Whenever I see pictures of him, he looks so artificial and weird, with his ridiculously white teeth and deeply tanned face (he’s of Bahamas extraction); It’s quite off-putting./QUOTE]
I agree . . . but I can forgive anyone with eyes like that.
I have no problem with it. I mean, if you all can be turned on by the likes of Pamela Anderson, are we really expected to turn down the dial over some overbleached teeth? Puhhh-leeeeezzee.
Was I the only one who didn’t think that conversation was weird at all? I’ve had conversations about what it’d be like to have a penis many times. I thought it was far weirder that Penny had never even considered it.
Yeah, you’re right, and I can’t tell why I can except some things that only happen in sitcoms and laugh and why I reject others - but this just seemed a bit too far. For instance, I also thought it was odd that this particular group would - by coincidence - be on the same discussion panel. Their diverse areas of expertise wouldn’t likely have all of them there. But I would have shrugged it off. Maybe you hit closer to the mark - you accepted it because for you there were laughs.
Add me to the folk who thought the panel scene pushed this over the edge from an okay ep to a crappy one. One of my favorite shows, but I can only suspend my disbelief so far. This required 2 steps I was unwilling to take - especially not in combination. First, it was ludicrous to imagine they would all be on the same panel; and second, I thought it too extreme to accept that every one of them would have acted so unprofessionally before their peers.
There was also the fact that you’d not go through Bakersfield to get from Pasadena to Big Sur (not that I cared about that really but it seemed an odd little error from writers who, presumably, live in LA).
They do make some odd errors on the show; for a show about geeks that has a massive geek following, some of their geek details are wrong sometimes. I guess the bottom line is it’s just a sitcom, and nobody’s getting fired if one of the geek details isn’t perfect.
ETA: And one more time - geek, geek, geek - yup, the word’s lost all meaning to me.
At our house, ‘coitus’ elicited our very first “I’ll tell you when you’re older” comment to my son. We usually watch it on the DVR after they go to bed.
Oh well, Sex Ed’s next year, he’s just reading ahead.
“Is this about women wanting penises, because if it is I’d like to weigh in.” Delivery was so deadpan and perfect I had to rewatch it 4-5 times just to see her blank face.
Loved the episode. Not completely coherent, but it brought the funny.
As I recall, the setup for their appearance at the conference was little more than “we’ve been invited to be on a panel” or something like that.
Maybe the idea was to have professionals from diverse fields weighing in on a common topic. Maybe Amy Farrah Fowler herself had been asked to assemble the panel. It’s easy enough to explain away, so it doesn’t bother me.
It’s true that their unprofessional behavior was over-the-top, but I didn’t have a problem with that either. If anything, it was consistent with the characters. I personally don’t expect sitcom characters to act realistically. If they did, you’d have all sit and no com.
I enjoyed the show, but this one confused me at first. It wasn’t until I was reading some of the discussion here that I realized it was a callback to AFF’s discussion with Penny about ‘penis envy for the plumbing aspects’.
Raj taking two kleenexes to bed with him…in order to cry over “Bridget Jones’ Diary” was hysterical, though I wish they would have omitted him saying, “I’m crying already.” because we got the joke.
Finally watched last night. Seemed about average, which for this show is pretty darn funny. The whole room switching business was hilarious. In addition to Leonard’s “NO!” another bit of perfect timing was his jumping into bed and kissing Penny mid-sentence.
Also, I loved the new twists on the “Raj can’t talk to women” gag. “Raj just texted me, he said to tell you when Howard says ‘nap’, he means, ‘sex’” and also his clamming up immediately upon realizing Penny was in the hotel room.