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“The Gates Excitation”

PHILANTHROPIST BILL GATES MAKES AN APPEARANCE, ON “THE BIG BANG THEORY,” THURSDAY, MARCH 29



“The Gates Excitation” – Penny gets the opportunity to host Bill Gates at work when his company wants to partner with her pharmaceutical company. Also, Leonard, Koothrappali and Wolowitz do everything in their power to meet him, while Sheldon thinks he is the victim of an April Fools prank, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, March 29 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network.

CHEAT TWEET: Penny gets the opportunity to host @BillGates at work and the guys do everything in their power to meet him! @BigBangTheory #CBS 3/29 8pm http://bit.ly/2oUGesW

REGULAR CAST:
Johnny Galecki (Leonard)
Jim Parsons (Sheldon)
Kaley Cuoco (Penny)
Simon Helberg (Wolowitz)
Kunal Nayyar (Koothrappali)
Mayim Bialik (Amy)
Melissa Rauch (Bernadette)

RECURRING CAST:
Kevin Sussman (Stuart)

GUEST CAST:
Bill Gates (Himself)

STORY BY: Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Andy Gordon
TELEPLAY BY: Steve Holland & Tara Hernadnez & Jeremy Howe
DIRECTED BY: Mark Cendrowski

Promo, Promotional Photos + Press Release

WeBuiltThePyramids

TFTNT! This week has been flying by for me and I'm glad that means it's almost episode day!

Captain Riterra Smith

Thanks for opening! Finally the March Madness break is over and we get a high profile guest star. Can't wait!

FileXxX

TFTNT! I'm so excited for this one. Finally a guest star I like.

SargeantFuzzyBoots

Such a great episode! All of the plot lines were great, but Leonard and Penny killed it tonight.

My one quibble is that Sheldon already met Bill Gates and got punched in the face when he insulted him. Unless that punch wiped his memory.

meka3000

Personal headcanon: Sheldon repressed his memory of bill gates punching him and that's why his friends told him he was in different places. I mean if not what are we supposed to pretend this is a parallel universe & Sheldon is just meeting him again for the 1st time? Boy I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Captain Riterra Smith

Hmmmm. Perhaps he mulled it over and is not counting the punch as "meeting" someone.
This was in any case the finest of all April Fool pranks. The one where your target does not know if it is a prank or not. I'm glad Bernie is keeping her mind sharp, but my guts feel like a black hole every time I fathon the extinction of the sun. (shiver)
Finally, Penny, girl, you have known Leonard all this time. You HAD to expect him to take the first chance he had to talk to one of his idols.

meka3000

We could always hope for another author's saving throw where it gets addressed in a later episode, like in the friendship contraction and that answering the lack of painted arrows from season 4's finale.

Leonard: What happened to all your glow-in-the-dark-emergency-exit stuff you had painted on the floor?

Sheldon: Oh, that was wildly carcinogenic.

You mean the 2nd time right?

ennaxor

Great episode tonight! I was especially amused by how invested Bernadette was in Bob the Builder!

soundsgood

Funny episode with a typical old-episodes-Sheldon and Leonard and Penny in full adorableness mode.
Amy annoyed by Bernadette but still trying to be supportive, I totally can relate to that. This is so annoying and frustrating when your friends don't stop talking about their babies.

FileXxX

I loved that too!

soundsgood

Nothing against Kevin, but what was the point on having Stuart in this episode? And who is in charge of the comic book store?

Whimsical Elf

Well, I guess it must be me, judging by your comments, but I didn't find this episode that funny. It was okay.

Bernadette 'hacking' her maternity brain was pretty funny, and a different twist on the whole 'pregnancy/new mom' joke field. I liked that.

It would've been good if they'd made reference to Sheldon being punched by Bill Gates. At first I thought that was going to be the time Leonard was talking about, when he met him before, but I don't think it was. So that was a definite mistake missing that out.

BlackWhiteRose

I enjoyed the episode. Bill Gates was great how he offered Leonard a tissue