S01E06 - The Middle-earth Paradigm

No: 6 | Season: 1 Episode: 6 | Air Date: 2007-10-29 | Runtime: mins

Oh, he's the Doppler Effect.

Sheldon: Sure, if you consider being fragged by your own troops fun. (To Howard) You clear space on your calendar, there will be an inquiry.

See, this is why I wanted to have a costume meeting.

Sorry I'm late, but my hammer got stuck in the door on the bus.

Sheldon is neither sound nor light, but he's obviously the Doppler Effect.

I saw Peter Pan, and you're dressed exactly like Cathy Rigby. She was a little bigger than you, but it's basically the same look, man.

This party is the perfect opportunity for Penny to see me as a member of her peer group. A potential close friend and... perhaps more. I don't want to look like a dork.

Just a heads up fellas, if anyone gets lucky I've got a dozen condoms in my quiver.

When you start a party at seven, no-one shows up at, you know, seven.

So what time does the costume parade start?

Howard: If that's a working stethoscope, maybe you'd like to hear my heart skip a beat.

It seems that the newcomer approaches the existing group with the greeting "How wasted am I?" which is met with an approving chorus of "Dude."

Girl: How wasted am I? Raj: (Shrugs)

I'm not a dwarf, I'm a Hobbit. A Hobbit. Are misfiring neurons in your hippocampus preventing the conversion from short-term to long-term memory?

I have to say, you are an amazing man. You're gentle and passionate, and my God, you are such a good listener!

Summary

The guys are invited to Penny's Halloween party, where Leonard has yet another run-in with Penny's ex-boyfriend Kurt.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Dave Goetsch / Teleplay by: David Litt & Robert Cohen

Script

Script: S01E06 - The Middle-earth Paradigm

Quotes

Cheryl: (in bed with Raj)
(sighs)
Cheryl: I have to say... you are an amazing man. You're gentle... and passionate... and, my God! you are such a good listener.

Sheldon: Like Jane Goodall observing the apes, I initially saw their interactions as confusing and unstructured, but patterns emerge, they have their own... language if you will.
Leonard: Go on.
Sheldon: Well, it seems that the newcomer approaches the existing group With the greeting: "How wasted am I?" which is met with an approving chorus of: "Dude!"
Leonard: Then what happens?
Sheldon: That's as far as I've gotten.

Sheldon: Aren't you afraid I'll embarrass you?
Leonard: Yes, but I need a wingman.
Sheldon: Alright, but if we're going to use flight metaphors, I'm much more suited to being the guy from the FAA analyzing wreckage.

Raj: (dressed as Thor, Norse God of Thunder) Hey. Sorry I'm late but my hammer got stuck in the door on the bus.
Leonard: You went with Thor?
Raj: What? Just because I'm Indian I can't be a Norse God? No, no, no Raj has to be an Indian God. That's racism. I mean, look at Wolowitz. He's not English but he's dressed like Peter Pan. Sheldon is neither sound nor light but he's obviously the Doppler effect.
Howard: I'm not Peter Pan. I'm Robin Hood.
Raj: Really? Because I saw Peter Pan and you're dressed exactly like Cathy Rigby. She was a little bigger than you but it's basically the same look, man.

Leonard: (knock on the door) I'll get it!
(Leonard, dressed as the Flash, answers the door)
Howard: PSHYOOO!
(Howard zooms through the door. He's also the Flash. He and Leonard are shocked)
Leonard: Oh, no!
Sheldon: Oh, no!
(Sheldon approaches. He's also the Flash)
Raj: Make way for the fastest man alive!
(Raj comes through the door. He's the Flash as well)
Raj: Oh, no!
Sheldon: See, this is why I wanted to have a costume meeting.

