The Battle for Tenure | The Big Bang Theory

“I'm here to pay my respects to professor Tupperware.”
Season 6 Episode 20: The Tenure Turbulence
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[@houchi69]

"Friends are forever" "So is Tenure." 🤣🤣 Howard loved this, and so do I.

[@TheRareware64]

But not Bernadette the buzzkill, apparently. She's such a drip, not letting Howard get in on the Raj roasting alongside Leonard and Sheldon.

[@eclectica1]

​@@TheRareware64You shut your mouth. That 'walk!!!' was funny.

[@TheRareware64]

@@eclectica1 No, you hush. Raj deserved to be roasted like a marshmallow among his peers; namely, Sheldon, Leonard and Howard. It's what guys do. And if you thought Bernadette was in the right at that moment, you're as much as a short-sighted stick-in-the-mud as she is.

[@katrinawest5182]

"WALK!!!"

[@TheRareware64]

@@katrinawest5182 IDK why she's white-knighting for Raj, to the point of killing Howard's joy; why should she care if Howard roasts him on an open fire (especially in this case he deserves to be roasted)?

[@JanineGray-kl2vp]

"And whatever Amy plans on doing"😂😂😂😂

[@lordybelance3410]

Lol 😂😂😂😂😂

[@derrickwakhungu9707]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Vikita1795]

"Way to hit 'em with both barrels" 🤣 Leonard & Penny are awesome lol

[@franckjimenez7264]

Sure if you say so

[@Lessface-i5p]

The robot

[@thePronto]

She called them 'Leonard & Penny'?

[@CPL-team]

🥰🥰

[@williamwheatley1604]

Gravity defying bosoms …..WOW.!!

[@chestersakamoto6843]

"Are you implying that my girlfriend has no sexuality to exploit?" "Yes." "Okay, because that was unclear." "SHELDON!" 🤣

[@alonedomche9660]

[@parikalanyantra69]

😂😂

[@kagekun1198]

The gangsta handshake was a surprise 😂

[@CPL-team]

🥰

[@m.theresa1385]

Sheldon never learns 😹

[@Jennythecatgirl]

I still cringe! 😂😂

[@CPL-team]

@@Jennythecatgirl 😂😂

[@lonewolfe2502]

The way Raj gets lost in her Bongos & then the way Sheldon says "What? Did she do it yet." is so damn funny. 😂 Love this show. It had some really funny moment.

[@ViperGTS737]

Had, early seasons but then it became insufferable cringe

[@L_M_V]

​@@ViperGTS737 Facts. Season 7 was still pretty good, season 8 was fine. But already done to death... At some point they put Howard's mom's death in the show and that didn't exactly help. Plus... Character development (mainly Sheldon) sucked a lot

[@wuxin5847]

@@L_M_V all 12 seasons were great to me - you must be watching a different show

[@Yifeng-rn4ov]

Nope ​@@ViperGTS737

[@Crysomandiaz]

@@L_M_VI assume you know they did that because the actress died.

[@russelconor8704]

Sheldon's yo-mamma jokes were on a different level in this scene. 'FOR A DOLLAR!' lmao Parsons is a genius! 😂🤣🤣😆

[@marialareinabirtas2514]

Believe me that is very humiliating,I'd rather not be paid for a dollar, and say I did it because I like it! "No regrets" !! .........it's not funny!!!!!!!!! That is her mom!!you can improvise some other things to get attention or get to his nerves."it is the worst to humiliate the mother other than the father I think" my two sons will I think fight for me for that.!!! They will say you do not have no right and she is just "my mother"either way we still gonna love and respect her forever ....our mother got her own decision and life likewise with us her children. you need to justify what you said about our mother cause either your interest was sincere! and it all comes up that is true!!"it is not new to us anymore that our mother is lively,lovely and very intelligent " she is very desirable...interesting and nurturing....and very kind,sweet helpful..and giving..looking very young in her age!!....actually your very lucky !"luckiest man alive" bravo! Btw our mom always tell us,to copy the goodness of our parents but never ever copy the worst on them 🙏🦸‍♂️🦸🦸🙏🤝👏🙌✍️💌💞🩷🩷💕💛👍 5:16

[@marialareinabirtas2514]

respect and love them even how they act !! and know how to feel.know how to protect our selves when it's the right time and know how to respect and be polite to others and know's how to act right and speak the righteous way."help others if we think they really need it but do not put it in our mind soul and heart" too much.cause that is our mom."she is the best!" ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Hurricanelive]

so she gave you the dollar? I bet she asked for change.

