Paintball!
and Leslie Winkle!
and Treachery!
Alas, my favorite show triggers one of my pet peeves: they don’t keep their fucking goggles on.
Once, just once, I’d like to see fictional characters playing paintball either keep their fucking goggle on the entire time, or get partially blinded by a paintball in the eye.
And also, what brand of paintballs could possibly stain a couch cushion like that?
The creators and writers on this show normally go to great lengths to get the math, physics, and pop-culture/comic-book facts right, but they just hand-waved the paintball!? WTF!?
…other than that it was another delightful episode…
I fanwanked it into the paint having a reaction with the naugahyde of the couch, since all the paintball I’ve ever caught were water-based and easily cleaned.
The scenes with Howard’s mother screaming offstage were hysterical.
Leslie: He’s got company.
Mother: Is she Jewish?
Leslie (whispering): No
Howard: YES.
Mother: OKay. You have nice sex then.
So Leslie and Howard are just together for the sex and the benefits? They admit they don’t want a relationship? And how gross that your mother knows what you’re doing!
Someone mentioned that Sheldon might have some sort of autism, and I think I’m seeing that. Being unable to eat anywhere but his “spot,” having a strict schedule, being incredibly socially clueless.
I did like seeing Penny joining the paint ball team. But, if she didn’t have enough money to pay her rent or her electricity bill, how did she have enough money to go shoe-shopping online?
Thank god I’m not the only one.
Hell, with the BS goggles they were wearing, I was hoping one of them would take a shot into their open mouth!
I liked Leonard setting Penny straight - “What’s with this ‘we’ stuff? You had a year and a half to make it ‘we’. This is all ‘you’ baby!”
Yeah, fuck that :dubious:
It’s television. Ppl have to see the actor’s faces. They WERE wearing a lot of protective equipment, and had the goggles around their necks or on their foreheads. That’s pretty good by TV standards. You’re just not likely to see a scene with all the actors having their faces covered. Ever.
I liked the “we” line as well. Best line of the episode.
“Friendly fire…”
Once her old boyfriend paid her back the substantial amount he owed her, she was able to get her finances under control and spend a bit on shoes.
These were my favorite geek lines of the night –
Sheldon: That is my spot. In an ever-changing world it is a single point of consistency. If my life were expressed as a function of a four-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, that spot at the moment I first sat on it would be (0,0,0,0).
Then later when Penny returns the cleansed cushion:
Penny: There, nice and comfy cozy (0,0,0)!
Sheldon: *There’s one more zero. You forgot the time parameter. *
As to other comments about Sheldon being autistic and Penny being broke. Come on, this is a silly sitcom. Lighten up! Just enjoy.
Of course, strictly speaking, maybe it should be (0, 0, 0, w) or something like that. She can return him to the same spacial position, as defined by local landmarks, but cannot return him to that origin time. 
Here’s how geeky I am; as soon as she said that, I thought “that’s only three coordinates.”
Okay, I’ve watched four episodes now. Apart from Penny and Leslie, are the objects of their affections always redheads?
Am I the only one who sympathized with Sheldon for having his “spot” taken away?
…
No one?
Ok then. Just stay away from my spot 
I was irritated by the fact that Leslie’s paintball gun had no CO2 canister OR paintball hopper. She couldn’t have taken anyone out with it.
Leslie wasn’t there to nail anyone with her paintball gun.
I was thinking this too
I have had paintballs stain a baseball cap and fingerless gloves I wear with whitish stains, but I don’t see how they could stain a leather/naugahyde couch, certainly not with that bright color. Paintballs aren’t really paint ya know, they’re closer to bath gel. And not wearing masks, Leslie not having a proper paintball marker, the geekery on this episode was weak.
Still a good episode, even if my local CBS channel did broadcast it in standard definition to accomodate all their school closings crawling at the bottom of the screen.
And how the hell has Howard had sex with 6 different women at his age?? That’s a pretty good record even for a non-geek.
I’m sure there was the occasional prostitute now and again.