S03E07 - The Guitarist Amplification

No: 47  |  Season: 3   Episode: 7  |  Air Date: 2009-11-09  |  Runtime: mins

Penny: How 'bout we buy you this robot, and then we all go home.

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Summary

Sheldon is caught in the middle when Leonard and Penny argue about Penny's friend staying at her apartment.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S03E07 - The Guitarist Amplification

Quotes

Penny: Come on, Sheldon, let's go home.
Sheldon: I've heard that before. Then the next thing you know, I'm hiding in my bedroom, blaring a Richard Feynman lecture, while my mom is shouting that Jesus would forgive her if she put ground glass in my dad's meatloaf. And my dad's on the roof skeet shooting her Franklin Mint collectible plates.

Sheldon: I should have asked for *much* more than a comic book and a robot.

Stuart: I was thinking of closing early and going home but, let's face it, that's just a smaller lonely room filled with comic books.

Penny: How 'bout we buy you this robot, and then we all go home.
Sheldon: I want that one.
Penny: Okay, you can have that one.
Leonard: Oh, come on! He's just going to play with it twice, and it'll end up in his closet with all the other junk.
Penny: Buy him the robot, Leonard.
Sheldon: Can I get this comic book too?
Penny: Yes, you can.

Sheldon: (to Raj and Howard, finally having heard enough) Stop it! Both of you! All this fighting, I might as well be back with my parents!
(Imitating his mother)
Sheldon: "Damn it, George, I told you if you didn't quit drinking I'd leave you!"
(Imitating his father)
Sheldon: "Well, I guess that makes you a liar, 'cause I'm drunk as hell and you're still here!"
(as his mother)
Sheldon: "Stop yelling, you're making Sheldon cry!"
(as his father)
Sheldon: "I'll tell you what's making Sheldon cry: that I let you name him Sheldon!"
(Storms out of the comic book store)

Penny: I hear you don't like my stuffed animals, my driving or my punctuality.
Leonard: What? Who would tell you something like that?
(immediately looking at Sheldon)
Leonard: Why would you tell her something like that?

Penny: Are you ready to apologize?
Leonard: No.
Penny: Ehh! Wrong answer. But thank you for playing.
Leonard: Come on. This is stupid.
Penny: Oh, there it is again. You think I'm stupid.
Leonard: No. There's a difference between being and acting stupid.
Penny: Oh, yeah? Well, there's a difference between being a jerk and being an ass.
Leonard: No, there isn't. They're synonyms.

Leonard: Let me ask you something: do you think it's okay for Penny to have an ex-boyfriend sleep on her couch?
Howard: No, I mean she's obviously way out of line...
Leonard: Thank you.
Howard: But if she dumps you, she'll have a new boyfriend by tomorrow morning, and you'll have a new girlfriend when you figure out how to build one.

Penny: Hey.
Leonard: Hey.
(pause)
Leonard: We're, uh, going to the movies.
Sheldon: No, we're not. We're standing in the hallway, suffering through an awkward encounter.

Sheldon: Leonard, when that woman moved in three years ago, I told you not to talk to her, and now look, we're going to be late for the movies.

Penny: Here, what's going on?
Leonard: It's a little hard to explain. He does this thing where he pretends he's in an alternate dimension that occupies the same physical space we're in, but he can't perceive us.
Sheldon: Don't flatter yourself; I'm just ignoring you.

Debbie Wolowitz: Howard, answer the door! I'm busy!
Howard: I'm busy too! You answer it!
Debbie Wolowitz: I can't! I'm on the toilet!
Howard: God's sake, I don't need to hear that! Can't you just say, "I 'm busy?"
Debbie Wolowitz: I said, "I'm busy," but that wasn't good enough for you!
Howard: I hope it's one of those home invasion deals and they shoot me in the head.
Debbie Wolowitz: Well, if it's a home invader, don't tell them I'm on the toilet!

Penny: (to departing customers) Oh, thank you very much. Come back soon!
(quietly)
Penny: With the other half of my tip.

Raj: Why don't you think I can find a woman for myself?
Mrs. Koothrappali: You're 27, the closest thing we have to a daughter-in-law is that Jewish boy, Howard!

Penny: Wow, Sheldon, I can not believe you made up your own game.
Sheldon: Oh, "Research Lab" is more than a game. Like the slogan says, "the physics is theoretical, but the fun is real."
Leonard: We must not be playing it right.

Notes and Trivia

First mention of Sheldon's father's name: George.

Howard describes the plot of Amazing Spider-man #183 as "Spider-man loses a big fight and then his girl friend splits up with him" This is an accurate description as in that issue Mary-Jane Watson breaks off her engagement to Peter Parker

The actor who appears at the end as Penny's guitarist friend, who is crashed out on the couch in Leonard and Sheldon's apartment, is not credited in the episode.

Though the producers on The Big Bang Theory (2007) don't (typically) allow for improvisations, Stuart's whispering "I love you" to Penny as she walks away in the comic book store is an occasion where an unscripted line was left in the show.

When running away from Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) arguing, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) rings Howard (Simon Helberg)'s doorbell. This is one of the few times in the entire series that he calls someone to the door without his ritual of knocking and repeating the name three times.

Goofs

None

Cast

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