NCIS: LA - Angels & Daemons

Callen's girlfriend Joelle isn't his girlfriend anymore, and she has another boyfriend ALREADY?! So naturally, Callen decides to run a background check on the guy... Also Sam is grumpy cos Callen ducked out of their carpool.

Have I told you recently that I love Eric's hair? Cos I love Eric's hair.

Tres chic, Mr. Beale.

There was a dead guy found in the marina, who wrote a book, that Sam read, (listened to) and also he was the head of a tech firm at some point and made a lot of moolah. His name was Overson, and his former partner in the tech company sued him and got no money, so now he's living in his car.

Nell doesn't like boats, neither do I. She goes to investigate Overson's boat with Kensi and Deeks, gets in some sass while she's at it. OK so Deeks made a clever joke about mishearing 'Silicon Beach' as 'Silicone' but when Kensi corrects him, she stresses the 'beach' part - twice. That's not the part he got wrong, girl. Strange choice of emphasis.

Apparently Overson was interested in backing an app that allows the anonymous posting of secrets (basically like Whisper, that stupid app that Buzzfeed keeps pushing on us).

Yup.

The girl at the company teared up when Kensi told her about Overson dying - I think they were more than coworkers...

Something something, they find the Powell guy who was supposed to be living in his car, something something, holy crap it's only 10:17??

Sam can maybe read minds and then guesses the colour Callen was thinking of. It was blue. Funny, I would have guessed gray. Callen likes gray. But he does wear an awful lot of blue (probably because it sets off his eyes!)

There's a secret code that Overson found embedded in one of the apps he was supporting, that somehow compromised national security (don't they always). This is the thing called the 'daemon' - hence the episode title.

It's the Flibbit (mock-Whisper) app that it was hidden in! The one with the redhead girl who was crying earlier. Someone needs to go undercover. That sounds exciting! Eric wants it to be him, but boo, it has to be Callen. Undercover Eric might have been fun. Kind of an adorable Chuck-esque type of flustered? Man, I miss Chuck.

Nell can be Sarah.

The lighting in Ops makes Eric's hair look green. Weird.

Sam tries to relate to the redheaded girl Jessica, about how they're both often overlooked (her cos she's female, Sam cos he's a racial minority). Callen loves the slide at the company. I could never use a slide at work - it would mess up my nice work clothes. You think they could ask for a slide at Ops? Actually, Granger would never allow it. It's a fun thing. Granger hates fun.

Kensi and Deeks go to talk to Powell's lawyer, but right before they reach him (they weren't hurrying, they were talking about puppies), he gets shot. Sniper-style.

Guns! Shooting! Excitement! 

Nell figures out that the shot came from the building that houses the Flibbit app office. Well isn't that convenient! The security guard gets in a fight with Sam, then he says that the programmer guy is a Palestinian cyberterrorist. But Callen was with him the whole time. It's a different person, a girl, who we've never even met. Also Deeks uses the word 'keytar'. 

Clearly, only psychopaths play the keytar. 

Also I'm pretty sure senators have better things to do than be on a stupid secret sharing app like this. At least I would hope so. 

Wow, they really got their money's worth out of that slide in this episode, didn't they? Turns out the lawyer sold the daemon to the bad guys who were Pakistani terrorists. There were three of them working at the app company - but none of them killed Overson. It was Powell. 

Callen had bought a ring for Joelle? Oh, poor sad Callen. Or maybe not. I can't tell. He's a good liar. 

NCIS: LA - Core Values

I didn't notice that 'kayak' was a palindrome. I love palindromes. And so does Eric. Awwwe. Callen just said 'Egad'. I'm dying.

The guy who collapsed, bleeding, at the beginning of the episode, was a marine who had radioactive poisoning. His wife is pregnant, and he told her he had taken on a second job - but he hadn't gotten that one, it was actually at a nuclear plant. Keeping secrets! Bad marine man!

We get in some more Callen jibes - "Maybe one day we'll discover that kale is poisonous and yoga's bad for your spine". I like his thinking (I hate kale, but you knew that already).

