Big Bang Theory - The Intimacy Acceleration

I'm such a bad fan, I keep forgetting when the darn show airs... Stupid evening classes.

Anyways, if you haven't seen the previous week's episode, stop reading right now and go watch it (or read my recap here) because I don't want to spoil the big thing that happened for you. Also, get tissues.

Amy is discussing that study about how people can fall in love after asking one another a series of questions, and then looking into each other's eyes for four minutes. I have to say, I read about that study and I think it's really fascinating... And now I kind of want to try it out on some unsuspecting male friend hahaha (although the eye-gazing might be a hard thing to manage). 

Not creepy at all...

Raj suggests that Sheldon try the experiment and I can see already that this is going to be interesting! I mean he's already told her that he loves her, how much more do we think HE is going to 'accelerate'?! But apparently he's doing the experiment with Penny. Well that's even more interesting!!

Now Amy and Leonard are going to do the experiment?! Why are you people messing with your pairings? This has A Midsummer Night's Dream written all over it... Good thing they decided not to.

Howard is freaking out at the airport because the airline somehow MISPLACED HIS MOTHER'S ASHES holy shit I know sitcoms always use the 'everything is going wrong' thing but holy crap that's horrible.

This is weird, I've also just recently heard of those 'escape room' puzzle challenge thingys, and now Emily's suggesting she, Raj, Leonard, and Amy go to one. They've taken plot points out of my brain. CUT THAT OUT!

OY that girl who is the host of the escape room was totally in another episode of this show!!! She was one of the 'goth girls' that Raj and Howard picked up at the bar in Season 3!!

She's the one on the left. (Not that anyone cares)

And poor Howard's bag with the ashes (that surprises me, you'd think that ashes would need to be transported via biohazard things.. or maybe not. I dunno) has apparently gotten picked up by someone else.

And Penny and Sheldon are actually kind of getting along and getting closer. This is nice! They haven't had many one-on-one bonding stories lately!

Not since this escapade, at least.

I always have felt so bad for the airline employees who get yelled at when something goes wrong - obviously it's not her fault that the bag was lost! She was in another city! It's the perfect alibi! Poor Howard has a serious guilt complex over not taking his mother to the airport. And I have a sudden urge to call my mom.

The gang at the puzzle room is solving everything too fast. So they just finish it (while the zombie guy is just kinda standing there and lurching at them). Because they're all geniuses, except for Emily. Although that did kinda look like fun.

Oh god the eye contact thing is so creepy (even though they're not supposed to talk, they are) even though Sheldon says he's comfortable around Penny and that's so sweet!!

Also it's Sheldon's birthday! Nobody has ever known when his birthday is!! That's awesome!! And he thinks of her as a sister and I'm welling up because I'm so incredibly sappy. It's been eight years! And she's still eating their food! Nothing has changed! But now they feel closer, and psychology has once again proven itself the 'doofus of the sciences'. She walked him home, that's hilarious. Aaaand the gang was waiting to yell 'surprise' haha I guess there goes their newfound closeness...

The Big Bang Theory - The Prom Equivalency

My apologies for the later posting again (but it conflicts with Bones, so, ya know...)
My dad was watching it at home and texted me saying 'OH EM GEE!' so let's see what happens... 

Sheldon is right, I totally feel bad for the gibbon for being classified as a 'lesser ape'.
And Leonard is also right, gibbons don't even know about this taxonomical slight.

Who're you calling 'lesser' apes there, bud??

Penny's prom dress is either shockingly old-fashioned or overly-modern.. I can't tell. Wait a second, I thought Amy was home-schooled and therefore didn't have a prom. CONTINUITY!

Sheldon just said 'booty'. And I love how they just skipped the whole part of them coming up with the idea of the fake prom and just cut to the guys talking about it happening. PLOT HOLES!

Apparently Sheldon can roll-over and bank his 'knock-knock-knock PENNY's. This is a new development. OH DEAR GOD Penny just half-explained the after-prom sex thing to Sheldon and he kinda-half-agreed to it!! I really hope Penny doesn't tell Amy about that, it'll get her hopes up.

