1 Dec 2015
By Lesley Goldberg/Hollywood Reporter
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The episode will feature the return of Big Bang Emmy winner Bob Newhart, who will reprise his role as Arthur Jeffries and reappear as a ghostly Jedi in Sheldon’s dreams in a bid to help him sort out his feelings and determine if the time is right to be intimate with Amy. The installment will also feature a major Star Wars arc in which Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Raj have tickets to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens — which happens to open mere hours after this episode is broadcast.
To hear co-creator Lorre and showrunner Steve Molaro tell it, the decision to have the couple become sexually active is a moment they’ve been waiting to explore for eight-plus seasons.
“Their relationship floundered this season,” Lorre tells THR of Sheldon and Amy’s breakup storyline. “It helped spur them to move forward and pursue their relationship more aggressively having realized that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone, as the song goes. That happened for Sheldon — missing Amy was wearing on him in a way he hadn’t anticipated.”
In a way that only Big Bang could do, the episode’s central storyline sees the gang getting tickets to the newStar Wars and Sheldon struggling with the decision of whether to see the movie opening night — which also happens to be Amy’s birthday. Ultimately, Sheldon decides to forgo Star Wars and spend Amy’s birthday with her. It’s a big move for the typically emotionally stunted Sheldon — especially after the couple broke up when he refused to make her a priority.