The Big Bang Theory – A solitary man, double agents and triple chess

Since it’s May sweeps, we just might have four (or more) consecutive fresh episodes of The Big Bang Theory coming at us this month! Woohoo! I’m excited. Aren’t you? After all, tonight’s episode brought me just shy of the guffaw level a couple times. Not every episode does that even though I enjoy the series.

That Amy Farrah Fowler has a real scheming evil streak in her. And I’m liking it. The premise of tonight’s show was that Howard and Bernadette were invited to go to dinner with Leonard and Priya. Even though Penny said she didn’t care, we all know she does. I used to care, but now Priya’s growing on me a bit.

So the scheming Amy butted in, pushing Bernadette into spying on Priya for Penny. While Penny tried to say she wasn’t interested, Amy swirled her into the mix, too. Likening Bernadette to the weakest wildebeest on the Serengeti, Amy plotted the double agent mission. She and Penny would get the scoop on exactly what was happening between Leonard and Priya. Oh … kind of like Secret Squirrel stuff!

Bernadette’s mission was all but a total fail. She went to Catholic School and just cannot lie and scheme with the likes of Amy Farrah Fowler. It didn’t help that the text messages were self-correcting turning the lie that Penny was dating an architect to an astronaut. They all wondered where she’d meet an astronaut. I’m wondering where she’d meet an architect.

The side stories tonight included Sheldon creating an convoluted three-player chess game. My gosh, it’s more complicated than the entire roommate agreement! The other side story had Raj the recipient of a new social anxiety drug. Would it make him able to speak to women without alcohol yet not affect his brilliant work mind?

Um. Well. He could talk to women. He could also brazenly strip in front of them and in front of all the folks in a crowded restaurant. (That was an almost guffaw point.) I guess we’ll be seeing him using alcohol to flirt with girls once again.

Some lines and scenes which made me snicker:

• Amy Farrah Fowler telling the girls she was in Cub Scouts for two years before they found out she was a girl.
• Penny talking to her new expensive shoes as she decided to return them.
• Amy telling Leonard not to “ogle my caboose.”
• Raj’s sad tale about being a “pathetic shadow in a city without a heart.”
• Amy telling Penny that, because she had no friends in school, she’d eat lunch with the janitor until his wife called her a puta. Oh my!
• Amy: “Operation Priya, wouldn’t want to be ya.”
• Sheldon to Leonard: “Since you started having sex regularly, your mind has lost its keen edge.”
• Sheldon to Raj after Raj told him he’s a good friend: “Good friend, that’s what I strive to emulate.”

All in all, a fun romp tonight. I think that if Barry Kripke ever darkens out televisions again, he should be Priya’s next sex love interest. Heh. But, at least, she’s not just flinging herself into bed with Leonard then dumping him this time around.

Clacked by Jackie Schnoop
on May 05, 2011 @ 21:45 EST5EDT