The Good Guy Fluctuation
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Episode 7
- Chuck Lorre
- Dave Goetsch
- Maria Ferrari
| "The Good Guy Fluctuation" | |
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| The Big Bang Theory episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 7 |
| Directed by | Mark Cendrowski[1] |
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| Production code | 3X6857[1] |
| Original air date | October 27, 2011[1] |
| Running time | 20 minutes[2] |
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"The Good Guy Fluctuation" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory and the 94th episode of the show overall. It first aired on CBS on October 27, 2011.[1]
In the episode, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) is uncertain whether to cheat on his girlfriend while Sheldon (Jim Parsons) is the victim of a Halloween prank and attempts to get revenge.
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
Leonard, still in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend Priya, meets an artist and comic book enthusiast named Alice, and they are attracted to each other. He asks Penny for advice, but she does not offer anything he finds useful. He then goes to Sheldon, who quotes Friedrich Nietzsche. Leonard finds this advice helpful and goes to Alice's apartment. As they are kissing, he changes his mind and decides not to cheat on Priya. Leonard tells Alice that he is in a relationship and is thrown out of her apartment. Afterwards, he tells Priya via Skype what happened with Alice. Priya, however, admits she had sex with her ex-boyfriend. Shocked that she outright slept with another man while he only kissed a woman, Leonard ends the conversation and is left in dismay.
Meanwhile, Sheldon is the victim of a Halloween prank. He attempts to get revenge on Leonard by placing an airbag in his mailbox, but this backfires because Leonard turns it on him. Then, he hides a snake in Raj's desk at work; however, Raj is not afraid of it and adores it. Sheldon goes to Howard's house with a joy buzzer and asks to shake his hand. Howard shakes hands and then falls to the floor. Bernadette tells Sheldon that Howard had a heart condition and forces Sheldon to inject adrenaline into his heart. Howard opens his eyes and reveals that he was just pretending to faint. Sheldon then accidentally shocks himself while giving himself a face slap in frustration.
Finally, Sheldon successfully pranks Leonard; after his video chat with Priya, Sheldon jumps up from under the couch cushions dressed as a zombie. Successfully scaring Leonard, he declares, "Bazinga, punk! Now we're even."
