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The Stockholm Syndrome is the twenty-fourth and series finale episode of Season 12 of The Big Bang Theory, airing immediately after the penultimate episode, The Change Constant

Synopsis[]

The gang goes to Stockholm, Sweden so Sheldon and Amy can win their Nobel Prize, Howard and Bernadette leave their kids behind, and Penny reveals that she’s pregnant.

Plot[]

Taking place two months after the previous episode, Sheldon and Leonard have finished putting Sheldon’s DNA model back together, which took almost six days but was rather enjoyable for Leonard. Sheldon constructed the genetic code for an advanced race of human beings. Penny and Amy arrive with the dresses for the Nobel Prize ceremony; Amy’s dress had to be let in, and Penny’s had to be let out. Sheldon and Amy go to their apartment so Amy can show him her dress, and Sheldon can practice his speech. After they leave, Penny reveals that she’s pregnant, which happened when she and Sheldon went for a drink.

At the Wolowitz house, Bernadette tells Michael that she and Howard are going to be gone for a few days. Halley has become a big girl having just used the potty. They have no qualms about leaving their kids with Stuart and Denise, and feel good to finally feel good to get some time to themselves again. Meanwhile, Raj leaves Bert to look after Cinnamon, hoping that he can attract some girls with her; Bert then makes a joke that he’ll get another dog just like her if she dies.

Amy is trying on her dress, while Sheldon is practicing his speech to get through it within 90 minutes. Amy proposes that he leave out his childhood, and all the people he thought would never get a Nobel Prize.

As they prepare to head to the airport, Sheldon and Amy tell everyone that they are ambassadors for them and to be on their best behavior, and give them advice on how to interact with the Swedish people. Sheldon also reminds Penny to go easy on alcohol on the flight, though Penny says that she’s not drinking; she doesn’t drink on flights. They try to go down in the newly repaired elevator with their luggage, but it becomes clear there’s no way they can all fit in the elevator with their luggage, so they end up going down the stairs while their luggage goes down in the elevator.

While on the plane, Bernadette is watching Jack Reacher movies, while Howard is feeling uneasy about Michael and Halley; Raj is sitting with Sarah Michelle Gellar from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Meanwhile, Sheldon is concerned because Penny has gone to the bathroom five times in the past two hours. Amy makes the assumption that Penny is just airsick. When Penny comes out of the lavatory and immediately goes back in, Sheldon goes over to Leonard and expresses his concerns. Penny returns and tells Sheldon he has nothing to worry about, she’s just pregnant. Relieved, Sheldon tells Amy the good news. Leonard is disgusted that Sheldon isn’t a little more happy for Penny.

Amy is furious that Penny kept her pregnancy a secret. Bernadette comes over and Amy tells her about Penny’s pregnancy; for a second, Bernadette is thrilled before she, too, gets angry that she wasn’t told about it. Penny explains that it just happened when she and Sheldon went out for drinks.

Later, at the hotel, Bernadette talks with Stuart on Skype to make sure everything’s okay. Stuart tells her that Halley lost a tooth while rolling down the stairs, and Neil has a fever. Penny is helping herself to pickled herring, while Leonard is still very disappointed that Sheldon wasn’t a little more happy for him and Penny. Sheldon comes over to apologize to them and say congratulations. Howard arrives to say that he and Bernadette are thinking about going home because they’re worried about the kids, and when Sheldon tells him to keep it together, he decides he’s definitely going home. Fed up with Sheldon’s behavior, Leonard and Penny are leaving as well.

As he and Amy are getting ready for the ceremony, Sheldon expresses his disgust that their friends are choosing to leave them on their big day. Amy promptly explains they’re leaving because he unintentionally offended them as he always does, and they only put up with it because they’re his friends, adding that it’s true for her as well now and then.

