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00:00All right, you people ready to have some fun?
00:02Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:04And today, we're counting down our picks for the Big Bang Theory
00:07episodes that we could watch on an infinite loop,
00:09and the ones that would be better off disappearing
00:11into a black hole.
00:13Don't push it, Leonard.
00:14I am not pushing anything.
00:15You are.
00:16You don't get to decide when I'm ready to say I love you.
00:19Number 5, Timeless, The Scavenger Vortex.
00:23Leonard may not have wanted to be paired up
00:25with a liability for Raja's scavenger hunt,
00:28but that gave us a chance to see new friendship dynamics.
00:31And as it turns out, they're so fun.
00:33No, no, no.
00:35Let's mix things up.
00:36I choose Sheldon.
00:37We're going to kick your ass.
00:40Really?
00:41The only time I've ever picked first for a team,
00:42and I'm stuck with the liability?
00:44We already knew Sheldon and Penny were a great duo,
00:47but we also got to see Leonard discover how savagely
00:50competitive Bernadette can be.
00:51Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:55How am I faster than you?
00:56I'm in heels, and I stopped to take a phone call.
01:00I have asthma.
01:02Back off.
01:03However, Amy and Howard steal the spotlight
01:06as they find out they have more in common
01:08than they first thought.
01:09I love Neil Diamond.
01:11I love Neil Diamond.
01:16Sweet Caroline, my darling.
01:21The scavenger hunt brings out the best and worst in everyone.
01:24We see you shoving Penny Burney.
01:26And while the gang may have been unimpressed with their prize,
01:30we felt we'd struck gold.
01:32What can we say?
01:33This episode is so good, so good, so good.
01:36Number five, Want to Forget, The Thespian Catalyst.
01:41This episode has its funny moments,
01:43like Penny breaking Sheldon during their acting lesson.
01:46Hey, it's Penny.
01:47Yeah, I think I broke your son.
01:50Hold on.
01:51Talk to your mother.
01:52Mommy, I love you.
01:55Don't let Spock take me to the future.
01:57However, that's almost overshadowed
01:59by Raj's bizarre obsession with Bernadette.
02:02Crushing on your best friend's S.O.
02:04is already super awkward, but Raj takes it way too far.
02:09The only thing is I'm going to be gone for two years.
02:12Oh, I'm going to miss you.
02:14Are you going with him?
02:14I have to stay here for school.
02:16That's what we're here to talk to you about.
02:18You see, Bernadette has needs.
02:21It's so cringe, like watching through your fingers cringe.
02:25Things get really twisted when he imagines
02:28Howard in a horrible accident so that he can be with Bernadette.
02:31You say look after, you mean?
02:34Sexually.
02:35Excuse me, Bernadette, I have to hear it from him.
02:40Sexually.
02:42Got it.
02:43Take care.
02:43How messed up is that?
02:45Then it goes completely off the rails
02:47with a full-on musical fantasy sequence.
02:50Fans may have mixed feelings about this moment,
02:53but if you can put the creepy factor aside,
02:55the number is oddly catchy.
02:57You are my heart, my universe, my universe.
03:08Number four, Timeless, the adhesive duct deficiency.
03:12This episode delivers two equally brilliant plot lines.
03:16Leonard, Howard, and Raj head to the desert
03:18to watch a meteor shower.
03:20But after indulging in some special cookies,
03:23their night takes an unexpected and hilarious turn.
03:26We get a peek into the inner workings of their minds,
03:29maybe more than we ever needed to know.
03:32Our eyes locked over the pickled herring.
03:34We never meant for it to happen.
03:38One day, I hold a great ball for the president of France,
03:41but the rabbits, they hate me and don't come.
03:43I'm embarrassed, so I eat all the lettuce in the world
03:45and make them watch.
03:47Meanwhile, back home, Penny calls Sheldon for help
03:50after slipping in the bathtub and hurting her shoulder.
03:52You got to help me, please.
