The Friendship Turbulence
🎞️ S7 E17 ✅ All clear

The Big Bang Theory

Is The Big Bang Theory S7 E17 OK for kids?

The Friendship Turbulence

After the insults fly, Bernadette tries to broker the peace between Wolowitz and Sheldon. Meanwhile, Penny is offered an embarrassing movie role and Raj asks Amy to write to a woman on his behalf.

📺 Where to watch

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

Mild — okay from about 10+

The Big Bang Theory S7 E17, “The Friendship Turbulence”, scores 2/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 2/5 — Mild — okay from about 10+. After the insults fly, Bernadette tries to broker the peace between Wolowitz and Sheldon. Meanwhile, Penny is offered an embarrassing movie role and Raj asks Amy to write to a woman on his behalf.

Across the episode we counted 8 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (3); Violence & injury (1); Swearing (2). 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 E17:

  • Raj Thank you. That was the closest I’ve come to sex in, like, two years.
  • Howard Hey, that’s my wife. If anyone’s gonna make her feel gross about sex, it’s me.

Nudity & bodies 3 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E17:

  • Sheldon Nine years, 11 months and three weeks ago, he followed that up by replacing the slides for my lecture with photographs of nude fat women bending over.
  • Howard Seriously, I was talking to Bernadette last night and she made some great points. You and I have known each other a long time, and I didn’t hear the rest ’cause she took her bra off.
  • Howard How do I know what you said? Damn you and your noise-cancelling breasts.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E17:

  • Penny Okay, well, there are no shower scenes in this one. They just try to clone me from my corpse, but my DNA gets mixed with the ape’s DNA and I end up running around with giant gorilla hands and feet.

Swearing 2 moments

How Swearing shows up in The Big Bang Theory S7 E17:

  • Penny Yeah. Why wouldn’t I want to get my old job back? It’ll be fun to see everyone. I haven’t talked to them since I said I quit, see you at the Oscars, bitches. Come on, let’s just get this over with.
  • Penny Because it was crap. It’s a sequel to that awful killer gorilla movie I was in.

What to watch in The Big Bang Theory · Season 7 guide

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.