And the air-mattress-in-the-van thing Penny mentioned totally reminded me of this from That 70s Show:

Kelso's one-and-only van. Also: "Vanstock. It's like Woodstock, but with vans"

Howard is terribly inconsistent, what with his jealousy over Stuart's relationship with his mom, and then his anger over Stuart potentially being in a relationship with someone other than his mom - Make up your mind, dude!

Apparently pomegranate juice constitutes 'spiking' the punch.

Emily is a little dark... Bernadette is not haha 'I like Cinderella!' And we might finally get to meet that cousin that Howard had sex with - she's Stuart's date!

Leonard has already had his growth spurt! I'm astonished! And hey - going to prom alone isn't pathetic... I went by myself... (with friends). And then we went bowling. Come to think of it, we were pretty nerdy, too.

I went bowling. In this dress. Practical, it was not.

Sheldon has so many other names for sex - 'coitus', 'making whoopee', 'doing the dance with no pants'. And then he talks about his butt again! Maybe Leonard's wrong, and he does have hormones, after all...

Howard's cousin is totally adorable! She could have done WAY better than him (and yes, in my mind, Stuart is an improvement!)

This is one of the reasons I don't like the short-hair Penny - it doesn't look any more dressed-up than it does on a regular basis, even though it's a special event.

'Maybe dance with someone who has arms' Poor Amy is not really setting the bar very high there!

OH MY GOD!!! HE SAID HE LOVED HER!!! SHE WAS TOTALLY GOING TO TELL HIM THAT BUT SHE WAS MONOLOGUING AND HE CUT HER OFF AND SAID "I LOVE YOU TOO"!!!!!!!!! AWWWWWWW!!! *High-pitched squealy noise* TOTALLY LIVED UP TO THAT 'OH EM GEE'!!!! Naturally, this causes her to have a panic attack.

Amy Farrah Fowler: quite possibly the only person to ever need to lie down after being told 'I love you'

And then Stuart leaves because Howard's mom called and apparently got jealous over him taking the cousin as his date. Awkward.

Big Bang Theory - The Misinterpretation Agitation

[This episode aired October 30th, 2014] Sorry for being late.

Amy totally has a point about the '50 sexiest female scientists' article... I mean really? Is that necessary? I hate to go all feminist on this, but come on, Bernadette is a GENIUS, how has that never landed her in a magazine before? Or Amy for that matter! Anyway...

Sheldon loves delivery people. And I knew as soon as he said who he was that this doctor-guy was there to see Penny. Also, are we really supposed to buy that Penny, in her tiny apartment, wasn't able to answer her door in the time it took Sheldon to tell Leonard in his roundabout way that the guy was there?? That was a run-on sentence, but I'm tired. She always appears to be standing right behind it whenever Sheldon knocks! And then they had that lengthy conversation with him in the hallway!!

OK I'm coming to realize it's possible she was not home... Or asleep. Or in the shower. Or something.

Bernadette mentioned Neil Degrasse-Tyson, so now I get to use this picture:

Teehee.

Oh god, Bernadette pulled they 'you're just jealous' card, so Amy got mad.. Crap. Low blow, Bernie. Friends don't mock friends' lack of sex lives.

I'm pretty sure the sweater Penny is wearing is from Old Navy - I don't even work there anymore, but I still have the majority of their stock memorized. I need to stop shopping online. You don't want to see my credit card statements. And of course Sheldon likes this doctor guy!! And here's his problem: HE COUNTED MISSISSIPILY!!! YOU NEVER COUNT MISSISSIPILY!!!

Ross learned that the hard way.

I'm really not impressed with the ladies this episode - Penny with the whole deceitful pretending-she's-single thing, Bernadette being mean to Amy... Although the Penny thing did lead to this delightful exchange (probably my favourite part of the episode):

 

 

 

Say what you will about him, Sheldon is a very gracious host.

I only just now realized that the doctor guy is Billy Bob Thornton. My IMDb-brain is slipping!! Maybe because he's missing the beard. I'm gonna go with that. Howard is ever the hypocrite, judging a guy for living with his mother. And Sheldon compares Leonard to Donkey Kong - one of his more original zingers.

