The Santa Simulation

The Santa Simulation is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. The episode aired on December 13, 2012.

Summary
Leonard is assembling a cardboard fireplace decoration for his apartment. Then Leonard tells Penny that the guys are playing Dungeons and Dragons together because they haven't in a long time. Penny offers him an alternative of crawling into bed and having sex and Leonard still reluctantly leaves. Sheldon tells Amy about the game and she remarks that it sounds like fun. He tells her that this night is for men only. Howard tells Bernadette and ends up fighting with her. Howard tells her that if he doesn't come, then the guys will blame the failure of their night on her. Both Raj and Stuart are both really excited about joining in the game.

Sheldon as usual is complaining about Christmas and all the hoopla around it. Leonard wants both of them to have a great Christmas since he didn't have any when he was growing up. Instead of leaving Santa milk and cookies, they left research papers that in the morning were graded. Leonard has set up a holiday themed D&D game where Santa's village was attacked, Santa was dragged off and they had to rescue him. After going through stunts that included singing " Good King Wenceslas" and playing "Jingle Bells" on the bells, they finally reach where Santa is being held. Sheldon freezes Howard and Stuart, goes in, yells at Santa and then kills him. When Sheldon was five, he asked Santa do bring back his Pop-Pop, Meemaw's husband, who had just died and was his only relative that urged him to follow his dream into science. Santa brought him a set of Lincoln Logs.

That night Sheldon gets out of bed and finds Santa Claus leaving him presents and he apologizes for not bringing back his Pop-Pop though he said that his magic was limited. He also had something special for Sheldon. (Trains?) Because he left him for dead in the D&D game, Santa fired a cannon at Sheldon for his revenge. Sheldon quickly woke up from his nightmare.

Earlier, Raj played his game too  perilously and was killed on his first move. Penny pokes her head in tells the guys that the girls are going out and the guys get to see what they are missing. Acting like runway models, Bernadette is wearing a tight red dress from Century Forever and Amy is wearing a flowered dress from the sixties, actually showing some ankle, and new shoes. Penny is wearing a very short little black dress that got her out of some parking tickets. First they tell Raj that he can't came, then Penny pokes her head back in and invites him. At the nightclub, they discuss whether Raj should find a hook-up or a quality relationship. Amy announces that they should get him laid. He finds a hot girl at the bar, they talked for a while, he leaves her and finds that she gave him a phony email address. Raj complains that is really his fault since he fails for girls that are out of his league. He also mentions about falling for his friends hot girlfriends, Penny and Bernadette. Amy wonders about him falling for her and he says a definite "no". Penny and Bernadette urgently try to get him to change his comment about Amy and he keeps saying no. Amy starts talking about her earlier love life. Her first kiss was at twenty-two, but only before she returned some guy's medicine to him. She fell asleep at a frat party in college and woke up with more clothes on. She tells Raj that she knows what it's like to be alone and Raj agrees as they seem to connect. Amy immediately tells the girls that he's hooked and now they can leave obviously getting back at Raj.

Trivia

 * Leonard has a Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Screen (4th Edition).



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