[Spoilers] Season 12 Discussion Thread

[chucky]

53 minutes ago, Swedish Chef said:

No, it could be the final episode or the episode before the final. I don't think it will happen but it's possible.

I don't think so either. But, there's always hope!

Edited January 8, 2019 by chucky

[luminous]

 

[bfm]

3 hours ago, MTBigBangTheoryFan said:

HappyTaping day  everyone. 

And @Tensor have fun, both you and your wife

[Tensor]

Getting ready to leave the hotel for lunch, then head over to the studio. 

[chucky]

34 minutes ago, Tensor said:

Getting ready to leave the hotel for lunch, then head over to the studio. 

OKAY DOKAY! I hope you have a good time!

[veejay]

36 minutes ago, Tensor said:

Getting ready to leave the hotel for lunch, then head over to the studio. 

Have a good time! 😀

[hokie3457]

(I know this really should be for the Young Sheldon thread, but I can't get there from here, so I'm saying it parenthetically.....I am so pumped that Althea will be on YS this week.  I love that whenever there is a need for a nurse or other hospital worker in TBBT-land, it is always Althea, played by Vernee Watson!!!!!)

[chucky]

Just now, hokie3457 said:

(I know this really should be for the Young Sheldon thread, but I can't get there from here, so I'm saying it parenthetically.....I am so pumped that Althea will be on YS this week.  I love that whenever there is a need for a nurse or other hospital worker in TBBT-land, it is always Althea, played by Vernee Watson!!!!!)

What show was that?

[bfm]

9 minutes ago, hokie3457 said:

(I know this really should be for the Young Sheldon thread, but I can't get there from here, so I'm saying it parenthetically.....I am so pumped that Althea will be on YS this week.  I love that whenever there is a need for a nurse or other hospital worker in TBBT-land, it is always Althea, played by Vernee Watson!!!!!)

I like that too

Although I think there was one exception, I think in season 11 when Howardette were told they were having a boy.

[luminous]

From cbspressexpress.com

Sneak Peeks for episode 12.12 "The Propagation Proposition" (geo-blocked)

https://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-big-bang-theory/video?watch=8gix3eyq8b&show=the-big-bang-theory#

https://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-big-bang-theory/video?watch=8fst7sqh2y&show=the-big-bang-theory#

 

[chucky]

37 minutes ago, luminous said:

From cbspressexpress.com

Sneak Peeks for episode 12.12 "The Propagation Proposition" (geo-blocked)

https://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-big-bang-theory/video?watch=8gix3eyq8b&show=the-big-bang-theory#

https://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-big-bang-theory/video?watch=8fst7sqh2y&show=the-big-bang-theory#

 

Thanks

[Kev0821]

42 minutes ago, luminous said:

From cbspressexpress.com

Sneak Peeks for episode 12.12 "The Propagation Proposition" (geo-blocked)

https://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-big-bang-theory/video?watch=8gix3eyq8b&show=the-big-bang-theory#

https://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-big-bang-theory/video?watch=8fst7sqh2y&show=the-big-bang-theory#

 

 

 

[luminous]

 

[chucky]

2 hours ago, luminous said:

 

interesting

[Carlos]

On ‎1‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 4:38 PM, Burberry said:

Good for you, 

i disagree with his choice 

I applaud him for it. he is my new hero. From my pint of view TBBT has been on life support for the 4-5 years and Jim's exit is allowing the series to finish with a smidge of dignity. Not very much, mind you but a little at least.

[Tensor]

Out,  give me 30-45 minutes to get something to eat and get back to the room. 

[SRAM]

My opinion of a sitcom is it is good if it entertains me, I might gripe about TBBT but it still entertains me and I think most casual viewers watch it for the same reason.  So ending a sitcom because the artistic value is not there anymore is ludicrous to my way of thinking because it is about the entertainment, that is what makes the ratings.  Can you imagine how short of runs TV shows would have if they were cancelled when their artistic value dropped, we be lucky if any show reached enough episodes to make syndication.  Most of the crap on TV and cable has no artistic value in my opinion and that goes for some of the movies that have come out lately, too.

2 minutes ago, Tensor said:

Out,  give me 30-45 minutes to get something to eat and get back to the room. 

