Big Bang Theory - The Champagne Reflection

Sorry again for the super-late post, I went home this weekend and was constantly busy! (Needless to say, the Thursday-at-8:00 timeslot is not working so well for me!) My SNL post should also be up sometime within the next few days. 

 Fun with Flags is back!! But it's the last episode so that makes me sad. Apparently he did 232 episodes (more than BBT, I might add). I would totally watch all of those lol.

The other guys are cleaning out the office of a dead professor and it's really depressing. Kinda like the Friends episode 'The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies'.

"Goodbye Mr. Heckles. We'll try to keep it down." Still chokes me up.

Penny's boss is still afraid of Bernadette, and Sheldon is still bitter because Amy didn't record the Fourth of July episode. Surprise Barry Kripke!! And surprise old-timey bathing suits!

Raj loves 'Everything is Awesome' from the Lego movie.

Bernadette thinks she's the sweetest person she knows, and she should be in a tree baking cookies.

Surprise Levar Burton!! And it turns out the 'potentially significant' notebooks that the guys found were the professor's calorie intake journals. Raj is tired of everybody's sarcasm. And Penny sounds like she has a cold, or recently started smoking.

Leonard realizes that all of them may not amount to anything (scientifically) and then Howard announces that he's been to space, so he's good (I saw that coming). 

Sheldon starts crying at the end of his show, and the audience goes 'awwwww'.

Bernadette said she was a monster for being so mean to everyone, and her boss said she was a cute one, like 'the eyeball one' (Mike) from Monster's Inc. 

I don't see the resemblance.

Then, because of one lukewarm comment on Sheldon's show, he decides to bring it back! Yaaaaay!! And then he goes to harass Levar Burton... Awkward.

Bones - The Puzzler in the Pit

Daisy is back! And super pregnant. She's also waiting for the baby to 'communicate' to her how he wants his room set up... Uhhhh...

Booth is making puns about the word 'fracking'. Bones bought enough things for Daisy's baby to fill their living room. Holy generosity, Brennan! But Booth really wants to keep that Fisher-Price popper thing which is hilarious because I'd do the same thing (even if he folds himself in half in order to use it)

What grown adult wouldn't want one of these??
If they made a vacuum version, I'd be vacuuming every day.

There is a heck of a lot of hydrochloric acid on the remains, which is eating away at the tissue (everybody with me now - ewww!!) and Hodgins gets all MacGyver on them and dumps baking soda on them to neutralize the acid (Although I call bullshit on the lack of special effects there, it didn't fizz like AT ALL, and we all know what happens when you combine sodium bicarbonate and acid...)

"It's not just for baking anymore!"

Brennan doesn't think Daisy understands infants, and I concur. Not that Brennan really understood them when she became a mother, either... Remember this?

We're ten seasons in, and that is STILL one of my favourite moments.

The victim was a guy who made crossword puzzles. That's a pretty cool job, but I imagine very difficult... Cam was a fan of his and this is interesting, because she's not usually very nerdy.
Angela also thinks Daisy is going crazy - because her doula keeps telling her all these weird things like buying crystals would help make the birth painless. Angela's plan is for Brennan to continue telling Daisy she's ignorant. And I know she's in a weird place emotionally, what with Sweets and all *bursts out sobbing* but she's still a scientist!! And therefore should know better!!

OH! PS! Speaking of Sweets! He's been nominated for a People's Choice award for 'Character we'll miss the most' SO GO HERE TO VOTE: http://vote.peopleschoice.com/#!/home/all/49/2 (And then scroll through the other TV categories and vote for Bones in a bunch of those where they're nominated, too!!)

He wants you to vote for him.

Booth refers to the suspect as 'any old schmo' so Brennan takes this and goes on a tangent about whether or not the guy speaks Yiddish ('schmo' is 'idiot' in Yiddish). Aubrey walks in on the middle of this conversation and doesn't know what to say.

Hodgins has a really sweet moment with Daisy talking about all her superstitious stuff. "I don't want you to push us all away because you're afraid of losing someone else." Which is adorable, especially considering I didn't think he liked her very much. And then Brennan gets a little too harsh about it and hurts Daisy's feelings, and now I feel bad. Crap.