I'll take two of these. One for me, one for Callen. 

Oh hey! My dad and I both had a 'Hey I know that guy' moment - but about separate actors - mine was this guy, who played FBI agent Peter Elliot on CSI: Miami (I'm gonna refer to him as Peter) and dad's was about this guy who's playing a scientist. We both said each of them are always the bad guy... I wonder which one it'll be this time?

Kensi and Deeks both go undercover at the nuclear plant where the poisoned marine had been moonlighting, he as a security guard, she as a janitor. It's weird though, he was observing a group of protesters outside the plant, and one of them was talking into a megaphone, and he sounded exactly like Deeks.

Deeks wants to have a moustache, Kensi disagrees. He compares himself to Albert Einstein.

Well, I mean, they both rock the poufy-hair look.

But just because one can pull off a beard, does not mean they can pull off a moustache. Let this photo of Toronto Blue Jay Russell Martin be exhibit A:

And click here if you need proof that Russell looks his best at his beardliest. (That's totally a word)

Someone left a note for Sam to meet him in secret, it was the scientist guy. He said one of the pools under which the radioactive material is stored was significantly drained and the plant is a 'disaster waiting to happen'. And Peter wouldn't let him tell Sam & Callen.

Granger went to talk to the poisoned Marine, and they had the exact same tone of voice. One of them has radioactivity poisoning, and the other one is just a boring person. I'll let you guess who was who.

The fuel rods of radioactive material were exposed because of the drop in pool level - and there was a two-hour 'glitch' in the video feed as the pool was being drained. There's no backup. And that was the night that the guard was poisoned.

So my dad was right at first, the scientist guy is the one who shut off the valve and turned off the alarm and the backup pool-filling stuff. The guard went in and looked around on his rounds while the water level was low and that was how he got exposed. Poor guy, just doing his job, wrong place wrong time. Scientist-guy says no one was supposed to get hurt, he was just trying to make it obvious apparent to the public how the plant was unsafe. But it's early in the episode, so clearly we're not done.

Just as Kensi and Deeks are leaving the building, the small shed-type building behind them explodes. It held the backup generators for the cooling system. The team finds a bomb wrapped around a pipe that sends water into the cooling pools, so when it goes off it'll cut off the water and expose the fuel rods.

There was a reason they showed the protesters outside - their leader was the one who came in and planted the explosive. He had told the scientist-guy that he was a professor of environmental studies and the scientist guy was dumb enough to believe him and get him a fake ID to come in and study the pools.

Callen and Sam manage to pry the charge off the pipe and Callen runs it outside and dumps it in some barrels of water - but then the scientist points out that that wouldn't have effectively emptied the pool (it would have taken too long) so everyone freaks out and Sam realizes it's a diversion - he planted a much bigger explosive under the pool that would create a hole and drain the pools. I would just like to say 'underneath a pool containing tons of radioactive material' is a really dumb place for a utility room.

This new bomb has a pendulum that would detonate it if it swung too much.

"I'm disassembling a bomb"

Hetty calls in and says to pull the first responders away, she thinks the perp is trying to hurt as many people as possible - and then Sam has an idea to yank the blasting caps out of the plastic explosive VERY CAREFULLY and throw them at least 6 inches away from the explosive before the cell phone connects, but they can't be holding the thing or else they'll lose a hand. THIS SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA TO ME.

Deeks and Kensi find the perp sitting outside at a cafe (cos he wouldn't go back to his secret lair to set off a nuclear disaster, oh no, he's right out there in public) and ruin his phone, then pull guns on him, but then he pulls out a BACKUP phone and tries to take a woman hostage, it all happens very fast but basically he dials the number and calls, then they shoot him, Kensi and Deeks freak out "It's connected!" Sam and Callen pull out the blasting caps but have to run just as a guy in a bomb suit shows up and yanks the whole thing away from the plastic and dives on it as a small explosion goes off beneath him (just the caps, not the plastic, thank god)

Sam and Callen run back in and tell him he has 'some big stones, my man' and thank him, then he takes his helmet off and OH MY GOD IT'S GRANGER?!! Sam looks like he immediately wants to take back the 'big stones' comment and I don't blame him. But holy hell, I think that was the most exciting thing Granger's ever done. Or second-most, after showing up at that insane cult place and ending that standoff. That was pretty badass.

