The Habitation Configuration 

Howard makes a decision whether or not to move out of his mother's house, while Sheldon is caught in the middle of an argument between Amy and Wil Wheaton.

Director:

Mark Cendrowski

Writers:

Chuck Lorre (created by), Bill Prady (created by)

Stars:

Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Johnny Galecki	...	Leonard Hofstadter
Jim Parsons	...	Sheldon Cooper
Kaley Cuoco	...	Penny
Simon Helberg	...	Howard Wolowitz
Kunal Nayyar	...	Raj Koothrappali
Mayim Bialik	...	Amy Farrah Fowler
Melissa Rauch	...	Bernadette Rostenkowski
Wil Wheaton	...	Wil Wheaton
LeVar Burton	...	LeVar Burton
Carol Ann Susi	...	Debbie Wolowitz (voice)

Storyline

Sheldon decides to tape a special "Fun With Flags" episode about Star Trek flags, and invites his friend, Wil Wheaton to be a guest star. During the taping Amy, who is in directing the show, keeps correcting Wil's acting. Both Amy and Wil take a dislike to each other and Sheldon is caught in the middle between friend and girlfriend. Amy tells Sheldon that he should stick up for his girlfriend and she leaves. Naive Sheldon takes her departure as her solution to the problem. Later Leonard suggests that Amy was mad at him and that he should call her. Sheldon calls Amy in jest; however, she confirms that she is mad. Sheldon is amazed that Amy was mad and that Leonard was right. First Sheldon tries to gives her a Star Trek DVD set so she can become more familiar with Wil. Then after some advice from Penny and a few Long Island ice teas, he goes over to Wil Wheaton's house and demands an apology or Sheldon will be beat him up. Wil does apologize. His final solution is to do the episode with...

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Plot Keywords:

webcast | packing | united federation of planets flag | reference to pinocchio | director | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 November 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 25, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chuck Lorre Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

21 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Sheldon goes to Wil Wheaton's home, his house number (1701) is visible. 1701 is the number in the registry for the U.S.S. Enterprise-D (NCC-1701-D) in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) in which Wheaton appeared.

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Goofs

Sheldon states that Will Wheton is the only person he knows that has been immortalized in 1/16 scale. this is not true cause he also know Brent Spiner, who was also on star trek the next generation and his character was made into a action figure.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Sheldon Cooper: Hello. I'm Dr. Sheldon Cooper. And welcome to Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags. Before we get started, I'd like to announce the winner of our Design Your Own Flag competition, but I can't. The only entry was from gamygamer seventy-five, and I know that was a jpeg of your buttocks. Now, this week we have a very special episode where we explore the flags of the popular entertainment franchise 'Star Trek', and to help me I'm pleased to introduce internet personality, uh, former...

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Crazy Credits

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #398

I need to apologize. In an earlier vanity card I made a derisive comment about a popular reality show because I thought its premise - a group of single women compete with one another to win the affections of, and ultimately marry, an eligible man - was more threatening to the sanctity of marriage than gay people tying the knot. After careful consideration, I now realize that I couldn't have been more wrong. My mistake was that I was looking at the show through the tired old eyes of 60's feminism. But we are clearly in a post-feminist era. The patriarchal sexism that treated women as chattel and dictated how much they could earn or how much control they could have over their own bodies is a thing of the past, a curious relic of a dark, unenlightened time. Likewise, the idea that a woman without a man was somehow incomplete has long ago been consigned to the overflowing dustbin of humankind's misbegotten thinking. Women are now free to do anything they want, and that includes going on a reality show and using all their female wiles to snag Mr. Right.

I really don't know what else to say except, "I'm sorry and, um... you go, girl!"

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Connections

References The Secret of NIMH (1982)

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Soundtracks

History of Everything (Instrumental version)
(uncredited)
Written by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
[Instrumental version of series theme song played over the closing credits]

User Reviews

It was always better than this!

The episode wasn't as good as previous episodes at all. It made me laugh a couple of times, but it wasn't what I expected from the BBT show. The last few episodes, and especially the last one, were absolutely brilliant and funny, and every moment contained a joke that rolled me on the floor laughing. But in this one, the jokes were too weak. and the story didn't start to get funny until last sequences.

The Howard's moving story wasn't amusing and the Wheaton-Amy fight was not a good idea and made it a little sad. Another weak point of this episode was that raj's appearance was too little and I missed his nice accent and strong jokes.

I hope they do a better job next time, and I'm pretty sure they will!