- Amy hosts a traditional Victorian Christmas Eve dinner as Raj's father comes to visit, while the guys try to shoo out a bird they let into the university clean room.
- Raj can't host this year's Christmas Eve dinner party because his soon to be divorced father is coming for a visit. So Amy volunteers to host the dinner, she choosing the theme of a traditional Victorian Christmas. Raj and Dr. Koothrappali are nonetheless invited. The day of the party, Leonard and Howard, working on an experiment in the clean room, are detained and require Raj's help when an accident causes the clean room to be not so clean. They have to figure out what to do, the three ultimately deciding that the blame falls on one person, who has a sense of déjà vu for the remainder of the evening and as they deal with the issue. Bernadette is driving Sheldon to Amy's. Irked that Amy would agree to host a dinner that he wants no part of, Sheldon tries to figure out a way to get back at Amy. That leaves Amy, Penny and Dr. Koothrappali alone at the party, which is dominated by Dr. Koothrappali's less than positive current view of marriage, and Amy's focus on making everything as traditionally Victorian as possible.—Huggo
- It's Christmas and Raj who usually hosts it says he can't because his father who just separated from his wife is coming. So Amy offers to host it and wants the theme to be Victorian and Sheldon wants no part of it. Leonard and Howard are working in the clean room and were about to leave when a bird flies in and they both accuse the other of not closing the door. And Howard not wanting anyone to know what happened wants to handle it themselves. They call Raj who leaves his father with Penny and Amy, and he can't help but go on about how mean his wife is. Sheldon who is going to the party, is going with Bernadette is still upset decides to go buy Amy a present.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- At dinner in Apartment 4A, Raj tells everyone that his parents are divorcing and getting themselves lawyers. Raj's father is visiting, so he can't host Christmas Eve dinner so Amy volunteers since she always wanted to host a traditional English Victorian Christmas for gang including parlor games, goose and Figgy pudding. Sheldon doesn't like Figgy pudding because of all of the raisins and won't come. Raj is a little miffed about themed-holidays since they didn't like his "Tom Hanks"-giving, and is angry when everyone takes an interest in Amy's Victorian theme.
On Christmas Eve, Leonard and Howard are in contamination garments in the university clean-room constructing an experiment to detect Cosmic ray. Leonard likes the fact that he has no allergy problems due to the sterile room. A pigeon flies in the room because Howard left the loading dock door open. Now they have to get rid of it before the bird soils the dust-free room. Howard doesn't want to call facilities and get blamed. First he suggests they turn off all the Electric lights except for one, but that is to attract moths. At Amy's apartment, Amy and Penny are visiting with Raj and his father Dr. V.M. Koothrappali (Brian George) who has nothing good to say about his wife. On his twenty-hour airplane flight without his wife, he didn't pray for the plane to crash. The guys call Raj to help them deal with the pigeon. Dr. Koothrappali stays with the girls.
Bernadette has picked up Sheldon and is singing Christmas carols about Santa Claus in her car with too much Christmas joy until Sheldon turns off the music. He and Amy decided not to get each other something for Christmas since Sheldon doesn't enjoy it. While they were Christmas tree shopping, Amy kissed him under the mistletoe in public making Sheldon very unhappy. Sheldon has decided to punish her to make her feel as miserable as he does so he is going to buy her a Christmas present. Since she has not gotten him one, that would ruin her Christmas and make her guilty and sad according to Sheldon's logic.
Howard is trying to catch the pigeon in a garbage bag with a Slim Jim which, Leonard thinks is stupid. Howard doesn't want to get the blame even though he always tries to hide his culpability. Raj arrives and wants to know the situation. Leonard explains that Howard wants to catch the bird in a garbage bag with a Slim Jim, which he holds up and the pigeon snatches and flies off.
Back at Amy's place, Dr. Koothrappali thinks that it is too soon to think about dating again. Amy brings out her first parlor game that involves blowing a ball of wool across a table. Penny also tells Raj's father that Amy is also taken.
While trying to catch the pigeon, Howard tells Leonard that he is jealous because they used to be best friends till Raj came along. Leonard thinks that happened because Howard can push Raj around. Howard decides to make Raj get the bird out, but Raj is sure that it was Howard who let the pigeon in, scoffing at the idea that Leonard would do something like that.
Bernadette and Sheldon are shopping for the perfect gift to ruin Amy's Christmas. Amy likes Chaucer, medieval literature and old French movies which make her eyes light up according to Sheldon. He also likes the way her fingers dance around on invisible harp strings whenever she hears harp music. He does admit that he really loves Amy, but he wants to find a gift to make her feel small and worthless.
Amy and Dr. Koothrappali are now blowing the ball of wool back and forth across the table with increasing boredom, as Penny watches. Dr. Koothrappali wins though Penny quips that it probably doesn't feel that way. Penny brings up Raj's girlfriend Emily, who also works a lot. She thinks that that is funny, but Dr. Koothrappali is not amused.
Sheldon is now sitting on Santa's lap telling him that he wants their photograph together to punish his girlfriend for making him celebrate Christmas. Santa thinks that dating Sheldon is punishment enough.
Back in the clean room, they are trying to catch the bird with a blanket and a fire extinguisher to get him out the door. Leonard has the fire extinguisher, Raj is standing by the door to open it, and Howard has the blanket. They trade tools and Howard attacks the pigeon with the fire extinguisher which causes the bird to fall dead onto the floor. The bird is not breathing so Howard gives it CPR thus reviving the bird. As they carry the bird toward the door to let him out, a crow flies into the room because no one has yet closed the door. As the crow looks down at the guys, they debate calling building services on Christmas Eve. Penny calls Leonard and just tells them to leave as it's Christmas Eve and nobody would know they were in there to begin with. Even though they signed into the clean room, she tells them to erase their names off the list and get out of there. The next scene implies that they did just that, as it shows them in the car singing "Jingle Bells" heading toward the party.
After finishing the Figgy pudding, Sheldon first complains about the raisins, but Amy tells him that they were figs, so Sheldon is fine with that. Dr. Koothrappali offers to help; however, since he Heimlich a ball of wool out of her, he didn't have to. Sheldon gives Amy his gift of his picture with Santa in a Picture frame that plays a personal Christmas greeting to her from him and she loves it. Sheldon tells her that she got him nothing, expecting her to be sad. He is happy because they will never do it again, but despite their agreement, she made Sheldon a gift, his favorite cookies from his Meemaw's recipe. Amy talked to her to get the recipe. Sheldon tries one and says they're perfect. Amy wishes Sheldon Merry Christmas. Everyone is happy and Sheldon wonders if giving is what Christmas is all about in a softer, gentler tone.
Finally, with the party still occurring, Amy wants them all to sit down and play "Hot Boiled Beans." Amy explains that one person leaves the room while the rest hide a small item in the room. The first person is invited back in by saying, "Hot boiled beans and bacon for supper, hurry up before it gets cold!" Raj shakes his head and claims they are all crazy.
Title reference: Two birds invade the sterile clean room that Howard and Leonard are using for an experiment.
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