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V[first lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I'm just going to run to the store and get a few things; I'll pick you up when you're done.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Okay. I-I like it a little better when you stay, but all right.\u000aAngelo: Hey, Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hello. I'm here for my haircut with Mr. D'Onofrio.\u000aAngelo: I'm sorry. Uncle Tony's in hospital. He's pretty sick.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, dear. Mr. D'Onofrio is in the hospital. Why do these things always happen to me?\u000aAngelo: I could cut it for you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're not Mr. D'Onofrio. I get my haircut by Mr. D'Onofrio.\u000a[to Leonard]\u000aSheldon Cooper: You believe this guy?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: What are you doing?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Trying to get the hair out of my eyes.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, you are one day late for your haircut.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Thank you for captioning my nightmare.
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aVPenny: You know, Sheldon, I used to cut my brother's hair. I could do it for you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny, I know you mean well, offering the skills of the hill-folk. But here in town we don't churn our own butter, we don't make dresses out of gunny sacks, and sure-as-shootin' don't get our hair cut by bottle blonde...\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [interrupting] Sheldon, be nice!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm sorry. It's the bad boy attitude that comes with this hair.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, you're ruining girlfriend-boyfriend sing-along night.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm sorry, I'm looking for a barber, and I'm running out of time. My hair is growing at the rate of four point six yoctometers per femtosecond. And if you're quiet, you can hear it.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: What about Supercuts?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I tried once. They do men's and women's hair in the same room at the same time. It's like Sodom and Gomorrah with mousse.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Well, this isn't a crisis. Why don't you just let your hair grow out a little?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why don't I let my hair grow out? Um, why don't I start wearing Birkenstocks and seeking validation of my opinions by asking: "Can you dig it?"\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Well, I don't know. I think you might look sexy with long hair. The kind that flows down to your shoulders and blows back while riding on a horse. Bareback and barechested...\u000a[pauses]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I'm gonna go brush my teeth, it might take a while.
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aVPenny: So, if I move my horsey here... Isn't that checkmate and I win?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [long pause] Hm.\u000aPenny: Well, is it or isn't it?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You know, I think this is a good stopping point. Uh... it's your first real game, I threw a lot of information at you...\u000aPenny: Uh, no, your king is trapped. He can't go here because of my lighthouse, and he can't go here because because of my pointy-head guy.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Like I said, complicated game.\u000aPenny: So did I win or not?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Did you have fun? Because if you had fun, then you are, you are a winner. And that's... that's what chess is all about.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [coming in] Hello.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Hey.\u000aPenny: Oh, hey. Sorry, Sheldon, I'll move.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Nah, why? My spot, your spot... What difference does it make?\u000aPenny: Okay, what just happened?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I don't know. Between you playing chess like Bobby Fischer and Sheldon being okay with you in his spot, I'm guessing someone went back in time, stepped on a bug and changed the course of human events.
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aVPenny: Sweetie, are you all right?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, I'm not all right. It's been six days since I was supposed to get a haircut. And nothing horrible has happened.\u000aPenny: Okay, I'm sorry, I don't understand.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, explain it to her.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Oh. Uh, he's crazy.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: I think this could be good for you. Maybe it's time for you to shake things up a bit.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're right. I should embrace the chaos.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Great! What are you gonna do first?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I don't know. I could do anything. All bets are off. The world is my oyster.\u000a[hammers his hand at the table]\u000aSheldon Cooper: I got it. I'm gonna put on my Tuesday pajamas tonight.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [waking up by hearing rhythm sounds] Don't let this be Sheldon playing bongos. Please, don't let this be Sheldon playing bongos.\u000a[gets up, walks into the living room]\u000aSheldon Cooper: [playing bongos, "sings" to the rhythms] Hello, Leonard, do you like my bongos? Bet you didn't know that I had bongos.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, it's three o'clock in the morning.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [sings] Three in the morning is a good time for bongos!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I was sleeping!\u000aSheldon Cooper: [sings] Leonard sleeps while I play bongos!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No, he doesn't.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [sings] Leonard no sleep while I play bongos! Bongo solo!\u000a[plays wilder]
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aVPenny: Why did you get bongos?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Richard Feynman played the bongos. I thought I'd give that a try.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Richard Feynman was a famous physicist.\u000aPenny: Leonard, it's three o'clock in the morning! I don't care if Richard Feynman was a purple leprechaun who lived in my butt!
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aVPenny: Where are you going?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Wherever the music takes me, kitten.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [sings off screen] I play bongos walking down the stairs.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [falls] Oh! Oh!\u000a[Penny looks freaked and worried at the same time]\u000aSheldon Cooper: [continues singing] Never play bongos walking down the stairs!
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aVPenny: All right, Sheldon, this craziness has gone on long enough. Please come home so I can cut your hair.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny, you're not trained, you're not licensed, and most importantly, you don't have access to my haircut records.\u000aPenny: 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, I sing you "Soft Kitty" when you're sick, you've even seen me naked once.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I'm sorry, what?\u000aPenny: It's a long story. Anyway, Sheldon, I promise I know what I'm doing. Please let me cut your hair.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy, what do you think?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: There's not a hair on my body I wouldn't let this woman trim.
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aVSheldon Cooper: To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a nephew.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I have spent my whole life trying to bring order to the universe by carefully planning every moment of every day - but all my efforts: our dinner schedule, my pajama rotation, my bowel movement spreadsheet - it's clear now; I've been wasting my time.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Good. I'm taking that disgusting chart off the fridge.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, you're a grown man, he's a professional, and your haircut is number three on that poster from 1946. Just sit down and let him do it.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Fine. But if I come out of this looking like a dork, it's on you.\u000a[Sheldon sits down and Angelo starts preparations to cut his hair]\u000aAngelo: So my kid did the funniest thing today...\u000aSheldon Cooper: No.\u000a[Stands up and walks out]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [to Angelo] When you tell this story later, the word we usually use is quirky.
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aVPenny: [Penny is cutting Sheldon's hair] Almost done.\u000aSheldon Cooper: At the end of the haircut, Mr. D'Onofrio would tell me a dirty joke.\u000aPenny: Well, sorry, I don't know any dirty jokes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's okay, I never understood them anyway.
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aV[last lines]\u000aPenny: Okay, I'm just going to clean up your neck a little, and then you are good to go.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Okay.\u000a[Sheldon jerks and laughs]\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm sorry, sometimes the clippers tickle me.\u000aPenny: Okay.\u000a[Sheldon throws back his head, laughing, and the clippers slide up the back of his head]\u000aPenny: Okay, yup, we're all done now.\u000a[grabs the hand mirror]\u000aPenny: Let me just take that away from you.\u000a[removes towel from his shoulders]\u000aPenny: Okay.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Thank you very much.\u000aPenny: You are welcome.\u000a[Sheldon leaves]\u000aPenny: Yup, I'm going to have to move.
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aVSheldon: [singing] I play bongos, walkin' down the stairs.\u000aSheldon: [He falls] Oh, ow!\u000aSheldon: [singing] Never play bongos walkin' down the stairs.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Codpiece Topology (#2.2)"(2008)Sheldon Cooper: I'm sorry, I am not going back to the renaissance fair.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Come on, Sheldon, there are so few places I can wear my jester costume.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I don't care. There are far too many historical anomalies for my comfort.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Oh, okay, how about this. You can go dressed as a Star Trek science officer exploring a planet very similar to Earth in the fifteen hundreds.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You mean like Spock?\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: [shrugs] Sure.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Fascinating.
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aVSheldon Cooper: If you're having trouble deciding where to sit, may I suggest "One Potato, Two Potato." Or as I call it, the Leslie Winkle experimental methodology.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Renaissance fairs aren't about historical accuracy. They're about taking chubby girls who work at Kinkos and lacing them up in corsets so tight their bosom jumps out and says "howdy".\u000aSheldon Cooper: Bosoms would not have said "howdy" in the Fifteenth Century. If anything, they would have said "Huzzah!"\u000aHoward Wolowitz: I don't care what the bosoms say, Sheldon. I just want to be part of the conversation.
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aVLeslie Winkle: Hello, dummy.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hello to you, insufficiently intelligent person.\u000aLeslie Winkle: Ooh, rush me to the burn unit.
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aVPenny: Why don't you go to a movie?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Alone?\u000aPenny: Yeah.\u000aSheldon Cooper: What if I choke on my popcorn? Who will administer the Heimlich manuver?\u000aPenny: So, don't buy popcorn.\u000aSheldon Cooper: No popcorn at the mo - listen to yourself!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Everybody's got a date. Even you, Mario, going after Princess Peach. And what am I doing? I'm just enabling you.
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aVSheldon Cooper: My God, they can't expect to put Ye Olde in front of anything they want and get away with it.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: I'm glad Penny's dating. Now I can really let loose.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: You were holding back?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Out of courtesy, yes.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: What about the ten years before Penny.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Hey, I've date plenty of women.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Like who?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Well, there's Joyce Kim, Leslie Winkle...\u000a[pause]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Notify the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary: the word "plenty" has been redefined to mean "two".
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aVSheldon Cooper: You know how I can tell we're not in the Matrix?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: How?\u000aSheldon Cooper: If we were, the food would be better.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Look on the bright side.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What bright side?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Only nine more months until ComicCon.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [smiling] Oh, yeah.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Referring to their Renaissance Fair costumes] I fashioned historically accurate undergarments out of linen.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You went out and bought linen?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Don't be silly. I borrowed one of your pillowcases.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Borrowed?
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aVRajesh Koothrappali: I think she's smoking hot.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: I'd hit that!\u000aSheldon Cooper: You'd hit particulate soil on a colloidal suspension.\u000a[Wolowitz looks at him for clarification]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Mud.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [wants Sheldon to leave because he has a date] Nevertheless I have one now, and I'd appreciate it if you'd, you know, make yourself scarce.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, I am a published theoretical physicist with two doctorates and an IQ which can't be accurately be measured by normal tests. How much scarcer could I be?
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aVSheldon Cooper: If Leonard is really my friend, why doesn't he have to support me in my hatred of Leslie Winkle?\u000aPenny: Because love trumps hate.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, now you're just making stuff up!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Oh, Mario. How I wish I could control everyone the way I can with you?\u000a[Presses buttons frantically]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hop, you little plumber! Hop, hop, hop!
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aVPenny: Why don't you see a movie or something?\u000aSheldon: Alone?\u000aPenny: Yeah, why not?\u000aSheldon: What if I choke on my popcorn, who will administer the Heimlich maneuver?\u000aPenny: Well, then don't order popcorn.\u000aSheldon: No popcorn at the movies? Listen to yourself.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Leonard is upstairs right now with my arch-enemy.\u000aPenny: Your arch-enemy?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, the Dr. Doom to my Mr. Fantastic, the Dr. Octopus to my Spider-Man, the Dr. Sivana to my Captain Marvel...\u000aPenny: Okay, I get it, I get it!\u000aSheldon Cooper: You know, it's amazing how many supervillains have advanced degrees.
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aVSheldon: Leslie Winkle. Of all the overrated physicists in all the labs in the world, why does it have to be Leslie Winkle?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: What's so unusual about me having a date?\u000aSheldon: Well, statistically speaking...\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: All right, all right! Nevertheless, I have one now and I'd appreciate it if, you know, made yourself scarce.\u000aSheldon: Leonard, I am a published theoretical physicist with two doctorates and an i.q. which can't be measured by normal tests. How much scarcer could I be?
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: Pilot (#1.1)"(2007)Sheldon: But then some poor woman is going to pin her hopes on my sperm, what if she winds up with a toddler that doesn't know if he should use an integral or a differential to solve for the area under a curve?\u000aLeonard: I'm sure she'll still love him.\u000aSheldon: I wouldn't.
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aVLeonard: So, tell us about you.\u000aPenny: Um, me? Okay - I'm a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know.\u000aSheldon: Yes - it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.\u000aPenny: [stares at Sheldon in utter confusion] Participateinthewhat?\u000aLeonard: [scrambling to save face] I think what Sheldon is trying to say is that Sagittarius wouldn't have been our first guess.\u000aPenny: Oh, yeah - lot of people think I'm a water sign.
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aVPenny: Four years I lived with him! Four years, I mean that's like as long as high school!\u000aSheldon: It took you FOUR YEARS to get through high school?
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aVSheldon: If by "Holy Smokes", you mean a derivative restatement of the kind of stuff you could find scribbled on the wall of any men's room at MIT, sure.
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aVLeonard: Should we have invited her for lunch?\u000aSheldon: No, we're gonna start season two of Battlestar Galactica.\u000aLeonard: We already watched the season two DVDs.\u000aSheldon: Not with commentary.
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aVSheldon: Leonard has a lady over.\u000aWolowitz: Yeah, right, your grandmother's back in town?
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aVLeonard: Come on! We have a combined IQ of 360 we should be able to figure out how to get into a stupid building.\u000a[two girls selling cookies ring every bell, the door opens]\u000aSheldon: What do you think their combined IQ is?
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aVLeonard: [discussing Sheldon's work] At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions just to make the math come out.\u000aSheldon: I didn't invent them. They're there.\u000aLeonard: In what universe?\u000aSheldon: In *all* of them, that is the point!
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aVSheldon: Do you want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?\u000aLeonard: Not really.\u000aSheldon: [going on anyway] If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimeters, most people will trip.\u000aLeonard: I don't care.\u000a[thinks about it]\u000aLeonard: Two milli - that doesn't seem right.\u000aSheldon: It's true - I did a series of experiments when I was twelve. My father broke his clavicle.\u000aLeonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?\u000aSheldon: No - that was the result of my work with lasers.
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aVPenny: So, what do you guys do for fun around here?\u000aSheldon: Well, today we tried masturbating for money.
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aVSheldon: You're not done with her, are you?\u000aLeonard: Our babies will be smart *AND* beautiful.\u000aSheldon: Not to mention imaginary.
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aVLeonard: Oh, I love cheesecake.\u000aSheldon: You're lactose intolerant.\u000aLeonard: I don't eat it, I just think it's a good idea.
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aVSheldon: I don't know your odds in the world as a whole, but as far as the population of this car goes, you're a veritable mac daddy.
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aVSheldon: Uhm, Penny, that's where I sit.\u000aPenny: So sit next to me.\u000aSheldon: No, I sit there.\u000aPenny: What's the difference?\u000aSheldon: What's the difference?\u000aLeonard: Here we go.\u000aSheldon: In the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer, it's directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide as to create a parallax distortion. I could go on.
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aVLeonard: We need to widen our circle.\u000aSheldon: I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on MySpace.\u000aLeonard: Yes, and you've never met one of them.\u000aSheldon: That's the beauty of it.
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aV[first lines]\u000aSheldon: So, if a photon is directed through a plane with two slits in it and either slit is observed, it will not go through both slits. If it's unobserved, it will. However, if it's observed after it's left the plane, but before it hits its target, it will not have gone through both slits.\u000aLeonard: Agreed. What's your point?\u000aSheldon: It's no point. I just think it's a good idea for a t-shirt.
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aVLeonard: We brought home Indian food, and I know that moving can be stressful and I find that when I'm undergoing stress, good food and company can have a comforting effect. Also curry is a natural laxative, and I don't have to tell you that a clean colon is one less thing to worry about.\u000aSheldon: Leonard, I'm no expert here but I believe in the context of a luncheon invitation, you might want to skip the reference to bowel movements.
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aVSheldon: I really think we should examine the chain of causality here.\u000aLeonard: Must we?\u000aSheldon: Event A: A beautiful woman stands naked in our shower. Event B: We drive halfway across town to retrieve a television set from the aforementioned woman's ex-boyfriend. Query: On what plane of existence is there even a semi-rational link between these events?\u000aLeonard: She asked me to do her a favor, Sheldon.\u000aSheldon: Ah, yes. Well, that may be the proximal cause of our journey, but we both know it only exists in contradistinction to the higher-level distal cause.\u000aLeonard: Which is?\u000aSheldon: You think with your penis.
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aVPenny: Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm such a mess. And on top of everything else, I'm all gross from moving. And my stupid shower doesn't even work.\u000aLeonard: Our shower works.\u000aPenny: Really? Would it be totally weird if I used it?\u000aSheldon: Yes.\u000aLeonard: No.\u000aSheldon: No?\u000aLeonard: No.\u000aSheldon: No.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The White Asparagus Triangulation (#2.9)"(2008)[last lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: If I am permitted to speak again, Doctor Sheldon Cooper for the win.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Leonard, Leonard, Leonard\u000a[whilst knocking]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What, Sheldon? What, Sheldon? What, Sheldon?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Tell me what you see here?\u000a[showing Leonard the laptop]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: The blunt instrument that will be the focus of my murder trial?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Okay, I'm going to make this very simple for you. *You* are not in this relationship. *I* am. Ergo, you have *noooo* say in anything that happens between me and Stephanie!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm afraid I can't allow that. Pursuant to Starfleet General Order 104, Section A, you are deemed unfit, and I hereby relieve you of your command.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Starfleet General Order 104, Section A does not apply in this situation.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Give me one good reason why not.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Because this is not Star Trek!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Of the handful of women Leonard's been involved with, she's the only one I have ever found tolerable.\u000aPenny: Well, what about me?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The statement stands for itself.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Well, Stephanie, since Leonard seems to be dropping the conversational ball, I guess I'll just have to pick it up.\u000a[long pause]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Have you ever witnessed a violent crime?\u000aStephanie: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Good. What's your favorite fruit?\u000aStephanie: Eh, uh... Strawberries.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Technically not a fruit, but all right.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Gentlemen, I have a question about dating and relationships.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: [to Howard] You told me you were going to have the talk with him.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: I've been waiting for someone to have the talk with me.
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aVSheldon: If you fail at this relationship, and history suggests you will, then we risk losing the medical officer that our landing party has always needed!\u000aLeonard: What landing party?\u000aSheldon: You're Kirk, I'm Spock, Wolowitz is Scotty, Koothrappali is the guy who always gets killed... and now we've got McCoy!
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aVSheldon: This is bananabread.\u000aPenny: This is a doorknob.
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aVSheldon: I'm sorry I'm late, but your companion left the most indecipherable invitation.\u000aLeonard: What invitation?\u000aSheldon: [reads note] "We're going to the movies." What movie? What theater? What time? If you were trying to make it impossible to locate you, you couldn't have done a better job.\u000aLeonard: Oh clearly, I could have.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [after informing Stephanie he had successfully made his own CAT scanner at the age of 12] In fact I was briefly able to see the inside of my sister's guinea pig, Snowball, before he caught fire. It led to an interesting expression in our house: "Not a Snowball's chance in a CAT scanner!"
