Sheldon’s makeup as Data was excellent. I think he’d have won the costume contest if they’d made it to the convention. Leonard’s was ok, but nothing special. Raj as Worf was weak. The mustache just looked wrong for some reason I can’t quite articulate. Howard’s Borg was the worst of the lot. Looked like they didn’t put much effort into it beyond the costume parts.
The girls should have settled their comics dispute with jello wrestling…or at least found some way to give us some eye candy…
I think watching the girls descend into the superpower argument was the only part of the show worth watching. Obviously it would have been better if they weren’t wearing all those clothes.
Seemed to me that Vasquez Rocks were facing the wrong direction.
You’d think after the buildup, they could have actually gone to Vasquez Rocks, instead of using an unbelievably bad backdrop in the studio.
I think that may have been the point though. Use a bad backdrop in the studio just like the series. Of course, having never watched Star Trek, I could be wrong.
No, the Star Trek episodes that were filmed at Vasquez Rocks were filmed at Vasquez Rocks. Kirk and the Gorn climbed on them and everything. There were possibly some outdoor shots that were done in studio (haven’t seen the Gorn episode in a while), but they definitely had a bunch of very cool on-location shots.
I thought the backdrop might have been the joke, but given Chuck Lorre’s sledgehammer approach to comedy, I would have expected someone to comment on how being there is so much better than studio backdrops or something.
You are. 
TOS (and others) filmed on location at Vasquez Rocks.
I agree that Raj’s make-up was pretty bad. He must have been going for the original genesis of the Klingons, ie the Mongols, because he looked more like a bumpy Genghis Khan than he did Worf.
The women definitely needed to be a bigger presence in the episode, although the reaction of the rest of the patrons at the comic book store was great. (I swear I’ll turn the hose on all of you!)
The movie Paul already gave us the Nerds Living Out Their Star Trek Fantasy at Vasquez Rocks scene.
I liked the girls getting caught up in comic book minutiae, though. And the bumper at the end with the car thieves was the best thing of the show.
That was the bit that bugged me from the episode, which was otherwise great. How in the world did a pair of car thieves stumble onto their car all the way out at Vasquez Rocks? That place isn’t what you’d call well-traveled or a tourist destination. If you take out the reversal problem, they’d be taking pictures from Pacific Crest Trail, which is a narrow little road that goes nowhere. Hardly a place where car thieves would hang out.
I think this is the first episode in which the ladies had a better story than the guys. I will never think of Thor’s hammer the same way again.
And even though the car thieves didn’t make sense, it was still funny.
Here’s my well thought out explanation for that 
: They had stolen a car previously and it ran out of gas or something and they had to abandon it somewhere out there. As they are walking, they spot another car (Leonard’s) that some idiot had left the keys in and take it.
How do you not notice a couple of people out in the middle of nowhere? Well I guess if you’re talking about guys dressing up like that to take pictures of themselves in the desert it’s not so strange sounding.
To me, the ladies’ half of the parking spot ep was better than the guys as well.
I loved how the girls went on and on about the comic book!
Thor is one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters, by the way.
For my next fantasy, I want to see Penny, Bernadette, and Amy discussing H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. (I’m a big fan, ye see.) Do you think that’s too far-fetched? Lovecraft isn’t too well-known to a general audience, I suppose…
(On the other hand, before his successful movie, neither was Marvel’s version of the Norse Thunder God.)
I was curious so I looked it up:
TOS: Shore Leave, Arena, The Alternative Factor, Friday’s Child
TNG: Who Watches The Watchers, Darmok
VOY: Initiations
ENT: Unexpected
Films: STIV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek (2009)
I agree, I would have loved to have seen them actually go on location for this one but it’s just not that kind of show. Like many sit-coms with a live audience, they’re more like stage productions.
Wasn’t a big fan of some aspects of this episode. I watched the first couple of BBTs when it premiered an didn’t like it because it felt like it was laughing at Nerds with the easiest possible material. I came back in the second season because I heard it got better and it it did. Much more about laughing at these particular nerds than nerdom in general.
This episode stepped back into old habits. I mean is anyone still making the argument that Comics are for 12 year olds? The two biggest money making movies of 2012 were based on Comics. Comics are the Mainstream media right now. It just seemed ignorant and silly. And throwing the slushie at Sheldon? Really? In an 80s movie, yes. In 2013? No.
On the other hand something they did get right and was a huge coincidence for me personally was, at dinner with my Girlfriend yesterday before the show aired, we got on the subject of comics and the title I used to try to convince her to try comics out was actually Fables (she is at least considering it…). Thought it was extremely funny when Stewart did the same.
Lots of good moments (after it’s lame set up, the Girls’ story line was great) but the parts I didn’t like seemed a throw back to ancient history.
ETA: Can a mod edit the Thread title to make it clear this is the thread about the 1/10 episode?
Was it just me, or did Leonard look more like John McCain than Jean-Luc Picard? That alone had me laughing for half the episode.
ETA: If a mod is going to fix the title, you can also make it clear that this is now the thread for reaction, not just speculation.
Actually, yes, people unfamiliar with the medium still think that, especially women. If the last time someone read one was as a tween, they’ll find it strange others didn’t stop.
And when Glee started, a gag on the show was that people regularly threw slushies on glee club members, so it apparently still happens to fictional geeks. Seems over the top, but I felt the same way back in the 80s when it happened to Gary and Wyatt.
I thought the thrown slushie was a shout-out to Glee, actually. I’ve never heard of it ever happening to anyone outside that show.
It’s happened to me IRL, so it wasn’t just a shout out.
