Charlie Back — Associate Producer
Episodes 96
The Matrimonial Momentum
After driving to Vegas to get married, Penny struggles with Leonard’s confession that he kissed another girl. Also, Sheldon doesn't know how to act after Amy pushes pause on their relationship.
Read MoreThe Separation Oscillation
Leonard confronts the woman he kissed on the North Sea in an attempt to set Penny's mind at ease. Also, Sheldon films a special episode of "Fun with Flags" after his breakup with Amy, and Bernadette feels guilty about withholding a secret from Penny.
Read MoreThe Bachelor Party Corrosion
The guys' science skills are put to the test when they get a flat tire during Leonard's bachelor party weekend in Mexico. Also, the girls force Penny to finally tell her family that she eloped with Leonard.
Read MoreThe 2003 Approximation
Sheldon learns of an impending change in his living arrangements and decides to revert back to 2003, a simpler time before he met Leonard and Penny. Also, Howard and Raj form a band to play at the Comic Book Store.
Read MoreThe Perspiration Implementation
The guys take a fencing lesson from Barry Kripke and Sheldon finds himself in an awkward position when Kripke expresses interest in Amy. Also, when Stuart struggles to get female customers at the Comic Book Store, Penny, Amy and Bernadette come by to help him out.
Read MoreThe Helium Insufficiency
In the midst of a nation-wide helium shortage, Sheldon and Leonard take desperate measures to get the supplies they need. Also, Penny and Bernadette download a dating app on Amy's phone to try and find her a new man.
Read MoreThe Spock Resonance
Wil Wheaton interviews Sheldon for a Star Trek documentary where he reveals the ring and his plan to propose to Amy. Bernadette wants to start renovating the house and the topic of starting a family together with Howard is brought up.
Read MoreThe Mystery Date Observation
Sheldon, Wolowitz and Koothrappali post an online advertisement to find Sheldon a new girlfriend. Also, when Amy is coy with details about a guy she is dating, Penny and Bernadette decide to spy on her.
Read MoreThe Platonic Permutation
Sheldon and Amy try hanging out as friends when they spend Thanksgiving together at the aquarium. Also, Wolowitz reluctantly agrees to volunteer at the soup kitchen with Bernadette, Raj and Emily, and Penny discovers that Leonard knows more about her than she thought.
Read MoreThe Earworm Reverberation
Sheldon has a revelation when he realizes why a song was stuck in his head. Also, Amy invites Dave over for dinner despite their previously awkward date, and Wolowitz and Koothrappali become obsessed with a fan of their band, "Footprints on the Moon".
Read MoreThe Opening Night Excitation
After more than five years of dating, Sheldon and Amy spend their first night together. Also, Leonard, Wolowitz, and Koothrappali must decide who will take their extra Star Wars movie ticket.
Read MoreThe Sales Call Sublimation
Penny gets more than she bargained for when Leonard agrees to meet with a psychiatrist on her behalf. Also, Sheldon and Koothrappali collaborate on an astronomical discovery, and Wolowitz and Bernadette can't believe what they are feeling after Stuart moves out.
Read MoreThe Empathy Optimization
After having to deal with a sick Sheldon, Leonard, Penny and the gang try to treat themselves to a Sheldon-free weekend.
Read MoreThe Meemaw Materialization
Meemaw meets Amy, but it isn't all roses. Meemaw seems to have an axe to grind with her. Sheldon comes to Amy's defense, but not before Meemaw lets a little secret of his slip.
Read MoreThe Valentino Submergence
Sheldon and Amy host a live Valentine's Day episode of Fun with Flags, Leonard and Penny grapple with getting older, Howard and Bernadette find a surprise in their hot tub and Raj is torn between Emily and the cute girl he met at the Comic Bookstore.
Read MoreThe Positive Negative Reaction
When the gang finds out about Bernadette’s pregnancy, they celebrate by singing karaoke. Also, Bernadette is concerned when Wolowitz freaks out over her pregnancy announcement, and Wolowitz is convinced he must make more money to provide for the baby.
Read MoreThe Celebration Experimentation
After more than nine years together, the gang finally celebrates Sheldon’s birthday, surprising him with a special guest.
Read MoreThe Application Deterioration
Leonard, Sheldon, and Wolowitz run into problems when they file for a patent for their infinite persistence gyroscope. Also, Penny, Amy and Bernadette give Koothrappali dating advice when Emily reaches out to him after their breakup.
