Leonard

I have never watched The Big Bang Theory. I will never watch The Big Bang Theory.  But, look, you tell me that the show is about two nerds named Sheldon and Leonard, one of whom lusts after a woman named Penny, and there is no way I don’t automatically compute that as, “This show is about two Jews and a shiksa.”

I don’t care that Sheldon and Leonard were supposedly named after Sheldon Leonard—a Jew of course, by the way—and  I don’t care that one of the show’s creators—the one who also wrote the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles theme song—is Jewish. These things don’t change the facts. The nerdiest Leonard there will ever be? Leonard Nimoy—Jewish! Virtually every famous Sheldon except Sheldon Turnipseed? Jewish! Oh, and I don’t care, furthermore, whether or not the characters themselves are in fact Jewish: they are Jewish.