Penny: Well, I ran into him last week and, he was just, all apologetic, about how he's changed, and he was just going on and on and, and I believed him, and I'm an idiot because I always believe guys like that and... I can't go back to my party because he's there, and I know you don't want to hear this but I'm upset and I'm really drunk and I just want to talk...
(Bursts into tears and rests head on Leonard's shoulder)
Leonard: There, there.
Penny: God, what is wrong with me?
Leonard: Nothing; you're perfect.
Penny: I'm not perfect.
Leonard: Yes, you are.
Penny: You really think so, don't you?
(She kisses him)
Leonard: Penny?
Penny: Yeah?
Leonard: How much have you had to drink tonight?
Penny: Just... a lot.
Leonard: Are you sure that your being drunk, and your being angry with Kurt doesn't have something to do with what's going on here?
Penny: It might. Boy, you're really smart.
Leonard: Yeah, I'm a frickin' genius.
Penny: Leonard, you are so great. Why can't all guys be like you?
Leonard: Because if all guys were like me, the human race couldn't survive.

Sheldon: I'm confused. If there's no costume parade, what are we doing here?
Leonard: We're socializing. Meeting new people...
Sheldon: Telepathically?

Leonard: (after getting kissed by Penny in his Hobbit costume) That's right, you saw what you saw. That's how we roll in the Shire!

Leonard: Are misfiring neurons in your hippocampus preventing the conversion from short term to long-term memory?

Leonard: I'm going to assert my dominance face-to-face.
Sheldon: Face-to-face? Are you gonna wait for him to sit down, or are you gonna stand on the coffee table?

Leonard: Why don't you just tell people you're a zebra?
Sheldon: Why don't you just tell people you're one of the seven dwarves?
Leonard: Because I'm Frodo!
Sheldon: Yes... Well... I'm the Doppler effect!

Howard: If that's a working stethoscope, maybe you'd like to hear my heart skip a beat?
Roberta: No thanks.
Howard: No, seriously, you can. I have transient idiopathic arrhythmia,

Leonard: Of course we're all animals, but some of us have climbed a little higher on the evolutionary tree.
Sheldon: If he understands that, you're in trouble.
Kurt: So, what? I'm unevolved?
Sheldon: You're in trouble.

Raj: OK, if no-one else will say it, I will. We really suck at paint-ball.
Howard: That was absolutely humiliating.
Leonard: Oh, come on, some battles you win, some battles you lose.
Howard: Yes, but you don't have to lose to Kyle Bernstein's Bar-Mitzvah party.
Leonard: I think we have to acknowledge those were some fairly savage preadolescent Jews.
Sheldon: No, we were annihilated by our own incompetent and the inability of some people to follow the chain of command.
Leonard: Sheldon, let it go!
Sheldon: No, I want to talk about the fact that Wolowitz shot me in the back.
Howard: I shot you for good reason. You were leading us into disaster.
Sheldon: I was giving clear, concise orders.
Leonard: You hid behind a tree yelling: "Get the kid in the yarmulke; get the kid in the yarmulke!"

Leonard: A Homo habilis man discovering his opposable thumb says what?
Kurt: (confused) What?

Raj: If only I had his confidence. I have such difficulty speaking to women. Or around women. Or at times even effeminate men.

Sheldon: Maybe she wants to be friends and he wants something more.
Leonard: Then he and I are on equal ground.
Sheldon: Yes, but you're much closer to it than he is.

Howard: Hey guys, check out the sexy nurse. I believe it's time for me to turn my head and cough.

Notes and Trivia

It is revealed that Leonard (Johnny Galecki)'s middle name is Leakey. Leonard's father once worked with anthropologist Louis Leakey.

Rachel Cannon and Brian Patrick Wade were also on Two and a Half Men (2003), just like Jodi Lyn O'Keefe(The Vegas Renormalization (2009)), Valerie Azlynn(The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition (2009)), and Brooke D'Orsay (The Dumpling Paradox (2007)). Even Charlie Sheen had a guest spot in The Griffin Equivalency (2008)). Both shows were created by Chuck Lorre.

Goofs

None

Cast

Johnny Galecki	Leonard Hofstadter
Jim Parsons	Sheldon Cooper
Kaley Cuoco	Penny
Simon Helberg	Howard Wolowitz
Kunal Nayyar	Raj Koothrappali
Brian Patrick Wade	Kurt
Rachel Cannon	Patty
Erin Allin O'Reilly	Cheryl
Kimberly Jeppson	Vicki
Cynthia Holloway	Roberta