S01E02 - The Big Bran Hypothesis
No: 2 |
Season: 1
Episode: 2 |
Air Date: 2007-10-01 |
Runtime: mins
Summary
Penny is furious with Leonard and Sheldon when they sneak into her apartment and clean it while she is sleeping.
Director and Writers
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady / Teleplay by: Robert Cohen & Dave Goetsch
Script
Script: S01E02 - The Big Bran Hypothesis
Quotes
Leonard: Sheldon, this is not your home.
Sheldon: Look, this is not anyone's home, this is a swirling vortex of entropy!
Penny: Was it hard to get it up the stairs?
Sheldon: Pfffff...
Leonard: No.
Sheldon: No?
Sheldon: No.
Leonard: No.
Wolowitz: What's his problem?
Sheldon: His imaginary girlfriend broke up with him.
Howard: (after playing DDR) Grab a napkin, homie. You just got served.
Leonard: Do you wanna join us for Thai food and a Superman movie marathon?
Penny: Wow, a marathon, how many Superman movies are there?
Sheldon: You're kidding, right?
Penny: 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?
Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz: *One.*
(Raj holds up one finger)
Sheldon: You know that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy?
Penny: Yes, I know men can't fly...
Sheldon: 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.
Leonard: Unless Superman matches her speed and decelerates.
Sheldon: 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.
Leonard: Well, excuse me! Your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that Superman's flight is a feat of strength.
Sheldon: 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!
Wolowitz: And you don't have a problem with that? How does he fly at night?
Sheldon: Uh, a combination of the Moon's solar reflection, and the energy storage capacity of Kryptonian skin cells.
Penny: I'm just gonna go wash up.
Leonard: I have 26 hundred comic books in there; I challenge you to find a single reference to "Kryptonian skin cells."
Sheldon: Challenge accepted!
(walks to door)
Sheldon: We're locked out...
Koothrappali: Also, the pretty girl left.
Leonard: I guess we will just bring it up ourselves.
Sheldon: I hardly think so.
Leonard: Why not?
Sheldon: We don't have a dolly or lifting belts or any measurable upper body strength.
Sheldon: 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.
Penny: (Penny screams from her apartment) SON OF A BITCH!
Leonard: Penny's up.
Penny: YOU SICK, GEEKY BASTARDS!
Leonard: Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort organize and label the entire world around them?
Sheldon: No.
Leonard: 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.
Sheldon: I'm sorry, but I think we've both found that helpful at times.
Penny: You came into my apartment last night while I was sleeping?
Leonard: Yes, but only to clean.
Sheldon: Really more to organize. You're not actually dirty, per se.
Penny: Give me back my key.
(Leonard hands said key back)
Leonard: I'm very, very sorry.
Penny: Do you understand how creepy this is?
Leonard: Uh, yes. We discussed it at length last night.
Penny: In my apartment? While I was *sleeping*?
Sheldon: 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.
Penny: And what kind of doctor removes shoes from asses?
Sheldon: Depending on the depth, that's either a proctologist or a general surgeon.
(behind Penny, Leonard holds up a piece of paper with "sarcasm" scribbled on it)
Sheldon: Oh.
Leonard: Men do things for women without expecting sex.
Sheldon: Those would be men who just had sex.
Koothrappali: Hello. Sorry I'm late, but I was in the hallway chatting up Penny.
Wolowitz: Really? You, Rajesh Koothrappali, spoke to Penny?
Koothrappali: Actually, I was less the chatter than the chattee.
Wolowitz: Oh, boy, I was afraid of this.
Leonard: What?
Wolowitz: These instructions are a pictographic representation of the least imaginative way to assemble these components. This right here is why Sweden has no space program.
Sheldon: Oh, gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.
Sheldon: Great Caesar's ghost! Look at this place.
Leonard: So Penny's a little messy.
Sheldon: A little messy! The Mandelbrot set of complex numbers is a little mess- this is chaos!
Leonard: You convinced me. Maybe tonight we should sneak in and shampoo her carpet.
Sheldon: You don't think that crosses the line?
Leonard: Yes... For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?
Sheldon: You have a sarcasm sign?
Sheldon: (in a deep voice) If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
Penny: OK, this place does look pretty good.
Leonard: Any ideas?
Sheldon: Yes, but they all require a green lantern and a power ring.
Leonard: Do you realize that if Penny wakes up there is no reasonable explanation as to why we're here.
Sheldon: I just gave you a reasonable explanation.
Leonard: No, you gave me an explanation; its reasonableness will be determined by a jury of your peers.
Sheldon: Don't be ridiculous... I have no peers.
Penny: Hey Raj.
(no response)
Penny: Still not talking to me?
Sheldon: Don't take it personally. It's his pathology. He can't talk to women.
Howard: He can't talk to attractive women, or in your case, a cheesecake-scented goddess.
Notes and Trivia
Both apartments appear to have doorbells no one uses and aren't there later.
In a nod to the classic short, the Music Box, which starred Laurel & Hardy, and to the legendary Sisyphus, Sheldon and Leonard struggle in this episode to get an entertainment center in a large crate up the stairs to Penny's apartment.
Leonard mentions his collection as having 2,600+ comic books.
Penny has a copy of the 2006 best-selling self-help book "The Secret." The basic premise of this book is the magical notion that whatever you choose to visualize will become reality. Belief in such new-age subjectivism is the opposite of the objective scientific approach which Leonard and Sheldon espouse.
Penny's apartment layout changes throughout the show; here it is shown that she has a balcony, while later in the show the balcony is gone and the bedroom is where the balcony used to be.
Sheldon mentions the Mandelbrot Set of complex numbers. He's referring to a set of points in the complex plane that is self-replicating according to a predetermined rule such that the boundary of the set has fractal dimensions, which is most often used in the study of fractal geometry. This is part of chaos theory. Sheldon mentions this in reference to the chaos in Penny's messy apartment.
The guys mention that they are having a Superman movie marathon. Later in the episode, upon seeing how messy Penny's apartment is, Sheldon exclaims "Great Caesar's Ghost!" which was Perry White's catchphrase on Adventures of Superman (1952).
The title refers to the cereals that Sheldon stores on top of the refrigerator, sorted by fiber content, specifically the highest fiber cereal, "Big Bran."
This is the only time where a different camera angle for the staircase is seen, when they are trying to push up Penny's furniture.
Goofs
None
Cast
| Johnny Galecki | Leonard Hofstadter |
| Jim Parsons | Sheldon Cooper |
| Kaley Cuoco | Penny |
| Simon Helberg | Howard Wolowitz |
| Kunal Nayyar | Raj Koothrappali |
