Howard Wolowitz

Howard Joel Wolowitz, also known as Howard Wolowitz, Howie, Rocket Man, Wolowizard and Sir Howard of Wolowitz, is one of the main characters from The Big Bang Theory series.
== Charactah Account ==
Of the four male leads, the only one without a doctorate (for which he gets made fun of a lot despite that he has a master's degree from MIT and is an aeronautical engineer). As no group of geeks is complete without a basement-dweller, he lives at home with his mother, despite being in his late 20's at the start of the show. In addition, Howard is Jewish and practices the faith but enjoys not eating kosher from time to time. Also, among the group, he was a mixture of the casanova wannabe and extraverted nerd until he met and started dating Bernadette.
Cheeky, tenderhearted and supposedly suave, Howard provides outrageous techniques in an attempt to get girls in the first three seasons, none of which are remotely successful. Howard's techniques to approach women are varied, including magic and card tricks, ventriloquism, and techniques from the Mystery Method, such as peacocking and negging. He is consistently depicted as the most sex-crazed of the guys, although he doesn't think his sexual behavior is any different from other men. One time, he developed a mathematical formula for the likelihood of him having sex by applying and modifying the Drake equation to include the "Wolowitz coefficient," which he defined as "neediness times dress size squared." He stated, "I'm a horny engineer... I never joke about math or sex." He often fantasizes about several actresses, including Katee Sackhoff, but apparently every woman is his type. Howard describes himself as a romantic, although he usually comes across as overtly sexual and, in Penny's words, disgusting.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* LoliRock Season 2
=== TV Series ===
* The Big Bang Theory
* The Big Bang Theory Season 2
* The Big Bang Theory Season 3
* The Big Bang Theory Season 4
* The Big Bang Theory Season 5
* The Big Bang Theory Season 6
* The Big Bang Theory Season 7
* The Big Bang Theory Season 8
* The Big Bang Theory Season 9
* The Big Bang Theory Season 10
* The Big Bang Theory Season 11
* The Big Bang Theory Season 12
== Trivia ==
* He's the only one of the group other than Penny and Stuart to lack a PhD, he's often mocked by Sheldon and others for this which is ironic considering he wasn't requiring any to be well above the latter two and even Stuart makes progress in the last 2 seasons. Howard eventually calls engineers as smart as physicists to Sheldon's horror. Howard, ironically has at least better sarcasm understanding than Sheldon.
* On a shelf in Howard's room, there is a replica model of the 211-V Plasma Cutter used by Isaac Clarke in the first Dead Space game. The tool is also seen being used in Dead Space 2 by a girl named Ellie Langford which she fires at Isaac in Hostility.
* Howard has a master's degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It required the completion of 144 units of grad work and an original thesis.
* His astronaut nickname has been designated as "Froot Loops".
* Howard has a different chest hair count in "The Cushion Saturation" and "The 21-Second Excitation".
* Howard wears alien pins on his collar in every episode, yet the pin has not been mentioned thus far.
* Though Howard's Jewish, like Rajesh Koothrappali he doesn't seem to take his faith seriously and hardly keeps Kosher.
* Howard's committed the most illegal acts of the group yet has apparently never gotten imprisoned nor even fired for it. He has a large amount of sexual harassment complaints, destroyed government property (driving the Mars Rover into a ditch and destroying the data), stolen government property for his own use (using a spare camera from the Mars rover to spy on Sheldon, diverting a satellite to find the Top Models mansion), unlawful surveillance (installing cameras to spy on women, such as giving Penny a webcam teddy bear and installing cameras in the hallway to spy on Penny.) Interestingly, Howard's destruction of the Mars Rover is revealed by Sheldon to the FBI yet Howard is never actually arrested for the act. In double irony the university never fires him either and considering all Howard's crimes, firing him was the minimum that should've happened.
* Howard is 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) tall [1], the height of Simon Helberg. After Leonard teased him regarding his small stature in "The Hot Troll Deviation", he stated that Leonard, who is established to be 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), was only about a quarter of an inch taller than him.
* He weighs around 120 pounds.
* Howard and his mother live in Altadena, California, north of Pasadena, until he moves out in "The Habitation Configuration" (S6E07) after he was married.
* Howard wears Vans and Converse shoes.
* Wolowitz is a huge fan of Stephen Hawking and likes to watch tapes of his lectures, preferably ones prior to 1985, "before he became a 'creepy' computer voice" (Hawking lost his voice due to a tracheotomy performed after a life-threatening bout of pneumonia and now communicates using a voice synthesizer). In "The Hawking Excitation", Howard actually gets the chance to meet and work with him, helping him with his wheelchair equipment. Howard would later recommend Leonard to Hawking for his North Sea expedition, which Hawking agreed to.
* Howard's online username/persona/identity is Wolowizard.
* Howard spends a large amount of time playing MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, where he plays a night elf hunter named Wolowizard with a pet tiger named Buttons. He also plays Age of Conan where he is a Guardian named Sir Howard of Wolowitz.
* Howard enjoys (and is very good at) DDR.
* Howard is allergic to peanuts and when he does eat one, his face goes pink and swells up very badly.
* Howard owns an Alienware computer.
* Howard has a Dell XPS M1210 with a 6 Cell Battery.
* Howard owns a Motorola V3, Nokia N95 and various iPhone cell phones.
* Howard has two Luke Skywalker FX lightsabers displayed on the wall of his bedroom, which he can ignite by remote to set the mood. In the flashback of Howard's room in 2003, he had two plastic toy blue light sabers on the wall, likely replaced later on with the FX sabers.
