S04E14 - The Thespian Catalyst

No: 77  |  Season: 4   Episode: 14  |  Air Date: 2011-02-03  |  Runtime: mins

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Summary

To improve his skills as an instructor, Sheldon asks Penny to give him acting lessons. Meanwhile, Raj begins having impure fantasies about Bernadette.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S04E14 - The Thespian Catalyst

Quotes

Sheldon: Good evening. I'm your guest lecturer, Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
(no reaction)
Sheldon: I was expecting applause, but I suppose stunned silence is equally appropriate. I agreed to speak to you this evening because I was told that you're the best and the brightest of this university's doctoral candidates. Of course, that's like saying you're the most important electron in a hydrogen atom.
(no reaction)
Sheldon: Because, you see, there's only one electron in a hydrogen atom.
(no reaction)
Sheldon: Best and brightest, my sweet patootie.

Leonard: I found another tweet from a student at Sheldon's lecture: "Dr. Cooper has taken a relatively boring subject and managed to make it completely insufferable. Plus, he looks like a giant insect."
Howard: Listen to this one: "Does Einstein's theory explain why time flies when you're having fun, but when you're listening to Dr. Cooper, it falls out of the sky dead?"

Sheldon: Do you realize that teaching is the first thing I've failed at since my ill-fated attempt to complete a chin-up in March of 1989?

Penny: Hey Leonard, is your Wi-Fi down? I can't get on.
Leonard: Oh, Sheldon changed the password. It's now "Pennyisafreeloader". No spaces.

(Sheldon is acting out a scene from a play he wrote)
Sheldon: (as a child) Mommy, why are you crying?
Sheldon: (as his mother) Because I'm gonna miss you, Shellybean, even though you creep the bejesus out of me.

Howard: Bernadette has needs.
Raj: What kind of needs?
Howard: Sexual needs.
Bernadette: Most of them regular, some of them kind of messed up.

Penny: Mrs. Cooper? Hey, it's Penny. Yeah, I think I broke your son.
(hands Sheldon the phone)
Penny: Talk to your mother.
Sheldon: (sobbing) Mommy, I love you! Don't let Spock take me to the future!

Raj: I want to be something with sex appeal, like a Labradoodle.

Sheldon: I didn't wanna teach those poopy heads anyway!
Howard: FYI, I think that's what Darth Vader said just before he started building the Death Star.

Sheldon: Yeah, I'm not familiar with the acronym "KMN".
Leonard: Oh, from the context, we think it means "Kill me now".

Penny: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is an American classic.
Sheldon: So is the McRib sandwich. I don't care for that, either.

Raj: Somebody took pictures and uploaded them to their Flickr account.
Leonard: Wow. How do you get an entire lecture hall to flip you off at the same time?
Howard: Apparently, if you're Sheldon, all you need to do is turn your back.

Amy: (after multiple failed attempts to cheer up Sheldon) Well, that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy.

Notes and Trivia

When Sheldon is doing improv with Penny, he says he sees a sign that reads "Camarillo State Mental Hospital". While this was an actual hospital, it closed in 1997, and this episode was aired in February 2011. The hospital has since been redeveloped and is now California State University Channel Islands.

Goofs

None

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