![]() It still had many of the same problems as previous episodes – minor sexism, over-reliance on established character functions, clichéd nerdiness – but it was also one of the first times I’ve enjoyed an episode or laughed frequently at an episode in close to a year. This is one of those fabled redeeming episodes of Big Bang Theory. Quoteworthy: “I don’t even know what that means, but I’m going to go ahead and tell you you can’t say it.” – Janine Posted in Big Bang Theory | Tagged Big Bang Theory, Big Bang Theory 6x12, CBS, Chuck Lorre, Howard Wolowitz, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Leonard Hofstadter, Raj Koothrappali, Regina King, Sheldon Cooper | Leave a reply “The Santa Simulation” – Big Bang Theory And Leonard’s cello apology to Penny was cute beyond belief.Ĭhuck Lorre, I would appreciate it if you could give me a few more episodes like this before you revert to type. The Human Resources liaison, Janine (guest star Regina King, Southland, A Cinderella Story), was perfection, as was Sheldon’s inability to see why he probably shouldn’t be talking to his employee about STDs. I don’t even know why I liked it… Nothing happened! It was just one of those episodes – light on plot, heavy on laughs. I must be getting high off the fumes from the electric heater I’m firmly ensconced beside, because this is the second episode in a row of Big Bang Theory that I’ve laughed at. You do it on the weekend, you got brunch.” – Penny Quoteworthy: “You have booze with breakfast on a Tuesday, you got a problem. The episode’s one (slightly) redeeming feature? That, in fighting about the properties of Thor’s hammer, the women not only had a discussion about something other than their boyfriends/husbands, but expressed their own opinions on something and didn’t just ape things that Howard, Leonard and Sheldon had told them. The representation of the BBT WAGs as comic book noobs who chose Thor because the main character is hot irked me on a fundamental level. And those (many) women who do buy comics are drawn in just as much by good writing as their male counterparts. If more men than women buy comics it’s because people buy comics for young boys, and dolls for young girls. And, not to go on a gender-based rant here, but any perception of female disinterest in comics is because of the dreaded “accepted norms”. The enjoyment of comics has nothing to do with gender. I love comic books/graphic novels and know plenty of other girls and women who do, too. I have read, on and off over the years, various diatribes against the show’s portrayal of geeks as predominantly male but that portrayal has never bothered me as completely as it did this week.Īfter this week I profoundly, deeply hate that BBT presents nerd culture as prototypically male. It came in a slightly different guise than usual this week, though. It was the same problem I encounter time and time again on BBT – blatant sexism. It’s not that it wasn’t funny, or at least amusing. But use small words so I understand.” – Sheldon, to KripkeĪnd just that quick, Big Bang Theory returns to last place on the list of my favorite shows. Another episode like this and you’ll get the chop. ![]() Shout out to Kaley Cuoco who, in her reaction to Sheldon saying he could, feasibly, one day have sex with Amy, gave me the only moment of this episode that didn’t make me want to throw the TV out the window.īig Bang Theory, you’re on thin ice. Because the whole way through this episode I was practically screaming at the TV, “Just suck it up and be a grown-up, dammit!” This is a grown man of indeterminate age (I’m assuming mid-30s), and he’s throwing a childlike tantrum because he has to work with someone he doesn’t like, then goes into meltdown mode because that person is better at something than he is? GROW UP, SHELDON! Learn how to be a person.ĭon’t even get me started on what’s wrong with Kripke, or how much I intensely dislike Bernadette. If that’s true then they should consider introducing another reason for him being the way he is. The writers and creators have consistently said that Sheldon doesn’t have autism or Asperger’s. It must be because he’s getting props for making such a terrible character even marginally likeable. It was enough to make me wonder why Jim Parsons keeps winning all those Emmys and People’s Choice awards. “The Cooper/Kripke Inversion” has earned the dubious honor of being the most terrible episode of the season – this season of many, many terrible episodes. I thought “ The Parking Spot Peculiarity” was the lowest form of comedy and that Big Bang Theory literally couldn’t get any worse. ![]() ![]() I thought “ The Bakersfield Expedition” was the epitome of bad. ![]()
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