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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

I KNOW, RIGHT?!?
I'm also shocked that Howard is not an avid Transformer fan, given his love of Robots and engineering.

Besides the legal reasons you pointed out, though they do make off handed references occasionally as you pointed out...

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Originally Posted by quipp209

I'm also shocked that Howard is not an avid Transformer fan,given hisloveof Robots and engineering. This is what i argued with my girlfriend about one night because she just didn't get why I thought he should be all in to collecting transformers ... Howard likes space and mechanical stuff.. that's everything to do with transformers she had no clue

The reason is because the TF brand as it is in media at least breaks most laws of engineering and physics outright. Size shifting, mass displacement, among many other issues. They would have been mostly exposed to G1 considering the ages.

Now the toys on the other hand do have a lot of engineering going on, but these are the kinds of geeks that need the media itself to sell them on wanting the physical world representation.

The most we'll probably get is an occasional Gen 1 reference and the 86 TFTM. Which I'm entirely fine with tbh. Part of that probably also stems from Chuck Lorre's lack of knowledge about that fandom in particular so it's just best to steer clear or stick to the obvious surface stuff. Plus it'd be odd if they dove into anything after beast wars/machines. I'm also surprised by the lack of Voltron remarks, and most japanese or asian properties. Very little to no anime is ever mentioned let alone any japanese live action of any kind. Not even the cult gaming classic parasite eve that was based on a japanese horror novel which the book had a movie adaption. Very little to none of the cult gaming classics other than the obvious or extremely old school. Nothing out of the psx/saturn+ era ever seems to be mentioned. Only really the obvious ones like GTA, Red Dead Redemption, and Halo seem like they get mentioned for the polygonal eras. I'm really shocked at the lack of Metroid, Haloid, Dead Fantasy, and Red vs Blue references for these being geeks and all too. Little to no web series ever get mentioned. You'd think stuff like Magic Tech Support or Panics would at least get an off handed joke or reference too. Seriously, why isn't Alma giving them nightmares?

These are mostly DC geeks anyway with only a hint of the occasional Marvel.
TF might get more representation if that was swapped since at one point they did have a heavy Marvel presence. As it is, these geeks are mostly DC and high fantasy(LOTR, WoW, etc) as opposed to scifi fantasy outside of the classics like The Time Machine, Space 2001, Metropolis, tron, and Star Trek. Star Wars is heavy on both though and also geek constant like star trek and BSG(bsg which also merges high fantasy and robotics). They just seem to steer clear of the properties that were designed initially solely to push merchandise. So very little TF, GI Joe, Jem, Gobots, He-man, etc. though they do get the offhanded remark now and again.

I really dig how they dive deep into the well of cult classic cinema randomly though. Sometimes they bring up or reference movies I haven't seen in ages.
But yeah, they really are lacking on many geek areas in general besides just TF.