# The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 3 (October 5, 2015) -- "The Bachelor Party Corrosion" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627 "2015-10-05T18:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/41 "2015-10-06T22:52:54Z")
Best line was Amy about the phallic cookies: “The blue veins are gummy worms.” 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/42 "2015-10-06T23:15:36Z")
The burning van was something of a surprise - I figured they were going to get the lug nuts off and _then_ realize they forgot the jack. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/43 "2015-10-06T23:27:04Z")
I figured the spare would be flat. Or there would be no spare. Seems like we ALL figured they were screwed SOME way or other… ---
**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:** [October 6, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/44 "2015-10-06T23:49:52Z")
Last week the credits said Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. This week, it’s just Kaley Cuoco. She works fast. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/45 "2015-10-06T23:53:20Z")
Good for her! It was a mistake to change her name in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/46 "2015-10-07T01:41:49Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Last week the credits said Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. This week, it’s just Kaley Cuoco. > > She works fast. The graphics are easily edited. They could have done that at any time. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/47 "2015-10-07T01:52:48Z")
It was a good episode. You know how I know it was a good episode? Because we’re analyzing their methods of science-lug-nut-removal. Surprised they didn’t insert a lubrication joke in there somewhere. I thought it was one of their funnier ones in a while. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/48 "2015-10-07T02:31:13Z")
It was alright. I wasn’t enamored with the lug-nut plot but I will grant it two high marks: 1) I’m glad to actually see the characters doing something science-y for once, and 2) the shot of the van on fire was pretty funny (if predictable). My biggest laughs actually came from all the pig/bacon jokes. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/49 "2015-10-07T06:38:13Z")
I’m usually really surprised at the negativity to episodes I thought were fine and dandy and made me laugh. This one, however, didn’t make me laugh much at all, it felt like the comic timing was all out-of-whack and there was a lot more poorly placed laugh track than usual. And yet everyone else seems to like it a lot! Good thing I don’t make TV shows, clearly nobody would watch them. My sense of comedy mustn’t align with modern audiences. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/50 "2015-10-07T09:51:46Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > And a miniature pig is probably easier to run over with a rototiller. And easier to transport to the vet, to be put down. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/51 "2015-10-07T11:36:00Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > There was a lot more poorly placed laugh track than usual. It doesn’t even sound like it’s taped in front of a studio audience any more. The lame laugh track makes the lame jokes sound even lamer. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/52 "2015-10-07T12:54:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And easier to transport to the vet, to be put down. Wyatt’s a farmer. He finished eating it long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/53 "2015-10-07T13:07:39Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And easier to transport to the vet, to be put down. You generally transport the large animal vet to the farm, not the large animal to the vet. And, yeah, if Moondance was a full size hog, he’s been baconized. My mom grew up on a farm, and still won’t eat lamb/mutton, after she figured out where the meat for dinner came from one day. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/54 "2015-10-07T13:08:50Z")
Yep, Moondance is now Headcheese. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/55 "2015-10-07T13:51:38Z")
All these years, and we’re just now finding out that Penny has a pet pig? How attached to it could she have been? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/56 "2015-10-07T13:57:00Z")
It’s like Leonard’s dog Mitzi, the one his mother had put down. If he was so close to her, why didn’t he bring her with him from New Jersey to California? (Of course, if he had, he couldn’t have moved in with Sheldon, and there’d be no series. Still…) ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/57 "2015-10-07T14:49:14Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > That was an improvement. That van breaking down was inevitable, though. A bachelor party in Mexico offered so many possibilities for hijinks… the van breakdown was lame. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/58 "2015-10-07T14:50:46Z")
Yeah… I have to admit the smash cut from the thermite to the burning van just seemed … predictable. Weirdly enough, the girls’ conversation was funnier, for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/59 "2015-10-07T14:58:51Z")
howard’s lever would either have loosened the lugnut or twisted off the lug. Improbable as finding and excavating and attaching such a stop sign to the tool, had it been done, it would have worked. Then we could have had the wheel flying off into the brush because the van wasn’t jacked up, and then the scientific calculations whether it was safe to use the spare with low pressure and whether it was safe to use the spare with only four nuts attached. The decision to turn around and go home would have been an easy one, or, Penny and Amy could have come to pick them up. At least, then, they wouldn’t be responsible for the destruction of a national treasure, Feynman’s van. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627/60 "2015-10-07T15:16:37Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Yeah… I have to admit the smash cut from the thermite to the burning van just seemed … predictable. > > Weirdly enough, the girls’ conversation was funnier, for the most part. Agreed. The Penny/Amy’s Mom phone call was the funniest part of the entire episode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-3-october-5-2015-the-bachelor-party-corrosion/733627.md?page=4)