The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 22 (April 27, 2017) -- "The Cognition Regeneration"

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?

Hilarious!

Hey, nifty pics! Love 'em! Mayim is quite an attractive and classy lady.

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.

  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 To be the reason Zack rescinded the offer.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.

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.

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!

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.

No, he said her name was Sarah, when he called Siri by her name, and got no response.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, I thought he said Sarah for Siri, because he’s who he is.

I thought so too.

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”.

  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.

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.

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.