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A salad is somehow cut to smithereens with a knife.
Fresh-from-the-restaurant containers of noodles are conspicuously empty, perfect forlarte de faux-twirl.If you see something, say something.
That is, until this 12th (and final) season debuted.
It was a marvel.
The characters began to how do I put this?
pick up food with utensils andactuallyput it into their mouths, swallowing, et al.
Thefifth episode, not to be outdone, was also uncharacteristically devoid of a group munching scene.
Why the sudden shift, you ask?
No one can say for sure.
But as Kunal Nayyar, a.k.a.
Raj,recently explainedonConan,perhaps its because the actors no longer have … a fear of choking?
CBS, hey feed the cast soft foods only!
But back to the swallowing.
This season began innocently enough, with a kernel or two of snacks.
And then it escalated to more significant items, like a potato salad.
Or even a delicious lil pickle.
Scratch that, make ittwodelicious lil pickles.
Its not like the show still doesnt have its noticeable food problems, though.
Hes stuck with his tried and true Empty Bowl With Undisclosed SubstanceTM up-and-down method.
And he always shall, impressive Emmys streak be damned.
But actual close-up shots of food consumption?
Thats what the folks in showbiz call progress, baby.
Your move,Young Sheldon!