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aVPenny: Leonard, congratulations.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What for?\u000aPenny: Your Facebook status update. Leonard Hofstadter is in a relationship.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What? No... No, that's not right.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Oh, man, did you switch your status before she did? Speaking as an expert: way to look needy.\u000aPenny: Seriously? You went first, after only two weeks? That's bold.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: It's not bold, it's a mistake. I didn't change my status.\u000aPenny: Well, then who did?\u000a[Everybody looks at Sheldon]\u000aSheldon Cooper: I had no choice; he cried in front of her.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You hacked my Facebook account?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, it's hardly hacking when you use the same password for everything, "Kal-El".
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aVSheldon: [Knock, knock, knock] Penny.\u000a[Knock, knock, knock]\u000aSheldon: Penny...\u000aPenny: What?\u000aSheldon: [Knock, knock, knock] Penny. Zucchini bread.\u000aPenny: Ooh. Thank you!\u000aSheldon: May I come in?\u000aPenny: No.\u000aSheldon: Y - I see. Apparently, my earlier inquiry regarding you and Leonard crossed some sort of line. I apologize.\u000aPenny: Aw, thank you.\u000aSheldon: So have you and I returned to a social equilibrium?\u000aPenny: Yes.\u000aSheldon: Great. New Topic. Where are you in your menstrual cycle?\u000aPenny: What?\u000aSheldon: I've been doing some research online and apparently, female primates - you know, apes, chimpanzees, YOU - they find their mate more desirable when he's being courted by another female. Now, this effect is intensified when the rival female, is secreting the pheromones associated with ovulation. Which brings me back to my question; where are you...\u000aSheldon: [Penny slams door on his face] Clearly I'm 14 days too early.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [seeing the mess in Penny's apartment] Were you robbed?\u000aPenny: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [looking around] How can you be sure?
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aV[first lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny! Hello.\u000aPenny: Hey, Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: What is shaking?\u000aPenny: [pause] I'm sorry?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's colloquial, a conversation opener. So, do you find the weather satisfying? Are you currently sharing the triumph of some local sports team?\u000aPenny: Whats wrong with you? You're freaking me out.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm striking up a casual conversation with you. Saa-uup?\u000aPenny: Please don't do that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: All right, but I'm given to understand that when you have something *awkward* to discuss to someone it's more palatable to preface it with banal chit-chat.\u000aPenny: So this *wasn't* the awkward part?
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aVPenny: OK, all right, you know what... I'll tell you what happened.\u000a[sighs heavily]\u000aPenny: We were young; we were very much in love. but we could only communicate through a time-traveling mailbox at my lake house.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's not enough that you made me watch that movie, but now you mock me with it?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [yelling] Are you insane! Now she's going to think I'm desperate. You've destroyed this relationship, and, you want to know the worst part is, you don't even understand what you did wrong because you can't conceive of something that you are not an expert in.\u000aSheldon Cooper: In which I am not...\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Don't even!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Wait here. I'll find us seats.\u000aStephanie: Oh, no, we have seats.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [wearily] Not the right seats.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [loudly] Ha. Ha. Ha.\u000aStephanie: What is he doing?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [unenthused] He's finding the acoustic sweet spot.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [having changed seats] Ha.\u000aStephanie: Does he always do this?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sometimes he brings a toy xylophone.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Friendship Algorithm (#2.13)"(2009)Sheldon Cooper: Kripke!\u000aBarry Kripke: Yeah?\u000aSheldon Cooper: What would you say to the idea of you and I becoming friends?\u000aBarry Kripke: I would say... I have no intewest in becoming your fwiend.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Really? Oh, that seems rather short sighted coming from someone who is generally considered altogether unlikeable. Why don't you take some time to reconsider?\u000aBarry Kripke: [sarcastically] Yeah, I'll do that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [to Raj, Howard and Leonard] Well, *I* think we're off to a terrific start.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: My point is, if you want to learn how to make friends, then just go out to a coffee shop or a museum, meet people, talk to them, take an interest in *their* lives.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's insane on the face of it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Excuse me, do you have any books about making friends?\u000aJeremy: Um, yeah, but they're all for little kids.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I assume the skills can be extrapolated and transferred.\u000aJeremy: Uh, I guess. They're right over there by the wooden train set.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ooh, I love trains!\u000aJeremy: I bet you do.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: What I'm trying to say is that maybe you can't approach this as a purely intellectual exercise.\u000aSheldon Cooper: What do you mean?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Well, uh, remember when you tried to learn how to swim using the internet?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I *did* learn how to swim.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: On the floor.\u000aSheldon Cooper: The skills are transferable. I just have no interest in going in the water.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Then why learn how to swim?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming isn't going to be optional.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I believe I've isolated the algorithm for making friends.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, there is no algorithm for making friends.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Hear him out. If he's really onto something, we could open a booth at ComiCon; make a fortune.
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aVBarry Kripke: You afwaid of heights,Cooper?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hardly. A fear of heights is illogical. Fear of falling, on the other hand, is prudent and evolutionary.
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aV[first lines]\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Mmmm! Gentlemen, I put it to you: the worst tapioca pudding is better than the best pudding of any other flavor.\u000aSheldon Cooper: First off, that is axiomatically wrong because the best pudding is chocolate. Secondly, the organic structure of tapioca makes it a jiggling bowl of potential death. It is extracted from the plant...\u000aHoward Wolowitz: - Hey, I'm thinking of growing a mustache.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Oh, no kidding. A Fu Manchu, a handlebar, pencil?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's extracted from the plant...\u000aHoward Wolowitz: I'm not sure yet. You know, George Clooney has one now.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Really? I once saw him shopping at Ralphs. He was buying tequila.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Oh, you'd think a guy like that would have some kind of booze lackey.\u000a[Sheldon's face and eyes are twitching]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Alright, this is cruel. We better let him finish before his head explodes.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Alright, Sheldon, why is tapioca...\u000a[at lightning speed]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Tapioca is extracted from the root of the plant Manihot esculenta. Due to a high concentration of cyanide it is poisonous in its raw form and lethal if prepared improperly.\u000a[takes a drink]\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Feel better now?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It is also indigenous to Brazil, as is the cocoa bean from which we get chocolate, the best pudding.\u000a[to Leonard]\u000aSheldon Cooper: You promised you wouldn't do that anymore.
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aVSheldon Cooper: That's where I sit.\u000aBarry Kripke: Ooh, you have a special spot. What kind of wacko are you?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: How much time you got?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, what are you doing?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm making friends with this little girl. What's your name?\u000aRebecca: Rebecca.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hi, Rebecca. I'm your new friend, Sheldon.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [pulling Sheldon away] No, you're not. Let's go.\u000aSheldon Cooper: We were really hitting it off.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Don't look up, there's cameras.
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aV[Howard makes a few minor changes to Sheldon's friendship flow chart]\u000aSheldon Cooper: A loop counter and an escape to the least objectionable activity. Howard, that's brilliant! I'm surprised you saw that.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [sarcastically, to Raj and Leonard] Gee, why can't Sheldon make friends?
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aVSheldon Cooper: [studying rock-climbing wall] This appears significantly more... monolithic than it did on my laptop. Y'know, one expects to see hominids learning to use bones as weapons.
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aVBarry Kripke: You all wight there, Cooper?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not really. I feel somewhat like an inverse tangent function at the approach to the asymptote.\u000aBarry Kripke: Are you saying you're stuck?\u000aSheldon Cooper: What part of 'inverse tangent function approaching an asymptote' did you not understand?
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aVSheldon Cooper: Tsk, tsk, tsk. Your questionnaire, very disappointing.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I answered every question, Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You answered the multiple choice questions in a pattern. See, A-B-B-A-C, A-B-B-A-C.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Oh, you picked up on that, huh?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah, wait... How could I not?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Well, uh, come on. There's over two hundred questions. And look at some of these things. "Sheldon is to camaraderie as the space shuttle is to blank."\u000aSheldon Cooper: There are a number of acceptable answers. For example, "c", near-Earth transport. But certainly not "b", avocado rancher. And your essay, suggesting that I'd have better luck making friends if I wait 'till the Cylons take over? Please.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Hold on. I put some real work into that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, well, it's better than what Wolowitz did. He drew a raccoon with what appears to be a distended scrotum.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [looking at the drawing] It's kind of cute.\u000a[Sheldon looks offended]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Uh, 'till you get to the scrotum.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah. What hope do I have for establishing new relationships, given that my current friends apparently could not take a few hours out of their lives to help me?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Well, Sheldon, I'm not going to defend a big-balled raccoon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, I don't see how you could.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm having some difficulty bonding with a colleague at work, so I'm doing a little research to better understand why my current friends like me.\u000aPenny: Yes, well, that is a good question. But is this really the best way to figure it out?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I agree. The social sciences are largely hokum. But short of putting electrodes in your brain and monitoring your response to my companionship, this is the best I can do.\u000aPenny: Okay, question one: "Rank the following aspects of Sheldon Cooper in order of appeal: intelligence, ruthless attention to hygiene, playfulness, Java applet writing"?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I know. I may have started off with a fairly obvious one. An aspect of of my most appealing trait: playfulness. Why don't you just go ahead and rank that number one? I'm afraid you're on your own for the rest. It should take you no more than three hours.\u000aPenny: Well, wait, how many questions are on this thing?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Only two hundred and eleven. Don't worry. In deference to you, I've kept them all at a high school graduate reading level.\u000aPenny: [sarcastically] Thanks, pal.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You got it, buddy.\u000aPenny: Sheldon, honey, did you ever consider making friends by being, I don't know, pleasant?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, that's certainly a thought-provoking hypothesis. May I suggest it as the topic for your essay?
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aVSheldon Cooper: [looking through children's books on making friends] All right, let's see. "Bernie Bunny Has Two Daddies Now". That's probably about homosexual rabbits. "Gerry the Gerbil and the Bullies on the Bus". Read it, not helpful.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Oh, good. You're just in time. I believe I've isolated the algorithm for making friends.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, there is no algorithm for making friends.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Hear him out. If he's really onto something, we could open a booth at Comic-Con, make a fortune.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You see, my initial approach with Kripke had the same deficiencies as those that plagued Stu the Cockatoo when he was new at the zoo.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Stu the Cockatoo?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [sarcastic] Yes. He's new at the zoo.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Hello. This is Sheldon Cooper. I'm leaving a message for Barry Kripke. Barry, It was pleasant seeing you today in the cafeteria. I saw that you purchased the chef's salad. Apparently, you did not know that the chef's salad is kitchen trickery, to utilize scrap meat. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoyed it. I'm following up on our pending friendship, and I look forward to hearing from you regarding its status. Sheldon Cooper.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Luminous Fish Effect (#1.4)"(2007)Mary: Honey, why did you get a loom?\u000aSheldon: I was working with luminous fish and I thought... hey. Loom.
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aVLeonard: Howard brought a date?\u000aSheldon: A plausible explanation is that his work in robotics has made an incredible leap forward.
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aVSheldon: I can't believe he fired me.\u000aLeonard: Well, you did call him a glorified high-school science teacher whose last successful experiment was lighting his own farts.\u000aSheldon: In my defense, I prefaced that by saying, "with all due respect."
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aVPenny: How come you didn't go into work today?\u000aSheldon: I'm taking a sabbatical, because I won't kowtow to mediocre minds.\u000aPenny: So you got canned, huh?\u000aSheldon: Theoretical physicists do not get canned... but, yeah.
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aVSheldon: Mom, what are you doing here?\u000aMary: Leonard called me.\u000aSheldon: I know, but why?\u000aLeonard: Because one of the great minds of the 21st Century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes.\u000aSheldon: This is not a serape. This is a poncho! A serape is open to the sides, a poncho is closed, this is a poncho! And neither is a reason to call someone's mother!
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aVSheldon: The last department party, Professor Finkleday cornered me and talked about spelunking for 45 minutes.\u000aLeonard: Yes, I was there.\u000aSheldon: Do you know what's interesting about caves, Leonard?\u000aLeonard: What?\u000aSheldon: Nothing.
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aVLeonard: Hey, how did it go?\u000aSheldon: I got my job back.\u000aLeonard: Really? What happened?\u000aSheldon: I'm not quite sure. It involves a part of the human experience that has always eluded me.\u000aLeonard: That narrows it down.
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aVMary: You know how your daddy used to say that you can only fish for so long before you gotta throw a stick of dynamite in the water?\u000aSheldon: Yes.\u000aMary: [Opens Sheldon's wardrobe and starts to get his clothes out] Well, I'm done fishing.
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aVPenny: When one door closes another one opens.\u000aSheldon: No it doesn't. Not unless the two doors are connected by relays or there are motion sensors involved.
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aVMary: I have been telling you since you were four years old, it's okay to be smarter than everybody else, but you can't go around pointing it out.\u000aSheldon: Why?\u000aMary: Because people don't like it!
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aVLeonard: So... fish.\u000aSheldon: I read an article about Japanese scientists who inserted DNA from luminous jellyfish into other animals and I thought, hey, fish night lights.
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aV[first lines]\u000aSheldon: You know, I've been thinking about time travel again.\u000aLeonard: Why? Did you hit a roadblock with invisibility?\u000aSheldon: Put it on the back burner. Anyway, it occurs to me, if I ever did perfect a time machine I would just go into the past and give it to myself, thus eliminating the need for me to invent it in the first place.\u000aLeonard: Interesting.\u000aSheldon: Yeah, it really takes the pressure off.
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aVSheldon: [reluctantly apologizing to Dr. Gablehauser] As you know, several weeks ago in our first encounter, we may have gotten off on the wrong foot when I called you an idiot. And I just wanted to say that I was wrong... to point it out.
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aVSheldon: The thing about tomatoes - and I think you'll really enjoy this - is they're shelved with the vegetables, but they're technically a fruit.\u000aPenny: Mm, interesting.\u000aSheldon: Isn't it?\u000aPenny: No, I mean what you find enjoyable.
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aV[last lines]\u000aMary: [tucking Sheldon into bed] I'm very proud of you, honey; you showed a lot of courage today.\u000aSheldon: Thanks, Mom.\u000a[she starts to leave]\u000aSheldon: Mom.\u000aMary: Mm-hm?\u000aSheldon: Is Dr. Gablehauser going to be my new daddy?\u000aMary: We'll see. Sleep tight.
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aVLeonard: Here comes our new boss. Be polite.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: [approaching] Hi, fellas. Eric Gablehauser.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [shaking hands] Howard Wolowitz.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Howard. Nice to meet you.\u000a[turning to Sheldon]\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: And you are?\u000aSheldon: [shaking hands] An actual real scientist.\u000a[turning to Leonard]\u000aSheldon: How was that?
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Bat Jar Conjecture (#1.13)"(2008)Sheldon: What rat have you recruited to the U.S.S. Sinking Ship?\u000aLeslie Winkle: Hello, Sheldon.\u000aSheldon: Leslie Winkle.\u000aLeslie Winkle: Yeah. Leslie Winkle. The answer to the question, "Who made Sheldon Cooper cry like a little girl?"\u000aSheldon: Yes, well... I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns on its original trajectory and adheres to you.\u000aLeslie Winkle: [sarcastically] Oh, ouch.
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aVLeonard: [Sheldon tries to sit on the couch] Sorry, somebody is sitting there.\u000aSheldon: Who?\u000aLeonard: [triumphantly] My physics bowl trophy!\u000aSheldon: That trophy is meaningless. I forfeited, therefore, you did not win.\u000aLeonard: I know someone who would disagree.\u000aSheldon: Who?\u000aLeonard: [triumphantly louder] My physics bowl trophy!\u000aLeonard: [trophy is "speaking"] Leonard is so smart! Sheldon who?
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aVDmitri: [Dmitri rings in on the final question in the physics bowl] The answer is minus eight pi alpha.\u000aSheldon: Hang on, hang on a second, that is not our answer! What are you doing?\u000aDmitri: [wearily] Answering question; winning physics bowl.\u000aSheldon: How do *you* know anything about physics?\u000aDmitri: Here I am janitor. In former Soviet Union, I am physicist; Leningrad Polytechnica - Go Polar Bears.
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aVSheldon: You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition? Would you ask Picasso to play Pictionary? Would you ask Noah Webster to play Boggle? Would you ask Jacques Cousteau to play Go Fish?
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aVLeonard: Do I have to quote Spock's dying words to you? The needs of the many...\u000aHoward Wolowitz: ...outweigh the needs of the few...\u000aSheldon: ...or the one. Damn it, I'll do it.\u000a[does Vulcan salute]
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Maybe I should answer the engineering questions. I am an engineer, after all.\u000aSheldon: By that logic, I should answer all the anthropology questions because I'm a mammal.
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aVSheldon: Well... At this point I should inform you, I intend to form my own team and will destroy the molecular bonds that bind your very matter together, and reduce the resulting particular chaos to tears.\u000aLeonard: Thanks for the heads up.\u000aSheldon: You're welcome. One more thing.\u000aLeonard: Yes?\u000aSheldon: It's on, bitch!
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Oooh... more details about the new Star Trek film. There's going to be a scene depicting Spock's birth.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: I'd be more interested in a scene depicting Spock's conception.\u000aSheldon: Oh, please. For Vulcans, mating - or if you will, pon farr... is an extremely private matter.\u000aLeonard: Still, I'd like to know the details. His mother was human, his father was Vulcan. They couldn't just 'conceive'.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Maybe they had to go to a clinic. Can you imagine Spock's dad in a little room with a copy of "Pointy Ears and Shapely Rears"?\u000aRaj Koothrappali: How come on Star Trek everybody's private parts are the same? No alien lady ever told Captain Kirk, "Hey, get your thing out of my nose".
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aVSheldon: [discussing their team name for the Physics Bowl] Teams are traditionally named after fierce creatures, thus intimidating one's opponent.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Then we could be the "Bengal Tigers."\u000aSheldon: Poor choice. Gram for gram, no animal exceeds the relative fighting strength of the army ant.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Maybe so. But you can't incinerate a Bengal tiger with a magnifying glass.
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aVLeonard: Sheldon, you have to let somebody else answer.\u000aSheldon: Why?\u000aPenny: Because it's polite.\u000aSheldon: What do manners have to do with it? This is war. Were the Romans polite when they salted the ground of Carthage to make sure nothing would ever grow again?\u000aPenny: Leonard, you said I only had to *ask* questions.
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aVPenny: Tweety bird tawt he taw a what?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Romulan.\u000aPenny: [sarcastically] Yes, he tawt he taw a Romulan.
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aVDr. Eric Gablehauser: First question. For ten points: What is the isospin singlet partner of the pi-zero meson?\u000a[Leonard and Sheldon ring in]\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: PMS?\u000aLeonard: The eta meson.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Correct.\u000a[the audience applauds]\u000aSheldon: Formal protest.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: On what grounds?\u000aSheldon: The Velcro on my wrist brace caught on my shirt.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Denied.
