Top 10 Times Bernadette was a Savage on The Big Bang Theory
#10: Training Howard for a Magic Audition
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“The VCR Illumination” Bernadette makes fun of Howard’s love of magic on multiple occasions throughout the series. But in Season 12, when she sees a video of a young Howard practicing for his Magic Castle audition she encourages him to try again. She even helps him practice for his audition. But when we say “help,” we mean she completely takes over, culling from her years of childhood pageants and becoming, what we will call, a pageant wife. Speaking of Howard’s magic, there’s also the time he puts on a magic show at a birthday party and Bernadette’s lack of patience with the kids is anything but subtle.
#9: Go Get ‘Em
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“The Discovery Dissipation” In the Season 7 episode “The Discovery Dissipation,” Raj’s apartment building is being fumigated, so he goes to stay with Howard and Bernadette for a week. While there, he’s a wonderful houseguest and attentive to both Howard and Bernadette’s needs. The problem is that this makes the two of them realize how unattentive they’ve been to each other and leads to an argument in which Howard points out that Raj left a note in his lunch that said “Go get ‘em.” Rather than sympathize with her husband, Bernadette points out that he isn’t a child and shouldn’t need a note. She got him!
#8: Make More Money
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“The Athenaeum Allocation” When it’s time for Howard and Bernadette to go back to work after the birth of their second child, Howard decides that he isn’t ready and wants to be a stay-at-home dad. However, when he brings this up with Bernadette, she too admits that she’s having those same feelings about returning to the office. Howard argues that because Bernadette makes more money, that she should be the one to go back to work. It might seem like a solid argument on the surface, but Bernadette’s counter argument is savagely on point.
#7: Who Cooked?
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“The Property Division Collision” Howard Wolowitz has many talents. He can do card tricks, he writes catchy and romantic songs, and he can fit into pants that look like they’d be too tight on Jack Skellington. But one thing he can’t do is cook - or at least he doesn’t. When Bernadette walks into the dining room and sees dinner on the table, it seems very reasonable for her first guess - as to who cooked the meal - to be Stuart, who’s been staying with them. When Howard questions her instincts, her response - while not mathematically sound - is priceless.
#6: Surrounded by Idiots
“The Confirmation Polarization” When Bernadette Rostenkowski first showed up on the show, she was a quiet, somewhat reserved girl that was nice to just about everyone. As the seasons progressed and we got to know her better, we all watched as the tough, competitive, take-no-crap side of her character emerged. It’s not to say that Bernadette wasn’t nice anymore, it’s just that she doesn’t - as the saying goes - suffer fools gladly. A point she makes abundantly clear to Penny one day at work. Although, she savagely uses the term “idiots” instead of “fools.”
#5: Cinderella
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“The Contractual Obligation Implementation” Disneyland is billed as “the happiest place on earth,” and it is - as long as Bernadette gets to be Cinderella. When the girls decide to play hooky from work and go to Disneyland, Bernadette mentions that the first thing she wants to do is get a princess makeover. The other girls are on board, but when it comes to deciding who will be which princess, Bernie makes it very clear that there will only be one Cinderella… and it will be her. Later, after the makeovers, Penny is still a little bitter, but Bernie sure isn’t backing down.
#4: Fake Laugh
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“The Hesitation Ramification” We’ll admit that, being huge fans of “When Harry Met Sally…,” any reference to said film is going to get our attention. It definitely did in the Season 7 episode, “The Hesitation Ramification,” when Bernadette admits to sometimes fake-laughing at people’s jokes. Howard is sure she’s never faked it with him, certain he would’ve been able to tell the difference. It’s at this point that Bernadette puts him in his place with her on-point ode to Meg Ryan in the diner scene of the aforementioned movie. We’ll definitely have what she’s having.
#3: Scavenger Hunt
“The Scavenger Vortex” When Raj organizes a scavenger hunt for the gang, Leonard and Bernadette are a team while Howard gets paired up with Amy. Amy assumes Howard would’ve preferred to have been on a team with his wife, but she’s wrong. Howard loves Bernadette, but she’s uber competitive. A fact Leonard learns right away, and over and over again throughout the hunt. Penny also gets a taste of Bernie’s scavenger savagery at the end of the hunt when the latter shoves her friend out of the way looking for the victory coin.
#2: When the Airline Loses Howard’s Mom
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“The Intimacy Acceleration” We know Bernadette doesn’t suffer fools gladly, so how do you think she’d react to an airline losing a suitcase that contains the ashes of Howard’s dead mother? When Howard can’t get any answers and is too distraught to do anything else about it, Bernie steps in and gets it done. It isn’t the fault of the lady behind the customer service desk, but she’s the one that gets the brunt of Bernadette’s wrath. A wrath so savage it guarantees they leave the airport with a dead woman. Bernie also savagely steps in when Sheldon and Leonard arguing is ruining a celebratory dinner for Howard’s mother a couple episodes later. Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
Backhanded Compliment, “The VCR Illumination”
Howard Is Good at Dumb Magic
Sending Sheldon Shopping With Mrs. Wolowitz, “The Hawking Excitation”
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Weird Guy Raj, “The Separation Triangulation”
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Nice Try, Howard, “The Comic-Con Conundrum”
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Smallpox, “The Recombination Hypothesis”
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#1: Theoretical Burn
“The Parking Spot Escalation” In Season 6’s “The Parking Spot Escalation,” Howard and Sheldon are in a back-and-forth war over a parking spot at the university, and eventually their significant others are pulled into the action. Amy and Bernadette are initially on the same side - complaining about the stupidity of the entire situation. However, the conversation soon turns nasty as the women get aggressive in defending their men to each other. Eventually, Bernadette delivers one of the great lines of the entire series. A burn so savage it elicits an audible “DAMN!” from Penny - and most likely from everyone watching at home as well. While Bernie seems pretty proud of that burn, she’s less happy about another jab at Amy’s sexuality she makes a couple season’s later.
