Penny's not sure what to do about Leonard. She's happy with their relationship and she loves him, but it's not the same kind of love as she's experienced before. She talks to her gal pals, but Bernadette is married to sexy Buzz Lightyear and Amy's dating a loin-igniting Adonis, so they're no help. As a man who's dated some ladies in my time, I have to say that you never want your girlfriend to be thinking about the status of your relationship. No good will come of it.
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| When a woman makes this face, bad things are coming. |
The gang goes to the movies, and Amy lets Sheldon know that Penny's thinking of breaking up with Leonard. It's heavy relationship drama stuff on the order of Grey's Anatomy or whatever. Sheldon actually cares a little bit about Leonard's feelings -which is a big change. Amy must be softening him up- so he attempts to explain the situation to him through a Transformers metaphor.
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| Robots in disguise? |
It doesn't quite work, though, so Sheldon goes straight to the source of is problem, and asks Penny not to break up with Leonard for his sake. Sheldon's a big fan of homeostasis, so he cannot abide any change in Leonard and Penny's relationship dynamic. Also, he doesn't like her new shampoo. She responds as well as can be expected. I once dated a clinical psychology grad student who hated this show because she thought Sheldon was an inaccurate portrayal of an autistic person. Now that he has a girlfriend and has had his emotions chip installed, I'm not sure if she'd feel the same way. Probably. She was inflexible.
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| Maybe the Transformers metaphor would've worked better on Penny. |
Meanwhile, Wolowitz is still in space, being bullied by the other astronauts and scrubbing the space toilet. With his best buddy otherwise occupied, Raj brings Stuart into the group. Kevin Sussman's a series regular and in the opening credits now, so I hope that means the gang will be spending more time at the comic book shop. The world needs more of Captain Sweatpants!
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| Interracial buddy cop duo Coffee & Cream. |
Penny tries to break up with Leonard, but he makes the sad puppy face and she sleeps with him instead. Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco actually dated for a while, so I wonder if she ever saw that face in real life. I don't wonder very hard, though. Cogitating on celebrity sex lives is weird.
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| How can you not love that face? |
What I Liked
-Sheldon actually showed some character growth. It took five seasons, but he's no longer a robot. Leonard's Transformers metaphor wasn't as on point as Sheldon's but it was close.
-Space toilet jokes. They haven't made any of those since Wolowitz's space toilet malfunctioned four or five seasons ago. It was time.
What I Hated
-I know it's a tad nitpicky, but Wolowitz says that searching for "Astronaut screams for 9 minutes" will get a YouTube video of him screaming. It does, but the TBBT people didn't make it. They should have.
-Dimitri's shorts. I realize there's no gravity in space, but that won't stop your junk from falling out of a tiny pair of cargo shorts.
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| It took a while, but Mel Brooks finally made a sequel to Spaceballs. |
Final Thoughts
I assume it's being done with wires, but I still can't quite figure out how they're doing the space sequences. This is TV, so I know they're not going to space, but I wonder how much of it is wire work and how much is just the actors swaying around a little bit while their lower bodies are off camera.
I'm not a big fan of the episodes where they get too serious about the relationship stuff, but I got 35 laughs out of this one, so I'm willing to overlook its transgressions. The Big Bang Theory is not often a memorable show. It's a standard sitcom in many respects, and its episodes tend to blend together. But, it's arguably the best example of the genre out there right now, so I continue to watch it, regardless of the poo-pooing it gets on the internet.
Also, I like poop jokes.
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