Why is the Big Bang Theory rated TV-14

The Big Bang Theory has been heavily censored in UK airings of the show, due to different TV guidelines. In the UK, The Big Bang Theory airs on the channel E4 and, secondarily Channel 4. Lots of lines or even entire scenes are removed in order to meet UK TV guidelines. This happens because The Big Bang Theory typically airs on E4 before the "watershed" (a phenomenon on British TV channels where content showing before 9:00 pm has to be kept clean of adult content).

Episodes always air totally uncensored on the first airing of the episode (despite being before the watershed), the censorship being added in reruns. Occasionally, new censors are added after many airings, sometimes even years after the episode first aired on E4.

There are several ways to legally view the episodes uncensored in the UK. This censorship does not apply to the DVD releases of the show in the UK - all episodes in the first eight seasons are uncensored on DVD with a '12' or '15' rating. The first 11 seasons are also available for free streaming on Netflix UK and are uncensored. And occasionally, E4 shows The Big Bang Theory after the watershed uncensored.

Feel free to add to this page if you notice any censorship on E4 airings not listed here.

NOTE: Some scenes may have also been cut for time reasons. These are NOT included here. This page is exclusively about scenes and lines that were cut to make the program cleaner.

General Cuts

The following themes are likely to be cut in UK airings of The Big Bang Theory.

• Lines or scenes that may be too inappropriate or sexual. Brief mentions of sex are usually not cut, but detailed descriptions relating to sex often are. Some other themes surrounding sex are also frequently cut:
  • References to genitalia or pornography are usually cut. This includes any reference to masturbation or orgasms.
  • Most references to prostitution (including words like "slut", "whore" or "hooker") are cut.
• Profanity - words like "Bitch", "Bastard", "Piss" and even "Screw" are almost always removed. Milder words like "Hell", "Damn", "Ass" and "Crap" are usually not cut.
• References to illegal drugs (heroin, cannabis, cocaine etc.) are almost always removed.
• Things may even get removed for being too graphic or frightening; however, this has only been found to happen once in this entire show ("The Cooper Extraction").
• In a good percentage of episodes, the Vanity Card at the end of the credits is not shown due to bad language or sexual themes. These are not listed below.

Season 1

"Pilot"

• Sheldon's line, "Well, today we tried masturbating for money." is cut.
• Sheldon's line, "You think with your penis." is cut.

"The Big Bran Hypothesis"

• Sheldon's line "Ah, gravity, thou art a heartless bitch" is cut.
• Penny's reaction when she finds the cleaned apartment is cut down. Her line, "Son of a bitch!" is shortened to simply "Son of a-", and her line, "You sick, geeky bastards!" is changed to "You sick, geeky-". The cuts are sudden and obvious.

"The Fuzzy Boots Corollary"

• Leonard's line, "The bastard teleported!" is cut.
• The lines about rebound sex are possibly cut (need to confirm).

"The Luminous Fish Effect"

• Howard's, "Hey, what's up, science bitches?" is cut.
• Mrs. Cooper's line, "It pissed the dog off to no end" is cut.

"The Hamburger Postulate"

• Lesley Winkle's "...unless you're a heroin addict..." was removed, though the following line regarding opiates is left in, making the line confusing.

"The Middle-Earth Paradigm"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Dumpling Paradox"

• Everything from Penny's line, "...and washing the sluttiest collection of underwear you have ever seen in my bathroom sink" to "He really needs to dial it down" is cut.
• Sheldon's line, "Who needs Halo when we can be regaled with the delightfully folksy tale of the whore of Omaha?" cuts off after "Who needs Halo...", then Leonard's line, "Oh, I don't think she's a whore", and Penny's, "No, yeah, she's definitely a whore." are both cut.
• All the lines where Sheldon and Leonard are discussing whether sex or Halo 3 is better outside of the Wolowitz house are removed.
• Mrs. Wolowitz's line, "Go back to Babylon, you whore" is changed to "Go back to Babylon", and Raj's line, "I thought she was the whore of Omaha?" along with Sheldon's "Shhh!" are removed.
• Howard's "Son of a bitch" is removed.

"The Grasshopper Experiment"

• Raj's line "Screw Princess Panchali" is removed.
• Penny's line, "Oh, maybe a couple virgin Cuba Libres that turned out to be kind of slutty", trails off after "Oh, maybe a couple virgin Cuba Libres".

"The Bat Jar Conjecture"

• Raj's line, "How come on Star Trek everybody’s private parts are the same. No alien lady ever told Captain Kirk, hey, get your thing out of my nose." is cut entirely. - Recent showings of the episode indicate that this part is no longer cut.
• Sheldon's "It's on, bitch!" is changed to, "It's on!"
• Leslie Winkle's line, "There’s no reason to feel uncomfortable just because we’ve seen each other’s faces and naked bodies contorted in the sweet agony of coitus", cuts off after "naked bodies". - Recent showings of the episode indicate that this part is no longer cut.

"The Porkchop Indeterminacy"

• Howard's line, "Your poor, deluded bastard", cuts off, leaving, "You poor, deluded-"
• This episode is titled "The Shiksa Indeterminacy" in the UK for some reason.

"The Tangerine Factor"

• Penny's line, "That stupid self-centered bastard wrote about our sex life on his blog." cuts out the word bastard, leaving "That stupid self-centered- wrote about our sex life on his blog", and her line, "Drop dead, you stupid self-centered bastard!" was changed to "Drop dead you stupid self-centered-".

Season 2

"The Lizard-Spock Expansion"

• Penny's, "Screw him, you're fine", was changed to "You're fine".
• Howard's "Son of a bitch", the last line of the episode, is cut.

"The Barbarian Sublimation"

• In Sheldon's line "While I have no respect for Leslie as a scientist or human being we must acknowledge her experience in the field of promiscuity and general slutiness" "and general slutiness" is cut

"The Maternal Capacitance"

• Amazingly, both mentions of the word "penis" were not removed in this episode.