The next scene Kensi and Deeks are in the hospital, the wife delivered her baby but the husband's lungs are filling up with fluid and he can't breathe anymore. So for some random reason (my dad questioned this, I mean there are nurses EVERYWHERE) the lady decides to hand her baby to Kensi and Kensi looks as freaked out as Rachel from Friends the first time she held Ben.

"This IS how I would hold a football..."

But then she and Deeks sing 'Twinkle Twinkle' to him and everything is all right... Except that his father is dying in the room right behind him and that's sad as hell, but instead we're just supposed to focus on Kensi and Deeks and a baby (because if this isn't foreshadowing then I don't know what is).

Big Bang Theory - The Opening Night Excitation

Of course the guys are losing their minds trying to buy tickets for the new Star Wars movie, and of course this episode aired the night before the movie premiered - Sheldon almost prayed for tickets until Howard yelled 'Got em!'

But the movie premiered on Amy's birthday! Oh no!! "Surprise! She's even older now! Who could have seen that coming?" That would make a good slogan for a cake.

Better than this one, anyway... 

Sheldon has another dream where Bob Newhart as his friend Arthur shows up - dressed in a Jedi robe. He convinces Sheldon to spend Amy's birthday actually with Amy, and so he calls her in the middle of the night to tell her. How considerate.

Apparently you can mess with Sheldon by having a different person say 'come in' than the one he names when he's knocking. (But couldn't he solve that by saying *Knock knock knock* "Penny and Bernadette")

Sheldon is afraid of sheep.

AND OH MY GOD. HIS SUGGESTION FOR A GIFT IS TO HAVE COITUS WITH AMY. HOLY TOLEDO!!

Pictured: Penny's glass after Sheldon dropped that news. 

Hey! Wil Wheaton! Normally I'm excited to see him, but I kinda just want to get back to the other storyline... They've invited him to the premiere with them - but I'm kinda surprised, wouldn't sci-fi royalty like Wil Wheaton have tickets already?!

Professor Proton is disappointed by kids who refer to their private parts as 'junk'. Same, Arthur, same. I'm honestly surprised that Sheldon hadn't told his friends about his plans with Amy...

I wasn't expecting him to bust out Fez's dance, but at least he'd mention it casually...

OK, now I see why Wil wasn't invited to the premiere.. Everyone boos him for showing up in a Star Trek outfit. But seriously, sci-fi fans can't like both?

I love how giddy the studio audience gets whenever there's innuendo in a conversation between Sheldon and Amy hahaha - and here's a PSA for everyone out there, if Sheldon Cooper knows to ask for verbal consent, so should you!

Apparently Penny gave Sheldon bedroom tips - and he giggled? - Couldn't she have just made him read Cosmo? And now the show is drawing parallels between the guys, anticipating the movie, and Sheldon and Amy, anticipating their ... coitus. Very clever.

Sheldon enjoyed himself! Well that's surprising!

Big Bang Theory - The Earworm Reverbation

Sheldon has a song stuck in his head, and he's going insane over it - it's hilarious though because he just starts trying out random lyrics to go along with the tune.

Amy decides to ask Dave (a.k.a. the guy played by Stephen Merchant) out for dinner again. Even though the last time they went out, he fanboyed over Sheldon and Leonard...

Raj set up a fanpage for his band with Howard, causing Howard to freak out and want to quit the band, but then he changes his mind after they got a fan. So fickle, Howard. So very fickle.

Now Sheldon is sending himself a video diary of himself descending into madness. Also Amy invited Dave over to her house for dinner, which Bernadette says is "Very intimate - it's where your underpants live."

Now Howard and Raj are freaking out about everything their one fan is doing - he seems like a hipster type lol and they think he's so cool. Bernadette thinks it's creepy and stalker-ish. I concur.

