Another hilarious installment is set to invade our homes (and psyche) with this week's The Big Bang Theory season 2 episode 17 / The Big bang Theory episode 2.17 entitled "The Terminator Decoupling". They seem to come up with the weirdest of titles, don't they? Anyway, here is the spoiler for this week (courtesy of online fan sites): A train trip to San Francisco takes a major detour when Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz, and Raj discover that their favorite sci-fi actress in all the land (Summer Glau) is on board. But the fan boy frenzy quickly gives way to a heated mass debate when they realize one of them will
have to approach her. The title refers to the guest appearance of actress Summer Glau, one of the stars of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Find out who among the nerds will muster enough courage to approach their idol when The Big Bang Theory episode s02e17 airs later this week.

Posted below is another synopsis of this week's installment as released by the creators of the series. This is followed by the preview clip of "The Terminator Decoupling". Watch out as the full video stream of this episode comes out online soon.

The gang is thrilled when they learn Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' Summer Glau is also aboard their train to San Francisco.

Preview video: The Big Bang Theory season 2 episode 17
"The Terminator Decoupling", The Big Bang Theory episode 2.17

While waiting for the next episode to come out, here's what happened last week.

Episode Recap: The Big Bang Theory season 2 episode 16, The Cushion Saturation

A paintball game leads to a fight between Penny and Sheldon, and romance for Wolowitz and Leslie (Sara Gilbert). Penny accidently shoots the paintball gun at Sheldon's couch cushion (his "spot", his "only point of consistency in an ever-changing world"), and she and Leonard have a hard time getting it cleaned. They try just turning it over but Sheldon still notices the difference and turns it over to find the green stain. Penny has the cushion dry-cleaned, but it takes a week and Sheldon goes through withdrawal during that time. After refusing to sit on the dry-cleaned cushion, Leonard reveals that the Szechuan Palace (the only place Sheldon has his cashew chicken from)closed 2 years ago. Sheldon collapses into the couch but still doesn't like it. Sheldon gets his revenge by shooting Penny at the beginning of the group's next paintball game. Penny then shoots Sheldon, he protests she's dead. Leonard agrees and shoots Sheldon himself, who promptly fires back. The others leave. Meanwhile, Leslie and Howard start sleeping together at Howard's home, which lead to funny exchanges with Mrs. Wolowitz. Leslie is able to give Howard's work project some much-needed funds, although it turns out to be her way of controlling him. She asks him to come to her sister's wedding, he says no and she threatens to take away a trip to the CERN project in Geneva. After getting over his initial reluctance to be in that sort of relationship, Howard accepts his "sex toy/arm candy" role.

The title refers to Sheldon's "spot" being shot with a paint ball gun by Penny.

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