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The Big Bang Theory: Season 8, Episode 14The Troll Manifestation (5 Feb. 2015)Leonard and Sheldon defend themselves against criticism from an online bully, while the girls confront embarrassing moments from their pasts. Director:Mark Cendrowski |
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Through a casual conversation with Penny, Leonard believes he's come up with a revolutionary scientific idea. Requiring some sort of validation, he asks Sheldon for his opinion. Sheldon likes the idea so much, that he on his own makes all the necessary calculations and writes a paper on the subject. The two decide to post the paper as co-authors online before anyone else can claim the work as their own. The responses to the paper are universally positive... except for one anonymous poster who ridicules Sheldon and Leonard. Sheldon in particular can't stand that anyone would denigrate his work, which leads to a war of online words with this anonymous poster. Raj may ultimately give Sheldon and Leonard a good perspective on the matter. Meanwhile, Penny, Bernadette and Amy are deciding on what to watch on their girls night in. Bernadette and Amy dualaterally decide that they will find Penny's "gorilla" movie online and watch that, much against Penny's wishes. As such, Penny can't help ... Written by Huggo
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Leonard Hofstadter: Do it.
Sheldon Cooper: You mess with the bull, you get the horns. I'm going to show this man just how horny I can be.
Leonard Hofstadter: [Takes away phone] Okay, someone else do it.
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Written by Barenaked Ladies
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Bernadette lets it slip that Amy writes "little house on the prairie" fan faction and posts it on the internet. The original airing date of this episode is 2 days (and 148 years) after the birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of little house on the prairie. See more »Goofs
When the beauty pageant video from 1999 is played, Bernadette has her current high-pitched voice. When her character was introduced in 2009 she had a lower-pitched voice, so her voice in 1999 would have had the lower pitch. See more »Quotes
Sheldon Cooper: Can I respond now?Leonard Hofstadter: Do it.
Sheldon Cooper: You mess with the bull, you get the horns. I'm going to show this man just how horny I can be.
Leonard Hofstadter: [Takes away phone] Okay, someone else do it.
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History of Everything(uncredited)
Written by Barenaked Ladies
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To me, season 8 has been an incredible let down so far, but The Troll Manifestation lived up to all-fashioned expectations.
The picture used by IMDb for this episode (Bernadette in an ugly pink dress) made me fear it would be a 'gimmicky' episode in which the laughter would (or should) be induced by cheap, silly events. I was wrong: this episode did pretty much everything right.
The episode has two main story lines: Leonard and Sheldon come up with a new theory; and Penny, Bernadette and Amy are confronted with embarrassing facts from their respective pasts. The nice thing is that the story lines are coherent, and not fragmented as so many story lines in recent episodes have been. Fragmentation in story lines make me feel that the writers have run out of ideas, and are going for easy, uninspired laughter.
Besides two solid story lines with good jokes, The Troll Manifestation had some cute details in the acting (Leonard slapping the table in excitement; Bernadette sympathetically sighing "Oh, Amelia...") . It was also nice to see that Sheldon was actually being an adult with some childish quirks, instead of some childish jerk who seems to go out of his way to annoy people.
I hope the writers are/were able to keep this up!