03:55All right, let it never be said that Sheldon Lee
03:57Cooper ignored the pleas of a damsel in distress.
04:00No one's saying that.
04:01Let's go.
04:02Sheldon might not be the best in a crisis,
04:04but he steps up for her.
04:06Watching the guys lose their grip on reality is hysterical.
04:09But Penny getting Sheldon to sing
04:11Soft Kitty after he gets her into bed is purr purr perfect.
04:16Soft kitty, warm kitty, happy kitty, sleepy kitty,
04:22purr purr purr, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr.
04:28Number four, want to forget, the planetarium collision.
04:33Looking back, it's hard to ignore
04:35that the series doesn't always treat
04:36its female characters well.
04:38Like when Sheldon can't accept that Amy's too
04:40busy to work on their asymmetry theory
04:43and refuses to take not now for an answer.
04:45I'm really excited about our paper, too,
04:47but I've got a lot of my own work to catch up on,
04:49so let's talk later.
04:50OK, well, let me just say one more thing, lambda calculus.
04:53And if that whets your whistle, you know where to find me.
04:56He even goes behind her back to remove her from a project
04:59she cares deeply about.
05:01Yes, Sheldon's known for being inconsiderate and egotistical,
05:04but it's frustrating to see him go over her head
05:07to decide what's best for her.
05:09Of course Amy's mad.
05:10Who wouldn't be?
05:11Sheldon, you had no right.
05:13I thought you said you were spread too thin.
05:15You said you wished you had more time
05:16to focus on our research.
05:17I thought I was helping.
05:19Well, you're not.
05:20I mean, I have years invested in this work,
05:22and now someone's going to come in and take it over?
05:24This isn't the only time Sheldon shows a lack
05:27of respect toward women.
05:28Still, if we were Amy, we'd be getting a lot
05:31more than just an earful.
05:32So a couple of men get together behind closed doors
05:35to decide the fate of a woman's career.
05:36I thought we'd move past this.
05:39Sheldon, this is your fault.
05:40Oh, sounds like the old lady's putting
05:42me in the doghouse tonight.
05:43Number three, Timeless, The Stockholm Syndrome.
05:47We can't talk about TBBT without mentioning the episode
05:50that started it all.
05:52Our babies will be smart and beautiful.
05:54After a solid beginning, they delivered
05:56an equally strong farewell.
05:58The penultimate episode, The Change Constant,
06:01does a fantastic job setting up the grand finale.
06:04That's a good point.
06:05What if I'm dreaming?
06:06Ah!
06:07Ah!
06:14We won the Nobel Prize!
06:16Ah!
06:18However, that last episode really hit us in all the feels.
06:23The gang travels to Sweden for Amy and Sheldon's
06:25Nobel Prize ceremony.
06:27But of course, Sheldon finds a way
06:29to alienate everyone along the way.
06:31You've just found out that a woman who has loved
06:33and cared for you for 12 years is pregnant,
06:36and all you can say is to believe that she's
06:38not going to get you sick.
06:40There's no need for a recap.
06:42I was there.
06:43After Amy sets him straight, he delivers a heartfelt speech
06:46that honors his friends and leaves fans in tears.
06:49I apologize if I haven't been the friend you deserve,
06:54but I want you to know, in my way, I love you all.
07:01We also love how it ends with the camera zooming out
07:04on the gang just enjoying takeout together.
07:07Classic.
07:08Number three, Want to Forget, The Killer Robot Instability.
07:12The title may reference the killer robot the guys build,
07:16but it feels like a B-plot compared to the drama
07:18between Penny and Howard.
07:20From the start, Howard has been objectifying
07:23and disrespecting her.
07:24And this is the moment she swings back.
07:27Flirting?
07:28You think I'm flirting with you?
07:29I am not flirting with you!
07:30No woman is ever going to flirt with you.
07:32You're just going to grow old and die alone.
07:34What frustrates us is how the guys
07:36try to make Penny feel guilty for standing up for herself.
