# The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 22 (April 27, 2017) -- "The Cognition Regeneration" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369 "2017-04-27T15:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/21 "2017-04-28T15:35:43Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Nothing to do with this particular episode but CBS has released a[photo shoot of Mayim Bialik](http://www.cbs.com/shows/watch_magazine/photos/1007476/mayim-bialik-couldn-t-be-more-beautiful-in-these-exclusive-photos/121433/showing-off-all-the-best-angles-/) in connection with her new book. > > Number 4 will – never mind. Not my cup of tea, but she is, objectively speaking, an attractive woman. I wonder if that photoshoot reflects what the Orthodox notion of “provocative” clothing is? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/22 "2017-04-28T15:37:51Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > IIRC, the line was, “He’s thin and sexy, like a Jewish greyhound.” So yeah, close enough. Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/23 "2017-04-28T15:57:44Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Nothing to do with this particular episode but CBS has released a[photo shoot of Mayim Bialik](http://www.cbs.com/shows/watch_magazine/photos/1007476/mayim-bialik-couldn-t-be-more-beautiful-in-these-exclusive-photos/121433/showing-off-all-the-best-angles-/) in connection with her new book. > > Number 4 will – never mind. Hey, nifty pics! Love 'em! Mayim is quite an attractive and classy lady. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/24 "2017-04-28T16:19:04Z")
The intro clued me in that this would not be a great episode. Bernadette was once again the highlight of the show. I think she’ll be the one to follow with a successful series some day. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/25 "2017-04-28T16:39:27Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > … I found it strange that Zack has a fiance and they didn’t bother to cast anyone for it (she had an “emergency” but Zack didn’t ask.) Why bring her up at all? … 1. To be the reason Zack rescinded the offer. 2. Possibly to be revealed who she is in a later episode and the what sort of emergency it was. Yes, very possible that she’s “a smart one” - maybe a trauma or neurosurgeon (or maybe the vet that many of us wanted Raj to date) and the emergency was really an emergency. He didn’t ask not only because he’s Zack but because her having emergencies is SOP. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/26 "2017-04-28T17:11:14Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Nothing to do with this particular episode but CBS has released a[photo shoot of Mayim Bialik](http://www.cbs.com/shows/watch_magazine/photos/1007476/mayim-bialik-couldn-t-be-more-beautiful-in-these-exclusive-photos/121433/showing-off-all-the-best-angles-/) in connection with her new book. > > Number 4 will – never mind. Okay, I am on record as having had a crush on Mayim Bialik since the _Blossom_ days, and of finding her quite attractive. But it seems like the text accompanying those photos is going out of its way to assure us that she is “beautiful,” “sexy,” and “gorgeous,” like they were afraid people might not think so. Now maybe all photo shoot montages have copy like this (I really don’t look at very many), but it seems over-the-top to me. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/27 "2017-04-28T17:15:06Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > (or maybe the vet that many of us wanted Raj to date) Wasn’t that Yvette? ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/28 "2017-04-28T17:20:26Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Wasn’t that Yvette? Yeah Yvette the vet. And maybe that’s the reason they had Zack not say what his fiancee’s name was … only that she threw a shoe at him. Or not! ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/29 "2017-04-28T17:25:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > And I had no idea that there were so few sales jobs in the greater Los Angeles area. Apparently pharmaceuticals and menu printing are the only two jobs Penny has to choose from. I may have missed an important part of the dialogue at some point: I know that they’ve established that Penny isn’t really happy at her job, but had they established that she was actively looking for another one? Because going through the motions until the perfect opportunity falls into her lap seems entirely consistent with Penny’s character. I never got the sense that Penny was actually looking for another job, so much as she was complaining about how she hated her job, but still continued to do it, like she did when she was working at Cheesecake Factory. Penny seems to me to be very much like a person who is in need of an outside force to compel her to overcome her career inertia… I can relate. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/30 "2017-04-28T17:33:50Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Yeah Yvette the vet. > > And maybe that’s the reason they had Zack not say what his fiancee’s name was … only that she threw a shoe at him. > > Or not! No, he said her name was Sarah, when he called Siri by her name, and got no response. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/31 "2017-04-28T17:35:44Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The intro clued me in that this would not be a great episode. Bernadette was once again the highlight of the show. I think she’ll be the one to follow with a successful series some day. She’s on a show in its tenth season and is reported paid $450,000 per episode. What would a stint on a successful series look like? ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/32 "2017-04-28T17:36:20Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Re: number 7. Either it’s photoshopped, or she has had a nose job. But she’s a beauty. There’s a highlight on the bridge of her nose, making it look somewhat straighter. And I seriously doubt she would have a nose job. My relatives don’t have nose jobs, and they’re not even Orthodox. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/33 "2017-04-28T17:40:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > She’s on a show in its tenth season and is reported paid $450,000 per episode. What would a stint on a successful series look like? She’ll have her own show that would be called ‘Melissa’ if it wasn’t such a dull name. She’ll play a single mom juggling a career and her whacky co-workers while trying to raise her two young children in an increasingly complex world. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/34 "2017-04-28T18:06:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > No, he said her name was Sarah, when he called Siri by her name, and got no response. I interpreted that the other way - that he thinks “Siri” is named “Sarah”, so he never gets a response when he talks to his phone. So we don’t actually know his fiance’s name. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/35 "2017-04-28T18:18:06Z")
Yeah, I thought he said Sarah for Siri, because he’s who he is. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/36 "2017-04-28T19:02:04Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Yeah, I thought he said Sarah for Siri, because he’s who he is. I thought so too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/37 "2017-04-28T20:23:31Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I may have missed an important part of the dialogue at some point: I know that they’ve established that Penny isn’t really happy at her job, but had they established that she was actively looking for another one? Because going through the motions until the perfect opportunity falls into her lap seems entirely consistent with Penny’s character. I never got the sense that Penny was actually looking for another job, so much as she was complaining about how she hated her job, but still continued to do it, like she did when she was working at Cheesecake Factory. It wasn’t established that Penny’s looking for a new job, but when she and Leonard were having the “continue in a job you hate or work for your ex-boyfriend” discussion, neither of them thought “maybe there’s a third option”. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/38 "2017-04-28T20:45:43Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > 1. To be the reason Zack rescinded the offer. > > 2. Possibly to be revealed who she is in a later episode and the what sort of emergency it was. Yes, very possible that she’s “a smart one” - maybe a trauma or neurosurgeon (or maybe the vet that many of us wanted Raj to date) and the emergency was really an emergency. He didn’t ask not only because he’s Zack but because her having emergencies is SOP. 1. To make the “Leonard is uncomfortable with the idea of Penny working for her ex-boyfriend” storyline work a little better, by making it reasonably clear that Zack is not offering the job in order to get back with Penny. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/39 "2017-04-28T21:46:57Z")
Meh—after a string of excellent episodes, this one was pretty much just dull to me. I hope that we get back to good episodes next week. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369/40 "2017-04-28T21:47:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It wasn’t established that Penny’s looking for a new job, but when she and Leonard were having the “continue in a job you hate or work for your ex-boyfriend” discussion, neither of them thought “maybe there’s a third option”. Fair enough, but you and I interpreted that scene differently. My read on it was that she hates her job, but not quite enough to look for another one, just enough to quit if another job is handed to her… Which, again, I can relate to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369.md?page=3)