Sheldon is still nuts. And now he owns a tuba! You know, it's funny, I think I actually kind of recognize the tune - I think I know the next line of notes but not what comes after that.

Apparently Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon.

You do you, Nik.

But Sheldon remembers the song! It's by the Beach Boys!

Apparently Raj & Howard's fan picks his nose, which is gross, so they run away from following him at the lab.

Sheldon associated that song with Amy, and calls her 'the dryer sheets of my heart'... Aww this is sad.

Catchy song though

Dave kisses Amy, and she freaks out a little, and then Sheldon shows up at that precise moment. Dave freaks out, and Sheldon says he wants her back, and she says yes Dave keeps leaning into the door to offer advice hahaha this show is hilarious... and then they kiss! Yay!

NCIS: LA - Cancel Christmas

[NOTE: Sorry, Student Emily was drunk on happiness over finishing her last exam tonight (and of the following sassy photo of Josh Donaldson in a Santa hat AND a sweater bearing his own likeness) that she forgot to pay attention to the time and missed the beginning of NCIS:LA today.

Hopefully you can't blame me for being distracted by this. It's pretty great.

So she had to wait until it got uploaded online. As a result, she's now writing this after midnight, as Sleepy Emily, and is referring to herself in third person. This should make for an interestingly nonsensical recap.]

Christmas! Christmas is coming!! That little tiny toy train close-up at the beginning is kinda ominous though. So is the song slowing down and everything getting blurry. And then a dude gets hit by a truck. Yeouch.

NELLRICK ARE DANCING!!! Not in a romantic way - but with giant candy canes! SO CUTE!!! But Granger doesn't like it. Because he hates fun. And cute things. He might be allergic to them.

See?

But it's OK, Hetty delivers some shade. #HettyTheBest

Janvier (the one-armed psychopath that wants to kill Callen) sent Callen a Christmas card. It's the only one he got, other than Sam's. Sam takes offense to their proximity to one another. Is that a thing? You need to not put cards from murderers next to ones from your friends? 

Joelle makes an appearance! AND CALLEN GOT ONE OF THOSE CAR-RUDOLPH KITS!!! I LOVE RUDOLPH!!! 

Don't believe me? These are my socks.

And I own this shirt. His nose lights up. I'm a dork. 

Deeks and Kensi are having issues with their mothers who both want to cook Christmas dinner. Sam's grumpy, cos he doesn't want to have to work anymore - and he's mean to Eric. But Kensi thought he was adorable, and Kensi is right! Yaaaay Kensi! 

Dead dude was a North Korean spy. Deeks wants to go work on the case, but Callen declines. Also, I really love Deeks. 'Knuckleheadedness' is totally a word, Sam, even if my spellchecker doesn't think so. They find a dead guy who's not actually dead, he's just passed out. 

Deeks is talking to a Santa-bikini-wearing charity-gathering girl who saw the guy die at the beginning. Apparently 'tannenbaum' is the Christmas word for bingo! I will be using that this season. Deeks and Kensi are having their coupley discussions about lingerie in the middle of the street. As one does. 

WTF Granger, why are you in such a rage?! Because 'terrorism doesn't take holidays' apparently. What a grumpypants. Eric snuggled sugar cookies into Ops, because Eric is wonderful. I don't usually love shortbread, but they had some at my school cafeteria the other day and it made me SO HAPPY!! 

Kensi wants to raise a baby tiger and Kensi just said the word 'bitches' like what is happening here? But baby tigers are damn cute. 

Exhibit A (Hiiiii Joey Bats!) 

Someone turned the gas on in the dead guy's house, and Deeks and Kensi run out but it doesn't go KABOOM like I was expecting it to. Disappointing. 

Some girl fake-cries in front of Callen, then tries to attack him (why do bad guys always make grunting noises right before attacking someone?) and he takes her in for questioning because she poisoned the dead guy right before he died. (Was that Jeanette McCurdy?? It looked like Jeanette McCurdy) and the guy they found in the motel had just gotten out of prison so he asks to borrow some clothes, Granger says 'no' because Granger is a Grinch.

