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"I think that \"not being able to speak to girls\" is a real attribute of many of us nerds and so has a very real place in the original show. The idea of alcohol unlocking the social side is also very real (I never drank when I was young and I remember a roommate once asking me how I could have ever lost my virginity without being a drinker). \n \nI guess I would have preferred it to not be pathological and so extreme though. That way Raj could have overcome it now and then to have the occasional, and completely awkward, conversation with girls. \n \nThe scene with Penny talking to Raj in the hall after the guys cleaned her apartment was fabulous - as was the following conversation with the guys where Raj hugged Howard. That could never have existed without his mutism. \n \n"
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