" Dead Hooker Juxtaposition"

• Sheldon's line, "So? Do cocaine smugglers write cocaine on the box?" is cut. 
• All references to hookers are removed. Strangely enough the title isn't changed.
• Alicia's line, "Well, what are you going to do about it, bitch?" is changed to "Well, what are you going to do about it?"
• At the end, Penny's line, "Well, dead whore on TV, live one in real life." is cut.

"The Hofstadter Isotope"

• Howard's line, "I’m a horny engineer, Leonard. I never joke about math or sex." is shortened to, "I never joke about math or sex".
• Raj's "Let's bounce, bitches!" is removed.
• Howard's line, "The lucky bastard" is removed.

"The Vegas Renormalization"

Due to the prevalence of the theme of prostitution, this episode was not allowed to air on daytime E4. However, it still airs occasionally after watershed hours. This is the only episode of The Big Bang Theory that has been refused to air on E4. - Recent showings of the episode indicate that this episode is now shown, depending on the channel and time of day (for example, E4 now airs the episode at 18:00, but Channel 4 doesn't air the episode at 10:15.

"The Classified Materials Turbulence"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Monopolar Expedition"

• Leonard's "Son of a bitch!" after he removes his glove in the freezer is cut.

Season 3

"The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation"

• Penny's phrase, "Big ol' slutbag" is cut.

"The Jiminy Conjecture"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Gothowitz Deviation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Pirate Solution"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Cornhusker Vortex"

• Raj's "Son of a bitch" is cut.

"The Guitarist Amplification"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Adhesive Duck Deficiency"

• Howard saying "Ooh, real sex!" is cut in recent airings, along with "I'm switching back to real sex".
• Howard's line, "I lost my virginity to my cousin Jeanie." is cut.
• Howard's "You're a real douche" is cut.

"The Vengeance Formulation"

• All lines between, but not including, "Thanks Howard" and "So shall we get started?" are cut.

"The Maternal Congruence"

• Beverly's line, "I am a trained psychiatrist and you are exhibiting the same secretive behavioral tics that accompanied your learning to masturbate" cuts off after, "I am a trained psychiatrist".
• Beverly's line, "...being betrayed by a loathsome son of a bitch" cuts off after "being betrayed". However it was very poorly done, and was obvious, cutting out part of "betrayed".
• Beverly's line, "Oh, that’s nothing. I’ve been responsible for my own orgasms since 1982" is cut.
• Penny saying, "What's so funny?" and Beverly's response, "That’s exactly what I say during orgasms. Yikes." is cut.
• Penny's line, "Oh, Beverly, I can’t talk to my boyfriend’s mother about his penis" and Beverly's response, "Oh, fair enough. What can you tell me, if anything, about that busboy’s penis?" are both cut.
• Beverly's line, "...don’t make her responsible for her own orgasms as well" is cut.

"The Psychic Vortex"

• Leonard's line, "We’re planning to have sex right on the salad bar" may have been cut.

"The Bozeman Reaction"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Einstein Approximation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Wheaton Recurrence"

• All lines from "Rabbits do have a respiratory system that would support great size" to "For the record, giant rats are possible" due to references to animal genitalia.

"The Spaghetti Catalyst"

• Every line between Penny's "So, how you been?" and Sheldon's "Bazinga", both included, are cut. This is likely due to Penny's line "You’re just coitusing with me, aren’t you?" However, as the term "coitus" is used rather extensively in the series uncensored, including in the same scene moments earlier, the reason for the cut is ultimately unknown - it is most likely because the word "coitusing" is being used as a direct, overt replacement for "fucking".
• Amazingly, the references to pornography in this episode are left in.

"The Plimpton Stimulation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Staircase Implementation"

"The Lunar Excitation"

• Penny's "You rat bastard" is cut.

Season 4

"The Robotic Manipulation"

Due to the prevalent themes of masturbation in this episode (a topic that sets off the E4 censors), this episode received more censorship than most.

• Penny's line, "...mostly family farms, a few meth labs" is changed to "...mostly family farms".
• After Raj's line, "You slipped and fell into a robot hand?" it sometimes cuts straight to "Yes. Now, help me!" cutting out Raj's, "Penis first?"
• Raj's line, "Really? A robot hand’s got a death grip on your junk, dude. That’s funny, ask anyone" used to be cut.
• In recent airings, Howard's line, "No saws! One circumcision was enough" is changed to simply "No saws!"
• Amy asking if Penny thinks she's a slut, and Penny's reaction, is cut.
• Amy's line, "Does volunteering for a scientific experiment in which orgasm was achieved by electronically stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain count?" is changed to simply, "Does volunteering for a scientific experiment count?"
• In the hospital, the nurse saying the following over the intercom is cut: "I need an orderly with a wheelchair. I got a robot hand grasping a man’s penis out here."
  • Howard's response, "You think you could be a little more discreet?" and the Nurse's response, "I’m sorry, we don’t have a code for robot hand grasping a man’s penis" are also cut.

"The Hot Troll Deviation"

• Howard's "Son of a bitch" is cut.
• Raj's line, "Well, seeing as its purpose was to piss you off, I’d say it’s spot-on" is changed to just "I'd say it's spon-on".

"The Desperation Emanation"

• When Sheldon quotes their mail carrier, his exact words of "Got your back, Jack; bitches be crazy!" was changed to simply "Got your back, Jack!"
• Sheldon's line, "Oh, yes, it’s time for me to make love to your daughter’s vagina." was cut.
• Sheldon's line, "Agreed. Amy, I find myself wondering if we should actually engage in coitus at least one time in our relationship. Bazinga." is entirely cut out.

"The 21-Second Excitation"

• The bouncer's line, "Cause I’m the petty functionary with the clipboard, bitch" had the word "bitch" cut off it.