07:40No matter how harsh her words sounded,
07:42Howard is hardly the victim here.
07:44Yet, that's how the story plays out.
07:46You do kind of have that overexposed to gamma rays
07:49thing going on.
07:50What does that mean?
07:52You know, like, most of the time,
07:53you're the easygoing Bruce Banner,
07:55but then when you get angry, you kind of turn into like,
07:57you know, a little more...
07:59It's disappointing to see the series
08:01take a misogynistic approach to harassment.
08:04While we don't condone violence,
08:06we cheered when Howard finally got what he deserved.
08:10Hopefully, she knocked some sense into him.
08:12Yes, now he knows what bathtubs are capable of doing
08:14when you don't treat them with respect.
08:16Number two, Timeless.
08:18The staircase implementation.
08:21Ever wondered how Leonard and Sheldon
08:22wound up living together?
08:24Or what happened to the elevator?
08:26This episode answers many of our burning questions.
08:29I don't understand.
08:30Their existence is conditional?
08:32No, but your ability to perceive their existence
08:35is conditional on you passing the second and third barriers.
08:39There's three?
08:40Each more daunting than the last.
08:42After a fallout over the thermostat,
08:44Leonard heads to Penny's to cool off
08:46and share the story of how he and Sheldon became roommates
08:49and why he stuck around for so long.
08:51It's a thoughtfully funny episode
08:53that adds just enough context
08:55to make us love these characters even more.
08:58What'd you do that for?
08:59I had plenty of time.
09:00You're welcome.
09:06Leonard jumps through plenty of hoops
09:08to become Sheldon's roommate.
09:10And while we might wonder why, by the end,
09:13we gain a newfound admiration for their unique friendship,
09:16no matter how odd it may be.
09:18Not only did Sheldon save my life,
09:19he didn't rat me out to the landlord
09:21or the police or Homeland Security.
09:23Number two, wants to forget.
09:25The matrimonial momentum.
09:28In the previous episode,
09:29Leonard makes a shocking pre-wedding confession.
09:32What did you do?
09:33Nothing.
09:35Really, it was just kissing.
09:38And then what?
09:38And then nothing.
09:40I stopped it.
09:41Yet, Penny chooses to swallow her feelings
09:43and go through with the wedding.
09:45For a relationship that has been pivotal to the series
09:48since day one, their wedding feels like a letdown.
09:51Essentially, it's just a footnote
09:53in Amy and Sheldon's relationship drama.
09:55I now pronounce you husband and wife.
10:01We did it!
10:02Yeah, I'm so glad you guys could watch.
10:04Fans waited nine seasons to see Leonard and Penny tie the knot,
10:08so we could have waited longer while they worked
10:10through this bump in the road.
10:12Better yet, they could have skipped this plot twist
10:14that felt very uncharacteristic for Leonard.
10:17Why would you go through with the wedding if you weren't?
10:19I thought I was OK.
10:20But it turns out I'm not.
10:22Listen, I may not have been entirely faithful,
10:24but you, you are not easy to lift.
10:27It almost feels like their next trip down the aisle
10:29was an apology to fans for putting them through all this.
10:33Before we unveil our top pick, here
10:35are a few honorable mentions.
10:37Timeless, the opening night excitation.
10:40Amy and Sheldon take a big relationship step,
10:43although it's hard to tell who had a better
10:45night, them or the guys.
10:47I look forward to your next birthday when we do it again.
10:53That works for me.
10:56I enjoyed that more than I thought I would.
11:01Want to forget the table polarization?
11:04This episode centers on a table.
11:06Let us just say that again, a table.
11:09You guys ever thought about getting a dining room table?
11:12Yeah, you actually do have room for one up there.
11:14Oh, sure.
11:15I sit on the floor for years.
11:16No one cares.
11:17The pretty white girls, they're 10 seconds,
11:19and suddenly we're all running to Ikea.
11:20Timeless, the panty pinata polarization.
