Season 11 of “The Big Bang Theory” kicked off September 25 with not one, but two big big announcements. Not only are Sheldon and Amy engaged, but Bernadette and Howard learned they’re pregnant again.
Naturally, you would think the second episode of the season would pick up right where the last one left off and address those two big announcements with a celebration now that the gang is all united on the same coast. Oddly, that wasn’t the case.
Other than a minor footnote in the episode’s introduction, you really don’t hear much about Shamy’s pending nuptials and wedding plans or Benadette’s second baby. The latter is the most bizarre since Melissa Rauch’s character looks like she moved forward in time several months since the last episode.
Even Sheldon makes a brief comment at the episode’s start about how Bernadette looks more than three months pregnant. For a moment, when the episode began, I was actually wondering if I was watching a new episode and not one from Bernadette’s first pregnancy.
Mind you, Rauch is pregnant in real life so maybe this was their way of working that into the show. Still, it was something that puzzled some fans of the show, too.
Instead, the focus of the episode revolved around Leonard botching a radio interview after he claimed physics is dead. As a result, he put his job at the university at risk.