It's on...like Alderaan, when the guys plan a weekend Star Wars gaming marathon! But when Sheldon chooses the guys-only weekend overa weekend with Amy to visit her aunt, he is destined to feel the force!
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1. The Skank Reflex Analysis
September 22, 2011
On the fifth season premiere, Penny worries that she's screwed things up permanently with her friends after her night with Raj,while Sheldon takes command of the paintball team.
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2. The Infestation Hypothesis
September 22, 2011
A battle of wills between Sheldon and Penny leaves Amy caught in the middle, while Leonard tries to spice up his long-distance relationship with Priya (AARTI MANN).
$1.99
3. The Pulled Groin Extrapolation
September 29, 2011
Attending a co-worker's wedding, Leonard and Amy (MAYIM BIALIK) get to know each other better, while Howard and Bernadette spend the weekend with Mrs. Wolowitz!
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4. The Wiggly Finger Catalyst
October 6, 2011
When Raj is upset he's the only one of the four guys who is not in a relationship, Penny sets out to find the perfect date,introducing him to Emily (guest star KATIE LeCLERC - Switched at Birth) a girl he can actually talk to!
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5. The Russian Rocket Reaction
October 13, 2011
Sheldon and Leonard get invited to a housewarming party at WIL WHEATON's house; while Howard gets an out-of-this-world opportunity!
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6. The Rhinitis Revelation
October 20, 2011
Craving a little motherly love, Sheldon competes with the gang for his mother's attention when she comes to visit. LAURIE METCALFreprises her role as Sheldon's mother, Mary.
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7. The Good Guy Fluctuation
October 27, 2011
A cute comic book artist (guest star COURTNEY FORD) puts Leonard's relationship with Priya to the test; while Sheldon, getting intothe spirit of Halloween, tries to scare the guys.
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8. The Isolation Permutation
November 3, 2011
Amy is heartbroken when Bernadette and Penny go shopping for wedding dresses without her.
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9. The Ornithophobia Diffusion
November 10, 2011
Can friends with benefits still be friends without? Leonard and Penny try hanging out alone, while Sheldon must overcome his fearof birds.
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10. The Flaming Spittoon Acquisitoin
November 17, 2011
Sheldon becomes jealous and considers taking his relationship with Amy to the next level when Stuart (guest star KEVIN SUSSMAN) fromthe comic book store asks her out on a date.
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11. The Speckerman Recurrence
December 8, 2011
Leonard must face his fears after being contacted by his high school tormentor (guest star LANCE BARBER), while Penny realizes thatshe might have been a bully herself.
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12. The Shiny Trinket Maneuver
January 12, 2012
Sheldon gets in trouble with Amy, and it's up to Penny to teach him how to be a better boyfriend. Howard, meanwhile, must come togrips with Bernadette's dislike of children.
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13. The Recombination Hypothesis
January 19, 2012
Everything might change when Leonard offers Penny a spur of the moment invitation to a romantic dinner for two on the 100th episodeof the series.
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14. The Beta Test Initiation
January 26, 2012
Leonard and Penny experiment with dating again by "beta testing" their relationship, while Raj develops a peculiar relationship withhis phone's virtual assistant.
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15. The Friendship Contraction
February 2, 2012
Sheldon's selfish demands force Leonard to reconsider their friendship. Meanwhile, Howard tries to pick his astronaut nickname. NASAastronaut MIKE MASSIMINO guest stars.
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16. The Vacation Solution
February 9, 2012
When Sheldon is forced to take a vacation by the university, he goes to work with Amy in her neurobiology lab. Meanwhile, Bernadette wants Howard to sign a pre-nuptial agreement.
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17. The Rothman Disintegration
February 16, 2012
When a corner office at the University opens up, Sheldon must compete for it with his office nemesis, Barry Kripke. Meanwhile, apersonal gift from Amy makes Penny uncomfortable.
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18. The Werewolf Transformation
February 23, 2012
A change in Sheldon's routine forces him to re-evaluate his entire life, when his barber is sick. Meanwhile, Howard rethinks hisdecision to go into space after astronaut training.
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19. The Weekend Vortex
March 8, 2012
It's on...like Alderaan, when the guys plan a weekend Star Wars gaming marathon! But when Sheldon chooses the guys-only weekend overa weekend with Amy to visit her aunt, he is destined to feel the force!