Penny is sick from eating all that food. Even though she and Leonard are mad at Sheldon, they still want to be there to support him and Amy because they care about him. Leonard states that Sheldon has been their practice kid, in a sense. They then get a call from Howard, who tells them that they decided to stay; Bernadette’s parents are filling in for Stuart and Denise, and Mike accidentally broke one of Stuart’s ribs while hugging him.

At the ceremony, Sheldon and Amy are awarded their medals as the gang looks on; Raj brought Sarah Michelle Gellar as his guest. Amy gives a shoutout to young girls around the world, saying that winning a Nobel Prize is a great honor and that anyone interested in science should go for it, because it is the best job of all. Sheldon puts his long self-centered speech aside, and instead says that if it weren’t for his family and friends, he would never have reached his lifelong dream of winning a Nobel Prize. He always foolishly believed that his accomplishments were his doing. He always had support from his wife and friends; he then acknowledges Raj, Howard, Bernadette, Penny, and Leonard. Calling Penny and Leonard his dearest friends in the world, he recalls the day they first met, and that Leonard said they would one day have beautiful and smart kids. Penny is very touched by this, as she had yet to tell her parents. He then apologizes for being such a bad friend in all the time that they have known him, and says that he loves all of them in his own way, and Amy, too. Thanking all of them, he and Amy are met with applause.

Back in Apartment 4A, Bernadette, Howard, Leonard, Penny, Sheldon, Amy, and Raj are all having takeout food, talking and laughing, as an acoustic version of the show’s theme song plays in the background.

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Characters
Main Characters: Leonard HofstadterSheldon CooperPenny HofstadterHoward WolowitzRajesh KoothrappaliAmy Farrah FowlerBernadette Rostenkowski-WolowitzStuart BloomEmily SweeneyLeslie Winkle

Recurring Characters: Barry KripkeWil WheatonAltheaKurtEric GablehauserMary CooperDebbie WolowitzV.M. KoothrappaliMrs. KoothrappaliMikeStephanie BarnettBeverley HofstadterPresident SiebertZack JohnsonPriya KoothrappaliWyattMike RostenkowskiMrs. RostenkowskiAlex JensenJanine DavisLucyProfessor ProtonDavid GibbsClaireStephen HawkingAlfred HofstadterColonel Richard WilliamsDenise
Minor Characters: Christy VanderbelLalita GuptaToby LoobenfeldDennis KimDimitriMissy CooperBlainTomOctaviaMariaLourdesRamona NowitzkiKathy O'BrianDavid UnderhillAliciaMikaylaCaptain SweatpantsLonely LarryDr. CrawleyBethanySarahSkeeterProfessor LaughlinAbbyMarthaOfficer HackettSandyGlenVenkatesh KoothrappaliSebastianLouie/LouiseJoyce KimMrs. GundersonJoyMrs. FowlerAngela PageProfessor GlennMrs. LathamTodd ZarneckiSusanRandallColonel Richard Williams

Episodes
Season 1: PilotThe Big Bran HypothesisThe Fuzzy Boots CorollaryThe Luminous Fish EffectThe Hamburger PostulateThe Middle-Earth ParadigmThe Dumpling ParadoxThe Grasshopper ExperimentThe Cooper-Hofstadter PolarizationThe Loobenfeld DecayThe Pancake Batter AnomalyThe Jerusalem DualityThe Bat Jar ConjectureThe Nerdvana AnnihilationThe Porkchop IndeterminacyThe Peanut ReactionThe Tangerine Factor