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aVLeonard: Sheldon, is proving that you are single-handedly smarter than everyone else so important that you would rather lose by yourself than win as part of a team?\u000aSheldon: I don't understand the question.
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aVSheldon: The objective of the competition is to give correct answers. If I know them, why shouldn't I give them?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Some of us might have the correct answers, too.\u000aSheldon: [scoffing] Oh, please. You don't even have a Ph.D.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [standing up angrily] All right, that's it!\u000aLeonard: Howard, sit down.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [sitting down submissively] Okay.
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aVDr. Eric Gablehauser: AA, I need your official answer.\u000aSheldon: [regarding Dmitri ringing in] Well, it's not what he said.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Than what is it?\u000aSheldon: I want a different question.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: You can't have a different question.\u000aSheldon: Formal protest.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Denied.\u000aSheldon: Informal protest.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Denied. I need your official answer.\u000aSheldon: No. I decline to provide one.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: Well, that's too bad, because the answer your teammate gave was correct.\u000aSheldon: That's your opinion.
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aVLeslie Winkle: [Sheldon learns that Leslie is replacing him as a team member in a physics competition] Yeah, Leslie Winkle, the answer to the question, 'Who made Sheldon Cooper cry like a little girl?'\u000aSheldon: Yes, well, I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me and returns on its original trajectory and adheres to you.\u000aLeslie Winkle: Oh, ouch\u000a[with much sarcasm]
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Gorilla Experiment (#3.10)"(2009)Sheldon Cooper: [Sheldon is trying to teach Penny about physics, but she's having a rough go of it] Why are you crying?\u000aPenny: Because I'm stupid!\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and it makes me sad.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Relax, it'll be fine. Sit down, you guys.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter,Penny,Raj Koothrappali: [as Bernadette goes for Sheldon's spot] No!\u000aBernadette: What?\u000aPenny: Oh, yeah. You can't sit there.\u000aBernadette: Why not?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: That's where Sheldon sits.\u000aBernadette: He can't sit somewhere else?\u000a[from across the room Sheldon turns, stares and raises an eyebrow a freakishly long way]\u000aPenny: Oh, no, no. You see, in the winter that seat is close enough to the radiator so that he's warm yet not so close that he sweats. In the summer, it's directly in the path of the cross breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television on an angle that isn't direct so he can still talk to everybody, yet not so wide that the picture looks distorted.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Perhaps there's hope for you after all.
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aV[first lines]\u000aPenny: Hey, Leonard. Check this out.\u000a[Throws a dumpling up in the air and catches it with her mouth]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, she's doing it again.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I think it upsets Sheldon when you play with the food.\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, it upsets Sheldon when she willy-nilly takes it from the containers without regard for its equitable distribution.\u000a[Turns to Raj]\u000aSheldon Cooper: This is essentially why you have famine in India.\u000a[Raj shakes his head no at Penny]\u000aPenny: [Mouth open so the dumpling is visible] You want me to put it back?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard...\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: It upsets Sheldon when you play with the Sheldon.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Leonard's work is nearly as amazing as third graders growing Lima beans in wet paper towels.\u000a[Raj whispers in Sheldon's ear]\u000aSheldon Cooper: While I appreciate the "Oh, snap!", I'm uncomfortable having your moist breath in my ear.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [after Raj beats him on Mario Kart] That's not fair! I got stuck behind a tree.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: And a cow, and a penguin. Face it dude. Whether it's a real car or a virtual cartoon car, you can't drive.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Why can't Leonard teach you?\u000aPenny: 'Cause I want to surprise him.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Can't you surprise him in some other way? For example, I'm sure he'd be delightfully taken aback if you cleaned your apartment.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Subject appears well rested and enthusiastic. Apparently, ignorance *is* bliss.
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aVSheldon Cooper: This is the beginning of the twenty-six hundred year journey we're going to take together from the ancient Greeks, through Isaac Newton, to Niels Bohr, to Erwin Schrödinger, to the Dutch researchers that Leonard is currently ripping off.
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aVSheldon Cooper: And what do we know from this?\u000aPenny: Um. We know that... Newton was a really smart cookie. Oh, is that where Fig Newtons come from?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, Fig Newtons are named after a small town in Massachusetts. Don't write that down!
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aVPenny: Look, can we just please forget about all this extra stuff, and can you just tell me what Leonard does?\u000aSheldon Cooper: All right. Leonard is attempting to learn why sub-atomic particles move the way they do.\u000aPenny: Really? That's it? Well, that doesn't sound so complicated.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's not. That's why Leonard does it.
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aVPenny: Oh, come on, a smart guy like you; it'll be a challenge. You could make it like an experiment.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Interesting. I suppose if someone could teach sign language to Koko the gorilla... I could teach you some rudimentary physics.\u000aPenny: Great! A little insulting, but great. I'll be Koko.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not likely. Koko learned to understand over two thousand words, not one of which had anything to do with shoes.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [voiceover as he works at his laptop] Research Journal. Entry 1. I'm about to embark on one of the great challenges of my scientific career. Teaching Penny physics. I'm calling it: 'Project Gorilla'.
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aVPenny: [Sheldon is giving her a long-winded history lesson on physics] I have to go to the bathroom.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Can't you hold it?\u000aPenny: Not for 2600 years.
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aVSheldon Cooper: All right, let us begin. Where's your notebook?\u000aPenny: Um... I don't have one.\u000aSheldon Cooper: How are you going to take notes without a notebook?\u000aPenny: I have to take notes?\u000aSheldon Cooper: How else are you going to study for the tests?\u000aPenny: There's gonna be a test?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [stressing the plural] Tests.\u000a[Sheldon gets a notebook from his desk and hands it to her]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Here. It's college ruled; I hope that's not too intimidating.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [trying to teach Penny physics] How can you not know? I just told you. Did you suffer a recent blow to the head?\u000aPenny: Hey, you don't have to be mean.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm sorry.\u000a[trying to sound more cheerful]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Did you suffer a recent blow to the head?
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aVPenny: Oh, yeah, you can't sit there.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: Why not?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: That's where Sheldon sits.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: He can't sit somewhere else?\u000aPenny: Oh no, you see in the winter, that seat is close enough the the radiator so he's warm yet not so close that he sweats. In the summer it's directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that isn't direct so he can still talk to everybody yet not so wide that the picture looks distorted.\u000aSheldon: Perhaps there's hope for you after all.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition (#5.10)"(2011)[Sheldon knocks on Penny's door]\u000aPenny: Who do we love?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny!\u000a[knocks again]\u000aPenny: Who do we love?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny!\u000a[knocks again]\u000aPenny: Who do we love?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny!
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Hey, can I talk to you about something? It's a little awkward.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I know what this is about. Given the professional stand still you're at, you're wondering if this is the appropriate time to abandon your research and focus on teaching.\u000a[pauses]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes.
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aVPenny: What's up?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I came to ask if you would like to go on a date with me.
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aVPenny: Alright, honey, let me tell you a story. There was a guy I liked, and I never told him how I felt. Eventually he started going out with someone else, and I always regretted it. Do you see where I'm going with this?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I believe I do.\u000aPenny: Mhm.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm the guy.\u000aPenny: You're not the guy.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Are you sure? That would explain so much. Your constant presence in my apartment, the baffling dalliance with Leonard just to be near me, the way you call me sweetie all the time...\u000aPenny: I call everyone sweetie.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You tramp.
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aVPenny: Look, Sheldon, all I'm saying is... strap on a pair and go talk to Amy.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Strap on a pair? Uh, of what? Skates?\u000aPenny: Oh, sweetie, you're so not the guy.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I believe I would like to alter the paradigm of our relationship.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I'm listening.\u000aSheldon Cooper: With the understanding that nothing changes, whatsoever. Physical or otherwise. I would not object to us no longer characterizing you as not my girlfriend.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Interesting. Now, try it without the quadruple negative.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're being impossible.\u000a[Amy leans over to Stuart]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Hi, Stuart!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Fine!\u000a[Amy leans back to Sheldon again]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy... Will you be my girlfriend?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, that's enough of that.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [knocks] Penny.\u000a[knocks]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy.\u000a[knocks]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Bernadette.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I got a splinter.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: What do you want me to do about it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Relationship agreement, section 4: Boo-boos and ouchies. You have to take care of it.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I should have gotten a lawyer.
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aVPenny: Oh god, are you trying to make Amy jealous?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No! Why is everyone so obsessed with Amy and Stuart, and whether or not they may be having more pumpkin lattes or intercourse tonight?\u000aPenny: Ok, listen to me, playing games is not gonna help get Amy back.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm not trying to get her back! But out of curiosity, what is a way?
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aVStuart: So, other than you taking your relationship to the next level with another guy, this was nice!\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yes, well, thanks for seeing me to my door.\u000aStuart: Oh, you're welcome.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [Knocking from inside Amy's apartment] Amy! Amy! Amy! Let's wrap things up out there!\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Umm... Good night Stuart!\u000aStuart: Good night!\u000a[They hug]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Take a hint Stuart, the lady said good night!
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aVSheldon Cooper: I got a splinter.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: What do you want me to do about it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Relationship Agreement Section 4: Boo-Boos and Ouchies. You have to take care of it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I know what this is about. Given the professional standstill you're at, you're wondering if this is the appropriate time to abandon your research and focus on teaching. Yes! And if I may suggest, consider changing discipline, to the humanities or perhaps history. One of the advantages of teaching history is that you don't have to create things, you know, you just have to remember stuffs that happened and then parrot it back. You can have fun with that.
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aVSheldon Cooper: So, what do you think of new comic book night? Magic, right?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, I'm disappointed in you. Sure, a genius such as yourself is allowed his vices. I can understand frequenting an opium den or hunting your fellow men for sport, but this? Lame-o.\u000aSheldon Cooper: A. comic books are storytelling through the use of sequential art, a medium that has existed for 17,000 years back to the cave art of Lascaux; and B. you play the harp, like that's cool.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: I thought you didn't like Facebook anymore.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Don't be silly. I'm a fan of anything that tries to replaces actual human contact.
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aV[Sheldon joins Amy and Stuart on their date]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, what are you doing here?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The thought of you sitting in a darkened theater with a character like Stuart is repellent. No offence Stuart.\u000aStuart: None taken. Though repellent's kind of a, kind of a strong word.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: How did you get into my apartment?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Is this the kind of nagging I'm going to expect now that you're my girlfriend?
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Lunar Excitation (#3.23)"(2010)Sheldon Cooper: FYI, my noise-cancelling headphones proved ineffective last night.\u000aPenny: Yeah, sorry about that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: As a native Texan, I must say I've never heard the phrase 'yeeehaw' used in quite that context.\u000aPenny: Oh God!\u000a[she leaves]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, God. That I've heard on multiple occasions.
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aVSheldon Cooper: When one gets beaten up every other day in school, one of necessity develops a keen sense of hearing. Incidentally, one can get beaten up in school simply by referring to oneself as one.
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aV[first lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: OK, we've got power to the laser.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I should have brought an umbrella.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What for? It's not going to rain.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I know that, but with skin as fair as mine, moonburn is a real possibility.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: That's a bazinga, right?\u000aSheldon Cooper: One of my best, don't you think?
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aVSheldon Cooper: Leonard. Leonard. What is that? What is that?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Relax, it's just a dirty sock.\u000aSheldon Cooper: How on earth can you can say "dirty sock" and "relax" in the same sentence?
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aVZack: One question. How can you be sure it won't blow up?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: The laser?\u000aZack: The moon!\u000aSheldon Cooper: See, now this is a man for Penny.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: That's a great question, Zack!\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, it's not!\u000aPenny: Sheldon, play nice.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, it's not a great question! How could someone possibly think we're going to blow up the moon? That's a great question.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [to Zack] Don't worry about the moon. We... , we set our laser to stun.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: She didn't dump me. We were just in different places in the relationship.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I fail to see how a relationship can have the qualities of a geographic location.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Well, it's very simple. Leonard was living in a little town called Please Don't Leave Me, while Penny had just moved to the island of Buh-Bye.
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aVSheldon Cooper: In what universe is this low pulp?
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aVSheldon Cooper: In what universe is that lightly toasted?
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aVSheldon Cooper: I have no difficulty believing you're not butter.
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aVZack: That's your big experiment? All that for a line on a screen?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yeah, but, uh, think about what this represents. The fact that we can do this is the only way of definitively proving that there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane.\u000aZack: What species is that?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I was wrong. Penny can do better.
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aVRaj Koothrappali: Sheldon, I've hidden the dirty sock from the roof somewhere in your apartment. Unless you're willing to come with us to meet this girl, it will remain there... forever.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're bluffing.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Are you willing to risk it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Curse you.
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aV[last lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: In a few minutes when I gloat over the failure of this enterprise, how would you prefer I do it? The standard "I told you so" with the classic neener-neener, or just my normal look of haughty derision?\u000a[makes a face]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: You don't know we're wrong yet.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Haughty derision it is.\u000a[makes the same face again]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Excuse me. I'm Amy Farrah Fowler, you're Sheldon Cooper.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hello, Amy Farrah Fowler. I'm sorry to inform you that you have been taken in by unsupportable mathematics designed to prey on the gullible and the lonely. Additionally, I'm being blackmailed with a hidden dirty sock.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: If that was slang, I'm unfamiliar with it. If it was literal, I share your aversion to soiled hosiery. In any case, I'm here because my mother and I have agreed that I will date at least once a year.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Interesting. My mother and I have the same agreement about church.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well then, you might want to avoid East Texas.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Noted. Now before this goes any further, you should know that all forms of physical contact, up to and including coitus, are off the table.\u000aSheldon Cooper: May I buy you a beverage?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Tepid water, please.\u000a[Sheldon and Amy walk over to the counter]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [to Raj] Good God, what have we done?
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aVPenny: Damn you, you rat bastard!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Are you drunk?\u000aPenny: Zack was a perfectly nice guy and then you *ruined* him!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: How did I ruin him?\u000aPenny: 'Cause in the olden days I never would have known he was so stupid.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Come on, he wasn't that stupid.\u000aPenny: Yes he *was*! He thought you were going to blow up the *moon*!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Okay, yeah, he's stupid\u000a[laughs]\u000aPenny: He spent the entire night bragging about how *he* invented the word appeteezers!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [still laughing] Well, how is that my fault?\u000aPenny: You have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots, now come with me.\u000a[grabs Leonard's hand and starts pulling him behind her]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: W-where are we going?\u000aPenny: [shouts] We're gonna have *SEX*!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Wha- I mean oh, OK.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [comes out of his bedroom] What's going on?\u000aPenny: Put on your noise cancelling headphones, this is gonna get *loud*.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ach, not *this* again.\u000a[goes back into his room]
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aVSheldon Cooper: But for the record, I only drink hot chocolate in months with an R in them.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Why?\u000aSheldon Cooper: What's life without whimsy.
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aVZack: Is that the laser? Bitchin'.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, in 1917 when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundation for the laser in his paper "Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung," his fondest hope was that the resultant device be bitchin'.\u000aZack: Well, mission accomplished.
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aV[Howard and Raj are trying to convince Sheldon to meet Amy]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Come on, where's your scientific curiosity?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, most of it is being applied to unraveling secrets of the universe, while the rest of it's wondering why I'm having this conversation with you.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Bad Fish Paradigm (#2.1)"(2008)Penny: I get it! Leonard has no business being involved with a waitress-slash-actress who felt so insecure that she lied to him about finishing community college.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why would you lie about that?\u000aPenny: Well, he was going on and on about this college and that grad school - and I didn't want him to think I was some kind of stupid loser.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You thought the opposite of stupid loser was community-college graduate?\u000aPenny: You know, there are a lot of successful people who graduated from community college.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yet you are neither.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Ex nihilo] Leonard, I'm moving out.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What do you mean, you're moving out? Why?\u000aSheldon Cooper: There doesn't have to be a reason.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yeah, there kinda does.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not necessarily. This is a classic example of Münchhausen's Trilemma: either the reason is predicated on a series of sub-reasons, leading to an infinite regression; or it tracks back to arbitrary axiomatic statements; or it's ultimately circular: i.e., I'm moving out because I'm moving out.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I'm still confused.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, I don't see how I could have made it any simpler.
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aV[Sheldon and Rajesh are watching television. Alka Yagnik's voice can be heard singing]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Is that woman Aishwarya Rai?\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: Yes, isn't she an amazing actress?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Actually, I'd say she's a poor man's Madhuri Dixit.\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: [angered, Rajesh turns his head toward Sheldon] How *dare* you! Aishwarya Rai is a goddess! By comparison, Madhuri Dixit is a l-leperous prostitute!\u000aSheldon Cooper: [shocked] Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. Obviously, you're not that familiar with Indian cinema.\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: [angrily turns his head toward Sheldon a second time]
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aVPenny: This is between you and me. You can't tell Leonard any of this.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're asking me to keep a secret?\u000aPenny: Yeah.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, I am sorry, but you would have had to have expressed that desire before revealing the secret, so that I could choose whether I wanted to accept the covenant of secret-keeping. You can't impose a secret on an ex-post-facto basis.\u000aPenny: What?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Secret-keeping is a complicated endeavor. One has to be concerned not only about what one says, but about facial expressions, autonomic reflexes. When I try to deceive, I myself have more nervous tics than a Lyme disease research facility.\u000a[pause]\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's a joke. It relies on the homonymic relationship between "tick", the blood-sucking arachnid, and "tic", the involuntary muscular contraction. I made it up myself.
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aVSheldon Cooper: You must release me from my oath. I can't keep your secret, Penny. I'm going to fold like an energy-based de novo protein in conformational space... like a Renaissance triptych... like a cheap suit.\u000aPenny: Why is it so hard for you to keep one little secret?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm constitutionally incapable. That's why I was refused clearance for a very prestigious government research fellowship at a secret military supercollider located beneath a fake agricultural station 12.5 miles southeast of Traverse City, Michigan.\u000a[pause]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Which you did not hear about from me.
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aV[Koothrappali and Wolowitz have been using a video camera to spy on Leonard's date with Penny]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon! How could you just sit there and let them spy on me?\u000aSheldon Cooper: They were clever, Leonard: they exploited my complete lack of interest in what you were doing.
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aVPenny: Has Leonard ever been involved with someone who wasn't a braniac?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, a few years ago, he did go out with a woman who had a Ph. D. in French literature.\u000aPenny: How is that not a braniac?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, for one thing, she was French. For another, it was literature.
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aV[Sheldon is looking for a place to stay]\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: You can't stay with me - I have a teeny, tiny apartment.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Excuse me, but isn't hosting guests an aspect of Manushya-Yajna, one of the five central religious duties or sacrifices of the Hindu house-holder?\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: I hate trains!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Don't be silly - you love trains.
