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Review: The Big Bang Theory - The Cornhusker Vortex
by Kona Gallagher, posted Nov 3rd 2009 12:01AM
(S03E06) So Sheldon knows football. That is amazing. I have no idea if the character of Sheldon was originally conceived as being from Texas, or they just wrote him that way because Jim Parsons was raised in Houston, but I absolutely love when his Texas comes out. The entire sequence of Sheldon teaching Leonard about football and recounting the time he spent with his father watching games was absolutely the highlight of the episode for me.
As much as I adore the cast, sometimes you just have episodes that are about Sheldon and Jim Parson's performance. If you take that out of this one, nothing really stands out to me too much. I wasn't particularly fond of the Wolowitz/Raj storyline, and Leonard meeting Penny's friends was just bizarre.
Given the framework of the show, I've never found it too difficult to believe that Penny and Leonard would fall for each other. However, in this episode, when we see Penny outside of the group of guys, it's a little more difficult to believe. It's not as if we didn't understand that Penny has "cool" friends somewhere out there -- but when they're all gathered in a room and we see Leonard's tiny frame in his football cocktail dress retreat from her apartment so he can go fly kites with Sheldon, and she says, "so yeah, that's my boyfriend," it just seems... weird.
As for the Raj/Wolowitz storyline, I'm so tired of this device that seemingly every television show and movie has been using lately. Why can't dudes just be friends anymore? Why do they have to be in a "bromance?" Guys have been friends with each other since the beginning of time. I don't understand why now, all of the sudden, they're all married. You'll excuse me if I sound like an unholy mix of Carrie Bradshaw and Kevin Smith here, but do all men have to be hetero life-mates? What happened to just friends?
In all, this definitely wasn't the best episode of the season overall, but the look of disgust on Sheldon's face as he looked at Leonard's Football for Dummies book automatically negates anything negative I have to say about anything else that happened. Because that was amazing.
Some of my favorite lines from this episode:
"Leonard just realized that Penny's been hiding him from her friends because he's a tiny little man who flies kites." - Raj
Raj: "The only thing I've learned in the last two hours is that American men love drinking beer, pee too often, and have trouble getting erections."
Leonard: "Focus on the game, not the commercials, Raj."
Raj: "I'm just saying, maybe if you people cut back on the beer, you could get out of the bathroom and satisfy your women without pharmaceutical help."
Wolowitz: "Sheldon knows football?"
Leonard: "Apparently."
Wolowitz: "I mean, Quidditch, sure. But football?"
"If you're interested, I also know all about frying meat that isn't chicken as if it were chicken." - Sheldon
Sheldon: "Is that what you're wearing to watch football over at Penny's?"
Leonard: "What's wrong with a football jersey?"
Sheldon: "Nothing. That, however, appears to be a football cocktail dress."
"That seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through for intercourse. Don't you have access to women who will do it for money?" - Sheldon
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