He doesn’t want Leonard to get hurt, so that’s nice. Because he spoke up for what he wanted and threatened to quit, the university is going to make him co-lead on a photon-entanglement team, which he feels very satisfied by.Īn added bonus of Leonard testing his strength of will is that Sheldon discovers the depth of his regard for his friend when he recognizes that his worry about Leonard demanding a new position isn’t rooted in a desire to maintain his role as the more successful friend. However, he’s able to return to Penny beaming. When he takes his proposal to Siebert, he gets shot down in both English in Russian. Leonard wants to be lead investigator on a plasma team, and he has an idea that would make him happy and, he believes, benefit the university.
He is so enjoying his new assertiveness that he decides he will make a proposal to President Siebert ( Joshua Malina). In the days that follow, Leonard surprises Sheldon with barbecue on “Chinese food night” and a new route on their drive to work.
She warns him that she’ll probably be looking at her phone most of the time, but otherwise she’s on board. Empowered by this evidence that he’s capable of having a desire and achieving it, he marches into his apartment and tells his wife that what he wants to do is have sex and then watch Star Trek: Discovery. Amy reminds him that winning Penny is something he did against everyone’s expectations and advice. He tells her that he knows when he goes inside, Penny will force him to choose what they do for the evening and that he feels like if he chooses something she’ll like, she won’t believe he was being earnest. The next day, Amy ( Mayim Bialik) finds a dejected Leonard sitting on the stairs, hiding from Penny. Penny ( Kaley Cuoco), taking care of him when they’re home, challenges him to name the last selfish thing he did, and the best he can come up with is taking his sweet time being born, which interfered with his mother’s dinner reservations. Leonard sticks to his peacekeeping ways and acquiesces to close-up seats in a 3D screening of the film, which makes him so queasy that he misses the end while throwing up in the bathroom and winds up with a massive headache. Simon introduced “satisficing,” a portmanteau of satisfy and suffice, which Sheldon defines as “a decision-making strategy whereby a person accepts whatever available option is satisfactory, rather than seeking out a course of action that would make him happiest.” Leonard’s ( Johnny Galecki) passivity about which showtime, 2D vs 3D and eating before or after draws the attention of his friends, and Sheldon ( Jim Parsons) accuses him of being a “satisficer.” Nobel Prize winner Herbert A. Like most people, the BBT gang is ready to see Avengers: Endgame tonight. RELATED: Catch up here with our recap of the last episode! Sorry to be late recapping “The Decision Reverbration,” y’all.
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By the sounds of things, he doesn’t get his wish and now he’s quitting his job.Ĭheck out the promo and synopsis for The Big Bang Theory Season 12, Episode 20.Even to the very end, CBS is determined to program new episodes of The Big Bang Theoryagainst major movie openings. It does look like he’ll be taking drastic measures, though. He and Penny are in a good place, even if it won’t mean children, and he’s now turned down the offer to be a sperm donor for Zach. Everyone seems to be progressing in careers and life except Leonard now. That’s not all that surprising considering events that are happening right now. Of course, Leonard wants to lead the investigation. Meanwhile, there’s a plasma physics study taking place. Photo: Michael Yarish/CBS é2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Also, Leonard wants to be the principal investigator on a plasma physics study, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, April 25 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Koothrappali is worried people won’t take him seriously in his own field after publishing a paper that suggests he may have discovered alien life.
“The Decision Reverberation” - Pictured: Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco).