S8 Discussion Thread

[ashleyo85]

"Sheldon continues to struggle in the strait jacket."

 

FADE OUT

 

Damn! Straightjacket was what I put on twitter Lol

 

 

I hope they don't end up modifying this and then we never know 

Edited April 15, 2015 by ashleyo85

[iheartshamy]

I doubt it will happen this soon, but I really hope it's somewhere along the lines of "Sheldon kneels down and takes a ring out of his pocket' So yeah, I'm going with pocket

[mary-anne12]

I vote shamy proposal

[mamallama]

I wrote up the report on the plane. As soon as I can connect my laptop to wifi I'll post it. There was no hotel room. I was speculating because I couldn't see very well on the tour.

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[MTBigBangTheoryFan]

I wrote up the report on the plane. As soon as I can connect my laptop to wifi I'll post it. There was no hotel room. I was speculating because I couldn't see very well on the tour.

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Okay thank you for clearing that up. Looking forward to reading. I am going to make a Hot Beverage. 

[tallin]

You could say the same about Leonard leaving in Season 6 then or Howard in Season 5.

it put Shamy relationship to the test

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I don't see coitus happening in season finale. I think that will be 200th Episode

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Season 5 finally was all about their wedding, that's pretty big Howardette plot. In season 6 it can be consider I think maybe as both Leonard or Lenny plot, but they had a lot of time together, discussed their decision together, Penny was planing his party, saying goodbye etc...  it was step forward for them in that very episode - assurance that they are in a good place, capable of doing grown up decisions together, it was to the degree I think point of this episode. Shamy scene in season 7 was  one of many, wasn't crucial, and it was all about Sheldon, how the changes are affecting him, what he will do, it wasn't took from relationship point of view at all. It was step forward in long term but in that very episode it was all about Sheldon, Amy sadly, didn't played bigger role. Their relationship wasn't the point of the story. 

My opinion...

[Kathleen]

We should all pick a word that ends with "cket" before the finale and then gather them all and then whoever gets it right wins ....(the satisfaction of being a psychic/know it all!) No backsies!

#FinaleFunTime

Ooh I'll play!

I say "jacket"

[mamallama]

This was typed on 3 hrs sleep, did my best to remember actual conversations.  YMMV.

 

The Maternal Combustion

 

First Scene:

 

The guy’s apartment - Sheldon and Mary

 

Mary brings over tea to the couch and tells Sheldon how proud she is of Sheldon and Leonard getting an award for their paper.  She’s tried to read it but she doesn’t understand it.  Sheldon tries to tell her what it’s about and she still is confused and makes a religious comment.  Sheldon then says that as Beverly is a renowned psychiatrist would Mary please keep her religious musings toned down.  Mary asks Sheldon if he is ashamed of her and he says “No, just embarrassed that you believe there was an ark that held all the animals of the world.”  Mary has some type of comeback and Sheldon responds with “Well, what did the lions eat?”  Mary says “The floating bodies of sinners.”  Sheldon has some comeback and Mary says “Well, I love you.” and Sheldon says “I love you, too.”  Mary then says, “My little lion chow.”

 

Next scene:  Stairwell - Leonard and Beverly

 

Leonard has just picked up Beverly from the airport and they are heading up the stairs to the apartment.  Beverly asks Leonard has Lenny set a date yet and Leonard says “No, we are taking it slow.”  Beverly stops and makes a derisive noise.  Leonard asks what’s that for and Beverly says “You’ve been with this woman on and off for 7 years and engaged for 1.  I can’t help wonder what is going on, is the sex not satisfactory?”  Leonard cringes and says that it is and then Beverly, says “Oh, just satisfactory.”  They head up the stairs and Leonard is now saying the sex is amazing, the best ever, fabulous…  Beverly then says, “Hmm, interesting that you need to promote your sex life to your mother.  Still suffering from that Oedipal complex, I see.”  They get to the door of the apartment and Leonard says to Beverly that Mary is deeply religious, would she please be respectful of that.  Beverly counters with “Do you not trust me to be respectful of people’s beliefs? Where is she from again?”  Leonard says East Texas which earns an eye roll and oh boy from Beverly.