[@Rafatdk]

"did she do it yet" loooooooooooooooooooool

[@example2844]

"I believe screw it I'm going in, is what I said to your mother last night" it's learning! 😂😂😂😂

[@dustbunny4527]

I’m still baffled that he knew what that meant 😂

[@acgearsandarms1343]

@@dustbunny4527More baffling is he got the the timing of the punchline right.

[@E9oK9kMaV]

everytime i hear that line i just think of Darrell Hammond on SNL. 😂😂

[@dancepiglover]

@@E9oK9kMaV "Suck it, Trebek!"

[@jamirimaj6880]

​@@dustbunny4527It's actually consistent with his character from Season 1 and even real life Sheldons: they know and understand humor, they just don't know when and where to use it. Notice Howard telling him to do a mom joke.

[@Freelancecoolkid]

2:48 "for a dollar" really got me😂😂😂

[@B.B.H2.0]

I love how even though Amy is upset with Penny, she still can't help but gush over her.

[@wuxin5847]

amy has a crush on penny even though she is with sheldon

[@B.B.H2.0]

@wuxin5847 A Mega Crush!!. I truly believe that if Penny ever consented to any form of nonplatonic intimacy that Amy would do it in a heart beat.

[@leatonjenkins6810]

I could see Penny and Amy as an interesting couple since Amy was an introverted woman while Penny is an extroverted one to help bring Amy out of her shell.

[@Lessface-i5p]

@@wuxin5847nah

[@Lessface-i5p]

@@B.B.H2.0nah

[@E9oK9kMaV]

i always found it funny that raj/Kunal Nayyar was the perpetual single guy on the show, yet out of all the male actors he's actually the hottest one.

[@Baykko]

Mid way thorugh the series I started rooting for him to be either paired with someone or be turned gay for real. IT is a pity that we went through the whole thing and he was still as alone as he was in the first season (wignoring he can now talk to women)

[@mortwycker]

​@@Baykko Its not essential to be in a relationship to be happy tho

[@thelightningwave]

In real life he married Miss. India.

[@UncleForHire]

He is certainly the best looking, but hot seems a strange word to use for any of them.

[@sudman96]

He went from being rejected by women to rejecting women.

[@doomstan]

2:31 howard being the ultimate instigator 😂

[@cliffordmireku]

Something about me just makes them waaf and waaf. Kripke is as funny af😂

[@dustbunny4527]

I haven’t figured out if he can’t say the L or the R 😆

[@brendenconner96862wolf]

@brendenconner9686 shadow angel x7 moonlight 2:03

[@ritapitasunshine]

​@@dustbunny4527both

[@azuluagaa3342]

0l09 ​@@dustbunny4527

[@azuluagaa3342]

​@@dustbunny4527l 0

[@dvornikovalexei]

"Take your breasts out" is the most abrupt and hilarious thing Sheldon has said in the show. But Penny hitting them with both barrels anyways💀

[@johnanderson9765]

I also love Amy's last line of that scene.

[@jaypritchett6846]

@@johnanderson9765”should’ve taken my breast’s out when I had the chance…” 🤣

[@saul_goodman15]

@@jaypritchett6846hhhhhh😂😂😂😂😂

[@Lessface-i5p]

Robo female

[@rtadwq...------...----.]

Prof. Tupperware 😂😂😂

[@marty5300]

this is the best bit of writing I've seen on this show, it was non stop perfection for the whole 5 minutes. Really great work

[@JPuReTaLeNt]

Agreed. This is one of my fave scenes from the entire series.