Read MoreThe Solder Excursion Diversion
Amy is shocked at a revelation from Sheldon after she buys him a new laptop. Also, Koothrappali sells out Leonard and Wolowitz after they lie to their wives in order to attend an early screening of a movie.
Read MoreThe Big Bear Precipitation
Sheldon spills a secret of Leonard’s when the two take a weekend cabin trip with Penny and Amy. Also, when Koothrappali goes overboard with pregnancy gifts, Wolowitz and Bernadette must draw the line.
Read MoreThe Viewing Party Combustion
Everyone must choose sides when a small argument between Leonard and Sheldon erupts into a heated fight during a group get-together.
Read MoreThe Fermentation Bifurcation
The gang goes to a wine bar and runs into Penny’s old boyfriend, Zack. Also, Bernadette gets stuck spending the evening with Sheldon when she can’t go wine tasting with the group, and things don’t go as planned when Koothrappali introduces his new girlfriend, Claire.
Read MoreThe Line Substitution Solution
Sheldon hires Stuart to spend the day with Amy when he’d rather go to a movie screening. Also, Leonard’s mother, Beverly, comes to town and Penny struggles to make a connection with her.
Read MoreThe Convergence Convergence
Chaos ensues when Leonard’s recently divorced parents, Alfred and Beverly, and Sheldon’s devoutly religious mother, Mary, come to town. Also, Wolowitz and Koothrappali think the government is out to get them when they are contacted about their guidance system.
Read MoreThe Conjugal Conjecture
After Sheldon’s mother and Leonard's father share an evening together, everyone deals with an awkward morning the next day. Also, Penny’s family arrives for the wedding ceremony, including her anxiety-ridden mother, Susan, and her drug dealing brother, Randall.
Read MoreThe Military Miniaturization
Colonel Williams, an Air Force representative from the Department of Material Command sits down to talk with Wolowitz.
Read MoreThe Dependence Transcendence
Tensions rise when the boys struggle to complete their government project on time and Sheldon tries an energy drink to stay awake. Also, Penny and Amy go to a “party” at Bert the geologist’s house, and Koothrappali learns Bernadette’s true feelings about her pregnancy when they clean out the future baby room.
Read MoreThe Cohabitation Experimentation
When Amy’s apartment floods, she proposes a “cohabitation experiment” with Sheldon. Also, Howard and Bernadette are upset when Koothrappali learns the gender of the baby before they do.
Read MoreThe Hot Tub Contamination
Leonard and Penny must separate a quarreling Sheldon and Amy when their cohabitation does not go as planned, and Sheldon threatens to break off their relationship when Amy refuses to adhere to the bathroom schedule. Also, Howard and Bernadette find unexpected guests at their house when they decide to stay home from a planned vacation.
Read MoreThe Fetal Kick Catalyst
Penny is surprised to learn she has fans of her performance in "Serial Ape-ist" when she attends Van Nuys Comic Con with Leonard. Also, Amy hosts a Sheldon-style brunch at Penny’s apartment, and Wolowitz makes an impulsive purchase when he starts stressing out about the baby on the way.
Read MoreThe Veracity Elasticity
In order to continue living with Sheldon, Amy lies to him about repairs being made to her apartment and they host an "on location" episode of "Fun With Flags" in Penny’s apartment. Also, Leonard lets Penny decorate Sheldon’s old room after he learns that she has been secretly moving Leonard’s collectibles into storage.
Read MoreThe Brain Bowl Incubation
After a successful experiment combining their genes, Sheldon will stop at nothing to convince Amy they should procreate. Also, Koothrappali is embarrassed to tell the gang what the new woman he’s dating does for a living.
Read MoreThe Geology Elevation
When Bert, a Caltech geologist, wins the MacArthur Genius fellowship, Sheldon is overcome with jealousy. Also, Wolowitz finds an old remote control Stephen Hawking action figure he invented.
Read MoreThe Property Division Collision
Sheldon and Leonard try to divvy up their shared belongings, but can’t agree on anything. Also, Koothrappali and Stuart fight to be the most helpful during Bernadette’s final weeks of pregnancy.
Read MoreThe Birthday Synchronicity
Howard and Bernadette welcome their new baby and Sheldon and Amy celebrate Amy’s birthday.
Read MoreThe Holiday Summation
Sheldon and Amy visit Leonard and Penny for the first time since the holidays and share details about their terrible trip to Texas.
Read MoreThe Romance Recalibration
When Penny feels that Leonard is taking her for granted, she decides to go on a spa weekend with Amy. Also, Wolowitz and Koothrappali try to fix a squeaky floorboard in the baby’s room.