 

Next scene - Guy’s apartment - Sheldon, Leonard, Mary, Beverly, Penny

 

Sheldon and Leonard introduce their mother’s to each other and they sit down to talk.  Mary starts by saying she must be so proud of her son and Beverly responds back with, “Oh, yes, he just argued his first case in front of the Supreme Court.”  Mary’s eyes get large and she says “He did?”  Looking at Leonard like he’s a marvel.  Leonard is now slunk back on the couch.  Beverly, now understanding, says “Oh, you mean this one.  Yeah, if you say so.”  Sheldon then shows Beverly something on his iPad.  It’s a picture of his college graduation at 14.  Beverly comments that Sheldon doesn’t look very happy.  Sheldon says, “Well, I had just started puberty.  So, it was literally and figuratively the hairiest time of my life.  No matter how hard you squeeze, you can’t keep your testicles from descending.”  Then Beverly asks Mary when she first noticed that Sheldon was so exceptional.  Sheldon is all excited, saying “Oh, there’s nothing more exciting than talking about Sheldon Cooper, boy genius.”  Mary says “Probably when he was 13 and tried to buy yellow cake from Chad.  At first I thought he was trying to buy twinkles from his friend Chad, but then I realized he was trying to use my Visa card to buy radioactive material from a warlord in the country of Chad.”  Sheldon laughingly pipes up with something like, “Well, of course it was the country, I didn’t have any friends.”  Mary continues with how Sheldon was always thinking of helping others and wanted to give the entire town free electricity.  Beverly is looking so impressed at this and marveling at Sheldon.  Beverly says “Sheldon sounds like he was quite the handful.”   Mary says, “Yes, he was.”  Leonard shoots back, “He still is.”  Sheldon looks proud.  Leonard is looking so forlorn and unloved so he pipes up, “Mother, tell them about the time I built a vandergraph machine from the vacuum cleaner.”  Beverly deadpans, “Oh, yes, he broke the vacuum cleaner.”

 

Enter Penny who excuses herself for being late, she just got out of work.  Beverly rises to greet her and shakes her hand.  Penny engulfs her in a hug, which Beverly shakily returns.  Penny comments, “Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.”  She greets Mary who wraps her in a warm, loving hug.  Penny says, “Yup, that’s what it’s about.”  Penny sits on the couch next to Beverly and Beverly congratulates her on the engagement.  Penny says “Let me show you the ring.”  Beverly looks and comments that it must have cost a lot of money.”  Sheldon interjects with, “No, we found it on line.  It’s a recycled industrial diamond.”  Leonard looks mortified and stutters, “Nnnoo, it wasn’t.”   He then says to Sheldon, “Can I talk to you in private.”  They start to leave and Leonard says to Penny, “It’s from Tiffany’s.”  Sheldon retorts, “Oh, you mean the box.”  Exit guys.

 

Penny looks at the ring and says “It’s not about how much it cost or from where it came.” and in a small voice, “I think.”  Mary then says something about it doesn’t matter, “When a man and woman lay together, they are already married in the eyes of the Lord.”  Beverly gets a sour look on her face and snorts. Mary asks what that was for.  Beverly comments “Nothing, I’m just intrigued about how people believe in superstition.” or something to that effect.  This kicks of the battle of the moms.  Mary says “You know, Sheldon sent me those books you wrote about the ego and the id.  All that is about poop and getting back into mama. Who came up with all that boatload of malarkey (to that effect).”  Beverly says “Sigmund Freud.”   Penny tries to diffuse the situation with humor and says,”Look, you both are into Jewish guys with beards.”  Which earns her glares from both moms.   Beverly says “I wonder how someone so enlightened as Sheldon came from you.” Mary says, “I can tell you, but you aren’t going to like it.  I was pregnant with Sheldon and in my car driving to church.  I was praying that I’d have a son that was smarter than his dumb as dirt father and I stopped at a light.  I looked over and on the dashboard of the Subaru next to me was a bobble head Jesus and he was nodding his head, Yes.”  Beverly drops her jaw and does a palm plant to the forehead.  Mary says, What was that for, mimicking the palm plant.  Beverly has some snide comment and Mary starts whacking her forehead with her palm, making some comment about maybe Beverly should keep doing that to knock some sense into her.  Penny tries to diffuse the situation by saying,, “Let’s talk about something safe, like shoes or how cute Chinese babies are.”

 

Next scene: Howard’s mom’s kitchen.  - Bernie, Howard, Stuart

 

There’s a man in the kitchen facing away from us. He’s in his underwear and scratching his butt.  Bernie walks in and just stares.  The man turns around and it’s Stuart.  Bernie says, “It’s ok you’re going to stay here but you have to do as I asked and wear pants.  No walking around in underwear is allowed.”  Enter Howard wearing nothing but socks and silk boxers.

 

Next scene: Guy’s apartment - Leonard’s bedroom

 

Sheldon enters Leonard’s bedroom first saying “Did I misspeak about the ring?”  Leonard responds with “Yes, but we’ll get to that later.  This is about you always taking the attention of both mom’s.  You’re like the seal cub that nurses from two moms.”  Sheldon says “No, I think you mean that this is like (I’m paraphrasing) the two moms suckling the same cub for their own needs.”  Leonard says “Yes, you’re a blah blah mother suckler.”  I wish I could remember but I can’t, sorry,  Sheldon says “Ok, but now I’m very annoyed with you.”

