Sheldon aside, there's a lot of untapped comic potential from just dealing with female nerds. Imagine an episode of Penny attempting a girls' night out only to discover she's traded a two hour discussion of Green Lantern's powers for a two hour discussion of Green Lantern's butt.

But did her character love math? We never found out. A squandered opportunity for pandering to the nerd fanbase (and also of her likely ability to learn mathematical dialogue with less rehearsal time than most actresses).

I enjoyed Flatterland without reading Flatland first. Flatterland clearly explains the 2-D society and Rudy Rucker's The Fourth Dimension gave me the pop-dimensional-math grounding to jump into the sequel.

Going Brummell
I can't believe there's nobody here wondering what that meant. I only understood the allusion because it turned up recently in A.Word.A.Day.

I was disappointed in the sound effect for the explosion though. Should have been squishier.

Geez, now that I'm spoiled I don't know if I want to follow the live blog. There might be some fun along the way, but the speculation of the unspoiled will just make me bitter. More bitter; fuck you Gillespie.

I kind of liked it?
We showed this at the movie theater I was working at back in '88 so I've seen the whole thing through and just like D'Angelo standing in the back of the theater to watch the Large Marge scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, I'd stand in the back to watch the McDonald's dance scene because it's just so…

The plot twist that wasn't
Due to some confusing editing during Deb and Christine's conversation I wasn't sure who pulled out the gun until I rewound to double-check. For a while there I thought maybe Deb shot Christine while making it sound like a suicide for Quinn to overhear. Now that would have opening some…

Here's my hypothetical scenario. Caroline is trying to infiltrate Rossum by faking a friendship with Bennet, a scientist on the inside. She manages to convince Bennet of Rossum's evilness (or at least got her to go along with the plan to please her new best friend) and they set off a bomb. I goes off a little early…

Well, Miami is Miami. Underground dinners are meals where a chef serves a set menu of usually experimental dishes often outside of a traditional restaurant. Venues and ingredients frowned upon by health inspectors (such as offal and raw milk cheeses) may be involved. The scene is the group of diners who know about…

I'm conflicted on this, so I'm finding this thread useful in working through the issue. Miami's underground dinner scene is just starting up and right now the documentarian/human ratio at the events is so high that there's a scrum of photographers jostling every time a chef brings out a dish. I feel like a real…

It looked like Jenn got bit by her narrative. When the other chefs make changes in their dishes, they're adjusting to challenges. When she makes changes, it's because she's unsteady and nervous.

It's all forgiven if the workplace canoodling gets them both fired.

Tyler's fat annoying friend
Remarkable how he managed to be as annoying (and somehow as fat) as ever despite only appearing this week as a one-line instant message. Now that's acting.

Unless you're into that sort of thing.

Spaceships that look like tiny die cast models even though they're CGI.

It was specifically Atlantic salmon which are in deep decline and farmed mainly in environmentally unfriendly ways. I avoid the stuff myself.

This particular point of scientific illiteracy is what you get stuck on? There are things just as stupid in every episode. I can only enjoy the show at all because the part of my brain that actually knows stuff has learned to run and hide at the sight of the opening credits.

I don't think anyone ever has been seduced by an explanation of the Schrodinger's Cat paradox, correct or otherwise. I'm tempted to watch this episode just to see if this scene lives up the bizarre and surreal version I'm imagining.

I don't remember ever doing both in the same homework assignment. What sort of class are you taking, Penguin?