TBBT 6x23: The Love Spell Potential

The girls are headed to Vegas, baby! And while the cats are away, the mice shall play... D&D. Wolowitz is DMing for the first time, and he uses the opportunity as an excuse to bust out some of his celebrity impressions.

Can you guess who he's doing?

At first, Sheldon isn't too keen on having a new DM, but Howard's talking tree that sounds like Nicolas Cage wins him over. Unfortunately, 30 seconds in, Raj gets a text from Lucy and bails on the game to go make time with a lady. Not long afterward, the girls return. Apparently the TSA agent got a little handsy, and Amy broke her nose. I've always said that the way to stop people getting angry at the airport is to hire models as TSA agents and let the passengers choose who does their pat-down. Anyway, since they're down a player, Leonard invites the girls to join them.

Penny agrees as long as she gets to imbibe some 'magic potion' during the game.

Against all odds, the game goes well and the girls enjoy themselves. That is, of course, until a slightly inebriated Penny decides that Amy and Sheldon should have sex in the game because they're never going to have sex in real life, and Bernadette casts a love spell on them. Embarrassed that her friends think their relationship is a joke, Amy runs away and hides in Sheldon's room.

Being a semi-good boyfriend, Sheldon goes to retrieve her. She realizes that he's working hard to become more comfortable with the idea of a physical relationship, but sometimes she wants things to move a bit faster. He tells her that they technically are in bed together, and that's good enough to get her to go back and rejoin the game. However, as he is a stickler for the rules, Sheldon says that they have to see the love spell through to completion.

As far as those sorts of things go, it's pretty hot.

Meanwhile, at a restaurant that apparently has no dress code, Raj and Lucy have dinner. Lucy's still trying to push herself to do things that scare her, so when her crab cakes are a bit funky, Raj tries to get her to send them back. She just can't do it, though, and when he pushes her to hard, she runs to the bathroom and bails out the window again. But it doesn't go as well for her this time.

Free dating tip: Always remember your bolt cutters.

With the gate locked tight and the window too high to climb back in, Lucy's forced to call Raj to tell him what happened. He comes to rescue her and they have a talk about their relationship. She's scared of a lot of things and can't really talk to him, and he finds that very attractive in a woman. So they make out through the fence.

I'm not sure how he gets her out of there.

What I Liked
-Some of Wolowitz's impressions. Simon Helberg does a pretty good Kunal Nayyar and a passable Nic Cage.
-Penny consoles Amy by telling her losing money, being full of shame, and getting groped by a stranger is pretty much the full Las Vegas experience. Viva Las Vegas, baby.

What I Hated
-Some of Wolowitz's impressions. Simon Helberg's Christopher Walken isn't so great.
-They didn't show the girls getting thrown out of the airport. It was a funny story, but I think the visual would have been better.

Final Thoughts
This wasn't a good episode. Howard's impressions quickly became tired and annoying, and the relationship stuff took up a fairly sizable chunk of time and this show has never done that stuff particularly well.

Lucy and Raj's relationship is developing almost as slowly as Amy and Sheldon's. I know they're all nerds, but sometimes I wish some of them would have more normal relationships.