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| Note the Red Shirts on Sheldon's team |
CBS
April 21, 2008
Sitcom
DVD
B-
While not everything works in this story by Engel & Glickman, teleplay by Cohen & Prady, it is at times more of a character study than we usually get in the first season of this series. When Sheldon proves unwilling to be a team player for the Physics Bowl, Leonard reluctantly recruits Leslie Winkle. Gilbert still has great comic delivery, as when she gets a T-shirt for the team named Perpetual Motion System and says, "PMS? Well, it's a few days early, but OK." The final scene is probably the weakest, since I'm not buying that Penny would, one, be so up on '70s and '80s pop culture, and two, see such knowledge as a sign of "going outside and talking to people."
Mark Harelik returns as Dr. Eric Gablehauser and continues to make little impression on me. Note the irony of the discussion of "TV's Blossom," when Mayim Bialik would become a regular on this show in 2010.
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