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.

Bones - The Lost Love in the Foreign Land

Awkward moment when Arastoo and Cam are clearly not on the same page about marriage... (And neither is Arastoo's mom). Luckily for Cam, someone's dead, so she has to leave!

The body was discovered by goats that were grazing in a field and started eating the victim's clothes, so naturally this led to a very funny moment when Hodgins and Aubrey had to chase after one of them because it had evidence in its mouth.
One of the writers, Emily Silver, tweets really awesome behind-the-scenes pictures. I've borrowed a few...

This is clearly a behind-the-scenes picture, but LOOKIT EM RUN!!!

Uh oh. Bones has decided not to approve Vaziri's dissertation, which is incredibly awkward. He's just not having a good day! (Side note, the actor who plays Vaziri, Pej Vahdat is in a competition with the guy who plays Wendell, Michael Grant Terry, over who can get more Twitter followers... I obviously follow both of them but I wish MGT would win because I love him... So go follow him :D https://twitter.com/LLMGT S )

The dead lady was an Asian immigrant maid and worked for a lady who looks a lot like Helen Mirren (she's even British!) but the lady had no idea she was missing. And the old Chinese man who ran the agency that referred the maid says there was a client in the past who'd behaved inappropriately and he might be a suspect (but keep in mind that this man is also the second person they've interviewed, sooo...)

Brennan is kind of regressing in terms of empathy and interactions with others - zero sympathy for Vaziri because he 'should be better than' whatever he suggested for his dissertation. Cam went to talk to her and then Brennan spilled those beans to Vaziri - REALLY Bones, you are not thinking today. Cripes.

Apparently the first client, the one who was inappropriate, was sketchy and inappropriate with some female Asian students at the highschool he used to teach at. I hate him already.

Aubrey eats a LOT. This is adorable, he's got takeout spread over half the conference room table. (Side note: Pej Vahdat is jealous that he had to take his clothes off instead of getting to eat a bunch of food. I think some of us viewers would also like it to be the other way around..) And Aubrey really wants the attention that he'd get for bringing down a sex offender/murderer. Really? That's your priority dude?!

Vaziri overreacts to Cam standing up for him, thinks she doesn't respect him or have faith in him, and then somehow that's related to the marriage thing. I smell a breakup coming...


Aubrey continues to be witty, and the guy who ran the agency where the victim worked was running a human trafficking ring of girls from Asia. WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED. Aubrey looks so astonished and disturbed - but I'm really hoping that he's not just thinking 'Woohoo! Front page!'

Look at them all! It's like clowns in a clown car... But not at all funny.

Oh hey, the State Department guy is back! That's a blast from the past, how many episodes has he been in? (I just checked IMDb and it's 3, including this one - one from Season 2, then he didn't come back until Season 8 when they to deal with that diplomatic crap involving Pelant)

And I know he's dead already, but DAMN YOU PELANT!!!!

Good guy Aubrey is indignant over the treatment of the women and the fact that the State Department wants to detain them. They apparently all have children in China and the traffickers threatened their families. My god this is so sad... Brennan and Angela figure out that one of the traffickers killed the victim's father and then he fled to the US, so she went to the States to follow him.

Aubrey apologizes to Booth for his selfishness earlier, calls himself 'ass-like' and says he felt horrible when he saw those women but IT'S OK AUBREY I FORGIVE YOU!

Apparently Sung, the guy who killed the victim's father was super-easy to track down and he was in love with her, Sung killed the dad because he was trying to sell her to someone for marriage. And he was trafficked too. So she left their remote village and literally walked over mountains to follow him. Everyone looks sad. Aubrey gets indignant again, because Sung is probably going to be sent back to China and executed for killing the father. Booth reminds State Department Guy (unnecessarily) to be fair.

This guy! Remember this guy? "Yeah Booth, thanks for reminding me to be fair."

OHHHH SHIT the British lady who the murder victim worked for actually was getting money from the traffickers... OK I actually didn't see that coming. She seemed so nice..

It turned out that the killer was Tammy, the woman they spoke to at the house. She killed her because the victim had been sneaking out of the house to find Sung, and the trafficker had caught her and said that if she did it again he would punish all of them - including their families back in China. So Tammy killed her to protect all the girls, and her own daughter and I just feel ill. This is so incredibly sad. None of these people were at fault (except for the evil traffickers, obviously).

