Ep. 6-06 ~ THE EXTRACT OBLITERATION
4/5
Raj and Howard doing accents was awesome. Leonard and Sheldon with the chess clock was awesome. Playing 'extract' instead of 'extract' was awesome.
However...
... I can't even think of any more messed up (read: stupid) love story in the history of comedy TV than Leonard and Penny, and definitely NOT in a good way such as Ross being a dumbass and always saying "we were on a break."
Here I am praising Leonard for being the good guy and succeeding on behalf of all us nerds out there, and then he goes and pulls that crap. He's A NERD, an academic, honest, etc and he somehow thinks it's ok to do what he did? Even if he didn't tell her he re-did it and she gets an 'A' on it then she thinks she's brilliant but the next 4 papers she gets a 'D' on and is thinking WTF? She even SPECIFICALLY told him that this was HER thing and to leave it alone and why she was so afraid to even tell him. She made this very clear, and passionately, to Leonard. So what does he do? At the very first opportunity he screws it all up. She needed to pass or fail on her own and he did nothing to help her at all.
So then what does Penny do? She bullies the girls into writing her paper for her, just like every other dumb blond cheerleader, and they DO IT!? More brilliant academics destroying everything they stand for. So now, if anything, Penny will graduate college with NO skills whatsoever other than what she's always had, which is how to be successful being a manipulative slut.
I can't even look at it as "it's just a comedy and I should get over it and enjoy it" at this point, it is, cuz 2/3 of the main characters are GARBAGE now... but mostly 1 main character, really. Their "love story" just isn't even cute much less remotely believable.
Sheldon still rules.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING TO MY SHOW?!