11:24An almost all-around great episode,
11:26but arguably best remembered for one of the greatest comebacks.
11:30Woman, you are playing with forces beyond your ken.
11:34Yeah, well, your ken can kiss my Barbie.
11:36Want to forget the holiday summation?
11:39This episode had more filler than a Christmas stocking,
11:42the kind filled with coal.
11:44By the way, if anyone asks, the elevator shaft
11:46always had a tree in it.
11:50So Bernadette, if I express interest in your baby,
11:54will you promise not to make me touch it?
11:56Timeless, the bow tie asymmetry.
11:59Everything falls in place so perfectly
12:01as Amy and Sheldon embark on this new chapter together.
12:04We have our whole lives to do science together.
12:09Let's get married.
12:11All right.
12:12It's go time.
12:13I am pumped.
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12:30Number one, Timeless, the bath item gift hypothesis.
12:35The series' first Christmas episode
12:37felt like a gift to us all.
12:39Just don't tell Sheldon or you might be in for a lecture.
12:42You haven't given me a gift.
12:44You've given me an obligation.
12:48Don't feel bad, Penny.
12:49It's a classic rookie mistake.
12:50My first Hanukkah with Sheldon,
12:52he yelled at me for eight nights.
12:54The Leonard Penney-David Underhill storyline
12:56gets just enough attention to stay fresh and funny.
12:59However, it's most remembered for this iconic gift exchange.
13:04Penny thinks she's just giving Sheldon a signed napkin,
13:07but he sees so much more potential.
13:09Do you realize what this means?
13:12All I need is a healthy ovum
13:14and I can grow my own Leonard Nimoy.
13:16While he runs off, Penny and Leonard
13:18share an adorably amusing moment.
13:21Yet, they're interrupted when Sheldon returns
13:23with what looks like every bath item gift set in Pasadena.
13:27This episode feels like a warm mug of cocoa
13:29on Christmas morning.
13:31It's not a Saturnalia miracle,
13:32but to this day, it's a fan favorite.
13:35Leonard, look, Sheldon's hugging me.
13:38It's a Saturnalia miracle.
13:40Number one, want to forget.
13:42The cognition regeneration.
13:44Aw, Zach, who doesn't love Zach?
13:47However, in the later seasons,
13:49it felt like they brought him back
13:50without really knowing what to do with him.
13:52Whoa, whoa, whoa, you know, this has been such a nice evening.
13:55Let's all just stop before anyone says any more things.
13:58Leonard, would you be the father of our baby?
14:00No, you said a thing.
14:01In this season 10 episode,
14:03Sheldon is the father of a baby.
14:06In this season 10 episode, Penny runs into her ex,
14:09now a thriving businessman who offers her a job.
14:13She genuinely considers it,
14:15but Leonard isn't thrilled about them working together.
14:18You're not really considering working for him, are you?
14:21Well, maybe, I mean, it seems kind of perfect.
14:23I have sales experience and I've been a waitress,
14:26so I have restaurant experience,
14:27and if he's figuring out my Christmas bonus,
14:29we could buy a boat.
14:30He gets all jealous and possessive
14:32and puts his ego above Penny's happiness.
14:35And honestly, it's just painful to watch.
14:38They ultimately realize there's no scenario
14:41where they're both happy.
14:42I'll suck it up.
14:43You don't need to do that, it's okay.
14:46Yeah, see, now I feel terrible,
14:47like I'm being selfish and holding you back.
14:51Turns out Zach's fiance is just as insecure
14:54as Leonard anyway.
14:56This episode has one of the series' lowest ratings on IMDb.
15:00The fans have spoken.
15:02Aren't you gonna say anything?
15:04Not if I wanna be doing this later.
15:06Which Big Bang episode do you think is out of this world
15:09and which do you think is a cosmic catastrophe?
15:12Let us know in the comments.
15:13I was thinking, oh, gosh golly, I made a boo-boo,
15:17and I gave it to Stephen Hawking.
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