* Howard's personal wardrobe and grooming styles are based on Davy Jones from The Monkees, usually including a 1960s hip bowl-style haircut (even though he chose to have a '70s disco style Afro and goat beard 7 years ago) and a brightly colored shirt.
* Howard can beatbox, albeit badly.
* The character is named after show producer Bill Prady's former business partner in a software development company, Howard Wolowitz.
* Howard maintains that his mother lived with him, rather than him having lived with his mother.
* Howard gets around Pasadena by means of gas-powered scooter-Vespa though he may have gotten a car because in "The Robotic Manipulation" he states that he smuggled the robotic arm to his car. He does acquire a new car in "The Parking Spot Escalation".
* He has a massive collection of belt buckles yet only has one belt.
** Howard's collection of belt buckles include a chimpanzee, deli sandwich, a film projector, Nintendo controller and the 'Superman Returns' shield. Many of his belt buckles are purchased from thealley.com
* Howard plays the drums on Rock Band.
* Howard once went to medical school but dropped out cause he easily gets nauseated when he sees injuries (as seen in "The White Asparagus Triangulation" when he appears ill when he sees stitches on Leonard's hand).
* Howard says in "The Friendship Algorithm" that he's thinking about growing a mustache but it's not til "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation" he appears with one, having grown a massive beard at the North Pole and keeping the mustache when they shave their beards off.
* According to "The Apology Insufficiency", his middle name is Joel.
* In "The Alien Parasite Hypothesis", Howard mentions having taken a karate lesson when he was 11. He claims that he could have become more proficient if his mother could have arranged a carpool.
* His nightmare is to shower after the game and for other guys see him naked.
* Howard bears similarities to comedian Moe Howard, such as his haircut, name and Jewish heritage.
* Though considered the least smart member of the guys for not having a doctorate other than Stuart, Howard appears to be smarter than his friends acknowledge him as, such as besting Sheldon at insect biology in Season 3's second episode. He also states in "The Hawking Excitation" that he has a valid understanding of physics. He has a greater knowledge or designing and building real life things and can advise Penny as easily as the others
* He, on one instance, was vengeful to Sheldon for saying he couldn't understand Physics, not letting him see Stephen Hawking and shunning him in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Klingon, Binary Code and Gangsta ("Hells Naw").
* Despite his many creepy sexual fantasies of Penny during the earlier series, he ironically remains the only one of the original group that hasn't seen Penny naked. Leonard has seen Penny naked many times due to them dating, being engaged and now married, Sheldon during "The Adhesive Duck Deficiency" and Raj when he 'slept' with her and saw her naked. Not from a lack of trying, such as when he gave Penny a teddy-bear that had a webcam in it. However, Sheldon revealed that right after the guys met Penny, Howard had found the movie "Serial Ape-ist" online, which depicted Penny topless.
* Both Howard and Sheldon connect with their girlfriends over the personalities of their mothers.
* He's the first one of the geeks to get married, the first to get engaged and to have kids.
* Howard may be the basis for Miho Hidaka from the manga/anime series Prodigy Teacher Yuto.
* Bill Prady described Howard as perfecting Pepe Le Pew, the skunk from Looney Tunes, who constantly tried to get a girl to love him.
* At age 15, Howard lost his virginity to his second cousin Jeanie in her father's Toyota Corolla.
* Howard's Bar Mitsvah bonds consist of $2,600 and two trees in Israel.
* His mother calls him 'Bubula'.
* Out of all the main cast (Himself, Sheldon, Raj, Leonard, Stuart, Amy, Bernadette and Penny), he's the only one that was actually born in Pasadena (Sheldon's from Texas, Raj's from India, Leonard's from New Jersey, Penny's from Nebraska. Stuart's Origin's unknown but has strongly been hinted to be in Rhode Island; Amy's from Glendale and Bernadette's from Yorba Linda).
* Some of Howard's "flirts" included:
** "See a Penny, pick her up and all the day you'll have good luck."
** (Howard was dressed as Robin Hood on Halloween but everyone thought he was Peter Pan.) "I've got a handful of pixie dust with your name on it."
** "If that's a working stethoscope then maybe you'd like to hear my heart skip a beat."
** (Trying to hit on Summer Glau; Raj later stole this line) "It's hot in here, must be Summer."
** "Are you from Mars? Cause your ass is out of this world."
** "Your ass must be jelly cause jam doesn't shake like that."
** He's also called Penny a "cheesecake-scented goddess".
* Howard, Raj, Leonard and Sheldon are the only characters of the current main cast who have appeared in every episode (not counting the Unaired Pilot).
* Howard Knows ASL.
* Howard's Right-handed.
* Howard's Jewish.
* He once dropped Raj's phone in a urinal.
* He once sold his sperm, as shown in the episode "The Classified Materials Turbulence" when Raj asks, "Have you been selling your sperm again?
* Howard's called Wasserman in "The Rhinitis Revelation".
* Though he's seen drinking alcohol like the others numerous times, Howard's the only main character to never have been shown very intoxicated.
* Howard appears to be inspired by the character Seth from Joey, the sequel to Friends also made by Warner Bros with the following similarities: both Seth and Howard are depicted with geeky personalities; Seth shares a friendship with Michael Tribbiani similar to Howard's with Raj, though Seth is sometimes shown to be Michael's rival; and during a double date party, Seth attends with a girl named Molly, who displays many similar traits to Bernadette, most notably a high pitched voice.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Howard Wolowitz at The Big Bang Theory Wiki
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