"The Boyfriend Complexity"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Justice League Recombination"

• Raj saying, "And nobody drew a penis on his (Zack's) forehead", Leonard's response, "That happened to you?" and Raj's line, "First day of cricket camp. They drew it so the testicles were my eyes" are all cut.
• After Leonard's line, "I guarantee you’ll be the prettiest girl there", it cuts all the lines until the scene change to the party.

"The Bus Pants Utilization"

"The Love Car Displacement"

• Penny's line, "You know, for a smart guy, you really seem to have a hard time grasping the concept, don’t piss off the people who handle the things you eat" is cut.
• Amy's line, "Not for sex, for convenience" is changed to simply "For convenience".
• Leonard's line, "We can do all kinds of stuff from the waist up, you know?" and Penny's response, "Go to sleep!" are both cut.
• Amy's line, "Are we talking about women wanting penises? Because I’d like to weigh in" is cut.
• Raj's line, "Certainly. I’d like to raise two points. Number one, I think they are talking about penises. And number two, these mimosas are kicking my little brown ass" is cut down to simply, "These mimosas are kicking my little brown ass".

"The Benefactor Factor"

• When Sheldon is listing what's in his bag, "condoms" is cut.
• Sheldon saying, "Given how much time you spend engaging in pointless self-abuse, you might consider, just this once, using your genitalia to actually accomplish something!" is cut, along with Penny's response, "He still won’t shag the old lady, huh?", and Sheldon's "No, but thank you for asking".
• Penny's line, "Good morning, slut", is changed to simply "Good morning".

"The Cohabitation Formulation"

• Amy's line, "Now let’s talk about Priya, that man-stealing bitch" is changed to simply "Now let's talk about Priya".

"The Toast Derivation"

• Bernadette's line, "Pick out the hottest guy in the room, take him home, do unspeakable things to him, then kick him to the curb with a smile on his face and teeth marks on his heinie?" has "do unspeakable things to him" cut.
• Penny saying "Oh, screw it" is cut.
• Howard's line, "That crazy bastard’s looking at quirky in the rearview mirror" is changed to "That crazy-'s looking at quirky in the rearview mirror".

"The Prestidigitation Approximation"

• Penny saying, "There are a lot of bitches out there" is cut, along with Leonard's response, "Yeah, bitches are the worst".

"The Zarnecki Incursion"

• Bernadette's line, "I feel like I’m supposed to say "that bitch", but I don't have enough information." is changed to "I don't have enough information".
• Bernadette saying, "Oh. That bitch!" is also cut.

"The Herb Garden Germination"

• Penny's line, "Oh that gossipy bitch!" is changed to just "Oh!". This makes the next line, "No offense, Raj" confusing.
• Raj's line, "I can’t believe old Smelly Pooper finally got laid" may have been cut.
• Leonard's "Lucky bastard" is cut as well.

"The Agreement Dissection"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Wildebeest Implementation"

• Amy's line, "That bitch is crafty" is removed.
• Amy's line, "It was nice until his wife called me a puta and made me stop" may have been cut.
• Penny exclaiming, "That bitch!" is cut.

"The Engagement Reaction"

• Howard's "Son of a bitch!" after he tries to break the door down is cut.
• Penny's line, "That’s why the foreplay goes on and on" and Priya's response, "It does, doesn't it?" MAY have been cut (but Leonard's line, "I'm the king of foreplay" isn't cut in earlier airings, so needs confirm). The line "I'm the king of foreplay" has been cut in recent airings.

"The Roommate Transmogrification"

• Bernadette saying, "...but I volunteered for the premature ejaculation project" is cut.
• Raj's line, "It’s better to have loved and lost than to stay home every night and download increasingly shameful pornography", cuts out the "...and download increasingly shameful pornography" part.
  • The part of Penny's next line, "...and you hadn’t brought up that creepy pornography story" is cut.

Season 5

"The Skank Reflex Analysis"

This is one of the most heavily censored episodes of the show.

• Penny's line, "I feel like two totally different people, Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Whore" cuts out the "Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Whore" part.
• All the part of Amy explaining Catherine the Great is cut up until Penny saying "What does this have to do with me?"
• Amy's line, "She engaged in interspecies hanky-panky, and people still call her great. I’m sure your reputation can survive you shagging a little Indian boy" is cut completely.
• Raj's line, "...um, we didn’t have sex in the conventional sense" is cut, and Penny's response, "Oh, God. Did you pull some weird Indian crap on me?" is cut as well.
  • To make the conversation flow better, the "No, no" from Raj's next line is also cut.
• Raj's line, "I had trouble putting it on, and you tried to help and, that was all she wrote" cut out the "...and you tried to help" part.
• Penny's line, "So we didn't actually..." and Raj's response, "I did, and it was beautiful" is also cut.
• Several more lines in Penny and Raj's conversation are also cut (must confirm).
• Sheldon's line, "All we have to do is move quickly over this ridge, the rock-worshipping pasty-faced bastards won’t know what hit them" is shortened to simply, "All we have to do is move quickly over this ridge".
• Howard's line, "Maybe he was too busy writing clumsy penis metaphors about my fiancee" had the word "penis" cut out, leaving "...writing clumsy metaphors..."
  • Raj's response, "Screw you. That was a beautifully written penis metaphor" may have been entirely cut or partially cut.
• Howard's line, "Damn those sons of bitches!" is cut.

"The Infestation Hypothesis"

More than three minutes of this episode are missing, rendering this episode just fifteen minutes long in the UK.

• The entire scene of Leonard and Priya having cybersex is removed. The episode goes from Penny scaring Sheldon with the cushion straight to Amy playing the harp in her apartment. This is the longest cut ever on the show, at three minutes.
• All the scene between "Come on, dude. This is my sister you’re talking about" and the part where Sheldon enters is also cut.
• Leonard's line, "and beg me for more, ’cause, I’m gonna give it to you" is cut.