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aV[Sheldon moves in with Koothrapali]\u000aSheldon Cooper: This is a very old building.\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: Sixty years. Used to be a watch factory.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Don't you worry about the residual radium from the luminous dials?\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: Not until now!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I can't believe I didn't bring my Geiger counter. I had it on my bed, and I didn't pack it.\u000aRajesh Koothrapali: Well, if you're not comfortable staying here, Sheldon...\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm kidding! I packed it.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Are you having a second date?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No. She said we would just wing it.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, please. Even I know that's lame.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [looking at tape of Penny kissing Leonard] Jaw clenched, no tongue access. Clearly a bad sign in human mating.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: It is not a bad sign!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, please. You might as well be two iguanas with no dewlap enlargement.
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aVPenny: Has Leonard ever dated any regular women?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I assume you are not refering to digestive regularity. It has been my experience that asking that is highly inappropriate.
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aVRajesh Koothrapali: We just came from the exhibit of preserved cadavers.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: And some of those skinless women were hot!\u000aSheldon Cooper: If you'll excuse me, I have to pack.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: That's a bit of an overreaction to a little harmless necrophilia.
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aVPenny: Sheldon, can I ask you a question?\u000aSheldon: Well, I would prefer that you didn't but I won't go so far as to forbid it.\u000aPenny: ...Okay, I heard 'yes'.
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aVSheldon: [In a gravely voice, after being drugged by Howard] "I'm Batman!"
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aVSheldon Cooper: Hey, there he is! There my old buddy bud-bud!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What's with him?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Koothrapali dumped him on me and he couldn't get to sleep so I gave him a glass of warm milk with a handful of my mom's Valium in it but he still wouldn't shut up so tag you're it!\u000a[Wolowitz drops Sheldon's bag and leaves]\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm baaack!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I still don't know why you left.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I can't tell you.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why not?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I promised Penny.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You promised Penny what?\u000aSheldon Cooper: That I wouldn't tell you the secret. Ssh!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What secret? Tell me the secret.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Mom smokes in the car. Jesus is okay with it but we can't tell dad!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Not *that* secret! The other secret!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm Batman! Ssh!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Damn it! Sheldon, you said Penny told you a secret. What was the secret?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Okay, I'll tell you. But you can't tell Leonard.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I promise.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny lied about graduating from community college because she's afraid she's not smart enough for Leonard.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: So it's nothing I did? It's her problem?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I drank milk that tasted funny.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Penny thinks I'm too smart for her. That's ridiculous!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I know. Most of your work is extremely derivative. Don't worry that's not a secret. Everybody knows!
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Euclid Alternative (#2.5)"(2008)[first lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Good morning, Leonard!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Uh-huh.\u000aSheldon Cooper: We're going to have to stop by Pottery Barn on the way to work. I bought these Star Wars sheets, but they turned out to be much too stimulating to be compatible with a good night's sleep. I don't like the way Darth Vader stares at me.
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aVSheldon Cooper: But, how am I going to get to work?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Take the bus.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I can't take the bus anymore. They don't have seat belts, and they won't let you lash yourself to the seat with bungee cords.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You tried to lash yourself to the seat with bungee cords?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I didn't try. I succeeded.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Studies have shown that performing tasks such as eating, talking on the cellphone or drinking coffee while driving reduces one's reaction time by the same factor as an ounce of alcohol.\u000aPenny: Do you have any alcohol?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Of course not.\u000aPenny: Too bad.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Penny's taking you to the DMV; I'm going to bed.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why Penny?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Because rock breaks scissors. Good night.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I still don't see why I need a driver's license. Albert Einstein never had a driver's license.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Yeah, but Albert Einstein didn't make me wet myself at 40 miles an hour.\u000aPenny: Yeah, and I never wanted to kick Albert Einstein in the nuts.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Excuse me, but I have some concerns about these questions.\u000aOctavia: Look at that sign up there.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes?\u000aOctavia: Does it say I give a damn?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No.\u000aOctavia: That's because I don't.
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aVPenny: [Sheldon doesn't have a driving license] Why didn't you just get a license at sixteen, like everybody else?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I was otherwise engaged.\u000aPenny: Doing what?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Examining perturbative amplitudes in n=4 supersymmetric theories, leading to a reexamination of the ultraviolet properties of multi-loop n=8 supergravity, using modern twistor theory.\u000aPenny: Well, how about when you were seventeen?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Didn't I tell you I'd be working nights and that you'd have to make other arrangements?\u000aSheldon Cooper: You did.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: And?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I didn't.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [about a driving simulation] Now, are there airbags?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You don't need airbags!\u000aSheldon Cooper: But what if a simulated van rear-ends me?\u000aPenny: I'll hit you in the face with a pillow.
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aVOctavia: Application?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm actually more of a theorist.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: The application in your hand, give it to her.
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aVLeonard: You're a big boy, you'll figure it out.\u000aSheldon: Don't talk to me like I'm a child. Now take me to return my Star Wars sheets!
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [Sheldon's on a driving simulator and it's a disaster] How'd you manage to get on the second floor of the Glendale Galleria?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I don't know. I was on the Pasadena freeway and missed my exit, flew off the overpass, and one thing led to another.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Maybe you wanna give it a rest and try again tomorrow.\u000aSheldon Cooper: No. I quit.\u000a[gets off the simulator but forgets to turn it off]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [sounds of a horrifying crash, then various animals] Oh, the pet store.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Remind me to compliment Wolowitz on the software, it's amazingly detailed.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Well, no, now, I'm not going to go so far as to say that I represent a distinct new stage in humankind, you know, a Homo Novis, if you will, no, that's for anthropologists to decide. But I am convinced that the reason I cannot master the plebeian task of driving is because I'm not meant to.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Your check engine light is on.\u000aPenny: Mm-hmm.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Typically that's an indicator to, you know, check your engine.\u000aPenny: It's fine, it's been on for, like, a month.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, actually, that would be all the more reason to, you know, check your engine.\u000aPenny: Sheldon, it's fine.\u000aSheldon Cooper: If it were fine, the light wouldn't be on. That's why the manufacturer installed that light, to let you know it's not fine.\u000aPenny: Uh, maybe the light's broken.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Is there a "check the check engine light light"?
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aV[last lines]\u000aSheldon: You saw nothing!
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Sheldon, why are you arguing with the DMV?\u000aSheldon Cooper: How else are they going to learn? Look, question two: "When are roadways most slippery?" Now, okay, there are three answers, none of which are correct. The correct answer is when covered by a film of liquid sufficient to reduce the coefficient of static friction between the tire and the road to essentially zero, but not so deep as to introduce a new source of friction.\u000aOctavia: [approving his permit] Here's your learner's permit. Go away.\u000aSheldon Cooper: But I'm not done. I... I have many additional concerns about these questions.\u000aOctavia: Don't make me climb over this counter.\u000aPenny: [leading Sheldon away] All right, come on. Come on.\u000aOctavia: Next!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Aced it.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Financial Permeability (#2.14)"(2009)Sheldon Cooper: All right, these theaters have to be eliminated.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why, they're state of the art. Digital projection, 20 channel surround sound...\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, but they have no Icee machines. Despite my agressive letter writing campaign I might add.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Okay, I guess we only have one option.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Yepp, I don't see any way around it.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Bye, Sheldon.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: See ya.\u000aRajesh Koothrappali: Later, dude.\u000a[All exit, leaving Sheldon alone]\u000aSheldon Cooper: They're right. It was the only option.
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aVSheldon Cooper: If you recall, I pointed out the check engine light to you several months ago.\u000aPenny: The check engine light is fine, it's still blinking away. It's the stupid engine that stopped working.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Take some.\u000aPenny: Don't be silly.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm never silly.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I don't see any large upcoming expenditures unless they develop an affordable technology to fuse my skeleton with adamantium like Wolverine.\u000aPenny: Are they working on that?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I sincerely hope so.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I've been giving the matter some thought, and I think I'd be willing to be a house pet to a race of superintelligent aliens.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Interesting.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ask me why?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Do I have to?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Of course, that's how you move a conversation forward.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The learning opportunities would be abundant, additionally, I like having my belly scratched.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Hey, Penny. How's work.\u000aPenny: Great! I hope I'm a waitress at the Cheescake Factory for my whole life!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Was that sarcasm?\u000aPenny: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Was *that* sarcasm?\u000aPenny: Yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Was that sarcasm?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Stop it!
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aVSheldon Cooper: In case either of you have larceny in your heart, you should know that I have moved my money out of the snake can.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: But if you're ever short, there's always a couple of fifties in Green Lantern's ass.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Hey, you guys want to go on a real live quest?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Outside? But I just made cocoa.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: You play a game to simulate adventure, but when there's real adventure out there in the real world, you just wimp out!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, do you not recall the last time we visited this gentleman, we returned home without pants.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I do.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Are you sure? Because your proposal suggests that you don't.
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aVSheldon: I was wrong. Minstrels will write songs about *you*.\u000aLeonard: [sarcastically] Great.\u000aSheldon: [singing] There once was a brave lad named Leonard. With a fi-fi-fiddle-dee-dee. He faced a fearsome giant. While Raj just wanted to pee.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm sorry, I don't understand what social situation this is. Could you give me some guidance in how to proceed.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: You clearly did something to aggrevate her!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm at a loss. If you like, you can review my daily log of social interactions. And see if there's a blunder I overlooked.
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aVPenny: Is Leonard around?\u000aSheldon: He went to the movies without me. It was the only option. I'm sorry, I don't understand which social situation this is. Could you give me some guidance as to how to proceed?\u000aPenny: The building manager's showing an apartment downstairs, and I haven't paid my rent.\u000aSheldon: Oh, I see. Penny, I'm not sure I'm comfortable harbouring a fugitive from the 2311 North Los Robles Corporation.\u000aPenny: It's no big deal. I'm just a little behind on my bills because they cut back my hours at the restaurant and my car broke down.
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aVPenny: Okay. Well, thank you. Oh, God, no, I can't. Sheldon honey, I don't want things to be weird between us.\u000aSheldon: Won't it also be weird if I have to say hello to you every morning on my way to work and you're living in a refrigerator box and washing your hair with rain water?\u000aPenny: I'll pay you back as soon as I can.\u000aSheldon: Of course you will. It's impossible to pay me back sooner than you can. Assuming you subscribe to a linear understanding of time and causality.\u000aPenny: I'm regretting this already.
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aVSheldon Cooper: In what *Universe* are slurpees Icees?
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Work Song Nanocluster (#2.18)"(2009)Penny: If this takes off I won't have to be a waitress anymore.\u000aSheldon Cooper: But then who will bring me my cheeseburger on Tuesday nights?\u000aPenny: Another waitress?\u000aSheldon Cooper: What's her name?\u000aPenny: I don't know.\u000aSheldon Cooper: And you're going to let her handle my food?\u000aPenny: Nancy. Her name is Nancy.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I think you're just making that up!
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aVPenny: Okay, you know what, if I'm not allowed to be snide, you are not allowed to be condescending.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That wasn't a part of our original agreement, and I do not agree to it now!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Coffee's out of the question. When I moved to California, I promised my mother that I wouldn't start doing drugs.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Talking about Penny's home business] Ten dollars a day times five days a week times 52 weeks a year is 2,600 dollars.\u000aPenny: That's all?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Before taxes.\u000aPenny: Well, I don't have to pay taxes on this stuff.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I believe the Internal Revenue Service would strongly disagree.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Talking about Penny's proposed home-based business] If you took advantage of modern marketing techniques, and you optimized your manufacturing process, you might be able to make this a viable business.\u000aPenny: And you know about that stuff?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [patronizing] Penny - I'm a physicist. I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains.\u000aPenny: Who's Radiohead?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [with facial tic] I have a working knowledge of the _important_ things in the universe.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [after timing how long it took Penny to make a decorative hair barrette] Based on your cost in materials and your wholesale selling price, you'll effectively be paying yourself five dollars and nineteen cents a day.\u000aPenny: A day?\u000aSheldon Cooper: There are children in a sneaker factory in Indonesia who out-earn you.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Perhaps we could expand our market.\u000aPenny: How are flower barrettes gonna appeal to men?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: We add Bluetooth!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Brilliant! Men love Bluetooth!\u000aPenny: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You want to make a hair barrette with Bluetooth?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny - Everything is better with Bluetooth.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [How Sheldon knocks on Penny's door, without a pause: knock-knock-knock] Penny!\u000a[knock-knock-knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny!\u000a[knock-knock-knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Penny!
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aV[Sheldon delivers a package to Penny]\u000aSheldon Cooper: [Presents clip board] Excuse me! You have to sign this.\u000aPenny: What is it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: When I signed for the package, I was deputized by the United Parcel Service and entrusted with its final delivery. I now need you to acknowledge receipt of the package so that I am fully indemnified and no longer liable.\u000aPenny: Sheldon, it's just a box of rhinestones!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, the contents are irrelevant. A legal bailment has been created. Does that mean nothing to you?\u000aPenny: It means nothing to anybody!
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aVSheldon Cooper: [to Penny] Are you familiar with the development that resulted from Honore Blanc's 1778 use of interchangeable parts?\u000a[long pause]\u000aSheldon Cooper: The assembly line, of course.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Before we set up a marketing and distribution infrastructure, we should finish optimizing the manufacturing process. To start with, she has a terrible problem with moisture-induced glitter clump.\u000aPenny: Yeah, it's a bitch!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [Inspecting bottle of glitter] Ah, I've seen this before.\u000aPenny: Where?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: It's a common stripper problem: they dance, they sweat, they clump.
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aVPenny: How the hell are we gonna make a thousand Penny Blossoms\u000a[Penny's hair product]\u000aPenny: in one day?... I'm gonna have to call them and cancel that order.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Excuse me, but was this not your goal? Financial independence through entrepreneurial brilliance and innovation? My brilliance and innovation, of course, but still.\u000aPenny: I just don't see how we can pull this off.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That, right there! That equivocation and self-doubt. That is not the American spirit. Did Davy Crockett quit at the Alamo? Did Jim Bowie?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: They didn't give up, they were massacred! By like a gazillion angry Mexicans!
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: All right, what's wrong with it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: What's wrong with it?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Not from you!
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Leonard died again, Sheldon. You're up.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Despite my deep love of chess, lasers, and aerosol disinfectant, I must forfeit.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Because it's almost 11:00.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: So?\u000aSheldon Cooper: So Penny has a "don't knock on my door before 11:00 or I punch you in the throat" rule.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Look at Planck's Constant. People say it's arbitrary. It could not be less arbitrary. If it varied even slightly, life as we know it would not exist. Bam! Now, now, let's reconsider the entire argument, but with entropy reversed and effect preceding cause, so you are thinking of a universe that's not expanding from the centre, no, it is retreating from a, from a possibility space. Bam! This is a space where we are all essentially Alice through the looking glass, standing in front the Red Queen, and we're being offered a cracker to quench our thirst. Bam! Of course, in another universe, let's call it universe prime, there's another Sheldon, let's call him Sheldon prime...\u000aPenny: We should have let him go to bed.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Bam.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Workplace Proximity (#7.5)"(2013)[first lines]\u000aPenny: Awkward silence, Sheldon on his phone, no touching, somebody's having date night.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: It's actually steamier than it looks; Sheldon's looking up the phallic symbolism of root vegetables in Renaissance paintings.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, no, I got bored with that; I'm just browsing cuticle scissors on Amazon.\u000aPenny: How do you not tear off his clothes and take him right here on this table?\u000aSheldon Cooper: If you do that, I'll scream.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: This project would have us working in close proximity to one another, and there's the vulgar adage that one should not defecate where one eats.\u000aSheldon Cooper: My father used to say that all the time. That and um, "who does one have to orally gratify to get a drink around here?" But what does that have to do with you working at the university?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, don't defecate where you eat means don't have a romantic relationship in the workplace.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Really!\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hnh. I always took it literally. That's why I have never once moved my bowels in this or any restaurant.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I'm relieved that you don't have a problem with us working together.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not as relieved as I'm about to be. It's a brave new world, little lady.\u000a[he heads toward the washroom]
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aVRaj Koothrappali: You know, my parents met at his place of work.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Your father's a gynecologist.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: I know; what started as a pap smear turned into a date. Which turned into her working there, which turned into marriage, which then turned into hatred which continues to this day.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [knock knock knock] Amy-Bernadette-Penny.\u000a[knock knock knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy-Bernadette-Penny.\u000a[knock knock knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy-Bernadette-Penny.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: He's never going to stop doing that, is he?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I don't mind. I'm hoping to put his love of repetition to good use some day.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: And this is Dr. Gunderson from Stockholm.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ja-ah, Sweden. The home of my favorite Muppet and uh second favorite meatball.\u000a[Amy and Gunderson just stare at him]\u000aSheldon Cooper: OK. The Nordic reputation for lack of humor is well founded.\u000a[Amy and Gunderson look at each other]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Boy, is his name Gunderson or Nofunderson?
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aVPenny: Sheldon, what happened between you and Amy?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, can you believe she said I embarrassed her?\u000aPenny: Yeah.\u000aSheldon Cooper: But you didn't even hear the details.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, I've known you a long time, and I'm going to tell you this with all the love I can possibly muster: Amy's right, you're wrong.\u000aSheldon Cooper: But you don't even know...\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Doesn't matter.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, yeah, but in my defense...\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Doesn't matter.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're not listening to my side of it.\u000aPenny: OK, fine, Sheldon, what is your side?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [sighs] Well...\u000aPenny: No, gotta go with Amy on this one.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: What do you want?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy, This isn't easy to say. All relationships are difficult. But even more so when you're in one with a person who struggles with everyday social interactions, and frankly who can strike some people as being kind of a weirdo.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, you're not a weirdo.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I wasn't speaking about me. I mean, honestly, there's no telling what will set you off. Now, uh, introducing myself as your boyfriend, giving you the opportunity to drive me home. Breaking the ice with your colleagues using ethnic humor, the funniest kind of humor.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: What's your point?\u000aSheldon Cooper: My point is we're a couple, and I like you for who you are. Quirks and all.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I like you too.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I should hope so. I don't see anyone else banging on this door to put up with your nonsense.\u000a[she closes the door in his face]\u000aSheldon Cooper: [through the door] Not even a good-bye. You see, that's the kind of thing makes people think you're weird.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [to himself] Poor kid. She just doesn't see it.
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aV[last lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Laser's warmed up.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Pull!\u000a[Raj throws up a balloon, which Howard bursts using the laser]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter,Howard Wolowitz,Raj Koothrappali,Sheldon Cooper: Yay!
