Penny's 'shields' joke was the show-stopper
"Where the hell did that come from?"
"Now she's jumping up and down on the bed!"
"REALLY?"
The Big Bang Theory, 2x19: Grading/Discussion. Spoilers.
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"Where the hell did that come from?"
"Now she's jumping up and down on the bed!"
"REALLY?"
"Oh, you had to set it to DTS didn't you"
GREAT episode! I was in tears for the entire "It's a trap" sequence. And yes, the blue dress ... oh, my.
I doubt we'll see too much of the neighbor. I think it was more of a one time thing to show how badly Penny's "career" is going and how she takes the guys for granted. (Although the noise from upstairs could become a good OCCASIONAL running gag).
I think the show DOES need one more semi-regular female. I still want Sheldon's sister to return and work at the college as an administrator and Sheldon's boss.
--Ted
I doubt we'll see too much of the neighbor. I think it was more of a one time thing to show how badly Penny's "career" is going and how she takes the guys for granted. (Although the noise from upstairs could become a good OCCASIONAL running gag).
I think the show DOES need one more semi-regular female. I still want Sheldon's sister to return and work at the college as an administrator and Sheldon's boss.
--Ted
Wasn't Sara Gilbert supposed to become a regular? Her name appeared alongside the main cast in a handful of episodes, but then the character just vanished (her fling with Howard aside). And whatever happened to Sara Rue, for that matter? I'm almost certain she was never written off the show.
Great episode tonight. I agree that Penny's "shield" joke was the funniest line of the night in an episode loaded with them. Jim Parsons is a freaking comedic genius.
I brought up that point in the thread for the previous episode, and no-one seems to really know. She wasn't written out, and her relationship with Leonard was apparently still going, but she hasn't returned to the show and there doesn't seem to be any indication whether she will or not in the future.
TBBT doesn't seem to be the greatest at continuity. There was also the episode in which, at the end of the show, Penny indicated that she was getting back together with her ex-boyfriend Kurt, but that was never addressed again. A lot of episodes seem to be wrapped up quickly in the last 30 seconds in a somewhat confusing manner, and the writers don't seem to always adequately convey their intentions in those cases. (e.g., "The Bad Fish Paradigm", "The Barbarian Sublimation", etc.)
This week delivered another great episode. I think I've watched the "shields" line about twenty times now.
I know Sara Gilbert was downgraded back to supporting because the producers felt they couldn't find enough plotlines for the character, but Sara Rue's disappearance is still kinda nagging. They obviously broke up, otherwise he wouldn't've been head over heels for the new neighbour, but beyond that...who knows?
Could the character survive after being with Howard?
The funny thing though is I didn't even remember that until it was brought up but they did drop that. I think the reality is that the show would have a hard time if the characters grew beyond their current situations.
I think some of the confusion was caused by the writers strike...
That was last season.
This season would need another excuse.
Leonard being re-smitten is no big deal.
I get re-smitten by my ex-girlfriend from time to time.
I think that they were worried that they wouldn't be coming back and force wrapped some of the series plot points so the show wouldn't "end on a cliffhanger" if it was a one and done show. Best example of this was Space Above and Beyond...
So, when they got re upped following season one they went back and said, ok, what did we burn through that we weren't going to and reset that.
In concept nothing wrong, but it made for a little schizo season this year.
That and I think the guy behind it doesn't always let continuity get in the way of a good story, as I've seen a few instances of this "technique" in Two and a Half Men over it's run. Sometimes something is just dropped, sometimes it shows up a few seasons later.
Good point. But I still think that penny is slowly becoming the counterpoint for sheldon...
When you put it that way, it's kind of interesting then that the show is followed by How I Met Your Mother, which is probably the most continuity-heavy show I have ever watched. Not only is the show great at keeping things constant from episode-to-episode, but it even sets up plotlines WELL in advance - the goat in Ted's bathroom, for example, was first touched on in a season one episode and has been revisited at least twice (the false-resolution of which led to more continuity set up).
Don't we all?
Um... I don't mean YOURS.
The Russians even have a word for it: Razbliuto. Something about that resurging sense of affection for an ex.
Tony
I think it's hard to make the argument that the strike (which ended in the middle of February 2008) had too much of an effect on a character who last appeared on the show in an episode that aired in December (the 10th episode of the second season).
Really slow on the uptake here, but I meant comedy.