[@Averonex]

1:20 raj eyes😂😂😂

[@Mani26031981]

Came straight here for Amy's "SHELDON!!" at 2:22. Priceless!!

[@TheConfidentNoob]

I came here for that but I also came for Sheldon’s handshake😂

[@CPL-team]

🥰

[@chilidrummer8333]

Simon Helberg‘s reaction to the „for a dollar“ had to be off script, seemed to genuine 😂

[@melissacarterpresley5786]

@chilidrummer8333, it's called following direction.

[@paulnnamdi4098]

I have a thick accent... you don't know what I said 😂

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

"Did she do it yet?".....Classic. 😂

[@TRENTSEDITS]

1:27 I love how he just went back to staring at it 😂😂😂

[@MYSTICKNIGHT23]

Raj is an absolute legend on the show one of the funniest moments

[@Puppet007]

Sheldon still hasn’t learned his lesson, 😂.

[@jorgegaray7614]

That's rhetorical because sheldon never learns a lesson

[@najkrashcha2025]

I don’t really understand why did he dance (or whatever he did) in the final scene. I just can try to guess it was some cultural thing that only Americans are aware of. Like he tried to imitate what black people do (or better say he thinks they do) when they want to be friendly and it was like another inappropriate thing after the book. But still could you please explain what exactly it was. As a foreigner I am curious about it.

[@rogerhawkins6433]

Brilliantly written script… performed to perfection…. Thank you all! 🤓👍🇳🇿

[@garyharrington3957]

Best BBT Scene of all time😂😂 Sheldon with the Yo mama jokes & Amy insult takes me out

[@wuxin5847]

i did not hear sheldon - i was paying attention to something else lol

[@lolohets6467]

The damn handshake that Sheldon does had me floored 😂😂😂😂

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

No way Sheldon could get tenure, even with Amy acting as a filter. The man infuriates everyone he talks to. Although it would certainly be a different story after he won the Nobel Prize.

[@BenE8844]

To be honest, it was VERY unrealistic that L&P managed to change the minds of several real life scientists like George Smoot (who guest starred in season two and in the final season), or even DeGrasse Tyson (he insulted him for his part in removing Pluto from the solar system). I also dislike how Amy doesn’t even technically work at Caltech, yet they make her spend an inORDINATE amount of time there. Seriously, why did the writers stop trying with this show after season seven! At the very least, Leonard only had an asthma attack and left Mrs. Davis alone while Sheldon was racist, and Raj made a video that was WAY too long.

[@loliver9660]

I had a professor in college who EVERYONE hated, including my program coordinator. Every time a new class came up in the curriculum, he sucked up to the dean and banded together with the other disliked professors to get the class. There was a conspiracy between the staff and some of the students to get him fired, but it didn't work. He had been there too long and eventually came up for tenure. That was the end of that. He still teaches there, even though he's an arrogant, chauvinistic jerk who has no idea what he's talking about.

[@BenE8844]

@@loliver9660 Preach.

[@hanaluong2672]

@@BenE8844 I thought that Amy went through an interview and got accepted as a researcher at CalTech? First Sheldon had no reaction. Then Howard "consulted" him and Sheldon forbid Amy from working at CalTech. She said she would any way and then he "permitted" her to work at CalTech.

[@BenE8844]

@@hanaluong2672 Well yes that did happen, however, she made it sound like a temporary thing, and also, from that moment and forward, Leonard was the one driving him to work, and not Amy, which makes no sense.

[@WCGreeny]

"Friends are forever" *cough* "So is tenure."

[@varvaralopatina2652]

«OKAY CAUSE IT WAS NOT CLEAR” BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[@nocomment2468]

Hahaha “well now it’s biguous!”