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Knock... knock... knock] . Amy.\u000a[Knock... knock... knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: . Amy.\u000a[Knock... knock... knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: . Amy.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, what are you doing here so late?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about what happened earlier between us. Also I had one heck of a bus nap. Oh speaking of which. Do you want some mutton and coconut milk?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Boy, I cannot give this stuff away.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: What do you want?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Amy, this isn't easy to say. All relationships are difficult, but even more so when you're in one with a person who struggles with everyday social interactions and frankly who can strike some people as being kind of a weirdo.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, you're not a weirdo.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I wasn't speaking about me. I mean honestly, there's no telling what will set you off. You know, introducing myself as your boyfriend. Giving you the opportunity to drive me home. Breaking the ice with your colleagues using ethnic humor, you're funniest kind of humor.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: What's your point?\u000aSheldon Cooper: My point is we're a couple and I like you for who you are quirks and all.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I like you too.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I should hope so. I don't see anyone else banging on this door to put up with your nonsense.\u000a[Amy slams the door in his face]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not even a goodbye. You see, that's the kind of thing that makes people think you're weird. Poor kid, she just doesn't see it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Knock, knock, knock] . Amy, Bernadette, Penny.\u000a[Knock, knock, knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: . Amy, Bernadette, Penny.\u000a[Knock, knock, knock]\u000aSheldon Cooper: . Amy, Bernadette, Penny.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: He's not going to stop doing that, is he?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: I don't mind. I'm hoping to put his love of repetition to good use some day.
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aVSheldon Cooper: That was before Howard explained to me how awful it would be if he had to work with his significant other.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: He said what?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh don't be insulted. He just thinks too much of you would be mind-numbingly tedious.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: And this is Dr. Gunderson from Stockholm.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Aw, Sweden. Home of my favorite Muppet and second favorite meatball. OK. The Nordic reputation for a lack of humor is well founded. Wait. Is his name Gunderson or No-Funderson?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Where are we going with this, Dr. Cooper?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, please. I'm your boyfriend. Call me Sheldon. That's right. I'm in a boy-girl relationship with this cute little lump of wool.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It is a physical relationship too. Hand holding; hugging; even on hot days. Ow! Here's an new one. Apparently now we kick each other in the shin under the table. How do you like it when I do it to you? Not so much, huh?
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aVBernadette Rostenkowski: Well?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Okay, fine. I did say that, and I think it's true. I think if we work together and live together, we'd get sick of each other.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah, but to be fair, he only said the part about him getting sick of you.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [angrily] For the love of God, why?\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: [Sheldon awkwardly heads towards Leonard and Raj on the couch] What exactly do you think you'd get sick of?\u000aRaj Koothrappali: [speaking quietly to Leonard] His only options here are to fake a heart attack or have a real one.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: It's nothing in particular. I...\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: Is it my voice? Am I too bossy?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [he rubs his right arm] My arm is feeling numb.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [to Raj] Nailed it.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: That's the wrong arm for a heart attack, Doofus.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Listen to me. Sheldon misunderstood. What I meant was if we worked together, there'd be too much of me for you, not the other way around.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Howard, if you're going to lie to your wife, you don't start the sentence with "Sheldon misunderstood". That's a dead giveaway.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I appreciate your concern, but I won't be seeing any more of Amy than I already do. I assume we'll deduct any extra time we spend together at work from our weekly quota.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Please let me be there when you tell her that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why? So you can see the look on Amy's face when she hears my top-notch idea?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Please, oh please, just let me be there.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Rhinitis Revelation (#5.6)"(2011)Sheldon Cooper: You know if my clothes get too soft it makes me sleepy.
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aVSheldon Cooper: That lecture was a waste of time. I made more accurate diagrams of the expansion of the early universe on a nursery wall with the contents of my diaper.
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aVMary Cooper: Sheldon, when is your landlord gonna fix the elevator?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I don't know. Lately we've been talking about converting it into a missile silo.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Your son seems to think we need to launch a preemptive strike on Burbank.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Get them before they get us.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, you're talking like a crazy person.\u000aMary Cooper: Actually, I had him tested as a child. Doctor says he's fine.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Told you.\u000aMary Cooper: Although I do regret not following up with that specialist in Houston.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Mom, I want to apologize for my behavior last night.\u000aMary Cooper: Apology accepted.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Great! Now, you're gonna love the Perlmutter lecture. Look, he will be stating that the universe is older than six thousand years, but I thought you could stick your fingers in your ears and hum "Amazing Grace" during those parts.\u000aMary Cooper: I am still going out with your friends.\u000aSheldon Cooper: But... I apologized! And that was hard for me, because I didn't do anything wrong!
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: [after Sheldon coughs] You getting sick?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No. I'm just allergic to people that get Nobel Prizes for no good reason.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, is it possible that your foul mood, or to use the clinical term: bitchiness, is because your mother isn't making you a priority?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No. Or to use the clinical term: Nuh-uh.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I didn't get to spend a lot of time with you on this visit.\u000aMary Cooper: And whose fault was that?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yours.
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aVSheldon Cooper: You are in for a treat; my mother's fried chicken is why we had to buy my dad the extra-large coffin.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, she just got off the plane. She doesn't want to cook.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Wha-uh? Of course she does. Making me food is her way of saying I love you. Making me food when she's too tired to cook is her way of saying I really love you.
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aVMary Cooper: I've never had it, but there's no harm in trying something new.\u000aSheldon Cooper: There's a lot of harm in trying something new! That's why we test our drugs and cosmetics on bunny rabbits.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [to a man sitting next to him on a bench] Look at the two of us. Me, a highly regarded physicist, the kind of mind that comes along once, maybe twice, in a generation. You, a common man, tired from your labors as a stockbroker, or a vacuum cleaner salesman, or a bootblack. But deep down inside, apparently we're just two peas in a pod. A regular pea. The kind of pea that comes along once, maybe twice, in a generation.\u000a[It starts to rain]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Rain, another great equalizer. Falling on the head of the brilliant and the unremarkable alike.\u000a[Man takes out umbrella and opens it]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Smartypants.
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aVSheldon Cooper: You people need to stop ruining my mom's visit, with you, with your sushi and your sadness and your slutty shirts! Stop it!\u000a[Raj whispers to Howard]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: He's not talking about your shirt. Your shirt is fine.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm not going to get my pecan pie, am I?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Want some Oreos?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Double stuff?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No, it's regular.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Nice. Kick a man when he's down.
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aV[first lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: So, what kind of cruise is this you're going on?\u000aMary Cooper: It's called The Born-Again Boat-ride. 'Christian Quarterly' gave it their highest rating, five thorny crowns. I do wish you'd come with me, Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Uh, well, Mom, if I did, it would be conclusive proof that your God can work miracles.\u000aMary Cooper: You're missing out; it's going to be wall-to-wall fun; it's all themed. There's Jonah and the Whale-watching. All you can eat Last Supper buffet. And, my personal favorite, Gunning with God.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What's Gunning with God? I'm afraid to ask.\u000aMary Cooper: Oh, it is a hoot-and-a-half. You write your sins on a clay pigeon, they fire 'em up in the air, and you pulverize 'em with a 12-gauge shotgun full of our Lord's forgiveness.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Frankly, Mom, I'm encouraged to see how advanced your group has become. You're willing to sail out into the ocean without fear of falling off the edge.\u000aMary Cooper: For example, if Shelly was aboard, he'd write 'smart-mouth' on his pigeon. And then *BAM*!\u000aSheldon Cooper: The Lord giveth and the Lord bloweth away.
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aV[last lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Does this mean you're not going to sing 'Soft Kitty'?\u000aMary Cooper: No, I will always sing you 'Soft Kitty'.\u000a[sings]\u000aMary Cooper: Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [sticks his head in the door] Mru. Cooper, were we supposed to take that pie out of the ov...\u000aSheldon Cooper: [snaps] Get out!\u000a[Sheldon leaves]\u000aMary Cooper: Well, that was rude.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, I know, but he means well. Sing.\u000aMary Cooper: [sings] Happy kitty, sleepy kitty...\u000aSheldon Cooper: What are you trying to pull, Mom? From the top.\u000aMary Cooper: [looking upwards] This is what I'm talking about.\u000a[sings]\u000aMary Cooper: Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur.
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aVPenny: Now, I'm going out tonight; would it be crazy to ask you to look at the outfit I'm gonna wear?\u000aMary Cooper: Oh, not crazy at all, and don't beat yourself up. When I was your age you could have me for a car ride and a bottle of strawberry wine.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [to himself] That will not be in this week's email blast.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Justice League Recombination (#4.11)"(2010)Zack: You know, I saw this great thing on the Discovery Channel. Turns out that if you kill a starfish, it'll just come back to life.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Was the starfish wearing boxer shorts? Because you might have been watching Nickelodeon.\u000aZack: No, I'm almost sure that it was the Discovery Channel. It was a great show. They also said dolphins might be smarter than people.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: They might be smarter than some people.\u000aZack: Maybe we can do an experiment to find out.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's easy enough. We need a large tank of water, a hoop to jump through, and a bucket of whatever bite-sized treats you find tasty.\u000a[the guys laugh at him]\u000aZack: I don't get it.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: A dolphin might.\u000aZack: Oh, I see. You guys are inferring that I'm stupid.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's not correct. We were implying it. You then inferred it.
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aVPenny: I'm still mad at you.\u000aZack: Well, you won't be when you hear the great news.\u000aPenny: What great news?\u000aZack: We're going to a costume party at the comic book store on New Years Eve, and you get to be Wonder Woman.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Complete with bulletproof bracelets and lasso of truth. Invisible plane sold separately.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: [in gravelly voice] I'm Batman.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, I hardly think so. The real Caped Crusader calls his crime-fighting cohorts when he's running late.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: I had to walk. I couldn't get Raj on the back of my scooter.\u000a[Raj walks inside in his Aquaman costume with attached seahorse]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: I've said this before and I'll say it again, Aquaman sucks.
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aVPenny: What the hell is wrong with you?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm The Flash. I just knocked 30,000 times.
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aVRaj Koothrappali: Oh, great. No Superman, no Wonder Woman? All we've got is a skinny Flash, an Indian Aquaman, a nearsighted Green Lantern, and a teeny, tiny Dark Knight.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Obviously, we're no longer a Justice League. We have no choice but to switch to our Muppet Baby costumes.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Ooh, I call Kermit.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm Kermit. You're Scooter.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Oh, man. Scooter sucks. He's the Aquaman of the Muppet Babies.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Okay, the good news is, we have a Wonder Woman.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: What's the bad news?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Superman probably isn't getting laid tonight.\u000aZack: [Looks down at his Superman costume] Aw, damn.
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aV[last lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Look, I know our winter thermostat setting is seventy-two degrees, but I'm a little warm so I'm going to turn it down.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [runs to the Grand Canyon as The Flash] Good Lord, how you frustrate me, Leonard Hofstadter!\u000a[runs back to the apartment and becomes himself]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Fine.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Amy Farrah Fowler doesn't believe in wearing costumes. She isn't the free spirit I am.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Wonder Woman was an Amazon. And Amazons tend to be very beefy gals.\u000aPenny: Goodbye, Sheldon!\u000a[slams the door]\u000aSheldon Cooper: But they're not blond, so put on your wig!
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aVZack: I haven't been to a comic book store in literally a million years.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Literally? Literally a million years?
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aVZack: Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane.\u000a[Zack jumps into Sheldon and Leonard's apartment in his Superman costume]\u000aZack: I forget the rest.\u000aPenny: [Enters wearing a Wonder Woman costume with a low-cut top] All right. Let's get this thing over with.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm sorry. But in what universe is Wonder Woman blonde?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Relax. No one's gonna be looking at her hair.\u000a[Penny punches Wolowitz in his shoulder]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Ow! I mean...\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [in gravelly voice] Ow.
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aV[first lines]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: [playing a card] Water Demon.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [playing a card] Ice Dragon.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [playing a card] Lesser Warlord of Ka'a.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not so fast.\u000a[playing a card]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Infinite Sheldon.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Infinite Sheldon?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes. Infinite Sheldon, it beats all other cards - and does not violate the rule against homemade cards because I made it at work.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You understand why people don't want to play with you?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No. Although it's a question I've been pondering since preschool.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [about apologizing to Zack] What would I even say?\u000aSheldon Cooper: "Zack, I'm sorry you're stupid. Have a Milk Dud."\u000aRaj Koothrappali: A Milk Dud?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah. Milk Duds, with their self-deprecating name and remarkably mild flavor are the most apologetic of the boxed candies.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Check it out; those guys are breaking into that car'\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What should we do?\u000aSheldon Cooper: We're the Justice League of America. There's only one thing we *can* do: turn around and slowly walk away.
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aVZack: [entering the comic book store] Where do they keep the Archies?\u000aSheldon Cooper: In the bedrooms of ten-year-old girls, where they belong.\u000aZack: Oh, no, you're thinking old-school Archie. It's much more sophisticated now. Like, there's two universes, and Archie's married to Betty in one and Veronica in the other. Midge is even breaking up with Moose.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Agreement Dissection (#4.21)"(2011)Amy Farrah Fowler: Fair warning: we can get crazy.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: Yeah. Last week, we smoked cigars and pretended to be dragons.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Really, Amy? Tobacco and alcohol? Need I remind you not a lot of scientific discoveries were made by people having a good time?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: [to Penny] Why did you bring him? He's harshing my buzz.
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aVSheldon Cooper: In the South, preadolescent children are forced through a process called cotillion, which indoctrinates them with all the social graces and dance skills needed to function in 18th century Vienna.
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aV[first lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, are you in the shower?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I can't hear you! I'm in the shower!\u000aSheldon Cooper: I asked if you were in the shower, but that's moot now!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Moot! Rendered unimportant by recent events!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I can't hear you! I'm in the shower!
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aVSheldon Cooper: I have to skip the chit-chat. Emergency.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What kind of emergency?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Mathematical. 32 ounce banana smoothie, 16 ounce bladder.
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aVSheldon Cooper: This is Greek food? Leonard, you hate Greek food.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Not as much as you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: fine. I'm nothing if not adaptable.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I got you the lamb kabob.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Thank you.\u000a[Sheldon takes a bite and begins to chew vigorously]\u000aSheldon Cooper: If you think about it, Greek food isn't that far from Italian food. They share a spice palette.\u000a[Chews]\u000aSheldon Cooper: And what a civilization is the Greeks'.\u000a[Chews some more]\u000aSheldon Cooper: They gave us science, democracy... and little cubes of charred meat that taste like sweat.\u000a[Spits out kabob]
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aVSheldon Cooper: The mean Indian lady tried to make me eat lamb. Congratulations, pizza night will now be at your apartment. Order one.\u000aPenny: I'm sorry, honey, I'm meeting Amy and Bernadette for dinner. You're welcome to tag along.\u000aSheldon Cooper: A girl's night? Oh, I don't know if I'm up for an evening talking about rainbows, unicorns, and menstrual cramps.\u000aPenny: Okay, suit yourself. We'll probably be trashing Priya a little.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Shotgun!
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: You smell like baby powder.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's talc. But as that's the primary ingredient in baby powder, I understand your confusion.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Oh, I'm not confused at all. You're like a sexy toddler.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I don't know how to process that.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: How come, if we're the smart people, we don't do this every night?\u000aSheldon Cooper: What's 16 times 14?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: My burps taste like cranberry juice.\u000aSheldon Cooper: And there's your answer.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Would you like to come in for a nightcap?\u000aSheldon Cooper: If you're referring to the beverage, you know I don't drink. If you're referring to the hat you don while wearing a night shirt and holding a candle, I have one.
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aVSheldon Cooper: You may have gone to Cambridge, but I am an honorary graduate of Starfleet Academy.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Do you remember what happened to the alien, played by talented character actor Frank Gorshin, in the Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Uh, Captain Kirk activated the self-destruct sequence and threatened to blow up the Enterprise and kill them both unless he gave in?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Affirmative. Computer, this is Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Activate self-destruct sequence. Code 1-1-A-2-B.
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aVSheldon Cooper: It's hard to say no to Yoo-Hoo. The name literally beckons.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Good morning, Amy.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: It most assuredly is not.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Are you experiencing dehydration, headache, nausea, and shame?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yes. I also found a Korean man's business card tucked into my cleavage. What happened last night?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, memory impairment. The free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: All right. Last night, you gave me some excellent advice regarding my problem here at home. You kissed me, and then vomited on and off for 40 minutes, following which you passed out on your bathroom floor. I then folded a towel under your head as a pillow, set your oven clock to the correct time because it was driving me crazy, and I left.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [as Sheldon counts down the "self destruct sequence"] It's blackmail!\u000aPriya Koothrappali: We give up.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: This is ridiculous.\u000a[unplugs the laptop]\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's a laptop with a full charge. Honestly, what do you see in him?
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aV[last lines]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: [yells at her screeching monkey] They were out of menthol; get off my back!\u000a[to Sheldon]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: It's not easy living with a temperamental little primate.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [off-screen] C'mon, Priya, just admit I embarrass you!\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're preaching to the choir, sister.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Benefactor Factor (#4.15)"(2011)[Amy is trying to convince Sheldon to attend a fund raiser, which he has skipped because he feels it's demeaning]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: If your friends are unconvincing, this year's donations might go to, say, the Geology Department.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, dear! Not the dirt people!\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Or worse. It could go to: the liberal arts.\u000aSheldon Cooper: No!\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Millions of dollars being showered on poets, literary theorists, and students of gender studies.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, the Humanities!
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aV[first lines]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Here's what I wonder about zombies:\u000a[the others groan]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: What happens if they can't get any human flesh to eat? They can't starve to death, they're already dead.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: You take this one. I spent an hour last night on "How do vampires shave when they can't see themselves in the mirror?"\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well-groomed vampires meet in pairs and shave each other. Case closed.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Yeah, okay. So, zombies.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Uh, I guess it depends on the zombies, Raj. Are we talking slow zombies, fast zombies? Like in '28 Days', if those zombies didn't eat the starved.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Yes, you're thinking of '28 Days Later'. '28 Days' is where Sandra Bullock goes to rehab and puts the audience into an undead state.
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aVPresident Siebert: [Putting his arms around Sheldon and Leonard's shoulders] How are we doing today?\u000aSheldon Cooper: That depends. How much longer do you plan on fondling my shoulder?\u000aPresident Siebert: Sorry, Dr. Cooper, I forgot you have a touch phobia.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's not a touch phobia, it's a germ phobia. If you'd like to go put on a pair of latex gloves, I'll let you check me for a hernia.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Just because the nice man is offering you candy doesn't mean you should jump into his windowless van.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I refuse to be trotted out and shown off like a prize hog at the Texas State Fair, which, by the way, is something you don't want to attend wearing a Star Trek ensign's uniform.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: She wants to have dinner and talk about my research.\u000aSheldon Cooper: An entire dinner to talk about your research? Where are you going, the drive-thru at Jack In the Box?