That was sort of quick, wasn’t it?

[Chrismo]

9 minutes ago, Tensor said:

Out,  give me 30-45 minutes to get something to eat and get back to the room. 

Didn’t they feed you at the taping? Only kidding my wife said the pizza was bad there 

[MTBigBangTheoryFan]

19 minutes ago, Tensor said:

Out,  give me 30-45 minutes to get something to eat and get back to the room. 

Hope you had a good time! 

[joyceraye]

8 hours ago, bfm said:

I like that too

Although I think there was one exception, I think in season 11 when Howardette were told they were having a boy.

It must be Althea's mum in YS. She's not a doctor and it was a doctor who did the sexing scan, which is why we didn't see her then.

[3ku11]

1 hour ago, SRAM said:

My opinion of a sitcom is it is good if it entertains me, I might gripe about TBBT but it still entertains me and I think most casual viewers watch it for the same reason.  So ending a sitcom because the artistic value is not there anymore is ludicrous to my way of thinking because it is about the entertainment, that is what makes the ratings.  Can you imagine how short of runs TV shows would have if they were cancelled when their artistic value dropped, we be lucky if any show reached enough episodes to make syndication.  Most of the crap on TV and cable has no artistic value in my opinion and that goes for some of the movies that have come out lately, too.

That was sort of quick, wasn’t it?

Breaking Bad is prob the best example of Serialized Format, bringing consistent quality. 8 episode per average season, 6 Seasons etc. When you have been on TV 12 years. And you have a 24 episode based format. Well it is very hard to maintain quality. The First Five Seasons, the First 100 episodes. 97 of the episodes were Gems. The 3 I thought were a disgrace LOL. Was The Griffin Equivalency, The Plimpton Solution, and Speckerman. But point is I Think the show was running on fumes since Season 7. Every now and than Good episode. But that was the range. I think it is ending at the right time. So they can end on their own terms. 

Edited January 9, 2019 by 3ku11

[Tensor]

Had a great time, some very funny lines.  As we already have all the information I won't repeat it here except for the title:  The Confirmation Polarization. 

Ok, I'm going to give a recap of each scene, where I remember specifics (or can paraphrase) I'll add those.  I'm not going to vouch for pinpoint accuracy.    

Cold Open.  Shamy doing a fun with flags episode (don't get too excited, it was very short, basically leading into the episode).  Sheldon apologizes for Amy, because she claimed there was never a flag with a purple stripe.  Sheldon points out there was, I believe it was Lithuania, a country that had one, and he shows the flag.   Amy then apologizes for Sheldon, for having his fly open the entire previous episode.  The wanted to take questions, and Sheldon told Amy to take off her glasses, so her password isn't visible.  She takes off her glasses, but then can't read the emails.   She puts them back on and finds an email from Fermilab (at this Sheldon says that's near Chicago, the Windy City, a good city for flags.  Amy says no, it seems two scientists have confirmed their theory.  They start going back and forth getting louder and louder saying " We did it."  When it gets really loud, there is a cut to the rest of the gang in the hallway, and Penny says, "Awwwww, remember when they only did it on Amy's Birthday."

Scene 1  The gang (minus Shamy) are eating.  Howard wants to brag on Bernie, but Bernie says he doesn't need to.  Everyone shuts up and eats, Bernie looks around and complains no one is asking her about it.  Leonard finally asks, and Bernie says her project has passed all the FDA tests.  Then the rest ask which project and she keeps saying no (a really funny one was, Penny I think, asked about her eye drops and she said no, they had to re-brand it as some sort of industrial cleaner).  Finally she tells them and that it is good luck for Penny, as Bernadette wants Penny to head the sales team for the drug.  You can tell Penny is not really enthused about the idea.  Penny keeps issuing weak reasons for not doing it, and Bernadette keeps saying things like "That sounds like a yes to me."  Finally, Shamy comes rushing in all excited and ask if they all know what happened.  Raj says, "You did it." (thinking of sex), and they say "Yes we did" (thinking of their paper).  Then Sheldon says "We didn't even know we did it".  Howard goes "Wait, what?"   Then Amy says, we had to have two professors from Chicago tell us we did it" and Leonard gets this strange look on his face and says, "Wait, what?".   Then Jim started explaining about the theory and what led the other two to figure it out.   And, he screwed up.  So, they restarted, and he screwed up again.  He looked at the script, said Ok, and they restarted, and he screwed up again.  Someone in the audience went "Awwwwwww", feeling bad for Jim, and Jim said "Don't Awwwww me, I can keep you here all night."  and everyone laughed.  Then he started again, and screwed up again.  He finally gets through it, and after a long sentence of large scientific terms, Penny says "Wait, what?"

