Challenge Word: Square

This is for Rachelle's additional challenge: write something for yourself.

Spoilers for Episode 6.12 Like a Virgin

Warnings: Guest Cast (The Big Bang Theory) Supernatural is (gulp) just a TV show! This is either a crack!fic, meta, or humor, depending on your point of view.

400 words (per MS word counter)

Changing Channels

by Swellison

The four scientists-the three doctors and Howard, with his lowly master's in engineering—were eating Chinese takeout. It was their scheduled chow break from Friday night's vintage videogame playing, a welcome and deserved respite from Super Mario, Centipede and Asteroids. A loud knocking brought Leonard out of his chair and over to the door.

He opened it and Penny, their blonde neighbor and his ex-girlfriend, breezed through. "Oh goody, you're not watching anything! My cable's down and my favorite show's on." She plunked down on the sofa squarely between Raj and Sheldon, Raj scootching closer to Howard to make room on the couch for a fourth person.

Sheldon turned from his long-standing position on the right end of the couch to object.

Leonard hastily butted in. "Now, Sheldon, we've got the dinner break until nine." He flipped the remote, activating the TV. "We can watch TV while we eat—like background music at a restaurant. What're you watching, Penny, a reality show?"

"Are you kidding me?" Penny snorted. "That crap is taking over the airwaves, preventing me from being an actress on a scripted show. It's Supernatural, on the CW, Channel Five." Leonard punched in the appropriate cable number. "I've gotta see Sam get his soul back!"

Sheldon again turned to face Penny. "In what universe does one lose a soul? A soul—as my mother will gladly explain at length, citing multiple biblical references—is impossible to lose."

"The Winchester universe, silly. Be quiet, it's starting." As the newly-resouled Sam appeared onscreen, Penny sighed. "Now that's my kind of genius—six foot-five and abs of steel."

Leonard sat up straighter, trying to appear taller. "That pretty-boy Neanderthal is hardly a genius."

"Sam scored a 174 on his LSAT—it's in the pilot." Penny argued, then added. "I'm a Sammygirl."

"What's a Sammygirl?" Leonard asked during the first commercial break.

"Sam and Dean are the Winchester brothers, the main characters of the show. Fans of the show are Deangirls or Sammygirls, depending on which brother they like best. Then there's the fencesitters, who can't or won't decide and say they like both. We waitresses at the Cheesecake Factory are pretty evenly split between Deangirls and Sammygirls. Like I said, I'm a Sammygirl."

With no alcohol in sight, Raj turned to whisper in Howard's ear.

Howard glared at him. "What do you mean, you bet my Bernadette's a Sammygirl, too?"

A/N If you don't watch The Big Bang Theory, this probably didn't make a lot of sense. If you do, I hope it sounded in character to you.