02-13-2016, 12:44 AM
I forgot there was an episode, lol. Anyway, we open on the Caltech cafeteria, much to my surprise. Apparently these people still work! Sheldons dampens my enthusiasm as he notes there will be FWF livestream on Valentine's day (just to give a little context, I think FWF is possibly the most unfunny running gag this show has ever produced).
Raj has doubts about Emily. Leonard and Howard tell him to break up already, Penny tells him how to do it later. Emily and Claire both criticise Raj for the timing of his break-up, not sure why. Is it an American thing that you shouldn't do it on Valentine's? Wouldn't it suck just as much to pretend everything's fine and then break up the week after?
Anyway, it's basically a couples episode. Leonard and Penny in the restaurant where they have to wait an hour, Bernadette and Howard trying to deal with a dead rat in the hot tub, FWF with Sheldon and Amy who get Agony Aunt calls from Raj and Kripke.
Lenny was your basical nineties sketch comedy hijinks ("How will we get a table") until they leave. Penny freaks out because she was called "Ma'am" and they talk about getting older and try to make a young, fun night. I think this could have been a lot funnier if this plot was given more room and they actually were shown trying to fit in at places because they did have a funny moment where they both were like "let's go to this midnight show!" and then relieved when it was sold out (because, well, that's late!).
Howardette realise the thing in the hottub is a rabbit and care about it. When Bernadette isn't treating Howard like a five year old, I actually don't mind this couple. They were inoffensively cute and funny enough. The audience gasped like a Maury show crowd at the pregnant line, though, which was just... tacky.
FWF happens. I ate some gummi bears. I'm reading this book series right now, called "The Bureau" by Voskuil, a Dutch author. Apparently there were like almost Harry Potter popular in their country which is crazy because it's really just about the 40 year career about a guy in university who... okay, okay. I'm watching the show again. Amy resumes her role as Agony Aunt for broken nerds, which is another theme I'm very fucking fond of. She then later berates Sheldon as well, because he's her favourite nerd to fix and he dared to be angry because she took over his show and talked about break-ups instead of flags, like Sheldon wanted. Okay, so about Voskuil, he actually worked for 40 years in a university himself... alright, I'll stop. Sheldon believes after the break-up that their relationship is stronger than ever because he learned how important she is to him. Still no word on what the hell changed that made Amy want to go back. They get cut off by Leonard and Penny in... costumes throwing hearts dancing around because that's young and fun? Beginning to look like carnival in Cologne, which, no, is not like in Rio.
There was this line which I giggled at because I'm mentally twelve and Kripke has great line delivery: Sheldon: "All questions should be flag-related." Kripke: "Okay, is my pole flag-related?"
Reviewing the episode as a whole, I actually think all plots could have used more time to develop humour. When you only have about 18-19 minutes, 5 of which are a lead-in, three separate settings are just a little too much.
Raj has doubts about Emily. Leonard and Howard tell him to break up already, Penny tells him how to do it later. Emily and Claire both criticise Raj for the timing of his break-up, not sure why. Is it an American thing that you shouldn't do it on Valentine's? Wouldn't it suck just as much to pretend everything's fine and then break up the week after?
Anyway, it's basically a couples episode. Leonard and Penny in the restaurant where they have to wait an hour, Bernadette and Howard trying to deal with a dead rat in the hot tub, FWF with Sheldon and Amy who get Agony Aunt calls from Raj and Kripke.
Lenny was your basical nineties sketch comedy hijinks ("How will we get a table") until they leave. Penny freaks out because she was called "Ma'am" and they talk about getting older and try to make a young, fun night. I think this could have been a lot funnier if this plot was given more room and they actually were shown trying to fit in at places because they did have a funny moment where they both were like "let's go to this midnight show!" and then relieved when it was sold out (because, well, that's late!).
Howardette realise the thing in the hottub is a rabbit and care about it. When Bernadette isn't treating Howard like a five year old, I actually don't mind this couple. They were inoffensively cute and funny enough. The audience gasped like a Maury show crowd at the pregnant line, though, which was just... tacky.
FWF happens. I ate some gummi bears. I'm reading this book series right now, called "The Bureau" by Voskuil, a Dutch author. Apparently there were like almost Harry Potter popular in their country which is crazy because it's really just about the 40 year career about a guy in university who... okay, okay. I'm watching the show again. Amy resumes her role as Agony Aunt for broken nerds, which is another theme I'm very fucking fond of. She then later berates Sheldon as well, because he's her favourite nerd to fix and he dared to be angry because she took over his show and talked about break-ups instead of flags, like Sheldon wanted. Okay, so about Voskuil, he actually worked for 40 years in a university himself... alright, I'll stop. Sheldon believes after the break-up that their relationship is stronger than ever because he learned how important she is to him. Still no word on what the hell changed that made Amy want to go back. They get cut off by Leonard and Penny in... costumes throwing hearts dancing around because that's young and fun? Beginning to look like carnival in Cologne, which, no, is not like in Rio.
There was this line which I giggled at because I'm mentally twelve and Kripke has great line delivery: Sheldon: "All questions should be flag-related." Kripke: "Okay, is my pole flag-related?"
Reviewing the episode as a whole, I actually think all plots could have used more time to develop humour. When you only have about 18-19 minutes, 5 of which are a lead-in, three separate settings are just a little too much.