S04E18 - The Prestidigitation Approximation
No: 81 |
Season: 4
Episode: 18 |
Air Date: 2011-03-10 |
Runtime: mins
Summary
Priya forces Leonard to choose between a relationship with her or a friendship with Penny. A magic trick by Howard has Sheldon fooled.
Director and Writers
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Bill Prady & Steve Holland & Eddie Gorodetsky / Teleplay by: Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
Script
Script: S04E18 - The Prestidigitation Approximation
Quotes
Sheldon: This deck is rigged in some fashion
Howard: Fine then get another deck and I'll do the trick with that
Sheldon: So you're saying this is a regulation deck?
Howard: I'm saying believe in magic you muggle!
Sheldon: Howard, if I may interject here with a piece of friendly advice. Is working on magic tricks really how you want to spend your time? Granted, you're just an engineer, but that doesn't mean you might not someday build a geegaw or a thingamabob that may get you a thank you in someone else's Nobel prize acceptance speech.
Priya: Listen, we need to talk about something.
Leonard: (panicked) Oh, my god, you're breaking up with me. Why would you take me clothes shopping and then break up with me? That is just cruel.
Priya: Leonard, relax. I'm not breaking up with you.
Leonard: Oh.
(he takes a breath from his inhaler)
Leonard: (playing it cool) So, what's up?
Penny: I think I know how you did the card trick.
Sheldon: Oh, please. If I don't know, you don't know; that's axiomatic.
Penny: Come here.
(Penny whispers in Howard's ear)
Howard: You're right.
Penny: (seeing Sheldon's indignation) Not too bad for someone who doesn't know what "axiomatic" means.
Leonard: Hypothetically, if I had access to a Lieutenant Uhura uniform, would you wear it?
Priya: Leonard, it is a source of great pain to me and my family that my brother has that outfit in his wardrobe.
Leonard: Last night, me wanting to try that stuff out of the Kama Sutra... was that fun for you, or kind of racially insensitive?
Priya: Yeah, just because you're in bed with an Indian woman, you think that gives you permission to use crazy positions from an ancient Indian love manual?
Leonard: Hey, if you can find a book called "Weird Sex With White Boys", I'd be okay with that.
Leonard: Are you familiar with Darwin's observation of the finches in the Galapagos Islands?
Penny: Did they make a movie about it?
Leonard: No.
Penny: Then, no.
Leonard: Check it out. Just got contacts.
(scene switches to Leonard view - out of focus)
Penny: Oh, for god's sake, Leonard, this is about Priya, isn't it? She doesn't want me hanging out with you.
Leonard: Yes. There, I said it.
Penny: Okay, look, I happen to like your girlfriend.
Leonard: And she likes you.
Penny: No, she doesn't.
Leonard: Not really, no.
Penny: It doesn't matter. Look, I promise from now on I will keep my distance from you.
Leonard: Well, now, hold on. What kind of distance are we talking about? Because we are neighbours. I mean, I can hear the toilet flush in your apartment.
Penny: You can hear my toilet flush?
Leonard: I don't listen for it, but it's nice to know everything's okay with your plumbing. The building's plumbing.
Penny: Leonard, I get it. You're in a new relationship now. And I'm happy for you. So why don't we just shake hands and part friends?
Leonard: Well, now hold on, how about this? How about we still hang out, but on the down-low?
Penny: Are you really that kind of guy?
Leonard: No. I actually felt kinda silly just saying on the down-low.
Penny: (sadly) Goodbye Leonard.
Leonard: How about we still hang out, but on the down low?
Penny: Are you really that kind of guy?
Leonard: No. I actually felt kind of silly just saying "on the down low."
Leonard: What's up with the infrared cameras?
Sheldon: I'm measuring residual heat levels on the playing cards to determine which ones have been touched. By the way, if you hope to have children, I suggest you switch from briefs to boxers. Your testicles look a tad warm.
Leonard: Penny and I are just friends.
Priya: I don't care. This is a woman you have slept with. If you want her around, then I have to wonder if maybe you're not ready to move on.
Leonard: No, no, no, I'm ready. I gave up the gift of sight for you! If that's not moving on, what is?
Priya: You have such beautiful eyes. Have you ever thought about getting contacts?
Leonard: I tried in the 7th grade. I could never get used to 'em.
Priya: Oh, that's too bad.
Leonard: Yeah, if I had contacts, I would have been the coolest debate club president to ever be stuffed into his own cello case.
Priya: If you had them on now, you could see what we're going to do next.
(kisses Leonard)
Leonard: That's okay, I can infer from context.
(about Sheldon)
Howard: You ever notice when he thinks real hard, it smells like bacon?
Sheldon: Apparently you can't hack into a government super computer and the try to buy uranium without the department of homeland security tattling to your mother.
Sheldon: (Scoffing at Penny) Not knowing is part of the fun! What is that the motto of your community college?
Notes and Trivia
The technique Raj uses to shuffle the cards is called a Hindu Shuffle.
Goofs
None
Cast
| Johnny Galecki | Leonard Hofstadter |
| Jim Parsons | Sheldon Cooper |
| Kaley Cuoco | Penny |
| Simon Helberg | Howard Wolowitz |
| Kunal Nayyar | Raj Koothrappali |
| Aarti Mann | Priya Koothrappali |