How does Billy Bob (hey, he has the same initials as the show! It's meant to be!) manage to keep catching friends of Penny's when he goes to their apartment building?? His timing is remarkable. And OH DEAR GOD he took advice on women from Sheldon of all people. And I'm thinking he's a little bit like a serial killer now, what with locking the guys in his basement. Either that or I've been watching too much Criminal Minds lately... Hmm...

Oops. (I did not make this.)

Bernadette also has incredible timing! And there was a REALLY subtle Halloween reference - that random skeleton decoration in the lobby of the apartment building. Really? Given that this is Sheldon's favourite holiday, I'm sure he would have at least been wearing a costume. I'm very disappointed.

Well that's all for this week - hopefully next week I'll have the BBT blog up by Friday. But TV scheduling sucks. As does school. Goodnight!

Big Bang Theory - The Focus Attenuation

Raj thinks Leonard 'tricked' Penny into getting engaged - and apparently he's almost done a pullup!

My friend gave me this awesome shirt for my birthday so I'm wearing it in honour of tonight's episode:

I might piss off some Trekkies... But I don't really care :P

Sheldon's hatred of travel destinations appear to all stem from various movies. 'I don't want to go to a lake house, have you seen The Lake House??'

Sure, nothing bad happens to THEM... The bad thing happens to me for having to watch this for 1.5 hours.

The girls are going to Vegas! This ought to be good... 

Surprise, surprise, Howard's only ideas for inventions are things you can have sex with. And now they're going to try to create the hover-board from Back to the Future 2.

The girls' trip is disrupted by Penny having to do work stuff.

Sheldon just referred to Leonard as his 'boy' lol I'm not sure what to make of that... And they're all quibbling about the proper tense to refer to things that changed the past after doing something in the future.

Drunk Amy keeps going on and on about how hot Bernadette is, and apparently she also has a divot in her spine! Their hotel room is SO NICE, man this happens every time people from a sitcom go to a hotel. 

GHOSTBUSTERS!!!! Bill Murray got wrong the meaning of 'negative reinforcement' in the opening scene (which I surprisingly didn't notice, even though I learned about that in my Psych class).

'You have a gift!!'

This episode seemed really short... Raise your hands if you're still astonished by the fact that Big Bang Theory is on its EIGHTH season. I mean holy crap.

The Big Bang Theory - The Hook-Up Reverbation

Sheldon's pointed out the fact that I already knew - when someone starts a romantic relationship, they tend to lose one or two close friends, so the guys want to know which of them Raj is going to drop. For some reason, it would appear that I'm always that 'one friend' among my friends...

Stuart is still living with Howard's mom, and she got him cable. With seven HBOs. SEVEN!

Thank you Monica, for the visual representation.

Poor Amy has actually had people say they don't like her to her face. Penny has not. What else is new. This was brought up because Penny thinks Raj's girlfriend Emily doesn't like her. 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: POOR AMY!!

Because Sheldon is too picky about the new comic book store, Leonard just described Sheldon as 'an eighty-year-old man in a twelve-year-old's T-shirt' and I stared at him for a moment because I couldn't believe how accurate that is. The boys are going to give Stuart some money so he can reopen his store and not live with Mrs. Walowitz.

Howard's mom has also bought Stuart four-ply toilet paper. FOUR PLY!

FOUR!!!!

Turns out the intense dislike of Penny is due to the fact that Raj told Emily he and Penny hooked up. Stupid man, you don't say things like that to your girlfriend!!! (Although in his defense, apparently he tells everyone). This is like Ross and Emily and Rachel all over again!! Why are the jealous girls in these stories always named Emily?!! (Although in that case, after the wedding, she did have a point...) But I digress.

The comic book store means so much to Howard that he made up a story about his father to appeal to Bernadette. But all the ladies think it's a terrible idea (except for Amy, who only goes with it under the threat that it'll break up their relationship)

Eventually Penny and Emily settle things between them, and then they both turn against Raj because he gets all cocky about being able to 'bed them both'.

