The Conjugal Configuration

"The Conjugal Configuration" is the first episode and season premiere of the twelfth and final season of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The episode aired on Monday, September 24, 2018.

Summary
Sheldon and Amy's honeymoon runs aground in, while Penny and Leonard discover they are uncomfortably similar to Amy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler. Also, Koothrappali insults physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and starts a war.

Extended Plot
Lying in together, Sheldon leans over and tells Amy, “Good morning, .” Amy wakes, smiles and replies, “Good morning, .” Sheldon then suggests that they follow the tradition of hanging their  outside the  so that the “” can see that they have consummated their. Sheldon opens up the revealing that the Coopers are visiting  on their. Then Sheldon offers Amy the he ordered from room service composed entirely of   which causes Amy to laugh.

Walking up the stairs Penny is happy that with the Coopers away, she have some alone time with her husband, Leonard. Raj quips that they aren’t alone since both he and the Wolowitz’s are with them having dinner. Raj announces that channel 3 invited him to talk about an upcoming. Leonard adds that that was how Neil deGrasse Tyson got started with guest shots on the local news. At the top of the stairs, Raj hears noises coming from Penny’s old apartment. Leonard is sure that Sheldon and Amy aren’t back because they posted a of them in front of the  – made of Lego. Penny runs over and bangs on the door. Mr. Fowler opens the door saying that Amy had asked him to water her. Penny tells him that Amy doesn’t have any plants. Mr. Fowler admits that he was caught in a lie and leaves. Raj asks if that was and Leonard says that he can’t even tell anymore. After the gang is inside Leonard and Penny’s apartment, Mr. Fowler runs back into Apartment 4B.

The Coopers are escorted into their room in  where they are going to be very busy. The Harry Potter play parts one AND two, the tour and, of course,. Amy was happy to do it again until she sees that Sheldon has it on his schedule. At the moment they could steam their robes or “make vigorous socially sanctioned love”.

Leonard and Penny sit down to see Raj appearance on the news, though Penny is peeved that they are missing “”. Amy’s mother is pounding on the door across the demanding that her husband let her in. The Hofstadters come out and ask her if everything is okay. She feels that they should worry more about her husband. Leonard doesn’t think that Mr. Fowler is in the Cooper, though Mrs. Fowler looks at him with contempt. She calls Leonard naive and tells him that “Blondie” is going to chew him up and spit him out. She makes Leonard open up the door with his extra key and she begins to search for her husband. He’s not in the living area or the. She pulls aside the curtains and doesn’t find him in one end of the. He is hiding in the opposite end.

Howard and Bernadette are waiting to watch Raj on while Howard mentions that the  is hot. Bernadette says that he can call her hot if he wants, but Howard resists it thinking that he’d just give her an excuse for not having sex that night. Raj is introduced to discuss the upcoming meteor shower and first that  must have been unavailable. The weather girl (woman) asks about what is going to occur and Raj says that there will be a lot of flaming, like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. She asks if there is no love lost between Raj and Neil. Raj quips that he loves Neil like Neil loves Neil. Raj can’t add anything else because he used up all their air time insulting a fellow.

Sheldon and Amy return from the wearing their. Sheldon likes live theater because it is so interactive. He yelled to Harry to look out and the looked right at him much to Amy’s embarrassment. Sheldon is ready to jump into bed again with Amy, but she wants to wait till the. Sheldon then goes over their schedule which disturbs Amy that their can’t be more spontaneous. She wonders why the two of them can’t mix it up a bit. Sheldon then calls her. And it bothers Sheldon that they might have sex at any time. Amy adds that they are not having it that night.

In apartment 4B, Mrs. Fowler is her husband that he shouldn’t leave without a  or a note. Leonard thinks that she should let him talk once in a while. She asks her husband to say something and all he can do is shrug his. She then tells him to go home, however; Mr. Fowler wants to stay. Mrs. Fowler also plans to stay. Leonard tells Penny that they are leaving even though Penny isn’t ready.

Entering their apartment, Leonard is feeling sorry for “the little guy”. Penny quips that after they had Amy, she should have devoured them like the on that  show. She doesn’t know what Mr. Fowler saw in his wife. Leonard smiles and says that some guys think strong are sexy and that opposites attract. Penny gets offended that Leonard thinks that they are like the Fowlers and that she is like Amy’s mother and storms off.

