I know that a more professional reviewer said the same thing about this episode, but it's still true.
The main storyline is over some physics blog that Leonard thinks is going to set the scientific world on fire. But some online troll decides to make fun of him for it, and he, Sheldon, Howard and Raj are on a campaign of revenge. While they're doing all this, Penny invites the rest of her posse over to her apartment for movie night and reluctantly shows them one of the "Serial Ape-ist" movies she was in. Bernadette shows a beauty pageant she was part of in 1999, looking exactly the same, and doing a crappy rendition of "Wannabe," by the Spice Girls. Then in retaliation, Bernadette reveals that Amy wrote a piece of Little House on the Prairie Fanfiction involving characters modeled after her and Sheldon. When Penny finds it online she reads it aloud and both she and Bernadette are immediately intrigued. Fair warning though; Her excitement over the "distinct possibility" of Sheldon and Amy getting it on in "The Cooper/Kripke Inversion," does not measure up to her reading of first paragraph from Amy's fanfic.
The two beauty queens may make fun of Amy's story, but they're still engrossed in it. Not simply because it's good, but because it about Amy and Sheldon, no matter how much she insists it involves "Amelia and Cooper." Their love story is what Amy wants her own love story to be, as well as what her friends want it to be, and to some extent what we want it to be. When Bernadette cracks a joke about one of the lines, Amy decides to put an end to what she sees as public humiliation, until Penny convinces her to read it instead. And from there, it seems like Amelia's love for Cooper is doomed. Bernadette's little heart breaking over how she thinks the story was going to end made me want to give her a big hug. Thankfully, Amy's protagonist doesn't end up so sad after all. I won't spoil the ending of her tale, because the truth is, the writers of the show didn't give it an ending either.
There has been at least one real life fanfic that I know of based on the fanfic used in this episode. If anything, such a real fanfic should involve the Ingalls, the Wilders, or the Olesons. In the meantime, a lot of people have described the four denizens of Apartment 4A as being emotionally immature, especially Sheldon. Here we see the two early-30 something women acting like a couple of lovestruck pre-teens. Certainly not an episode to be missed, and if you have missed it, catch it in a rerun.
The main storyline is over some physics blog that Leonard thinks is going to set the scientific world on fire. But some online troll decides to make fun of him for it, and he, Sheldon, Howard and Raj are on a campaign of revenge. While they're doing all this, Penny invites the rest of her posse over to her apartment for movie night and reluctantly shows them one of the "Serial Ape-ist" movies she was in. Bernadette shows a beauty pageant she was part of in 1999, looking exactly the same, and doing a crappy rendition of "Wannabe," by the Spice Girls. Then in retaliation, Bernadette reveals that Amy wrote a piece of Little House on the Prairie Fanfiction involving characters modeled after her and Sheldon. When Penny finds it online she reads it aloud and both she and Bernadette are immediately intrigued. Fair warning though; Her excitement over the "distinct possibility" of Sheldon and Amy getting it on in "The Cooper/Kripke Inversion," does not measure up to her reading of first paragraph from Amy's fanfic.
The two beauty queens may make fun of Amy's story, but they're still engrossed in it. Not simply because it's good, but because it about Amy and Sheldon, no matter how much she insists it involves "Amelia and Cooper." Their love story is what Amy wants her own love story to be, as well as what her friends want it to be, and to some extent what we want it to be. When Bernadette cracks a joke about one of the lines, Amy decides to put an end to what she sees as public humiliation, until Penny convinces her to read it instead. And from there, it seems like Amelia's love for Cooper is doomed. Bernadette's little heart breaking over how she thinks the story was going to end made me want to give her a big hug. Thankfully, Amy's protagonist doesn't end up so sad after all. I won't spoil the ending of her tale, because the truth is, the writers of the show didn't give it an ending either.
There has been at least one real life fanfic that I know of based on the fanfic used in this episode. If anything, such a real fanfic should involve the Ingalls, the Wilders, or the Olesons. In the meantime, a lot of people have described the four denizens of Apartment 4A as being emotionally immature, especially Sheldon. Here we see the two early-30 something women acting like a couple of lovestruck pre-teens. Certainly not an episode to be missed, and if you have missed it, catch it in a rerun.