Turns out the whole comic-book store thing is a moot point because Howard's mom already gave Stuart the money. And called him her 'bubulah' which pisses Howard off even more, because he's her bubulah and she can't have two. 'YOU ONLY GET ONE!!! ONE!!!!!'

This many!!!

Shocking, Emily and Penny still actually hate each other. Good grief. I would really like for the SNL sketch 'Supporting Women' to be accurate right now!! Why do all the pretty girls always have to hate each other?

"You shot me, but it was an accident. And I forgive you."

Big Bang Theory - The First Pitch Insufficiency

Disclaimer: today I realized that I'm a bad fan because even though I own three Big Bang Theory-related T-shirts (and a Snuggie!) I let the season premiere pass me by without wearing any of them. I didn't wear my CSI shirt for their premiere last night, either. But tonight, order is restored, I'm wearing my 'Knock Knock Knock Penny!' shirt, and I'm ready to roll.

Also, we should send virtual fives to my Physiology prof, because he let the class go a half-hour early today, and therefore this blog didn't have to wait until tomorrow to be posted, because that class is gonna conflict with BBT until they switch back to Thursdays. Yaaaay.

In a weird coincidence, my roommates and I went to a Toronto Blue Jays game yesterday (they lost, but oh well), and now there's a baseball-themed BBT episode tonight. Just at the end of baseball season. Weird timing, guys. This really should have aired in the spring, but anyway... In a shocking turn of events, Howard has no athletic ability whatsoever.

Sheldon doesn't understand the difference between two dates and a 'double date'. And here's another freaky parallel between Bernadette and I, she used to play softball as a kid. I played for nine years. Only sport I'm even remotely fond of playing/remotely good at.

This was year three of nine. Look at those bangs!!

I don't buy this - apparently after nearly seven years, Penny doesn't know Sheldon's catchphrase. Granted, he didn't say it in season 1 (or maybe season 2? Can someone confirm this?) but she now thinks it's 'bazooka' for some reason. I call bullshit.

In Sheldon's mind, the ranking of the relationships in the group are:
1 - Him and Amy
2 - Howard and Bernadette
3 - Raj and whoever he's dating
4 - Penny and chardonnay (Amy points out that Penny actually drinks sauvignon blanc)
5 - Penny and Leonard.
Ouch.

They do make a cute couple. And that doesn't look like an anything-blanc to me.

I didn't know it was possible to be allergic to avocado. Apparently Amy is. And Sheldon has invented a scale on which to rate french fries. And there's an inventory to quantify the quality of relationships, which, naturally causes tension between Leonard and Penny.

When did Penny start wearing black-leather jackets?? And her hair is so flat that it looks like it's wet and sticking to her head. Emily no likey.

Also, astronaut guy is missing the key fact that it's HARDER to throw things in zero gravity. Yaaaay physics.

OK regarding the baseball game they all go to:
1 - The person throwing the first pitch doesn't get to make a speech first.
2 - The LA Angels (of Anaheim) are in a city nearly an hour outside of LA (longer with the LA traffic). That's like putting the New York Yankees in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 
3 - Proud Toronto fan braggy-moment - Angels Stadium hasn't got shit on the Skydome.

Does YOUR stadium have a majestic opening/closing roof and a view of the CN Tower?? DOES IT??

Howard is an idiot and didn't think this through. 
Aaaaand my supposedly-superior digital cable just cut out. Shit. I'm just gonna assume he keeps getting booed. Back after commercial break and he's still getting booed. Yaaaay predictable plot lines.
That's all for tonight! Who's your favourite BBT couple? Mine is still Penny and that wine.
I'll be back later tonight posting about the season premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles. Stay tuned for that!

Big Bang Theory - The Junior Professor Solution

One night, two new episodes of BBT.

If there was a female version of this, that'd be me right now.

According to the plot summary of this episode from the CBS website, Sheldon has to teach a class and Howard takes it. I'm expecting a lot of peanut-gallery comments, since he's always been the quickest with comebacks out of the group. This ought to be good.

Also I should mention that Sheldon is reeeeally reluctant about the teaching job.

Penny is avoiding Bernadette because she's finding her annoying and it's making Amy (and me) uncomfortable because this kind of thing is terribly awkward and kinda mean...

