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The Scavenger Vortex

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Deception Verification
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“She’s been known to call you a name that usually applies to a lady part… or a cat… or a willow.”

The Scavenger Vortex

Breaking up into teams of two the gang race to be the first to complete Raj‘s (Kunal Nayyar) scavenger hunt. Where Howard (Simon Helberg) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) work well together, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) is put off by Bernadette‘s (Melissa Rauch) hyper-competitive nature, and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) laments his luck at being stuck with the group’s liability – Penny (Kaley Cuoco) (although it’s the scientist’s over-analyzing that costs his team precious time).

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The Crazy Ones – Pilot

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  • Title: The Crazy Ones – Pilot
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The Crazy Ones - Pilot

The Pilot episode of The Crazy Ones is a trainwreck. At times an amusing trainwreck to be sure, but the over-improvisational style of David E. Kelley‘s latest leaves something to be desired. For the first time since Ally McBeal, Kelley goes all-in on zany with this tale of a crazy father (Robin Williams) and daughter (Sarah Michelle Gellar) advertising firm attempting to save their biggest account with the help of a pop star who doesn’t sing jingles.

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The Deception Verification

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Deception Verification
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“He says you’re the succubus who led his friend astray.”

The Deception Verification

Leonard (Johnny Galecki) returns home a few days early in order to spend time alone with his girlfriend, but when Sheldon (Jim Parsons) soon becomes suspicious that Penny (Kaley Cuoco) may be cheating on his best friend with a new suitor he and Amy (Mayim Bialik) begin snooping. After discovering Leonard’s deception Sheldon is sufficiently miffed. It’s a good thing he doesn’t hold grudges. Oh, wait…

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The Hofstadter Insufficiency

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Hofstadter Insufficiency
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The Hofstadter Insufficiency

In the show’s Seventh Season premiere Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) bond while Leonard (Johnny Galecki) parties in the North Sea on his science excursion, Howard (Simon Helberg) attempts to shake Raj (Kunal Nayyar) out of his funk caused by loosing his girlfriend (Kate Micucci) by taking his best friend to a faculty mixer, and Amy(Mayim Bialik) and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) room together during a science convention out of town. The result is a rather lackluster opener to the season, with a few fun moments, that provides three separate stories, only one of which has much to offer.

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Don Jon

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  • Title: Don Jon
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Don JonWritten and directed by star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Jon is a romantic comedy presented from the male perspective that’s likely to appeal more to men than women. A film about how a man loves porn more than the woman he’s with is certainly a tricky topic for a date movie (while making certain aspersions to the emotional porn of romcoms and Catholicism along the way), but Gordon-Levitt manages to pull off the intriguing premise even if it looses steam when the film takes its inevitable dramatic turn.

Jon (Gordon-Levitt) really only cares about a handful of things in his life: his friends, his car, his apartment, his religion, and, even more than the bevy of beauties the man takes home every night, his porn. And he really takes his porn seriously. You might even go so far as to call Jon a porn connoisseur. Even when he begins dating the stunning Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), Jon is incapable at letting go of his true love which is always presented in a series of quick-cuts featuring the sound his Mac powering and various porn clips before the inevitable shot of a wad of Kleenex hitting the trash can.

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