All ballbusting scenes in The Big Bang Theory

**The Big Bang Theory** is an American sitcom (2007–2019) that centers on the social misadventures of four nerdy Caltech scientists—Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj—and their lives, which are changed by their waitress/aspiring actress neighbor, Penny, in Pasadena, California.

**FINAL BALLBUSTING SCORE: 4.0**

|Character|Actress|Episode|Time|Type|Score|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Katie|Amanda Walsh|S01E00|15:30|verbal reference (past squeeze)|0.4|
|Melissa Cooper|Courtney Henggeler|S01E15|15:45|verbal threat with past reference + implied squeeze|0.6|
|Melissa Cooper|Courtney Henggeler|S01E15|20:30|verbal reference by male|0.2|
|Penny Hofstadter|Kaley Cuoco|S02E05|10:55|verbal joke|0.4|
|Penny Hofstadter|Kaley Cuoco|S02E07|12:30|castration joke|0.4|
|Joy|Charlotte Newhouse|S04E05|14:00|verbal joke + fake punch|0.4|
|Penny Hofstadter|Kaley Cuoco|S04E19|19:20|kick|0.8|
|Penny Hofstadter|Kaley Cuoco|S05E11|1:30|verbal joke|0.2|
|Penny Hofstadter|Kaley Cuoco|S05E18|18:05|verbal reference (past kick)|0.2|
|Bernadette Rostenkowski|Melissa Rauch|S10E02|16:30|verbal joke|0.4|

**FULL DESCRIPTION OF EACH SCENE**

**Episode:** S01E00
**Timestamp:** 15:30
**Character:** Katie (Amanda Walsh)
**Type:** verbal reference (past squeeze)
**Score:** 0.4
**Description:** In the unaired pilot, Leonard finds Katie in the living room at night and asks what happened. She replies: “I was at a bar and this jerk kept hitting on me so I grabbed his nads, give them a half turn, you know ‘back off’. The guy dumps his beer all over me. I had to come back here and change”.
**Notes:** Katie was the pre-Penny female lead in the unaired pilot. The audience did not like the way Katie was mean, so she was dropped for the second pilot and replaced by Penny who is sweet and caring.

**Episode:** S01E15
**Timestamp:** 15:45
**Character:** Melissa Cooper (Courtney Henggeler)
**Type:** verbal threat with past reference, implied squeeze (offscreen)
**Score:** 0.6
**Description:** When Sheldon tries to give his sister sex/love advice, Melissa warns him: “You try one time to tell me who I should sleep with, you and I are gonna go round the way we did when we were little, remember?”. Sheldon immediately covers his groin and crosses his legs. Then he gives her another piece of advice and the scene cuts to him walking out of the room in pain while holding his balls.

**Episode:** S01E15
**Timestamp:** 20:30
**Character:** Melissa Cooper (Courtney Henggeler)
**Type:** verbal reference by male
**Score:** 0.2
**Description:** Sheldon and Melissa are saying goodbye to each other, then he says “Well, it was pleasant seeing you. Other than that business with my testicles”.

**Episode:** S02E05
**Timestamp:** 10:55
**Character:** Penny Hofstadter (Kaley Cuoco)
**Type:** verbal joke
**Score:** 0.4
**Description:** While Sheldon, Howard, and Penny are talking about getting a driver's license, Sheldon comments that Einstein never needed one. After that, Howard replies: “Yeah, but Albert Einstein didn't make me wet myself at 40 miles an hour”. Penny then adds: “Yeah, and I never wanted to kick Albert Einstein in the nuts”.

**Episode:** S02E07
**Timestamp:** 12:30
**Character:** Penny Hofstadter (Kaley Cuoco)
**Type:** castration joke
**Score:** 0.4
**Description:** When Leonard warns Penny that Sheldon is one lab accident away from becoming a super villain, she replies: “I don't care. I was in Junior Rodeo. I can hogtie and castrate him in 60 seconds”.

**Episode:** S04E05
**Timestamp:** 14:00
**Character:** Joy (Charlotte Newhouse)
**Type:** verbal joke and fake punch
**Score:** 0.4
**Description:** During a double date, Joy — Bernadette’s krav maga classmate — tells Leonard: “Yeah, Israeli Krav Maga. Lots of fun. Basically, a hundred different ways to rip a guy's nuts off”. Leonard gets uncomfortable and says “Wow, wouldn’t think there’d be that many”. Joy then screams “Number 42!” and pretends to hit him in the balls, making him flinch in fear. Bernadette and Joy laugh hard, and Bernadette says while laughing: “Isn’t she a pimp?”

**Episode:** S04E19
**Timestamp:** 19:20
**Character:** Penny Hofstadter (Kaley Cuoco)
**Type:** kick
**Score:** 0.8
**Description:** Penny and her friends go to the house of the guy who hacked Sheldon. When he opens the door and refuses to give back Sheldon's stuff, Penny says: “Well, then, good news. Today is the day a girl's finally going to touch you in your little special place”. She then kicks him really hard in the balls, causing him to collapse on the floor in agony. While he is down, she demands: "Now give him his stuff back". He replies "Okay" while still writhing in pain.

**Episode:** S05E11
**Timestamp:** 1:30
**Character:** Penny Hofstadter (Kaley Cuoco)
**Type:** verbal joke
**Score:** 0.2
**Description:** While Penny, Leonard, and Sheldon are talking about a guy bullying Leonard, Sheldon asks if it was the one who wedgied him so hard his testicles reascended. Sheldon then jokes that maybe the bully wants to lodge the other testicle up there for the holidays. When Leonard says it's a different guy, Penny adds: “Mm, that's too bad. Could've spent New Year's Eve waiting for the ball to drop”. She and Sheldon laugh at the joke.

**Episode:** S05E18
**Timestamp:** 18:05
**Character:** Penny Hofstadter (Kaley Cuoco)
**Type:** verbal reference (past kick)
**Score:** 0.2
**Description:** Penny tells Sheldon "All right, honey, look... we've known each other for a long time now, right? I've taken you to Disneyland, I kicked a bully in the nuts for you..." referring to the events of S04E19.

**Episode:** S10E02
**Timestamp:** 16:30
**Character:** Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch)
**Type:** verbal joke
**Score:** 0.4
**Description:** Bernadette says to Penny: “Hey, I learned a long time ago, when you're four feet eleven and eye level with every guy's crotch, that's where you punch”. Penny laughs and replies: “That's funny. I learned something totally different”.