Meemaw keeps this to herself until dinner where she reveals this in front of her grandson, his girlfriend and the married Hofstadter couple. Tam laments his difficult childhood in war-torn Vietnam, which included his father being incarcerated in a detention camp, and his encounter with the Initially introduced as a popular and "easy" girl, Veronica becomes a devout Christian after going through a "Cuoco makes a voice appearance in Episode 10 of Season 3 of Although not seen or heard prior to season 9, MeeMaw is mentioned in all previous seasons.Posthumous appearance using archived voice recording.Although not seen or heard prior to season 4, President Siebert's name is mentioned in season 2.Arthur Jeffries is an actor who plays the character Professor ProtonAppearance is credited, but did not have a speaking role. They began dating again and were a couple for most of season three, but she ended the relationship after he told her he loved her and she was not ready to reciprocate. Stuart actually got angry and told Sheldon it was clear they didn't even see him as a friend, leading Sheldon to sincerely apologize and try harder to be nice to Stuart for a period. With the help of his friends, he designs a new form of guidance system that attracts the attention of the In season 11, Howard learns that Bernadette is pregnant again and later in the same season in "The Neonatal Nomenclature", Bernadette gives birth to a boy named Neil Michael Wolowitz. Later, she visits him to talk and reveals that the guy was her tattoo artist who had been asking her out for weeks and she did so just to end the obligation. Raj wonders whether he should break up with her because of her alarming personality. The two attempted a long-distance relationship after Priya moved back to In season six's "The 43 Peculiarity", Penny tells him she loves him for the first time. Because Sheldon considers his own time as too valuable to waste on it, Sheldon asks Alex to take the course instead. Dan is still afraid of Bernadette, and tells the story of how she yelled at him and his grandson after they lost the three-legged race at the company picnic.
Although she is not seen, Lucy later texts Raj saying that she misses him and wants to get back together, but after finding out that he is also dating Emily, Lucy rebuffs Raj.

In her first appearance, Bernadette takes Ruchi out for drinks, though despite Howard's suggestion, refuses to set her up with Raj or Stuart. In the season-five finale, Mike attends Howard and Bernadette's wedding and walks his daughter down the aisle. Following his break-up with Penny, Leonard began a relationship with Raj's sister Priya in season four. Leonard tie-breaks on the basis that they are receiving a 20% discount in Stuart's store, and Sheldon relents after Stuart offers to go as high as 30%, thereby becoming a bigger and more prominent part of the core group.

In Meemaw takes an immediate dislike to Amy upon meeting her. When Penny confronts her for this, she admits that she feels insulted about not being invited to her son's wedding.

Howard receives a phone call while in the store from his aunt Gladys in Florida, whom Mrs. Wolowitz had gone to visit. Missy object to her comment. They hit it off and they spend the night together.

The episode ends on a In the final season, Sheldon and Amy publish their work on super-asymmetric string theory and win the Nobel Prize in Physics together.During Stuart's first appearances in season 2, he shows enough social skills to ask Penny on a date on two occasions, though neither ends successfully.

The mothers get into an argument after Beverly describes Mary's religious beliefs as a superstition, and Mary, in turn, berates Beverly for her cold and distant attitude towards Leonard.
In season nine, Kripke calls Sheldon and Amy's live show Bert first appeared in "The Contractual Obligation Implementation" where he is socially awkward and Raj meets just prior to a library date with Lucy.