The Bow Tie Asymmetry

"The Bow Tie Asymmetry" is the twenty-fourth episode and season finale of the eleventh season of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The episode will air on May 10, 2018.

Summary
When Amy's parents and Sheldon's family arrive for the wedding, everybody is focused on making sure all goes according to plan – everyone except the bride and groom.

Extended Plot
4A - Group scene, they’re figuring out who’s gonna pick up who at the airport cause there’s a lot of work to do. Penny’s in charge. Some cool metaphors about how they’re like the avengers/ like lord of the rings. Amy mentions some demon from LOTD and makes an allegory it’s her mother. A cute small Shamy moment.

4B - Amy’s on the phone with Wil Weaton who’s gonna officiate, some talk / jokes about a ST actor officiating their wedding. Sheldon’s freaking out he can’t make his bow tie absolutely symmetrical. Amy says that maybe he doesn’t need to, sometimes there’s beauty in symmetry. Short but really sweet Shamy scene.

Raj is picking up Mary and Missy. Some typical Mary racist-or-not-depends-on-how-you-look-at-it Indian remarks. We find out Missy’s pregnant and separating from her husband.

Penny picking up Amy’s parents. She’s not having a good time.

4A - Amy meets Georgie and loves his accent... Trying to make Sheldon use the accent too but he doesn’t get why and doesn’t want to. Then she meets missy, Sheldon says if I need a kidney - you know where to look for it... Says I love you too Shelly. Then Penny enters with amy’s parents, she’s completely exhausted.

4A - Amy’s parents are having dinner with the gang... Amy’s mom finds out about FWF. She says ‘Amy.... you put your videos on the internet... You know what men do with those videos!’ Missy and Georgie think their mom’s not gonna be the weirdest mom at the wedding. Amy’s mom is so ridiculous Penny doesn’t even have to say anything to Leonard standing behind her, she just raises her glass and he gets it she needs more wine to be able to deal with this. Hilarious scene.

The rest is a bit out of order.

Howard finding the dog, hearing the knock on the door, seeing the owner is Mark Hamill... hilarious scene with his reaction.

Comic book store Stuart scene that I’ve described before.

The wedding venue scene when Raj and others see mike Hamill, they freak out like Howard before. Wil / Mark where Wil is pissed

Sheldon and Leonard scene in the groom’s room with the hug.

Sheldon and Mary in the groom room, a very sweet scene... Then she says something and he has an epiphany and runs to talk to Amy.

The girls in the bride’s room... Amy says it’s weird, but she’s not nervous at all. Then her mom knocks and she says and that’s gone now. A scene with the two of them.

Sheldon runs to see Amy and they start doing science together.

The guests are wondering what’s taking so long so Leonard goes to check on Shamy and ends up joining them.

The guests freak out more, in particularly Amy’s mom, says this was all a mistake, she knew ‘this Sheldon’ would hurt her daughter and stands up to go take Amy and leave... Penny says ‘hey! You sit down. Sheldon loves Amy and would never do anything on purpose to hurt her’. Then she sasses Mary too when she stood up and tried to applaud Penny for shutting down Amy’s mom. Funny moment with Amy’s dad.

Penny goes to check on Shamy. Sheldon says Penny you’re right... We’ll have all of our lives to do science together. Let’s get married.

Amy’s walking down the aisle, 95% sure it was her dad by her side.

The wedding itself - they exchange vows. A Really beautiful special moment... Mark Hamill finds it touching and starts crying.

The tag - Stephen Hawking's present.

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Credits

 * Guest starring:
 * Laurie Metcalf as Mary Cooper
 * John Ross Bowie as Barry Kripke
 * Courtney Henggeler as Missy Cooper
 * Brian Posehn as Bert Kibbler
 * Wil Wheaton as Himself
 * Jerry O'Connell as George Cooper Jr.
 * Mark Hamill as Himself
 * Kathy Bates as Mrs. Fowler
 * Lauren Lapkus as Denise
 * Teller as Mr. Fowler


 * Teleplay: Steve Holland, Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
 * Story: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari

Critics

 * IMDb user review

Trivia

 * The Shamy wedding is scheduled for Saturday, May 12th per the series dialogue, but will be broadcast in the USA on May 10th.
 * So far Mary, Sheldon's brother George Jr. and Sheldon's sister Missy have been confirmed to appear at Sheldon and Amy's.
 * Courtney Henggeler's second appearance as Missy Cooper will take place ten years almost to the day since her first appearance in Season One's "The Porkchop Indeterminacy".
 * Mark Hamill will be officiating Sheldon and Amy's wedding (after Howard asked him to officiate as a favor for Sheldon when he found his ), originally Wil Wheaton was supposed to officiate for their wedding.
 * Both Star Wars and Star Trek members are in this episode.
 * Mark Hamill is well-known for portraying Batman's chief nemesis and Sheldon's favorite superhero.
 * played the genius inventor on the sci-fi series "" where they were jumping between alternate worlds.
 * Kathy Bates replaces Annie O'Donnell who portrayed Amy's mother on a brief videochat in season 4.
 * Teller will play Amy's father in this episode.

Quotes
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