TBBT 6x12: The Egg Salad Equivalency

Sheldon talks in his sleep, and since everything he says when he's awake is solid gold, he decides to record himself. However, his time is far too valuable to spend on listening to himself talk, so he gets Alex to do it. When she comes over to retrieve the latest recording, Sheldon and Leonard are in the middle of a game of Giant Jenga. While her boss gets the tape, Alex flirts with Leonard and asks him out on a date. He's so surprised that he loses the game.

Women can be very distracting.

At work the next day, Leonard tells the guys what happened. Raj is pissed because he's been working through his months-long plan to get up the nerve to talk to Alex, and Sheldon's upset because he wants his assistant to be focused on his needs and not distracted by tiny men. To help him figure out what to do, Sheldon gathers Amy, Bernadette, and Penny for a meeting of his council of ladies.

With that font, you know it's important.

At first he tries to obfuscate his problem by using the clever codenames Ricardo Shillyshally, Tondelaya de la Ventimiglia, and Dr. Einstein von Brainstorm. He's no good at lying, though, so they see right through it. But the only advice they have for him is that he should talk to Alex, which is so worthless that he makes them give back their commemorative Council of Ladies T-shirts.

The next day, Sheldon tries to approach the problem from a completely clinical perspective, but telling women they're slaves to their hormones and showing them pictures of diseased genitalia are frowned upon by the university's human resources department. Unfortunately, as is his way, Sheldon accidentally throws his friends under the bus when he feels he's being persecuted, and all three of them get hauled in to see the HR manager the next day.

Moe built a sex robot, Shemp called the HR lady 'Brown Sugar' and Larry talked about how the ladies want his junk.

While the guys are about to go into their meeting, Sheldon shows up to request a complaint form so he can file a complaint against the HR lady. Strangely, she's not okay with that. He's forced to apologize to Alex and take an online sexual harassment course. But, he doesn't have time for that crap, so he gets Alex to do it.

What I Liked
-Giant Jenga. All games should be giant-sized.
-Sheldon Cooper's Council of Ladies. They're not the most helpful council in the world, but every man should have one.
-They bring back Raj's dog. I figured they'd forget that he had one immediately after Howard and Bernadette gave her to him. But, they've maintained continuity quite well.

My, how she's grown.

What I Hated
-Leonard's William Shatner impression. Everyone does a better Shatner than that. Everyone.
-How worthless the council of ladies was. They should have known that getting Sheldon to have a frank conversation with someone about sex could only end badly. He was right to take away their shirts.
-Leonard and Penny both think that putting on glasses makes her look smart and hot. They just make her look like a girl wearing glasses.

Albert Einstein did not wear glasses, but Sarah Palin does. Who's smarter?

Final Thoughts
This one started fairly strongly, but didn't end all that well. Episodes of TV shows that focus on sexual harassment never end well. Especially in cases where the offending party wasn't attempting to be offensive and the offended party was just being overly sensitive... which apparently happens a lot in real life.

Also, I don't buy the idea that Alex would try to ask Leonard out when she knows that he's still dating Penny. She's a smart woman, she'd undermine his relationship first and then she'd be his shoulder to cry on girl.

I will say that Regina King played the HR lady as appropriately bitchy. What is it about human resources that turns people into such humourless jerks?