This is strictly personal opinion. This episode revolves around the respective mothers of Sheldon and Leonard. The first is a know it all psychiatrist who bullies people with her intellect and has no time for human kindness. The other one does the same thing with her fundamentalist garbage, also designed to ignore science and other realities. Her Noah's ark stuff was ridiculous. I realize that these are exaggerated characters and their children are brilliant but terribly dysfunctional. This would seem the logical result of the cruelty they perpetuated.
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Score one for the Lorre Fairness Doctrine
lotekguy-118 June 2021
I agree than Season 8 started off with several disappointing scripts, but it picked up a Chuckworthy head of steam for most of the remainder. In this episode the ideological clash between the mothers was particularly well crafted for both its zingers and its placement of such polar opposites in the same weight class.
The result was clearly more "fair and balanced" than the fare from a certain TV outlet (which shall remain nameless) known for claiming that descriptor applies to its programming.
The result was clearly more "fair and balanced" than the fare from a certain TV outlet (which shall remain nameless) known for claiming that descriptor applies to its programming.
Brings the light back into the show
shahbazasif291 May 2015
A great episode. Really shows the two different backgrounds Sheldon and Leonard come from. Personally, I think season 8 had been not as funny as the previous ones, but episodes like these do bring light to the show. Hope the finale will be good. We see very little of Mayim (Amy Farrah Fowler) in this episode, as well as the previous one. Howard and Raj are however, not as funny as before and their characters are not making significant progress in development. Raj's girlfriend is totally missing. Penny's acting career is over. Big bang theory has changed. But all we can hope is to see these characters develop in a good way, to see Howard taking responsibility in his relationship with Bernadette, to see Sheldon and Amy make progress and most of all to see Leonard and Penny get married. But let's see what season 9 has to offer. Season 8 wasn't as good as one would hope for.
Laziness & effortless
royhendrickx1 May 2015
And what is this? I think the producers and writers finally took notice of the criticism from the fans about the current season. Finally - at almost the end of the season, I might add. In the last two episodes they tried to go back to the old days, I guess. And it doesn't work. They just copy-pasted an old script and edited and tweaked it a little bit. And tweaked it in a bad way; it wasn't even funny.
Leonard has just become even more wailing than he already was. Penny is only absent or latent and Sheldon is not likable anymore. The actors earn $ 1,000,000 per episode and all they did here was respond to the storyline of Christine Baranski and Laurie Metcalf. My compliments to these two actresses by the way. They did all the acting, while the main actors just nodded or gasped or yelled.
I can't say anything about the other story. It was just some slapstick involving Howard and Stuart I guess. Bernadette becomes less lovable by every show, but Melissa Rauch is the only one who cares of any decent acting and is the funniest of the whole group. In both story lines they all act like toddlers what states that the characters just have become childish. It is like the show would better fit on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel nowadays.
The actors and also writers and producers have become lazy here. The show will go on for two more seasons and the big bucks contracts are already signed. So why should they bother. In the beginning of the season it was still visible efforts were made. Only not in a way the audience liked it. Now it is like the makers just don't care anymore and don't take any effort to make something new that is creative and exciting. It is the laziness that just might kill this once so amazingly humorous show.
Leonard has just become even more wailing than he already was. Penny is only absent or latent and Sheldon is not likable anymore. The actors earn $ 1,000,000 per episode and all they did here was respond to the storyline of Christine Baranski and Laurie Metcalf. My compliments to these two actresses by the way. They did all the acting, while the main actors just nodded or gasped or yelled.
I can't say anything about the other story. It was just some slapstick involving Howard and Stuart I guess. Bernadette becomes less lovable by every show, but Melissa Rauch is the only one who cares of any decent acting and is the funniest of the whole group. In both story lines they all act like toddlers what states that the characters just have become childish. It is like the show would better fit on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel nowadays.
The actors and also writers and producers have become lazy here. The show will go on for two more seasons and the big bucks contracts are already signed. So why should they bother. In the beginning of the season it was still visible efforts were made. Only not in a way the audience liked it. Now it is like the makers just don't care anymore and don't take any effort to make something new that is creative and exciting. It is the laziness that just might kill this once so amazingly humorous show.
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