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Big Bang Theory (1:6, The Middle Earth Paradigm)

The Halloween episode of Big Bang Theory was one of the best to date.  We see the geeks first all dress up as the flash before deciding to all dress as something different.  Leonard ends up as a hobbit, Sheldon is the Doppler Effect, Raj is Thor, and the other guy is Robin Hood or Peter Pan as everybody quickly refers to him.

The quartet end up attending Penny’s party that she invites them to in her place where Raj ends up hooking up with a girl that thinks that he is a good listener because he can’t talk to girls and they end up in bed together.  Meanwhile, Sheldon ends up spending half of his night explaining to people what he is.

Leonard ends up realizing that Penny’s ex-boyfriend is there as Tarzan and when he picks on Leonard in front of her, Leonard doesn’t back down.  He gets in a few geeky quips at the man before he lifts Leonard off the ground.  Penny is infuriated and Leonard quickly tells her that it is time for him to go home.  Later, Penny in her cat outfit shows up to get away from her ex who doesn’t leave.  She realizes at this point that Leonard has a crush on her and kisses him twice in her drunken state.

This was one of the better episodes as we get the Halloween antics of the four along with Raj getting a girl.  The big upside of the episodes, though, was Penny finally realizing that Leonard likes her and kissing him.

Big Bang Theory (1:7, The Dumpling Paradox)

Penny is troubled as her friend from Omaha decides to come and stay with her.  However, the girl seems to sleep around with whoever is in the room at the time and Penny is not pleased.  While explaining this to the group, the fourth member sneaks over to her place where he and the friend from Omaha end up in the throws of passion well into the night.

Since the guy has left and they only have three people left for Halo night, Penny convinces Sheldon to let her play.  She ends up being the best of the group and seems to kill Sheldon more than anyone.  At the end of the evening, the forth guy hasn’t returned yet, leaving Penny to ask if she can spend the night.  Sheldon freaks out and tries to convince Leonard that she cannot, but as usual, Leonard wins out and Penny stays.

In the morning, Sheldon nearly sits on her face as he tries to have a normal Saturday morning eating his cereal and watching Dr. Who.  Leonard comes in and gets him to cut it out, but not before waking Penny.  The forth guy eventually makes it over in Penny’s bathrobe and brags of his conquest.  Penny is upset that she can’t go back home while her friend is there and they end up deciding that she will stay with the forth guy.

Sheldon, Leonard, and Raj go out for Chinese, but Sheldon’s mind nearly melts down trying to figure out how to split the meal up without their usually forth compadre. 

It is quickly Halo night again and the three go over to Penny’s to ask her to join them.  However, it is quickly apparent by her attire that she is going out and tells them that it is her dancing night.  Sheldon is a bit hurt as he actually wanted her to join them, so without a forth, they go to try to get their friend back.  They arrive at his house as his mother and the girl are yelling at each other at which point he decides to skip out and follow his friends for a night of Halo.  Apparently, the girl is leaving as well.

As the four are deep in the throws of a Halo binge, Penny arrives with three of her hot friends from dancing and tells them that they are looking for some guys to hook up with.  None of the four are aware of there arrival, Penny tell them that she knew that would happen, and then leave.  A minute later, Leonard pauses the game and asks them if they heard anything, nobody answers and they go back to playing.

This was a fun little episode where we find out a little more about Penny.  She has gotten to a point where she is aware of Leonard’s feelings, but is comfortable around him like a good friend.  Sheldon, to her, is more of like a catty sister and they are constantly bumping heads.  We find that Penny has a bit of a geeky side as well, but doesn’t let it out much.  Overall, it was an enjoyable episode.

How I Met Your Mother – (3:51, Dowisetrepla)

In this episode, we find out that Marshall is ready to get a place of his own form him and Lily as he blows his top over a jar of peanut butter with the lid left off.  We quickly find out that it was actually Lily who left off the lid, but the cat is out of the bag, Marshall want for them to get their own place.

The gang is all psyched about this except for Lily and Robin as we just found out that Lily has 15 maxed out credit cards and they cannot afford to get their own place even with the big paycheck that Marshall is now bringing in.

Regardless, Lily follows along with the logic that they can just use Marshall’s credit and they start looking at places.  They quickly find one that they really like and go see it.  It is just what they wanted, and they bring the rest of the gang over to see it.  Barney talks to the realtor on the side to tell her that he would like to see it himself away from the group and gets the lockbox combination.  Robin pulls Lily to the side as well and asks her why she hasn’t told Marshall yet.  Lily says that she is going to get around to it, but for now it is her problem only.