Season 2: The Bad Fish ParadigmThe Codpiece TopologyThe Barbarian SublimationThe Griffin EquivalencyThe Euclid AlternativeThe Cooper-Nowitzki TheoremThe Panty Piñata PolarizationThe Lizard-Spock ExpansionThe White Asparagus TriangulationThe Vartabedian ConundrumThe Bath Item Gift HypothesisThe Killer Robot InstabilityThe Friendship AlgorithmThe Financial PermeabilityThe Maternal CapacitanceThe Cushion SaturationThe Terminator DecouplingThe Work Song NanoclusterThe Dead Hooker JuxtapositionThe Hofstadter IsotopeThe Vegas RenormalizationThe Classified Materials TurbulenceThe Monopolar Expedition
Season 3: The Electric Can Opener FluctuationThe Jiminy ConjectureThe Gothowitz DeviationThe Pirate SolutionThe Creepy Candy Coating CorollaryThe Cornhusker VortexThe Guitarist AmplificationThe Adhesive Duck DeficiencyThe Vengeance FormulationThe Gorilla ExperimentThe Maternal CongruenceThe Psychic VortexThe Bozeman ReactionThe Einstein ApproximationThe Large Hadron CollisionThe Excelsior AcquisitionThe Precious FragmentationThe Pants AlternativeThe Wheaton RecurrenceThe Spaghetti CatalystThe Plimpton StimulationThe Staircase ImplementationThe Lunar Excitation
Season 4: The Robotic ManipulationThe Cruciferous Vegetable AmplificationThe Zazzy SubstitutionThe Hot Troll DeviationThe Desperation EmanationThe Irish Pub FormulationThe Apology InsufficiencyThe 21-Second ExcitationThe Boyfriend ComplexityThe Alien Parasite HypothesisThe Justice League RecombinationThe Bus Pants UtilizationThe Love Car DisplacementThe Thespian CatalystThe Benefactor FactorThe Cohabitation FormulationThe Toast DerivationThe Prestidigitation ApproximationThe Zarnecki IncursionThe Herb Garden GerminationThe Agreement DissectionThe Wildebeest ImplementationThe Engagement ReactionThe Roommate Transmogrification
Season 5: The Skank Reflex AnalysisThe Infestation HypothesisThe Pulled Groin ExtrapolationThe Wiggly Finger CatalystThe Russian Rocket ReactionThe Rhinitis RevelationThe Good Guy FluctuationThe Isolation PermutationThe Ornithophobia DiffusionThe Flaming Spittoon AcquisitionThe Speckerman RecurrenceThe Shiny Trinket ManeuverThe Recombination HypothesisThe Beta Test InitiationThe Friendship ContractionThe Vacation SolutionThe Rothman DisintegrationThe Werewolf TransformationThe Weekend VortexThe Transporter MalfunctionThe Hawking ExcitationThe Stag ConvergenceThe Launch AccelerationThe Countdown Reflection
Season 6: The Date Night VariableThe Decoupling FluctuationThe Higgs Boson ObservationThe Re-Entry MinimizationThe Holographic ExcitationThe Extract ObliterationThe Habitation ConfigurationThe 43 PeculiarityThe Parking Lot EscalationThe Fish Guts DisplacementThe Santa SimulationThe Egg Salad EquivalencyThe Bakersfield ExpeditionThe Cooper/Kripke InversionThe Spoiler Alert SegmentationThe Tangible Affection ProofThe Monster IsolationThe Contractual Obligation ImplementationThe Closet ReconfigurationThe Tenure TurbulenceThe Closure AlternativeThe Proton ResurgenceThe Love Spell PotentialThe Bon Voyage Reaction
Season 7: The Hofstadter InsufficiencyThe Deception VerificationThe Scavenger VortexThe Raiders MinimizationThe Workplace ProximityThe Romance ResonanceThe Proton DisplacementThe Itchy Brain SimulationThe Thanksgiving DecouplingThe Discovery DissipationThe Cooper ExtractionThe Hesitation RamificationThe Occupation RecalibrationThe Convention ConundrumThe Locomotive ManipulationThe Table PolarizationThe Friendship TurbulenceThe Mommy ObservationThe Indecision AmalgamationThe Relationship DiremptionThe Anything Can Happen RecurrenceThe Proton TransmogrificationThe Gorilla DissolutionThe Status Quo Combustion
