Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Season 1 Episode 9 Is Stuart’s Time to Shine

We’ve certainly seen growth throughout Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Season 1, but the penultimate episode takes things further.

What better way than to show off Stuart’s skills and abilities than by putting him into the world of comic books?

He owned a comic book store for the entire run of The Big Bang Theory, and he’s still there.

It’s not even clear how long he owned that store before the series, but Stuart Fails to Save the Universe makes it clear that his superpower is comic book knowledge.

On top of that, we finally see why Denise and Stuart really do belong together.

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The Biggest Mistake the Villain Could Make

Throughout Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Season 1, we’ve watched Stuart and his friends come together to fix this wibbly-wobbly parallel-universe machine.

The entire focus has been on getting to Sheldon, Howard, and Leonard to fix the broken component.

Well, that’s what it was supposed to be about, and then the journeys through the different universes took over. It’s become a comfort show because of that.

The end of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Season 1 Episode 8 took a huge turn.

Something doesn’t want Stuart and the others to get out of the comic book, and it’s not clear why.

Is this related to the universe-hopping machine, or is the theory about the machine wrong? What if a version of Stuart had the wrong information to pass on to himself?

Whatever is going on, there’s no doubt that this evil mass creature made a huge mistake.

Why would it — he, she, who knows — even consider putting Stuart and co. into a comic book? Especially one that involves the DC superheroes?

Stuart knows the universes. 

He knows all the different Earths in DC, and if anyone was going to work out how to get out of there, it was going to be him.

And I love that we got to see his moment to shine, while also seeing just how much Denise knows and why these two are so perfect for each other. 

I think this was the first moment I really appreciated it, and I actually appreciated their connection.

Sure, the details about how this Earth’s version of The Flash got his powers and the cities Gotham and Metropolis are based on aren’t all that necessary, but they highlight the creature’s monumental mistake.

Stuart didn’t need to know how to destroy Mr. Freeze.

He just needed to know where one of DC Comics’ superheroes was.

I do think there was a misstep in the episode title, since Green Lantern wasn’t mentioned once, but I have to wonder if it was titled that way, given that Lanterns, the Green Lantern TV series, would premiere around the same time as Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

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Stuart Explaining Everything He Saw was Hilarious

I’ve got to admit that I enjoyed the moment Stuart explains everything he’s seeing.

It was a great way to cut down on the budget, because we all know what the CGI budget would have needed to be to show The Flash take on Mr. Freeze.

But it wasn’t just having Stuart on screen explaining it all that was fun. It was poking fun at TV shows as a whole.

There’s the rule of “show don’t tell,” and this moment explains why.

As Kripke rolls his eyes, saying — and I’m paraphrasing — “it’s gone again,” I couldn’t help but chuckle. I felt like I was in the room with them, or with people who try to explain a movie absolutely terribly.

My mind was cast back to Captain Marvel, when my daughter told her dad, “The cat ate the bad guys.” 

Now, if you’ve seen the movie, you know exactly what that refers to, but the phrase itself doesn’t exactly sound wild or funny.

I didn’t even tell her not to spoil anything, because quite frankly, it wasn’t a spoiler considering the actual scene.

This whole scene on Stuart Fails to Save the Universe reminded me of that, because I sat back and wondered how tall the ice wall was — was it as big as Game of Thrones? — and how The Flash got out of the ice.

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Even without the speed at which the entire situation was happening, Stuart could never have explained it in detail, leaving so much to the imagination.

I was surprised Denise didn’t try to look, or that Bert didn’t try to go around the other side of the car to take a peek, but it didn’t ruin the moment’s hilarity.

The episode as a whole has left me excited about the last episode.

The laugh track brings back memories of The Big Bang Theory, and I have to wonder if the group will finally get to Howard, Leonard, or Sheldon.

Over the last few episodes, the group has forgotten about that, and the device wasn’t even a main plot point in the latest installment, so I have to wonder how they’ll get back to it with the big black hole outside the comic book store.

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