Season 5, Episode 18
Aired February 23, 2012
This is a great episode full of Sheldon, after Sheldon, after Sheldon, but with a hint of Howard.
When Sheldon's barber is in the hospital, and he refuses to get his hair cut by "the nephew" (who clearly doesn't have access to his Haircut Records), it throws him completely off his schedule. Meanwhile, Howard is accepted into the astronaut-training program at NASA.
Sheldon constantly blows his hair out of his eyes even when it's no longer than usual. He says he "feels like a teen heart-throb" while flipping his hair. When Penny offers to cut his hair for him he replies, declining the help of the "hill folk," then apologizes saying, "I'm sorry, it's the bad-boy attitude that comes with this hair."
Leonard and Penny finally tell him to get over it and that's just how life works, so Sheldon decides to "embrace the chaos." At three o'clock in the morning Leonard wakes up, pleading to himself saying, "Please don't be Sheldon playing the bongos." Of course, he goes out to see Sheldon banging on a set of bongos and singing everything he says because Richard Feynman, a famous physicist, played them. After Penny joins the early-morning madness, Sheldon leaves the apartment singing, "I'm playing the bongos, walking down the stairs." You then hear him fall along with, "Never play the bongos, walking down the stairs."
In the scenes with Howard, he is Skyping with Bernadette, telling her how ruthless his day at training was. He is in his room, dirty, bleeding and tired. He describes how they simulate zero-gravity in the air and in his stomach, along with their survival training and eating butterflies.
There is no TBBT episode that's not the least bit hilarious, but this has got to be at the top. The laugh tracks in this episode match perfectly, from the way Penny beat Leonard at her first game of chess while referring to her knight as a horsey, to Howard begging for Bernadette to send him more underwear after seeing the spinning centrifuge he would be using at NASA. The reason it brings the laughs, just like any other episode, is because of that incredible realism that you recognize within your own friends, if you want to or not. This is definitely not a pass-up.
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