The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Solo Oscillation (2018)

Jim Parsons: Sheldon Cooper

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Quotes 

• Penny Hofstadter : [knock knock knock]  Sheldon?

  Penny Hofstadter : [knock knock knock]  Sheldon?

  Penny Hofstadter : [knock knock knock]  Sheldon?

  Sheldon Cooper : [opens door]  It's annoying when you do it.

• Raj Koothrappali : Hey! Look what I got everybody.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Newspapers? Did you find a portal back to the 1990s?

  Penny Hofstadter : No. If he had that, he'd be trying to prevent *NSYNC from breaking up.

  Raj Koothrappali : Oh, please, I'm glad they broke up. Otherwise, Justin would never have brought sexy back.

  Sheldon Cooper : One thing you can't get on an iPad, the smell of ink and paper. One more reason iPads are better.

• Sheldon Cooper : The answer is one in 18 million.

  Mary Cooper : What is?

  Sheldon Cooper : The odds of you running into Mr. Watkins.

  Mary Cooper : Oh, Shelly, I have bad news. Mr. Watkins passed this morning.

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh. Oh, I'm... I'm sorry.

  Mary Cooper : I know. What are the odds of that?

  Sheldon Cooper : [getting an idea]  Call you back.

• Penny Hofstadter : I brought pizza.

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh, thank you. I have been working pretty hard. I... I could use a break.

  Penny Hofstadter : What's that?

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh, yeah, that is an experiment to see how many parallelograms I could draw while holding my breath.

  Penny Hofstadter : [seeing a parallelogram with a squiggly edge]  Is that where you blacked out?

  Sheldon Cooper : [pointing to a spot behind the couch]  No, actually, that's where I blacked out.

  Penny Hofstadter : And this?

  Sheldon Cooper : That is a list of all the different types of natural disasters.

  Penny Hofstadter : Firequake?

  Sheldon Cooper : I made that one up. Which I shouldn't have, because now I'm scared of it.

• Raj Koothrappali : They reviewed my planetarium show. Yeah. It's on page three of the Arts and Leisure section.

  Sheldon Cooper : [everybody opens their newspapers]  Oh, look, they still have "Far Side". Oh, I don't get that one.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Oh, he's pushing when he should be pulling.

  Sheldon Cooper : Hmm. I don't think he belongs in that gifted school, then.

• Sheldon Cooper : Hello, mother.

  Mary Cooper : Hi there, Shelly. You will never believe who I ran into at the barbecue festival.

  Sheldon Cooper : I am right in the middle of some very important work. I don't have time for this right now.

  Mary Cooper : Then why did you answer the phone?

  Sheldon Cooper : Because you raised me to be polite. Now stop bothering me!

• Mary Cooper : Hello again.

  Sheldon Cooper : Who did you see at the barbecue festival?

  Mary Cooper : Mr. Watkins.

  Sheldon Cooper : Really? You called me and interrupted my work to tell me that you ran into somebody you could plausibly run into? I'm sorry, mother, I really need to focus here. I will speak to you next week.

  Mary Cooper : Okay, sweetheart. I'll talk to you then.

  [he hangs up; after a moment of looking at his white board, he dials his phone] 

  Sheldon Cooper : I thought Mr. Watkins moved to Florida.

  Mary Cooper : He did. He was back visiting his son.

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh, gosh darn it, that is interesting. Was it Tommy or Joe? I bet it was Joe, 'cause he and Tommy had a falling out over that timeshare.

• Amy Farrah Fowler : Okay, how do you want to play this? Do you want to pretend like nothing's bothering you and blow up later, or do you just want to be a maniac right now?

  Sheldon Cooper : Nothing is bothering me.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Fine. Be that way. If you want to talk, I'll be flushing my sinuses.

• Sheldon Cooper : I have a confession. When I berated Leonard, it was a clever ruse to conceal the fact that I'm not working on anything.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say

  [sarcastic] 

  Amy Farrah Fowler : No!

  Sheldon Cooper : The truth is I have nothing of interest to pursue.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Well, maybe this is the perfect opportunity to take some time for yourself and re-focus. I'm sure you'll find something you're excited about.

  Sheldon Cooper : Thank you, Amy. I don't know what I'd do without you.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : [cut to her entering the other apartment]  Hey, can I stay here? Sheldon kicked me out.

  Penny Hofstadter : Well, is everything okay?

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Yeah. He just wants some alone time to work.

• Penny Hofstadter : Hey, I thought you were working on actual science.

  Sheldon Cooper : I am. I'm trying to come up with a new approach to dark matter, but people keep distracting me. First, my mother kept answering the phone when I called, even though she knew I was busy. And now you show up with my favorite shape of food: a circle made of triangles served in a square box.

• Sheldon Cooper : And then I was thinking about inventing a new dark matter particle to evade the omega baryon contraints, but that just seems like something anyone could come up with.

  Penny Hofstadter : [not listening]  Mm. Agreed. You know what's blowing my mind? Somebody thought about putting cheese in this crust.

  Sheldon Cooper : I just wish I could find something that excites me.

  Penny Hofstadter : You... you do understand that crust doesn't normally come with cheese in it?

• Penny Hofstadter : What got you excited about dark matter in the first place?

  Sheldon Cooper : Well, I left string theory, which I'd been working on for a long time, and everyone was talking about how cool dark matter was, and I thought "Well, sure, I'll give that a whirl."

  Penny Hofstadter : So it's your rebound science?

  Sheldon Cooper : What's that?

  Penny Hofstadter : Well, not the science you spend the rest of your life with, but the one you use to make yourself feel pretty again.

• Sheldon Cooper : If I'm being honest, I never forgot about string theory. I mean, it's remarkable. It's the closest we've come to a theory of everything, something even Einstein couldn't figure out.

  Penny Hofstadter : Well, if he couldn't figure it out, maybe it's just wrong.

  Sheldon Cooper : But it's so elegant. I mean, look.

  [getting up and drawing on his white board] 

  Sheldon Cooper : String theory posits that the fundamental particles we see in three dimensions are actually strings embedded in multidimensional space-time.

  Penny Hofstadter : Interesting. So that would mean... that...

  [pause] 

  Penny Hofstadter : Can't do this by myself, buddy.

• Penny Hofstadter : So it's sort of like a guitar string, but instead of making an actual sound, each vibration is a different particle.

  Sheldon Cooper : Precisely. And when you express it in eleven dimensions, Einstein's relativity equations pop out. Does that sound like a coincidence?

  Penny Hofstadter : It does not.

  Sheldon Cooper : Yup. That's what I think.

  Penny Hofstadter : So... so, did we do it? Did we just solve string theory?

  Sheldon Cooper : [with a chortle]  Oh. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but this is not the sort of thing we can figure out in a night. People have been stuck on this for decades.

  Penny Hofstadter : What, decades? Really? It's... it's a string. How hard can it be? It-it... it's straight, it's in a loop, it gets knotted up with other strings. Uh...

  Sheldon Cooper : Well, actually, there are no knots in anything greater than four dimensions. Ooh, unless we get around that by considering them as sheets. You know, topologically speaking, that has a lot of interesting possibilities.

  Penny Hofstadter : See? How long did that take me, like a minute?