The Focus Attenuation
🎞️ S7 E5 🚫 Hard pass

The Big Bang Theory

Is The Big Bang Theory S7 E5 OK for kids?

The Focus Attenuation

Sheldon must decide how much "Amy time" is too much after she takes a job at his university. Meanwhile, Howard finds himself sleeping on Raj's couch after a fight with Bernadette.

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Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

The Big Bang Theory S7 E5, “The Focus Attenuation”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 1/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. Sheldon must decide how much "Amy time" is too much after she takes a job at his university. Meanwhile, Howard finds himself sleeping on Raj's couch after a fight with Bernadette.

Across the episode we counted 15 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (6); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (1); Alcohol & drugs (4). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 2 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E5:

  • Raj Easy. Sleeping with Penny.
  • Leonard Okay, let’s just skip all the inventions you can have sex with. All right, no, here we go, ergonomic heated seat cushion.

Nudity & bodies 1 moment

How Nudity & bodies shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E5:

  • Leonard Look. We keep procrastinating. We saw Back to the Future II, pigeons playing ping-pong, a bunch of countries that look like genitals and one guy whose genitals look like Denmark.

Porn / strippers / sex work 6 moments

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E5:

  • Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
  • Leonard Robot prostitute.
  • Sheldon Wait. I’m confused. Why would you need both a robot girlfriend and a robot prostitute?
  • Amy Hey, Penny, hey, let’s go. We found a place that has Australian male strippers.
  • Amy If you want these, they’re gonna be at the strip club.
  • The Vegas strip club.

Affairs / cheating 1 moment

How Affairs / cheating shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E5:

  • Raj And I really can’t let that happen or the girl who does my eyebrows will think I’ve been cheating on her.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E5:

  • Sheldon I know the real reason you never made progress with that idea. You thought of it September 22nd, 2007. Two days later, Penny moved in, and so much blood rushed to your genitals, your brain became a ghost town.

Alcohol & drugs 4 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E5:

  • Penny Well, we’re in Vegas. I want to go downstairs, get a bucket of margaritas, dance until I vomit all over a roulette wheel and watch it go everywhere.
  • Howard Oh, that stuff is so good wrapped around cocktail weenies.
  • Bernadette Then guess who wildly overtipped a cocktail waitress.
  • Leonard It’s late. We’ve wasted hours. Can we please find it in ourselves to do any amount of work tonight?

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