Geek strike? Ha.

My issue was that the character, upon experiencing emotional distress at dealing with more "real world" problems, immediately reverted to denial and childhood fantasy.

In later episodes, however, the same character gets the girl by making a well-placed reference to Schrodinger's Cat. The show won back a few points on that, but now there's a subprocess in my mind constantly scanning for computer science terms that would have analogously successful results. So far, I've only come up with dirty NP-hard jokes. (sigh)

(laugh track)