S01E10 - The Loobenfeld Decay

No: 10  |  Season: 1   Episode: 10  |  Air Date: 2008-03-24  |  Runtime: mins

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Summary

Leonard lies to Penny so he and Sheldon can get out of watching her perform, but Sheldon believes that the lie has too many loose ends, so he comes up with a new, unnecessarily complex one to replace it.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre / Teleplay by: Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn

Script

Script: S01E10 - The Loobenfeld Decay

Quotes

Sheldon: (Leonard lied to Penny) So, lack of a physiological reaction while lying is characteristic of a violent sociopath.
Leonard: Sheldon, are you worried about your safety?
Sheldon: No. I imagine if you were going to kill me, you'd have done it a long time ago.

Toby: How about this as my motivation? When I was fourteen years old, I was abused in the Philippines by a clubfooted Navy chaplain.
Sheldon: No. We're going with middle child and a genetic predisposition to inadequate serotonin production.
Toby: Well, how do I play genetic predisposition?
Sheldon: Subtextually, of course!

(as Penny sings)
Leonard: What the hell is that?
Sheldon: I don't know, but if cats could sing... they'd hate it too.

Sheldon: Remember how Leonard told you we couldn't come to your performance because we were attending a symposium on molecular positronium?
Penny: I remember symposium.
Sheldon: Yes, well, he lied.
Penny: Wait, what?
Sheldon: He lied, and I'm feeling very uncomfortable about it.
Penny: Well, imagine how I'm feeling.
Sheldon: Hungry? Tired? I'm sorry this really isn't my strong suit.

Leonard: Why don't you tell me about your showcase last night?
Penny: Oh, it was okay, I guess; wasn't a big turnout, but they both really seemed to like it.
Leonard: There were only two people there?
Penny: By the end... yeah.

Sheldon: (discussing why Leonard lied to Penny to get out of hearing her sing) Then I suppose you could have agreed to go.
Leonard: And, what would I have said afterwards?
Sheldon: I would suggest something to the effect of: "Singing is neither an appropriate vocation, nor avocation for you, and if you disagree, I'd recommend you have a CAT scan to look a tumor pressing on the cognitive processing centers of your brain!"

Leonard: (as Sheldon knocks outside his door) It'd be so much easier if I were a violent sociopath.

Toby: (on couch with Penny) This is amazing. Just sitting on a couch watching TV with a woman. Not being drunk or, or high, or, or wondering if you're a dude down there.
Penny: Leo, you are a very sweet, really funny guy. You're going to do OK.
Toby: One day at a time, Penny.
(puts his head on her shoulder)
Toby: One day at a time.
Leonard: (in kitchen, to Sheldon) How long is he going to stay here?
Sheldon: He's a homeless drug addict, Leonard; where is he going to go? Boy, you have a lot to learn about lying.

Penny: Do you have any idea what time it is?
Sheldon: Of course I do. My watch is linked to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. It's accurate to one-tenth of a second. But as I'm saying this, it occurs to me that once again your question may have been rhetorical.

Leonard: No, see, the liquid metal terminators were created in the future by Skynet, and Skynet was developed by Miles Dyson but that future no longer exists due to Dyson's death in Terminator 2.
Sheldon: Okay. Then riddle me this: assuming all the good Terminators were originally evil Terminators created by Skynet but then reprogrammed by the future John Connor, why would Skynet, an artificial computer intelligence, bother to create a petite, hot, 17-year old killer robot?
Leonard: Skynet is kinky? I dunno.
Sheldon: Artificial intelligences do not have teen fetishes.

Howard: It's your Millennium Falcon, you and Chewbacca can do whatever you want to. Me and Princess Leia here'll find some other way to spend the evening.

Leonard: I already told her a lie. Why replace it with a different lie?
Sheldon: Well, first of all, your lie was laughably transparent, where mine is exquisitely convoluted. While you were sleeping, I was weaving an un-unravelable web.

Toby: The Philippines. 1992. The Subic Bay Naval Station. A young boy on the cusp of manhood. His only companions mongrel dogs and malarial mosquitos. Desperate and alone he reached out to a man who promised to introduce him to a merciful, loving God, but who instead introduced him to a gin pickled tongue shoved down his adolescent throat. What choice did he have but to drink, shoot and snort his pain away.

Notes and Trivia

This episode starts Sheldon's habit of repeatedly knocking on a door while repeatedly calling out to the person, although it is a series of four knocks instead of three.

Goofs

None

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