I see the resemblance. 

Also I'm calling him 'Grinchger' from now on. Got it? Good. Callen is nice and offers to help him. Good guy Callen. Eric is rambling on on the phone to Deeks, and he's having a sugar high it's kind of adorable. Deeks takes a fun hypothetical conversation and turns it into a confession about the IA investigation. Your timing is bad, Deeks, and you should feel bad. 

But somehow Kensi had figured it out?! Smartypants Kensi!!! Proud of that girl. It turns into a really cute conversation where he says he needs to kiss her and she says no cos they're working and waahhh why don't I have a boyfriend... 

The girl's mom shot Grinchger in the ass, apparently, and he carries around a photo of her for some reason. He offers her a warm beverage (because that's what you do when someone is sad) and says it has poison in it, because he too hates the holidays.

Callen dropped off the just-out-of-prison guy, is all nice to him, but then they find out that he actually knew the girl and took off from the house with their dog. Nell and Eric want puppies. I want to see Nell and Eric with puppies. The cuteness overload would be worth it. SMART DUDE he had the names of spies embedded in the chip in his dog, took it to a shelter, and got them to read the list. 

Callen tracks him down and puts him in a cage, has some more witty banter (I love you Callen) and they take him to set up a meet with the bad Korean buyers.  

OK I understand that going undercover and tackling the Korean spies was necessary, but did Deeks really have to dress as Santa?! He's gonna scar all those kids for life!! Sam shows up with his son, who was supposed to wait in the car, but didn't. Which might have been a good idea, because as Chuck taught us... 

He's instead super-interested in becoming an NCIS agent. Which Sam is not OK with - even if he's alright with him being in the Navy? 

Kensi wants Deeks to bring his Santa outfit, and they manage to solve their mother problem, inviting them instead to Sam's house. Hetty has a back-up gift for Callen for Joelle, because Hetty thinks of everything, and then NELL AND ERIC SHOW UP DRESSED LIKE TOY SOLDIERS!!! And Granger catches them and tells them to have fun. SO DAMN CUTE!!!! THEY'RE LIKE TEENY PRECIOUS ELVES!!! 

Except they're not elves they're soldier/nutcracker thingies, but who cares THEY'RE SO GOSHDARN CUTE!!!! 

Callen shows up at home, Joelle loves that he got her a gift, she set up a nice dinner for them - and then proceeds to tell him she is going to break up with him at New Years?! Because she worries about him too much?! Joelle you heartless fiend, who has that conversation on Christmas?!!!! 

Merry Christmas, friends!! I, for one, think we can be thankful this didn't end on a cliffhanger! See you in the new year!! 

NCIS: LA - Internal Affairs

So Deeks was arrested, and taken to jail, and some guy comes in and smacks/chokes him while a lady-detective from Internal Affairs was trying to interview him. Ugh.

Boyle (the dead cop) was the guy Deeks explained earlier had put a gun in his mouth, he ended up shot by a hooker he'd assaulted... Supposedly. And the guy attacking Deeks in the interview room was Boyle's old partner.

There's no caption, but you get the gist. 

So the team is gonna investigate, naturally. Deeks kept asking the woman interviewing him for some kind of coffee. So full of the sarcasm and wittiness, as per usual. And Callen may or may not be having relationship issues.

Some dirty cop guy named John Quinn escaped from prison. The police are tearing up Deeks' house and his mom is freaking out. The dead guy's partner, Steadman, was a degenerate gambler and had a female partner who then was killed during a drug bust, which is a little too convenient for Steadman...

Deeks' mom comes to visit him and mentions the fact that he'd had to shoot his father in order to protect her, which is really freaking sad, but didn't we already know that?  

Or is that just a really common character background story? I am confuse!

There was a girl named Julie, a.k.a. Tiffany, who Deeks' cover persona keeps sending money to - she was a hooker who used to be Deeks' informant. She was the one who had supposedly killed Boyle - but says she didn't, she was working with Quinn to bust Boyle, she says Quinn must have killed him - and Deeks helped her get back on her feet because he was the only cop she could trust.