[@gillesjacques1022]

One of the rare times Penny actually wore high heels. 👠

[@apogwapo]

For a dollar 🤣🤣🤣

[@sadpepe6233]

2:25 Penny real reaction 🤣🤣

[@rohiniguiland4873]

The for a $1 comment had me😂😂

[@mad-eyemax1389]

0:40 _"So am I, his passing makes me feel...bad."_ XD

[@stephenking5852]

Box set of Roots.😂

[@Victor犭句Prawira]

3:01 Howard nailed it 😂

[@katrinawest5182]

"What, did she do it yet?"🤣🤣🤣💃🏻👗

[@chrischris777]

Great staff !!! Great show !!!

[@Yawdan]

I was not ready for that handshake 😂😂😂😂

[@prasadshastri554]

Amazing cast, amazing writers and amazing show. ❤will miss them a lot. 😢

[@BoopSnoot]

She has wide shoulders and fake boobs, if I didn't know any better I would assume she was originally a he. Why are they acting like she's so hot, and what is up with the fake laugh track?

[@petiadavis5122]

Same

[@thisisstarking]

2:30 Kaley was clearly trying not to laugh😂

[@godoit7569]

That written on a notice board before the door of mrs davis as, "Sexual Harassment Hurts Everyone" was beautifully messaged

[@R.Oates7902]

"and whatever Amy plans on doing"

[@sknvassociates9561]

Raj : Professor Tupperware 😂😂

[@faoaka]

"What? did she do it yet?" 😂😂😂

[@DarklordDespia]

The best episode of tbbt ever! Absolutely love it 😂

[@hariadiirwansyah]

this is probably my favorite scene from TBBT after pictionary... 🤣🤣🤣

[@lindaleudo]

The dap up sent me 😂🤣

[@shirleiboonesouza4285]

This was a very funny and unforgetable episode... 😂

[@priyabaser2535]

Howard is so happy here 😂😂

[@MrRabeno]

1:17 Amy's Reaction 😂🤣

[@acethegoat79]

One of the best episodes ever!!!😂

[@GamerplayerWT]

“I’m here to pay my respects to Professor…Tupperware…or whatever his name is.” And the boobs are about to show up, too! Hahahaha!

[@JaKorsarz]

Leonard like Lord Sidious: Do it!

[@RetendoArcade]

For a dollar, I actually liked that he said the yo mama joke and let it hang a mo, and then said for a dollar. Thank you Howard for the assist. haha

[@FFL3001]

"...waugh and waugh..." lmao

[@btechczar]

I really miss Big Bang Theory!!! Come back guys.... Come back with another Bigger Bang!!!

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Yeah

[@brantfrans8595]

I miss it too. What a great show.

[@stevecarson4162]

They needed to lose the blonde bimbo who was always on the wrong show. I stopped watching when it turned into Dawson's Creek or Bev. Hills 90210, and even SHELDON had to have a girlfriend. LAME.

[@CrimRui]

Don't think they will bring it back because it doesn't have many black characters.

[@PickupthePieces76]

One of the best scenes of the whole show.

[@pxd291]

Hitting them with barrels had a lifetime warranty

[@user-lm5mu2lw2v]

For a DOLLAR 😂

[@lolwele]

Gravity defying bosom 1:56 😆😆

[@mahnoorrahim1809]

2:49 Any's reaction 😂😂😮

[@simplyzulu1426]

Howard taking the advantage of not having a doctorate 😂😂😂

[@lordybelance3410]

I love Sheldon's handshake! I would love to do that with him

[@MiguelDiaz-qe8sp]

What, did She do it Yet. 😂😂

[@RichardGarza-zo9mo]

Leonard's secret weapon.

[@dancepiglover]

Weapons. It's plural. 😉

[@kazekirion]

"do it" was so funny to me 😭😭😭

[@AdolfoPerezSBG]

That “walk” by Bernadette came out of nowhere.

[@elfmoomooicmultifandom4444]

10/10 my favorite scene of the show 🤣

[@BenE8844]

Never liked how the writers never settled this, nor explained WHO gets tenure. If you ask me, Leonard should’ve won the Nobel Prize, and he should have been given it, despite his attempts to snooze in this episode.

[@mrharvy100]

Over Sheldon? Cmon.

