The Big Bang Theory 5x24 The Countdown Reflection

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First Aired: May. 10, 2012 on CBS

Summary: Wolowitz makes his final preparations to launch into space

Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Raj Koothrappali	played by Kunal Nayyar
Amy Farrah Fowler	played by Mayim Bialik
Bernadette Rostenkowski	played by Melissa Rauch
Mrs. Wolowitz	voiced by Carol Ann Susi
Mr. Rostenkowski	played by Casey Sander
Dimitri	played by Pasha D. Lychnikoff
Himself	played by Michael J. Massimino
Joan	played by Amy Tolsky

Episode Quotes

Howard Wolowitz: [as the rocket gets ready for lift-off] I changed my mind, I don't wanna do this.

Sheldon Cooper: Boldly go, Howard Wolowitz.

Howard Wolowitz: We have the where and the when, but we still need to figure out who's going to do the ceremony.
Penny: That's easy. Anyone can go online and get ordained as a minister. I know a piercing parlor where for a hundred bucks they'll marry you and stick a wedding ring through any body part you want.
Howard Wolowitz: Great. Well, who's it gonna be?
Sheldon Cooper: I'll do it. Provided I can perform the ceremony in Klingon.
Bernadette Rostenkowski: No.
Sheldon Cooper: What do you see in her?

Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (factual errors): The badly spoken russian countdown to rocket launch at the end of episode was missing number 6 ("shest")

Trivia

The wedding music is the first movement of Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) from Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Howard's mother is from New Jersey.
The painting that Amy gave to Penny is visible through Penny's apartment door in the scene where Howard talks to Amy and Bernadette before the wedding.
The Russian Soyuz and the Sokol spacesuits that were worn by the astronaut and actors are Hollywood replicas, but true to the show's reputation, they are both surprisingly realistic.
When the camera shows the aerial view of the wedding ceremony, Mrs.Wolowitz can be seen in the lower right hand corner, though only briefly, making her first appearance on the series instead of only bring heard.

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