We went old school on The Big Bang Theory Season 8 Episode 11.
Howard and Leonard bumbled around, Sheldon was both sadistic and emotional and Bernadette was, well, not all that annoying.
Ready to get into the holiday spirit with these lovable geeks and nerds?
Due to his parents’ divorce, Raj was unable to host Christmas dinner, leading Amy to leap at the opportunity to emcee a traditional Victorian Christmas.
Prior to heading over for the festivites, Howard and Leonard were doing some lab work when they left the door open and a bird flew inside. Cue total and complete freak out.
They were afraid of the fallout for contaminating the Clean Room with “a flying crap machine” and therefore called in Raj to assist. He assumed the loose animal was Howard’s fault because, come on, isn’t everything Howard’s fault?
Meanwhile, Bernadette drove Sheldon to Amy’s party. The latter believed he ought to teach Amy a lesson for forcing him to celebrate Christmas in her manner, so he schemed to purchase Amy the ideal present and make her feel guilty for not getting him one.
Back to the bird: the trio decides to use some harsh chemicals on the animal, only to then give it CPR when it appears as if they killed it. And, naturally, just as they revive one bird, another flies into the lab.
They end up just erasing their names and booking it out of there, per Penny’s advice.
They arrive just after Ball of Wool (a game Amy invented; don’t ask) ends, but just in time for Sheldon’s gift presentation it’s a singing framed photo of him on Santa’s lap. Amy, of course, adores it.
And she has a surprise for Sheldon as well: It’s a box of cookies that she baked just for him from his Meemaw’s special Christmas recipe.
“They’re perfect. It taste like her hugs,” he remarks in the most moving of all Big Bang Theory quotes from the evening.
Did you like this very happy holiday ending? Click on the above video to relive it when you watch The Big Bang Theory online and consider Sheldon’s point in the following quip:
In the last 10 minutes, Santa came to town, kissed mommy, and ran grandma over with a reindeer. I had a drunk uncle who did all those things, no one sings songs about him.