# The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 5 (October 17, 2016) -- "The Hot Tub Contamination"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 17, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867 "2016-10-17T20:19:16Z")
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### Author:  [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/1 "2016-10-17T20:19:16Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode.
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### Author:  [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/2 "2016-10-18T00:26:24Z")
Howard and Bernadette: Hilarious.
Raj and Stuart: Funny.
Amy: The way she was saying “Me.” was cute and amusing.
Sheldon: Some great moments.
“She spends her whole day scooping, one arm is likely bigger than the other.”
“Two and three are for people to get their pants on.”
“It must hurt having me look for other women and not consider you. I consider you more of a nanny.” That was a great line.
All in all, I enjoyed it.
Howard in particular had the _best_ lines this episode.
Favorite Moment:
Howard: “How about you look like a boiled chicken?”
Bernadette: “How about what are you doing here?”
Howard: “No, that won’t hurt his feelings”
That was a true LOL for me.
Looks like BBT is moving back to Thursday.
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### Author:  [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/3 "2016-10-18T00:49:06Z")
Well, Raj’s sexuality has been for debate. Are Stuart and Raj the last couple to form?
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### Author:  [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/4 "2016-10-18T01:05:26Z")
They certainly didn’t frame it that way. I would think if that happened we would have at least known about one of them being gay.
I like Sheldon and Penny together. That was cute.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/5 "2016-10-18T05:17:11Z")
Howard being old creepy Howard, at the beginning was, fun. Howie and Bernie had a lot of great lines tonight but I think the best goes to Leonard saying:
“Here’s the thing you need to know about Sheldon, he’s the worst.”
Penny and Sheldon has always been full of sweet moments and it was pleasant to see some more. That’s nice to see in this day and age. Home is always in the heart.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/6 "2016-10-18T06:57:25Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#):
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> Well, Raj’s sexuality has been for debate. Are Stuart and Raj the last couple to form?
Definitely not gay.
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/7 "2016-10-18T12:31:29Z")
I disagree–deeply, DEEPLY closeted. Hell, he was so scared of women that he couldn’t even talk to them for like 3 seasons.
I loved this episode. Far better than last week’s which was just…off…for me. I really liked seeing Howard cheering Bernie up (when he leaped on the bed and moved his fingers up his thigh/side and said (more or less) “Do you like what you seeee?” and Bernie cracked up was nice.
The only sour note was when Howard was rubbing Bernadette’s feet and she started bitching at him again. They really need to mellow her out just a bit more than this episode.
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### Author:  [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/8 "2016-10-18T13:05:18Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#):
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> “It must hurt having me look for other women and not consider you. I consider you more of a nanny.” That was a great line.
Oh, I loved that one! Hilarious!
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/9 "2016-10-18T13:07:39Z")
Ok episode. The bar’s been pretty low for a while. Stuart and Raj can become the pair that Howard and Raj once were. I don’t think Raj is so much gay as ambiguously apathetic. Whatever they are they can go back to the time before Bernadette where Howard and Raj were on the dating scene getting nowhere and the show can concentrate on the couples that have formed. Not that any of that will improve the show, it has no direction now except to play out the last one or two seasons.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/10 "2016-10-18T13:13:15Z")
> [@Fenris](#):
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> The only sour note was when Howard was rubbing Bernadette’s feet and she started bitching at him again.
I think I’d want extra pay if I was expected to rub someone’s feet on camera. Eew.
Howard really needs to change the locks on his house. The Sheldon-Penny pairing was great, as always. The whole notion of picking up women in an ice cream parlor was silly fun. Of course he wouldn’t want someone whose favorite flavor was the same as his. Nice explanation of the Sheldon knock.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/11 "2016-10-18T13:35:00Z")
The best moment was Sheldon explaining why he always knocks three times (cue Tony Orlando and Dawn here)
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### Author:  [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/12 "2016-10-18T13:51:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> The best moment was Sheldon explaining why he always knocks three times (cue Tony Orlando and Dawn here)
I enjoyed that scene, as well.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/13 "2016-10-18T14:03:48Z")
OK episode, but I think they ditched Emily way too…conveniently. I never liked the character, but they didn’t even put her on a bus up-state. She’s just gone.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/14 "2016-10-18T14:40:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Definitely not gay.
> [@Fenris](#):
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> I disagree–deeply, DEEPLY closeted.
I was referring to the episode where Raj kept fantasizing about Bernadette.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/15 "2016-10-18T14:59:10Z")
I’ve always liked Sheldon and Penny together - they should have ended up married to each other. And I loved his 3-knock explanation - it was so perfectly Sheldon!
But Raj getting into the hot tub and not noticing a submerged Stuart? C’mon - the tub not’s that deep! [/nitpick]
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/16 "2016-10-18T16:00:29Z")
Sheldon has walked in on both his parents having sex with other people.
Explains a lot.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/17 "2016-10-18T16:10:29Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I’ve always liked Sheldon and Penny together - they should have ended up married to each other.
That would have been a much better show. We saw in this episode again how Sheldon and Penny are a good match, just as Leonard and Amy are. Writing this I see the interesting comparisons between Penny and Sheldon’s mother, and Amy and Leonard’s mother.
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/18 "2016-10-18T16:58:58Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> That would have been a much better show. We saw in this episode again how Sheldon and Penny are a good match, just as Leonard and Amy are. Writing this I see the interesting comparisons between Penny and Sheldon’s mother, and Amy and Leonard’s mother.
Good emotional match, but I don’t see Penny in a relationship that involves coitus once a year.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/19 "2016-10-18T17:41:49Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> That would have been a much better show. We saw in this episode again how Sheldon and Penny are a good match, just as Leonard and Amy are. Writing this I see the interesting comparisons between Penny and Sheldon’s mother, and Amy and Leonard’s mother.
I’ve always thought Leonard and Amy would be a great pair. All the things Amy’s not getting from Sheldon, she’d be getting from Leonard. And she’s probably the kind of woman Leonard always thought he’d wind up with, before meeting Penny. Perhaps in future episodes …
But I see only superficial similarities between Amy and Leonard’s mother.
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### Author:  [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-5-october-17-2016-the-hot-tub-contamination/768867/20 "2016-10-18T17:49:10Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> OK episode, but I think they ditched Emily way too…conveniently. I never liked the character, but they didn’t even put her on a bus up-state. She’s just gone.
Yeah, I was hoping that they would incorporate Emily into a Halloween-themed episode – the sexy, creepy version of her who is a big horror fan. That would have been fun!
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