• Amy's line, "My mom paid my cousin to take me, but he just used the money to buy drugs" is shortened to just "My mom paid my cousin to take me".
• Amy's line, "In some cultures, we’d stand outside of their bedroom cheering as they achieved orgasm" is cut, along with Leonard's response, "That sounds like a late night, and I have work in the morning, so..."
• Amy's line, "...you’re sitting next to a beautiful woman wearing whorish makeup" has the word "whorish" cut out of it. The edit is choppy and obvious.
• Amy's line, "...in this dress, the perfect combination of Madonna and whore." is shortened so the line cuts off after "in this dress".

"The Wiggly Finger Catalyst"

• Howard's line, "What the hell? The last time we went to the zoo, that son of a bitch made me buy him a churro" is cut to just "What the hell?". The cut is very obvious.
• Raj saying "Oh, cheesecake, you're just as good as women, even though I can't have sex with you", the "even though I can't have sex with you" part is cut. Howard's response about microwaves is also cut.

"The Russian Rocket Reaction"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Rhinitis Revelation"

• Penny's line "Okay, um, hey, God. What’s up? Um, I’m good, but, uh, it would be a big help to my family if you could get my brother to stop cooking meth. But no cops. Be cool" is shortened to "Okay, um, hey, God. What’s up?"
• Mary's response "She also goes a little overboard on the love thy neighbour. Could probably use that chat you had with Mary Magdalene. Leonard, you’re up. Wasserman, you’re on deck" is shortened to just "Leonard, you’re up. Wasserman, you’re on deck"

"The Isolation Permutation"

• Amy saying "Not that the rat bastards ever invited me" is cut.
• In Amy's list of things she wants to do at the bachelorette party, "take peyote" is cut.

"The Ornithophobia Diffusion"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition"

Penny's line "Hey, you know, my mom smoked pot when she was pregnant with me, and I turned out just fine. Hey, look, I have peach schnapps. Thank God" is cut

"The Recombination Hypothesis"

• Amy's line, "Too bad. If he were, she could just throw him in bed and ride him right up until he flat-lines" is cut.
• Raj saying, "You were in the middle of an erection" and Sheldon's response, "Oh, of course. It’s right here in my hand" are cut.
• Leonard's line "Well, I want to go get my asthma inhaler, but it might ruin the moment. Just, just help me out here. How does a miserable date end in sex?" has "How does a miserable date end in sex?" cut

"The Beta Test Initiation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Friendship Contraction"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Vacation Solution"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Rothman Disintegration"

• During the bathroom scene, President Siebert's line "You realize I’m your boss, and I am holding my penis?" was shortened to "You realize I’m your boss?"
• Kripke saying "what the frig is that?" is changed to "what's that?"
• In the Grease scene, after Bernadette says she has to go, her line "My company’s testing a new steroid that supposedly doesn’t shrink testicles, and the last one there has to do the measuring," was removed.
• When Amy says "Oh, screw her! She’s just lucky we let her hang out with us", "Oh, screw her!" is cut.
• In the office, Howard's line "The growing realization that you are one wacky bastard? Yep." and Sheldon's reply "No." is removed.
• When Sheldon lists the things that are annoying him in his new office, his line "...the low-hanging scrotum of the difficult-to-evict Professor Rothman!" is cut.

"The Werewolf Transformation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Weekend Vortex"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Transporter Malfunction"

• Penny's line, "My mom gave me the same lecture about my virginity. Gotta tell you, it was a lot more fun taking it out and playing with it" is shortened to just "My mom gave me the same lecture-".

"The Hawking Excitation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Stag Convergence"

This episode contains much more sexually suggestive dialogue than the average episode of Big Bang. As a result, this episode has been exceptionally heavily censored, with more than 30 lines cut in total.

• Raj saying "I’ve been doing some research on strippers" is cut to just "I've been doing some research". This cut is bizarre, as every following line about strippers is not cut.
• All of Leonard and Penny's conversation between "...and maybe offer to help her kid with his homework" up to the line "Well have fun tonight" is cut, cutting everything about them having sex in the ocean (although Leonard referencing it later at the Stag Party wasn't censored).
• Kripke saying "Ah, then what the fwig did I get two hundwed dowwaws in singles out for?" has the word "fwig" cut out.
• After Amy says, "Bernadette, on your wedding night you’ll be consummating your marriage" it cuts straight to Penny saying, "Okay, show's over" several lines later.
• Penny saying, "...Not who’s going to sit on who" is cut.
• Sheldon's line, "And the first woman you ever disappointed sexually. Ba-da-bazinga!" is removed.
• Raj's speech, "Oh, oh, yeah, and then there was the time when Leonard and I took Howard to Las Vegas and paid a hooker to pretend she was Jewish and that she wanted his little kosher pickle. Of all the Howard humping hookers' stories, that one’s my favorite!" is cut in its entirety.
  • When Bernadette plays the recording of Raj saying "Of all the Howard humping hookers stories, that one’s my favorite", it is shortened to just "...of all the Howard stories, that one's my favorite".
• Raj's line, "The only threesome I’ve ever had in my life, and I’m proud to say it was with this man right here" and Howard's response, "Oh please shut up" are also cut.
• Bernadette saying, "You ain’t goin’ anywhere, Three-way" is cut.
• Bernadette's line, "You said you told me about all the girls you’ve been with, but you never mentioned your cousin, the prostitute or Raj!" is shortened to just "You said you told me about all the girls you've been with..."
• After Raj saying, "Anything under ten miles an hour and I can combat-roll into the street" it immediately cuts to the next scene change, cutting several lines.
• Amy's line, "I’m curious what’s bothering you most, the borderline incest, the prostitute or group sex with the girl dressed as the children’s cartoon" is shortened to just "I'm curious what's bothering you most".
• Leonard's line, "I’m gonna have sex with you right here, right now, on that washing machine" is shortened to just "Right now, on that washing machine".

