# Big Bang Theory 10/27--"The Good Guy Fluctuation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966 "2011-10-27T14:24:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/21 "2011-10-28T19:25:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “You may be from Texas, but I’m from _New Jersey_.” > > Bye-bye Priya, yea! > > The tongue-stud line was hilarious. I am hoping that Priya is gone for good. The actress that plays her is gorgeous, but I don’t like the character at all anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/22 "2011-10-28T19:33:23Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > I am hoping that Priya is gone for good. The actress that plays her is gorgeous, but I don’t like the character at all anymore. You have to admit it was kinda fun when she lawyered Sheldon. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/23 "2011-10-28T19:33:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > We all think we’re good guys. Preach it, Brother! Anyway, you can argue that Leonard was wrong for even putting himself into a situation that might lead to sex… and if his girlfriend were local that would be a valid point. But, he’s in an ill-defined long-distance relationship with a girl he hasn’t seen in – I’m not sure how long – months, maybe? That’s gotta be pretty damn frustating. Then he’s tempted by this hot chick who practically throws herself at him, and he _doesn’t go through with it_. I’d say that’s being a good guy in my book. (For all the good it did him!) I liked ths episode. The Leonard plot was indeed entirely predictable, but it was nicely character-driven. I enjoyed the scene when he sought advice from Penny. And there were enough laughs in the Sheldon/Halloween story to make up for any of the other plot’s shortcomings. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/24 "2011-10-28T19:42:48Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > …I’d say that’s being a good guy in my book. (For all the good it did him!) > > … I agree, except his feeble and deplorable attempt at justifying it to the girl. He was being a good guy to Priya, but a total dickwad to Alice. Stewart is funny as a more-pathetic geek than the guys, but I don’t like how his character started off as a less-pathetic version of them. He was smooth picking up Penny, but nearly Raj-like talking to Alice? Maybe his self-confidence is tied to the financial well-being of his shop. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/25 "2011-10-28T19:56:10Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > You have to admit it was kinda fun when she lawyered Sheldon. Yes, that was funny! Initially, I actually did like the character; but at this point, I’m tired of her, and think that she needs to make her exit from the show. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/26 "2011-10-28T19:58:14Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Yes, that was funny! Initially, I actually did like the character; but at this point, I’m tired of her, and think that **she needs to make her exit from the show**. Preferably the same way as Antigonus in _The Winter’s Tale_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/27 "2011-10-28T20:13:19Z")
**I’m** a good guy and I would have slept her. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/28 "2011-10-28T20:47:21Z")
If Leonard was really a man of honor… She offered her honor. He honored her offer. All night long it was on her, off her, on her, off her… ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/29 "2011-10-28T21:16:03Z")
If I were in Leonard’s place they’d have to rename the show “The Big Bang Implementation.” But then I would have dumped Priya back when she moved back to India without discussing it and refused to treat me as a serious boyfriend vis a vis her parents. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/30 "2011-10-28T21:57:57Z")
This was the first episode this year to make me laugh out loud. There were several really good bits. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/31 "2011-10-28T22:02:07Z")
Off the topic of this particular episode, but… Does Simon Helberg (Wolowitz) wear a toupee? I’m assuming he does as Wolowitz since few people would be willing to sport that bowl cut, but I saw him on a talk show recently and his “own” hair doesn’t look any more natural. Here’s a [couple](http://cdn2.famegame.com/share/upload/image/media/101016_simo035520.jpg) of [pics](http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Simon_Helberg-3.jpg) of him when he’s not in character: rug or not a rug? ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/32 "2011-10-28T22:20:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Alice (that makes more sense the penis), the girl Leonard met in the comic book store…I couldn’t figure out where I knew her from. I knew I recognized her from _something_. After thinking about it for a while I remembered that not only did I recognize her from something, but when she was on the other show (that I couldn’t remember) I had the exact same thought…that I knew her from something else and I couldn’t place it. > She was/is Portia Bellefleur from True Blood. When she was on that show, I had to look her up and I finally realized I knew her from the Naked Man episode of How I Met Your Mother. I see she was also in a handful of episodes of Dexter, but I don’t remember her from that…Actually looking at the pictures, she’s showed with Quinn. I think she was the IA person that he was dating. But when she was on that, I don’t recall recognizing her from anything else…nor do I think of her in that role when I see her on other shows. But BBT, HIMYM and True Blood go together in my head for some reason WRT to her. She was also a victim-of-the-week in _Criminal Minds_. She lived, and flirted with Reid. (“I got kidnapped by a serial killer so my insurance company threw in some free dental X-Rays.”) She was also on the _Vampire Diaries_, I think. ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/33 "2011-10-29T05:23:29Z")
Did the laugh track really bother anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/34 "2011-10-29T11:44:11Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > But then I would have dumped Priya back when she moved back to India without discussing it and refused to treat me as a serious boyfriend vis a vis her parents. Truly. Priya’s been rather of a bitch since the beginning, and treats Leonard like crap. It’s a shame his basic character trait is a basic lack of self-esteem, or he would have dumped her long ago. I do hope that Alice comes back, because she is a very attractive young woman, and I enjoy looking at attractive young women. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/35 "2011-10-29T12:59:30Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > When he is interested in the guest (which isn’t always), I think his interview segments are the best on TV because he actually has a conversation instead of just providing set ups for anecdotes from the pre-interview. > > When he’s not interested, it can be pretty bad. I love the that the monologue isn’t entirely scripted and isn’t just a string of set ups and punchlines about newspaper headlines. But this does mean that when he misses, he really misses. > > Finally, I absolutely love that he’s willing to just do weird things. France Week was mostly awful but I love that he did it. … especially since the whole trip was a result of someone making a rip-off of his show. (instead of a lawsuit) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/36 "2011-10-29T14:11:18Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > But then I would have dumped Priya back when she moved back to India without discussing it and refused to treat me as a serious boyfriend vis a vis her parents. she has had sex with him when the warp drives were set to full power. that would suggest kinky, toying with him, geeky or serious. i think some ambiguity in here character has been introduced to go a number of directions. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/37 "2011-10-29T15:13:47Z")
That whole thing seems out of character for Leonard to me. Why did he even call her, let alone meet up with her? Was he fully intending to cheat on his girlfriend? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/38 "2011-10-29T22:09:43Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > The come-on in the comic book store was so abrupt and silly that I was very confident that it was going to ultimately be some part of a clever Sheldon revenge plot (with his bad revenge attempts just cover while it worked). Why not? She was into Comic Books and Leonard is short and scrawny but otherwise a decent looking guy. I also got the impression she was recently hurt in a relationship and decided a geeky nerd would treat her right, only to be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/39 "2011-10-29T22:18:59Z")
I’m gonna be alone on this but I thought it wasn’t a very good episode. It was pretty funny yeah but I think that it’s way out of character for Leonard to willingly make out with a girl that isn’t his girlfriend, and I think that the entire episode was just an excuse to write Priya off…but be really stupid about it. Not even counting Leonard’s half of the situation the whole “Oh btw I slept with my ex boyfriend” thing is just an unoriginal and rushed way to just move the plot. Not original, not funny, and breaching a character to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966/40 "2011-10-29T23:19:32Z")
> [@Spavined\_Gelding](#): > > For my money (maybe because I’m a Dirty Old Man at heart) the best line of the season is: [paraphrase] “If the tongue stud freaks you out you’re going to have a real surprise in a little while,” or words to that effect. Speaking of tongues, I thought this exchange was funny as hell: Penny: Did you tell her about Priya? Leonard: Well, I was gonna, but there were too many tongues in my mouth. > [@johnpost](#): > > Though, “We all won” was pretty good too. If you’re thinking of the conversation Leonard had with Priya at the end when she says, “Well it’s not a competition,” his response is actually, “Ohhh, yeah it is, and you won.” Which is even funnier, in my opinion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-10-27-the-good-guy-fluctuation/600966.md?page=3)