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** Sheldon needs Leonard to call up some of the potential guests on his list -- Creator/StanLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, and Creator/BillNye -- as they have pre-established restraining orders against him.
** When going out for tea, Amy wears the tiara Sheldon gave her in "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver".
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'''"The Convention Conundrum"''' is an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' that first aired on January 16, 2014. Directed by Creator/MarkCendrowski. Teleplay by Steven Molaro, David Goetsch and Steve Holland, based on a story by Eric Kaplan, Jim Reynolds and Adam Faberman.

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'''"The Convention Conundrum"''' is an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' that first aired on January 16, 30, 2014. Directed by Creator/MarkCendrowski. Teleplay by Steven Molaro, David Goetsch and Steve Holland, based on a story by Eric Kaplan, Jim Reynolds and Adam Faberman.
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* TakeThat: Sheldon talks to Creator/RobertDowneyJr's agent on the phone. During the call, Sheldon casts aspersions on one of Downey's movies, and Leonard smiles approvingly.
--> '''Sheldon''': Yes, I'm starting my own comic book convention, and I thought that your client, Robert Downey Jr., would be perfect to appear on our first panel. Oh, well, now, why are you saying no? You haven't even asked him yet. You know, excuse me, but I sat through ''Film/IronMan2''. I believe he owes me two hours of his time. They hung up on me!

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The boys can't get tickets to comic-con. Three of them decide to buy black market tickets, but Sheldon decides to start his own convention. The girls try having a tea party.

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The boys '''"The Convention Conundrum"''' is an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' that first aired on January 16, 2014. Directed by Creator/MarkCendrowski. Teleplay by Steven Molaro, David Goetsch and Steve Holland, based on a story by Eric Kaplan, Jim Reynolds and Adam Faberman.

Howard, Leonard and Raj
can't get tickets to comic-con. Three of them comic-con, so they decide to buy black market tickets, but despite dire warnings from Sheldon.

Sheldon decides to start his own convention. The girls On the phone, he has no luck getting any celebrities to agree to be panelists at his convention. So he decides to track down Creator/JamesEarlJones, and meets him face to face at a restaurant.

Meanwhile, Amy, Bernadette and Penny
try having a tea party.
party. They can't shake the feeling that they're not really adults. It doesn't help that they go to a place where most of the other guests are little girls.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Sheldon sits down across from him and begins nerding out over his role as Darth Vader, James Earl Jones tells him, seemingly irritatedly, that he's been in a lot of other works too. However, nobody cares about those; they like ''Star Wars''.
-->'''James Earl Jones''': I have one thing to say to people like you...I like ''Star Wars'' too!
* BrickJoke; While trying to contact celebrities for his own convention, Sheldon tells Leonard that he needs him to contact some of them: Creator/StanLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/BillNye are on his list of restraining orders, and Creator/CarrieFisher is said to be slightly nuts. Later, while James Earl Jones and Sheldon are ringing Carrie's doorbell, James says they'll need to be careful because Carrie is slightly nuts.



* OddFriendship: James Earl Jones is a lot friendlier toward a fan who stalked him to his favorite restaurant than you'd expect. He takes Sheldon on a ferris wheel ride, to a steamroom, and ding-dong-ditching on Carrie Fisher.
* OhNoNotAgain: When Carrie answers the door after James and Sheldon ring it, she yells at her old co-star that this trick isn't funny anymore, implying that he's done this multiple times.



* OddFriendship: James Earl Jones is a lot friendlier toward a fan who stalked him to his favorite restaurant than you'd expect. He takes Sheldon on a ferris wheel ride, to a steamroom, and ding-dong-ditching on Carrie Fisher.

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* ShoutOut: Sheldon approaches James Earl Jones in a restaurant and they end up talking about Franchise/StarWars and WesternAnimation/TheLionKing.
* UnlikelyFriendship: James Earl Jones is a lot friendlier toward a fan who stalked him to his favorite restaurant than you'd expect. He takes Sheldon on a ferris wheel ride, to a steamroom, and ding-dong-ditching on Carrie Fisher.

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* AdamWesting: Creator/JamesEarlJones befriends Sheldon and takes him on a wild night on the town, revealing himself to being a ''Franchise/StarWars'' geek and prone to playing practical jokes on Creator/CarrieFisher, who turns out to be a little crazy herself.
* DingDongDitchDistraction: James Earl Jones and Sheldon ding-dong-ditch Creator/CarrieFisher. And judging from her reaction, it's not the first time James has done this.
-->'''Carrie:''' It's not fun anymore, James!\\
'''James:''' Then why are we laughing?
* ShoutOut: Sheldon approaches James Earl Jones in a restaurant and they end up talking about Franchise/StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars'' and WesternAnimation/TheLionKing.
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* UnlikelyFriendship: StartMyOwn: Unable to get tickets to Comic Con, Sheldon decides to start his own convention.
* OddFriendship:
James Earl Jones is a lot friendlier toward a fan who stalked him to his favorite restaurant than you'd expect. He takes Sheldon on a ferris wheel ride, to a steamroom, and ding-dong-ditching on Carrie Fisher.
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The boys can't get tickets to comic-con. Three of them decide to buy black market tickets, but Sheldon decides to start his own convention. The girls try having a tea party.

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* ShoutOut: Sheldon approaches James Earl Jones in a restaurant and they end up talking about Franchise/StarWars and WesternAnimation/TheLionKing.
* UnlikelyFriendship: James Earl Jones is a lot friendlier toward a fan who stalked him to his favorite restaurant than you'd expect. He takes Sheldon on a ferris wheel ride, to a steamroom, and ding-dong-ditching on Carrie Fisher.
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