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aVSheldon Cooper: Given how much time you spend engaging in pointless self-abuse, you might consider just this once using your genitalia to actually accomplish something!
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aVSheldon Cooper: I think you have a real knack for gigolo work, Leonard.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [answering the phone] Cooper-Hofstadter residence; go for Cooper.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Good morning, Mrs. Latham.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, of course I remember you; a woman well past her prime seeking to augment her social status by doling out her late husbands ill-gotten gains.\u000aSheldon Cooper: So, how much money you going to give me?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, if you're not going to give me money, then why are you calling?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [passes the phone to Leonard] She wants to talk to you. Who's crazy now?
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Mrs. Latham said she was seriously considering donating money so we could get a cryogenic centrifugal pump...\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, wow!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Yess!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Then she stuck her tongue down my throat.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why?\u000aPenny: Okay, we can't keep explaining everything. Read that book we got you.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm so proud of you! You sold yourself out like a common streetwalker!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No, I didn't do it for the money.\u000aSheldon Cooper: She stiffed you?\u000aPenny: I believe that's what your roommate did to *her*.\u000aSheldon Cooper: What?\u000aPenny: Again, read the book we gave you!
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aVSheldon Cooper: No. No. No. I'm just here for your money. I don't want to shake anyone's germy hands.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Tell him Dr. Cooper feels that the best use of his time is to employ his rare and precious mental faculties to tear the mask off nature and stare at the face of God.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Penny, you're an expert at exchanging sexual favors for material gain. Walk him through this.
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aVPenny: What was that about me trading sexual favors for material gain?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's a compliment. I believe in giving credit where credit's due.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Rothman Disintegration (#5.17)"(2012)Leonard Hofstadter: Why is there a hole here?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why is there a hole in my new office? I've narrowed it down to two possibilities. There was something in the wall that someone outside the wall wanted, or, the more disturbing, there was something in the wall that wanted out.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [at the urinals at work] Kripke.\u000aBarry Kripke: Yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're in my spot.
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aVBarry Kripke: How does it work?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, it's very simple. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes Lizard, Lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates Lizard, Lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaperizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.\u000aBarry Kripke: I'm sorry, can you repeat that?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, of course. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes Lizard, Lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates Lizard, Lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaperizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.\u000aBarry Kripke: Almost got it. One more time?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Sure! Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock...\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Hey, Sheldon!\u000aSheldon Cooper: ...rock crushes...\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Stop. He's screwing with you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Is he? Well, then, seems we have reached an impasse. I see no other option than to challenge you to a duel. I'd smack you with a glove, but just last week, I packed away my winter things.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I see no other option but to challenge you to a duel. I'd smack you with a glove, but just last week, I packed away my winter things.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Alright, this is one-on-one. First person to five wins. Any questions? Yes, Sheldon?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Five what?
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aVSheldon Cooper: And let him win? Do I look crazy to you?
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aVHoward Wolowitz: It's a shame Professor Rothman was forced to step down.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What choice did the university have? He snapped. It happens to theoretical physicists all the time.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: I wonder how long Sheldon's got?\u000aSheldon Cooper: These shrimp are all the same size. There is no logical order to eat them in.\u000a[Throws shrimp away]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: It can't be very long.
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aVSheldon Cooper: This is a university, not a playground. Offices are not assigned because someone called dibs.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You just called dibs.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Shut it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Knock on door] Ooh. That'll be Kripke.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What's he doing here?\u000aSheldon Cooper: We're going to work this office situation out like gentlemen. And if that doesn't work, I'm going to poison his tea.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: There's not much you're both equally good at.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Is there anything you're both equally bad at?\u000aSheldon Cooper,Barry Kripke: Sports.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Use the force, Sheldon. Use the force.\u000a[Throws ball, it falls short of the basket]\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm gonna need more force.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Sheldon was higher.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Congratulations Sheldon. You win the office.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Who's unsatisfactory in P.E. now?
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aVSheldon Cooper: Ah, the spoils. I can see why victors love them.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Mr. Rothman, this isn't your office anymore. You're retired.\u000aProfessor Rothman: I think the word you're looking for is invisible.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [Sheldon has gotten his head stuck in a hole in his office wall] Why would you do that?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I wanted to see what was inside.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's called scientific curiosity!
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Thanksgiving Decoupling (#7.9)"(2013)Penny: Sheldon, you can have a nice Thanksgiving anywhere. I spent one in Vegas.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You did?\u000aPenny: Yeah. Back when I we dating Zack. It was actually more fun than I thought. We gambled, went to one of those cheesy wedding chapels. We had a really good turkey dinner which was surprising since we were at a strip club.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What? You went to a chapel?\u000aPenny: Yeah.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why?\u000aPenny: We had one those silly fake weddings.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Penny, you know those are real, right?\u000aPenny: [laughing it off] No, they're not.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yeah, they are.\u000aPenny: [Looking worried] No, they're not.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yeah, they are.\u000aSheldon Cooper: He's right.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: They're real.\u000aPenny: [quietly] But it didn't feel real.
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aVPenny: Why are you making this such a big deal?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, I have a reason. It could be because you said yes to marrying Zack, but every time Leonard's proposed he's gotten a resounding no. That's just off the top of my head.\u000aPenny: How do I undo this?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I'm just hoping you can get a annulment which is like it never happened.\u000aPenny: Great. Well, what do I have to do?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: It's says here you can get an annulment if any of the following conditions are met. Were you unable to consummate the marriage?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [Sheldon laughs] Penny? Next.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Is there any evidence of fraud, bigamy, want of understanding?\u000aPenny: Want of understanding? What does that even mean?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
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aV[first lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: The math is all there; it's not real\u000aPenny: Yes, it is!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah, uh, look. It is scientifically impossible for a person tip a cow. Even you with your stocky build and lumberjack shoulders, you couldn't do it.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: It's horrible. Why would you push a cow over? They're sacred.\u000aPenny: Oh, stop it. I've seen you eat a million hamburgers.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Hey, an animal can be both sacred and delicious.\u000aPenny: I'm telling you I've done it, okay? I clearly remember the cow standing up and then the cow on its side.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Were you drunk?\u000aPenny: I was sixteen in Nebraska, what do you think?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I think you're the one who fell over.\u000aPenny: That would explain why the sky was also on its side.
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aVSheldon Cooper: But if her food is delicious, Thanksgiving is ruined, and it's on you.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I've been told that a bald refusal of an invitation is rude and one must instead offer up a polite excuse so, di, I'd love to go but unfortunately that sounds awful.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: It would actually be nice to not hear Sheldon complain about *my* cooking all day.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah, uh, excuse me, but every year you prepare a terrible meal and every year I criticize it. Do our traditions mean nothing to you?
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aVSheldon Cooper: My father loved football. He always made me watch it before I was allowed to do my homework.
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aVMr. Rostenkowski: I don't know what's scarier: the bathroom clowns or the woman that put 'em there.\u000aSheldon Cooper: All I know is you can only fit one of her in a car.\u000a[Howard enters]\u000aSheldon Cooper: And there's the clown that came out of her.
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aVBernadette Rostenkowski: Hey. Howard says that you've been making fun of him all day. Now both of you apologize right now.\u000aSheldon Cooper: She's so tiny! It's funny when she's mad.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: All right, mister. I think you owe Howard and Bernadette an apology.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Perhaps you're right. I'm sorry for my behavior. I've had alcohol and it's caused me to be inappropriate.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: Okay.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Don't worry about it.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Thank you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ain't she great?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Now, hows about you get us a couple of beers?\u000a[Sheldon swats Amy on the rear; she first looks shocked, then leaves smiling]
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aV[last lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: I just vomited on a lot of clowns.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Do we really need to go to Mrs. Wolowitz's home for Thanksgiving dinner?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: We do, and I expect you to be on your best behavior.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Now I know how the African slaves felt. Being dragged from their homes to work under the yoke of the white man.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Are you honestly comparing going to Thanksgiving dinner at Mrs. Wolowitz's house to one of the worst tragedies in human history?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes.
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aVMr. Rostenkowski: Do you remember the Thanksgiving game when it snowed in Dallas?\u000aSheldon Cooper: 1993. Leon Lett blew the game in the final seconds and the Dolphins emerged victorious. Then I finally got to do my calculus.\u000aMr. Rostenkowski: I was so pissed, I wanted to shoot my TV.\u000aSheldon Cooper: So was my dad. And then he did.
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aVMr. Rostenkowski: So is your dad still living in Texas?\u000aSheldon Cooper: My father died when I was fourteen.\u000aMr. Rostenkowski: I'm sorry to hear that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: So was the guy who ran the liquor store. He cried and cried.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [to Penny, regarding her initial belief that her wedding to Zach wasn't real] At some point while you were there was Las Vegas also on its side?\u000a[Then tilts his head]
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification (#4.2)"(2010)Sheldon Cooper: At my age, do you know how I'm statistically most likely to die?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: At the hands of your roommate?\u000aSheldon Cooper: An accident.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Oh, that's how I'm gonna make it look.
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aVSheldon Cooper: You're my 15th favorite technological visionary.\u000aSteve Wozniak: Only 15th?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's still 6 spots above Steve Jobs. I care neither for turtlenecks nor showmanship.\u000aSteve Wozniak: Yeah, I never got that turtleneck thing.\u000aSheldon Cooper: One of my proudest possessions is a vintage 1977 Apple II. Despite the file system limitations of Apple DOS 3.3, it was a pretty nifty little achievement.\u000aSteve Wozniak: Thanks. We were shooting for nifty. You know if you had it here, I'd autograph it for you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Don't move for 15 to 30 minutes depending on how the buses are running.\u000aSteve Wozniak: Nerds.
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aV[Sheldon joins the others for dinner as his new "Shel-bot."]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Greetings, friends.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Greetings, whatever-the-hell you are.
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aV[first lines]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Whatcha doing there? Working on a new plan to catch the Road Runner?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The humorous implication being that I am Wile E. Coyote?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: And this is a schematic for a bird-trapping device that will ultimately backfire and cause me physical injury?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yes.\u000a[Sheldon gives a gasping derisive laugh]\u000aSheldon Cooper: What I'm doing here is trying to determine when I'm going to die.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: A lot of people are working on that research.
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aVSheldon Cooper: In order to live long enough to fuse my consciousness with cybernetics, I need to change my diet.\u000aPenny: Wait, cybernetics is robot stuff, right?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Correct.\u000aPenny: So you want to turn yourself into some sort of robot?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Essentially, yes.\u000aPenny: OK, here's my question. Didn't you already do that?
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm going to miss so much. A unified field theory, cold fusion, the dogapus.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What's a dogapus?\u000aSheldon Cooper: A hybrid dog and octopus. Man's underwater best friend.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: There's somebody working on that?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I was going to! I planned on giving it to myself on my three-hundredth birthday.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Wait a minute, you *hate* dogs.\u000aSheldon Cooper: A dogapus can play fetch with eight balls. No one can hate that.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Thinks he has appendicitis] So this is how it ends... with cruel irony. Just as I make the commitment to preserving my body, I am betrayed by my appendix, a vestigial organ. Do you know the original purpose of the appendix, Leonard?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I do, and yet I'm doomed while you live on.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Funny how things work out, isn't it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh Lord, I think it's about to burst!\u000a[Loud fart]\u000aSheldon Cooper: On the other hand, it might have been the Brussels sprouts.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Good night.\u000a[Sheldon goes back to his room]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Good night. Appendicitis. What a nervous Nelly.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: [Raj just whispered something to him] You're right. Penny jogs, maybe you guys can run together.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's an excellent idea! Yeah, if we chat, it will create the illusion of time going faster.\u000aPenny: [unimpressed] No, it won't.
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aVPenny: [Sheldon just fell down the stairs] Oh my god, are you okay?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I think so.\u000aPenny: Let me help you up.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Thank you.\u000a[Very loud fart]\u000aPenny: Oh, Sheldon!\u000aSheldon Cooper: If it makes you feel any better, Thursday is no longer cruciferous vegetable night.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Sheldon's virtual presence device has no arms] Leonard, my door.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What about it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Be a lamb and open it for me.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [feigning ignorance] Why? What's the problem?\u000aSheldon Cooper: You think you have me stymied, don't you?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No, I think a doorknob has you stymied.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, this is ridiculous.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm behind you. Please look at me when you're talking to me.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I am looking at you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, you're not. Pay *no* attention to that man in the bed.
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aV[last lines]\u000aPenny: What up, Shelbot?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I can't get out of bed. I hurt my ankle.\u000aPenny: What do you want me to do?\u000aPenny: Sing me 'Soft Kitty'.\u000aPenny: Really? You want me to sing 'Soft Kitty' to a computer monitor?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Would you rather come over and sing it to me in person?\u000aPenny: [singing] Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur...\u000aSheldon Cooper: Closer to the microphone.\u000aPenny: Happy kitty, pretty ki...\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, you have to start over.\u000aPenny: [singing] Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur\u000a[Sheldon starts playing his recorder]\u000aPenny: Happy kitty, pretty kitty, purr, purr, purr.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Raj, be a lamb and open the door for me.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Oh, sure.\u000a[Raj opens the door for Sheldon's virtual presence device]\u000aSheldon Cooper: [to Leonard] He's a lamb. You're not.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: [proudly] I'm a lamb.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Penny jogs. Maybe you guys can run together.\u000aSheldon Cooper: That's an excellent idea! If we chat, it will create the illusion of time going faster.\u000aPenny: [unenthused] No, it won't. Um... hey, how does he know I jog?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Oh, he watches you from his car with high-powered binoculars.\u000aPenny: [disgusted] Oh, my god! That is so creepy!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [mimicking Penny's tone of voice] I know!\u000a[Raj whispers in Howard's ear]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: And he says he's not gonna stop.\u000a[freaked out, Raj whispers in his ear again]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Yeah, well, then see a shrink and figure out how to talk to women.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Ornithophobia Diffusion (#5.9)"(2011)Leonard Hofstadter: [after Sheldon freaking out about the bird] Sheldon, just ignore him.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Good idea! Attention is what birds want.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Do you think I'm overdressed?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Depends on the activity. For a prostate exam, yes. To play in Vegas, I'd add sequins.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I'm going to the movies with Penny. I don't want her to think that I think it's a date.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Do you think it's a date?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No. But she might think that I think it's a date even though I don't.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Or you might think she thinks you think it's a date even though she doesn't.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Are you overthinking this?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not at all.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You're right. I'm fine. I'm wearing this.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Really? A blazer? All right.
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aVSheldon Cooper: This is Dr. Sheldon Cooper. I'm at 2311 North Robles Avenue. I'd like to report a dangerous wild animal. A blue jay. I'm sorry, this is Animal Control, I don't understand the laughter. No, the bird is not in my home. If he was in my home, I obviously would have called 911.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Age seven, a blood-thirsty chicken chases me up a tree. Age 12, a magpie tries to steal the retainer out of my mouth. Age 16, a parrot in a pet store calls me fat ass. Need I go on?\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Yes, please. This is way better than the movie.
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aVBernadette Rostenkowski: [picking up the bird] He's a sweetie.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, it's very sweet. Now, slowly and carefully... flush him down the toilet.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, the only way to get past this fear is to interact with it. Just like you did with the mailman.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [after touching the bird] I did it! I actually did it... Okay, now flush him.
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aVBernadette Rostenkowski: I still think he looks like someone's pet. Maybe we should put up posters.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes. It should have a big picture of him and the words: "Is this your bird? Not anymore."
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aVSheldon Cooper: [as the bird flies out the window] Get back here, you stupid bird, so I can love you!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Quick, what does a hawk sound like?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Uh, I don't know... Scree! Scree!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, please. That's a seagull.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [Wearing a t-shirt, jeans and a backwards baseball cap] Too casual?\u000aSheldon Cooper: For an audience with the Queen, yes. For an evening of passing a bottle of fortified wine around a flaming trashcan, you look great.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: All right Sheldon, your bird death ray is ready.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's not a death ray. It's just a little ultrasonic blast to scare him off. Trust me, if I had a death ray, I wouldn't be living here. I'd be in my lair enjoying the money the people of Earth gave me for not using my death ray.
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aVSheldon Cooper: This is ridiculous. I'm a grown man from Texas. This isn't a terrifying bird like a swan or a goose. It's just a blue jay.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, what do you expect us to do?\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're biologists. Biology is the study of living things. That's a living thing. Get crackin'.\u000aBernadette Rostenkowski: I specialize with microorganisms, and Amy studies brains.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yeah, neither of us minored in bird shooing.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [talking to a blue jay] If you were a dove, I'd call you Lovey Dovey. Oh, who am I kidding? This isn't a moment for strict adherence to the literal. You're just my Lovey Dovey, aren't you?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Guess you gotta have hollow bones to get some sugar around here.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Friendship Contraction (#5.15)"(2012)Sheldon Cooper: Are you saying that you want to invoke Clause 209?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I don't know what that is, but if it means I can go home and sleep, then yes.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Think carefully here. Clause 209 suspends our friendship and strips down the Roommate Agreement to its bare essentials. Our responsibilities toward each other would only be rent, utilities, and a perfunctory chin jut of recognition as we pass in the hall. "S'up?"\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Where do I sign?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Right here.\u000a[turns his tablet around]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Use your finger.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: There, done.\u000aSheldon Cooper: All right, that's it. We are now no longer companions, boon or otherwise. We are now merely acquaintances. To amend the words of Toy Story: You have not got a friend in me!
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, Canada is not going to invade California\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yeah really? You think those hippies in Washington and Oregon can stop them?
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aVSheldon Cooper: Now, put on your hard had and safety vest.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Oh, fun! I get to spend another night in front of our apartment dressed like one of The Village people.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You make that joke every three months; I still don't get it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'll tell you exactly how he did. Readiness, unsatisfactory; follows direction, barely; attitude, a little too much. Overall, not only will he probably die in a fiery inferno, his incessant whining would most certainly spoil everyone else's day.
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aVSheldon Cooper: An 8.2 magnitude earthquake devastates Pasadena, reducing mighty edifices to dust, engulfing the city in flames, the streets flow with blood and echo with the cries of the wounded. Oh, excellent choice!
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aVSheldon Cooper: Two years ago, after a deep gum cleaning, I thought I got on a bus, but somehow wound up on a booze cruise to Mexico.
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aVPenny: I got some candles in my apartment.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Candles, during a blackout! Are you mad! That's a fire hazard. No, Pasadena Water & Power recommends the far safer glow stick.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: You call that a glow stick?\u000a[Pulls out a glowing lightsaber replica]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: That is a glow stick.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I was just sitting at home, thinking about how it might be nice to catch up with my ninth favorite person.\u000aStuart: Ninth?\u000aSheldon Cooper: You moved up one. My pen pal in Somalia was kidnapped by pirates.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: It's just a blackout. I'm sure the power'll be back on soon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: And I'm sure some fool in the Donner party said the snow would stop any day now. I like to think they ate him first.
