# The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 17 (February 25, 2016) -- "The Celebration Experimentation"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 26, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191 "2016-02-26T14:08:23Z")
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/81 "2016-03-03T14:54:35Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Who says they didn’t, and we just didn’t see it? Maybe they Skyped while Sheldon was in the bathroom with Penny, and Leonard said he’d call them back when Sheldon came out of the bathroom.
Then we should have heard that. Anything would have been better than those interminable toasts! :smack:
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/82 "2016-03-03T15:01:49Z")
All right, Kripke hit on Penny **once** , when he first met her. I’ll give you that. He hit on her when he was on his way to the bathroom, to floss his lunch out of his gum pockets. Smoooth operator, love for sale! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/83 "2016-03-03T15:06:24Z")
Kripke was in character, the rest of **terentii** ’s criticisms hit the nail on the head.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/84 "2016-03-03T15:15:35Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> I’m sorry that the episode didn’t end with Sheldon having a tummy upset. I’m sure that ending would have been a laugh a minute. But the writers chose to go in another direction and do you know what? I’m perfectly fine with that.
**[VOICE OF BRUISER LaRUE]:** Well, different strokes for different folks! 😉
I see it as a missed opportunity, of which there have been an awful lot on _ **BBT** _ lately.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/85 "2016-03-03T15:18:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Kripke was in character, the rest of **terentii** ’s criticisms hit the nail on the head.
I can see him hitting on someone like Penny or Alex (\*\*Yum! \*\* :o ); not Beverly.
Can’t imagine he’s ever been successful, though. ☹
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/86 "2016-03-03T15:23:00Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> I can see him hitting on someone like Penny or Alex (\*\*Yum! \*\* :o ); not Beverly.
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> Can’t imagine he’s ever been successful, though. ☹
Seems he hits on any female he sees. If the show continues long enough he may eventually score.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/87 "2016-03-03T15:23:51Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Beverly’s hormones get going when she’s had a few drinks. Besides, I didn’t notice that she was responding to Kripke all that much.
**Classic** Beverly would have been psychoanalyzing him and undercutting his confidence unmercifully. **That** would have been funny!
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/88 "2016-03-03T15:25:17Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Seems he hits on any female he sees.
When has he even **seen** another female besides Penny and Beverly? 😕
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/89 "2016-03-03T16:09:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> If Stuart ever DOES get a girlfriend, she’ll need to be played by either Mila Kunis or Lacey Chabert.
> [@terentii](#):
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> Courtney Ford (“Alice,” the artist who hit on Leonard) would be a much better choice. They ought to have a lot in common, and she goes for nerds anyway.
Maybe, but she never played perennial emotional punching bag Meg Griffin.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/90 "2016-03-03T16:50:44Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> When has he even **seen** another female besides Penny and Beverly? 😕
Amy gave him some insights on String Theory.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/91 "2016-03-03T16:52:07Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> When has he even **seen** another female besides Penny and Beverly? 😕
He was somewhat miffed when there were no strippers at Howard’s bachelor party… does that count?
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### Author:  [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/92 "2016-03-03T18:12:28Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Like Frank Burns, Sheldon is a comedic contrivance. They should never have changed him or “let him grow.” Just because he’s “different now” (e.g., no longer thinking of selling his sperm) doesn’t mean he’s funnier. He isn’t.
…you are entitled to express your opinion. That doesn’t make it objectively correct. Frank Burns should have been allowed to grow. IMHO Winchester was a much better for MASH because he wasn’t a one-note character. IMHO Sheldon is funnier now than he was at the beginning. I feel letting him grow has made a better, funnier, more realistic character. You feel different. What the heck do you want me to do about that? I’m not going to change my mind just because you insist that I do.
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> Anyone into comic books/movies/TV shows would have been ecstatic at meeting Adam West, especially if he came to their birthday party. If he’d show up at mine, I’d be pissing my pants with joy! (The only thing that would make it better would be if he were there with Burt Ward.)
