S01E15 - The Pork Chop Indeterminacy
No: 15 |
Season: 1
Episode: 15 |
Air Date: 2008-05-05 |
Runtime: mins
Summary
Leonard, Howard and Raj fight over Sheldon's twin sister when she arrives in town. Raj takes part in a drug trial to suppress his selective mutism.
Director and Writers
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre / Teleplay by: Lee Aronsohn & Bill Prady
Script
Script: S01E15 - The Pork Chop Indeterminacy
Quotes
Raj: Have you ever heard of the Kama Sutra?
Missy: The sex book.
Raj: The *Indian* sex book. In other words, if you've ever wondered, wondered who wrote the book of love... it was us.
Sheldon: Yes, we shared a uterus for 9 months, but since then, we've pretty much gone our separate ways.
Sheldon: Eat this cheese without farting, and you can sleep with my sister.
Leonard: On the other hand, some physicists are concerned that if the supercollider actually works, it will create a black hole and swallow up the earth ending life as we know it.
Raj: What a bunch of cry babies. No guts, no glory, man.
Raj: Everyone knows genetic diversity produces the strongest offspring. Why not put a little mocha in your latte?
Sheldon: That is true, but consider the fact that you require medication to even talk to someone of the opposite sex.
Penny: So, Sheldon's sister is pretty cute.
Leonard: I wasn't staring!
Penny: I didn't say you were; I just said she was cute.
Leonard: Oh! Uh, maybe... if you like women who are tall... and perfect.
Howard: Is is because I'm Jewish? Because I would kill my rabbi with a pork chop to be with your sister.
Sheldon: It has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with the fact that you're a tiny man who lives with his mother.
Raj: (Penny calls Missy to come to the door) Thank you. I apprec... apprec... appre... uh oh.
Penny: Oh honey, is your medication wearing off?
(Raj nods)
Missy: Well, hi cutie pie. I was hopin' you'd show up.
(Raj is only able to emit high-pitch squeals)
(Sheldon's hot twin sister, Missy, is in town for a wedding)
Leonard: If the wedding's not until tomorrow, why don't you stay with us tonight?
Missy: Oh, I don't think so. Shelly doesn't like company. Even as a little boy, he'd send his imaginary friends home at the end of the day.
Sheldon: They were not "friends". They were imaginary colleagues.
Howard: You have Penny.
Leonard: I don't have Penny. In what conceivable universe do I have Penny?
Howard: So I can have her then?
Leonard: No!
Sheldon: I always thought I was more like a cuckoo bird. You know, a superior creature whose egg is placed in the nest of ordinary birds. Of course, the newly hatched cuckoo eats all the food, leaving the ordinary siblings to starve to death. Luckily for you, that's where the metaphor ended.
Missy: I thought it ended at cuckoo.
Penny: Sheldon, why are you ignoring your sister?
Sheldon: I'm not ignoring my sister. I'm ignoring all of you.
Leonard: (sees a crowd outside Sheldon's office) What's going on?
Howard: Shhh. Hot girl in Sheldon's office.
Leonard: Sheldon's office? Is she lost?
Howard: I don't think so. I followed her here from the parking lot.
Leonard: Maybe she's his lawyer.
Howard: Well, she's free to inspect my briefs.
Leonard: Howard...
Howard: I know, I'm disgusting. I should be punished. By her. Oh, look, I did it again.
Sheldon: She's my twin sister. She thinks she's funny, but frankly, I've never been able to see it.
Missy: That's because you have no measurable sense of humor, Shelly.
Sheldon: How exactly would one measure a sense of humor? A humormometer?
Sheldon: If anyone is to get at Missy's Fallopian tubes, they have to get through me.
Notes and Trivia
Howard's belt buckle is The Flash.
In the beginning of the episode, Howard mentions a project he is working on that will take him up on the next space shuttle. This eventually happens in Season 5.
Leonard, Howard and Rajesh all sit in Sheldon's spot at some point.
Missy (Courtney Henggeler) calls Sheldon (Jim Parsons) by his nickname, "Shelly", just like their mother (Laurie Metcalf).
Missy tells Leonard and Howard that when they were eight years old, Sheldon tried to build an armed robot to keep her out of his room. However in Young Sheldon (2017) it is shown that Missy and Sheldon actually share a room. (Though it is possible that when Sheldon refers to "his room", he is in fact referring to his side of the room. A common distinction when siblings share a room.)
Prior to her appearance at Sheldon and Amy's wedding in episode 11.24, the only other appearance of Missy occurs when you can hear her screaming during childbirth in The Cooper Extraction (2013).
Sheldon tells his sister that he weighs 165 pounds.
The original title, still used internationally in English-speaking territories, is "The Shiksa Indeterminacy".
There are four framed comic books on Sheldon's bedroom wall: Lois Lane, Superman, The Flash and Secret Origins.
This is the third time that Raj (Kunal Nayyar) is able to talk to a girl. Previously, it took alcohol, another time was accidental and this time it's an experimental drug trial.
Goofs
None
Cast
| Johnny Galecki | Leonard Hofstadter |
| Jim Parsons | Sheldon Cooper |
| Kaley Cuoco | Penny |
| Simon Helberg | Howard Wolowitz |
| Kunal Nayyar | Raj Koothrappali |
| Courtney Henggeler | Missy Cooper |
