# The Big Bang Season Finale 5/19--The Roommate Transmogrification **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480 "2011-05-19T18:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/1 "2011-05-19T18:00:28Z")
After Bernadette receives a Ph.D, the guys take advantage of degrading Howard for being the only non-doctor in their group. Meanwhile, Raj becomes Sheldon’s new roommate. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/2 "2011-05-20T00:31:28Z")
Are you serious? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/3 "2011-05-20T00:37:26Z")
What a way to end a season. Best line…‘Really? _Really?_ You _still_ can’t talk to me?’ ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/4 "2011-05-20T02:28:46Z")
I agree with both posters above me. So the plot is just aiming to break up the friendship circle? And how is this supposed to make me want to watch this _comedy_ ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/5 "2011-05-20T03:00:42Z")
worst episode ever. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/6 "2011-05-20T03:23:47Z")
I loved Penny and Raj having a nice conversation together - I was startled at first, then I realized Raj had already had a sip of wine. ETA: After reading the spoiler, I take it things…change. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/7 "2011-05-20T03:30:37Z")
Oh boy. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/8 "2011-05-20T04:07:32Z")
What was the meaning of Sheldon’s shirt? Great episode. Really puts things into motion for next season. And Penny looks **hawt** with sexy guilty bed-head. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/9 "2011-05-20T04:29:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > What was the meaning of Sheldon’s shirt? The green shirt? That was a Green Lantern logo. He’s worn it quite a few times. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/10 "2011-05-20T04:40:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > What was the meaning of Sheldon’s shirt? And the 73 shirt explanation is [here](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110203174406AAnQSz8). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/11 "2011-05-20T04:47:40Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > And the 73 shirt explanation is [here](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110203174406AAnQSz8). That makes more sense. I didn’t remember what shirts he was wearing and Googled some images from the show and the Green Lantern shirt was the first picture to come up with Sheldon in it. It seemed odd for someone to ask about it only because he’s worn it so many times that even someone like myself, who knows nothing of comics, recognizes the logo. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/12 "2011-05-20T13:28:03Z")
Sheldon: It’s like the replacement of _Homo erectus_ Raj: I’m the new Homo in town…That did not come out right. I was hoping they would have Raj come out of the closet. Instead, they put him in bed with Penny. This makes Penny the second woman (after Leslie Winkle) to have sex with two of the BB guys. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/13 "2011-05-20T13:32:45Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I was hoping they would have Raj come out of the closet. Instead, they put him in bed with Penny. This makes Penny the second woman (after Leslie Winkle) to have sex with two of the BB guys. I’m starting to think the title of the show is actually in reference to how much sex these guys have. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/14 "2011-05-20T13:42:51Z")
1. Big fan here but this ep is where the show jumped the shark. Agree with **johnpost** except that I can’t claim to have seen _every_ other episode for comparison. 2. At the risk of taking comedy too seriously, Penny’s character has an alcohol abuse problem and I am increasingly uncomfortable with the playing that for laughs. She is grown adult who binge drinks with regularity, uses alcohol to cope with uncomfortable circumstances, finds herself waking up surprised to find herself in bed with someone who sober she would not have sex with, who she regrets having sex with, and does not quite remember it happening. The show can address it as a serious issue and still be funny, but exclusively dealing with it as HaHa, she gets plastered, hooks up, and doesn’t remember it happening … that’s … wrong. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/15 "2011-05-20T13:54:48Z")
I think we can all agree. Terrible ending. Maybe the writers can salvage this somehow, but I’m not optimistic. The thing is, it’s not as though the writers had reached a creative impasse. This season, they added two fresh new characters who created new dynamics within the cast. (Okay, so AFF was technically introduced at the end of last season, but that’s a piddling distinction.) So why this need to shake the dynamic up even further, and in a terribly uncomfortable way? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/16 "2011-05-20T13:57:19Z")
I did chuckle when Sheldon kept saying inadvertently saying funny things, then when the others laughed, snorted with laughter. It was kind of adorable. I agree that Penny ending up in bed with Raj was icky. I mean, she’s always been loosey goosey, but that crossed the line into serious slutsville because she’s never been even remotely attracted to Raj. She needs a sponsor. Or maybe Raj is a secret sociopath and slipped something into her wine. :dubious: That would explain a lot. JK. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/17 "2011-05-20T14:02:03Z")
I don’t think that’s what happened. I think there was some other reason behind it that they don’t remember, and it will come back to them in flashes in the first ep of next season. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/18 "2011-05-20T14:14:47Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > I think we can all agree. Terrible ending. Maybe the writers can salvage this somehow, but I’m not optimistic. > > The thing is, it’s not as though the writers had reached a creative impasse. This season, they added two fresh new characters who created new dynamics within the cast. (Okay, so AFF was technically introduced at the end of last season, but that’s a piddling distinction.) So why this need to shake the dynamic up even further, and in a terribly uncomfortable way? No we can’t all agree. My wife and both thought this ep was hilarious; and loved the ending as a great cliffhanger. It’s hard to please everybody; but the two biggest complaints about tv shows is either “it was too predictable” or “It jumped the shark.” Well I personally don’t think the show has jumped the shark; and this episode sure as hell wasn’t predictable. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/19 "2011-05-20T14:49:38Z")
Total agreement with **Enright3**. We thought it was hilarious. Penny hardly has an alcohol problem, she and Raj are friends and she flat-out stated to him that she thought he was cute and would be on him “like M and C[sup]2[/sup] would be on E” except for that friendship. I think the emotional shuffle going on is needed, fits the dynamics of the show, and is freaking funny to boot. Next season is going to get interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480/20 "2011-05-20T14:52:18Z")
I agree with Enright and silenus - fun episode. My earlier comment was in appreciation of the chaotic note they’d ended on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-season-finale-5-19-the-roommate-transmogrification/582480.md?page=2)