The doula is kinda bitchy to Angela when she accompanies Daisy to her appointment, since she's 'mixing different energies' and whatnot and then says that 'even though she didn't have a non-traumatic birthing experience' that she 'seems like a nice person, and I'm sure your baby will be just fine'. Angela fires back "Yeah, my baby is perfectly fine." I'm surprised there wasn't more to that comeback, but I think she was kinda caught off-guard.

We all know there ain't no shade like Montenegro shade.

OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! The 'schmo' who left the threatening message for the victim is PLAYED BY SAM LLOYD A.K.A. TED FROM SCRUBS A.K.A. THE SHOW I'VE BEEN BINGE-WATCHING THE LAST FEW WEEKS!!! (Fun fact: I recognized his voice even before looking up at the TV hahaha) He was planning on taking legal action against the victim for stealing his work - which is funny, because, after all, Ted is a horrible lawyer.

"Lawsuits are bad." That's the extent of his knowledge on the subject.

OK this case has turned emotional now, too, because the victim had Alzheimer's. And poor Aubrey's grandma had dementia too! That stuff makes me so incredibly sad. The victim was also gambling all his money away (without even knowing it) and Aubrey is taking over and preventing Booth from gambling in order to smoke out the bookie. What a good guy!!

Aubrey asks the bookie if he's playing stupid, bookie says "Stupid? What's stupid?". I'm not 100% sure he's playing... Turns out the actual gambler was the victim's assistant.

And then Daisy starts having contractions, which she insists are just Braxton-Hicks contractions and then therefore 'not a big deal'. Which I recall someone else saying about Braxton-Hicks, but that was a man, and...

You tell him, Rachel!

But then her water breaks, and she says "I'm sorry... I'll clean it up" hahaha she eventually freaks out on that stupid doula (after the doula tells her to send her friends out because they're 'distracting') and tells her to 'get the hell out' and I have never been more proud of Daisy than at that moment hahaha.

Aubrey is deadpan whilst talking to Booth on the phone and I love it.

They figure out at the last moment (well, Daisy does, whilst in labour) that the killer was the victim's son that he didn't know he had, then Aubrey interviews the guy and he admits to pushing him because the victim didn't recognize him even though they'd spoken earlier the same day - the son didn't know about the Alzheimer's. And then he feels awful and starts crying. Plus, the guy probably wouldn't have died from that push if he hadn't been on Alzheimer's meds that weakened his bones. So now I feel like crap.
Unrelated side note: Aubrey wearing blue is a wonderful thing. Let's get more of that.

Look what it does for his eyes!

I usually don't cry when babies are born on TV shows. But this one had me weeping. And they named him Seeley Lance Wick-Sweets. Which is a mouthful. But so very perfect. And he's precious. And Booth gets to be the first to hold him and he just STARES at him like he's never seen a baby before.

This episode gave me so many feels. But they were good feels. A+ work from Carla Gallo, holy crap, I just wanted to give Daisy a hug!! Welcome to the world, little Seeley!! You're going to be one of the most spoiled and loved babies ever!! I need a tissue.

Saturday Night Live - Woody Harrelson

My apologies for this being a late post, I had a lot of school-related stuff in the last few days, and next week's SNL post will likely be late as well, since I'm going home to visit my family this weekend and probably won't be watching. Hope it was worth the wait!!

The cold open following the US election is a political one, no surprise there.. Jon Stewart does a much better Mitch McConnell impression than Taran. And then drunk McConnell and Obama decide to prank-call Hillary Clinton. And scream when she calls back. The only thing they agree on is doing the opening.

Taran, you gotta do the face.

Take notes.

For some reason, Darrell's announcing has gotten all quiet again. Can barely hear him over the music. SPEAK UP, MAN!! (I'm aware it's probably a technically issue and not his fault).

Apparently Woody last hosted in 1989 - back in his Cheers days. Man, he was adorable when he was younger on Cheers. He decided to sing about the year 1989 in honour of Taylor Swift's new album. But he doesn't remember those years (because of all the drugs). OK the internet totally spoiled this for me, the Hunger Games showing up, but if I was actually watching, I would have been so excited because I love 2 of them and I'm indifferent toward the third. I'll let you guess who that one is. (Nevermind, I'll tell you. It's Hemsworth.) I'm reminded that Hutcherson is my age. And Woody thinks Jennifer is Taylor Swift. Jennifer can't talk and then they all dissolve into giggles. That's actually kind of adorable.

Oh hey, Hemsworth is the only one who hasn't hosted yet. Innnnteresting.

Fauxmercial for a sitcom that keeps getting changed because of people complaining on Twitter. If they actually did that, it'd be so confusing... They've changed the actors like 3 times. Including one of the actresses from OitNB. And Woody and Keenan are making out.

Next sketch is a fake dating show where Ceciley is a girl who is trying to pick between three disgustingly inappropriate guys (Kyle, Beck, and Taran) and it's grossly obnoxious - BUT THEN there's a plot twist because Woody's the host and he reveals she's his daughter. And then they become really respectful and polite. "On our date, I would start by making sure she's fully clothed." "I would take her to a war memorial, because it's important to respect our war heroes." This is freaking hilarious. Woody goes 'backstage' and gives them a moment alone, so they go back to being assholes. Then he returns and announces they're going to watch that footage after this commercial break. That was hilarious. A+ sketch. I loved watching Taran get all squirmy.

Stoners in NYC, beginning with Pete, start getting excited that you can have pot in public (but not smoke it) and one of their means of celebration is waving around a Funyuns flag.

Pictured: Woody Harrelson during his college years.

Football players at a highschool are being taught about the new rules about tackling (to protect against brain damage) and Keenan comes in as an old player who keeps repeating fragments of the same sentences. THIS COULD BE YOUR FUTURE!! BECAUSE THIS HERE IS REAL! Oops. Wrong sketch.


They used another real song - one of Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's duets - to introduce a fauxmercial for a 'young tarts and old farts' CD, kind of in the same vein as that awesome Michael Buble Christmas duet album they did a few years ago.
This just in: KEENAN DOES AN EXCELLENT LIONEL RICHIE IMPERSONATION!! I'm astonished. AND A B.B. KING ONE TOO!!! WOW!!! How have they never used his musical talents before?? Sam Smith doesn't know how to be happy. It's kind of funny that they're making fun of all their former musical guests - including Miley Cyrus (I'm reminded of why I love Vanessa Bayer) who is the 'old person' in a duet with Lorde hahaha.

One of the best things about watching online (aside from no commercials, and rewinding to catch any jokes you missed because you were laughing too hard) is you can skip through the musical guest if you want. But I caught a few seconds and it kind of looked like Kendrick was having a seizure right there on the stage... Someone should turn off the strobe lights and make sure he gets medical attention.

WEEKEND UPDATE!!! Michael has no comment on any of the actually IMPORTANT news, because of Kim Kardashian's ass. But Colin has his priorities in order, taking about the new Healthcare.gov website - "But no one could do that, because someone broke the Internet!" HE SMILED DELIVERING THAT LINE!

Couldn't find a picture of the full smile. We'll settle for the half-smile.

Leslie's back, and she told Colin to look at her breasts and he started laughing again. He's so cute... She then says women have to let men inside them - inside their hearts, their houses, and their Netflix accounts!! That's pretty brave! She also calls Colin a 'tall glass of almond milk'. They have a fascinating dynamic.

Taran does an incredible Matthew McConaughey impression. Even though he looks nothing like him. Woody just looks amused. And at one point, he did the music from Super Mario Brothers and I guess you have to be on drugs to understand his thinking..

But I'm totally down with calling Colin 'CoJo'.

Dudes at a bar (looks a little like Cheers...) talking about the classic NYC food they miss the most - and Woody misses crack. This dude needs to get in touch with Rob Ford.

Woody pulls a song about apples out of nowhere at a campfire and he insists everyone else knows the song but they don't. He 'tosses' his guitar into the lake, but it was his 'only possession'! And they say they actually know the song. Then he gets all sulky because he threw the guitar into the lake - but you did that! And dude, you could totally just go get it.. I'm sure guitars float, right?

Oh look, they're in a different bar! With a different set! This is not at all a Cheers thing, is it?? And oh lord, it's that sketch where Kate and the male host are the last 2 people left at a bar and they start hooking up and they're really weird. And Keenan's the bartender and he gets increasingly disgusted.
'I noticed you because you're so breathing'.
"Are you feeling what I'm feeling?"
"If that's an impulse to retch, then yes, but I'm willing to ignore it." Ok that line was pretty gold.
Alright, now they're making out through cling wrap... And Keenan's just reading the Bible...

