You’re right, Penny is lovely to look at, but compares badly to Lynda’s statuesque, Amazonian beauty!
That is exactly what I was coming to say. I thought immediately: Good on Penny for calling them on it.
Although I am ashamed to admit that I might have made fun of him a little too.
Zack had a truly sorrowful look when Howard told him Superman wasn’t getting laid that night. I think he was really looking forward to wearing the costume in bed.
I thought this episode was hilarious.
Disclaimer: I am not a comic book geek by any stretch.
I thought Flash was fast enough to go back in time. Assuming that is true, I think it would have made perfect geek-sense for Flasheldon to go back in time and change the roommate agreement after Leonard adjusted the thermostat.
And what was with the vanity card this week? I paused the DVR on my 46" TV and it was still to blurry to read.
Great episode. This episode felt less like 2 1/2 Men and more like BBT.
This should be the vanity card, I forgot to look for it: http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=320
Aquaman sucks!
Theoretically, I suppose, but none of them ever actually demonstrated that ability. Most of them have time travelled - Barry to the 30th century and back, Wally to the 857th and back, Bart from the 30th/31st century and back and back again - but never under their own power. The unusual travel ability that their speed grants them is really the ability to go to other universes.
The vanity card that aired last night – at least, in my area – was #319; a repeat of last week’s card. I even restored last week’s episode and checked. Thanks for posting #320, control-z! 
I loved Sheldon telling Penny that she looked fine because after all amazons are beefy women (or something to that effect). 
Unless they’ve changed this, Flashes used to have time travel ability – in the 1960s they used to do it all the time. The only equipment they needed was a treadmill* that allowed them to do it in one room. Unless they retconned this over the years to “travel to other universes”, they really were travelling in time within one universe.
*Can a Flash on a Treadmill take off?
:smack: I completely forgot about the Cosmic Treadmill.
Which was used to get Bart back to the 21st century after one of his trips to the 31st, even. (Although it took both him and his cousin, XS, to get it going well enough to do the job.)
Still…good luck getting Sheldon on a treadmill. >_>
Use of the Cosmic Treadmill is a different beast than their ability to vibrate through the barriers between universes. (Which Jay, Barry, and Wally have all done…I don’t know if Bart has…it’s not clear if his Going Elsewhere during Infinite Crisis was going to another universe, or into the Speed Force…)
It comes from about 1/2 way through the episode. Just after jogging back and forth “because this is how the Flash paces”… he stops and says, “And now I’m going to the Grand Canyon to scream in frustration”. Then he does a little step to the side, to show that he just left and came back. I imagine the scene at the end was how he actually envisioned it happening.
Barry time traveled under his own power on a number of occasions – including the first issue he appeared in (SHOWCASE #4) and his famous run in CRISIS (“My god,” he said, “moving so fast I’m going back through time…”)
This thread is a perfect example of Big Bang’s appeal to nerds and geeks.
No, this is the appeal to nerds and geeks. 
How come every time I read this part of the OP, I read “a small trophy and big boner”
Ahh, now I get it. Thanks.
I thought there was some Grand Canyon-yelling that the real Flash did.
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LOL!!! Me too!
Also, while the costumes seemed to be of decent quality, they were definitely store-bought. I expected better of the gang, and I would think any contest-winners should have been homemade efforts.
That’s a tiny nitpick of a solid episode, though.
Actually, I think their time-saver choice makes sense, given that the fab four are such ‘renaissance geek dillettantes’ - they have so many other things that they were interested in. For truly hard-core comic book geeks, yes, home-made would be a must.
I’m not as clear on what the contest rules would be for a neighborhood comic book shop - maybe Stuart thought that he’d get more people participating, and more sales in the costume department, if they didn’t disqualify store-bought outfits.