Vaziri got an idea from this case for his dissertation, and Brennan approved it, so all is forgiven between him and Cam. And Cam, who used to interrupt Hodgins and Angela when they were having 'a moment' at work, decides that PDA in the lab is fine now that she's dating a squintern. The Bones writers call them 'Camastoo'. Haha.

Sorry for the lack of pictures today, I'm really tired... and this episode was just too sad to be witty about :/ See y'all next week!

NCIS: LA - SEAL Hunter

This episode is already looking pretty interesting, because a) someone gets framed and b) Chris O'Donnell directed. Yaaaay! I would also like to applaud them for going 6 episodes in without any reruns. That's longer than pretty much any other show this season... which is kinda disappointing. But anyways...

Sam gets arrested, at gunpoint, by the FBI, on a bridge. For MUUUUURDER. (That was my Shawn-from-Psych voice, there).

Deeks is eating a superfruit that's part aphrodisiac and looks like a giant sea urchin. Then he hits on Kensi, because 'the fruit made me do it' is an awesome excuse... Right?
Who are all these random people who suddenly work in Ops?? Typical of Hetty to be all 'by the book' and then sneak around behind Granger's back.

Kensi made a Ghostbusters reference, and Deeks has the revelation that vegetarians don't tend to eat at delis. I'm still confused about what this case is and who the person is that Sam may have killed.
Callen is also sneaky and hides in the FBI agent's car. I love how, depending on the viewpoint of the show, FBI agents are either arrogant jerks (CSI), heroes (Bones, Criminal Minds) or incompetent morons (Chuck, NCIS).

But one thing's the same:

They. Always. Wear. Suits.

Eric just compared hacking to sex and Nell made a face I've never seen on her before. It was priceless. Hetty also had a comeback to his analogy, but I'm afraid I missed it because I was still laughing at Nell. (But seriously, does anyone know what she said?? Leave the answer in comments & I'll be forever grateful!!)

Apparently you can now compare DNA samples virtually. *Science*

According to Deeks, toupees can be formidable. Also Deeks claims to be an expert on Judaism because of dating Jewish girls? How does that work, exactly? Don't pretend like you actually listened to them, dude.

Callen shows up - disguised as a waiter - at the restaurant where the FBI agents go for lunch. And Sam's apparently 'disappeared' into the federal jail system. Callen's pissed. He took the FBI lady's gun. And he recommends the lobster. But BAM now Granger's there too. WHAAAAT!? How do they do that?

Deeks scales up a house to climb in the window, and Kensi was definitely looking at his butt. Aaaand now he's trapped. Smooth move, Deeks. "If you shoot me in the back, that's murder!'" So... he just keeps his back to the guy. Oh man I love Deeks. Kensi happens to save the day from outside. And toupee man was definitely staring at Deeks, too... But not his ass. His hair. 

This is relevant.

Toupee-man, when interviewed, says he doesn't trust SEALs, then after he lists all their sneaky accomplishments in that rhetorical-question manner that is OH SO annoying ('You know who did ____? SEALs') Deeks cuts him off by saying 'otters?' and I want to high-five the TV because dude read my mind. (But I didn't, because that would be weird. Not that that's stopped me before..)

This guy approved of that joke.

Toupee-man also claims to have endured 36 hours of 'self-induced' waterboarding, and Deeks is well aware that he's full of it. Well, come on, Deeks, you are the expert on being full of it. 

Surprise, non-surprise, the two FBI people (OK apparently one of them's a lawyer) are sleeping together, and Callen casually finds them, again. I'm cracking up. I think someone on the NCIS: LA writing team has been watching Psych, this is exactly how Shawn operates. Or maybe I've been watching too much Psych. That's also a possibility. (But you can never watch too much Psych.) Granger snaps some photos of them sneaking off together and tells them that it wouldn't bode too well for them if word got out - because he wouldn't be Granger if he wasn't spoiling somebody's fun!

BOOM, Sam is back. And now he's talking to toupee man, who is probably wishing he could pull off the chrome dome like Sam does. Product placement... They have a new Windows phone. It's shiny. My dad is a tech geek and he always pointed it out when Eric had the Surface tablet before they were publicly available. They always manage to get such nicely-framed shots of them, too.

Voila! Side note: check out that adorable selfie. 

Totally reminded me of when they did this on Chuck. Who holds a sandwich like that?

