- While Sheldon retires "Fun With Flags", Leonard, Howard and Raj look for something significant in a dead professor's research, and Bernadette finds out what her colleagues really think of her.
- Leonard, Howard and Raj are cleaning out the office of recently deceased Professor Roger Abbott. Rather than check through the material to save anything of worth as they are supposed to do, they largely throw everything out without reading through it, until Leonard comes across a fifty year old gift to the professor from his mother. That gift makes the three think about his material with a little more reverence, especially those notes which they don't understand. Their quest leads them to Professor Sharpe, Professor Abbott's long time office mate who may be able to shed some light on the life and work of Professor Abbott. Regardless, this task ends up making the three think about their own scientific legacies. Meanwhile, Sheldon and Amy are filming what will be the 232nd and last episode of Fun with Flags, as Sheldon has decided he no longer has the time to devote to it. Despite Sheldon being able to convince a reluctant LeVar Burton to appear, the episode may ultimately be marred by the fact this episode was not the 233rd. And Penny and Bernadette are attending a company social event. Penny and her boss Dan continue to bond over the fact that Bernadette scares them and everyone else in the company. As her friend, Penny decides to tell Bernadette what everyone thinks of her, with some unexpected consequences.—Huggo
- Sheldon is taping the final episode of "Sheldon Cooper presents Fun with Flags." Amy sets off a party popper that scares Sheldon. After only 232 episodes, the Internet series is over. Actually 233 if Amy hadn't failed to hit the record button on a Fourth of July episode.
Leonard, Howard and Raj are cleaning out Professor Roger Abbott's office, throwing out a life's work. Howard mused that someday someone else will throw out their work. Leonard really wonders if there are any important discoveries among the files. Raj finds a pen which when tilted; a girl's bathing suit falls off. Leonard finds a 50 year old bottle of champagne with a note from Professor Abbot's mother. The bottle is to be opened after he makes his first great discovery.
Penny meets her boss Dan (Stephen Root) at a company banquet and he greets her as his newest star employee who is the third best sales rep. Dan calls Bernie "dear, sweet vicious little Bernadette". Dan describes how she yelled at him and his grandson for losing the three-legged race at the company picnic. His grandson called her the mean little kid with the big boobies.
Sheldon is showing the highlights of his "Fun with Flags" series where viewers have learned, laughed, wondered and even shed a tear or two while learning about flags. Amy appears in a kangaroo costume for Australia, Sheldon is dressed as Betsy Ross debunking her myth, both of them are on a beach in 1890's costumes talking about beach warning flags and Barry Kripke is a guest playing the game "Fwag, not a Fwag" as flashcards are presented to him. In the beach scene Amy keeps looking at Sheldon's legs.
Leonard is reviewing some of Professor Abbot's notebooks that are full of numbers. He wants to find some time on the supercomputer to decode the notebooks. Howard agrees to help until he admits he has no idea how to decipher them. Raj tells him to talk to the fellow he shared the office with, Professor Sharp (Paul Wilson).
At the banquet, Dan, Penny and Bernadette are sharing a table. Penny asks about Dan's grandson who is seven. Bernadette remembers him from the picnic crying like a wuss. Her Dad always said that the only ones who like cry babies are mommies and Democrats. Penny points out that she can be rough on people at times.
LeVar Burton is back as FWF's guest. He is appearing under the assumption that Sheldon will erase his contact information in his presence. Sheldon shows LeVar the episode where he dressed up as George Washington Carver for Black History Month. His black-face tribute was called by Leonard "wildly racist".
The guys visit Professor Sharp's apartment in a run-down building to discuss the notebooks Leonard had found. Raj thinks that they are some kind of interstellar coordinate system for an updated version of Hubble's Law. Sharp explains that it is a caloric diary Professor Abbot had kept under the assumption that restricting calories was the key to living forever. As to his physics work, Professor Abbot never accomplished anything significant.
Penny continues to discuss Bernadette's personality. Bernadette says that she is tough, but that she isn't a bully. Penny replied that there is a difference between being tough and telling your friend that her new pants look like a saggy diaper. Bernadette wants to leave since she thinks that everybody hates her. People find her quite intimidating and she just has to show them how sweet she is.
Sheldon finishes his final episode throwing a salute to all his "flag-keteers." He wishes he could run them all up a flagpole and salute them. He thanks Amy and mentions that she is the first woman to co-host a flag or banner-related Internet show. Sheldon gets very sentimental as he signs off using his white flag as a handkerchief. Amy says that she thinks his sign-off was beautiful and all Sheldon can do is again ask her if she hit the record button.
Professor Sharpe's office is now empty. As the guys are throwing out the last of his files, Leonard sighs that that is the end of Roger Abbott. Not everyone achieves something great in their lives. Some people just have to concentrate on the small moments that make up their lives, muses Howard; however, he doesn't have to worry about that because he went into "space". Since the leftover bottle of champagne was meant to celebrate a great discovery, the guys decide to open it when one of them makes one. They will toast Professor Abbot, celebrate their achievement and also rub their success in Sheldon's face.
Penny and Bernadette approach Dan at the bar so she can apologize. Dan is nervous talking to her. Bernadette is sorry that she yelled at his grandson. Dan then tells her that the company is going to stop paying for everybody's coffee and that it started five months ago. No one wanted to tell her and everyone else has been paying for Bernadette's coffee by using the money from their "Profanity Swear Jar". They also gave her a private bathroom due to her attitude. Bernadette feels terrible and thinks that everyone sees her as a monster. Dan quips that she is like the cute one eyed one (Mike) from "Monsters, Inc". Bernadette breaks into tears and says that she wants to quit, but Penny says that the company needs her. Dan tells her that they will still pay for her coffee or even better get her an espresso machine. Bernadette sobs that that would be nice AND has found a new way to get what she wants.
Leonard returns home late with the bottle of champagne. Sheldon is hunched over his laptop not getting any comments on his last FWF episode. Sheldon feels that his efforts were for nothing, not unlike Leonard throwing out all of Professor Abbot's life's work which showed no significant accomplishments. Then one short note arrives on his website that someone was sorry FWF had ended. "The people are heartbroken!" Sheldon is going to bring the series back. He wants to celebrate and opens up the 50 year old bottle even though the guys had other plans for it. He didn't want to drink it, he just wanted to hear the pop, though it still scared him.
Finally, Sheldon visits LeVar's house knocking the usual three times. He wants LeVar to know that the show is back and LeVar can be his first guest. Wil Wheaton had told him to get a gate. Since LeVar was born in Germany would he like to help with an episode on German flags? And would he mind dressing up as a swastika? The door is slammed in his face.
Title reference: Leonard, Raj and Howard think about their own careers when finding the champagne of a deceased colleague meant to celebrate a significant breakthrough.
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