Kunal Nayyar credited as playing...
Raj Koothrappali
- Sheldon Cooper: Good news gentlemen! Amy's at a conference this weekend, which means I'm available to be entertained. As today's youth might put it, who wants to get their Sheld-on?
- Howard Wolowitz: Bernie and I are getting the house ready for the remodel. We could always use an extra pair of hands.
- Sheldon Cooper: Yeah, that sounds awful. Raj?
- Raj Koothrappali: I've got time booked in the telescope room all weekend, scanning for rogue planets. You're more than welcome to join me.
- Sheldon Cooper: That's the one to beat! Leonard?
- Leonard Hofstadter: Oh, if anything, I'm trying to get my Sheld-off.
- Sheldon Cooper: Well then, it looks like we have a winner. Congratulations.
- Raj Koothrappali: Well, I should warn you, it's just looking at data for hours and hours on a computer screen.
- Sheldon Cooper: Stop selling it kid, you won.
- Raj Koothrappali: How did you find that?
- Sheldon Cooper: It wasn't difficult. You know how when you see prime numbers they appear red but when they're twin primes they're pink and smell like gasoline?
- Raj Koothrappali: No.
- Sheldon Cooper: Huh, I guess I'm a special boy. You know, sometimes when a boy is special he gets a Fudgsicle. Which, by the way, tastes like the speed of light.
- Raj Koothrappali: So I was thinking, maybe we can come up with a name for the asteroid by combining our names.
- Sheldon Cooper: That's a great idea. I've got it! We'll call it Cooper.
- Raj Koothrappali: How is that both our names?
- Sheldon Cooper: "Koo" from Koothrappali and "per" from Cooper.
- Raj Koothrappali: Yeah, so it's, like, Kooper with a "K"?
- Sheldon Cooper: Nah, you're right, that's dumb.
- Sheldon Cooper: What are you doing?
- Raj Koothrappali: Uh, making sure the telescope's camera is white field balanced.
- Sheldon Cooper: Oh.
- [pasue]
- Sheldon Cooper: What are you doing now?
- Raj Koothrappali: Still making sure the telescope's camera is white field balanced.
- Sheldon Cooper: Ah, I see.
- [pause]
- Sheldon Cooper: How about now?
- Raj Koothrappali: Now I'm making sure the telescope's camera is white field balanced and wishing you had a coloring book.
- Raj Koothrappali: There's about six months of data on this hard drive. Why don't you go through it and see if you can spot any patterns or anomalies?
- Sheldon Cooper: I'm on it. Hey, look at that: an Indian guy outsourcing a computer job to a white fellow.
- Raj Koothrappali: A medium-sized asteroid.
- Sheldon Cooper: That's it? How common. That's the chicken fingers on the menu of space.
- Raj Koothrappali: I kind of like chicken fingers.
- Sheldon Cooper: Yeah, me too. I was just stuck for a metaphor.
- Leonard Hofstadter: [on how to name a discovered asteroid] You know what'd be nice? Name it after your girlfriends. Show them how much you care.
- Raj Koothrappali: That is a great idea!
- Sheldon Cooper: It's perfect. It appears romantic, but it's really just a rock in space that gets me out of Valentine's Day forever.
- Leonard Hofstadter: Dr. Gallo made me realize that I'm a worthwhile person and that my feelings matter.
- Raj Koothrappali: I learned that for free from a cat poster, but good for you.