[1] Sheldon calls Leonard on his ship in the North Sea about a major emergency situation concerning their DVDs.
Penny shares that she once did a topless scene in an unreleased slasher horror movie about a killer gorilla called Serial Ape-ist.
Raj is heartbroken about losing his relationship with Lucy and sees her image everywhere, including in grease stains and in his chicken pot pie.
Raj is not engaged and decides to leave, and as he is departing he runs into Janine Davis, whose husband has left her for an undergraduate student.
Later, after Bernadette brushes the guys off as they are spoken for, she comments to Amy that no one would blame her for accepting the invitation, since her boyfriend is "kind of Sheldon".
At the end of the episode, Leonard boasts to his shipmates about Penny being his girlfriend, showing them her topless scene.
[3] It was top in its time slot, ahead of FOX's The X Factor, NBC's Parks and Recreation, ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and The CW's The Vampire Diaries.
Schedeen praised the episode for "the characters divided into some fun, nontraditional pairs" and "moments of growth for Raj, Sheldon, and Penny".