Leonard was seriously in the red tonight on The Big Bang Theory season 7, episode 8. Check out our recap and share your thoughts on “The Itchy Brain Simulation!”
Here’s what happened in The Big Bang Theory season 7, episode 8, “The Itchy Brain Simulation.”
Leonard finds a red sweater from his aunt in their junkbox. It turns out that also in the box is a DVD rented on Sheldon’s card seven years before. Leonard begs Sheldon not to overreact, and he agrees… and it’s looking like this might be a really short episode.
But luckily, Sheldon says that unresolved issues make his brain itch. For Leonard to feel the same way, Sheldon proposes that Leonard wear the sweater so he can experience the itchy uncomfortableness.
Unfortunately, the DVD store went out of business. Good luck, Leonard.
Leonard is starting to go crazy in the sweater, which he can apparently never take off. He’s going to mail the DVD back to the store owner, to prove that problems can be solved calmly, without itching overreacting. Alas, the DVD-store owner is dead. Leonard takes off the sweater, proclaiming the matter concluded and displaying his raw, red assets, until Howard suggests reimbursing the owner’s next-of-kin.
Leonard breaks down in Penny’s apartment over the Sweater Problem. His torso is almost burned from the wool. She wants him to take it off, but he’s desperate not to let Sheldon win. Amy congratulates Sheldon on his cool handling of the situation.
After spending the day at the Armenian Church, Leonard finds that the store owner had no next-of-kin and blows up at Sheldon, asking him why it isn’t making him crazy. Sheldon admits – if Leonard won’t freak out – that he paid for the late DVD seven years ago. “I thought, someday, it might be a teachable moment,” he says. The Red Hulk version of Leonard bellows in frustration and sticks frozen vegetables on his chest.
Hot.
Meanwhile, Amy, Bernadette, and Penny find Raj’s ex-girlfriend Lucy in the Cheesecake Factory. Penny goes over and talks to Lucy and winds up calling her a bad person. When she tells Raj what happened, he freaks out at her… until Lucy texts him about going for coffee. Then Penny’s a genius.
Bernadette and Howard give Raj advice for his date with Lucy. Lucy apologizes for breaking up with him in an email. Lucy tells him that she’s seeing someone. Raj yells at Penny again until she tells him she’ll set him up with a friend. The date… doesn’t go well.
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