"The Launch Acceleration"

Penny's line "Who says something like that right in the middle of sex?" has "right in the middle of sex?" cut

Leonard's reply has the word "sex" cut.

Season 6

"The Date Night Variable"

• In Amy's line " No, I had a cover story, I told everyone it was herpes. So, how’s everything going with you and Leonard?" "I told everyone it was herpes" is cut
• In Raj's line "Now, don’t blame yourself. He was a groveller from way back. But the point is, the two of you got past it. And, Leonard, you go and propose to this poor girl in the middle of sex? That was some weak tea, dude" "in the middle of sex? That was some weak tea, dude" is also cut

"The Decoupling Fluctuation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Higgs Boson Observation"

• Sheldon asking Alex if she wanted a marijuana cigarette was changed to simply a cigarette.
  • Sheldon's line, "Now, are you sure? Everyone’s smoking them. I think they’re the best" and Alex's response, "I don't do drugs" were also cut.
    • Sheldon saying, "They’re not the best. Physics is the best" was also cut.
• Amy's line, "If my new look leads to phone sex, I’m going to have to ask you to leave the room" was cut.
• Amy's line, "That skank’s your problem, not mine" was cut.

"The Re-Entry Minimization"

TBA

"The Holographic Excitation"

• Amy's line, "Question. Do you think your husband’s fondness for turtlenecks is an expression of longing for his missing foreskin?" is removed.
  • Penny saying, "I’m, I’m sorry, Amy. You were saying something about Howard’s foreskin?" is also removed.

"The Habitation Configuration"

Leonard's line "They’d say, why does he touch himself so much" is cut

Leonard's line " We’re not standing outside by the U-Haul while you fondle yourself" is cut

"The 43 Peculiarity"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Parking Spot Escalation"

• Howard's line, "...I had no idea just how much of a crazy bastard-" cuts out "bastard", leaving just "...I had no idea just how much of a crazy-"
• Bernadette's line "I don’t have to take this. I’m gonna go home and have sex with my husband right now. Maybe I’ll let him do it to me in the parking spot. Which sounds dirty, but I didn’t mean it that way," cuts out "Maybe I’ll let him do it to me in the parking spot. Which sounds dirty, but I didn’t mean it that way"

"The Fish Guts Displacement"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Santa Simulation"

• Penny's line, "Okay, wait, are we talking one-night stand or do we want to get him into a relationship?", Amy's line, "Let's get him laid!", and Raj's response, "Stop it. You’re ruining girls’ night" are all cut.

"The Egg Salad Equivalency"

• Amy's line, "But say the word, I got a lab full of cocaine-addicted monkeys with nothing to lose" has the word "cocaine" removed.
• Penny saying "Okay, I hate that bitch" (in reference to Alex) is cut.
• Sheldon's line "No. I meant that all women are slaves to their biological urges, you know? Even you. You’re a slave" has "Even you. You're a slave" cut

"The Bakersfield Expedition"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Cooper/Kripke Inversion"

• Kripke saying "What the fwig, Cooper" is cut to just "Cooper".
• Everything between Kripke saying "You have a girlfriend" and "Oh stop bwagging" is cut, save for Sheldon's "Yes, that is the reason".
• Sheldon's line, "Word around the university is I’m giving [Amy's] sex organs a proper jostling" is cut, along with Penny's, "All right, come on, be serious".
• Kripke saying "Gave it to her good?" is cut, along with Sheldon's response, "No, I gave it to her well".
• At the end, after Kripke says "You're kiwwing me Cooper!" it cuts straight to "I wove it!" missing all the lines about sex toys.

"The Spoiler Alert Segmentation"

• Leonard saying, "You know what? Screw you, Sheldon!" is cut.
• All lines between "Where are you going?" and "Leonard, wait" are removed, to cut out the two uses of the word "bastard".

"The Tangible Affection Proof"

• Raj's line "I'd take you home, slip off your little black dress and just pile-drive you into oblivion" cuts off after the word "dress".
• Stuart saying, "Or maybe something a little less hand in the pants" is cut.
• Penny saying "Son of a bitch" is cut.
• Penny saying "You know what, screw them" is cut.
• All lines between "I’m a total bitch" and "Fine, you win. You’re a bitch", both included, are removed.
• Leonard saying, "Let’s have sex!" is removed.

"The Monster Isolation"

• The lines "yeah, not a real virgin. She’s had coitus many times. Sometimes within earshot of this flag enthusiast. Once while he was trying to watch The Incredibles" are cut from Sheldons opening monologue about Fun with Flags
• Amy's line "Makes me miss my marijuana-abusing flatworms. Those guys were mellow" is cut.

"The Contractual Obligation Implementation"

• Penny's line "I’ve slept with guys for less. It’s a joke. Based on real events." is cut
• Penny's line, "That ride is shorter than you think and they take a picture of you at the end so make sure you got your clothes back on. It’s a joke. Based on real events" may have been cut short.
• Several lines in Penny's apartment about things she did in the past are cut.
• Bernadette's line, "You bitches got a problem with that, we could stop the car right now" is cut.
• Howard's line "If you don’t count the serial killer who ate all those prostitutes" is cut
• Lucy's text "I don't know. You ever look at porn Web sites?", along with Raj's text, "No, never. What is porn?" are both cut. This makes the next line, "Sorry. Autocorrect. That was supposed to say prom Web sites", confusing.

