

Leonard begins to warn her about Howard's mother, but decides not to.Īt Howard's house, Penny is announced by his mother as Patsy. She reluctantly agrees to go talk to Howard the next day. First she pleads with him not to ask for that, but then Leonard reminds her emphatically that they came back without their pants. Out of options, Leonard invokes the favor she promised after Leonard and Sheldon tried to get Penny's television back from her ex-boyfriend in the show's Pilot episode. Penny doesn't get the Bruce Banner Hulk reference.

Leonard reminds her that she has an overexposed-to-gamma-ray thing going on. Howard has been in bed for two days, he tells her. Leonard tries to get Penny to apologize to Howard however, Penny has no intention of apologizing, stating that it had to be done. Kripke refuses that excuse, as everybody there is pathetic, creepy, and can't get girls. Leonard wants to decline because Howard is absent. Sheldon engages him in trash talk that as usual is too convoluted to make any impact. His engineering expertise is very missed because their colleague Barry Kripke challenges them to fight his robot, the Kwipke Kwippler, in a grudge match at the university. Leonard calls him and hears Howard fighting with his mother about not going to school. Raj thinks that Penny would make a good entry as a killer robot herself.Ī depressed Howard stays at home in his bed. Penny's actions shock all of the guys into silence, even Sheldon. Penny, sick and tired of Howard's antic, finally explodes with “No woman is ever going to flirt with you! You're just going to grow old and die alone!" Howard then leaves, shocked and crushed. Howard is shocked that she is not flirting with him. Penny gets madder as she calls him “pathetic and creepy”. Leonard tells Howard to back off, while he continues dancing "their tango". Howard describes her as the only “doable” girl to which Penny calls him a pig. Penny wonders how it could be a dance since she'd be the only girl there. He casually remarks that the guys would love to see a girl there.


The robot fighting competition is explained to Penny as Howard invites her to the post-competition dance. Sheldon denies this fact and insists that if that was MONTE's intent, she would be dead now. The guys are cleaning up their killer robot as Penny comes in and tells them that their thing tried to kill her. Next, as Penny is coming up the stairs talking on her phone, MONTE crashes through their apartment door into the hallway, causing Penny to run away screaming. Their entry, mainly designed by engineer Howard, has a razor-sharp circular saw, one polycarbonate grinding and flipping wheel, steel armor-plated exoskeleton top and bottom and a 110-horsepower that can go from zero to "holy crap" in 4.8 seconds. Mobile Omnidirectional Neutralization & Termination Eradicator. The gang of geeks has built a killer robot to enter into the Southern California Robot Fighting League Round-Robin Invitational named MONTE, aka. (Photo: CBS.When the guys have an entry into the killer robot contest, Howard makes the mistake of pushing Penny one too many times with his creepy ways and he is subject to her anger. What do you think should be coming on The Big Bang Theory season 12 episode 12, and are you happy that Zack is going to be coming back on the series? Share right now in the attached comments, and be sure to stay tuned for more news. Related News – Be sure to check out some other information right now regarding The Big Bang Theory! There will only be a dozen more episodes and chances to dive into this crazy world again. Here’s one other reminder that could make people a little teary-eyed - at the end of this episode, we’ll be at the halfway point of the final season. (With that being said, we don’t want to think that the two having kids would necessarily define their happiness one way or another.) While it doesn’t seem as though the show is interested in making Leonard and Penny parents on the show itself, this absolutely could be something that happens for these characters down the road. Then, he could have a few more second thoughts - or at least think more about having a family with Penny. Knowing what we know about Leonard, it feels like he would do something reckless and say yes to Zack before really spending the time to actually process what it means. This feels like the sort of episode that could feature Leonard and Penny thinking about their own future. 10 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Also, Koothrappali attempts to mend things with his ex-fiancée, Anu (Rait Gupta), on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, Jan. “The Propagation Proposition” – Penny’s ex-boyfriend, Zack (Brian Thomas Smith), and his wife want a baby, but when Zack is infertile, they ask Leonard for help.
