TV Review: TBBT Season 9 Episode 12

Title: The Sales Call Sublimation

The Gist: Bernadette and Howard remodel their house. Raj and Sheldon work together in astrophysics lab. Leonard and Penny see a psychiatrist.

-ve points:

1. After waiting through the euphoric holiday season, the latest episode was a lacklustre. The least exciting of all the other episodes this season and probably one of the least fun from the entire series.
2. It started off good. And there were some sparse funny moments throughout. But despite the usuals like science stuff and Leonard bashing, the episode didn't generate much laughs. 
3. The ending, where Leonard is shown smiling and giggling while skipping the rope, is plain stupid.

+ve points:

1. Amy and Sheldon are shown to be the same. She expects romance and he is disgusted by neurobiology. 
2. Since Amy's away, Sheldon's free to be 'entertained'. Which of the boys get their Sheld-ON? 
3. Penny uses Leonard for work, much like the olden days, when the series was all about these two. Leonard is the laughing stock for the other boys. Classic stuff. So what's Leonard's game? 

• Low self esteem, social anxiety, sexual insecurity
• Denial
• Fear of failure, lack of confidence, kind of a wuss
• Pushover, spineless

Twist: Stuart makes a 'move'.

My Say: Sheldon had some good lines.

"Look, an Indian outsourcing computer work to a white man"

or

Raj: I should warn you. There'll be a lot of staring at a computer screen,..

Sheldon: You already won kid, stop selling it.