The Big Bang Theory
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I don't care how cliched the pot cookies were or how unrelated the two storylines were on this week's The Big Bang Theory, it was easily the best episode of the season and one of the best in the series.

For some reason, seeing Leonard, Wolowitz, and Raj stoned and uttering some of the best high thoughts of all time was instantly classic.  Seriously, Raj's elaborate plan if he could speak to rabbits?  His American accent when he mocked the guys?  Amazing.

Meanwhile, the B-plot as easily an A+ plot to us.  With the other three guys gone, that left Sheldon and Penny alone, the two best characters to ever share screen time together on television.  Due to "The Adhesive Duck Deficiency," Penny found herself injured in her shower with no one to help but Sheldon.

The two of them went through an adventure that got a little inappropriate at times with Sheldon coping a little feel and even seeing Penny's tattooed buttocks, but somehow we're okay with it and I'm sure Leonard would be too.

Oh did we mention just how clever it was to air an episode of the boys camping to view the Leonid Meteor Shower during the actual shower.   You may have set the bar too high for yourselves, Chuck Lorre and company and we hope you can maintain it. 

Now for some of our favorite of The Big Bang Theory quotes from the half hour of bliss:

Wolowitz: There are two not-unattractive middle school teachers.
Raj: Wonderful. How old are they?
Wolowitz: Fifty, fifty-five.
Raj: Woh, menopause, nature's birth control. | permalink

Raj: If I could speak the language of rabbits, they would be amazed and I would be their king... I would be kind to my rabbit subjects... at first.... One day, I hold a great ball for the President of France, but the rabbits don't come. I'm embarrassed so I eat all the lettuce in the world.. and make the rabbits watch. | permalink

Sheldon: Why do you have the Chinese character for "soup" tattooed on your right buttock?
Penny: It's not "soup," it's "courage."
Sheldon: No it isn't. But I suppose it does take courage to demonstrate that kind of commitment to soup.
Penny: How'd you see it? You said you wouldn't look.
Sheldon: Sorry. As I told you, the hero always peeks. | permalink

This week's episode of The Big Bang Theory had a very similar theme to last week's: Penny and Leonard fighting.  This time around, Penny and Sheldon were again having jealousy issues over Penny's male friend(s).

This time around, Penny planned to have a guitar-playing ex-boyfriend of hers crash on her couch for a couple weeks.  Leonard, for obvious reasons, was a little jealous she didn't even talk to him about it.

The two ended up in a screaming match reminding Sheldon of his childhood and the two of them had to retrieve him from the comic book store.  So what happened with Penny's musician friend?  Find out in our "The Guitarist Amplification."

While we find the fight realistic and all, we don't necessarily want to see this in our sitcoms, let alone The Big Bang Theory.  If we wanted that we could all just look at our own relationships.

Give us more nerd humor that we crave!  Sheldon can only hold up so much of the episode when it's about Penny and Leonard screaming.  Now for some of the best Big Bang Theory quotes from the episode:

Raj: "Sorry" doesn't make up for the fact that I had to make chicken and rice with this vegan guy! Do you know what vegan chicken and rice is? Rice! | permalink

Sheldon: Leonard, when that woman moved in three years ago, I told you not to talk to her, and now look, we're going to be late to the movies. | permalink

Wolowitz: But if she dumps you, she'll have a new boyfriend by tomorrow morning, and you'll have a new girlfriend when you figure out how to build one. | permalink

Like any other The Big Bang Theory fan, we watch the show for Sheldon.  Last night, however, Sheldon took more of a backseat role as he tutored Leonard on football.

The episode's leads were definitely Wolowitz and Raj this episode, even though they had the B side story.  The two boys had a rift in their bromance when Wolowitz ditched Raj in a key moment during their kite fight to persue a woman he had no chance with.

The rest of the episode, Wolowitz attempted to win Raj back over with gifts and a lovely date.  Although some of it was a little cheesy, these two guys certainly proved they can still hold the show while Leonard has lame Penny storylines and Sheldon is in the background.

Catch up with the full events of the episode in our "The Cornhusker Vortex" recap, but more importantly, let's go over some of the best of The Big Bang Theory quotes from the episode:

Raj: Leonard just realized that Penny's been hiding him from her friends because he's a tiny little man who flies kites | permalink

Raj: You always do this, you know. You ditch me for a woman you have no shot with
Wolowitz: I totally had a shot
Raj: With a woman you were chasing through a park? That's not a shot, that's a felony | permalink

Raj: The only thing I've learned in the last two hours is that American men love drinking beer, pee too often, and have trouble getting erections.
Leonard: Focus on the game, not the commercials, Raj.
Raj: I'm just saying, maybe if you people cut back on the beer, you could get out of the bathroom and satisfy your women without pharmaceutical help. | permalink

Wil Wheaton guest starred on last night's episode of The Big Bang Theory, but sadly the Star Trek alumn didn't make his appearance until the end of the episode.  Luckily though, the episode was still a Sheldon-centric one making it entertaining.

Apparently Sheldon has decided Wil Wheaton is in his top ten list of enemies ever since he stood him up at a Star Trek convention and he couldn't pass on a chance to defeat him in a card game.

Meanwhile, Wolowitz made poor Leonard make good in a six year old pact to make Penny set him up with one of her friends.  Their plotline was definitely far less entertaining than Raj and Sheldon's nerd fest, but still had a few chuckles and some smiles.