"The Closet Reconfiguration"

• Howard's line, "Hey, you can tell me what to do or you can tell me how to do it, but you can’t do both. This isn’t sex" has "This isn't sex" cut.
• In Howard's line "Oh, honey, I am in no mood to have sex tonight. I’ll lay there if you absolutely have to have it, but… Oh. What are you guys doing here?" has "I’ll lay there if you absolutely have to have it"

"The Tenure Turbulence"

• Sheldon's line "Last night, I was feeling in need of sexual release when I happened to come across your mother" is cut.
• Sheldon's line "but I was about to insinuate that I had coitus with Raj’s mother for a dollar" is also cut.
• Raj's line, "You’re right. This is beneath me. Like your mother was last night", cuts out the "Like your mother was last night" part.
• Sheldon's line "Wait. Hold on. I believe screw it, I’m going in is what I said to your mother last night. Don’t worry, I didn’t really say that. I find the concept of coitus ridiculous and off-putting" is cut, along with Amy's "Should have taken my breasts out while I had the chance."

"The Closure Alternative"

• Howard saying "Why can’t you just watch porn like a regular guy?" is cut.
• Penny saying, "But instead of vampires, we had meth heads. But both came out at night and had messed up teeth" is cut.
• At the end, Sheldon saying, "Yeah, you already sound nicer than the last Bruce Miller who suggested I have sexual relations with myself" is cut.

"The Proton Resurgence"

• Howard saying "Son of a bitch, she's gone!" after he realizes Cinnamon is missing is cut to just "She's gone!"

"The Love Spell Potential"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Bon Voyage Reaction"

No censorship was found in this episode.

Season 7

"The Hofstadter Insufficiency"

• Sheldon saying "Yeah, Serial Apeist" is cut.
• Amy saying "I caught him staring at my rack" is cut.

"The Deception Verification"

• Penny saying to the pizza delivery man, "here’s thirty something cents and a promise I won’t call your boss and tell him you reek of marijuana" cuts off after the word "boss". The cut is very obvious. Sheldon's comments on the man's "earthy cologne" were kept however.
• Sheldon's line, "...given Leonard’s lengthy sea voyage and her famously ravenous nether regions" is cut to just "...given Leonard's lengthy sea voyage".

"The Scavenger Vortex"

• Bernadette saying "Come on, numbnuts, it's the comic book store!" has the word "numbnuts" cut from it.

"The Raiders Minimization"

• Leonard's line, "There’s chapters about potty training, and bed-wetting and masturbation", the "and masturbation" part is muted (since they were going up the stairs the line couldn't be cut).
• Penny's line, "Oh, my God, you still go left!" (In reference to boobs) is cut.
• Penny pointing to her boobs and saying to Leonard, "Now you don’t get the left, or the right" is cut.
• Beverly's line, "I was swatting his bottom with your brand new Ping Pong paddle." is cut.

"The Workplace Proximity"

• Penny's line "How do you not tear off his clothes and take him right here on this table?" has the words  "and take him" removed.
• Sheldon's line "That and, who does one have to orally gratify to get a drink around here?" is cut.

"The Romance Resonance"

• In the car, Leonard and Sheldon's entire conversation about sex tapes is removed. The scene changes after "I've got to find a way to stop this thing".
• Raj's line, "I don’t call anyone a ho, and the only time I use the phrase my bitch, I’m referring to you" is cut.
• After Penny says, "You know what’s not romantic? Rubbing it in someone’s face", Leonard saying "Actually, it can be, but I told you sex doesn’t count" is cut.

"The Proton Displacement"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Itchy Brain Simulation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Thanksgiving Decoupling"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Discovery Dissipation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

• The part of Howard's "Psycho" story showing Howard's mother's heavily decomposed corpse sitting on a chair is cut short. The scene cuts off at the point where her chair starts to be swiveled round. This is due to the highly disturbing and graphic nature of the scene.
  • This is the only time in the entire series something was censored for being too frightening or graphic.

"The Hesitation Ramification"

• Penny saying "NCSTD" is changed to just "NC".
• Penny's line, "Yep, bunch of old guys rocking out in a band, all with erectile dysfunction, you didn’t get your part cut!" is cut (ironically).
• Howard saying, "Yeah? Well, I fake my orgasms" after Bernadette does her fake laugh is cut.

"The Occupation Recalibration"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Convention Conundrum"

In Sheldons line "Good Lord, this is not the time for flirting, keep it in your pants" "keep it in your pants" is cut

In Howard's line "Oh, no. I’d be an astronaut and a bad boy, how will women keep their pants on?" "how will women keep their pants on?" Is cut

"The Locomotive Manipulation"

• Penny's line, "That would really piss me off if I didn’t have a buzz going on" is cut.
• Leonard saying, "Somebody’s trying to get me out of my panties" is cut.
• After Leonard says, "Thank you. Seriously, please don’t make me go" it cuts straight to the next scene change several lines later, due to sex references. The scene cuts off when Leonard and Penny start kissing.
• Leonard saying, "Hey, Cinnamon, guess who just did it human style" is cut.

"The Table Polarization"

• Raj saying, "This might be my second favorite brown magic wand" is been cut, along with Howard's, "Well, that’s the last time I play with that".
• After Howard's line about riding the rocket, Bernadette's line "Fine. Can I at least shower first?" is cut, along with Howard's response "No, not that. Although you already agreed to it, so no take-backs". (Strangely, the reference to the shower later in the episode is not cut).
• Raj saying "Screw that!" is cut.

"The Friendship Turbulence"

• After Raj says, "That was the closest I’ve come to sex in, like, two years" it cuts straight to Raj saying "Can we please talk about something other than my depressing love life?", cutting the three lines between.
• The discussion about the book "Lies I Tell to Get Sex" is cut. After Penny's, "Aw, thank you" it cuts straight to Penny saying, "I’ll have you guys know I turned down a part in a movie last week".
• Bernadette saying, "Serial Ape-ist? I thought you died in that" is changed to just "I thought you died in that".
• Sheldon saying, "To this day, I still get a monthly copy of Granny on Granny. Which, other than its surprisingly fun puzzle page, is complete filth" is cut.
• Penny's line, "I haven’t talked to them since I said "I quit, see you at the Oscars, bitches!"" cuts off after "I quit".
• After Penny says, "Come on, let’s just get this over with" it cuts straight to the next scene change several lines later due to sex references.

