# The Big Bang Theory, Season 11, Episode 18 (March 29, 2018) -- "The Gates Excitation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423 "2018-03-29T16:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **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:** [March 31, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/21 "2018-03-31T17:53:09Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Sheldon was sadly walking up the stairs after his second attempt to meet Gates. There was a sign on Leonard & Penny’s door that said “I’m Sorry”. Sheldon assumed it was for him, and walked in. Leonard was there in a suit, holding a bouquet of flowers, obviously waiting for Penny, and started saying “I’m so sorry that I - oh, it’s you.” > Sheldon smiled and replied in his oblivious way “I could never stay mad at you. Apology accepted. What’s for dinner?” and fade to black. Well, that’s disappointing. Thanks for the recap, though. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/22 "2018-03-31T18:00:54Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I liked this episode. I like to see Penny applying herself to her job, because it’s such a relief and change from her whiny struggling actress persona. She mentioned that she’d like to be considered for a PR position for her employer, which would be a promotion for her. I hope they pursue that story line. Isn’t she a pharmaceutical sales rep now? With the commissions, moving to PR would probably be a step down, salary-wise. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/23 "2018-03-31T18:24:34Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > And to think at the time I was worried about the continuity regarding Sheldon saying he liked Vista better than Win8 when his computer was replaced by insurance when he was robbed. _My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user friendly than Windows Vista. I don’t like that._ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/24 "2018-03-31T18:31:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user friendly than Windows Vista. I don’t like that._ Something like that. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/25 "2018-03-31T18:35:58Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Isn’t she a pharmaceutical sales rep now? With the commissions, moving to PR would probably be a step down, salary-wise. Yeah, but she HATES being a sales rep, and the PR job would probably allow for more advancement in the future. Also, the PR job might come with things like end-of-year bonuses and stock options that the sales rep job doesn’t have. In a way, sales rep is a sort of dead-end job, because she trades on being able to flirt. She’s going to outgrow it. If she gets the PR job, she could be looking at staying with the company until retirement-- albeit, she will probably have to finish school. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/26 "2018-03-31T19:17:48Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > If she gets the PR job, she could be looking at staying with the company until retirement-- albeit, she will probably have to finish school. Don’t tell Penny that. She’ll just get mad at you and tell you you’re pushing her and thinking less of her because she doesn’t have a degree. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/27 "2018-03-31T19:19:13Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Don’t tell Penny that. She’ll just get mad at you and tell you you’re pushing her and thinking less of her because she doesn’t have a degree. She said as if Penny were a real life person who annoyed Biggirl with this very same attitude. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/28 "2018-04-01T02:44:24Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > Rain caused me to miss the stinger to last night’s episode: would someone be so kind as to summarize? > [@muldoonthief](#): > > Sheldon was sadly walking up the stairs after his second attempt to meet Gates. There was a sign on Leonard & Penny’s door that said “I’m Sorry”. Sheldon assumed it was for him, and walked in. Leonard was there in a suit, holding a bouquet of flowers, obviously waiting for Penny, and started saying “I’m so sorry that I - oh, it’s you.” > Sheldon smiled and replied in his oblivious way “I could never stay mad at you. Apology accepted. What’s for dinner?” and fade to black. There was more after the commercial break. Basically it was just Stuart at the park trying to get friendly with the other Nannies. He was dropping a word or two of Spanish, while they chatted openly about how weird he was, and “What kind of person would let him watch their kids?” It went on to them hypothesizing that he’d stolen them. When he introduced himself, one said to the other “Write his name down, we may need to give it to the police.” Awkward. Poor Stuart. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/29 "2018-04-02T15:46:49Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Wasn’t there a mention many seasons ago that Sheldon once got punched by Bill Gates because he walked up to him and said that if he hadn’t been worried so much about sick children he could have put more thought into Windows Vista? > > And to think at the time I was worried about the continuity regarding Sheldon saying he liked Vista better than Win8 when his computer was replaced by insurance when he was robbed. > > Of course, none of it was as bad as the discontinuity with _Young Sheldon_ getting the lead in a play, and then later Sheldon on _TBBT_ taking acting lessons from Penny as though he’d had no experience with acting whatsoever. > > Also, if Sheldon gets such bad stage fright that he can’t give a speech, how is he able to teach classes? > > Rant, rant, rant. > > I need a Xanax. I was hoping that they would reference the “Sheldon once got punched by Bill Gates” incident, but I don’t think that it ever got mentioned. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/30 "2018-04-03T13:41:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Of course, none of it was as bad as the discontinuity with _Young Sheldon_ getting the lead in a play, and then later Sheldon on _TBBT_ taking acting lessons from Penny as though he’d had no experience with acting whatsoever. > > Also, if Sheldon gets such bad stage fright that he can’t give a speech, how is he able to teach classes? It has been established that Sheldon will lie when it suits his needs (i.e. having people drive him after he got his driver’s license, claiming he never got it).He obviously felt that admitting he got such stage fright that he could take the lead in Annie would make him look bad. And remember Sheldon’s drunken speech? One of Jim Parson’s finest moments. Especially when he was watching it. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/31 "2018-04-03T14:28:46Z")
All in all one of the most boring episodes in a long time. They are just phoning it in these days, banking on guest stars for any zip. And still another season to go? \ And yet I keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/32 "2018-04-03T18:10:05Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Yep, Bernadette is no fun anymore. I miss sweet spacey Bernadette and don’t like bitchy, hormonal mom Bernadette at all. Babies always ruin friends sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423/33 "2018-04-03T19:50:01Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > There was more after the commercial break. Basically it was just Stuart at the park trying to get friendly with the other Nannies. He was dropping a word or two of Spanish, while they chatted openly about how weird he was, and “What kind of person would let him watch their kids?” > > It went on to them hypothesizing that he’d stolen them. When he introduced himself, one said to the other “Write his name down, we may need to give it to the police.” > > Awkward. Poor Stuart. I recognized one of the nannies as Chuny from **ER**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-18-march-29-2018-the-gates-excitation/811423.md?page=1)