 

Next scene - Howard’s Mom’s Living Room - Raj, Howard, Stuart

 

They guys are lazing around on the furniture.  Stuart is reading a comic book and Howard and Raj are playing a video game.  Howard says “I wonder what the next big video game thing is going to be, we’ve already done vampires and now zombies.”  Raj says “Maybe the invisible man.”  Stuart says “Well, you haven’t seen me try to talk to women, have you.”

 

Enter Bernie loaded with grocery bags.  She looks at the guys just lounging around and says “Have you done nothing since I’ve left, I’ve been gone for hours and done x, y and z.”   Stuart pipes up,”I put pants on.”  Howard, still in his underwear says, “It’s on my to do list.”  Bernie tosses down one of the grocery totes and says “You guys are going to get up and scrub the kitchen from top to bottom.”  Raj looks at her and says “I don’t live here.”  Bernie responds, “Do you or do you not have clothes in my laundry?”  Raj hesitates and says “Yeeesssss, and some of them are wool, so you will need to lay them flat to dry.”

 

Next scene - Guy’s apartment:  Mary, Beverly, Penny, Sheldon, Leonard

 

Enter Leonard from the hallway back to the kitchen going to get some water.  He’s clearly upset.  Sheldon is close behind him and he’s saying “It’s not my fault that your mother likes me better.”  Leonard responds with “It’s not that she likes you better, she likes EVERYONE better than me.”

 

Next scene - Howard’s Mom’s Kitchen - Howard, Stuart, Raj

 

The guys are making good progress cleaning the kitchen.  However, Stuart and Raj are giving Howard a hard time about Bernie bossing him around.  They make references to how Bernie is like his mother and not like his wife.  Howard acknowledges that and stands up a little straighter and says “You’re right.  From now on, I’m going to be the man and do what a man does in a relationship.”  He goes over to the trash bin and says “And that’s take out the trash.”  He lifts the bag out of the bin and and it breaks wide open spilling its contents all over the clean floor.  Howard then whines “Bernie, I made a mess…..”

 

Next scene - Coffee House, Sheldon and Beverly

 

Beverly and  Sheldon are seated at a table drinking tea.  Beverly says that she really should apologize to Mary for her comments.  Sheldon says not to worry, Mary will forgive because otherwise she’ll go to hell.  

 

Beverly starts to ruminate on the fact that she raised her children to earn her love as a reward for achievement, but here Sheldon achieved so much by being raised by someone who just gave him unconditional love.  Sheldon says something to the effect that he finds Beverly’s methods justified and maybe he would have done even more being raised that way.  Look how much Leonard’s sister and brother have accomplished being raised that way.  Sheldon’s own sister and brother are dumb as stumps.  However, Sheldon did get to have spaghetti with little hot dogs cut up in it any time he wanted, so maybe it wasn’t all bad.

 

Next scene - Guy’s apartment - Leonard, Penny, Mary

 

Mary starts out by saying she needs to apologize to Beverly.  Leonard says it’s not necessary and Mary says that it is.  Penny says, “Well, Beverly did kind of start it.”  But Mary says something like to forgive is divine, but the Texas way would be to to shoot ‘em, so she’ll just split it down the middle. At some point during this scene, Penny is teasing Leonard a little bit about the ring.  Not mean or anything but she’s making drill noises to Leonard and pretending to drill into his arm for a moment.

 

Next scene - Howard’s Mom’s Kitchen - Howard, Raj, Stuart

 

Howard has cleaned up the mess on the floor and mopped.  In walks Bernie and Howard starts crowing about what a good job he did and that it wasn’t that hard.  Howard takes a step over to her and his foot sticks to the floor and his shoe comes off.  He takes another step and his foot sticks again, taking his sock off his foot.  Bernie turns to leave and her foot sticks, too, taking her shoe, as well.  She leaves with one shoe.

 

Next scene - Guy’s apartment - Mary, Beverly, Sheldon, Leonard, Penny

 

Mary and Beverly are standing near the front door about to shake hands.  Mary says “I’m glad we were able to bury the hatchet.”  Beverly says, “Me, too.”  Leonard then says “Ok, mom, let me take you to your hotel before anyone says anything else.”  Beverly says, “Well, I have something to say.”  Leonard cringes not knowing what is going to come out of her mouth.  Beverly says, “I learned something new today, I would like to change the paradigm of our relationship.  From now on I will shower you with unconditional love.”  Sheldon says “I taught her that!” Leonard looks surprised at her and says “Starting when?”  Beverly, says, “Always so needy.”  Beverly opens up her arms and shakily says, “Come to mommy.”  Leonard just stands there not knowing what to do.  Penny pushes him forward and says like a mom would to a toddler, “It’s ok, go.”  Leonard goes to his mom and wraps her in a hug.  Beverly says, “My son.”  Leonard responds awkwardly, “My mother.”  They did several takes on this one with Beverly hesitatingly hugging back and once with an immediate hug.  The last take was a halting one.  Not sure which they will pick.

