Everything Sheldon's ever owned? I think not

Why am I still watching The Big Bang Theory!? It's a terrible show. Sheldon is even more obnoxious, and Raj is starting to really get on my nerves.

For a man with an eidetic memory, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) seems to forget a lot of things. In tonight's episode, "The Solder Excursion Diversion," Sheldon takes his girlfriend Amy (Mayim Bialik) to his "Fortress of Shame," a storage unit where he supposedly keeps all his material possessions that he no longer uses.

Supposedly Amy is now the only other person who knows about this storage unit, which is strange, considering that Amy had to drive him there and the storage unit supposedly contains items that predate Amy, when Leonard had to drive Sheldon around everywhere. This can be explained away, I suppose. Maybe the honest-to-a-fault Sheldon realized that Amy would appreciate the lie of his sharing this secret shame only with her.

But this other nit is a little more difficult to explain: remember the Season 3 episode in which thieves broke into the apartment Sheldon shares with Leonard and stole their "TV, two laptops, four external hard-drives, our PS2, our PS3, our X-Box, our X-Box 360, our classic Nintendo, our Super Nintendo, our Nintendo 64 and our Wii." They buy new things, and presumably the police doesn't recover any of what was stolen.

How do the things Sheldon shares with Leonard figure into the storage unit? Plus the golf ball Sheldon's brother threw at him when they were kids, how does that become one of Sheldon's possessions? And such a prized possession that he still can't bear to throw it away.


And the opening bit about Sheldon letting his computer deteriorate so much... yawn. I need to stop watching this show, it's terrible.