Read MoreThe Emotion Detection Automation
Sheldon beta-tests an MIT invention after hearing it can help him read people’s emotions. Also, Leonard can’t hide his feelings when Penny announces her brother is coming to town, and Raj invites his ex-girlfriends over to give him dating advice.
Read MoreThe Locomotion Reverberation
Leonard and Wolowitz try to distract Sheldon when he slows the progress of their guidance system. Also, Penny and Amy take Bernadette out for the night, leaving Raj and Stuart to care for baby Halley.
Read MoreThe Allowance Evaporation
Sheldon and Amy have their first fight since moving in together, and Koothrappali is shocked at the realities of financial independence when he stops receiving support from his father.
Read MoreThe Comic-Con Conundrum
With Koothrappali cut off from his father’s fortune, he appoints Sheldon to help him get out of debt. Also, Penny considers joining Leonard at Comic-Con.
Read MoreThe Escape Hatch Identification
When Raj moves out of his apartment, Leonard and Penny offer him Sheldon's old room.
Read MoreThe Collaboration Fluctuation
Leonard, Penny and Raj adjust to their new living arrangement, and Sheldon takes an interest in Amy’s work.
Read MoreThe Recollection Dissipation
Sheldon pushes himself to the limit when he collaborates on projects with Leonard and Wolowitz as well as Amy on the same day. Also, Bernadette is nearing the end of her maternity leave and must return to work.
Read MoreThe Separation Agitation
Howard and Bernadette have a hard time leaving Halley in day care when Bernadette returns to work. Also, Bert introduces the gang to his new girlfriend, Rebecca.
Read MoreThe Cognition Regeneration
Leonard isn’t thrilled when Penny considers taking a new job offered by her ex-boyfriend, Zack.
Read MoreThe Gyroscopic Collapse
After Leonard, Sheldon and Wolowitz celebrate the completion of the top secret air force project, they are met with an unpleasant surprise. Also, Amy is offered a summer position as a visiting researcher.
Read MoreThe Long Distance Dissonance
The gang is concerned when Sheldon’s former admirer, Dr. Ramona Nowitzki, resurfaces while Amy is away at Princeton.
Read MoreThe Proposal Proposal
In the eleventh season opener, Amy gives Sheldon an answer to his proposal while Howard and Bernadette struggle with some unexpected news.
Read MoreThe Retraction Reaction
Leonard angers the university – and the entire physics community – after he gives an embarrassing interview. Also, Amy and Bernadette bond over having to hide their success from Sheldon and Howard.
Read MoreThe Relaxation Integration
Sheldon and Amy struggle with picking a wedding date, which stresses out Sheldon and causes him talking in his sleep. Meanwhile, Raj and Stuart fight over the attention of one of Bernadette's co-workers.
Read MoreThe Explosion Implosion
As Howard worries about fatherhood, he and Sheldon bond when they jointly assemble a model rocket. Meanwhile, Penny bonds with Leonard's mother, Beverly, much to his concern.
Read MoreThe Collaboration Contamination
Sheldon and Raj confide in Bernadette when they can't handle Amy and Howard working together on a science project. Also, Penny and Leonard learn new tactics for how to deal with Sheldon from an unlikely source.
Read MoreThe Proton Regeneration
Sheldon goes head-to-head with Wil Wheaton for the role of the new Professor Proton. Also, Penny steps in to take care of Halley when Bernadette and Howard both wind up on bed rest.
Read MoreThe Geology Methodology
Sheldon and Bert collaborate on a research project, despite Sheldon’s embarrassment. Also, Penny and Bernadette coach Raj on how to navigate his relationship with Ruchi.
Read MoreThe Tesla Recoil
Leonard and Howard are furious after they learn Sheldon went to work with the military behind their backs. Also, while Bernadette is on bed rest, she asks Raj to do some digging when she suspects that Ruchi might be trying to take over her projects at work.
Read MoreThe Bitcoin Entanglement
Sheldon tries to teach the guys a lesson after they cut him out of a potentially valuable Bitcoin investment. Also, a seven-year-old video reveals a secret about Leonard and Penny's relationship.
Read MoreThe Confidence Erosion
Sheldon and Amy try to eliminate stress from wedding planning by applying math to the process. Also, Raj “breaks up” with Howard after realizing his best friend is actually hurting his confidence.