At the Wolowtz’s Raj reads a by Tyson saying that some random nobody on the evening news took a cheap shot at him. Bernadette thinks that he should apologize, while Raj thinks that a good tweeter would help his career. “Dear Dr. Tyson, much like, I have gotten under your .” Tyson shoots back that epithelial tissue is skin – GENIUS! Raj is set to keep up the Tweeter war.

In New York City on the Tesla, Sheldon wants to correct the. Amy tells him to let it go. Sheldon thinks that something is bothering his wife. He asks if she is. No just testy. Sheldon adds that she wouldn’t be if they adhered to their schedule. Amy replies that everyone is listening to them. Sheldon feels that that is because he is interesting unlike their guide. Amy walks away from him.

The next morning at the Hofstadters, Leonard walks in and tells Penny, “Good morning, Sunshine.” Penny is still pissed. She is making so she have the extra strength for ball busting all day. Penny explains that Leonard compared the two of them to the strangest couple they know and that includes the Coopers, the Wolowitzes and Raj and his dog. Leonard describes Mrs. Fowler as and  while Penny is warm and  and – quick to forgive, while Leonard can’t get away from sounding like her mousy husband. Penny is worried that they’ll be like that in thirty years. Playing a with Howard and Bernadette, Raj is still engaged with his Tyson feud. Bernadette thinks that it’s silly. Raj feels that it is two respected debating in an open field even though Raj called him ’s little sister. Now the fighter is angry with Raj.

Mrs. Fowler is now visiting Penny. Her husband is taking a break from their and says that she is overbearing. Penny meekly says that she is just the right amount of bearing and that she is sure that Mr. Fowler will come back to her. Mrs. Fowler thinks that Penny is a good person and that she hopes that they can spend a lot of time together. Penny marches over to 4B and demands that Mr. Fowler go home.

Finding Amy on a, Sheldon delivers two to her from a nearby  that normally disgusts Sheldon. She is not hungry. Sheldon does want to be a good husband to Amy. He knows that is part of that, but he wants it on his schedule so that he’ll remember to be intimate. Amy doesn’t want anyone other than Sheldon, but the idea of scheduling their coitus needs a e. Sheldon can schedule all the things he wants, just don’t tell Amy about it. That is fine with Sheldon. He plans on generating a producing  to make it look like their intimacy is spontaneous. The randomness is not really genuine because …”the true randomness of numbers is an unsolved problem in ” adds Amy. Sheldon then takes her back to the hotel so she can repeat that to him…naked.

Raj is driving and gets a personal from Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Raj asks how he like their Twitter feud. Tyson doesn’t find him funny. Then he invites Raj to a Pasadena signing and tells him to say those things to his. Raj declines which Tyson considers a smart move since he was the guy that kicked out of. Raj thanks him and hangs up. Neil wonders who next needs a good deGrass kicking. Calling Bill Nye the Science Guy, Neil tells him that they need to talk. Bill immediately hangs up on him.

Credits

 * Guest starring:
 * Kathy Bates as Mrs. Fowler
 * Teller as Larry Fowler
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson as Himself
 * Bill Nye as Himself
 * Giovanni Bejarano as Bellman
 * Ciara Renee as Sunny Morrow - weather woman
 * Andy Kim as Tour Guide
 * Teleplay: Steve Holland, Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
 * Story: Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez

Critics
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Trivia

 * Announced that this will be the last season of the series per the production company on 22 August 2018.
 * This is the first episode that Sheldon and Amy will fully deal with life. Their  is at  and in.
 * It was confirmed at that Shamy's honeymoon will take place in this episode.
 * Amy's parents will return in this episode, as confirmed by Steve Holland via TVLine.
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are returning this episode, their most recent appearances being "The Apology Insufficiency" and "The Proton Displacement", respectively.
 * Amy and Sheldon are seen married for the first time (less just after their vows) even though they were seen in the extra footage released by the production company showing Stephen Hawking's wedding gift to them.
 * This episode premiered on the eleventh anniversary of the original Pilot.
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson again brings up the down grading of Pluto as he did in "The Apology Insufficiency".
 * Amy tells Sheldon to "Let it go" even though they didn't go to see "Frozen" on Broadway. "Let it go" was another plot theme in "The Comic Book Store Regeneration". Penny tries to teach Sheldon to "let it go".
 * The actress that portrays the weather woman is "Hawkgirl" in the Warner Brothers' Flash and Green Arrow shows.

Quotes
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