Apparently it's not a toupee, his hair is just really thick and - ooh! Explosion! The non-toupee man's boat blew up. But it was pretty far away. (He wasn't on it). Apparently Sam has a 'doppelganger' who must have been the one who actually committed the murder - but that guy barely looks like him. And Granger tells Callen to 'keep an eye on Sam', knowing fully well that SAM DOES WHAT HE WANTS!

Kensi and Deeks go undercover at a self-defense class, they mess up their over story about whether they're cousins or together (they settle on cousins from Kentucky, it's a good overlap) and the lady teaching the class is totally Hotchner's wife from Criminal Minds.

Hey, I've got an idea, let's play the 'how many other TV shows can Emily mention in one post?' game. So far, I'm up to six. And one movie. I feel like this would be a good game for me to play on all my other posts. Must remember that for later.

Every time self-defense lady makes a move on him, Deeks goes "Okay, that's happening" hahaha what a guy. Apparently she remembers him as a detective because she was a working girl and he helped her out. Say it with me now: Awwwe. But then he has to tell her he's investigating her boss, and she's sad. OH CRAP they use her to lure in her boss and then he has a laser beam trained on her. Crapola.

Sam has to play the hero and runs in front of her so that Deeks and Kensi can follow the guy she handed off the bag to - he was obviously wearing a vest, so he's fine - but then he just LEAVES her there and runs off after the sniper who could possibly still shoot at her... Where's the logic in that??

An abandoned theater is a great place for a showdown. What with the dramatic lighting and all. And I'm still bothered by the fact that THIS DUDE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE SAM!!!

Calm Sam is the scariest Sam. The guy (who is not scary, and looks nothing like Sam) starts crying so then Sam and Callen just start laughing, because real SEALs don't cry. 

No word on the otters, though.

And toupee-or-not guy took all the credit and then referred to Callen and Sam as his backup. Rude!

Update: that sea-urchin-looking fruit stinks. Hetty's not having any of that in her Ops!
Foolish Callen invites Granger for a drink with them - why would you do that! He will prevent you from having fun!

So, to sum up:
-Excellent banter this episode (although a little lacking on Nell & Eric again, what's up with that?)
-Deeks has a nice butt
-Don't mess with Sam
-Toupees are obvious
-Affairs with coworkers are also obvious *cough* Densi *cough*
-Callen is sneaky
-Otters are adorable
-The writers need to learn what 'doppelganger' means
-I wish Chris O'Donnell could direct every episode

And I managed to make six TV and one movie references. Not sure if that's a good thing...

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!

SNL - Chris Rock

Apparently Chris Christie (Bobby) thinks of himself as a Kevin James-type. And apparently he's 'everywhere' *Cue shot of Emily looking behind the couch for him*

The first time I ever heard of Chris Rock was when he was in Madagascar... So every time I hear his voice, I see a zebra in my mind.

AFRO CIRCUS AFRO CIRCUS!!

Making Boston Marathon jokes, dude? Really? Who approved this monologue, exactly? (Also, the audience seems pretty uncomfortable too). And Twitter agrees.

Sasheer (a.k.a. Janelle) is making a dance tutorial video and Kyle is her adorably in-love-with-her friend... But she doesn't consider him a boy. Poor kid. This '15-year-old' is taller than her dad (Chris). And I think he was standing in the way because when Jay (her brother) came in the door you couldn't see him.. I've said this before, but Kyle playing a young kid is always adorable.

Fauxmercial for the GoPro... colonoscopy edition? Kyle, Beck and Taran are a bunch of 40+ extreme athletes talking about getting colonoscopies. It's so weird.

Technology has come a long way.

 Woody Harrelson is hosting in 2 weeks! I have a theory that he's just Matthew McConaughey from the future who invented a time machine and sent himself back in time. Also, I've been watching Cheers lately, so that's a nice coincidence.

Since the host is a black guy, they're doing that talk-show sketch where Keenan interviews black people on how they think Obama is doing. Also why do white people like kissing their dogs on the lips??? And they're still talking about that dude who ran into the White House. I'm glad, because that was just ridiculous.

To be perfectly honest, I don't like Price that much just on principle - he's always been such an ass to Weird Al Yankovic, and I mean COME ON IT'S WEIRD AL!!! You can't hate Al!!  Also I think he (Prince) tries too hard to be 'different'. Changing his name to that symbol thing... Why are you wearing three-lens sunglasses, dude?? You do not have another eye on your forehead!!
Weird Al totally gets him back though.. About halfway through this awesome song: 

SNL is giving Prince a longer-than-normal chunk of time to perform. So I'm taking this opportunity to mute the TV and listen to some Weird Al. Priorities.