 

Tag Scene - Howard’s Mom’s Kitchen, Howard, Raj, Stuart.

 

Raj is cleaning the stove, Howard is on his knees scrubbing the floor and Stuart is sweeping the floor behind him.  Raj starts whistling “It’s a hard knock life” from “Annie”.  After a moment, Howard starts humming along and then Stuart joins in.  A moment later they all break out into the lyrics, really getting into it as they toil with their work.  Bernie opens the kitchen door and sees and hears what they are up to.  She rolls her eyes, turns around and leaves.

[Etienne]

I agree that the fade out means something big is going to happen. They did it in the prom episode too after Leonard said "You don't have hormones." It will be a cliffhanger for sure.

 

I'm pretty sure "FADE OUT" is a standard term of art simply meaning the end of the episode, as opposed to "CUT TO" which references transitions between scenes of an episode.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Etienne

[Mislav]

A plot (Mary/Beverly): brilliant

B plot (Howard/Stuart/Raj/Bernadette): so bad, cliche and very distasteful

[kerrycec03]

Mama thank you so much for the detailed report. Again, even without our girl, you still got to see Christine & Laurie.  Thanks so cool!!

 

And sounds very funny

[luke]

Thanks for the report - so psyched that Beverly and Mary are finally going to meet, and it sounds like it will meet all expectations - ”Look, you both are into Jewish guys with beards.”

Edited April 15, 2015 by luke

[stardustmelody]

Thank you, Mama for the full report!!!!   Awesome report!

Edited April 15, 2015 by stardustmelody

[rachelshamyfan]

Cheers mama! And Dana for info also

[kazzie]

Thanks Mama!

I just realised. I haven't posted 1 spoiler yet! Haha!

itc was a funny episode! It's just like we imagined the mothers would be. Weird with no Mayim / Amy though. That sucked.

As for the finale, I legit know nothing. I'll be at the taping.

I can maybe do a tour this weekend. I'll see what I can do

Edited April 15, 2015 by kazzie

[iheartshamy]

Thanks for the report mama! Sad that Amy's not in it, but other than that it sounds awesome :D

[hokie3457]

Thanks mllama (just switching it up---other folks called you mama)!!!! Great report. Hope you had a wonderful time!

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Edited April 15, 2015 by hokie3457

[kazzie]

Ok... With what Dana was saying about the cold open.. It's possible they still have a scene to film with Mayim / Amy..

Mayim is still listed on the program...

Edited April 15, 2015 by kazzie

[iheartshamy]

Ok... With what Dana was saying about the cold open.. It's possible they still have a scene to film with Mayim / Amy..

Mayim is still listed on the program...

Really?! That's awesome, I really hope that's the case!

[Chrismo]

 

The Maternal Combustion

 

Penny says “Let me show you the ring.”  Beverly looks and comments that it must have cost a lot of money.”  Sheldon interjects with, “No, we found it on line.  It’s a recycled industrial diamond.”  Leonard looks mortified and stutters, “Nnnoo, it wasn’t.”   He then says to Sheldon, “Can I talk to you in private.”  They start to leave and Leonard says to Penny, “It’s from Tiffany’s.”  Sheldon retorts, “Oh, you mean the box.”  Exit guys.

 

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Enjoyed your report. I had to point out to the naysayers that Sheldon was there when Leonard picked out the engagement ring.

[Earnie]

Great to see Sheldon and Leonard getting a award for their paper it seems Leonard is getting credit for his idea wonder if this could win them a Nobel prize

[tbhf]

Too add to the game

I'm gonna go with "pocket"

Either Sheldon pulls out a ring from his pocket or a key ❤️

[Kasey]

I'm going to go with docket as in a court docket...

[gsxdoug]

Here's a radical idea. What if the finale just plays out like an ordinary episode? No cliff-hanger, no drama; just a good, funny episode.

 

For our little game, I'm going to go with "socket" as the more obvious ones are already spoken for. Light socket, electric socket, Penny pulls someone's arm out of its socket...

[Nogravitasatall]

I'd say ticket, but if only there was no c... then I could vote for Penny and Leonard getting their ticket to Phuket.

And thanks for the report. I look forward to seeing this.