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The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 19

The Weekend Vortex

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AIRED: Mar 08, 2012

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Sheldon incurs Amy's ire when he chooses a weekend of videogaming with the guys over a birthday party for her aunt.

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Sheldon, Howard, Raj, and Leonard want to have a guys' weekend of video gaming with no girlfriends but things don't go as planned for Sheldon

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By tigerdude22, Jun 13, 2012

Sheldon incurs Amy's ire when he chooses a weekend of video gaming with the guys over a birthday party for her aunt. I thought that this was a hilarious episode of "The Big Bang Theory". It has a great and highly enjoyable premise plus there were a bunch of genuinely hilarious moments in this episode. I'm not gonna lie but the running gag with the "whip" app that Sheldon downloaded in his phone was just drop dead hilarious and it never did get old for me. Usually running gags in shows getting tiring and very old to watch that running gag in this episode actually worked for me. It was funny how Sheldon wanted to try to ditch Amy's aunt's birthday party to do a weekend of video gaming with the guys and all that stuff. I should've reviewed this episode earlier to discuss some more things but yeah, I just know that I really enjoyed this episode so I most likely recommend this episode everyone... watch it, just watch it. Overall, a well crafted and hilarious episode of "The Big Bang Theory". 10/10moreless
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i love all tbbt episodes

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By residentevil4, Jun 01, 2012

This one was really funny.Yes i did like the last one a bit better,but this one was really really funny:)
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Whipped App

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By zero1eye, Apr 03, 2012

Here is a link to the App from the episode:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whipped-zapp/id509812205?ls=1&mt=8
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Finally funny again

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By MystOfOblivion, Mar 12, 2012

This was actually a very good episode. I haven't laughed a lot when watching the show lately, but it seems it finally improves again. Raj's fit was hilarious, as was the whip app. I hope the future episodes will make me laugh more again. I remember being in tears when I watched the first and second season.
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Easily the funniest since.....

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By mnementh01, Mar 10, 2012

the Halloween episode!

This one had me laughing all the way through, with good one liners and excellent situations.

Sheldon as usual, being a bombastic self agrandising idiot and Amy, sadly, still putting up with it.

However, Raj's hissy fit at the end took the biscuit as Penny said "And that's how a girl makes a scene". Absolutely superb.

I actually wonder how the writers can continue this theme, with Raj being the odd one out.

I can see a situation where Amy threatens to leave Sheldon and maybe waken up his latent hormones (assuming he has any, of course).

It wouldn't be before time!moreless
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Johnny Galecki	Leonard Hofstadter
Jim Parsons	Sheldon Cooper
Kaley Cuoco	Penny
Simon Helberg	Howard Wolowitz
Kunal Nayyar	Rajesh Koothrappali
Melissa Rauch	Bernadette Rostenkowski

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Carol Ann Susi	Mrs. Wolowitz	Recurring Role
Kevin Sussman	Stuart Bloom	Recurring Role

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- Raj: (seeing his precious weekend falling apart) Excuse me, I have something to say. None of you may realize this, but I was very much looking forward to this weekend. It was going to be like the old days; just us guys hanging out, playing videogames before you all got girlfriends. Do you know what it's like to be the only one without a girlfriend? Even if I get one someday, I'll still be the guy who got a girl after Sheldon Cooper!
  Penny: (to Amy) And that's how a girl makes a scene.
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- Sheldon: Gentlemen, the game offers us a choice between playing for the Republic and the light side or the Sith Empire and the dark side.
  Leonard: We're always the good guys: in D&D we're lawful good; in City of Heroes we're the heroes; in Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.
  Sheldon: Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research.
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- Amy: (to Sheldon) Hang on, I followed all the protocols set forth by you in the Relationship Agreement: I made a written request 72 hours in advance; checked the tire pressure on the car; I even contacted the Centers for Disease Control to find out what shots they recommend for travel to Orange County. FYI—it's none.
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- International Airdates: Czech Republic: July 18, 2012 on Prima COOL; Turkey: December 11, 2012 on CNBC-e
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- This episode's end titles has Chuck Lorre's Vanity Card #380.
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