Side note: remember that guy Hozier who was the musical guest when Bill Hader hosted? I'm still obsessed with that song he performed. It's called 'Take Me To Church'. So thanks for that one, SNL!

UPDATE!! Michael really likes the new Pope and so do I! But for different reasons.
Pete is back! As the 'resident young person'! Aaaaand... talking about his dick. Sending pictures of said dick to his mother. Oh good grief. She must be so proud. And then he mentioned his dad coming back, as a joke... Who died in 9/11... That's just awkward. Especially considering the 9/11 jokes in the monologue. What the hell is up with this??
Michael flubbed a joke, but then recovered very well!

Also he apparently only voted for Mayor Bill DeBlasio because he liked his son's afro. That's good a reason as any!

Jay Pharaoh is wonderful at everything he does. How has that man not been nominated for an Emmy by now??

I didn't know who Katt Williams was when I first saw this impression, but now I do and it's spot-on.

The Shark Tank sketch is back and... Good greif! They're asking for money for ISIS, what the hell? And Chris Rock has roped my boy Kyle into this offensive crap, too! WHY?! (Although they did point out that the whole ISIS/ISIL thing is confusing). But then they turned them over to the Secret Service, so... I guess it's all ok now?

Apparently, realizing you like Taylor Swift is the leading cause of vertigo in adults. She even got Leslie!! This is very dangerous!! (But luckily, there's now a pill for that).

Beck as a doctor reminds me of Chris Parnell as Dr. Spaceman from 30 Rock.

I'm so confused by this next sketch, it's basically Chris and Leslie as a married couple getting ready to go out (and being driven by Uber) and fighting a whole bunch... Apparently Sasheer is their daughter. And at one point, I think there was a mix-up with the cue cards cos Leslie just walked away and then came back for no reason, stared off to the side for a minute looking confused and then there was shuffling and then they resumed. Awkward.

The next bit is a pre-taped bank robbery scene that's really intense and totally looks like something out of Criminal Minds or something. Kyle has a man-bun! But the robbers (Kyle, Bobby, and Beck) are all super considerate of everyone and this is actually hilarious. Their dramatic acting is totally convincing and intimidating and then they flip around to being super-nice and that sketch was A-plus. Well done.

Cecily and Kate now acting as women from the eighties teaching an instructional video on dealing with diversity in the workplace. I've definitely never heard the phrase 'diverse person' before. Cecily's voice is hilarious. BTW, apparently the solution is to 'out-diverse' people. Cos that's a thing.

Well that's it for this week! Best part - no second Prince performance! I'm kidding - the best part was definitely that bank robber sketch. For those of you who missed the Bill Hader/Hozier episode, it's on as a rerun next week! WATCH IT! It was great!!

Bones - The Corpse at the Convention

[Note: As stated last week, Big Bang Theory conflicts with Bones, so I'm going to be watching/blogging about it later.]

Booth doesn't know what Schrodinger's cat is, and for once someone is fawning over Angela and calling her a genius. Go Angela!! That non-scientist mystery writer who Brennan hates is also at this conference (that's a blast from the past!), and then a very rude fire alarm interrupts Brennan's speech. There's a body on fire in a stairwell and she freaks out about the fact that the evidence is burning - rather than being concerned for her own safety. Typical Brennan.

Also, this week - WENDELL'S BAAAAAAAACK!!! Let's take a brief moment for some Wendell appreciation:

I think he approves.

I had to use this one again, it's too priceless. And I realized he looks very concerned. Which is adorable.

AND HE HAS NO CANCER!!!! Because Brennan managed to get him into a clinical drug trial. Awwww... I'm not crying. You're crying.

It's kind of hilarious how many people are trying to push their crime-scene investigation products on the team. Within the space of two minutes, Aubrey mentioned Beyonce and Booth mentioned the Kardashians - we get it, Bones writers, you're young and hip and whatnot. Shockingly, the author-lady is using the dead person to promote herself. (That was sarcasm).

Turns out that the dead girl was actually the entomologist that Hodgins had argued with earlier in the day. And as he so furiously pointed out, that's the third time he's been a murder suspect.. Given his temper, I coulda sworn it was more.

I love how Aubrey is turning into a mini-Booth, they even have a similar kind of voice/accent.

