That aside, which may feel more objectionable because of the year we’re having, it’s just boring and repetitive, and I wish that someone in the writers room could come up with something new for the two characters – both portrayed by talented comedic actors – to do. While this episode at least had the courtesy to have the lady in question reject both of them fully in possession of her agency, the scene still ends with Stuart attempting to set himself up as the friend before growing on her ‘like a fungus’. The show is coming under fire more and more for its treatment of women and its excusing of toxic male behaviour, and it deserves all of the pushback it’s received. I’m not willing to go back and look at every episode of the show, but I could swear this exact scenario has happened before. It’s not just the familiarity of the lazy dialogue – Raj used to live off his parents’ money, Stuart is homeless and works at a struggling comic book store – but the whole situation. Once there, they proceed to ‘charm’ her with thinly-veiled insults aimed at each other – insults we’ve heard a million times before. When Bernadette mentions to Howard that she has a new single, female colleague eager to make friends, he immediately tells Raj and Stuart where to find her. While the ‘Sheldon Show’ is more entertaining than it’s been in a while, the same can’t be said for the ‘Raj and Stuart Are So, So Lonely’ show.
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