"The Mommy Observation"

• Sheldon's line, "I used to live in those genitals. And if someone wants to move into my old room, I should at least get a vote" is cut to just "I should at least get a vote".
• Howard's line, "I’d rather go back to that bar in assless chaps" is cut.
• Mrs. Cooper's line, "Few months" and Sheldon's "And of those few months, how long have you been a demented sex pervert?" are both cut.
• Sheldon's line, "I love my mother. Even if she fornicates like a demonic weasel" is cut to just "I love my mother".

"The Indecision Amalgamation"

• Raj saying "This is some powerful panty-dropping stuff" has the word "panty-dropping" very obviously cut from it.

"The Relationship Diremption"

• Raj saying "She's very real", and Howard's response, "Oh, that's what it says on the box. Right next to 'dishwasher safe'" are cut.

"The Anything Can Happen Recurrence"

• Howard's line "I'm having sex with a Catholic schoolgirl tonight" is cut.
• Amy's line "Because [Penny] has sex with you", and Leonard's response, "Yeah she does" are cut.

"The Proton Transmogrification"

• After Bernadette's line, "I found out my brother was just lowering the pencil marks on the door frame" it cuts straight to the next scene change several lines later, cutting all the talk about Girl Sprouts and whores.
• Bernadette's "Son of a bitch!" is removed.

"The Status Quo Combustion"

• After Leonard tells Sheldon not to make any rash decisions, it cuts straight to the next scene change, due to Raj's line "When I'm feeling low, I have sex with a girl. But that's just me".
• Sheldon's line "Did you take a marijuana?" followed by Leonard's response "No I did not" are cut.
• Raj saying "She let me do it to her" is cut.

Season 8

"The Locomotion Interruption"

• Sheldon's line "You know, Sherlock Holmes liked to use cocaine to sharpen his focus. But I’m sure those Cool Ranch Doritos are doing the trick" is cut (due to the mention of cocaine).

"The Junior Professor Solution"

• Penny's line "So what are you saying?" and Amy's "I’m saying, in the spirit of science, what is that little skank’s problem?" are cut, due to the word "skank".
• Amy's line "Call me later, you know, if you decide she's a bitch or something" is cut to just "call me later".
• Penny's line "Those are also the side effects of having a 75-year-old man with an erection climb on top of you" has the words "with an erection" cut.

"The First Pitch Insufficiency"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Hook-Up Reverberation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Focus Attenuation"

• Sheldon's line "Wait I'm confused, why would you need both a robot girlfriend and a robot prostitute?", Howard's "There's just some things you can't do with your robot girlfriend", and Raj's "Boy, when you met Bernadette the field of robotics really took a hit" are all cut.
• Leonard saying "Alright, here we go, ergonomic heated seat cushion" and Howard's response "No, it vibrates, keep going" are cut.
• Raj's line "That's nothing, dude. Go check out how hung Florida is", and Leonard's response "I'm sure Mrs. Florida's walking funny" are cut.
• Bernadette's line, "We want to see if they (strippers) twirl their junk in the other direction" is cut.

"The Prom Equivalency"

Leonard line "What?" and Penny's reply "Well, now I can’t blow this thing off without being a bitch" are cut

Howard's line "Not until he stops humping his way up my family tree" is cut

"The Champagne Reflection"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Clean Room Infiltration"

• The first scene in Amy's apartment is cut up until "How are you and Leonard?" for unknown reasons. This may be because of the line "Did you know that when you fly transcontinental without your wife, you don’t pray for the plane to crash", but it is not known why the lines about how long Dr. Koothrappali's flight was are cut. 
• Sheldon's line "It turned out to be legal in Oklahoma" is cut, due to paedophilia references.
• After Leonard says, "a Slim Jim?!?" it cuts to "Okay, well, what's your plan?" to remove the line about the pigeon being stoned.

"The Space Probe Disintegration"

• In the changing rooms, the scene is cut until "Hey, can I ask you something?", to cut the line "Not really a great outfit for work, unless something opens up in the hookers and whores division".
• Raj's "Son of a bitch" after his car gets dinged is cut.

"The Comic Book Store Regeneration"

• Penny's "Son of a bitch!!" is removed.

"The Maternal Combustion"

This episode is extremely heavily censored, as almost half of 2 entire scenes are cut. Leonards opening scene with his mother is half cut, probably due to sex references.

"Dr Hofstadter: So, have you and Penny set a wedding date?

Leonard: No, we’re kind of taking it slow.

Dr Hofstadter: I see.

Leonard: What does that mean?

Dr Hofstadter: You’ve been on and off with this woman for seven years and engaged for one year. One has to wonder if there’s a problem. Are you having satisfactory intercourse?

Leonard: Yes, Mother.

Dr Hofstadter: Only satisfactory. I see.

Leonard: I change my answer. It, it’s amazing. It’s hot. We can barely keep our hands off each other.

Dr Hofstadter: Seems odd to try and impress your mother with your sexual prowess. But then, you always did have that unresolved Oedipal complex.

Leonard: See, this right here, what you’re doing, can you please not do that around Sheldon’s mom?

Dr Hofstadter: Why? Are you attracted to her, too?

Season 9

"The Separation Oscillation"

• Raj's line " I don’t know, but I’d like to get lost in her Bermuda Triangle." is cut

• Leonards response "are we done" and Raj's next line " Not yet, this is fun. Ooh, I know. I’d let her free my willy." are also cut

• Amy's line "How dare you go on the Internet and say mean things about me and compare my genitalia to part of Czechoslovakia?" has "and compare my genitalia to part of Czechoslovakia?" cut
  • Sheldon's response "You saw through that one, did you?" is also cut

"The Bachelor Party Corrosion"

• Every line between "The veins are gummy worms" and "I had extra dough", both included, are cut.
• Amy's line, "My mom said pierced ears were for whores, pirates and genies" is cut.
• Penny's line, "...and she made us eat penis cookies" is changed to simply, "...and she made us eat cookies".