Read MoreThe Celebration Reverberation
Raj and Howard's feud continues as the gang plan Halley's first birthday party. Sheldon's surprise for Amy's birthday goes awry when they get food poisoning. Also, Leonard gets a Christmas letter from his brother that causes him to spiral out about his own lack of accomplishments.
Read MoreThe Matrimonial Metric
Sheldon and Amy try to pick their Best-Man and Maid of Honor by experimenting on the gang.
Read MoreThe Solo Oscillation
When Sheldon kicks Amy out to work solo, she and Leonard bond during a series of science experiments. Also, Bert the geologist replaces Wolowitz in the band Footprints on the Moon, and Sheldon finds Penny a surprising source of scientific inspiration.
Read MoreThe Separation Triangulation
Raj finds himself in the middle of domestic drama when he learns the woman he's dating, has a very upset husband. Also, when Sheldon rents his old room back for a quiet place to work, he drives Leonard crazy by being a model tenant.
Read MoreThe Novelization Correlation
Leonard's book raises questions, and Amy guest stars on the new Professor Proton show.
Read MoreThe Neonatal Nomenclature
When Bernadette won't go into labor, the gang tries different tactics to get things started. Also, Howard confronts Bernadette after Amy accidentally reveals she's already chosen their son's name.
Read MoreThe Athenaeum Allocation
Leonard jumps through hoops to help secure the perfect wedding venue for Sheldon and Amy. Also, Bernadette and Howard have a hard time deciding who should stay at home with the kids and who should go back to work.
Read MoreThe Gates Excitation
Bill Gates visits Penny's work, and the gang schemes to meet him. Hilarity ensues. Meanwhile, Sheldon is convinced that he's a target of an April's Fools prank.
Read MoreThe Tenant Disassociation
When Leonard learns Sheldon is the president of the tenants association, he decides to run against him. Also, Bernadette encourages Howard and Raj to find the owner of a drone after they find it in the backyard.
Read MoreThe Reclusive Potential
A brilliant but reclusive scientist, Doctor Wolcott, invites Sheldon to his cabin in the middle of nowhere, and Leonard, Raj and Howard go along for the trip. Also, Penny and Bernadette improvise after Amy doesn’t like the tame bachelorette party they planned for her.
Read MoreThe Comet Polarization
Sheldon’s comic book store experiences changes when writer Neil Gaiman puts Stuart’s store on the map. Also, friendships are threatened when Raj takes credit for Penny's astronomical discovery.
Read MoreThe Monetary Insufficiency
Sheldon goes to Vegas to win money for science. Also, Penny and Bernadette take Amy wedding dress shopping, but her terrible choice entangles them in a web of lies.
Read MoreThe Sibling Realignment
When Sheldon learns that his mother won’t attend his wedding unless he invites his brother, Georgie, he and Leonard travel to Texas to end a family feud. Also, the Wolowitz kids inadvertently infest Amy, Bernadette, Howard and Raj with pinkeye.
Read MoreThe Bow Tie Asymmetry
When Amy's parents and Sheldon's family arrive, everybody is focused to make sure all wedding arrangements go according to plan – everyone except the bride and groom.
Read MoreThe Conjugal Configuration
Sheldon and Amy's honeymoon runs aground in New York. Penny and Leonard discover they are uncomfortably similar to Amy's parents. Raj insults physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and starts a Twitter war.
Read MoreThe Wedding Gift Wormhole
Sheldon and Amy drive themselves crazy trying to figure out what 'perfect gift' Leonard and Penny gave them for their wedding. Raj decides he wants to settle down and asks his father to arrange a marriage for him.
Read MoreThe Procreation Calculation
The Wolowitzes' life gets complicated when Stuart starts bringing his new girlfriend home. Also, Penny and Leonard talk about starting a family, while Raj explores an arranged marriage.
Read MoreThe Tam Turbulence
When Sheldon won't tell anyone why he's never mentioned his childhood best friend, Leonard takes matters into his own hands. Bernadette and Penny take out Raj’s fiancée for dinner to get the skinny on her.
Read MoreThe Planetarium Collision
When Amy doesn’t have time to work on super-asymmetry, Sheldon goes to great lengths to ensure she’s available to work with him even it if means accidentally sabotaging her career in the process. Raj doesn’t want Howard to join him in hosting a show at the planetarium.
Read MoreThe Imitation Perturbation
When Howard dresses up as Sheldon for Halloween, Sheldon seeks retaliation at Leonard and Penny's Halloween party. Leonard is shocked that Penny doesn't remember their first kiss.