This is so much better. This is adorable.

Leslie did not want to let go of Liam Hemsworth during the goodbye hahaha.. And Jennifer kept talking to... someone, I have no idea who. But that was adorable.

Overall there was a lot of great material this episode. It's kind of awkward that Harrelson only really got to play one type of dude.. And the sketches at the end (post-Update) weren't great. But that's why they put them at the end!

NCIS: LA - The Grey Man

FYI - I wasn't able to watch SNL this weekend, and then it wasn't up online until this morning. I'll hopefully be able to watch and post about it within the next few days. 

Sam's given his daughter a cell phone, and as a result she's calling him constantly. How old is this child?? I was 14 when I got my first phone and it was a crappy flip one that didn't even text... She and Deeks both want spaghetti for dinner. And hearing Sam refer to himself in the third person as 'daddy' is a little... Uncomfortable.

Callen has a girlfriend! You go, G Callen! (I mean, he's adorable, so on one level that's not surprising, but then there's the job, sooo...)

Considering he used to look like this, HOW IS HE NOT OFF THE MARKET ALREADY??
(Side note: I definitely prefer the longer hair)

Deeks has named his smelly undercover jacket, 'Arty' (very original, you removed one letter from your own name). Apparently it gave Callen a rash. Ewww. I hope his girlfriend doesn't know about that. And Sam's daughter doesn't know what an emergency is - she called Hetty to tell her she'd rather have lasagna for dinner.

Granger told Hetty that he was going to get fro-yo with an actor, Claude Rains, from Casablanca, (Who is dead, BTW) and hearing her say 'fro-yo' was the funniest thing. I'll say this, the guy Granger went to meet definitely looked like he belonged in Casablanca. Fedora and everything. But apparently they meant the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is right outside the frozen yogurt shop. Clever! And Callen gets another quip in when they catch the guy after he tries to run - "Believe it or not, you landed on Robert Ripley."

Apparently Kensi is not Arty's 'type'. How is he not dying of heat wearing a beanie and that coat in LA?? She admits to him that she lived on the street for a while after her father died. Which makes me really sad. Deeks already knew that, because Hetty told him, but she 'didn't say anything' if you catch my drift.

A homeless guy offers Deeks some fries, and for some reason isn't at all suspicious of Deeks talking to himself/Kensi through the headset. They notice a girl who might be linked to a cartel and therefore their victim - and all I notice is how INSANELY LONG AND GORGEOUS HER HAIR IS. I would kill for hair like that. I mean, mine's pretty long, but also kinda split-endy and gross and not nearly as shiny and perfect as hers. Geez.

This may be a slight exaggeration. That girl's hair was dark.

Kensi made a pun about how Arty was doing all the work and Deeks was 'just riding his coattails'. CALLEN AND SAM ARE IN SUITS. So this girl, it turns out, is an escort as well as working with the cartel - and then she says that Callen and Sam seem like they 'haven't gotten any in a while' and Callen shoots her down - "You're confusing horny with hungry. We skipped lunch today." I would like to high-five whoever writes his lines like that. They're gold.

Deeks very cleverly gets a federal prosecutor - who's being held hostage in his own house - to come to the door by saying he got some of his mail and writes a message on it, letting the guy know who he is and asking him to tell him how many bad guys are in the house. Callen and Sam sneak in the back and take the cartel guys down. GENIUS! But I'm kind of surprised they didn't hear Callen talking, I mean he was practically in the same room, and he didn't exactly whisper...

Clearly Callen didn't get this message.You have to be vewwy quiet when hunting, bad guys or otherwise.

Who is this dude? Some random DEA agent is getting all antsy and wants to take the other guy with him to the court to ensure the extradition of the cartel boss. But the team gets all suspicious and tells him to cool his jets (I'm paraphrasing).

Callen knows how to speak 'tween'. He 'translated' Sam's daughter's texts. Cute.