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20. The Transporter Malfunction
March 29, 2012
It's a dream come true for Sheldon when he has a close encounter with his hero, Mr. Spock - legendary sci-fi icon LEONARD NIMOY.
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21. The Hawking Excitation
April 5, 2012
When Wolowitz gets to work with world-renowned scientist STEPHEN HAWKING (guest starring as Himself), Sheldon is willing to doanything to meet his hero.
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22. The Stag Convergence
April 26, 2012
Howard's wedding plans are in jeopardy after the guys (and Wil Wheaton) throw him a bachelor party. After details of his sexualhistory are leaked online, Bernadette reconsiders marrying Howard.
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23. The Launch Acceleration
May 3, 2012
When NASA reschedules Howard's mission and puts his wedding plans in jeopardy, he's forced to face his fears and Bernadette's dad(guest star CASEY SANDER).
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24. The Countdown Reflection
May 10, 2012
When Howard and Bernadette decide they want to be married before his NASA space launch, the gang rushes to put on a wedding, on thefifth season finale.
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Synopsis: It's on...like Alderaan, when the guys plan a weekend Star Wars gaming marathon! But when Sheldon chooses the guys-only weekend overa weekend with Amy to visit her aunt, he is destined to feel the force!
Synopsis: "Two and a Half Men" co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre and "Gilmore Girls" co-executive producer Bill Prady team up to create "The Big Bang Theory," a new comedy about a pair of brilliant physicists who understand how the universe works but have no clue about how to interact with people ... especially women ... and specifically the free-spirited beauty who moves in next door.
A cast of geniuses playing geniuses. Acting geniuses playing science geniuses. Brilliant, lovely actors all of them. The scenes in the "Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" when Penny gives Sheldon his "Saturnalia" (Christmas present) - his miracle gift - a signed napkin from Leonard Nimoy - is the BEST television I have EVER EVER SEEN!!! And I was RAISED on television. The laugh out loud factor keeps me happy ALL DAY... I can think of what I watched the night before and settle into a warm feeling that I will be seeing another episode later... And the DVD's ARE wonderful because there are no commercail interruptions... Some of the same format as M*A*S*H*. And as brilliant writing ... doctors with a sidekick nurse - scientists with a sidekick waitress/actress. God, wouldn't I love to be in Penny's shoes... Having grown up around scientists from MIT and CalTech, I can honestly say that Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady are insightful and gloriously honest! I hope it just keeps going and going...
I started watching in season three and have purchased all the DVD sets of this show and anticipate with excitement the DVD set for Season Five.
I think the show has changed and is progressing in a positive direction. The characters are growing and maturing and with the addition of Bernadette and Amy, brilliantly played by Melissa Rouch and Mayim Bialik respectively, there is added depth and increased laughter.
I think the show is still fresh and funny and as long as it remains that way this viewer will continue watching!
In the cult tradition of SPARTACUS, the halls of every science department now echoes: "I AM SHELDON"!
Currently into its fifth season, THE BIG BANG THEORY proved to be one of the most funny TV sitcoms ever aired. Even if the show seems to have slowed down form its initial explosive impetus, I had not laughed out loud this hard ever since the best days of FRASIER and SEINFELD - and BIG BANG is **consistently** brilliant!
Sheldon Cooper is unavoidably the king of the show - the massive black hole this Universe revolves around if you will. A child prodigy, now a 24 years old theoretical physicist PhD with absolutely no social skills or known sexual drive. Sheldon may be on the verge of unifying the fields but cannot drive a car to save his life or break a smile even remotely resembling that of a mere homo sapiens. His equally super-intelligent (yet sexually confused girlfriend), Amy Farrah Fowler, (which Sheldon finally claimed) received a far more enlarged role this fifth season. However, she was not a very good addition and she unbalances the show. Her character only manages to blur the focus form Sheldon (there is only room for one idiosyncratic genius!), diffuse a number of comically charged situations and gum up the show's flow.
Leonard Hofstadter is Sheldon's roommate and primary ...keeper. An experimental physicist himself (who Sheldon tries to "help" by steering him towards a teaching career), he juggles Sheldon's idiosyncrasies with his personal neurosis - not to mention his crush on his neighbor Penny. Which crush, like lunar eclipses, follow a predicted yet unavoidable periodicity. Leonard tried his hand in a long-distance relationship this season with his friend Raj's sister, Priya, but he seems to be gravitating back towards Penny once more....
