The Big Bang Theory – Sheldon’s sexual tension syndrome
I think this episode is the gem I’ve been eagerly anticipating all season on The Big Bang Theory. Mind you, I’ve been enjoying the series all along. But it somehow had lost some of its chuckles for me. It’s been a bit lackluster. It’s been storylines which simply don’t rock my world. While tonight’s main plots have been seen before it sitcoms, the Sheldon Factor in all of its glory shined.
The Big Bang Theory – Childhood issues for Sheldon, adult issues for Leonard
Yep, if I have to put up with Leonard and Penny bed scenes, I’m going to make you all suffer with me. I’m still not seeing any boyfriend/girlfriend chemistry between them. They share no interests. As a matter of fact, their interests, their minds, their lifestyles — they’re all so far apart that, if this were real life, they’d have nothing to say to each other. I will continue to suspend my disbelief. At least their relationship gave us a good Sheldon episode tonight.
How I Met Your Mother’s friends get back together
“It was called the Death Star, baby — they knew what they were getting into.” – Marshall to Lily when she realizes that Stormtroopers are people, not robots
It’s funny that this episode about how Robin and Barney just aren’t working as a couple comes on the heels of one of the few episodes that I thought did work with Barney and Robin as a couple. I wonder if the writers read my reviews from this season and changed their minds about the match-up, or if this was the plan all along.
There have been inklings along the way about not knowing who Barney is anymore, seeing Barney and Robin fight, Barney and Robin not understanding the relationship stuff that keeps Lily and Marshall together. And tonight, when Ted says, “It’s the end of Barney Stinson as we know him,” it was definitely bringing those past pieces back around and defining that there is a problem with Barney being in a relationship.
Either way, we got some ridiculous funny out of it. This was probably the most absurd episode since “The Goat,” with random things just coming together for the good of the funny. One of my favorite things about HIMYM is when they bring back great moments from old episodes and further them, and they did tons of that tonight.
The Good Wife’s Alicia Florrick is the best new character on TV this season
I’ve talked about how much I hate procedurals, and even though I’m a little unsure if legal dramas fit that mold, I generally avoid them. When there is some hook, though, I usually check them out. For example, I did watch Eli Stone and Ally McBeal. This year I decided to tune into The Good Wife, and so far, I’m glad that I have.
I think it was the star power of Julianna Margulies that initially had me interested. This is somewhat odd, because I haven’t really watched much of Margulies’s work, but for some reason, I really like her. I was never an ER fan and I skipped Canterbury’s Law (as most did), so most of my first hand experience with Margulies has been through guest appearances. Still, I like her, and so I tuned in.
Having watched the first five episodes of the show now, I have realized that Alicia Florrick may be the best new character of the season.
The Big Bang Theory – Die, Wil Wheaton, die!
Well, well, well … if it isn’t Wil Wheaton playing … Wil Wheaton. In the geekdom that is comic and science fiction, the world in which our Big Bang Theory boys dwell, Wil is up there on his pedestal admired by the masses. Little does Wil know, he has one enemy out there in the world (besides all the bloggers over the years he’s conned out of their Guinness, by telling new bloggers aboard it’s tradition to buy him a Guinness. He’s probably stockpiling them.) But this isn’t about Wil. Wait. It is.
How I Met Your Mother – Canadian jokes won’t save them all
I really didn’t think it was possible to screw up an episode that should have sailed along on Canadian jokes alone. But somehow, How I Met Your Mother stole all of the funny (well, most of it anyway) out of that situation.
Really, who wrote this?
Because I guess I should thank you for the few funny things, along with the connections to past episodes that made me smile. But making the Canadian citizen story lackluster, and pairing it with an annoying Marshall and Lily adventure made for the worst HIMYM so far this season.
The Big Bang Theory – Deportation, piracy, or work for Sheldon
Tonight’s episode was actually Raj-centric. We don’t see many of those. And, yes. I’ll be calling him Raj, mainly because Koothrappali is a bear to repeatedly type. Little did we know that Raj has been leading a double life. You heard me. Here we think he’s this diligent scientist, yet awkwardly geeky. He’s geeky, all right. But he’s also filling his workdays with Facebook and other sites (possibly CliqueClack TV!). He’s about to be deported.
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