They figure out that the lawyer actually knew one of the other cartel hookers, and that he was the one who wanted to kill the cartel boss because the woman and her daughter had been kidnapped and would be killed unless he did so. The victim at the beginning was actually his long-lost father, and had been following his son around and got killed because he saw the girls being kidnapped. That's so sad!!

OK Deeks and Kensi are having a really touching moment, but they're right outside the place that the girls are being held - he questions it too, THIS ISN'T A GOOD TIME!

Deeks, telling the cartel members that they look confused and idiotic is a bad idea when they're pointing a gun at you... He convinces them that the room was filled with gas so shooting would be a bad idea, then one of them picks up a meat cleaver so he runs out screaming 'PLAN B!' and Kensi shoots into the building, blowing it up (Deeks happens to land right on top of her... awkward).

Sam gave his daughter Callen's number so she calls him right in the middle of the suspect talking to his girlfriend. Awwwe 'Uncle Callen'. But to be honest, I don't know that many young girls who actually talk on the phone rather than texting.

You have been warned.

The whole long-lost-father not revealing himself thing really made Callen sad, and Hetty naturally has some wise words on the subject. But seriously, I can't believe not knowing who your family is. That must be so hard.  Poor Callen. We haven't touched on that subject for a while.

This episode was decent. I always love them all undercover - and we got that times four today, so yaaay!! However - NOT ENOUGH ERIC/NELL!!! I feel like they're hardly ever around lately!! But I'm still hearing Hetty say 'fro-yo' in my head and that almost makes up for it.

The Big Bang Theory - The Septum Deviation

Sheldon has no problem admitting that he loves himself... Poor Amy, she probably got that one on prom night and hasn't heard it since. He thinks Tesla is a 'poor man's Sheldon Cooper'. Haha.

Leonard needs surgery to repair his deviated septum - and Sheldon only complained about Leonard's snoring for 5 or 6 years, that's not too long! He disagrees with Leonard's choice to get the surgery, and doesn't even know who Jay-Z is. (Come on dude, you can do better than that. My grandmother knows who he is!)

She also knew who Alicia Keys and Beyonce were. I was so proud.

Raj's parents are less-than-happily celebrating their 40th anniversary, and Bernadette is annoyed with Howard's insensitivity enough to threaten not to make it to 40 years with him..

Poor Raj! His parents are splitting up and he says he's totally fine with it but HOW CAN HE BE OK, HE COMES FROM A BROKEN HOME! (His words, not mine).

Amy can fit 56 fava beans in her mouth, and she's a terrible liar so she admits she's covering for Leonard in driving Sheldon to work so he can get the surgery. But you see, the concern he feels is not for Leonard, but for himself missing out on the opportunity to say 'I told you so' if something goes wrong.

We all know he loves doing that.

And Sheldon channels his inner Shawn from Psych and tells Penny that 'I assume you've already been treated for the burns on your posterior.'

Bernadette tries to cheer Raj up with a basket of muffins and some muffin-related puns, and manages to make me hungry in the process.

The power in the hospital went out because there was a slight earthquake (what, no backup generator?) and Sheldon freaks out even more, runs into a wall and breaks his nose. That's a pretty funny coincidence, though, I was in a lab yesterday morning and the power went out.. But at least I got to go home early!! (And I didn't run into a wall because we had a backup generator!)

With all these things that could have gone wrong, I'd be worried too.

Howard's only problem with Bernadette is apparently that she's too... beautiful. And hang on, they made such a giant dish of pasta for only the two of them? And they've both already got a heaping plateful, who is all that pasta for?!

Both Sheldon and Leonard have bandaged noses it's so funny. And Leonard and Bernadette are passively-aggressively telling one another the things they 'love' about each other. Apparently Raj and Howard went to couple's therapy.. Awkward.

Twinsies!!!

Bones - The Money Maker on the Merry-go-Round

Christine just said 'jackass' hahaha which in her little-child voice sounded hilarious... Also, that child is not four. Come on. Apparently it's not her fault, since her bunny is a jackass. I see no flaw in her logic.

Young, blond, doctor (Wells) is back, and makes the mistake of telling Brennan that he wants to eventually be better than her - thinks this is possible because he has a genius IQ of 160.

Dr. Spencer Reid and his 187 ask "Is that all?!" Reid also wins in the 'extremely handsome' department.

