to
The Big Bang Theory for detonating its biggest ratings ever. This week's explosively funny episode, "The Vengeance Formulation," featured a bathtub scene with geek goddess
Katee Sackhoff (who displayed better comic timing than her ex-
Battlestar Galactica costar
Tricia Helfer did on
last week's Two and a Half Men) as well as a vocal cameo from NPR's "Science Friday" host
Ira Flatow. (We're guessing more people tuned in for Katee than Ira, but you never know.) Plus, the prank war between Sheldon and archrival Kripke escalated to hysterical new heights, and Wolowitz's twisted ode to his
Cheesecake Factory-waitress girlfriend, Bernadette, may have been the funniest sitcom love ballad since Woody's
"Kelly Song" on
Cheers. No wonder
BBT's numbers are still growing: With stellar episodes like this one, the sky's the limit.
Were you blown away by this week's
Big Bang Theory?