The Big Bang Theory The Wiggly Finger Catalyst (2007–2019) Online
- Original Title :
- The Wiggly Finger Catalyst
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Comedy / Romance
- Year :
- 2007–2019
- Directror :
- Mark Cendrowski
- Cast :
- Johnny Galecki,Jim Parsons,Kaley Cuoco
- Writer :
- Chuck Lorre,Bill Prady
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 20min
- Rating :
- 8.0/10
Especially with Howard and Bernadette's impending marriage, everyone, including Raj himself, is feeling sorry for Raj not having a girlfriend. The problem of Raj finding a girlfriend or one of his friends finding him a girlfriend is his inability to speak to women unless intoxicated. Penny, however, thinks she's come up with the perfect girl who at least gets around that talking issue. Emily, who Penny knows solely from her spin class, is deaf. Despite initially needing Howard to translate since Howard knows ASL - Howard who feels he needs to take poetic license in translating what Raj wants to say - Raj and Emily seem to hit it off. Raj quickly falls head over heals in love with her, and the gang believes Emily has fallen head over heels in love with Raj. However, they soon change their minds about Emily's feelings, believing that she has only one selfish interest in Raj, which makes them see Raj in a slightly different light. As the one who got Raj into the relationship, Penny feels...
| 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 |
 | Katie Leclerc | - | Emily |
 | Brian George | - | Dr. V.M. Koothrappali |
 | Alice Amter | - | Mrs. Koothrappali |
Raj acts as if he has never come into contact, or dated, a deaf woman before, but according to a previously in season 4, he actually had a deaf girlfriend once. This is later revealed to be a lie from Raj in The Boyfriend Complexity.
Howard knows how to use sign language among the many languages he speaks.
Sheldon describes Raj's family's wealth as being "About halfway between Bruce Wayne and Scrooge McDuck." The 2011 Forbes Fictional 15 puts Bruce Wayne at $7 billion and Scrooge McDuck at $44 billion, which puts Raj's NET value at approximately $25.5 billion. However, as he was described as being "Richie Rich" rich, this may put his NET value at $9.7 billion.
Brian George (Dr V.M. Koothrappali) and Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) previously worked together on the Blossom (1990) episode, Blossom: Oh, Baby (1994) as Shakir and Blossom respectively.
Sheldon works as a Notary Public.
The title refers to the deaf sign language used throughout the episode.
When Raj was 6, he tried to form a boy band called "Frankie goes to Bollywood" but no one wanted to join so his parents got some of the servants to be his backup dancers.
Amy wants to be a bridesmaid for Bernadette at the wedding and eventually gets her wish.