# The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 11 (December 17, 2015) -- "The Opening Night Excitation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718 "2015-12-17T18:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/41 "2015-12-19T03:51:45Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Just want to point out that Amy does not have a blog where she posts every day about stuff on the show. Mayim’s blog is interesting, however. Too late to edit, so let me add: Mayim’s blog about how she reconciles being an observant orthodox Jew and an actress on a popular network sitcom is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/42 "2015-12-19T04:10:51Z")
Apart from [kveller.com](http://kveller.com), Mayim Bialik has just started a new blog that is about things other than being a Jewish mom, called [Grok Nation](http://groknation.com/). ---
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/43 "2015-12-19T04:17:43Z")
NM, must read for comperhension. Thanks for the link to [kveller.com](http://kveller.com). ---
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/44 "2015-12-19T04:25:38Z")
All right, all right. After careful reading after a Blue Point Brewing Co. variety craft beer or five, I think I see what is going on here. Maylim has a blog in which she writes about Hollywood and being an actress and an observant Jew called Grok Nation. [Kveller.com](http://Kveller.com) is a site were Jewish people write about all things Jewish which Mayim contributes. Amy Farrah Fowler may or may not have a blog where she writes about what happens on TTBT. Thanks and good night. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/45 "2015-12-19T19:33:01Z")
I was really pleased with this episode. There are so many wrong paths they might have taken, but they found the right one. The Shamy “after” scene told the whole story perfectly. I also liked that Sheldon avoided his more recent ass-like behavior - he actually seemed to have grown up this episode. Here’s hoping this is a sign of the direction the show will follow now. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/46 "2015-12-20T05:55:44Z")
Great episode. And, to anyone who thought there was TOO MUCH Newhart, all I can say is Live Long and Suck It!! I love Bob N. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/47 "2015-12-20T09:00:59Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Great episode. And, to anyone who thought there was TOO MUCH Newhart, all I can say is Live Long and Suck It!! I love Bob N. I’m so glad that they kept him around. In the episode where Prof. Proton died I thought that meant that Newhart was no longer interested in doing the show a couple times a season only to have him return as Obi-wan Proton! Genius. “You- you’re dating her? You’re the genius.” ---
**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:** [December 20, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/48 "2015-12-20T15:52:19Z")
I lurves me some Bob Newhart, but it is hard to see him looking so old and frail. Mortality sucks sometimes… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/49 "2015-12-20T16:05:10Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I lurves me some Bob Newhart, but it is hard to see him looking so old and frail. Mortality sucks sometimes… Yeah. At times it looked more like he physically couldn’t say the words properly rather than acting that way. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/50 "2015-12-20T17:10:31Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I lurves me some Bob Newhart, but it is hard to see him looking so old and frail. Mortality sucks sometimes… I have tickets to see his show in January. I hope the “talks old and slow” is just acting, and that his show won’t be entirely at that pace. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/51 "2015-12-20T21:34:05Z")
The stammer has always been part of his act. Listen to his old “Buttoned-Down Mind” albums and you can hear him deliver his introductions smoothly and rapidly before picking up the telephone and putting on that voice. But it could be real now. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/52 "2015-12-20T22:13:03Z")
His speech on the show isn’t the same as in his old routines - it seems more… labored? I don’t get the sense that it was deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/53 "2015-12-21T00:31:07Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I lurves me some Bob Newhart, but it is hard to see him looking so old and frail. Mortality sucks sometimes… “Old and frail” are part of life . . . if you’re lucky enough to live that long. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/54 "2015-12-21T00:41:04Z")
Niven’s Law - “Old age isn’t for sissies.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/55 "2015-12-21T08:14:58Z")
Of course, as Professor Proton, Newhart is playing an old man. But the stammer has always been part of his act. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/56 "2015-12-21T14:56:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Wow. They got this exactly right, with wonderful touches all the way through. > > And no matter how I phrased that, the sentence contained double entendres. I give up. Touches it is. My sentiments exactly! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/57 "2015-12-21T16:28:58Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Who could be more awkward in a hetero sex scene than an orthodox Jewish girl and a gay man? > > I think another reason why the episode worked so well is because no one was mean to each other. I’ll admit that the snipey jokes make me laugh but this episode shows that the gang can refrain from that and still be funny. So true! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718/58 "2015-12-22T07:48:35Z")
I really enjoyed the episode. Sheldon and Amy handled things tactfully, and the look on Amy’s face afterward (plus her hair) was priceless. Great episode, and now I’m looking forward to how the series continues. I have a feeling that Sheldon and Amy won’t wait until her next birthday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-11-december-17-2015-the-opening-night-excitation/740718.md?page=2)