This Big Bang Theory episode (S9 EP03) could have been awesome! But the writers blew it and this episode sucked. When I saw that the guys were going to a bachelor party in Richard Feynman's van complete with the Feynman diagrams drawn all over the outside of the vehicle, I was quite happy and thought: "This is going to be great, but they have to make it a two part episode to cover things righteously." They kidnapped Sheldon and threw him in the van which Feynman would have loved.
They were on their way to Mexico to see the house Feynman bought there with some of his Nobel Prize money. The possibilities for this plot are endless! But what happens in a boring, less than 22
minutes of the episode? They break down on a deserted road with a flat tire. Nothing about Mexico is shown. No one shows up to confront them. Nothing more about Feynman. They simply fumble around trying to figure out smart ways to fix the tire and end up watching the van go up in flames. The burning van is a metaphor for the entire disaster of an episode. The side plot with the girls back home was more interesting. At the VERY least they could have had an apparition of Feynman's ghost appear and give them some brilliant method of solving the "stuck tire dilemma. Better would have been to let them meet a Mexican or two and then actually arrive at Feynman's house and have the actual bachelor party. Maybe have them accidently ingest some Peyote and watch them trip might have been hilarious. Oh Well, did I say I hated this?
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