Unless Deeks pleads guilty to the murder he didn't commit, he will be put in a county jail. And Kensi is pissed. She lectures Hetty and says she doesn't care how she does it, she has to get Deeks out. That was... kind of insane.

Kensi and Mrs. Deeks share a nice touching moment - but while Deeks was being interrogated, the lieutenant in charge of the IA department (he'd stopped Steadman from attacking him earlier) comes in and helps him escape. Well this is unexpected - and exciting!

I love a good plot twist!! 

Deeks goes to the house of Quinn's girlfriend, who Sam and Callen had talked to (reluctantly on her part) the day before - but Steadman beat him there and is attacking the girl, Monica - then Deeks is a smartypants and says the stash of whatever he was looking for is under the trap door in the floor of the interrogation room.

Then he brilliantly gets the door open and tells Monica to dive through it, he follows her and they get away! Steadman runs outside - right into the rest of the team. And Kensi points her gun right at him, all badass-like until the rest of the team calls her off - then she realizes where Deeks is and she runs and embraces him which is adorable. And then this happened:

Callen: How come you're never that happy to see me?
Sam: I carry my joy inside
Callen: What does that even mean?
Sam: Means you won't be getting a hug anytime soon.

Those two are the absolute best. I think Granger said it best

Oh, and it turns out Quinn hadn't escaped at all - Hetty had him relocated and faked his escape, and she got the 'stash' and had it planted in Steadman's garage.

But Deeks actually did kill Boyle. Wow. Didn't see that coming. Hetty basically tells him he should break up with Kensi if he can't tell her about the whole killing-a-guy-to-protect-a-hooker thing.

Big Bang Theory - The Platonic Permutation

Sheldon has an extra ticket to an aquarium dinner on Thanksgiving, because he bought one for Amy but then they broke up. Too bad everyone else already has plans!

So he has to take Amy instead - this is shaping up to be hella awkward.
Bernadette, Emily, Raj, and Howard show up to help at a soup kitchen, which is nice of them, and hey, now we've established how close Emily and Bernadette are!

Apparently Penny doesn't know Leonard's birthday! This is an embarrassing twist.. Penny's birthday is December 2nd, by the way, this is news. His is in May but she doesn't know when!

Howard will do nothing but complain. He's a greedy bugger. Amy's steering wheel seems comically large, and Sheldon wants to know if she's had coitus with any other men.

Leonard knows everything there is to know about Penny, which is hella impressive - but he read her journal! Sneaky bastard! But within like 10 seconds there, there were two things that reminded me of How I Met Your Mother - hatred of the word 'moist', and the mention of a slutty orange vegetable.

Moist. Moist. Moist. 

The rest of the gang at the soup kitchen abandons Howard to go work 'up front', while he's stuck doing the dishes. That can't be fun. It's the worst job in the world and now he doesn't even have his friends to talk to.

I feel you Leonard, I often use the word 'GAAAHHH' when I'm excited. I will admit it sounds weird out loud, though. 

Elon Musk is randomly at the soup kitchen, because that's what famous people do (also I had no idea what Elon Musk looked like) and Howard starts sucking up to him because he's a big fan, and he lies about being there voluntarily. 

Ohhh Amy, the game is totally 'fuck marry kill' but I get it, you had to keep it PG for TV. And oh hey, Spongebob reference! 

Any Spongebob reference is a good one. 

OH MY LORD LEONARD IS WEARING THE ORANGE SLUTTY CARROT LINGERE!!!! MY EYES!!! 

Poor Amy, she was doing so well and now suddenly she's all confused in the feelings department and now she wants to be Sheldon's girlfriend again. And he rejects her and now she's sad and now I feel sad too. Poor Amy. 

But hold on, isn't Howard going to be exposed to Elon Musk as a big fat phony?? This is the problem with these damn 19-minute episodes, I always feel like one of the plots doesn't get wrapped up properly.

And would you look at that, now I'm all caught up!