I’ll leave it to everybody else to get the reviews going. What I want to know is what was on Sheldon’s shirt. You know, the blue shirt with the round design?
I don’t care what anybody else says: awkward, creepy, sad sack Stuart is hilarious.
This? I’m not a comic book guy, but those look like comic book guys. Justice League, I think that’s what it says.
Re: breast cam -
[QUOTE=Stuart]
It’s OK - I’ve got a video camera focused on the area to make sure no one is perving on them.
[/QUOTE]
Oh, I agree! I enjoyed his segment quite a bit.
For the most part I enjoyed this episode. I liked the fencing stuff, and Raj and Howard’s Inigo Montoya-off. I really thought that the bit where they start playing around when Kripke is taking his phone call, then immediately go back to learning positions as he turns back around, was well-done. It was also nice to see a civil, if awkward, conversation between Sheldon and Amy. Hopefully we’ve seen the last of the Sheldon-as-stalker-ex storyline. That was really not attractive, and not funny.
Stuart is frustrating to me. It feels like, with all four of the main guys in relationships (or just recently out of one), they felt like they needed to have a pathetic dateless loser in the cast, and Stuart got the job. It’s a sad degradation of Stuart’s character. The irony of the scene where the girls were giving him advice about why women won’t go out with him, is that both Penny and Amy have dated him in the past. Two out of three girls surveyed agreed to go out with him! 
You’d never know it if you just started watching, but at one time he was decent and non-creepy enough to be attractive to women.
I almost thought they were going to address it when Penny asked him, “What’s broken in you?” Or whatever her exact wording was. She might have brought up the fact that she used to find him charming, but now doesn’t. Perhaps that’s too much long-form continuity to hope for from a mainstream sitcom.
Occasionally you see people criticizing Big Bang Theory for actually laughing at geeks, rather than with them. While I don’t really agree with that, the use of Stuart as the loser who can’t succeed with women (because every group of geeks has to have at least one!) does play into that criticism.
See, I thought that’s exactly what they did. “What went wrong with you?” implied that she knew there was a “time before” And then he explains that the longer he has been alone the more desperate he got. . ." I don’t remember the whole conversation, but it made perfect sense to me.
The totally over-engineered fit bit cheat machine was hilarious I thought. I know so many people who are slaves to their fit bits. I know it’s good for them, so I try to be supportive, but wow!
I really can’t comprehend how short these episodes are. I gave up watching on DVR because I spent more time fast forwarding and re-positioning than I did listening to actual dialogue. And watching on line, this episode was only 18:53, which included several commercials in itself, just not as many as on TV. They are perilously close to the half and half commercials to show ratio.
Not that one. Last night’s shirt looked almost like a circular slide rule or pilots calculator.
Try this one. He was wearing this shirt at the beginning of the episode and the other one at the end of it.
Bingo! That’s it. A Kryptonian Language Wheel - now why didn’t I think of that? :smack:
OMG, the look on that model’s face! His eyes are absolutely fan-boy stalker terrifying! Either that or he is just* really really* happy with his new shirt. . . 
I loved the fitbit jokes. A huge chunk of my family has one so it can be very competitive. I watched my mother one day just shake her wrist for several minutes to get to 10,000 steps. But… why? You’re only cheating yourself. There’s no penalty. There’s no prize. We weren’t even having a challenge. So now when she’s ahead of me in weekly steps, I don’t get competitive because she might not have actually walked what it says.
I imagine kripke was thinking about what a freak he believes Amy to be. … he would have broken out the model rockets at first opportunity.
I’m seeing that the story arc for the season is going to culminate in the reconciliation of Sheldon and Amy.
That’s why I was first a bit nervous when Kripke began hinting that he’d make a play for her. The nervousness vanished, of course when I learned about the multi-media nature of his text to her.
“I don’t HAVE to imagine.” 
What happened to friend gytalf2000? How can he mist a BBT thread where we are 15 posts in and nobody’s called the episode terrible and unfunny?
How nice of you to think of me! I am here. I have only put one brief comment in the thread so far. I was unable to get online Monday to start the thread off like I usually do.
Oh yeah, I remember the episode where he became convinced that Sheldon and Amy were sex maniacs! That was hilarious!
Pretty good episode for this season, but it did seem to end abruptly.
Stuart is turning into an interesting character. Makes me think they plan to continue the story with Raj and what’s-her-face since Raj was the loser of the group before.
Krippke is good to have around once in a while but they shouldn’t overuse him, the cast is already crowded.
I’m a little surprised that Penny isn’t working to get Sheldon and Amy back together, keeping them both occupied is in her interest.
Good point! I would enjoy seeing Penny plotting to reunite Sheldon and Amy.
I think she understands how much Amy put up with Sheldon. Penny is more secure and is not afraid to get in Sheldon’s face. It took a lot of courage for Amy to tell Sheldon fare thee well. Mayim wrote a blog about filming that scene by the elevator.