It’s Kind Of Like Christmas

I might have written this article about more holiday-themed comedy episodes, from any one of our three fantastic series’. Or I could have gone on about brobibs from last night’s How I Met Your Mother episode. Yes, I would have chosen either of these two ideas, if it weren’t for one social media blogger who brought to my attention Amy Farrah Fowler has been called “vixen” on the Big Bang Theory—not once or twice, but a total of three times, brushing past the small margin of coincidence.

Well, I just had to research the when’s and why’s.

Amy gained the nickname during season four, episode twenty: The Herb Garden Germination. Amy subtly engages Sheldon in a social experiment among their friends, when previously Sheldon showed no interest in sciences he considered inferior to his own field. As an afterthought, he remarked, “You’re a vixen, Amy Farrah Fowler.”
Note he used the term when Amy succeeded in changing Sheldon’s outlook on a topic.

Fast-forward to season five, and our other two scenarios. Amy, frustrated by her and Sheldon’s lack of progress in a relationship, concedes to going on a date with Stuart from the comic book store. Penny calls her a vixen then, too, “just working it under all those layers of wool and polyester!”
The bold move on her part causes Sheldon to commit by the end of the episode. I’m thinking, strike two.

Sheldon discusses Amy later that season in episode 23, when he confesses to Leonard he can’t stop thinking about her: “Oh, what has that vixen done to me, Leonard?” Keeping in mind the meaning of the word, I’d say Amy earned the herald because she succeeded in doing what no one else has: swaying Sheldon any which way whatsoever!

The question is, has she developed wiles of womanly cunning since we saw her character enter the series? Or are her more (accidentally) “vixen” qualities simply Amy being Amy? Regardless of opinion, the real judge would, and should, be none other than Dr. Sheldon Cooper.