Howard Wolowitz is the only one with no PhD (and Sheldon will never let him forget it). An engineer (whose crowning achievements were a mechanized arm that is used in the space shuttle and a liquid waste management solution), he also managed to wreck the Mars Rover in hopes of landing a girl (but he made sure no one can prove anything). The fact that he is a short man with a severely outdated and misguided sense of fashion, still lives with his mother, insists on using a collection of pickup lines straight from men's magazines advice columns - and yet carries himself as God's gift to women is just hilarious. Howard used to be the show-stealer. Whenever he entered the scene you just knew he would offer such an outrageous perceptive that would render you speechless. Now, if only Howard's character was allowed to continue in its stellar trajectory. He has been weighted down by his fiancée, Bernadette, who is very likeable, but also is cramping his style. Not to mention that she, slowly yet inescapably, is turning into his scary mother.
Rajesh Koothrappali is a particle astrophysicist with a fashion sense close to absolute zero and a severe case of shyness - to the point that he cannot speak in front of women unless inebriated. He keeps using the "poor Indian" defense although his father is a rich doctor who drives a Bentley. His character, even in the fifth season, remains underdeveloped.
Then there is Penny. She is the proverbial good girl next door who came to California with stardom aspirations but so far works as waitress and suffers a sequence of bad boyfriends (Sheldon has in fact calculated the exact number of them, extrapolated from a bell-curve that started at 14)- and, obviously, from her neighbors. One of the best fifth season moments: slipping in the "Who is the greatest?" cheer between Sheldon's patented knock of repeated "Penny!".
The show unavoidably makes use of previous sitcom combinations (the odd couple, the unfulfilled love-interest mismatch) but even if one manages to discern them they are used in such a fresh manner that all that is left is great entertainment!
The way to truly enjoy this is to own it on DVD. The writing is so smart and the jokes fly so fast (many of them non-verbal) there is just no way to savor it during its weekly air time. Well, may be Sheldon could but then again, who can compare his intellect with his?
...one of the best sitcoms ever created. Each episode is an event full of high-brow, intelligent humor the likes of which I can say I haven't seen in a very long time. This show is very deserving of all accolades it receives. I hope it stays on for years to come, as I think it's not only one of the best sitcoms, but some of the best TV entertainment ever created.
I am writing my review now, since we are 3/4 through the 5th season of my favorite sitcom. I will update once it wraps. I don't understand why people never want anything to change, especially with the Big Bang Theory. The whole premise of the show is the four geeky guys learning about the world of girls and dating--their universe is expanding, hence the title "The Big Bang Theory." There is only so much you can do with 5 people and if they never did anything except sit around and play video games and Klingon Boggle then it would get extremely BORING and everyone would be complaining that the show needs to take on a new direction and add new characters. You would really want to see 5+ seasons of Howard being a perv and all the others failing at life? That's not funny, that's sad! Amy and Bernadette aren't going anywhere anytime soon, so deal with it.
Anyway, this season opens up with the aftermath of Raj and Penny's night together, and it isn't what everybody automatically assumed it was, which "ruined" the show. And even Sheldon decides to take his friendship with Amy to the next level, by offering to be her boyfriend (with strict rules and guidelines that guarantees that nothing changes physically). Howard gets a chance to go into outer space, and when he goes to training camp, we have hysterical (and disgusting) results. And Leonard finally breaks up with Raj's sister Priya, which I am happy about because she wasn't really nice. The only thing I'm concerned about is Penny drinking a lot.
This season we also had the 100th episode. I thought it was pretty funny, and some other people thought it was so "disappointing...."
A few of my favorite episodes this season are "The Infestation Hypothesis," "The Good Guy Fluctuation," "The Rhinitis Revelation," "The Shiny Trinket Manuever," "The Werewolf Transformation," "The Launch Acceleration," "The Countdown Reflection" and "The Weekend Vortex."
6/13/12 Edit: The season finished on a high note with Howard getting married to Bernadette on the roof of the apartment, on the same morning as Google Earth does their satellite image, so they have their wedding captured on Google Earth. And a few days after, he took off to outer space. While everybody was watching the launch on TV, they all grabbed each other's hands. And SHELDON grabbed AMY'S hand. That shows how much he's grown in 5 years. I don't get why people have such a problem with that when it is SUPPOSED to happen.
The show has been renewed through season 7, so they must be doing something right.