[@BenE8844]

@@mrharvy100 Why not? Sheldon once admitted to being jealous of Leonard for being picked by STEVE HAWKING himself for the North Sea 🌊 expedition. Also, Sheldon also admitted that Kripke’s work was more advanced that his, and he CRIED, so it’s not implausible for someone else to upstage him. I also really hated the writers for COMPLETELY forgetting the working for the military story arc. Did they get paid? Was it a lot (at least enough to make Bernadette and Penny stop treating their spouses like shit)? Why didn’t Leonard and Howard sue or get Kripke in trouble for having stabbed them in the back with the work they had done; wasn’t that illegal? The answer: The writers were on drugs. Also, it would’ve been better if the writers had made Penny help HER HUSBAND, instead of Sheldon, because you know… THEY’RE MARRIED.

[@tightlines21]

They all get tenure

[@BenE8844]

@@tightlines21 No they didn’t.

[@anthonyscarfe4853]

The cast moved from project to project and field to field to often over a very short amount of time. To win the Nobel Prize or get tenure you’re supposed to do something big on a specific project in a specific field that takes time. They should also have all had PhD students working for them for about 3 years. Sheldon should have spent the show working in theoretical particle physics working on thinking up a new particle and how to find it. Leonard should have been working on the discovery of new particles as part of an international research project using an accelerator or detector or designing the equipment to do that. Raj should have been an astronomer looking for specific astronomical phenomena by sweeping the universe one section at a time. Howard should have been part of an international collaboration designing and engineering a rover. Their projects would’ve taken years, included a lot of work, a lot of international travel and mostly rendered them non-existent characters.

[@KrK-EST]

Ohh how i miss the series❗

[@user-ud6ui7zt3r]

The dialogue reminds me of Sean Connery on _Celebrity Jeopardy._

[@mgwilliams1000]

I would have enjoyed seeing the dance at the train store in Glendale.

[@rodzalez3549]

lol “don’t just stand there take your breast out”

[@vdoggydogg3922]

Not showing their respect would be bad for their careers.

[@kcff343]

I want to try those barrels 😂

[@saul_goodman15]

same 🤤

[@user-lv5zz7wv6l]

5:00 that was rude

[@RazorWinter]

1:48 Howard on the side ooking at Penny's booba and then looking at Bernadette probably angry lol

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

Box set of Roots is a great gift.

[@arafahmed6662]

You know Howard has a good idea when even Sheldon approves of it

[@Virgin_Succubus642]

Nothing can bring friends closer together than the mutual hatred of a whiny suck-up.

[@Thunderjpg]

This was the funniest scene ever

[@crismcdonough2804]

For a dollar 😂

[@aliranjbarr]

I love Sheldon🤣

[@vasyan123]

Penny knows whats up

[@dancepiglover]

Yeah, her breasts. And the guys'... stuff. Except for Sheldon.

[@BladeSky13]

penny truly is charmed lol

[@saul_goodman15]

🍒

[@tharakakarunarathne2420]

oh gosh those "barrels". 😃

[@FriendlyCroock]

The big bang theories.

[@saul_goodman15]

🛢️🛢️

[@starchannel123]

Too bad they are fake

[@tumsfestival8027]

Dew it - Leonard Palpatine

[@iamchampagn]

SEXUAL HARASSMENT HURTS EVERYONE

[@JadaLastChapter-rr5ct]

Best show ever

[@corybrown514]

This channel is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 and your delivery is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@InsertCreativeusername_]

I never thought I would see the day that Sheldon does a yo momma joke

[@saul_goodman15]

1:20 😂

[@gertrudemilhouse5626]

Of course, the end was cut off where he calls her "sistah" and gets the door slammed !

[@tomlawler5850]

Oh Penny!!!

[@gaffle-411]

I’m crying 😭 🤣!

[@nthabiseng9219]

2:21 😂😂😂😂

[@The_French_Station]

Take people's drink orders and get them wrong!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@devrobinson8607]

I think her response kinda shut the room up 😭😂🤣