Later, Barney brings his latest girl over, who is a quick commitment girl and tells her everything she wants to hear to get her into bed and then leaves the house in the morning while she thinks he is making waffles.

At the mortgage broker’s Marshall is applying for the loan when the broker asks Lily for her Social Security Number.  She blurts it out and he pulls a rate for them.  Marshall is hoping for under 6%, but the number he gets is over 18%.  He is shocked and upset that they would hold his student loans that harshly against him until the broker turns the screen to show him that it is not his credit that is holding them back, but Lily’s credit card debt.  He is shocked by this and they quickly go home where a huge fight ensues over this.

Ted, Robin, and Barney come back to the apartment to find Marshall and Lily gone.  However, Ted Moseby: Detective immediately notices that something is wrong.  He beings to piece together the events.  There had been a fight because Lily had torn and ripped the label off of her bottled water and it had been bad because there was an empty ice cream container on the kitchen floor and Marshall eats when he is mad.   He then deduces that Lily tried to cut off a tirade with sex, proven by the discarded bra in the couch cushions.  However, this did not help as Marshall stormed out, proven by the crooked calendar hanging near the door.  He believes that the cause of fight was Lily leaving the lid off of the peanut butter again, but Robin blabs about Lily’s credit card debt.  They don’t believe her, but when Ted tries to show them that Lily would have made a call before leaving, the last number gets the answering machine of a divorce lawyer.

Barney begins freaking out that they will get a divorce and is nearly in tears when Marshall and Lily arrive immediately telling them that they have an announcement.  They tell her that they already know about the divorce and Lily tells them what happened after the fight.  Marshall went to the bar and started drinking the giant champagne bottle he had bought the night before when Lily arrives.  She tells him that she has called a divorce lawyer and he starts freaking out.  She quickly explains that it could just be on paper so they can get the apartment, but Marshall will hear nothing of it and they quickly reconcile.  They then tell the group that they bought the house anyway and everybody celebrates.

This was a decent episode with some good laughs around the first bar scene, the detective scene, and Lily’s story.  However, the theme of the episode was what we should have done vs. what was actually done.  This was funny the first few times, but got really old by the end.  Overall, not a bad episode, but not one of my favorites either.

Heroes – (2:30, Out of Time)

This week on Heroes had a multitude of events leading up to a massive next episode.

We see Hiro who has been captured by Kenzie and being held tied down over a boiling pot of opium to keep his senses dull enough not to be able to alter space and time.  Meanwhile, the sword smith’s daughter unties herself and frees Hiro so that he can transport them away from the camp of Whitebeard.  Hiro quickly recovers from the Opium and sends the woman away while he tries to convince Kenzie that he is still a hero and stop Whitebeard.  Hiro transports into the ammunition tent and begins dumping gunpowder around the place.  Kenzie refuses to let Hiro go and swore to him that he would kill everything that Hiro loves.  So, Hiro leaves as the tent explodes with Kenzie inside.  Later, we see Hiro back in Tokyo where Ando has to explain to him that his father is dead.

Elsewhere, Claire is still dating the flying boy who she seems to be texting all of the time.  He decides to stop by in the morning with waffles, which infuriates Claire who had him swear that he would not come to her home.  After she calms down, they lie around listing to music on her cell phone until they decide to step outside for a minute.  She grabs them some Popsicles, but when she gets back to him, her father has arrived and her boyfriend has noticed that he is the man who kidnapped him before.  She turns around and when she turns back, he is gone.  HRG comes out to see what is up with Claire and questions the second Popsicle which she says is for him.

Mr. Bennett had been cleaning up the mess in the Ukraine and taking pictures of the series of 8 paintings made by Eric Mendes before he died.  Upon his arrival back with his family, he quickly sees the article in the paper stating what the drunken cheerleader had claimed last episode.  He is furious with Claire for her stunt and declares that the place is no longer safe and they must leave.  Claire refuses telling him that if they leave, they will have to go without her.

Back in the lab, Suresh is trying to cope with having Nicki as a bodyguard, while Nathan and Matt are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of why people from the previous generation of heroes are being murdered.  They find out that Matt’s father is on his way there where he will kill their contact at the organization.  However, he is already there and messes with Nicki’s mind, making her think that DL is there telling her to do things.  Eventually, he gets to her and she punches Suresh before going after her boss.  Once she gets there, Nathan tries to talk her down and she eventually takes control long enough to inject herself with the serum they had intended for Parkman’s father.