Season 8: The Locomotion InterruptionThe Junior Professor SolutionThe First Pitch InsufficiencyThe Hook-up ReverberationThe Focus AttenuationThe Expedition ApproximationThe Misinterpretation AgitationThe Prom EquivalencyThe Septum DeviationThe Champagne ReflectionThe Clean Room InfiltrationThe Space Probe DisintegrationThe Anxiety OptimizationThe Troll ManifestationThe Comic Book Store RegenerationThe Intimacy AccelerationThe Colonization ApplicationThe Leftover ThermalizationThe Skywalker IncursionThe Fortification ImplementationThe Communication DeteriorationThe Graduation TransmissionThe Maternal CombustionThe Commitment Determination
Season 9: The Matrimonial MomentumThe Separation OscillationThe Bachelor Party CorrosionThe 2003 ApproximationThe Perspiration ImplementationThe Helium InsufficiencyThe Spock ResonanceThe Mystery Date ObservationThe Platonic PermutationThe Earworm ReverberationThe Opening Night ExcitationThe Sales Call SublimationThe Empathy OptimizationThe Meemaw MaterializationThe Valentino SubmergenceThe Positive Negative ReactionThe Celebration ExperimentationThe Application DeteriorationThe Solder Excursion DiversionThe Big Bear PrecipitationThe Viewing Party CombustionThe Fermentation BifurcationThe Line Substitution SolutionThe Convergence-Convergence
Season 10: The Conjugal ConjectureThe Military MiniaturizationThe Dependence TranscendenceThe Cohabitation ExperimentationThe Hot Tub ContaminationThe Fetal Kick CatalystThe Veracity ElasticityThe Brain Bowl IncubationThe Geology ElevationThe Property Division CollisionThe Birthday SynchronicityThe Holiday SummationThe Romance RecalibrationThe Emotion Detection AutomationThe Locomotion ReverberationThe Allowance EvaporationThe Comic-Con ConundrumThe Escape Hatch IdentificationThe Collaboration FluctuationThe Recollection DissipationThe Separation AgitationThe Cognition RegenerationThe Gyroscopic CollapseThe Long Distance Dissonance
Season 11: The Proposal ProposalThe Retraction ReactionThe Relaxation IntegrationThe Explosion ImplosionThe Collaboration ContaminationThe Proton RegenerationThe Geology MethodologyThe Tesla RecoilThe Bitcoin EntanglementThe Confidence ErosionThe Celebration ReverberationThe Matrimonial MetricThe Solo OscillationThe Separation TriangulationThe Novelization CorrelationThe Neonatal NomenclatureThe Athenaeum AllocationThe Gates ExcitationThe Tenant DisassociationThe Reclusive PotentialThe Comet PolarizationThe Monetary InsufficiencyThe Sibling RealignmentThe Bow Tie Asymmetry
Season 12: The Conjugal ConfigurationThe Wedding Gift WormholeThe Procreation CalculationThe Tam TurbulenceThe Planetarium CollisionThe Imitation PerturbationThe Grant Allocation DerivationThe Consummation DeviationThe Citation NegationThe VCR IlluminationThe Paintball ScatteringThe Propagation PropositionThe Confirmation PolarizationThe Meteorite ManifestationThe Donation OscillationThe D & D VortexThe Conference ValuationThe Laureate AccumulationThe Inspiration DeprivationThe Decision ReverberationThe Plagiarism SchismThe Maternal ConclusionThe Change ConstantThe Stockholm Syndrome

Locations
The Apartment BuildingApartment 4AApartment 4BThe ElevatorCalifornia Institute of TechnologyWolowitz HouseThe Comic Center of PasadenaPasadenaThe Cheesecake FactoryRaj's ApartmentAmy's ApartmentHoward and Bernadette's ApartmentThe StairsSheldon's Old OfficeRaj's Old OfficeSheldon's New OfficeHoward's LabThe University CafeteriaKripke's Plasma LabInternational Space StationThe Kinetics Lab
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Unaired Pilot
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