Overall the episode was entertaining and proving the show can take its remaining single nerds and still keep the show fresh.  You can catch up on the full episode in our "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" recap.

Here are just some of our favorites of The Big Bang Theory quotes from the episode:

Sheldon: It might also interest you to know that Wil Wheaton currently ranks sixth on my all-time enemies list, right between director Joel Schumacher, who nearly destroyed the Batman movie franchise, and Billy Sparks, who lived down the street from me and put dog poop on the handles of my bicycle | permalink

Bernadette: Does your mother call you every day at work to see if you've had a healthy lunch?
Wolowitz: My mother calls me every day to see if I've had a healthy bowel movement | permalink

Wolowitz: Listen, you have to come to Shabbas dinner at my house sometime.
Bernadette: Why?
Wolowitz: A Catholic girl like you, wearing big cross like that, might just give my mother that big brain aneurysm I've been hoping for.
Bernadette: Only if you come to Sunday dinner at my house wearing a yamaka
Wolowitz: It's a date | permalink

Wow was last night's episode of The Big Bang Theory all Raj or what.  The man probably delivered more lines last night than he has all season.

In the episode, when the university discovered just how useless Raj has been, he's in danger of being deported back to India unless he can get a new job.  In a rare display of friendship, Sheldon offers Raj a job working for him on his new project.

Meanwhile, Wolowitz, lost without his wingman who's busy working with Sheldon all the time, latches on to Penny and Leonard as a third wheel.  Find out what happened in our recap of "The Pirate Solution."

Now for some of our favorite of The Big Bang Theory quotes from last night that mostly belonged to Raj:

Sheldon: The cow is actually considered god-like
Raj: Do not tell me about my own culture, in the mood I'm in I'll take you outside I swear to cow | permalink

Raj: I'm going to be deported, sent home in disgrace, exposed to the sardonic barbs of my cousin Sanjay, or as you may know him, Dave from AT&T customer service | permalink

Raj [to Sheldon]: Okay, please don't take this the wrong way, but I'd rather swim butt-naked across the Ganges with a paper cut on my nipple and die a slow agonizing death from a viral infection than work with you | permalink

Wolowitz: So, what are we watching? Sex in the City, yikes!
Penny: Hey, I happen to love this movie.
Wolowitz: Fine, let's watch it. Maybe all our periods will synchronize | permalink

Last night pretty much marked the first episode that Leonard and Penny were a full-fledged working couple.  The two of them have apparently worked out their sexual issues from the last episode and are now having a bed-breaking good time.

However, now that Penny is spending a lot of time around the apartment, Sheldon has to come up with a new approach to deal with her... conditioning her using positive reinforcement.  Meanwhile, Raj and Wolowitz head to a local goth club in order to pick up chick.

Find out how our favorite nerds did in their respective missions in our recap of "The Gothowitz Deviation."

Now for some of the best of The Big Bang Theory quotes of the episode:

Wolowitz: They're called tattoo sleeves. I bought them online. Raj got a set too. Put them on, have sex with some freaky girl with her business pierced and I can take them off and still be buried in a Jewish cemetery
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Penny: I give up, he's impossible
Sheldon: I can't be impossible, I exist. I believe what you meant to say is, "I give up, he's improbable." | permalink

Sheldon: Interesting. Sex works even better than chocolate to modify behavior. I wonder if anyone else has stumbled onto that
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Fans of Penny and Leonard sure must have been scared during last night's episode of The Big Bang Theory.  Together for only their second episode, the couple has already encountered a pretty major problem in the bedroom.

It certainly didn't help that Leonard decided to confide in Sheldon, a man with zero social etiquette.  Besides talking to Penny about her awkward hookup with Leonard, Sheldon also spent the episode gambling with Wolowitz.

Find out who won the bet and whether Penny and Leonard were able to solve their problems in our recap of "The Jiminy Conjecture."

Now for some of the best of The Big Bang Theory quotes from last night:

Wolowitz: you're missing the point, a Shiksa goddess is not an actual goddess, we prey on them, not to them | permalink

Sheldon: Howard, you know me to be a very smart man. Don't you think that if I were wrong, I'd know it? | permalink

Raj: I don't like bugs, okay? They freak me out.
Sheldon: Interesting. You're afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic. | permalink

Last night, The Big Bang Theory returned for its third season and with it the boys came back from their three month arctic expedition.  Rather than dragging the Penny-Leonard relationship out for the full season, Penny jumped Leonard's bones the second he said hi.

Well, at least she tried to.  It turns out the boys faked the experiment results to shut up Sheldon and as a result, the gang had to head to Texas to retrieve their embarassed friend.

Find out what else happened in our recap of "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation." 

Now for some of the best The Big Bang Theory quotes that definitely belonged to Wolowitz and Raj this episode.

Wolowitz: Sheldon. You remember the first few weeks; we were looking for magnetic monopoles and not finding anything, and you were acting like an obnoxious, giant dictator?
Raj: I thought we were going to be gentle with him.
Wolowitz: That's why I added the "tator" | permalink

Wolowitz [after seeing Penny jump Leonard]: Damnit, I should have gone over and said we were back
Raj: Yeah, it was "first come, first serve." | permalink

Leonard: I don't want to go to Texas
Wolowitz: Alright and I do? My people already crossed the desert once. We're done
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