What was Penny’s line about the bearded Jewish guys? I missed it.
Leonard’s mother is really a caricature of John B. Watson, so the Freudian mumbo-jumbo was pretty nonsensically incongruent.
That both mothers liked bearded Jewish guys, so they had that in common.
Why are the girls attracted to those guys anyway?
Leonard is always stomping on Penny’s dreams of acting.
Sheldon does absolutely nothing romantic towards Amy.
Howard is pretty much a little kid who treats Bernadette like she’s his mother. No wonder she doesn’t want kids, she already has one.
I don’t get it.
Regarding this episode though: “Dirty double-mother sucker” made me LOL.
Suckler, dammit! Not sucker! It’s much funnier that way.
Sorry, you’re correct. I was copying off a previous post.
When Amy and Sheldon first met, she told him that any and all forms of physical contact were off the table. I think hanging around Penny has mellowed her.
I’m thinking the finale is going to be Sheldon and Amy finally hitting the sheets, then Sheldon emerging with TONS of scientific ideas and insights.
Yes, he’s going to change his field of study from string theory to dark matter to coitus.
i loved the answer to what noah fed the carnivores on the ark. very logical. much better than the answer we had in sunday school, either a miracle or the carnivores were on a fast.
Perhaps she didn’t recognize the new blond fella.
I laughed at Mary’s observation about her treatment of Leslie: A true Christian would have turned the other check and forgiven her; on the other hand, a true Texan would have shot her. I split the difference.
Laurie Metcalf is a talented actor.
By Leslie, do you mean Beverly?
Yes. I don’t know where Leslie came from.
I enjoyed the episode, for all these reasons. And what the lions ate. And Howard getting stuck on the kitchen floor. And isn’t Beverley supposed to be a behaviorist? How can she have any regard for Freud? (Or was that just a set-up for the “two bearded Jews” remark?)
Unless their is an in story reason for a sitcom psychiatrist to be anti-Freud, they are followers of Freud by default because that is the only name most people associate with the field. Big Bang theory is usually good about being more sophisticated about hard science and engineering jokes but I guess it doesn’t cover psychiatry.
Yeah, makes perfect sense, when ya think about it…
I thought it was a squandered opportunity. Christine Baranski and Laurie Metcalf playing off each other? I’ll take a double order, please. But it all seemed so superficial and hastily disposed of. Who cares about Howard being a slob again? Give the B-team the night off and let those two brilliant comic actresses strut their stuff.
I wonder if maybe the problem is that their ‘usual sources’ for the hard-science/engineering guys don’t include a psychiatrist, and hard-scientists look down on psychiatrists the same way they look down on engineers. 
Beverly Hofstadter is supposed to be a neuroscientist in addition to being a psychiatrist. Why didn’t they just ask Mayim Bialik to be the technical consultant for Beverly Hofstadter’s talk about her job? Why didn’t they at least ask Bialik to recommend someone to be the technical consultant for it? Bialik serves as the technical consultant for her own talk about her job, since she actually has a Ph.D. in neuroscience:
I thought this was the most the show has ever been openly hostile and kind of mean to Christian beliefs. Before it’s generally been perhaps one-offs (mostly from Sheldon), and the portrayal of his mother has actually been pretty sympathetic. Past episodes have shown she can outsmart Sheldon and Leonard… or at least Jedi-mind-trick them. This was the first that I recall that really seemed to have a “Ha ha you stupid people with beliefs” bone to pick.