Cam and Angela try to reconstruct the victim's face by literally PINNING the skin onto the skull. Pardon me while I gag. Is it just me, or is Aubrey beginning to enunciate exactly like Booth? Methinks they've been spending too much time together... They're interviewing the victim's wife and she admits that her husband took care of everything - and she doesn't know how to change a lightbulb, so Aubrey says 'OK, I can show you how to do that later'. What a gentleman! Then when she leaves, she offers to tip them, because she doesn't know who she's supposed to tip. Wow she really is clueless...
AND I JUST REALIZED SHE'S PLAYED BY THE ACTRESS WHO WAS WENDY THE WAITRESS ON HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. Which means she should know ALL about tipping.

Just Wendy. She doesn't have a last name.

Apparently Booth knows that Aubrey hates 'the 1%' and he knows 'what happened to' Aubrey to make this happen. I hate to sound like Chandler Bing, but could you BE any more vague, Booth?!! Hoping they actually reveal what the thing is, at some point..

Do people who played football in college seriously still wear their team rings when they're grown adults?? (This isn't unrelated - one of the people they interviewed was wearing theirs, and being from Canada, I find the college sports obsession weird).

Patented gases have names that sound like super villains, and Cam accidentally mistook Hodgins for Dr. Wells - cause of the curly hair, and the beard.Which I don't buy, because Wells is a good 5 inches taller than Hodgins.

Aww poor Aubrey.. apparently his dad went bankrupt doing some shady stuff in the stock market, and abandoned him when he was a child. Poor kid. They really are the 'island of broken toys'.. According to Twitter, 'Basically Aubrey's dad is Bernie Madoff'.

Brennan assumes that 'due to his personality', Dr. Wells is probably used to people swearing at him in place of hitting him. BAHAHA she also called him a considerable  pain in her ass. (Maybe she's where Christine gets the swearing?)

Booth and Aubrey go to interview a suspect and find him having a giant party in the middle of the afternoon. I highly doubt that strippers high-five dudes for doing cocaine off their stomachs.

Something tells me... The writer of this episode has seen this movie.

Crap, I was making food and missed the beginning of the next section...  Aubrey and Booth were interviewing the druggy-party guy. And then Angela figured out the murder weapon and Wells can't do anything impressive. There was a hooker (she claims to be a 'sheets salesman') who was there with him and even admits to hitting him with the murder weapon, but not in the head.

The case is starting to sound like a game of Clue. And Hodgins doesn't believe in Wells triumphing over Brennan. He thinks Wells looks like himself 'in the mirror with a hangover'.

^^ Does that mean young Hodgins looked somewhat like this??! (Brian Klugman was on Frasier back in the day)

Aubrey upsets the victim's wife by saying he must have not loved her enough because he was sleeping around and doing drugs, and that had decided the money was more important. (I think Sweets would call that 'transference') and he doesn't want to do any more stuff in the field with Booth, says he's been 'hogging' him lately. Aww. Although I do kind of miss Brennan going out in the field, she and Booth had such an interesting dynamic. Especially during interviews.

Also, Brennan found trace in a wound and handed Wells his ass on a platter. YOU GOT SERVED, DUDE. Nobody challenges Dr. B.

OH SNAP that guy with the football ring was the one who killed him. The football ring was what gave it away! (Attention all sports people - leave those things at home!)

Brennan finds Aubrey at the Founding Fathers (because there's only one FBI bar in all of Washington) and talks to him about his father and how to let go of the past. Which is really sweet of her. And then she convinces him to buy her a beer, cos that's how she rolls.

Booth had to feed Christine cake for dinner - he's just kidding. It was pie. And now Christine is calling everyone 'jackass', including her mother, and her teacher. And Booth goes along with it.

Alright, I'm not on my A-game tonight because I have two midterms and a lab tomorrow (I have my priorities in order, don't I??) but I managed to squeeze in four TV and one movie references, so that's not too shabby. BBT post will likely not be up until the weekend, and I'll have to wait to watch the new Elementary until then, too *sobs*

TWO! That's two movie references!!

NCIS: LA - Leipei

OK so here's a suggestion - if a little airplaney thing is coming straight at your window at a high speed - maybe don't just sit and stare at it an amused/curious manner... Not that all of them are full of explosives, but I'm sure they'd hurt at least a little if they hit you.

