SargeantFuzzyBoots

I feel Howardette as parents would involve a lot more yelling.

IcyBerry

Oh definitively Boy if they decide to go down that route, I sure hope Melissa has her vocal cords ready

SargeantFuzzyBoots

They'll need to have a constant supply of cough drops.

socialfirefighter

I agree with both SargentFuzzyBoots and IceBerry about everything. It would be interesting to Howard and Bernadette acting like parents.

SargeantFuzzyBoots

I really enjoyed how Bernadette put a stop to any of Howard's pity party attempts. She's finally learned her way around that trick.

Musickat18

Yes!

I'm glad they're having another conversation about having kids. I can understand Bernie's perspective though, and I do still believe that people who don't want kids shouldn't have kids, but...it's nice she's not just completely shutting the idea down.

WeBuiltThePyramids

Yes. She's 1000% done with those guilt trips.

Whimsical Elf

That's true, but I'm glad she compromised on the redecorating thing. Most people seem to view Howard as being unreasonable and/or a baby for not wanting things changed in his mother's house, but I understand him totally, and I see this as another example of TBBT showing both sides of an argument equally. Remember how he felt when they found the defrosted food? It's the same emotional buttons being pushed for him here - changing the way his mother had things is in some sense erasing her memory. She hasn't even been gone a year.

To be honest, I find it weird that they chose to live in her house. I understand the writers wanting to keep that set as part of the show, and of course it throws up all sorts of funny/creepy conflicts, but for the characters it doesn't seem like the healthiest thing.

IcyBerry

Meh, it's certainly no worse than the living arrangements between S/L/P IMO

SargeantFuzzyBoots

I really love that they moved into the house because I feel it's a good way to keep Mrs. W's spirit alive, but I actually think it's rather unhealthy if they keep everything decorated the same. I think for Howard to not want to let go of some of the things about the house would be a sort of emotional hoarding of his mother's presence that would create a lot of problems for him personally and Bernadette. Howard needs to be able to carve out his own life in that house separate from his childhood and, in certain ways, his mother. Her taste and style of the house aren't what will keep Mrs. W's memory alive, but Howard keeping what she taught him with him. So I feel it's good of Bernadette to push him past languishing in pity, otherwise he'll end up stuck like he was moving out the first time.

IcyBerry

That's a good point you bring up

I hope that this storyline will get revisited some time later in the season.

Whimsical Elf

That's why I think they would've been better living in their own place. Changing it will be very difficult for Howard. Of course it's unhealthy to leave everything permanently as it was, but that doesn't make it less difficult to change it. I'm not questioning the show's choice to have it that way. Just, if they were real people, it doesn't seem a good idea to me.

BlackWhiteRose

Yeah they should redecorate the house a little bit but Howard can keep some thing that remind him of his mom (pictures, dishes, some jewelry) so he will never forget her.

Rule 34

I like this idea. I can't picture kids on this show, and I'm not sure I like the idea of Bernadette feeling pressured to have kids when she clearly doesn't want them.

Musickat18

Yeah, redecorating doesn't mean they have to get rid of everything. I don't blame Bernie for not feeling at home there.