The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Terminator Decoupling (2009)

Jim Parsons: Sheldon Cooper

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• Penny : Have a good flight.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Yean, I wish.

  Sheldon Cooper : We're not flying; we're taking the train.

  Penny : Oh, cool.

  Howard Wolowitz : Yeah, cool. Seven times as long as flying and costs almost twice as much.

  Penny : Well then, why are you doing it?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well, we had a vote. Three of us voted for airplane; Sheldon voted for train; so, we're taking the train.

• Penny : Okay, I found the box. Now what?

  Sheldon Cooper : You're holding a Japanese puzzle box, which takes ten precise moves to open. Okay, first locate the panel with the diamond pattern and slide the center portion one millimeter to the left. Then, on the opposite end of the box, slide the entire panel down two millimeters. You'll hear a slight click.

  Penny : Hang on. Sheldon, do you have any emotional attachment to this box?

  Sheldon Cooper : No, it's a novelty I ordered off the Internet. Did you hear the click?

  Penny : Not yet.

  [she sets the box on the floor and stomps on it] 

  Penny : There it is.

• Sheldon Cooper : I'm confused. I thought you were involved in some sort of socially intimate pairing with Leslie Winkle.

  Howard Wolowitz : Sheldon, let me explain to you how this works.

  Sheldon Cooper : All right.

  Howard Wolowitz : That's Summer Glau.

  Sheldon Cooper : Yes.

  Howard Wolowitz : That's it.

• Penny : I love San Francisco; I wish I was going with you.

  Sheldon Cooper : I understand your envy; this is a can't-miss symposium. There are going to be discussions on bio-organic cellular computer devices, advancements in multi-threaded task completion, plus a round-table on the non-equilibrium green function approach to the photo-ionization process in atoms.

  Penny : When I go, I usually just get hammered and ride the cable-cars.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Well, it seems once again you're caught between a rock and a crazy place.

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh, I hate when that happens!

• Sheldon Cooper : Of course, if SkyNet actually did exist in the future, a perfect way to infiltrate and destroy mankind would be to send Terminators back posing as actors who have played Terminators in popular films and television series, lulling us into a false sense of security, i.e., that's Summer Glau from The Sarah Connor Chronicles. No, Summer, don't kill me! I'm pro-robot! Ahh!

  Leonard Hofstadter : At least he's off the train crap.

  Sheldon Cooper : Whee!

  Howard Wolowitz : Sheldon, I owe you an apology. Taking the train was a stroke of brilliance! I've actually got a shot at a Terminator.

  Rajesh Koothrappali : Oh, please.When it comes to Terminators, you've got a better shot of scoring with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  Howard Wolowitz : You're overlooking something. I have 11 hours with her in a confined space. Unless she's willing to jump off a moving train, tuck and roll down the side of a hill, she will eventually succumb to the acquired taste that is Howard Wolowitz.

  Leonard Hofstadter : My money's on tuck and roll.

• Leonard Hofstadter : This conference is kind of a big thing. The keynote address is being delivered by George Smoot.

  Penny : Oh, my God! *The* George Smoot?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Ah, you've heard of him?

  Penny : Of course I haven't.

  Sheldon Cooper : George Smoot is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, one of the great minds of our time. His work in black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation cemented our understanding of the origin of the universe.

  Penny : It's kind of a funny name, though. "Smoot".

  Sheldon Cooper : [to the others]  It's like talking to chimp.

• Sheldon Cooper : Okay, now you're going to insert the flash drive into the USB port... She calls me Moonpie because I'm nummy-nummy and she could just eat me up... Now please, put the flash drive in the USB port... The one that looks like a little duck's mouth.

• Penny : Okay, I got a box, but there's no key in here, just letters.

  Sheldon Cooper : That's the wrong box. Put it back.

  Penny : Oh, Sheldon, are these letters from your grandmother?

  Sheldon Cooper : Don't read those letters!

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh look, she calls you Moonpie. That is so cute.

• [last lines] 

  Sheldon Cooper : So I'm thinking, you won the Nobel Prize, what, three years ago? So you must deal with a whole lot of "what has Smoot done lately?" My thought is we continue my research as a team; you know: Cooper-Smoot - alphabetical - and when we win the Nobel Prize, you'll be back on top.

  Dr. George Smoot : With all due respect, Doctor Cooper, are you on crack?

  [he walks away] 

  Sheldon Cooper : Fine, Smoot-Cooper. Wow, what a diva.

• Sheldon Cooper : I forgot my flash drive!

  Leonard Hofstadter : So?

  Sheldon Cooper : So we have to go back!

  Leonard Hofstadter : Ok, Sheldon, I'm gonna say "why?" and your answer cannot be "because I forgot my flash drive".

• Sheldon Cooper : It's Sheldon.

  Penny : Oh, hey, Sheldon! How is San Francisco?

  Sheldon Cooper : I'm not in San Francisco. I'm on a train. Were you even listening to me?

  Penny : Uh, no, I was talking to my friend, but what's up?

  Sheldon Cooper : What's up? I'll tell you what's up. I'm in a crisis situation, and I need you to marshal your powers of concentration, limited as they may be...

  Leonard Hofstadter : Give me the phone. Hi, Penny. It's Leonard.

  Penny : Hey, Leonard. What's going on with Dr. Wackadoodle?

  Leonard Hofstadter : He's calling to ask you a favor. You might be confused because he didn't use the words, Penny, Sheldon, please or favor.

• Sheldon Cooper : [after forgetting his flash drive]  Oh, this is an unmitigated disaster!

  Leonard Hofstadter : There's nothing you can do about it, so relax. Sit back, enjoy the clickety-clack of the steel wheels on the polished rails!

  Sheldon Cooper : [in rhythm with the wheels]  You-forgot-your-flash-drive, you-forgot-your-flash-drive, you-forgot-your-flash-drive, you-forgot-your-flash-drive, you-forgot-your-flash-drive...

  Leonard Hofstadter : [looking at his watch]  Only 10 hours, 55 minutes to go.

• [first lines] 

  Howard Wolowitz : Okay, Raj, hand me the number six Torx screwdriver.

  Sheldon Cooper : Stop! We can't do this; it's not right.

  Rajesh Koothrappali : Sheldon, you have two choices; either you let him put a bigger hard drive in the TiVo, or you delete stuff before we go out of town.

  Sheldon Cooper : But once you open the box, you've voided the warranty. The warranty is a sacred covenant we've entered into with the manufacturer; he offers to stand by his equipment, and we in return agree not to violate the integrity of the internal hardware. This little orange sticker is all that stands between us and anarchy.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Okay, then we won't touch the hard drive; we'll just erase the first season of 'Battlestar'.

  Sheldon Cooper : [Tears off orange seal]  There, we're outlaws.

• Sheldon Cooper : I'm back.

  Penny : What up, Moonpie?

  Sheldon Cooper : No one calls me Moonpie but Meemaw.