I really like filk, and I hated that part of the episode. That song sucked donkey balls, IMO. Trite lyrics and forced rhymes. Good filk is inventive and creative.
I just stopped by to repeat how terrible this show has become. I stopped watching it sometime during the last season.
Isn’t it just so sad when a comedy TV show is dead but no one has what it takes to put it out of its misery?
Can the residuals really be worth the misery these poor actors must feel like they are being put through? I guess the money must be worth it. It’s pretty hard to criticize them on that score. If I was in their shoes, I’m guessing I would take the money too.
The song was a little funny, the first time. This season is limping along. It’s not hard to get a couple of laughs in each episode with the characters they have, but it’s been a while since any show was really good. This seems typical for the next to last season of a long running sitcom. They’ll demand a lot of money to sign up for one more season, and they’ll get it because there’s nothing to replace it with, but everyone will be phoning it in.
It’s still in the top 10 Nielsen ratings. As long as that continues to happen and the actors don’t walk away and the advertisers continue to support it, it’s not going anywhere.
Penny & Leonard are married! It’s ridiculous for them not to live together.
Since her husband is dead and her children are grown and (presumably) living their own lives, I’d vote for Sheldon’s new roommate to be his mother. Or even his Me-Maw.
I can’t speak for his Me-Maw, but he doesn’t get along with his mother well enough to live with her. I mean, they get along fine, but Sheldon could never live with some religious and certainly not that religious.
Am I the only person in this Universe who absolutely, positively does NOT care for Emily? She may be a hot redhead, but she fits in with the rest of the cast about as well as I would!*
*Actually, I’d fit in much better, seeing as how I’m something of a nerd myself. :o
Especially since it would involve moving back to Texas, because Mary Cooper owns her own house and has a nice side piece going with one of the men in the Bible group. She’s not about to move for Sheldon.
I like Emily because she’s a hot redhead, plus she is a horror movie geek. I think that provides a neat twist in a crowd of comic book / science fiction nerds. And she has a job where she gets to cut people, which she enjoys so much. Oh, did I mention that she’s a hot redhead?
Nope. I 've said it before, she doesn’t like Penny so she can go pound sand.
Why? It’s bad enough when people who watch the show come into the thread to shit all over the show, do we need to hear from people who aren’t even watching it and wouldn’t know if it was a good episode or not?
Maybe there should be two TBBT: one for discussion of the episode and one for people to shit on it.
Isn’t “nerds are so weak, it’s funny when they let people walk all over them” one of the basic themes of the series?
This was a pretty good episode overall. Though it could have used more Science!.
The filk song worked just fine. Nobody would believe that Howard and Raj created a brilliant song from nothingness in five minutes. There wasn’t any time to hear a whole song anyway. What they did was come up with fun pieces of a verse and chorus that could exist on their own, yet please the audience. The weirdness was that people were complaining you couldn’t dance to it. Who does dance music on acoustic guitar?
Sheldon acknowledging that he has emotions is a good thing. Better than him being an ass. (Walter on Scorpion just acknowledged that feelings are sometimes a good thing. Not only that but their second episode also had them making instant thermite by scraping rust. Are the writers shouting to one another across the lot?) Maybe they can starting easing his character back to acceptable.
Emily is the limit on new characters. A new roommate each week? Reduce the screen time of the people making a million per episode to 30 seconds? Not a good idea, and not going to happen.
Emily needs to get hit by a bus. Then run over by a steamroller. Then trampled by a circus parade. Then stomped into the ground by the USC Marching Band.
Penny’s plan was for them to live together … sometimes sharing an apartment with their pet and sometimes having their pet take care of itself while they are in their other apartment.
I’m about ready for Sheldon to have a goddamn epiphany about being a selfish ass.
I’d really think it was much more entertaining for this poor benighted soul to fumble around trying to be nice to people and make up for his previous behavior than for him to continue to attempt to manipulate the world around him to keep being a way that suits him. This ain’t funny. Asperger’s is one thing, but being a flat out jerk is another. And it is not entertaining.
Preach it!!
Its like the old SNL skit where they keep jamming an icepick in their ear because it will feel so good when they stop.
In other words … she needs to be OJed! 
Sheldon was able to communicate genuine pathos in this episode. This is what led Penny to relent a bit. Note that she said (to Leonard) that sometimes they could sleep over at her apartment and sometimes they could sleep in Leonard’s room.
Sheldon exhibiting the ability to influence others through genuine expression of his emotions is a step forward for him. I really hope he continues in this fashion - moving ever so slowly away from his rigid, obsessive and manipulative self, thus demonstrating that such self-growth, however painful and halting, is possible. Otherwise, he would just continue to creep me out - being entirely too reminiscent of some posters here.
Yeah. I hate when that happens.