S04E12 - The Bus Pants Utilization

No: 75  |  Season: 4   Episode: 12  |  Air Date: 2011-01-06  |  Runtime: mins

Raj: Hey, why am I in charge of phone support? Seems a bit racist. Sheldon: A customer service representative with an Indian accent will create the impression we're a vast enterprise that uses overseas call centers.

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Summary

Leonard has an idea for a new smartphone app and asks the guys for help, however Sheldon tries to take over the project, and Leonard fires him.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Maria Ferrari / Teleplay by: Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan

Script

Script: S04E12 - The Bus Pants Utilization

Quotes

Leonard: (fed up with Sheldon trying to take over the app project) Okay, you're fired.
Sheldon: Really? Why?

Penny: (to Sheldon, who is sitting on the stairs playing the theremin) Whatcha doing? Trying to contact your home planet?

Sheldon: Consider this unlikely, but very plausible scenario: A young woman, alone in the big city. Her ridiculous dream of becoming an actress lies shattered about her.
Penny: Hey, wait a minute.
Howard: Hang on. Let's see where he's going.
Sheldon: Then it hits her. How is she going to survive? She has no prospects, no marketable skills. And then one day, she meets a group of geniuses and their friend, Howard.
Howard: Hey, I...
Penny: Hang on, let's see where he's going.
Sheldon: She befriends them and then lies in wait until they reveal a marketable idea, which she steals and sells to the highest bidder.
Leonard: That is ridiculous.
Sheldon: Oh is it? Let's see you come up with an explanation as to why this woman hangs out with us all the time.
(everyone looks at Penny)
Penny: Oh great. You know what? I've already mooched dinner off you guys, I don't need to listen to this.
Howard: There's your answer, free food.

Sheldon: I suppose I'll go put on my bus pants.
Leonard: What the hell are bus pants?
Sheldon: They are pants one wears over one's regular pants when one sits on bus seats that other people have previously sat on.

Raj: Last night, I had a dream we got so rich from the app, you and I bought matching side-by-side mansions. But there was a secret tunnel connecting your front yard to my back yard. What do you think it means?
Howard: It means after we play handball, I'm showering at home.

Leonard: You know how we're always having to stop and solve differential equations, like when you're doing Fourier analysis or using the Schr?dinger equation?
Sheldon: Howard doesn't, he's only an engineer.

Raj: Hey, why am I in charge of phone support? Seems a bit racist.
Sheldon: A customer service representative with an Indian accent will create the impression we're a vast enterprise that uses overseas call centers.
Raj: Oh, very clever. But still racist.
Sheldon: Duly noted, "Steve from Wichita".

Penny: Hey, you don't need Leonard and his app. You can make one with me.
Sheldon: With you?
Penny: Seriously, I have a great idea for one.
Sheldon: Is it better than your idea to move to Los Angeles and become a famous actress?

Howard: Eureka!
Raj: (upset) Hey, we agreed when it was 'Eureka' time, we were all gonna say it together.
Howard: Fine. Let's say it together.
Raj: (revolted) No. The moment has passed!

Sheldon: How about this for the name? The Surprising Helpful Equation Linked Deferential Optimized Numerator.
Raj: So it spells "Sheldon"?
Sheldon: Does it? A happy accident.

Howard: (on cellphone) Ma, ma, calm dow- listen to me! I know it says click with the mouse, but on a laptop the trackpad is the mouse. Now put your finger on it.
Howard: Doesn't matter which finger.
Howard: Good choice. Now move it down to your e-mail icon.
Howard: The little envelope.
Howard: What do you mean what does it look like? It looks like an envelope!
Howard: Fine, you don't like the computer, don't use it!
Howard: Sure. We can exchange it for a salad spinner. Good-bye.
Raj: That's a Hanukkah present you're regretting, huh?
Sheldon: I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged. But, if we made an example of one or two it might give the others incentive to try harder.

Sheldon: You know, Leonard, that's actually a valid idea. Very good.
Leonard: Can you say that and not make it sound like I'm a cat who learned how to use the toilet?
Sheldon: No. The two achievements are equally surprising and equally admirable. Though if pressed, I'd have to give a slight edge to the cat.

Notes and Trivia

Jim Parsons learned how to play the theremin especially for this episode. The first melody that Sheldon tries to play on his theremin after saying how much he loved the use of this instrument in the opening tune of Star Trek (1966) is, in fact, said opening tune. It should be noted though that the theremin wasn't actually used in it; what sounds like a theremin was actually a soprano vocalizing.

Goofs

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