# The Big Bang Theory, Season 8, Episode 22 (April 23, 2015) -- "The Graduation Transmission" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389 "2015-04-23T21:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/1 "2015-04-23T21:08:49Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/2 "2015-04-23T22:23:04Z")
It’s gonna suck, writing has gotten lame, characters are stale, Shamy are not yet coitusing, Leonard and Penny are still whiny, worst episode yet … Did I miss anything? ---
**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:** [April 23, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/3 "2015-04-23T22:27:34Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > It’s gonna suck, writing has gotten lame, characters are stale, Shamy are not yet coitusing, Leonard and Penny are still whiny, worst episode yet … > > Did I miss anything? Penny"s hair is ugly. The characters are too mean Nobody watches anymore. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/4 "2015-04-23T22:59:25Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > It’s gonna suck, writing has gotten lame, characters are stale, Shamy are not yet coitusing, Leonard and Penny are still whiny, worst episode yet … > > Did I miss anything? Its has jumped a frenzy of sharks already and I am never watching again. (but I reserve to the right to bitch about the episode next week) ---
**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:** [April 23, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/5 "2015-04-23T23:05:32Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Did I miss anything? Sheldon wasn’t being oblivious or antisocial he was just being an asshole. And I liked it that they paired [characters that don’t usually get paired (Sheldon/Penny, Bernadette/Stewart, Leonard/Raj etc)], I hope we see those two together more often. And I liked the new story line, but the writers are probably too stupid to remember it next week and they’ll never revisit it. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/6 "2015-04-24T01:05:51Z")
Nobody watches it anymore because it’s gotten too popular. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/7 "2015-04-24T01:35:17Z")
IIRC (going back to my joke post), Leonard already has a drone/quadcopter. Penny got it for him a while back when he was having a bad day. Not that it would have played into this story line, but you’d think at some point it would have been mentioned (‘hey, maybe we should ask Leonard for help, he has one’). ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/8 "2015-04-24T01:40:51Z")
I liked Leonard’s speech. I was certain there would be some camera glitch causing hilarity with his robe or something. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/9 "2015-04-24T01:56:08Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I liked Leonard’s speech. I was certain there would be some camera glitch causing hilarity with his robe or something. I just assumed that as well. Considering Penny mentioned it twice, I figured at some point he would close the laptop or it the screen would fall or get bumped and they would see what was below the bottom of the robe (however the writers wanted to play that). The funny thing was, at the last part of the speech, I was just about to fast-forward it because _I_ was getting bored, then I remembered that it’s a sitcom, either they were setting us up for something or they were going to cut away again. They weren’t going to leave us for more than 30 seconds watching Leonard drone on. ---
**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 24, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/10 "2015-04-24T03:56:54Z")
What was everybody doing off work? Graduation is on a school day, and it wasn’t a California holiday. How were every single one of them sans Amy off work on the same weekday? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/11 "2015-04-24T04:14:58Z")
My High School Graduation was on a Sunday. Public School in New York. ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/12 "2015-04-24T12:20:08Z")
I sit corrected then. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/13 "2015-04-24T12:38:18Z")
Penny sure knows how to turn disappointment into success. She was loving in this episode and it was great to see. ---
**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 24, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/14 "2015-04-24T13:42:23Z")
There was one bit that made me laugh aloud, and for the life of me, I can’t remember what it was. It sucks to get old… I did kinda giggle at Rag playing his parents. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/15 "2015-04-24T13:51:14Z")
Well, darn it all to heck! I had bus problems yesterday evening, and missed the show. How embarrassing… ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/16 "2015-04-24T14:10:26Z")
Saw an article that there’s a reason there hasn’t been much Amy Farrah Fowler the past few weeks, and a fairly sad one at that. It seems Mayim Bialik’s father passed away, and she’s been mostly attending to family stuff recently. ---
**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 24, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/17 "2015-04-24T14:12:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > There was one bit that made me laugh aloud, and for the life of me, I can’t remember what it was. Maybe Howard finally giving in and calling Tech Support and Raj’s phone ringing? Or “We’re taking a helicopter to Vegas, baby!” ---
**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 24, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/18 "2015-04-24T14:20:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Maybe Howard finally giving in and calling Tech Support and Raj’s phone ringing? That was it! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/19 "2015-04-24T14:34:23Z")
there are two kinds of people. ---
**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 24, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389/20 "2015-04-24T14:36:36Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > That was it! Cheap joke, but it busted me up as well. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-8-episode-22-april-23-2015-the-graduation-transmission/718389.md?page=2)