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aV[first lines]\u000a[Sheldon sounds a virtual klaxon in Leonard's bedroom]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yahhh! What the hell!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Emergency preparedness drill.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Oh, no, come on!\u000aSheldon Cooper: You know how it works. Once a quarter; keep our readiness up. Now, rise and shine sleepyhead, half the town is probably dead.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I have to get a lock for my door.
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aVSheldon Cooper: My apologies. I would have been here sooner, but the bus kept stopping for other people to get on it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: So, um. how are you?\u000aStuart: Uh, not so good; my shrink just killed himself. Blamed me in the note.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Great, great.
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aVSheldon Cooper: He'll be back. Wine and a girl in the dark; he's going to be bored out of his mind.
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aVSheldon Cooper: So, uh, how are you?\u000aStuart: Not so good. My shrink just killed himself. Blamed me in the note.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Big Bran Hypothesis (#1.2)"(2007)Sheldon: Oh, gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.
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aVSheldon: [in a deep voice] If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
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aVSheldon: I am truly sorry for what happened last night. I take full responsibility and I hope it won't color your opinion of Leonard, who is not only a wonderful guy but also, I hear, a gentle and thorough lover.
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aVLeonard: Do you wanna join us for Thai food and a Superman movie marathon?\u000aPenny: Wow, a marathon, how many Superman movies are there?\u000aSheldon: You're kidding, right?\u000aPenny: You know, I do like the one where Lois Lane falls from the helicopter and Superman swooshes down and catches her. Which one was that?\u000aLeonard,Sheldon,Wolowitz: *One.*\u000a[Raj holds up one finger]\u000aSheldon: You know that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy?\u000aPenny: Yes, I know men can't fly...\u000aSheldon: No, no, let's assume that they can... Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of 32 feet per second per second... Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel... Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles an hour, hits them and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces.\u000aLeonard: Unless Superman matches her speed and decelerates.\u000aSheldon: In what space, sir, in what space? She's two feet above the ground. Frankly, if he really loved her, he'd let her hit the pavement. It'd be a more merciful death.\u000aLeonard: Well, excuse me! Your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that Superman's flight is a feat of strength.\u000aSheldon: Are you listening to yourself? It is well established that Superman's flight is a feat of strength. It is an extension of his ability to leap tall buildings, an ability he derives from Earth's yellow sun!\u000aWolowitz: And you don't have a problem with that? How does he fly at night?\u000aSheldon: Uh, a combination of the Moon's solar reflection, and the energy storage capacity of Kryptonian skin cells.\u000aPenny: I'm just gonna go wash up.\u000aLeonard: I have 26 hundred comic books in there; I challenge you to find a single reference to "Kryptonian skin cells."\u000aSheldon: Challenge accepted!\u000a[walks to door]\u000aSheldon: We're locked out...\u000aKoothrappali: Also, the pretty girl left.
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aVLeonard: Men do things for women without expecting sex.\u000aSheldon: Those would be men who just had sex.
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aVLeonard: Any ideas?\u000aSheldon: Yes, but they all require a green lantern and a power ring.
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aVLeonard: Sheldon, this is not your home.\u000aSheldon: Look, this is not anyone's home, this is a swirling vortex of entropy!
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aVLeonard: You convinced me. Maybe tonight we should sneak in and shampoo her carpet.\u000aSheldon: You don't think that crosses the line?\u000aLeonard: Yes... For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?\u000aSheldon: You have a sarcasm sign?
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aVLeonard: I guess we will just bring it up ourselves.\u000aSheldon: I hardly think so.\u000aLeonard: Why not?\u000aSheldon: We don't have a dolly or lifting belts or any measurable upper body strength.
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aVLeonard: Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort organize and label the entire world around them?\u000aSheldon: No.\u000aLeonard: Well, they don't. Hard as it may be for you to believe, most people don't sort their breakfast cereal numerically by fiber content.\u000aSheldon: I'm sorry, but I think we've both found that helpful at times.
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aVLeonard: Do you realize that if Penny wakes up there is no reasonable explanation as to why we're here.\u000aSheldon: I just gave you a reasonable explanation.\u000aLeonard: No, you gave me an explanation; its reasonableness will be determined by a jury of your peers.\u000aSheldon: Don't be ridiculous... I have no peers.
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aVPenny: You came into my apartment last night while I was sleeping?\u000aLeonard: Yes, but only to clean.\u000aSheldon: Really more to organize. You're not actually dirty, per se.\u000aPenny: Give me back my key.\u000a[Leonard hands said key back]\u000aLeonard: I'm very, very sorry.\u000aPenny: Do you understand how creepy this is?\u000aLeonard: Uh, yes. We discussed it at length last night.\u000aPenny: In my apartment? While I was *sleeping*?\u000aSheldon: And snoring. And that's probably just a sinus infection. But it could be sleep apnea. You might wanna see an otorhinolaryngologist. The throat doctor.\u000aPenny: And what kind of doctor removes shoes from asses?\u000aSheldon: Depending on the depth, that's either a proctologist or a general surgeon.\u000a[behind Penny, Leonard holds up a piece of paper with "sarcasm" scribbled on it]\u000aSheldon: Oh.
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aVPenny: Was it hard to get it up the stairs?\u000aSheldon: Pfffff...\u000aLeonard: No.\u000aSheldon: No?\u000aSheldon: No.\u000aLeonard: No.
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aVSheldon: Great Caesar's ghost! Look at this place.\u000aLeonard: So Penny's a little messy.\u000aSheldon: A little messy! The Mandelbrot set of complex numbers is a little mess- this is chaos!
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Pants Alternative (#3.18)"(2010)Sheldon: Problem.\u000aLeonard: What?\u000aSheldon: They expect me to give a speech at the banquet. I can't give a speech.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: No, you're mistaken. You give speeches all the time. What you can't do is shut up.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Yeah, before the movie you did 20 minutes on why guacamole turns brown. It turned brown while you were talking.
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aVRaj Koothrappali: OK, Sheldon, I'm going to be leading you through a series of meditation exercises. These methods come from the ancient gurus of India and have helped me overcome my own fears.\u000aSheldon: And yet you can't speak to women.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: True, but thanks to meditation I'm able to stay in the same room with them without urinating.
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aV[last lines]\u000aSheldon: [watching his speech on Youtube] Oh, Lord! This couldn't be any more humiliating.\u000aLeonard: Aah, give it a minute.\u000aSheldon: [on Youtube] Now, for the astronomers in the audience, get ready to see the dark side of the moon. And here's Uranus.
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aVSheldon: Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side. BAZINGA!
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aVSheldon: Hello? I know you're out there. I can hear you metabolising oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide!
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aVLeonard: Hey, Sheldon, I was up in the Administration Office, and I happened to overhear the name of the winner of this year's Chancellor's Award for Science.\u000aSheldon: And you want to rub my nose in the fact that my contributions are being overlooked again. I'm the William Shatner of theoretical physics. All right, I'll play. What self-important, preening *fraud* are they honoring this year?\u000aLeonard: Well, I'm so glad you asked it like that: You.
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aVSheldon: I'm perfectly comfortable speaking to small groups. I cannot speak to large crowds.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: What to you is a large crowd?\u000aSheldon: Any group big enough to trample me to death. General rule of thumb is 36 adults or 70 children.
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aVPenny: So, whadda ya say, Sheldon, are we your X-Men?\u000aSheldon: No, the X-Men were named for the X in Charles Xavier. Since I am Sheldon Cooper, you will be my C-Men.
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aVSheldon: I question your premise. How is a new suit going to prevent me from passing out in front of a ballroom full of people?\u000aPenny: It'll give you confidence. You know, sometimes when I'm feeling all stressed out about something, I go out and buy a cute top or a fun skirt, and I have a whole new outlook on life.\u000aSheldon: Don't you eventually realize you're just the same stressed-out person in a cute top or a fun skirt?\u000aPenny: Yep, that's when I buy shoes.
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aVLeonard: So, Sheldon. How ya doing?\u000aSheldon: That's how you start a psychotherapy session. How am I doing? I was promised a riverboat journey into the jungles of my subconscious. Instead I get the same question I hear from the lady who slices my baloney at Ralph's.
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aVSheldon: Would it be helpful to you if I told you about my dreams?\u000aLeonard: Um; I don't know, maybe.\u000aSheldon: I recently had a dream that I was a giant, but everything around me was to scale, so it all looked normal.\u000aLeonard: How did you know you were a giant, if everything was to scale?\u000aSheldon: I was wearing size a million pants.
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aVSheldon: A neutron walks into a bar and asks, "How much for a drink?" The bartender says, "For you, no charge."
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aVSheldon: A Godzilla-like monster is approaching the city. I have to get my people to safety. People of Sheldonopolis, this is your mayor. Follow me. If the children can't run, leave them behind. Oh, the simulated horror!\u000a[Door slams]\u000aSheldon: Raj? Just as I suspected. Meditation is nothing but hokum.
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aVSheldon: I am the William Shatner of theoretical physics.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Dumpling Paradox (#1.7)"(2007)Leonard: Sheldon, think this through. You're going to ask Howard to choose between sex and Halo.\u000aSheldon: No, I'm going to ask him to choose between sex and Halo 3. As far as I know sex has not been upgraded to include high-def graphics and enhanced weapons systems.\u000aLeonard: You're right, all sex has is nudity, orgasms and human contact.\u000aSheldon: My point.
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aVChen: Where's your annoying little friend who thinks he speaks Mandarin?\u000aSheldon: He's putting his needs above the collective good.\u000a[to the other guys]\u000aSheldon: Where he comes from, that's punishable by death.\u000aChen: *I* come from Sacramento.
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aVSheldon: I'll watch the last 24 minutes of Doctor Who, although at this point it's more like Doctor Why Bother.
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aVPenny: Hey, if you guys need a fourth, I'll play.\u000aLeonard: Great idea.\u000aSheldon: No. The wheel was a great idea. Relativity was a great idea. This is a notion and a rather sucky one at that.\u000aPenny: Why?\u000aSheldon: Why? Oh, Penny, Penny, Penny.\u000aPenny: Oh, what, what, what?\u000aSheldon: This is a complex battle simulation with a steep learning curve. There are myriad weapons, vehicles and strategies to master, not to mention an extremely intricate back story.\u000aPenny: [explosion] Oh, cool! Whose head did I just blow off?\u000aSheldon: Mine.\u000aPenny: Okay, I got this. Lock and load, boys!\u000aLeonard: It's the only way we can play teams.\u000aSheldon: Yes, but whoever's her partner will be hamstrung by her lack of experience and not to\u000a[explosion]\u000aSheldon: mention the fact that...\u000aPenny: Ha Ha! There goes your head again.\u000aSheldon: Okay, that's not good sportsmanship to shoot somebody who's just respawned. You need to give them a\u000a[explosion]\u000aSheldon: chance... now, c'mon.\u000a[minutes later]\u000aSheldon: Raj, Raj, she's got me cornered. Cover me.\u000aPenny: Cover this suckers.\u000a[laughs]\u000aLeonard: Penny, you are on fire.\u000aPenny: Yes, so is Sheldon.\u000a[laughs]\u000aSheldon: Okay, that's it. I don't know how, but she is cheating. No-one can be that attractive and this skilled at a video game.\u000a[walks away]\u000aPenny: Wait, wait. Sheldon. Come back, you forgot something.\u000aSheldon: What?\u000aPenny: This plasma grenade.\u000a[explosion]\u000aPenny: [laughs] Look! It's raining you.\u000aSheldon: You laugh now. You just wait until you need tech support.
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aVSheldon: Okay, this cereal has lost all its molecular integrity. I now have a bowl of shredded wheat paste.
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aVChristy: There's my little engine that could.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Chugga-chugga-chugga...\u000aSheldon: Well, there's one beloved children's book I'll never read again.
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aVLeonard: Penny, if you promise not to chew the flesh off our bones while we sleep, you can stay.\u000aPenny: Wh-what?\u000aSheldon: [glaring at Leonard] He's engaging in reductio ad absurdum.\u000aPenny: [speechless]\u000aSheldon: It's the logical fallacy of extending someone's argument to ridiculous proportions and then criticizing the result. And I do not appreciate it.
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aVSheldon: [as Penny makes up the couch to sleep on she puts the pillow on the end of the couch closest to the door] Hmm-hmm, wrong.\u000aPenny: [Turning to face Sheldon with a glare] I'm listening.\u000aSheldon: Your head goes on the other end.\u000aPenny: Why?\u000aSheldon: It's culturally universal. A bed, even a temporary bed, is always oriented with the headboard away from the door. It serves the ancient imperative of protecting oneself against marauders.\u000aPenny: I'll risk it.\u000aSheldon: [high pitched] Hmm.\u000a[and turns away]
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aV[there is a knock at the door]\u000aSheldon: Oh, what fresh hell is this?
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aVSheldon: You laugh now, you just wait until you need tech support.\u000aPenny: Gosh. He's kind of a sore loser, isn't he?\u000aLeonard: Well, to be fair, he's also a rather unpleasant winner.\u000aPenny: Well, it's been fun.\u000aLeonard: Penny, we make such a good team. Maybe we could enter a couple of "Halo" tournaments sometime.\u000aPenny: Or we could just have a life.\u000aLeonard: I guess for you, that's an option. Ha-ha. Ha.
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aVSheldon: Penny, we would very much appreciate it if you would be the fourth member of our Halo team. I don't think I need to tell you what an honor this is.\u000aPenny: Aww, that's so sweet but I'm going out dancing with a girlfriend.\u000aSheldon: You can't go out, it's Halo night.\u000aPenny: Well, for Penny it's dancing night.\u000aSheldon: Do you go dancing every Wednesday?\u000aPenny: No.\u000aSheldon: Then it's not dancing night.
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aVPenny: Can I hide out here for a while?\u000aLeonard: Sure. What's going on?\u000aPenny: Well, there's this girl I know from back in Nebraska, Christy. Anyway, she called me up and she's like "Hey, how's California?", and I'm, like, "Awesome", 'cause, you know, it's not Nebraska. And the next thing I know, she's invited herself out here to stay with me.\u000aSheldon: [wanting to start Halo] 8:08.\u000aPenny: Anyway, she got here today and she's just been in my apartment yakkety yakking about every guy she slept with in Omaha, which is basically every guy in Omaha, and washing the sluttiest collection of underwear you have ever seen in my bathroom sink.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Well, is she doing it one thong at a time or does she throw it all in, like some sort of erotic bouillabaisse?\u000aPenny: [to Leonard] He really needs to dial it down.
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aVLeonard: So, if you don't like this Christy, why are you letting her stay?\u000aPenny: Well, she was engaged to my cousin while she was sleeping with my brother, so she's kind of family.\u000aSheldon: Yeah, I apologize for my earlier outburst. Who needs Halo when we can be regaled with the delightfully folksy tale of the whore of Omaha?\u000aLeonard: Oh, I don't think she's a whore.\u000aPenny: No, yeah, she's definitely a whore. I mean, she has absolutely no standards. This one time she was at... where's Howard?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [off-screen at Penny's apartment] Bonjour, mademoiselle. I understand you're new in town.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Watch this. It's really cool. Call Leonard Hofstadter.\u000aAutomated Cell Phone Voice: Did you say "Call Helen Boxleitner"?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: No. Call Leonard Hofstadter.\u000aAutomated Cell Phone Voice: Did you say "Call Temple Beth Sader"?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: No.\u000aLeonard: Here, here, here. Let me try. Call McFlono McFlooneyloo.\u000aAutomated Cell Phone Voice: Calling Rajesh Koothrappali.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: [his phone rings] Oh. That's very impressive. And a little racist.\u000aSheldon: If we're all through playing "mock the flawed technology", can we get on with Halo night?
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Relationship Diremption (#7.20)"(2014)Penny: OK, I get it. Not all the jibber jabber in the middle, but I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something and get nothing out of it.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You mean your acting career.\u000aPenny: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Your relationship with Leonard.\u000aPenny: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Your failed attempt to go back to college.\u000aPenny: NO! I'm saying you and string theory sound like a relationship and I know what it's like to be in one and realize it's never going to turn out the way you want.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I said Leonard. You said no.\u000aPenny: I'm talking about other guys.\u000aSheldon Cooper: OK. Well. What do you do?\u000aPenny: You have to have the courage to end the relationship. You know, break it off, shake hands, walk away.
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aVSheldon Cooper: It suggests that I set these on fire, but the smell of burning books reminds me of church picnics in East Texas.
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aVSheldon Cooper: But now I realize I was just a simple country boy seduced by a big city theory with variables in all the right places.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I suppose I could see myself in a scientific boy band - of course I'd be the dreamy one and the smart one.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: What did you do?\u000aPenny: I gave him a new look. It's cute, huh?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yeah, it's cute: that's the problem. I don't need other girls to see him walking around like sex on a stick.\u000aSheldon Cooper: She's right. I'm too hot.
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aVPenny: What's wrong with geology?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Let me put this in a way you'll understand Penny. You remember how you explained to me that the Kardashians aren't real celebrities? Well, geology is the Kardashians of science.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I didn't seek out string theory. It just hit me over the head one day.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: How does that happen?\u000aSheldon Cooper: A bully chased me through the school library and he hit me over the head with the biggest book he could find.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [In the morning Sheldon walks in with a GEOLOGY book] How you feeling?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not so good.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Are you going to introduce me to your friend?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's not my friend. Nothing happened.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I don't know. I heard you reading pretty loud last night.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh dear lord. Where's Amy?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: After she put you to bed, she went home.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh. I should call her and apologize. Oh no.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Apparently, I called Stephen Hawking last night.
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aVPenny: Hey, you're up early.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I couldn't sleep.\u000aPenny: I told you those Walking Dead pillow cases were a bad idea.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: What about loop quantum gravity?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [High-pitched voice] Ooh, Duchess, look at me! My quantum gravity is positively loopy!\u000aPenny: Who's the duchess?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: One of the people that lives in his head.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [knock-knock-knock] Empty room.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [knock-knock-knock] Empty room.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [knock-knock-knock] Empty room. If somebody says, "Come in", I'm gonna freak out!
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aVVoicemail: Next message.\u000aSheldon Cooper: It's me again. I gave up string theory. You should give up black holes and we could totally solve crimes together.\u000aVoicemail: Next message.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You know what's great? Geology! Look at this geode! That's fun to say. Gee-ode. Gee-ode.\u000aVoicemail: Next message.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Gee-ode. Gee-ode. I kiss girls now.\u000aVoicemail: Next message.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Hey, guess who I am? Beep-bop-boop-bop! I'm you! Get it?\u000aVoicemail: Next message.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Are you mad at me? Oh, no! You're mad at me! I'm so sorry! Beep-bop-boop-bop!\u000aVoicemail: Next message.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Thiospinel sulfide. Thiospinel sulfide. That's even more fun to say than gee-ode. Hey, did you see the Lego Movie?\u000aStephen Hawking: What a jackass.
