How is that less ham-fisted? “Guess who’s going to be on our show next week?” is about as on-the-nose as it gets. The original complaint centers around the fact that saying her full name makes the reference obvious. It doesn’t get more obvious than your example.
I didn’t watch Battlestar Galactica either, but after watching Grace Park on Hawaii 5-0, I think the proper response would be “**A **hot chick from Battlestar Galactica.”
I went over to Wikipedia and checked the cast pictures from BSG. After seeing Trica Helfer, I might want to revise it to, “**A fairly **hot chick from Battlestar Galactica.”
Indeed; it’s like “the hot guy from BSG.” 
I too think they were playing on the way fans will call a star by their full name all the time. “The Chris Isaac Show” riffed on that too - to this day my husband and I always call him Bret Michaels from Poison, because that’s how his fan on the show ALWAYS referred to him.
Yeah, no one can really compare to Trica Helfer. She already had a cameo in one of the earlier seasons though.
Now, if they wanted to really go for an in-joke, Howard should have been caught cybering with a lady draenei in Goldshire.
I thought that was Laurette Spang.
Any show that has “Cylons” that don’t gleam and track a red LED back and forth isn’t Battlestar Galactica.
Not getting it. What’s the lady dranei’s last name? 
And how would you look it up without a last name? I may be a “no-neck mouth breather,” but I’m sure there are a whole lot of things that I know and you don’t.
I don’t think so - are you sure you’re not thinking of her appearances on ‘Two and a half men’? (One of which was aired on the same night as the earlier Katie Sackoff fantasy appearance, IIRC.)
Isn’t it about time for them to get a guest star from Babylon 5, so Sheldon can snub them?
Yeah that’s probably what happened.
I glad someone else feels this way. I thought I was the only one who’s tired of the plot limitations of Raj’s neurosis. It’s time for a breakthrough.
I thought they back doored a solution late last season when Raj had a cold was taking NyQuil.
As a person who started watching the show last season, is Raj’s neurosis with all females, or only ones that he deems 'bed’able? He does talk to his mother, and presumably other female relatives.
I liked that. It was a joke on expositiony dialogue.
I was glad they finally addressed why we haven’t seen Wol with her.
I had no problem with fullnaming Katie Sackoff. Especially since they tagged her to BSG.
Although I have agree, if you are watching Big Bang Theory, and enjoy it, how can you not already know?
I wonder how they will deal with Penny’s actress disappearing due to the actress’s horse accident.
~2 million people watched BSG . ~12 million watch Big Bang Theory.
Not to mention that Katee Sackhoff in BSG mode…
http://kritix.blogsome.com/wp-admin/images/katee_sackhoff.jpg
And Katee Sackhoff in real person mode…
http://www.greyfade.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/katee-sackhoff-bsg-starbuck.jpg
Don’t resemble each other all that much.
Didn’t watch religiously for the entire series ≠ has no awareness of existence outside of coma and watching BBT.
FTR, I don’t watch BSG, and I don’t know who Katie Sackhoff is. I still got the joke that she was some hot actress he was about to fantasize about.
You could be female, and straight, and not therefore have noticed her all that much. . .
Didn’t Raj bed a talkative woman early in the series?
He does talk to his mother via webcam, I can’t recall if we’ve seen him talk to another woman, even a relative. He did refer to sisters in the last show, so perhaps there’s a way for the writers to make Raj’s breakthrough. Sister comes to visit, they go to a party and another dark-haired woman is wearing the same dress. Cyrano de Bergerac-style hi-jinks ensure.
It would be nice to see one of the characters make some progress on this show.