Feel free to piss your pants as much as you like. I once invited to a dinner and on the table I was at a very famous person that I respected. I didn’t talk to her at all for the entire night (apart from a very quick hello) because I was petrified. Just because you choose to piss your pants in the presence of celebrity doesn’t mean that we all do. We all react differently, and we’ve seen Sheldon be dismissive of people in the past.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/93 "2016-03-03T19:04:14Z")
Sheldon saw Adam West on the couch just before the point he started losing it due to social anxiety, so I assume that’s why he didn’t go all fanboy right then.
Did it seem to anyone else that Leslie Winkle’s voice sounded higher than it used to?
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/94 "2016-03-03T19:39:27Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Then we should have heard that. Anything would have been better than those interminable toasts! :smack:
Well, yes…except karaoke.
> [@terentii](#):
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> EVERYTHING about her suggests that! If she’s not insulting Sheldon, she’s using Leonard and Howard, or putting down Penny.
Oh, I dunno. When she was “friends with benefits” with Leonard she was pretty reasonable. Anyway, it’s Sheldon’s birthday party. I think she’s capable of putting it on hold for a couple of hours.
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> Since when? 😕 Name another instance. Just one.
Kripke hit on Penny, and Amy, and goes to a strip club on a regular basis.
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> Why couldn’t they have done an actual Skype hookup and made him look, you know, **alive** somehow? 😕
$$$?
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> Quite frankly, I always preferred “Hot Lips” to “Margaret.”
YMMV.
> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> Did it seem to anyone else that Leslie Winkle’s voice sounded higher than it used to?
When Sara Gilbert is doing her deadpan snark, her voice is lower.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/95 "2016-03-03T21:44:44Z")
Re: Adam West. During the car ride things seemed to warming up nicely. But once in the apartment his appearance was a dud.
He sometimes does quite a good job when cast in the role of Adam West. E.g., _Drop Dead Gorgeous_. So I blame the writing.
(How his career survived _The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood_ I’ll never understand.)
Good to see Sara Gilbert again.
Pretty much wasted Christine Baranski. (Well, they also wasted Wheaton, but who cares?)
And … that’s about it.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/96 "2016-03-04T02:17:17Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Who says they didn’t, and we just didn’t see it? Maybe they Skyped while Sheldon was in the bathroom with Penny, and Leonard said he’d call them back when Sheldon came out of the bathroom.
Exactly. The continuity gestapo often think it must happen on screen for it to happen.
Have seen Bernie and Howard in bed doing the “dance with no pants” lately? If not, how in the hell is she recently preggo? Well duh, that’s what married people do!
IMO, it is completely in character for Kripke to be a lounge lizard, hitting on every single woman (& failing miserably).
I am sure Mary and Meemaw sent their birthday wishes to Sheldon. Well, duh, that is what Mothers and Meemaw do. The show had a special guest star with Adam West, and Stuart, Will Wheaton, Barry, Leslie, and Beverly on set as well as the seven regulars.
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/97 "2016-03-04T02:17:59Z")
If the character was still living, Professor Proton would have been a good guest. Except he would have thought long and hard about attending considering the 4 flights of stairs.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/98 "2016-03-04T02:37:01Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> Exactly. The continuity gestapo often think it must happen on screen for it to happen.
Sitcom characters only have lives on screen. If it doesn’t happen or get referred to or implied on screen, it never happened. Doesn’t matter how much fanwanking the collective fanbase indulges in.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/99 "2016-03-04T03:06:24Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Sitcom characters only have lives on screen. If it doesn’t happen or get referred to or implied on screen, it never happened. Doesn’t matter how much fanwanking the collective fanbase indulges in.
Tell it to Infant Wolowitz.
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191/100 "2016-03-04T03:07:28Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Sitcom characters only have lives on screen. If it doesn’t happen or get referred to or implied on screen, it never happened. Doesn’t matter how much fanwanking the collective fanbase indulges in.
Well, there was that noodle incident when they were on that expedition in the Arctic. Or was it the Antarctic?
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