Apparently it's possible to just remove giant sections of concrete stairways when examining the body attached to them. And Cam's signature messy-bun is back! I wish my hair always looked that perfect when I pull it back 'casually'.

Although let's be honest, Cam look flawless approximately 100% of the time.
Even when examining icky gross crime scenes.

Without fail, the sight of Booth eating pie at the diner makes me want pie. Ooh! Band-aid found at the scene has DNA on it that belongs to none other than... Hodgins. Damnit Hodgepodge, stop leaving your DNA on things!! And now Aubrey and Booth have to interview him (not that that's a conflict of interest or anything). He and Aubrey like each other (aww) so Aubrey asks him to please not be the killer. Right, because that's how that works.

Turns out the guy running the convention was having an affair with the dead lady - and before that, he was having an affair with the author lady. Crap, I've lost track of who they interviewed second. They interviewed the dishwasher guy, then Hodgins, then this guy. But I can't remember if there was someone before or after the dishwasher. And now Hodgins, despite being a suspect, is still allowed to work on the case. That's so silly. I guess it's because they don't have any other lab people to do all the science for him.

Damnit, Wendell hasn't returned from his appointment for medication... THIS IS NOT OK! Bones writers, if you kill him too, I SHALL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!

This is not a good look for him! No more of this!
(Even though it's obviously a bald cap, cos ain't nobody touching MGT's hair!!)

Hodgins and Cam figure out that there was a chemical time-release that set the fire, and therefore caused all the suspects (including him) to lose their alibis. But at least they got to do a little experiment. One with fire this time!

Oh, and apparently all the ten minutes of worrying over Wendell is dismissed with "He called Booth, he's fine." That was semi-pointless. Except now he's at the bar and all sad and pensive because one of the other people in the trial suddenly got worse and died. So now he's worried that his cancer's suddenly going to come back. Which Booth takes as a reason to tell a war story - haven't heard one of those in a while. And he calls Wendell his 'brother' and I teared up a little. I want to hug him. He needs a hug. And so do I.

Turns out the killer was one of those forensic-tool-salespeople. Booth cannot say 'thermocouple' and Bones has to be reminded not to compliment the murderer. Turns out the dead lady was also sleeping with him - and stealing his product design. Just like she did to Hodgins (the plagiarism part, not the sleeping-with part). She wasn't a very nice person.

OK I like the Schrodinger joke - and Booth's moon one - but it didn't really warrant the hysterical round of laughter it got from her audience. It was more of an 'lol' not a 'LMAO'. And come on, all those scientists, and no one thinks the moon one is funny?! Lame.

Schrodinger's cat: inspiring paradoxes since 1935.

OK that's all for this week - but stay tuned, I'll be posting the Big Bang Theory blog sometime soon. Also, Elementary is returning tonight (yay!) and I'm not blogging about it, but I will probably be live-tweeting, so feel free to come find me here: https://twitter.com/emmycsi :)

I'll leave you with just one more adorable Wendell (since we probably won't see him for a while now). I've got a whole arsenal of these.

Look how dapper he is. I bet he'd be fun at parties.

NCIS: LA - Black Budget

It's a really odd and unfortunate coincidence that there are two of my shows which revolve around mass shootings this week, following the shooting in Ottawa last Wednesday - last night, preceding the new episode of CSI, CTV actually aired a modified warning that 'in light of recent events, this episode may be disturbing to some viewers'. I know it's pretty irrational (especially considering I'm from Canada), but mass shootings are one of my biggest fears. What a depressing world we live in.

Callen and Sam have to go to Mexico to find an accountant guy who managed to escape the shooting at his office, and then fled the country for some reason. And I love it when Hetty calls Eric and Nell 'you two', it's almost like she's their mother.

Such cuties. They're definitely the 'children' in this weird NCIS family.

Literally right after they pull up in Mexico, a bunch of gang guys come out of nowhere and steal their guns and keys and phones. Now that's just bad luck. HAHAHA it's ok, he's actually a DEA agent and he doesn't want the boys to compromise his operation, but at least he gives them some crappy 'untraceable' revolvers to use, and a lemon of a car.

Well, ok. It wasn't as bad as this one. Theirs had windows.

Kensi is capable of translating Deeks' words when he has food in his mouth.That takes some skill. I'm not sure I could do that.

