Sheldon Makes A Good Data

Big Bang Theory, S06E13

The boys drove to a comic convention and were stranded when Leonard's car got stolen during their photo shoot.  The girls decided to try and understand their men by trying out some comics books themselves.  They soon got into heated arguments about what they read, surprising Leonard and the others.

This isn't the first time that the guys have dressed up, but it is certainly one of my favorites.  I'm not the biggest Star Trek fan, but I am familiar with some of the character that were on The Next Generation.  Sheldon as Data was absolutely perfect.  I loved it!  He has about the emotional range of a synthetic human and the makeup job on him looked great.  Second, I loved Leonard as a little, glasses-wearing Picard.  Leonard was so cute with a bald head!  The others costumes were good too, but I especially liked Leonard's and Sheldon's.  Then I liked that Sheldon seemed to respect Leonard's leadership for once simply because he was wearing a captain's outfit.  Man, Leonard should wear that every day to keep Sheldon listening to him for once.

The worst thing was that Sheldon had hacked Leonard's GPS so that it not only spoke in Sheldon's voice, but also did things like quiz them with trivia about driving and such.  I was with Howard when he suggested that Leonard drive them off a bridge.  It sort of made it the one good thing about his car getting stolen--at least they wouldn't have to listen to Sheldon guiding them the way back home too.  It was sort of funny, though, that the robbers were enjoying all the Sheldon trivia.  I doubt they would have enjoyed it as much if they had the owner of that voice giving them all of that interesting knowledge.

I liked that the girls tried to dive into the boys' world by reading some comics.  I never expected, though, that they would really get invested in the stories.  I mean, they were arguing things that I'm sure the boys have for years and years.  And they had just scratched at the surface.  They were simply debating about Thor's hammer.  If they ever managed to get that issue settled, who knows what they would go on to next?  It was cute that the boys found the energy again to act out their fantasies and went to investigate the girls' arguments with their phasers sent on "stun."  But I wonder what happened after that?  Were the girls embarrassed that they were on the same level as the guys?  Or did the boys join into the arguments, making things much worse?  That was the only thing I was disappointed about.  I wanted to see the meeting of the old comic nerds and the new comic nerds.

This was a great episode.  It definitely goes down as one of my favorite stories about the guys being in costumes.  I have to watch it again because I really enjoyed seeing Sheldon as Data and Leonard as Picard.  It was also funny to see the girls having heavy discussions about Thor's hammer as if it were some kind of important world issue.  They might not exactly get the boys' infatuation with the comic book world, but they definitely dipped their toes in it now.