"The 2003 Approximation"

• Howard's line "Thor versus Indiana Jones? You just blew my filking mind." has the word "filking" cut

"The Mystery Date Observation"

• Sheldon's line "She was late. And she found atomic spectroscopy boring. Well, I wouldn’t coitus her with your genitals." Has "Well, I wouldn’t coitus her with your genitals" cut

"The Platonic Permutation"

• The opening few lines where Raj and Howard talk about Naked grandma butt's is cut

"The Opening Night Excitation"

• Arthur saying "I just hope this isn't a sex dream" is cut.
• Sheldon saying "Amy’s birthday present will be my genitals" is cut.

"The Sales Call Sublimation"

• Howard's line "I know. It’s not like he returns the favour when he watches his Japanese porn cartoons." is shortened to just "I know"

"The Valentino Submergence"

• Howard's line, "Son of a bitch, he bit me!" is shortened to simply "He bit me!"

"The Positive Negative Reaction"

• In the Previously On segment, the re-run of Howard saying "Son of a bitch, he bit me!" from the previous episode is again shortened to "He bit me!"
• Bernadette saying, "Easy for you to say, skinny bitch. Sorry, hormones" is changed to just "Easy for you to say", and Penny's response, "Oh, that’s all right. All I heard was skinny" is cut.
• Howard saying, "It’s like my nuts just kicked me in the nuts" is cut.

"The Celebration Experimentation"

"The Viewing Party Combustion"

• Rajs line "Okay, that I said. But that’s a real problem. You give a girl another woman’s bra, and you will not be having sex with her that night. Maybe the other girl, but not her" is shortened to just "Okay, that I said"

• Howards "Son of a bitch" is cut

"The Line Substitution Solution"

• The scene with Beverly and Penny at the airport has a few cuts

• In Beverly's line " I’m not surprised Leonard chose to avoid picking me up. He’s battled intimacy issues his whole life. Does he have difficulty maintaining erections?" "Does he have difficulty maintaining erections?" is cut

• In Penny's line "Well, I’d actually like for us to be close, but maybe we start with our favourite books and work our way up to my husband’s sex organs." "work our way up to my husband’s sex organs" is cut. The cut is very jarring and obvious

"The Convergence Convergence"

• Beverly's line "Hello to you, you wrinkled old bastard" is cut

• Beverly's line "Like you did before sex?" is cut
  • Alfred's response "What I really needed was a blindfold" is also cut

Season 10

''The Veracity Elasticity''

• The entire "sex dungeon" dream sequence is cut. This is the second biggest currently-documented cut in the series, beaten only by the three-minute section cut from season 5's "The Infestation Hypothesis".

"The Geology Elevation"

No censorship was found in this episode.

"The Property Division Collision"

• After Sheldon's line, "I want you to keep the apartment flag, and I’m not just saying that because it touched your genitals", everything until the next scene change is cut.
• This just includes Theodore the vagabonds line "Well if we’re rubbing genitals on things, that’s where I shine."

"The Collaboration Fluctuation"

Bernadette's line " Look, Raj just gets along with women" is cut.

Leonard's line "I know, but he was my friend first. It’s like she’s stealing him and they’re just having the best time doing all their dumb girly stuff together" and Howard's line "You sure you don’t fit in? You sound like a catty bitch to me" are also cut

Season 11

"The Explosion Implosion"

Raj's line "you bet I am bitch. But I'm also sensitive and regret saying that" is shortened to "you bet I am"

"The Tesla Recoil"

Bernadettes line "That bitch" and Howard's response"Oh, come on, he means well. He's just trying to impress his girlfriend" "I'm talking about Ruchi" is also cut to make the scene make more sense

"The Neonatal Nomenclature"

Bernadettes line "Go put on some more clothes, you bitch" is cut

"The Monetary Insufficiency"

Leonards line "You're in a stolen cop car with a dead hooker in the trunk" is cut

"The Bow Tie Asymmetry"

No censorship was found in this episode.

Season 12

"The Conjugal Configuration"

• In Sheldon's line "According to tradition, we should hang the bedsheets outside so the villagers can see that we consummated.", "so the villagers can see that we consummated." is cut. The cut is incredibly obvious and poorly done

Trivia

• Episode with most cuts discovered so far - "The Stag Convergence" (14 cuts currently documented)
• Episode with most time cut out of it - "The Infestation Hypothesis" (over 3 minutes cut)
• Banned episodes discovered - "The Vegas Renormalization"

Censorship Tests

"Inconclusive" means no censorship was found upon complete watch of the E4 airing with a transcript of the uncensored episode, and thus the episode likely has no censorship applied. There is a possibility that there was a censor that was missed.

Season 1

Episodes tested - 10/17

Episodes censored - 9/10

Season 2

Episodes tested - 7/23

Episodes censored - 6/7

Season 3

Episodes tested - 17/23

Episodes censored - 8/17

Season 4

Episodes tested - 16/24

Episodes censored - 14/16

Season 5

Episodes tested - 20/24

Episodes censored - 12/18

Season 6

Episodes tested - 21/24

Episodes censored - 15/20

Season 7

Episodes tested - 23/24

Episodes censored - 17/23

Season 8

Episodes tested - 11/24

Episodes censored - 8/11

Season 9

Episodes tested - 10/24

Episodes censored - 9/10

Season 10

Episodes tested - 3/24

Episodes censored - 2/3

Season 11

Episodes tested - 6/24

Episodes censored - 5/6

Season 12

Episodes tested - 1/24

Episodes censored - 1/1

Overall episodes tested - 130/279

Overall episodes censored - 91/127

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