'The Big Bang Theory' Season 11 Episode 20 Recap: Amy's Bachelorette Party Is a Season Highlight

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After last week’s random pastrami sandwich episode, The Big Bang Theory returned to what it does best: letting the cast shine. Specifically, Mayim Bialik was given half the episode to prove why she’s an absolute comedic genius. The only thing better would have been if she had the entire episode, but, you know, one can dream.

The other storyline of the night—Sheldon visiting a creepy and reclusive scientist at his cabin in the woods—just didn’t hold a candle to what was happening back in Pasadena with Amy. She couldn’t go with Sheldon to said woods because it’s her bachelorette weekend and she’s, you know, getting married.

For her party, Amy imagines strippers and body shots involved—but that’s not what Bernadette and Penny have planned. Instead, they’ve organize a quilting bee—yes, that popular social event from the mid-19th century during which women gossiped over tea and quilting. Now,I love a good scrapbooking afternoon myself, but as a replacement for a bachelorette party? Uh, no. Of course, it doesn’t matter what event the girls have planned for Amy because the real prize for us viewers is Amy’s hilarious puzzled reaction. I expected a “just kidding!” from Penny and Bernadette throughout the quilting bee, but maybe I just know Amy better than they do.

That’s fine, though, because Amy’s pretend “I’m having fun face” is pure gold; not to mention Penny and Bernadette’s attempt at being 19th-century socialites enjoying tea time. It’s all too much for Amy to handle. When they clink their tea cups together, it’s the last straw. “Seriously, what the hell?!” she says. “This is my bachelorette party! Tea and quilts?!” The writing is perfection, but it’s Bialik’s spot-on delivery that makes it worth re-watching.

Amy says her bachelorette party is supposed to be fun and wild and full of bad decisions, to which Penny quips, “[Bernadette] had two kids back to back, and I thought you’d like this, so we’re off to a good start!” She’s on to something…this was definitely one of Penny’s more questionable decisions.

But it’s all good because Bernadette says they can still go somewhere to do body shots off shirtless bartenders. Amy counters that this might be a little too much, hoping that Penny and Bernadette see right through her. Once again, they do not. “What are you not getting about this?!” Amy shouts. The whole thing is so good, but no surprise there.

A bit later, Penny, Bernadette, and Amy walk into a rather upscale bar and, well, this happened:

I could have watched Amy make friends with the customers all night rather than hang with Penny and Bernadette. She’s so infectious and overjoyed at her upcoming nuptials that I don’t want this night to end. Amy’s the kind of women who infectiously claps for herself and couldn’t care less if her glasses are sliding off her face from smiling so much. She’s so unabashedly herself that I feel like I’m getting a lesson in confidence just from this episode alone.

Twelve minutes later though, she’s passed out at the bar while Penny and Bernadette continue downing shots. The only good thing about Sheldon’s parallel story at this point is that he realizes he no longer wants to be at the cabin because he misses Amy…and his phone. It’s a sweet moment that we’ve seen too little of this season.

But back to Amy: She’s passed out on Penny and Leonard’s couch until she’s jolted awake to find herself covered in a half-finished quilt and sporting raccoon eyes. Wanting their friend to think she had a wild night out, Penny and Bernadette hilariously work to cover up how tame Amy’s party really was. Penny asks Amy if she remembers river dancing for the shirtless fireman, and Mayim’s reaction is what Emmy wins are made of.

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Later, Sheldon comes home to a bleary-eyed Amy. She tells Sheldon about her night—or rather, the night according to Penny and Bernadette—and does it in such a straightforward manner that it makes the scene that much funnier. Then, when Sheldon asks if she would still love him if he wasn’t who she thought he was, she counters with, “Well, what if I’m a river dancing wild woman?” Mayim plays the scene with such a sincere subtleness that you’d fall for Amy even if she just admitted some horrifying truth.

Sheldon and Amy then share a kiss and exchange “I love you’s” before Sheldon asks if she really knows how to river dance. Amy gives him a seductive look and says, “You tell me” before launching into her over-confident, if not slightly hungover, version of river dancing. Sheldon is so stimulated by her talent (something I never thought I’d write) that he hilariously looks over his shoulder before softly telling her, “I’m the only man you do that for.”

And there you have it: The first time since this season’s premiere that I’m genuinely excited for this wedding to get here. Bring on May 10!

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