The women bond during the meal, though Penny and Bernie dish on some of Raj’s more eccentric habits, like bathing with his dog and wearing ladies’ deodorant so he’ll smell “daisy fresh.” Bernie and Penny are immediately impressed, especially when they see LeBron James at the eatery. Savvy Anu knows they’re really there to scope her out, so she suggests dinner at a hot restaurant where reservations are tough to get, then promptly nabs a reservation. Penny and Bernadette decide they should get to know the person who’s about to become a member of their group, so they go to the swanky hotel where she’s a concierge to meet her. Sheldon, patting his friend on the arm: “Brave, brave, Tam.”īacking up the Sheldon-centric story line is the furthering of Raj’s relationship with new fiancée, Anu. “Oh Tam, you don’t need to be brave on my account,” Sheldon says, after Tam tells him he has a great wife and amazing children.
Tam’s happy with his life, too, he says, a fact Sheldon refuses to acknowledge, because … Sheldon. Besides, he knew his brilliant friend would go off and do great things, meet great new people. Tam’s still confused, but tells Sheldon he’d fallen in love back in Texas. Later, realizing Amy is right about how he could have missed out on his current group of friends, Sheldon meets with Tam and tells him he forgives him.
“No, my life woulda still been great,” Sheldon says after visions of his alt-life with Tam. We see Sheldon and Tam, not Leonard, meeting their new neighbor, Penny.Īnd we see Tam, not Leonard, chasing a stressed out, “Bazinga!”-ing Sheldon around a ball pit. But in this new, Sheldon-imagined edit of that scene, Tam is inside the apartment, and tells Sheldon to reject Leonard as a new roomie.įrom there, we see the what-if version of Sheldon hugging Penny after she gives him a signed, used Leonard Nimoy napkin as a Christmas gift, while Tam, not Leonard, proclaims it “a Saturnalia miracle.” If you think about it, if Tam had moved out here with you, who knows what your life would have been like.”Ĭue that clip scene, a delicious montage of some of TBBT’s greatest moments, which begins with Leonard knocking on Sheldon’s door to inquire about a room for rent. “Even after reading all the pamphlets I gave him about social diseases,” Sheldon says.Ī lonely, scared Sheldon moved by himself, concerned he’d never make another friend, and for a long time, he tells Amy, he didn’t. Then Tam met a girl the summer before Sheldon was to leave, and decided to stay with her in the Lone Star state. When teenage Sheldon was accepted to grad school at Caltech, Tam had promised to move from Texas to California with him and be his roommate. Leonard, meanwhile, has earned a spot on the enemies list because of his interference in the Tam matter.įinally, after Amy comes home and hears Sheldon on the phone trying to replace Leonard with Howard as his new BFF (Howard is as unexcited about accepting the new position as Sheldon is to be offering it), she gets the Tam story out of him. When Sheldon confronts him, angrily, and stalks off, Tam reveals he wasn’t aware Sheldon even had a problem with him. But when Leonard, Howard, and Raj scope out Tam during his Caltech visit, they’re more frustrated to find out Tam doesn’t know what he did. When they learn the two haven’t spoken in decades, and that Tam is now on Sheldon’s enemies list (which he recently digitized and made searchable by first name, last name, and length of grudge), they’re desperate to know what Tam did (or how Sheldon misinterpreted it) to get Sheldon’s dander up permanently.Ī look at Sheldon’s enemies list isn’t helpful he merely indicates that Tam knows what he did. Amy, and Sheldon’s friends, are shocked to find out Sheldon even had a friend before them because he’s never mentioned one. Sheldon, however, is not happy to hear from his friend, not excited that Tam is reaching out because he’s going to be bringing his son on a campus tour of Caltech. Young Sheldon viewers know Tam is Sheldon’s childhood BFF, his only friend, in fact, and the one who introduced him to such pop-culture obsessions as comic books.
BIG BANG THEORY S12 EP 4 PLUS
While Sheldon is editing his wedding photos on his computer - Photoshopping the Wright brothers into a pic with Amy’s dad because he admires Orville, and “Wilbur because he’s Orville’s plus one” - he gets an email from someone named Tam.
BIG BANG THEORY S12 EP 4 SERIES
So extra kudos to The Big Bang Theory writers for giving us the preferably pithy clip scene in this final-season episode that also sheds some wonderful insight on Sheldon Cooper’s backstory and ties the series cleverly to its spinoff, Young Sheldon. The clip show can be one of the lamest, and laziest, of all sitcom episodes.
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