Sam is capable of coming across as insanely creepy when he's 'in character'. Callen is a little surprised by this. And I don't think Sam pulling his gun at the obvious bad guys who just walked into a bar is really the BEST idea he's ever had... Not to draw attention to yourselves, or anything. Somehow they manage to miss him with their semiautomatics, but he has no luck with his revolver either (that's a new one).

One of the girls from the bar/brothel (barthel? Using that word now) was harbouring the escapee (Milton, what a typical accountant name) at her sister's house. And they tell Callen and Sam that he's engaged to the sister, and Callen gets extremely sarcastic, which is one of my favourite things ever - he even sounds a little like Shawn from Psych.

Girl: "He's my fiance. We're going to be married."

Callen: "Yeah, that's usually what 'fiance' means." Sarcastic Callen is the best Callen.

The girl he rescued from the barthel starts hitting on him once she finds out he's never been married, and Sam starts laughing. The accountant guy is still really suspicious of Sam and Callen.


Deeks tickles Kensi's 'conspiracy bone'... Which is an odd way of phrasing things.

The bad guys from the barthel naturally show up at the house - in big black SUVs, the obvious car of choice for bad guys. They've cut the phone lines and toss in a walkie for communication. Sam thinks they're the delta unit that Milton had figured out stole a lot of money from the government. Which is why they wanna kill him. And they have the typical military pissing contest of 'our guns are bigger than yours mwahaha'.

Conveniently, Hetty and the others at Ops manage to figure out the bit about the stolen money at about the same time as Granger figures out that the team in question is in Mexico. He pulls out some bureaucratic language on an uncooperative army sergeant, and then demands for a helicopter to Mexico.

Deeks knows a lot of words beginning with 'L' and he manages to act like a game show host/infomercial guy while talking about prison. But he and Kensi determine that Milton was actually working WITH the bad guys.

Deeks would make an even better salesman than this dude.

The mother of the two Mexican girls thinks Sam is sexy and asks 'who am I, Zorro?' when she's given a machete to defend herself. YES. BE ZORRO. ZORRO IS AWESOME.

When I was a kid, my Dad was Zorro for Halloween. His sword was a stick covered in tinfoil. True story.

Callen has a touching moment with the one girl, whilst the house is surrounded with bad guys. Now is totally the time for that sentimental crap. And then Callen and Sam reach the same conclusion as Densi - a moment too late cos Milton has a gun aimed at them.

Then the girls' grandmother pops out of nowhere and hits him over the head with a frying pan, because old ladies are badass.

I couldn't resist.

But even though the bad guys wait patiently outside while they tie Milton up and the girls kick him a few times for double-crossing them, the bad guys still want them to send him out. For some reason. And Sam tries to talk on the walkie-talkie in Spanish, as though the Delta guys wouldn't be able to understand him - c'mon Sam!! Use your head!!

OK I'm confused now. If Milton was working with the bad guys, why did he take off? Did he double-cross them? And if he didn't, and he just fled the country with his money before he was implicated as a thief, why did the bad guys come after him?? [Edit: it's later revealed that he was the one who transferred the stolen money, so they wouldn't be able to access it without him] Apparently Delta operatives are even scarier than Navy SEALS. Although I gotta say, the name 'SEAL' (even though I know it's an acronym) has never been the most intimidating word...

I MEAN LOOK HOW CUUUUTE!!!

Sam manages the shoot the ONE guy they sent to go through the door, and the girls throw homemade Molotov cocktails at a few more. And then the mother proves she is, in fact, Zorro (or at least has seen Friday the 13th) and takes another one of them out. Sam and Callen decide to have some playful banter in the middle of a firefight about who's the better shot, because that's what they do best. And I thought they'd be faster at reloading their weapons.

'Sexyman' (the mother's words, not mine) takes the machete so he uses Milton as a hostage and then just when things get tense - BAM! Granger shows up at just the right time, and the last guys are dead. Because the REAL Delta team showed up and killed them. One of them looks like Ryan Reynolds. I approve. You know, I should have known they were impostors when they had such bad aim at the barthel. And none of them had beards.

The Mexican girls (apparently not caring that their house had been DESTROYED) keep flirting with Callen and say that Sam informed them he was a very lonely man. I concur. But Granger cuts in and says Callen needs to get back to the States right away. Because he just wouldn't be Granger if he didn't suck the fun out of everything.

Granger's here to do two things: Kick some ass, and ruin your fun. And he's all out of asses to kick.

Also, that should be his catchphrase. Someone put that line, with his face, on a T-shirt.