This episode is weird. It introduces a character from left field as if he will be important to the show, yet he never appears again. It finally occurred to me that Tam must be a character from Young Sheldon that they're retconning in. I kinda love BBT, but simply cannot sit through an episode of YS, so I forget that show exists.
So the retcon/fixup could be clumsy, but could be an opportunity for some goofy insider laughs. The writers went hard for clumsy and hit it right on the nose. The premise of booting Leonard out of his own show was unfunny, and they shoe-horn Tam into an unearned, leaden "emotional" goodbye.
Anu is written as a grating, heartless lump who is a terrible mismatch for soft-hearted Raj. It was a mistake to give the character as much screen time as she gets, and she puts a solid dent in this episode.
Retcon fixups usually stink, and this is an unremarkable one of those, with a side dish of worst character in the series. Literally skippable.
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