"The Big Bang Theory" - November 3, 2008 and November 10, 2008 episodes

November 3, 2008 episode

Leonard and Sheldon are talking to prospective grad school students, but even though Sheldon was very abrupt and rude to them, he ends up getting a groupie - Ramona (who looks an awful lot like a very young Anne Lockhart), who hangs on his every word. She brings dinner to his apartment, where Howard, Raj, Penny and Leonard are an audience watching them, but after a comment by Ramona, Leonard convinces everyone to leave the two of them alone.

I loved the discussion about how Sheldon would reproduce, whether it was mitosis and Sheldon would just split in two or whether Sheldon would have larvae.

When Leslie is her general rude self to Sheldon, Ramona ends up standing up for him and responding to her insults in kind. And Leslie was wearing a Domo shirt! WOW!

Sheldon gets more than he bargained for when Ramona pushes him to work on his research more, even giving up Halo night while Ramona gives him a pedicure. However, when she also won't let him "waste time" on "Battlestar Galactica" or comic books or video games and won't leave him alone, Sheldon desperately tries to get Leonard to help him, but his pleas for the Skynet clause, the Body Snatchers clause and the Godzilla clause all come to nothing since none of those situations are appropriate.

In the end, though, Sheldon makes his research breakthough, and when Ramona suggests getting co-credit, he kicks her to the curb. Sheldon then ends up with yet another groupie, and he still doesn't get it and thinks he's just getting free meals out of them.

Then, Sheldon eats so much that he splits in two! Oh, no, wait, that was just Leonard's nightmare.


November 10, 2008 episode

At the start of the episode, the boys are playing Klingon Boggle! That was really funny, even though I generally hate Boggle. Penny comes in and wants to use their TV to watch "America's Next Top Model", which ends up rivetting all the boys except for Sheldon, of course, because of all the hot model wannabees. When Howard gets Penny to confirm that they're all in a house together locally, he tries to pinpoint the location of the house with Raj's help.

Penny makes the fatal mistake of taking one of Sheldon's onion rings when he gets up for a minute, but though the boys are able to convince him to put it back, Sheldon notices that his onion rings are not all in the same place. He has a "three strikes" rule, and that's her second strike. When she refuses to move from "his seat" to prove a point, he issues her a third strike and banishes her from the apartment, setting off World War III between the two of them.

When the boys visit the restaurant that Penny works out, she refuses to take his order and tells him that he's banned from the restaurant. After Sheldon makes a fuss with the manager, Penny brings him his food but dares him to eat it, implying that she's done something to it.

Sheldon cuts off Penny's access to their WiFi, and then Penny follows Sheldon at 8:15pm on a Saturday night, which is his regular laundry time, but she's arranged for all the washers to be occupied so he's thwarted. But then he takes her laundry and hangs them up on telephone wires.

To put an end to the war, Leonard offers up Sheldon's cryptonite, which Penny is reluctant at first to use. Sheldon then gets a phone call from his mother, who berates him for what he's done, and he's forced to take down her laundry and apologize to her, ending the war. The last scene between them was killer!

Howard and Raj end up finding the house that the models are in and pose as cable repairmen to get in. Umm, ok, what the heck is Raj going to do since he can't talk to any of them? The husband pointed out a problem with this particular sub-storyline in that if the show is not done in real time, they wouldn't still be in the house. I don't watch the show, so I don't know if they're like "Survivor", when it's all done or at least mostly done by the time the show is aired, or whether it's like "Big Brother", which is done only a couple days ahead of time at most.