Can we just ban couple-names? Raj + his girlfriend = Kuthrapemily or Emmipali. Bad. Just cringeworthy. And as an Emily, I know my name wouldn't ever pair well with that of any hypothetical future boyfriend I might have. So just let's ban them. For the good of mankind.

Amy is playing a bit of a double-agent because Bernadette is complaining to her about Penny now - I HAVE BEEN THERE AND IT IS TERRIBLE. DON'T FALL INTO THAT TRAP, AMY!

Callback to the episode where Sheldon taught Penny about physics! Fig Newtons are named after a town in Massachusetts, not the scientist. (I knew that!) And Walowitz might get his doctorate, which is good for him, but I will really miss all those 'Howard's the only non-doctor here' jokes.

I always have felt bad for Amy... Her boyfriend couldn't care less about the things going on with her, and now she's 'popular' because she was always so lonely that she's willing to pit her two best friends against each other just so they'll both like her? It's really just kinda sad...

That was brilliant - Howard decided to be a crappy non-paying-attention student because Sheldon was being a crappy teacher and OH GOD HE'S RAPPING. HOWARD IS RAPPING.

But poor Amy, Bernadette and Penny are getting along now so she feels left out.

'Can't talk! Spitball! Probably gonna die!' Totally using that line now whenever someone calls me and I don't want to talk to them.

Howard has got a whole new backbone to him this season, I kinda love it. [Edit: I just managed to put a name on what's happening to him. He's becoming more quippy, and less creepy. Nailed it.]

(Commercial Break) there's a new Nicholas Sparks movie coming out and even though it sounds almost exactly like The Notebook I kinda want to see it because it has JAMES MARSDEN IN IT!! Although he was in the Notebook, and lost the girl... So he doesn't have a great track record. But he's very handsome. So he's got that going for him, which is nice. But I already have an idea of what the poster's gonna look like:

The BBT boys just gave me an idea... to study using a quiz system with chocolate as reward! Why have I never thought of this!

Big Bang Theory - The Locomotion Interruption

The first problem with living in a new house is not knowing which channel is which on the new cable... So I missed the first few minutes of this episode. Tuned in just in time to see pants-less Sheldon whining to people at a train station. Ah, how I've missed him.

To recap last year's season finale:
Sheldon ran away because he didn't know how to handle Leonard and Penny living together, the comic book store is going under so Stuart is now working as a nurse for Howard's mom, and THIS HAPPENED:

Now their babies won't be imaginary at all!!!

I have to say, I hate Penny's hair short. Kaley Cuoco can pull off anything, and she looks gorgeous, but Penny is too childlike and ditzy and the long, curly hair suits her. Maybe this is supposed to go along with her new 'career-woman' persona, but I don't think it works with the character.

Side note: Bernadette's line 'the world is full of things that could cause a rectum to bleed' would make a terrible motivational poster.

In honour of my former Monday-at-8:00 sitcom...

It's a little creepy (to everyone except him) that Stuart is still living with Mrs. Walowitz and kind of becoming her boy toy/replacement for Howard... But at least if they become a couple, we won't have to see them kiss or anything...

On his entire trip, Sheldon never went outside or had a single piece of fruit. Sounds like my idea of a fun weekend...

Fun fact - Howard said Stuart is in his thirties, but Raj thought he was 'like 45' - Kevin Sussman, the actor who plays Stuart, is actually 44.

I'm really glad Amy doesn't just play along with Sheldon's ridiculousness anymore - I've always felt so bad for her! AND HE WANTS TO WHAT - oh nevermind, he was just making sure she couldn't hear him, by pretending he wanted to have coitus with her hahaha I should have seen that coming.

Bernadette is so like me - tiny and nice but can still put the fear of God in someone if they need to get their shit together.

Also, just so you know, NOBODY IS ANYBODY'S FATHER even though Howard and Stuart are both talking down to one another and bossing each other around.

(Commercial break) Holy crap, they're still making Survivor?? Talk about beating a dead horse... Does anyone even watch that anymore???

And Sheldon is with me on the hair thing. Also he's for some reason obsessed with brands of foods.