# Big Bang Theory: Worst Episode EVER! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766 "2015-02-27T14:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/21 "2015-02-27T21:37:11Z")
I was expecting the worst when I saw the set-up. Instead this was one of the better episodes of the year. They could have gone wrong with the love quiz in a morass of stupid, hurting insults as they’ve done in the first half of the season. What we got was Sheldon showing humility and Penny adulthood, with real affection for one another and no hint of anything more. How much closer to perfect could that be? Leonard and Amy blew the quiz off in one line and that was perfect too. The Zombie game didn’t work and Howard was too much Howard, so not overall great. But all the characters acted like people and Stewart wasn’t around to bring people down. This is really promising for the rest of the year. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/22 "2015-02-27T21:46:25Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Given her creepiness, I thought Emily was bringing Raj, Leonard, and Amy into something more sinister and less lame than the plastic dungeon. Yeah, me too! That was very disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/23 "2015-02-27T21:53:18Z")
Howard’s character has begun to grate on my every last nerve. I thought this episode was terrible. They were extra super a-holes to the airline person, which (as the wife of an airline employee) pissed me off. Imagine if Penny and Sheldon started to make out during that staring time. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/24 "2015-02-27T22:16:56Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Obviously I meant Gary Gygax, not Gray Gygax (isn’t that some species of ooze? I don’t have the latest Monster Manual) If it isn’t, it should be. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/25 "2015-02-27T22:20:42Z")
I wonder if the writers are going to have a future episode in which the death of Leonard Nimoy is addressed. Sheldon is going to be devastated. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/26 "2015-02-27T22:22:54Z")
he’s got his DNA. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/27 "2015-02-27T22:25:05Z")
But Sheldon has his DNA! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/28 "2015-02-27T22:38:59Z")
Don’t agree with the OP, it was an episode that I wanted to go on much longer, at least for the Sheldon-Penny interaction. That part was very touching. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/29 "2015-02-27T22:39:32Z")
Aw, give Emily a break. She did warn them it was cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/30 "2015-02-27T22:40:39Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Don’t agree with the OP, it was an episode that I wanted to go on much longer, at least for the Sheldon-Penny interaction. That part was very touching. I did say “I don’t think it was t. . .”. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/31 "2015-02-27T22:50:58Z")
> [@txtumbleweed](#): > > I think that plot could have worked better as a single segment, maybe the closer, with “go” to finding the key taking all of 30 seconds. No, they solve the puzzle early on and then spend the rest of the episode performing real experiments with the lame ass props. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/32 "2015-02-28T14:58:19Z")
I shipped my brother’s ashes via the USPS. They dropped and broke the shipping container in transit and spilled some of him on the floor. I am sure the result of them sweeping him up and patching the container was floor dirt and maybe even a cigarette butt being buried in the family plot. Just a side note on my reaction to the airport drama. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/33 "2015-03-01T02:29:10Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > “One way or another we are leaving with a dead woman” That got an actual LOL out of me. And regarding Leonard Nimoy . . . Perhaps with his DNA and Bernadette’s help, Sheldon could create a living “Tiny Spock”. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/34 "2015-03-01T02:58:03Z")
Cremation is not typical Jewish custom. Doesn’t mean it is never done but it not common. Mrs. Wolowitz being cremated was odd. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/35 "2015-03-01T03:09:16Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > I shipped my brother’s ashes via the USPS. They dropped and broke the shipping container in transit and spilled some of him on the floor. I am sure the result of them sweeping him up and patching the container was floor dirt and maybe even a cigarette butt being buried in the family plot. > > Just a side note on my reaction to the airport drama. My father’s ashes made it all the way to the cemetery, and then THEY lost him. The package turned up in a back room a couple of days later, but I was on the verge of saying, “He made it inside the gates. Close enough, I guess.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/36 "2015-03-01T07:30:45Z")
Perhaps Mrs. W. was cremated because she couldn’t fit in a standard coffin. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/37 "2015-03-01T12:01:27Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Cremation is not typical Jewish custom. Doesn’t mean it is never done but it not common. Mrs. Wolowitz being cremated was odd. I was going to mention that also. If Howard is determined to keep his mother close to him, there is a process where cremains are converted to diamonds. Not great diamonds, but you could make a stone for a ring or pendant. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/38 "2015-03-01T12:55:04Z")
In “The Proton Displacement”, the seventh episode of the seventh season, they actually talk about making diamonds out of a person’s hair. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/39 "2015-03-01T14:49:09Z")
Not sure if it behind pay wall or not but Sheldon might be able to get his [robot eyes](http://news.sciencemag.org/technology/2015/02/telescopic-contact-lenses-could-magnify-human-eyesight)! > [@](#): > > Wink your right eye to zoom in; wink your left eye to zoom out. Those are the operating instructions for a vision-enhancing system that could be a workaround for certain kinds of vision loss—or a futuristic upgrade to human sight. A new prototype of the technology, presented here today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science), relies on contact lenses (above) containing tiny aluminum telescopes that interact with a pair of eyeglasses to toggle between normal and 3x magnification. … ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766/40 "2015-03-01T20:39:54Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Cremation is not typical Jewish custom. Doesn’t mean it is never done but it not common. Mrs. Wolowitz being cremated was odd. So’s Howard’s love of bacon cheeseburgers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-worst-episode-ever/713766.md?page=3)