#The big bang theory season 2 episode 16 professional#
Sammon is also a humor writer of the website Sammonsays, a professional script writer, an actor and member of the Screen Actor’s Guild, a film narrator for the California State Parks system, a standup comedian, and the author of three novels and one nonfiction book. His articles led to government reforms, including a school district performing its first-ever financial audit, and a Nevada State Law rolling back home heating oil prices for fixed-income seniors who depended on it. The publication of his investigative pieces led to a dishonest political candidate withdrawing from a statewide elective campaign, while another politician unsuccessfully sued him because he didn’t like an article Mr. He covered the Nevada brothel beat and did stories on wild horses. If you beat your wife on Friday, he wrote about it and got you in deep trouble on Saturday. He was selected “Most Valuable Reporter” for California’s oldest continually operating newspaper, and covered the weekend crime beat for a daily newspaper in Nevada. John Sammon is a writer whose experience includes newspaper reporting, magazine writing, personality profiles, interviews, celebrity interviews (Clint Eastwood), historical pieces, investigative and crime. Nevertheless, the soul-searching stare-down between Sheldon and Penny was worth the effort. The game room scene offered nothing and weakened the other two subplots.
I have complained before about how the producers of the show often try to do too much in only 30 minutes, which if you subtract the commercials is more like 18 minutes of air time. Max Adler, portraying a zombie in the lab, delivers lines that can barely be understood and gives no indication of his talent. The game room scene is a miserable failure and added not only nothing, but ate up precious time that could have been spent explaining more about Howard and his late mother. In what was no doubt the funniest moment of the entire show, Bernadette ( Melissa Rauch) angrily tells the airport attendant in her squeaky voice, “One way or the other, we’re walking out of this airport with a dead woman.” There is one moment of brightness in the airport scene. More however could have been offered to us to flesh out what seems a bleak history-–in other words figuratively-“I’m sorry you’re dead, but I can’t cry because we were never very close to begin with.” Howard’s peculiar ambivalence would seem to indicate the tenuous bond between he and his mother was dysfunctional, which is fine. This also happened in the last episode where Helberg underplayed the moment in which he heard about his mother’s death, not his fault as he was given little to work with. The frustration all people can identify with airports had potential, but it was largely squandered because the scene revealed little about Howard’s relationship with his late mother. There is also a visit to a game room made up to look like a mad scientist lab in which Leonard ( Johnny Galecki), Amy ( Mayim Bialik), Raj ( Kunal Nayyar) and a rarely seen character, Emily ( Laura Spencer), a dermatologist girlfriend of Raj, attempt to solve puzzles. The other two subplots are less effective in descending order, first, an airport losing the cremated ashes of the mother of Howard Wolowitz ( Simon Helberg). “I think of you as a sister,” Sheldon confides, one of the series’ more endearing moments. On a more serious note Penny, an actress, admits she is envious of the IQ of Sheldon and his scientist friends, while Sheldon ultimately confesses he knows he can be a difficult personality at times. “Are you sure it isn’t the Bible juice (wine)?” Sheldon asks. “But I can’t stand the sight of sandals.”ĭuring their interplay Penny suddenly admits, “I just felt a wave of affection for you.” “Euclid (ancient Greek mathematician),” Sheldon responds. Penny asks Sheldon for example who he would like over for a dinner guest?