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10 seasons and still no girlfriend for Raj.


Why haven't the writers given Raj a girlfriend or a wife yet? His character seems so out of place now and all he has are funny one liners.

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What's funny, like tonight/last night's episode, 10x19, they show he is better at being a husband than his friends. They've done that with Howard and Bernadette before, probably Sheldon and Amy at some point. But for his interactions with them, they should just make him gay, he seems like the gay best friend. But I still hope he'll work it out with Emily. Claire would do too.

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12 years and Raj is still single.

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still no gf, poor Raj...

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They just keep going back and forth with him as to what kind of dating life he'll have. A few episodes back he had a little falling out with Howard and he felt Howard was always putting him down and he didn't want that negativity in his life. He changed his hair and got the job at the planetarium. He was meeting lots of women in that job, they made it seem like his dating life was becoming quite active. A few episodes later he is still desperate and pathetic and dateless. It is as if the other changes and growth in his life never happened.

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make that 12 years now.

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I always wonder why they wrote Emily (Laura Spencer) out. She played off of Raj so well. Didn't they just announce they were adding her as a regular and then Poof: she was gone?

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She was a catch. Raj couldn’t fully commit and blew it.

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I always knew in the end he would marry an Indian woman. He probably should have dated one well before now.

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Well, there was the other arrangement a few seasons back that he screwed up. That was when he still had to drink to talk to females (So glad they ditched that).

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That was in the good ol' days of the show. I agree it wouldn't have been a good long term plot/joke. Are you talking about when he almost had 2 women to date at the same time?

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No, it was the one his father arranged, the Indian girl who wasn't fat anymore. She didn't like Raj's behavior, and he thought Sheldon swooped in, who was comparing her to Princess Penchali (can't believe I remember that name!).

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I must of missed that one! There has been many women for Raj but he either chooses poorly in some cases or just puts them off.

Actually even when he chooses poorly he is still rejected!

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There was also the one where the girl turned out to be gay and just wanted to use him as cover.

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Ah yes -- I was wondering for a sec if that was the same girl, but it couldn't be.

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No two different Indian Girls. Two different times.
BTW: The time with two girls at the same time was an arc over a few episodes with Emily and the blonde (Sorry don't remember her name off the top of my head right now)

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Lakshmi

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it never happened...not sure why the writers did this...

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Will Raj end up single?

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Looks like he is going to end up single. Just broke up with Anu tonight.

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