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aVBarry Kripke: ...there actuawwy was some big stwing theowy news today out of the Hadwon Cowwider.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Really? Did they find evidence to support extra dimensions or supersymmetry?\u000aBarry Kripke: No, but they did find evidence that you'll bewieve\u000a[laughing]\u000aBarry Kripke: anything.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Why would you do that? You're a string theorist as well.\u000aBarry Kripke: Incowwect; I am a stwing pwagmatist. I say I'm going to pwove something that cannot be pwoved, I appwy for gwant money, and then I spend it on wiquor and bwoads.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [Penny is about to give Sheldon a haircut] Are you sure you want to do this?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The magazine article suggests that one of the ways to get over a breakup is a new look.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What about your old look? Well groomed ventriloquist doll.\u000aPenny: [moving Sheldon's arm as if he's a ventriloquist's dummy] Oh, my God. I do look like that!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, stop it!\u000aPenny: So how do you want me to cut it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, how 'bout Bill Gates meets Nikola Tesla?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: So, business in the front, science in the back!
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Jerusalem Duality (#1.12)"(2008)Sheldon Cooper: While Mr. Kim, by virtue of his youth and naiveté, has fallen prey to the inexplicable need for human contact, let me step in and assure you that my research will go on uninterrupted, and that social relationships will continue to baffle and repulse me.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I sense a disturbance in the Force.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [in a Yoda voice] A bad feeling I have about this, hmm.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Alright, and this is my office.\u000aDennis Kim: Is this part of the tour?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Nope. Goodbye.
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aVDennis Kim: [notices award certificate on wall of Sheldon's office] Wow! You won a Stevenson Award?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes! In fact, I am the youngest person ever to win it.\u000aDennis Kim: Really! How old?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Fourteen and a half.\u000aDennis Kim: Hm - you *were* the youngest person ever to win it.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [grinning gleefully] It's like looking into an obnoxious little mirror, isn't it?
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aVSheldon Cooper: Today I went from being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to... you know, that other guy.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Antonio Salieri?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, God! Now even you're smarter than me.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: You know, Sheldon, you don't have so many friends that you can afford to start insulting them.
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aVPenny: I really don't see what the big deal is.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Well, of course your don't. You've never excelled at anything.\u000aPenny: I don't understand. Exactly how did he get any friends in the first place?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: We liked Leonard.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Sheldon, there's a diploma in my office that says I have a masters in engineering.\u000aSheldon Cooper: And you also have a note from your mother that says "I love you, Bubbeleh". But neither of those is a cogent argument for titanium over nanotubes.
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aVHoward Wolowitz: Sheldon.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Go away!\u000aSheldon Cooper: Did Leonard tell you to say that?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Nah, I thought of it all by myself.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Huh. It can't be a coincidence. There must be some causal link I'm missing.
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aVDr. Eric Gablehauser: Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Dennis Kim. Dennis is a *highly* sought-after doctoral candidate, and we're hoping to have him do his graduate work here.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Graduate work? Very impressive.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: And he's only 15 years old.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Not bad. I, myself, started graduate school at 14.\u000aDennis Kim: Well, I lost a year while my family was tunneling out of North Korea.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [to Sheldon] Advantage: Kim.
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aVSheldon: So! This is engineering, huh?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [on phone] I'll talk to you later.\u000aSheldon: Engineering, where the noble semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, Oompa Loompas of science!
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aV[first lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Here's the problem with teleportation.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Lay it on me.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Assuming a device could be invented, which would identify the quantum state of matter of an individual in one location and transmit that pattern to a distant location for reassembly, you would not have actually transported the individual; you would have destroyed him in one location and recreated him in another.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: How about that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Personally, I would never use a transporter, because the original Sheldon would have to be disintegrated in order to create a new Sheldon.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Would the new Sheldon be in any way an improvement on the old Sheldon?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No, he would be exactly the same.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: That is a problem.
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aVSheldon: I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested
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aVDr. Eric Gablehauser: What are you working on?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Something remarkable. Since my prospects for the Nobel Prize in physics have disappeared, thank you very much, I've decided to refocus my efforts and use my people skills to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Look, I'm going to solve the Middle-East Crisis by building an exact replica of Jerusalem in the middle of the Mexican desert.\u000aDr. Eric Gablehauser: To what end?\u000aSheldon Cooper: You know, it's like the baseball movie, build it and they will come.
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aV[last lines]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Hey, look at that. It's Dennis Kim.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Wow, I almost didn't recognize him.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: You know, I kind of feel bad about what we did to him.\u000a[Kim is locked in a kiss with a blond girl]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: [sarcastically] Yeah, we really ruined his life.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Screw him; he was weak.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Fuzzy Boots Corollary (#1.3)"(2007)Leonard: I didn't like the look of the guy that she was with.\u000aWolowitz: Because he looks better than you?\u000aLeonard: Yeah. He was kind of dreamy.\u000aSheldon: Well, at least now you can retrieve the black box from the twisted smoldering wreckage that was once your fantasy of dating her and analyze the data so that you don't crash into geek mountain again.
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aVLeonard: I'm a perfectly nice guy! There's no reason we couldn't go to the restaurant and have a lovely dinner. Maybe we could go for a walk afterwards, talk about things we have in common: You love pottery? I love pottery! There's a pause-we both know what's happening-I lean in and we kiss; it's a little tentative at first, but then I realize she's kissing me back and she's biting my lower lip, you know? She wants me! This thing is going the distance, we're going to have sex! Oh, God, oh my GOD!\u000a[Leonard descends into a panic attack]\u000aSheldon: Is the sex starting now?
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aVWolowitz: Sheldon, if you were a robot, and I knew and you didn't, would you want me to tell you?\u000aSheldon: That depends. When I learn that I'm a robot, will I be able to handle it?\u000aWolowitz: Maybe, although the history of science fiction is not on your side.\u000aSheldon: Uh, let me ask you this: when I learn that I'm a robot, would I be bound by Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?\u000aKoothrappali: You might be bound by them right now.\u000aWolowitz: That's true. Have you ever harmed a human being, or, through inaction, allowed a human being to come to harm?\u000aSheldon: Of course not.\u000aKoothrappali: Have you ever harmed yourself or allowed yourself to be harmed except in cases where a human being would've been endangered?\u000aSheldon: Well, no.\u000aWolowitz: I smell robot.
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aVLeonard: Hey, what's going on?\u000aSheldon: Internet's been down for half an hour.\u000aKoothrappali: Also, Sheldon may be a robot.
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aVSheldon: I think that you have as much of a chance of having a sexual relationship with Penny as the Hubble Telescope does of discovering that in the center of every black hole there's a little man with a flashlight searching for a circuit breaker.
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aVSheldon: There is no more Sheldon, I am the Sword Master!
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aV[about Leonard dating Penny]\u000aLeonard: Oh you know what maybe this isn't such a good idea.\u000aSheldon: Oh no, no, no well, no. There's always the possibility that alcohol and poor judgment on her part might lead to a nice romantic evening.
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aVSheldon: So? How was your date?\u000aLeonard: Awesome!\u000aSheldon: Score one for liquor and poor judgment.
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aVSheldon: I'm all sweaty. Anybody want to log on to Second Life? I just had a swimming pool built.\u000aWolowitz: No, thank you. I can't stand to look at you or your avatar right now.
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aVSheldon: Do you really think that your relationship needs will be fulfilled by a genetically altered cat?\u000aLeonard: Maybe, if it's a cute, cuddly cat.
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aVLeonard: Can you tell that I'm sweating?\u000aSheldon: No, the crescent-shaped stains under your armpits conceal it quite nicely.
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aV[Leonard is depressed over seeing Penny with another guy and is handling it by listening to emo music and considering buying a cat. He enters with headphones on singing "Boston" by Augustana, badly]\u000aLeonard: 'She said you don't know me, you don't even care, oh yeah... '\u000aSheldon: Oh, good Lord.\u000aLeonard: 'She said you don't know me, you don't wear my chaaaiiins, oh yeah... '\u000a[takes off headphones]\u000aLeonard: That's a good song!\u000aSheldon: If you're compiling a mix CD for a double suicide.
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aVSheldon: Oh, I hope that scratching post is for you!
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aVHoward Wolowitz: [Leonard, Sheldon, Howard & Raj are on their laptops playing an online role playing game] All right, just a few more feet and...\u000a[pause]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Here we are gentlemen, the Gates Of Elzebub.\u000aSheldon: Good lord!\u000aLeonard: Don't panic, this is what the last 97 hours have been about.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Stay frosty. There's a horde of armed goblins on the other side of that gate guarding the Sword Of Azeroth.\u000aLeonard: Warriors, unsheathe your weapons. Magic wielders, raise your wands.\u000aSheldon: Lock and load.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Raj, blow the gates.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Blowing the gates.\u000a[pressing keys]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Control, shift, B.\u000a[sound of the gates blowing]\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Oh my God, so many goblins!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Don't just stand there, slash and move! Slash and move!\u000aLeonard: Stay in formation!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Leonard, you've got one on your tail!\u000aLeonard: That's all right, my tail's prehensile, I'll swat him off!\u000aRaj Koothrappali: I got him Leonard. Tonight, I spice my meat with goblin blood!\u000aLeonard: Raj, no, it's a trap! Thay're flanking us!\u000aRaj Koothrappali: [in a wimpy tone] Oh, he's got me.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Sheldon, he's got Raj, use your sleep spell! Sheldon!\u000a[changes to an annoyed whisper]\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Sheldon!\u000aSheldon: I've got the Sword Of Azeroth!\u000aLeonard: Forget the sword Sheldon, help Raj.\u000aSheldon: There is no more Sheldon! I am the sword master!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Leonard look out!\u000aLeonard: Damn it man, we're dying here!\u000aSheldon: Goodbye peasents.\u000aLeonard: The bastard teleported.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: [looks at Sheldon's screen] He's selling the sword of Azeroth on eBay.\u000aLeonard: You betrayed us for money? Who are you?
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Isolation Permutation (#5.8)"(2011)Sheldon Cooper: Ladies, please. These four walls once housed an intellectual salon where the mind received nourishment as well as the stomach. But through no one's fault... Penny... the quality of dinner conversation in this apartment has declined. And again, I'm looking at no one in particular... Penny.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I can't seem to get in touch with Amy! I tried e-mail, video chat, tweeting her, posting on her Facebook wall, texting her... Nothing!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: D'you try calling her on the telephone?\u000aSheldon Cooper: The telephone...!\u000a[pauses]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Y'know... Leonard, in your own simple way, you may be the wisest of us all.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [outraged] The two of you need to get your women in line!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Last night, I was strong armed into an evening of harp music and spooning with an emotional Amy Farrah Fowler, this on a night that I had originally designated for solving the space time geometry in higher spin gravity and building my Lego Death Star. And why? Your gal pals Penny and Bernadette went out shopping for some wedding nonsense without Amy, an action they took with no thought or regard as to how it would affect me, the future of string theory, or my Lego fun time!\u000aHoward Wolowitz: What do you want us to do about it?\u000aSheldon Cooper: You clearly weren't listening to my topic sentence: Get your women in line! You make them apologize to Amy and set things right! I am a man of science, not someone's snuggle bunny!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Why do I have to talk to Penny? She's not my girlfriend.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You invited her to lunch four years ago. Everything about her is on you, you make it so!
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Hey, Cuddles!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Cuddles?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, Cuddles. We cuddled. Grow up, Leonard.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon! What would it take for you to go into that liquor store, buy a bottle of hooch, take me across the street to that motel and have your way with me?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yeah, Sheldon, what would it take?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I'm begging both of you, please, let's go!
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Wait for moi.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You're leaving?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, sometimes you forget. I'm a lady, and with that comes an estrogen-fueled need to page through thick, glossy magazines that make me hate my body.
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aVSheldon Cooper: New topic: Women. Delightfully mysterious, or batcrap crazy?
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Proposal: one wild night of torrid lovemaking that soothes my soul and inflames my loins.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Counter-proposal: I will gently stroke your head and repeat "Aww, who's a good Amy?"\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: How about this? French kissing. Seven minutes in heaven, culminating in second base.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Neck massage, then you get me that beverage.\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: We cuddle. Final offer.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Very well.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [Phone rings] Did you know that when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he proposed answering it with "Ahoy?"\u000a[Answers phone]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ahoy? I like it.
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aVSheldon Cooper: It would seem Amy is drunk in a liquor store parking lot.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Really? Amy?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Leonard, be glad you can't keep a woman; they are a handful.
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aV[Talking to Amy]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Would you like to talk about it? And keep in mind that no is a perfectly viable answer.
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aVSheldon Cooper: [hearing Amy singing] She sounds weepy. I don't like weepy.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Hey, wait. Amy is your friend. Step up.\u000a[knock knock knock]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Amy.\u000a[knock knock knock]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Amy.\u000a[knock knock knock]\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Amy. See you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [Leonard turns to leave] Wait, where are you going?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I'm single; I don't need this crap.
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Wait, Sheldon, what would it take for you to go into that liquor store, buy a bottle of hooch, and take me across the steet to that motel and have your way with me?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Yeah Sheldon, what would it take?\u000aSheldon: I'm begging both of you, let's go.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Vacation Solution (#5.16)"(2012)Amy Farrah Fowler: I'm excited to work with my boyfriend. It's going to be be romantic.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Way to kill the mood.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Excuse me! You have Dr. Sheldon Cooper in your lab. You're gonna make him do dishes? That's like asking the Incredible Hulk to open a pickle jar!
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aVAmy Farrah Fowler: Are we nervous, Dr. Cooper?\u000aSheldon Cooper: No. What you see is a man trembling with confidence... Does the locus coeruleus normally bleed that much?\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: No. But your thumb does.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh dear!\u000a[faints]\u000aAmy Farrah Fowler: Yeah, *you're* a biologist.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I have plenty of experience in biology. I bought a Tamagotchi in 1998, and... it's still alive.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Here you go! This is now the only lab with glassware washed by a man with two doctorates and a restraining order signed by Carl Sagan.
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aV[first lines]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Gentlemen, I think I've come up with a fun way to get young people interested in science. Physics Mad Libs. Now, give me a number.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Five.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Un-huh. And an irrational constant.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: E.\u000aSheldon Cooper: And a funny Greek letter.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Gamma.\u000aSheldon Cooper: I said funny.\u000aRaj Koothrappali: Upsilon?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Good one! And an electrical charge.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Positive.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Ha. Perfect. Get this.\u000a[reads]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Professor Jones told the symposium he had a new method for calculating the mass of a muon. Five times the limit of\u000a[laughs]\u000aSheldon Cooper: E to the upsilon as in a\u000a[breaks up laughing]\u000aSheldon Cooper: Okay, no no, ahem. I'll start over. Professor Jo-\u000a[breaks up laughing again]
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aVHoward Wolowitz: I haven't seen him laugh that hard since the day Leonard made that multiplication error.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [laughing] Oh, oh lord, that multiplication error! He thought he carried the one, but he didn't!\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: It's not funny. That mistake got published.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Stop! I'm going to wet myself!
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aVPresident Siebert: So then I'll see you all on Monday. Except for you.\u000aSheldon Cooper: But if I don't come in to work, what am I supposed to do with myself?\u000aPresident Siebert: Read, rest, travel. I hear Afghanistan is nice this time of year.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Sarcasm?\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [sarcastically] No, you should go.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Hawaii is a former leper colony on top of an active volcano where the disappointing ending to Lost was filmed. Mahalo for nothing, Hawaii.
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aVSheldon Cooper: If the guard at the University asks what's under the blanket, you tell him it's some lobster traps.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Lobster traps?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes, that's how Velma and Scooby smuggled Shaggy into the old lighthouse.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm on vacation. Social convention dictates that I let my hair down at a local watering hole. Social convention is stupid.
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aVSheldon Cooper: There was something wrong with that detergent. That was way too bubbly.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, everybody takes vacations.\u000aSheldon Cooper: One time, they tried to make Richard Feynman take a vacation, but he chose instead to expand his mind and learn something new. He went to work in his friend's biology lab.\u000aSheldon Cooper: [turns to Howard] Richard Feynman was a famous American physicist, part of the Manhattan project.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: Everyone in the world of science knows who Richard Feynman was.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Now you do too.
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aV"The Big Bang Theory: The Monopolar Expedition (#2.23)"(2009)Sheldon Cooper: Oh, boy.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: What?\u000aSheldon Cooper: I can't comment without violating our agreement that I don't criticize your work.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Then what was "Oh, boy"?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Great restraint on my part.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: [Corrects chart] There. How's that.\u000aSheldon Cooper: You actually had it right the first time. Once again, you have fallen for one of my classic pranks. Bazinga!
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Wait a minute! He offered to send you to the North Pole?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Yes. In fact, he was quite enthusiastic. He said "frankly, if I could send you tonight, I would."
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, what words are there that I can say right now that will end this conversation so I can go back to sleep?\u000aSheldon Cooper: Odd. President Seibert posed the exact same question.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: How was the matter resolved?\u000aSheldon Cooper: It wasn't. Mrs. Seibert sic her dogs on me.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: She didn't seem that upset that I was going.\u000aSheldon Cooper: No. Did you think she was upset?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: No.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Oh, good. I got one right. Are you upset?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: A little.\u000aSheldon Cooper: Two for two. I'm on fire.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: I know she's not my girlfriend or anything, but don't you think she'd feel a little bad that I'd be gone for the whole summer?\u000aSheldon Cooper: That feels like a bonus question. I'm going to stop right here and say I've had a great time.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Did Han Solo give up when Luke was lying in the frozen planet of Hoth? No! He slit open a tauntaun and used its internal body heat to keep warm.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: You heard the man. Hold him down while I cut him open.
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aVSheldon Cooper: You're in my spot.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: [to Rajesh] There's not time for a crossbow. Get me an icicle.
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aVSheldon Cooper: I'm at the horns of a dilemma. Can you imagine me, Sheldon Cooper, at the North Pole?\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: Easy peasy. I'm doing it right now.
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aVSheldon Cooper: Howard, you will be practicing precision on the classic children's game Operation. You shall start by... removing the funny bone for $200.\u000aHoward Wolowitz: And to think I went to MIT for this.
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aVLeonard Hofstadter: Sheldon, can I talk to you for a minute?\u000aSheldon Cooper: [waking up] I want another cookie, Meemaw.\u000aLeonard Hofstadter: It's just me\u000aSheldon Cooper: But Meemaw was just making cookies.