Monty has anxiety issues (or he just liked to pee in private, we're not sure) and nobody ever listens to poor Eric. Nell and Eric begin talking in hashtags and Granger gets grumpy about it. Because he's old. Or not tech-savvy. Or he thought they were having fun and wanted them to cut that out. But Nell gets to go into the field! Yaaay!

I just realized - GRANGER IS GRUMPY CAT!!!!

The man who was killed was a known terrorist that was in witness protection, but then managed to escape witness protection, a fact Deeks and Hetty are both incredulous about. (Me too).

The woman who was there and happened to catch the explosion on camera happens to be married... awkward.

Sam is trying to be the best at everything, and Callen is questioning his tactics - like taking a magic class, which Sam passes off as 'Escaping restraints in stressful situations'.

Uh-oh... dead guy.

Callen, aren't you aware that the health-inspector thing never works when trying to investigate a restaurant?? And then he just keeps listing things - rodents in the kitchen area, insects in the refrigerator, etc. And then Sam (posing as a patron) freaks out and starts asking what kinds of rats they were (because that matters).

This totally looks like a man who would be afraid of rats.

OH MY GOD the guy they went to the restaurant to find is played by the dude who was Detective Vartann on CSI for years and years! So strange to see him with a Spanish accent.

Vartann! Would Catherine approve of your criminal activities?! I do not think so!!

Sam chases him down and fights him in a carwash - and I hope the government will pay for the windshield of that poor guy's car they broke. Sam eventually takes him down, but not before a) he gets hit with a can of Turtle Wax and b) Callen detains four people and then catches up.

The bad guy watches TMZ which is why he claims he came to LA, and he knows his rights because he also watches 'the Matlock'

Eric missed Nell 'every single solitary second' that she was gone. Awwwwe! He also said he owns her now, and therefore is lending her out to Callen & Sam - but she apparently didn't get the memo.

I'm sorry Eric, who exactly looks like they're in charge here?

Deeks and Kensi find evidence that someone was building a MUCH larger drone. Which is unfortunate. Because, as Deeks says (in a manner that would make Horatio Caine proud) "The question is... Who was he building it for?"

*Sunglasses* YEEAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

 *Commercial* 

Man, I miss that show... 

Callen is having bad luck with his cover stories today - first the skepticism over the health department thing, then when he knocks on a door posing as a painter, the people in the house just run away. Looks like he could take some acting lessons from Eric...

I don't know if shooting at a drone full of explosives would be a really great idea... Although they are in the middle of an open area, I guess it'd minimize the casualties. And I'm sure Horatio would think that's a great idea - he'd make the shot, too.

Apparently the drone is heading for an oil refinery. And Eric states the obvious - if one oil container explodes, they all do - then he uses some history to demonstrate how that could be very bad for the people living in the area.

Basically.

Of course all bad guys drive giant boxy vans - but this one is surprisingly coloured (blue), rather than black or white. Typical smug criminal informs Callen that 'It's too late, the drone is on its way' then tells Callen to burn in hell and tries to shoot him. The tablet that controls the drone is busted, but Nell (ever the expert) walks Callen through how to control it. Eric panics.
And then the drone goes offline, comes back online but tries to hone in on the tablet, so he just CHUCKS it and dives out of the way.

After this experience, Sam is suddenly interested in buying a 'drone of our own'. But Callen hates robots, including Roombas. Which is silly, him being a bachelor and all - are you telling me you'd rather do all your own vacuuming, G?

And it'd be even more fun if he had a cat!

Hetty thinks Nell was very useful in this operation (and I concur) but she is wondering if Nell is still interested in being an undercover agent - Nell is sad because she's not big, or overwhelmingly athletic, or a good sniper (wait, are we talking about Nell or me here??). They drink whiskey and Hetty somehow relates that to her self-doubt. Everyone comes back and is proud of her, and then Eric gives her a little smile (from behind a pillar for some reason) and I melt a wee bit.

Eric's precious smile is precious.

But seriously, I hope this isn't foreshadowing that they're turning Nell into an agent - I couldn't handle her leaving Eric all alone at Ops with Granger! I would miss her 'every single solitary second' - and so would he!!!

[I only managed to make two TV references this week. Weak.]