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The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary
Original Air Date: Oct 19, 2009
Theresa – Staff Writer
Theresa@thetwocentscorp.com
Today’s lessons are thus: Never make a hot girlfriend pact, and never invite Sheldon Cooper to a card game. Or near a card game.
Penny and the boys are having some version of fun playing Mystic Warlords of Ka’a, a game along the lines of Magic: The Gathering, when Sheldon interrupts telling them every card left and the eventual outcome of the game. Our favorite behaviorally-skewed doctor, as you know, has an eidetic memory, which allows him to recall an amazing amount of information with an amazing amount of accuracy.
After Sheldon ruins the game, Penny leaves and Howard reminds Leonard of an unfulfilled pact: if one of them ever had a hot girlfriend, they would set the other up with one of Hot Girlfriend’s friends. It’s true, Sheldon remembers it, and Leonard’s not getting out of it. So he decides to bring it up to Penny at the most opportune time – post-coitus. Penny gives in and sets Howard up with her friend Bernadette, a microbiologist.
I don’t know where Penny found this friend of hers, but the night started off worse than Howard’s haircut. Bernadette was interested in absolutely nothing Howard suggested as a topic, and didn’t even laugh when he joked that as someone who studied tiny things, she could study him. I mean, come on! When Wolowitz is the more interesting person on the date, something’s wrong. But eventually they hit on one thing they have in common: their overbearing mothers. His is Jewish, hers is Catholic, and they’re both going to be pissed when Howard and Bernadette start dating.
In the meantime, Raj discovers there’s a MwoK tournament going on at Stuart’s comic store soon, and decides to put party-pooper Sheldon to good use. There’s prize money to be had, but Sheldon, having mastered and discarded the game (pun intended), refuses to enter. Until he discovers that another enrollee is none other than Wil “Wesley Crusher” Wheaton.
Seems Wil is on Sheldon’s list of archnemeses – #6, to be exact, between Joel Schumacher and a boy who taunted him with dog poop. Wil used to be his hero, until he didn’t show up to Dixie-Con ’95, a fan convention Sheldon traveled 10 hours to attend just to see him. Suddenly, it’s on like Klingon, and Sheldon and Wil are about to face off in the final round of the competition. Sheldon finally confronts his childhood hero and lays into him for not showing up to the con, but Wil responds sadly that he had to cancel his appearance because his grandmother had died.
Sheldon’s “memaw”, of course, holds a special – er, the only – place in his heart, and he instantly forgives Wil. In fact, he even forfeits the tournament, throwing out the crappiest card in the bunch, the Enchanted Bunny. But there’s a twist! Wil’s grandmother is actually very much alive, and Sheldon just got pwned by an evil Wesley Crusher.
Wil seems pretty awesome, as a person, and is a big gamer and dork in real life – check out his blog sometime – so it’s really fun to watch him keep playing evil geeks (see: this season of web-series “The Guild”). I LOVED his guest spot, if only because it kept giving Sheldon an excuse to go all Wrath-of-Khan with his enmity, and say things like “Now fetch me Wil Wheaton!” in a warrior voice. I also enjoy how they’re setting up more Raj-Sheldon interaction this season. They actually play off each other pretty well, as Raj is the most expressive of the gang in non-coed situations, and Sheldon tries so hard to stay unaffected. And Raj seems to be the only one who bothers to call Sheldon out, like for the fact that Wrath of Khan is not a Star Trek: TNG movie.
What did you all think? Leave your comments after the quotes, and keep an eye out for another post with some big BBT news !
Quotes:
Raj: So that’s how it works, I have a teeny bladder and I don’t get a hot girlfriend?
Sheldon: (after denying Leonard a napkin from his 4-napkin system) Tomorrow I can add a guest napkin, but there’s nothing I can do for you today.
Sheldon: How does this differ from money I already have?
Raj: Half of it will be mine.
Sheldon: Do you need it to buy a less disturbing sweater vest?
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