On the latest new episode of The Big Bang Theory, Leonard gets insecure about his status with Penny and her friends. At the beginning of the episode, the boys are headed out to “kite fight” when they run into Penny. She tells them that she would come with them except that she invited her friends over to watch the Nebraska football game. All the boys are more than happy to miss the occasion, both because of Penny’s friends and how much they hate the sport of football, except for Leonard.

Sheldon tells Leonard that he wasn’t invited because Penny is embarrassed to have him around her friends. Hurt by what Sheldon said, Leonard obsesses about Penny’s view of him all throughout the kite-fighting match, much to Sheldon’s frustration. Despite Leonard’s lack of focus, Sheldon and Leonard are able to defeat Howard and Raj when Howard runs after a cute female jogger passing by in the park. Raj is furious with Howard because losing the fight means that Raj lost his most treasured fighting kite.

Throughout the rest of the episode, Raj continues to be made at Howard, and finally tells Howard that he is sick and tired of being ditched every time Howard sees a cute girl. He also mentions that Howard doesn’t even have a shot with any of the women he chases after, and Howard concedes that he is right. The two make up and spend a Saturday together, which is “the perfect Saturday” for Raj–until Howard is tempted by another cute passer-by. He resists, however, saying the day was all about spending time with his friend, but Raj tells him to go for it.

When Leonard confronts Penny later in the episode about why she doesn’t want him to meet any of her friends, she denies that she is embarrassed and agrees to have Leonard join she and her friends next weekend when they watch the game. Leonard is less than thrilled, especially due to his lack of interest in football. He frantically tries to learn the game by watching it, taking notes, and reading “Football for Dummies.” While he is frantically trying to understand the game, we learn that Sheldon is a master of the sport. Claiming that because he grew up in Texas, where there is pro football, college football, high school football, and pee wee football, he knows everything about the sport, Leonard asks Sheldon to explain to him the rules of the game.

So, Leonard shows up to the football party the following Saturday and knows all the rules…but sticks out like a sore thumb, using textbook definitions of nomenclature like “the line of scrimmage” and “coach’s challenge”. The guys all think Leonard is a drag, and Penny desperately just tries to get him to shut up. After the two discuss the issue quietly at the party, Leonard says he’ll stay until the game is over, since there’s only three minutes to go. Penny explains that there is three minutes until halftime, and Leonard leaves, taking Sheldon up on an offer to go kite fighting instead.

In the end, the episode didn’t accomplish very much in terms of developing Leonard and Penny’s relationship, or finding a love interest for Howard, as the last episode did. In fact, we don’t see or hear anything about Howard’s last successful date in this episode. The antics of the boys and their kite-fighting feud where the focus of the comedic plot line, and Leonard and Penny’s relationship may have hit a small snag. If Leonard can’t fit in with Penny’s friends, and he gets too big of a complex about it…I fear it could lead to trouble in paradise.

The next new episode of The Big Bang Theory, “The Guitarist Amplification”  is scheduled to air Monday, November, 9 at 9:30 p.m. on CBS. To chat with other fans and check out clips from past episodes visit www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory.

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ABC kind of missed with FlashForward, can V make up for that?

Program: V
Timeslot: Tuesdays at 8 PM on ABC
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With this blog being operated by college students, there is always that one time each semester when things get a little slow. Sadly, that has been the last few weeks (thanks midterms!) but hopefully things will pick up here at least until finals come to whip our assess.

Anyway, while we were all busy, a number of stories developed (all mostly related to NBC of course), but I still wanted to give my two cents anyway.

Southland picked up by TNT

Right after NBC heinously axed the gritty cop drama Southland last month, fans were clamoring for it to be picked up by a cable network and most had TNT in mind. Well, it seems TNT had a similar thought, as the cable net officially picked up the program on Monday. The deal is for all 13 episodes (seven for S1 and the six un-aired ones from S2) and TNT will start airing them, in order on January 12 — opposite Jay Leno. Drama. Ausiello also spoke with star Michael Cudlitz who said TNT might add in a few cut scenes from the S1 episodes to make them even better. Though this is great news, TNT has NOT ordered any more “new” episodes of the program. It looks as though the net will wait and see with the agreement that if the ratings are good enough, more episodes will be ordered. All actors are being kept under contract. Read the rest of this entry »

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I don’t want to get too excited, but I think we might be seeing a return to form on The Office. “Koi Pond” wasn’t great, but it was starting to reestablish the kind of structure and stories that the show was great at. Read the rest of this entry »

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As shown by the still above, this was the episode that a good portion of Smallville fans have been waiting for a long time, and I have to say that even aside from the Clois kiss, “Crossfire” was a really great effort.

It’s actually great to see Ollie get all the dramatic stories while Clark is off in the quirky, fun stuff for the most part. Throw in the power struggle between the amazing Tess and cunning Zod and a new DC Comics character and we have ourselves an entertaining hour of television. Read the rest of this entry »

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This is why Supernatural is so damn good. In terms of the larger picture, “The Curious Case of Dean Winchester” provided us absolutely no new information. However, because of solid writing, the effort ended up not only providing us an insight into Bobby’s mind and a few humorous moments when Dean goes “old,” but also showing us a layered look at the “evils” that the Winchester Brothers deal with each week. Read the rest of this entry »

Most television programs have trouble with the second episode, and White Collar’s second effort wasn’t much different. With some cast changes between the pilot and this episode (Marsha Thompson exiting, Natalie Morales entering) and the scope widening a little bit by showing the whole department that Neal and Peter are working with now, this episode didn’t quite flow as well as the pilot

HOWEVER, this hour was still really fun to watch nonetheless. The chemistry between DeKay and Bomer is still spot-on and I liked that they brought Tiffani Thiessen’s character into the plot (though I cannot imagine that will happen as easy each week). Who thinks White Collar is pretty awesome?

Ok, so maybe some of you are watching Eastwick, but not nearly enough. Since, I’m still in the Halloween spirit today, I figured this is the best time to share the love for my favorite television witches. Since I know you’re no doubt busy wiping off the last of your face paint, I’ll make this easy on you–with the top 3 reasons you must watch.

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I know my optimism wouldn’t last long.

After a very entertaining and solid effort last week, FlashForward fell back into the same boring, mostly horrible-written character drama that is simply not fun to watch. This episode tried to show us how the flash forwards have really changed Mark and by extension, his marriage with Olivia, but Joesph Fiennes wooden acting kept that from happening at all really.

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This week’s episode brought a strange mix of ridiculous songs (performed by Mac, Dennis, and Charlie), online dating, and US troops. And yet, in this concoction of assuredly funny material, something felt off. Read the rest of this entry »