Scene 2  Later, Penny and Leonard are cleaning up.  Leonard mentions it's funny seeing Penny wash dishes.  Penny says she knows how to do it, she just get tired and leaves them.  Leonard goes, "are you using any soap?"  Penny says "Then you do it."  Leonard asks Penny about why she didn't take the job offer from Bernadette.  Penny says Bernadette is mean, that she can be hard on her subordinates, and Penny doesn't want to have to work that way.  

Scene 3  Shamy goes to President Siebert's office.  The first time they  went through it, Joshua Molina (Siebert) rose and opened his arms behind the desk, and said "bring it in"   Sheldon said "bring what in?",  and Amy explained it was for a hug, and he said "No, don't bring it in."  Then Siebert explains that the two scientists would be visiting, and "we" wanted to write up  Nobel paperwork.  Sheldon asked if he meant "we" indicating him and Amy, or "we" indicating all three of them.  Siebert  explained Caltech had 38 Nobel laureates and they won, they would be the 39th an 40th.  Sheldon wants to be 39, and Amy says it doesn't matter.  He agrees it doesn't matter, but then winks at  Siebert.   There was a rather long pause, then they restarted.  This time Molina didn't open his arms until he was around the dest.  Mayim laughed and said can we restart.  So they restarted and there were a couple of changes (opening his arms later, some minor dialog changes).  Then there was another long wait, they restarted and there were some more changes.  the one I remember was after Sheldon's "we's", Siebert said "we" or "we" it doesn't matter.  Then Amy says "Wheeeeeeeeeee" before continuing.

Scene 4 (pretaped)  Penny stops by Bernadette's office to tell Bernadette, she talked to her boss and she didn't want to let Penny go, as her area was short.  Bernadette offers to call her boss to get her released.  Penny says,  "You don't have to call her, It's no big deal."  Bernadette, "You don't want to work for me?"  Penny:  "No, it's not that, were just short, darn it.  Remember don't call my boss.  Bernadette:  "Look if you want to work on this with me, I can call her."  Penny: "No, I'm like darn it, but you don't have to call.  I just don't want to leave her short of salespeople, remember, don't call her.  And Penny leaves.  

To Be continued...

[joyceraye]

Thanks, Tensor.

Hope you get a good night's sleep now.

 

[Tensor]

Scene 5. Sheldon and Amy are at the Athenaeum having lunch.  Amy says the last time they were in there, was for their wedding.  Sheldon says it has a lot less grandeur without Mark Hamill in it.   Amy deadpans, "That's what you said about our honeymoon."    Molina brings in the two scientists, (Kal Pen and Sean Astin) and specifically tells them not to try and hug Sheldon. The two explain that they weren't even looking for SuperAsymmetry,  They just had some results with Kaons (a subatomic particle that can decay into matter or antimatter violating CP symmetry) and some of their colleagues told them of Shamy's paper.   Sheldon is puzzled how they knew that SuperSymmetry would help them with their data problem.  They both say they didn't even understand SuperAsymmetry, but it help them with their experiment, and it's made them famous.  The two of them looks excited, but Shamy looks stunned.   Then Kal Pen's character says "oh hell, I'm going to hug him anyway.  So he gets up and hugs Sheldon.   While they were doing this scene, Sean Astin screwed up at the same place three or four times.   The cameras were off, but the mike picked up his comment that he didn't want to disappoint anyone here.  Jim jumped in and said don't worry about it, he disappointed them earlier in the evening (referring to his problems in the first scene).  

