Annie (1938)