During this, Matt had stopped to visit Molly before going after his father.  He had learned that he could control anything dealing with the mind, but can’t comprehend the meaning.  However, he is able to access part of this while trying to make sure that Molly knows that he loves her.  He can tell from the read outs that she is responding to his words and before long, he is in her head.  He finds out that his father had trapped her in a world of their own apartment from when Matt was little.  He is able to calm down Molly and eventually gets upset enough by the situation to pull his father into the nightmare of his own creation.  For some reason, this terrifies his father.  After an unsuccessful first try, Matt is able to open the door and pull Molly and himself out of the dream, while trapping his father in.

We also find out during this time that although Parkman’s father was killing the members of the group, he was not the main person behind it all, he was just an instrument.  The real power came from Adam.  He was the leader of their group who came up with all of the ideas that Linderman has spouted in the previous season about a massive disaster to cleanse and rally the human race.  They had him locked up until just a few weeks ago after they had decided that he was too dangerous to be allowed free.

In the final section of the episode, we see Peter and his girlfriend in 2008 New York.  They are captured by a contamination team, scrubbed down, and then get the low down on the deserted streets.  They find out that the Shanti virus has killed over 80% of the population with new people dying daily.  Peter was listed as dead, but his mother shows up to help him through the transition.  As they go to leave, Peter sees his girlfriend, who he is not able to keep from being deported back to Ireland.  Peter is upset and eventually finds himself back in what appears to be present day in some sort of storage space.  He hears a noise and shoots the blue energy from his palm which is absorbed by another palm that reaches out.  We quickly see that this is none other than Kenzie who is now called Adam.

I didn’t realize how much I liked this episode until I went back over the events that took place.  We got the finale of the Hiro story in Japan, but an obvious setup for another showdown with Adam later in the show.  We also have Claire’s rebellion and her boyfriend finding out the truth about her father.  The entire setup at the lab was pretty good with Matt unlocking new powers and the discovery of the dynamic of the previous generation’s group.  However, as usual, the Peter stuff was the best.  However, this better not be the last episode with his girlfriend, she is awesome and needs to get more airtime, not less.  Also, the final scene with him and Adam was really good and sets the scene for an awesome next episode.

Last year there were three or four setups where you knew for a fact where you were going to be for the next episode… sitting on the couch, waiting to find out what happens.  This is the first time this season where I really got that feeling.  There are so many good things coming that I’m tingling a bit.  By the way, this was one of the better episodes of the season so far, and this may have something to do with the fact that the Syler / South American storyline was missing.  That has so far been the worst plot of the season, so, hopefully it will pay off soon and that mess will be over with.  Well, I’m really hoping for a great next episode where we get more Kristen Bell.  As we all know, you can never go wrong with more Kristen Bell.

Bones – (3:49, Mummy in the Maze)

This has been a pretty average season of Bones so far and this episode was just slightly above the rest.  In the show, Bones and Booth were hunting down a killer that killed young girls at the circus when it came to town each year and then added the bodies to the different parts of the event as if they were fake corpses. 

The find out about half way in that one of the carnies was a convicted sex offender who liked to show himself in front of young girls.  We then find out that an angry young woman is his girlfriend and later find out that he would lure the young girls away to his place where he would let his girlfriend beat up on them a bit.  However, he claims that he never killed the girls and that they have the wrong guy.

During this time, Angela and Hodgins are still trying to track down Angela’s husband to get a divorce and they have a new PI working the case.  She is a plucky, but odd young woman who seems to try to lure Angela back to her man after she finds him living in an island off of Florida.  Angela refuses and eventually the PI reconciles with Hodgins when she shows him that it appears that Angela is completely his and there is little chance that she will try to go back to her husband. 

We also get Halloween costumes with Angela as Cher, Hodgins as the captain of the Titanic, Zack as the back end of a cow, Cam as Catwoman, Booth as a squint and later as Clark Kent, and Bones as Wonder Woman.

They eventually find the hideout of the killer and find out that it ends up being the security guard who would mummify his victims after hoping them up on drugs and literally frightening them to death.  A gunfight ensues with Booth using Bones’ gun.  The killer has a shotgun and has rightly counted that Booth only has one shot left.  One of his own was aimed at Bones who luckily deflects a bit of it with her braclet.  Booth, aware of his single shot is able to use it to shoot the man through a thin door with the huge gun and the killer falls to the ground dead.  They are able to get the most recently kidnapped girl out alive.

Later, Booth and Bones got back to the Jeffersonian where they have a little talk, ending with their exit as Bones does a little Wonder Woman spin.

This was a fun little episode that only managed to get above the average due to the Halloween element.  The discussion of more powerful female superhero and the interaction between Booth and Bones at the end were the high points.

The show seems to be in a bit of a lull at the moment, but with the introduction of a possible new big bad in the next episode, things could quickly turn around.

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