S12.E19

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The Inspiration Deprivation

Episode aired Apr 18, 2019
TV-PG
20m

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7.0/10

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Contemplating what it would mean to all women if she were to win a Nobel Prize causes Amy to have a meltdown. Koothrappali and Wolowitz try to relive the good old days after Wolowitz buys a ... Read allContemplating what it would mean to all women if she were to win a Nobel Prize causes Amy to have a meltdown. Koothrappali and Wolowitz try to relive the good old days after Wolowitz buys a scooter that looks like the one he had years ago.Contemplating what it would mean to all women if she were to win a Nobel Prize causes Amy to have a meltdown. Koothrappali and Wolowitz try to relive the good old days after Wolowitz buys a scooter that looks like the one he had years ago.

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3Hitchcoc

Nothing to Say

Amy is full of guilt. Sheldon is insensitive. Howard buys a scooter. Bernadette is as rotten as she has ever been. She is so mean, she is almost vicious. This may be the worst episode I've seen and I really like this show.

1HeavenlyKing

Such a disappointment

This episode, and the last season in general are such a disappointment. There is no plot... probably the actors don't even want to act in some occasions or the scriptwriters are bored writing down a few scripts with some decent content.

The messages the producers are trying to pass to the audience, the weird nonsense jokes the actors make all the time, and the constant useless recording laughters have made this show completely boring and not worth watching at all.

I'm suprised with how this show is still getting over 7 stars on average for the past 3-4 years. It used to be funny. Not anymore. Thank God this is the last season.

1koofrety-1

It doesn't get worse than this

All of the watered down friends replication being made are already over, all that is left is the watered down version of an unnecessary prolonged version of a nothingness. It's like they are performing rabbit tricks in front of a live audience , but there are no actual rabbits. This is ridiculously bad, season 12 is ending in nothingness of Sheldon and Amy's world. It's a shame Lorre had to forget about writing a "story". I'm not gonna watch the rest, It's already over for me.

1skippyj1955

Seasons 11 and 12 - show worsening as vanity cards get more biased

Reading the reviews by fans for season 11 and 12, and their dissatisfaction of the show no longer being funny, seem to coincide with Lorre's increasingly biased comments in his vanity cards with his personal feelings of Trump, our government, and (it seems) the entire Republican party becoming more prominent with almost every card. Too bad he and the other writers couldn't spend more time writing show that were funny instead of wasting their time creating vanity cards with vitriol words expressing Lorre's personal hatred for our reigning government. This carried forward in all of Lorre's show during this period - so sad he couldn't restrain himelf.

1steve-667-10190

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Trivia
This is the tenth and final time that "Soft Kitty" is sung on this show, and the first time since The Recollection Dissipation (2017). Due to a lawsuit with the estate of the song's original composer, the song was only rarely heard since season 8, but the lawsuit has since been dropped.

Goofs
When Amy goes in to the HR office to speak with Miss Davis, she says "you were right about this Nobel Prize being bigger than I am" As someone with such high intellect, she would know that the correct way to use this phrase is "....being bigger than I" as the word 'than' acts as a conjunction which is then followed by the subject pronoun 'I' instead of the object pronoun 'me'

Quotes
President Siebert: [sternly and angrily to Amy and Sheldon] Listen up. You have a shot to win a Nobel Prize... and you're blowing it!
Janine Davis: [calmly to Amy and Sheldon] I think what President Siebert is trying to say is that you have a shot to win a Nobel Prize, and you're blowing it.
Sheldon Cooper: [confused, pointing at President Siebert] That's exactly what he said.
Janine Davis: Yes, but I said it in my calming HR voice.

Crazy credits
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #616

For as long as I can remember, I believed that the trajectory of humankind arced toward improvement. Yes, we may have begun in ignorance and brute force, but I fervently believed we were slowly and inexorably evolving into creatures of greater intelligence and compassion.

I was wrong.

It appears as if the only thing that's inexorable is stupidity and violence. Sadly, Nature or God - take your pick - has designed an ecosystem in which intelligence and compassion are anomalies. (Martin Luther King Jr. said the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. He was right about most other stuff.)

Now if you've been reading my vanity cards over the years, you know I rarely end them with words of pessimism and despair. So let me leave you with what I hope is an uplifting sentiment:

While we all know that a person can go mad, so can a small group of people, or a town, or a state, or a nation, or a world. But the madness always begins with one, dark, deranged soul.

Make America Great Again!

Soundtracks
History of Everything
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Written by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
[Series theme song played during the opening titles]