The Comic Book Store Regeneration

"**The Comic Book Store Regeneration**"
"The Comic Book Store Regeneration"
The Big Bang Theory episode
Episode no.	Season 8; Episode 15
Directed by	Mark Cendrowski
Story by	Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari and Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by	Steven Molaro, Steve Holland and Eric Kaplan
Original air date	February 19, 2015
Guest appearance
	Nathan Fillion as himself;
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Last updated May 18, 2024

"The Comic Book Store Regeneration" is the fifteenth episode of the eighth season of The Big Bang Theory , which first aired on CBS on February 19, 2015. It is the 174th episode overall. "The Comic Book Store Regeneration" is dedicated to Carol Ann Susi, who played Howard's mother, Debbie Wolowitz.^[1]

Plot

Barry Kripke stops by to thank Amy for helping him with her ideas on string theory, which bothers Sheldon because she never helped him out when he was working on it. He complains to Penny who tells him to "let it go". Instead, Sheldon reveals that Amy was secretly performing experiments on Penny and Leonard and comparing the results with those of a chimpanzee, infuriating Penny. Leonard and Raj run into Nathan Fillion (playing himself) at a deli, but he denies he is an actor so he can eat in peace. Later, he admits who he is and offers to take a selfie with them. Raj asks so many questions to verify Fillion's identity that he looks annoyed in the photo. Stuart has opened his new comic book store, which impresses everyone except Howard who finds him using the den furniture that his mother had given him. However, all arguments end when Howard gets a call from Florida where his mother is visiting, and receives news that she died in her sleep. Everyone, including Sheldon who knows how it feels to lose a family member, goes to comfort Howard. After he and Bernadette leave for Florida, the rest of the gang remember and toast the death of Mrs. Wolowitz, calling her "a loving mother to all of them".

Reception

Schedeen of IGN gave the episode a rating of 8.2 out of 10. Schedeen stated; " The Big Bang Theory delivered an awkwardly structured but emotional farewell to the late Mrs. Wolowitz."^[2] Kyle Fowle of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B rating.^[3]

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References

↑ "The Big Bang Theory - The Comic Book Store Regeneration". the-big-bang-theory.com.
↑ Schedeen, Jesse (19 February 2015). "The Big Bang Theory: "The Comic Book Store Regeneration" Review". IGN.
↑ Fowle, Kyle (20 February 2015). "The Big Bang Theory: "The Comic Book Store Regeneration"". The A.V. Club .

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[1] "The Big Bang Theory - The Comic Book Store Regeneration". the-big-bang-theory.com.

[2] Schedeen, Jesse (19 February 2015). "The Big Bang Theory: "The Comic Book Store Regeneration" Review". IGN.

[3] Fowle, Kyle (20 February 2015). "The Big Bang Theory: "The Comic Book Store Regeneration"". The A.V. Club .

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v t e The Big Bang Theory episodes
Season 1	"Pilot"
Season 2	"The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" "The Terminator Decoupling"
Season 3	"The Jiminy Conjecture"
Season 4	"The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification" "The Hot Troll Deviation" "The Love Car Displacement" "The Toast Derivation" "The Roommate Transmogrification"
Season 5	"The Skank Reflex Analysis" "The Infestation Hypothesis" "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst" "The Russian Rocket Reaction" "The Rhinitis Revelation" "The Good Guy Fluctuation" "The Isolation Permutation" "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver" "The Recombination Hypothesis" "The Beta Test Initiation" "The Werewolf Transformation" "The Hawking Excitation" "The Stag Convergence" "The Countdown Reflection"
Season 6	"The Fish Guts Displacement" "The Santa Simulation" "The Egg Salad Equivalency"
Season 7	"The Hofstadter Insufficiency" "The Convention Conundrum"
Season 8	"The Locomotion Interruption" "The Comic Book Store Regeneration"
Season 9	"The Matrimonial Momentum" "The Platonic Permutation"
Season 10	"The Conjugal Conjecture"
Season 11	"The Proposal Proposal"
Season 12	"The Conjugal Configuration" "The D&D Vortex" "The Stockholm Syndrome"
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