I know that their hands are tied by the US holidays and not being allowed to get within a certain number of episodes, but why not just wait until January and rifle on through the lot?
Not bad at all. It's a long time since TBBT has made me laugh out loud and I did so several times during that episode. Fingers crossed that all of this series is at least as good as the first episode.
Having just watched the clips on YouTube I've probably seen most of the first episode! Funniest I've seen for a long time, if the rest of the series is up to this standard we have nothing to worry about.