Scene 6 Pre taped.  Bernadette called Penny into her office, and tried to get her to agree to head the sales team.  Penny tried the "were shorthanded" but Bernadette pointed out she called Penny's boss, and found out that Penny section wasn't short.  Bernadette continued pressing Penny, until Penny tells Bernadette she doesn't feel comfortable about taking it.  She's didn't graduate from college and all the people who would be working for her have degrees, that she doesn't really know how to handle people, etc.   Bernadette talks about how she should know how to handle people, just by watching Bernadette.  Penny's not sure, and just then a guy comes in, says "Dr Rostenkowski" and Bernadette goes off on him and he quickly leaves.  Penny looks at Bernadette and she shrugs and says, "I love that guy." 

scene 7 The two scientists are eating in the Athenaeum.  Sheldon walks in and they start talking about the Nobel paperwork.   The two point out that there can be only three names on the nomination forms.  Sheldon leans toward Astin and says, "Are they leaving him (indicating Pen) off the nomination?"  Pen says, "No, they are not leaving me off."  At that, Sheldon leans toward Pen and says, "Are they leaving him (indicating Astin) off the nomination."  "No" says Pen.   Astin says, that Fermilab is going to nominate Pen, Astin and Sheldon, because Physicists should be nominated for the Physics prize.  They also pointed out that a different set of name on the nomination from Caltech, would be counter productive, as then there would be fighting over which names.  So they hoped Sheldon would see it their way.  Then they said something to the effect that wasn't Sheldon the type of person who would do anything to get a Nobel?"  And Sheldon shouts as he's leaving, "I hope not."  

To be continued....

[Tensor]

Scene 8  Howard, Bernie and Raj are all sitting at the table in the Wolowitz's kitchen.  They are talking about Penny working for Bernadette, and Howard points out that pushing her isn't going well.   Then there are several conversations about how good Bernadette is in getting people to do what she wants.    Raj is trying to figure out what to do about the Anu situation, and Bernadette manipulates him rather easily (Howard looks surprised (sorry I can't remember the exact situation).  Bernadette says she changed Howard to the point where ehe wanted to be an astronaut and Raj points out that Howard wanted to be a astronaut when he was young and Bernadette says, yep, that's how good I am.    

scene 9 The guys are in the cafeteria, Sheldon looking at this iPad, and Raj starts talking about Star Trek Discovery, and Leonard says he's a couple of episodes behind, so Raj stops.  Then Leonard asks about the latest Walking Dead, and Howard and Raj both claim to be 2-3 episodes behind, so Leonard shuts up.  Then Howard mentions something (I didn't catch it) and again a couple are behind in watching, so Howard shuts up.  Then Sheldon shows Leonard the iPad and explains how the other two scientists are going around on a press tour, and how they want to drop Amy off of the Nobel nomination.   Raj says something about it being Sheldon and Amy's theory, no one who makes a wrong discovery would  become famous.  Howard says, you mean like that guy that was trying to get to India and found a new continent, what was they guys name?  Raj gives  Howard a dirty look dand asks it's, they can't do that, can they?   Leonard points out that the Nobel committee tends to like experimentalists better than theoreticians.   Sheldon says something like 'are you trying to scare me, like that campfire story about the guy with a hook for a hand?"   Kunal screwed up the first word of the scene and they stopped.  They restarted, but Johnny said his first work, while Kunal hadn't finished his line.  A while later, Jim messed up again, and the quickly corrected it.   

scene 10. Amy and Sheldon are eating, and Sheldon is tut-tutting for a while and Amy asks what's wrong.   Sheldon asks how Amy knows there's something wrong.  She says, he's barely touched his dinner and he sounds like a bomb waiting to go off.  He then explains what Fermilab is going to do, and what they want Caltech to do.  You can tell Amy's upset, but she says that Sheldon should do what they suggest.  He says that she wrote the paper with him, and deserves credit.    Amy says, no it's his dream, and all that she wants is for him to be happy.   (there was a big Awwwwww here).  Sheldon then says she has to stay on the nomination, because without her, he wouldn't have been able to make SuperAsymmetry work.   (another big awwwwwww, here.).  They hug.   For the second take, they asked the audience not to say awwwwwww during the scene.  They reran it, we stayed quiet and they went on.  

To be continued...