Amy called it the best day of her life since the dressmaker had had to take in her dress - and let out Penny’s! When Amy lured Sheldon to their apartment, Leonard had to ask Penny: Did Amy suspect anything about their secret pregnancy? Apparently, they’d conceived after Penny came home tipsy from her Cheesecake Factory date with Sheldon and “attacked” him. ‘THIS MAY BE THE GLUE TALKING, BUT THAT WAS A VERY PLEASANT 139 HOURS’ | “The Stockholm Syndrome” began two months later with Sheldon and Leonard reassembling the molecular model as Penny and Amy came in, fresh from their fittings for their dresses for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. “This is wild!” he exclaimed when it began to move. In fact, he was going to move the molecular model that his former roommate had forbidden him to touch - apparently with good reason: When Leonard did touch it, all the little balls fell off! As “The Change Constant” neared its conclusion, Penny got Sheldon to take the elevator upstairs with her. Finally, one thing led to another, and Leonard decided that he was done accommodating Sheldon’s whims.
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(Hilariously, during their talk, we got a peek at Howard and Bernadette on TV telling CNN about how Sheldon and Amy were their best friends.) Meanwhile, Leonard and Raj cheered up Amy and reassured her that she deserved to enjoy her accomplishments however she saw fit. So she was sure that he was going to be able to handle all this, too. In response, Penny reminded him that he’d changed a lot since they first met - and he’d handled all that change. The duo wound up at the Cheesecake Factory, where Sheldon admitted that everything was changing too quickly, and that was why he objected to Amy’s new look. He wanted to be alone but… also needed a ride, so sure, Penny could drive him. So naturally, at that very moment, Penny emerged from the elevator - holy crap! It was finally working! “This is a nightmare!” cried Sheldon before running down the stairs… only to be met there by Penny, who’d just taken the speedier elevator. As Sheldon and Leonard followed her as she ran across the hall, Sheldon said that he could’t take any more change. Amy was the one constant that he had left, and now, even she was changing! Needless to say, Amy was crushed. ‘THERE’S NO EARL GREY, YOU FILTHY LIAR’ | Sheldon was bemoaning to Leonard how everything was changing when Raj arrived at Leonard and Penny’s place and introduced Amy 2.0 - new wardrobe, new hairdo… She looked amazing! And Sheldon hated it. Later, at the Wolowitzes, Bernadette asked Howard why that article on Sheldon was really all about her husband, and he suggested that the next article about Amy could be all about Bernadette if she just played her cards right. Why not use some of her prize money to get a makeover? Raj asked. Meanwhile, Raj found Amy crying: She hated how “frumpy” she looked in a picture that she saw posted on the Internet. Shortly thereafter, Howard happened upon a reporter looking for Sheldon for their scheduled interview and presented himself as a viable alternative - the brainiac’s best friend. At work, the dean prepped Raj, Howard and Leonard to refer to Sheldon and Amy merely as “quirky” when asked by the press. He even ran from reporters outside their apartment building. As the congratulatory texts came in from his entire family (including his brother’s ex-wives), and the press started hounding him and Amy, he chafed at the sudden attention. Turned out, Sheldon wasn’t as comfortable with scientific-superstar status as he’d always imagined he’d be. Smart as Sheldon was, he was fooled by his nemesis’ accent! Then, at last, the call came, and hurrah! The couple did win! Only Sheldon’s response was so unenthusiastic - “What if I’m dreaming?” - that at that point Leonard went ahead and slapped him! Before Leonard could do the deed - he had earned it after so many years as Sheldon’s roommate! - Kripke called pretending he was Sweden. When the wait dragged on (and on) and Sheldon nodded off, Leonard and Penny fought over which of them would get to slap him to wake him up - he’d given permission, after all. ‘OUR NAMES WILL BE LINKED TOGETHER FOREVER’ | The first episode of the two-parter, “The Change Constant,” began with Sheldon and Amy awaiting the phone call that would inform them whether they’d won the Nobel Prize for physics for their paper on super-asymmetry.
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But how did The Big Bang Theory not only end but end its celebrated 12-season run in such a way that TVLine boss Michael Ausiello was moved to call the series finale “immensely satisfying, consistently hilarious and, at times, refreshingly dark”? Read on and find out! If you haven’t watched yet, use your head. Warning: You don’t have to be a genius to know that the following contains spoilers for Thursday’s series finale of The Big Bang Theory.