Read MoreThe Grant Allocation Derivation
Leonard is caught between a rock and a hard place when he's responsible for distributing extra grant money. Bernadette turns the backyard playhouse into a hideaway from Howard and the kids.
Read MoreThe Consummation Deviation
Sheldon tries to bond with Amy's father, but when Howard lures Mr. Fowler away with magic tricks, Sheldon has no choice but to bond with Mrs. Fowler. Raj and Anu try to get physical for the first time.
Read MoreThe Citation Negation
Sheldon and Amy are devastated after learning from a Russian paper that Super Asymmetry has already been theorized and disproven. Meanwhile, ultra-competitive Bernadette asks Stuart’s girlfriend to teach her how to beat Howard in a popular video game.
Read MoreThe VCR Illumination
Sheldon and Amy are still down about their theory being disproven, but a VHS tape from Sheldon’s past inspires him not to give up. Bernadette turns into a pageant mom when she tries to help Howard ace his Magic Castle audition.
Read MoreThe Paintball Scattering
Penny and Leonard organize a paintball game that results in mayhem when Sheldon is jealous of Amy. Also, Raj catches Anu with her ex-boyfriend, and Stuart gets cold feet when Denise hints at the possibility of them living together.
Read MoreThe Propagation Proposition
Penny runs into her ex-boyfriend, Zack, who invites her and Leonard to a dinner to meet his newlywed wife. After the dinner the newlywed couple make an odd proposition to Leonard, which makes Penny to freak out. Also, Raj attempts to mend things with his ex-fiancée, Anu.
Read MoreThe Confirmation Polarization
Sheldon and Amy are thrilled when their super asymmetry theory is proven by two physicists, until they try to kick Amy off the Nobel nomination. Also, Bernadette gets one of her drugs approved at work and wants a reluctant Penny to head the sales team.
Read MoreThe Meteorite Manifestation
Sheldon is thrilled to help Bernadette and Wolowitz navigate bureaucratic paperwork, until he discovers they are breaking the law. Also, Leonard is disappointed when his friends exclude him from a scientific project.
Read MoreThe Donation Oscillation
Penny tries to seduce an abstaining Leonard to ruin his "donation" for her ex-boyfriend, Zack, and his wife, Marissa. Also, Wolowitz, Bernadette, Anu and Koothrappali turn Koothrappali's canceled bachelor party into a couple's trip.
Read MoreThe D & D Vortex
The gang finds out Wil Wheaton hosts a celebrity Dungeons and Dragons game involving William Shatner, Joe Manganiello, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kevin Smith. Deception and betrayal are the path to make it to the one open seat.
Read MoreThe Conference Valuation
When Penny and Bernadette go to San Diego for a pharmaceutical sales convention, Wolowitz is in charge of the kids. Also, Sheldon finds a book on experimenting on kids, and the guys plus Amy make a day of it.
Read MoreThe Laureate Accumulation
When competitors Pemberton and Campbell charm America on a publicity tour, Sheldon and Amy try to bring Nobel laureates Kip Thorne, George Smoot and Frances Arnold to their side. Also, Halley's fear of the dark causes opportunity and conflict at the Wolowitz home.
Read MoreThe Inspiration Deprivation
The concept of what it would mean for women everywhere if Amy were to win a Nobel Prize causes Amy to have a meltdown. Also, Howard and Raj try to relive the good old days after Howard buys a scooter that looks like the one he had years ago.
Read MoreThe Decision Reverberation
Raj is worried people won’t take him seriously in his own field after publishing a paper that suggests he may have discovered alien life. Also, Leonard wants to be the principal investigator on a plasma physics study.
Read MoreThe Plagiarism Schism
Kripke has proof that Dr. Pemberton plagiarized his thesis in college, and Sheldon and Amy aren't sure if they should turn him in or not. Meanwhile, Howard learns that Bernadette wasn't the only waitress at the Cheesecake Factory who had a crush on him.
Read MoreThe Maternal Conclusion
Leonard is pleasantly surprised when Beverly comes to visit and she's genuinely kind to him, until he finds out the real reason she's there. Also, Denise and Stuart overstay their welcome at the Wolowitz house.
Read MoreThe Change Constant / The Stockholm Syndrome
Sheldon and Amy await big news. Meanwhile, Penny and Leonard have some big news of their own. Also, Howard and Bernadette face the stressful challenge of leaving their kids for the first time and Raj makes a new friend, as the gang travels together into an uncharted future.
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