The Big Bang Theory"The Cushion Saturation"
Original Air Date: March 2, 2009
Theresa - Staff Writer
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Sex, lies, and paintball - all the ingredients for another excellent episode. How I've missed my Sheldon fix after weeks of repeats!
Let's start with the paintball. The boys are playing against various other nerdy departments from the University when Howard gets chosen to stay behind and watch the others' backs as they plow into enemy fire. As he's waiting, Leslie Winkle does a dramatic tuck-and-roll into the safe haven (sorry, I don't know paintball) and for some random reason, decides to seize the invigoration of paintball war by making out with Howard. Oh, she also killed her entire squad. Oh Leslie, thou art a heartless... er, anyway...
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Original Air Date: March 2, 2009
Theresa - Staff Writer
theresa@thetwocentscorp.com
Sex, lies, and paintball - all the ingredients for another excellent episode. How I've missed my Sheldon fix after weeks of repeats!
Let's start with the paintball. The boys are playing against various other nerdy departments from the University when Howard gets chosen to stay behind and watch the others' backs as they plow into enemy fire. As he's waiting, Leslie Winkle does a dramatic tuck-and-roll into the safe haven (sorry, I don't know paintball) and for some random reason, decides to seize the invigoration of paintball war by making out with Howard. Oh, she also killed her entire squad. Oh Leslie, thou art a heartless... er, anyway...
Moving from paintball to lies, Penny comes over to have Leonard fix her computer, which froze while she was buying lots of shoes. She gets the usual lecture from Sheldon for sitting in his spot, even though he's on his way out to the comic book store. After he's gone, Penny plays around with the paintball gun, which she happens to point right at Sheldon's beloved cushion, and *BAM!* Sheldon suddenly has a freshly painted spot. Leonard tries desperately to clean it, but it's clear it's just spreading, so Penny turns it over just in time for Sheldon to return. Another brilliant reaction from Jim Parsons, as Sheldon sits down and his face slowly registers his confused distress at something amiss. He flips the cushion over and freaks. Leonard, as he should, throws Penny under the proverbial bus.
Somehow, Penny is still allowed in the apartment after this. Over Chinese food, Sheldon discusses his distrust of her dry-cleaner, since he has the audacity to spend part of his time making keys. He tries in vain to find a new spot, until the cushion is finally returned. He, predictably, is not pleased with the returned cushion, so to distract him, Leonard makes a big confession. Sheldon's Monday night cashew chicken from Szechuan Palace? Yeah, not so much. Actually, since Szechuan Palace closed two years ago, Leonard's been repackaging the cashew chicken from Golden Dragon into one of the FOUR THOUSAND cartons he bought from Szechuan Palace. He hides them in the trunk of his car. Absolutely hilarious, and yet so so sad. Unfortunately, Sheldon still doesn't like the cushion.
For the main story, Leslie and Howard continue to hook up, as she controls him with various gifts for his research. Meanwhile, the boys are a little ticked that Gigolo Wolowitz is getting grant money while the rest of them have budget cuts. After they get a little suspicious of this "back-scratching" (meow), Howard spills that he's sleeping with Leslie. He finds out the whole "controlling" part of it when she asks him to go to a wedding on Saturday and he declines, saying he only attends weddings to hit on chunky bridesmaids. Of course, Leslie says, but uh, too bad you won't get to see that Large Hadron Collider anymore. Wedding... supercollider... Howard weighs it and decides atoms colliding in Geneva trumps him colliding with the plus-sized and vulnerable.
In the end, Sheldon gets his revenge by paintballing Penny, Howard and Leslie seem to remain friends with benefits, and Raj... apparently no one cares about Raj, because he's not crazy. Maybe he'll get some action from Summer Glau next week when she guest stars.
So let me know what you thought! Did you love Leslie screeching back to Howard's mother? Would you EVER buy 4000 Chinese food cartons just to shut someone up, or make them happy? Leave your Two Cents below the quotes!
Best Lines
Howard: Why don't I run away and you cover me?
Sheldon: Because you chose your mother's veins over victory.
Howard: One way to look at this is that I'm getting new equipment and you're not, and that's unfair. But a better way to look at this is that I'm getting sex and you're not, and that's delightful.
Sheldon: If my life were expressed as a function on a 4-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, that spot at the moment I first sat on it would be (0,0,0,0).
Howard: Can I assume you likewise found the experience...
Leslie: Satisfactory?
Howard: That wasn't quite the word I was looking for, but sure, I'll do this pass/fail!
Leonard: "We"? No, no, you've had your chance to be "we" for like a year and a half now. Right now, you are you, and you are screwed!
Loved Leonard's line to Penny about "we". Awesome!
ReplyDeleteLeonard's "we" statement was Spot On!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Cartesian coordinate system confused the crap out of me. Who writes this show?!? They are far too smart to be Hollywood writers ...
I swear I will picket and throw protest if Jim Parsons is not nominated & then WINS an Emmy this year. The man is hilarious! I had to re-wind the couch scene 4 times I was laughing so hard.
I think I actually had to pause the show after Leonard's "we" line, I was laughing so hard!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Jim Parsons absolutely has to get nominated, just for that Nimoy napkin scene alone!
I was distracted before Sheldon said "0,0,0,0"...and for over a week was goin' nuts before I found he was referencing the Cartesian coordinate system.
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