S04E21 - The Agreement Dissection

No: 84  |  Season: 4   Episode: 21  |  Air Date: 2011-04-28  |  Runtime: mins

Summary

When Priya finds a loophole in the roommate agreement to throw Sheldon out for the night, Penny, Amy and Bernadette take him to a nightclub.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch & Eddie Gorodetsky / Teleplay by: Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan

Script

Script: S04E21 - The Agreement Dissection

Quotes

Sheldon: It's hard to say no to Yoo-Hoo. The name literally beckons.

Amy: Fair warning: we can get crazy.
Bernadette: Yeah. Last week, we smoked cigars and pretended to be dragons.
Sheldon: Really, Amy? Tobacco and alcohol? Need I remind you not a lot of scientific discoveries were made by people having a good time?
Amy: (to Penny) Why did you bring him? He's harshing my buzz.

Amy: (yells at her screeching monkey) They were out of menthol; get off my back!
(to Sheldon)
Amy: It's not easy living with a temperamental little primate.
Leonard: (off-screen) C'mon, Priya, just admit I embarrass you!
Sheldon: You're preaching to the choir, sister.

Sheldon: You may have gone to Cambridge, but I am an honorary graduate of Starfleet Academy.

Sheldon: Leonard, are you in the shower?
Leonard: I can't hear you! I'm in the shower!
Sheldon: I asked if you were in the shower, but that's moot now!
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: Moot! Rendered unimportant by recent events!
Leonard: I can't hear you! I'm in the shower!

Sheldon: The mean Indian lady tried to make me eat lamb. Congratulations, pizza night will now be at your apartment. Order one.
Penny: I'm sorry, honey, I'm meeting Amy and Bernadette for dinner. You're welcome to tag along.
Sheldon: A girl's night? Oh, I don't know if I'm up for an evening talking about rainbows, unicorns, and menstrual cramps.
Penny: Okay, suit yourself. We'll probably be trashing Priya a little.
Sheldon: Shotgun!

Leonard: No offense, but shower sex with you is now the second best thing that's happened today.

Leonard: Top of her class, Cambridge University. Licensed to practice law in three countries and your face.

Sheldon: I have to skip the chit-chat. Emergency.
Leonard: What kind of emergency?
Sheldon: Mathematical. 32 ounce banana smoothie, 16 ounce bladder.

Sheldon: Do you remember what happened to the alien, played by talented character actor Frank Gorshin, in the Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"?
Leonard: Uh, Captain Kirk activated the self-destruct sequence and threatened to blow up the Enterprise and kill them both unless he gave in?
Sheldon: Affirmative. Computer, this is Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Activate self-destruct sequence. Code 1-1-A-2-B.

Sheldon: This is Greek food? Leonard, you hate Greek food.
Leonard: Not as much as you.
Sheldon: fine. I'm nothing if not adaptable.
Leonard: I got you the lamb kabob.
Sheldon: Thank you.
(Sheldon takes a bite and begins to chew vigorously)
Sheldon: If you think about it, Greek food isn't that far from Italian food. They share a spice palette.
(Chews)
Sheldon: And what a civilization is the Greeks'.
(Chews some more)
Sheldon: They gave us science, democracy... and little cubes of charred meat that taste like sweat.
(Spits out kabob)

Sheldon: Count, the 2nd: The accused exceeded the agreed upon occupancy of the shower, to wit, one, unless we are under attack by water-soluble aliens.

Bernadette: I totally want to see Sheldon dance. I bet he looks like a spider on a hot plate.

Amy: I kissed a girl and I liked it.

Sheldon: Unless Leonard signs the new agreement in the next 41 seconds, this computer will send an email to your parents in India, saying that you're in a secret relationship with the whiter-than-marshmallow-fluff Leonard Hofstadter.

Amy: You smell like baby powder.
Sheldon: It's talc. But as that's the primary ingredient in baby powder, I understand your confusion.
Amy: Oh, I'm not confused at all. You're like a sexy toddler.
Sheldon: I don't know how to process that.

Amy: Would you like to come in for a nightcap?
Sheldon: If you're referring to the beverage, you know I don't drink. If you're referring to the hat you don while wearing a night shirt and holding a candle, I have one.

Sheldon: When challenged, monkeys generally assert their dominance through chasing, assault and a stylized penile display. That's a little outside my comfort zone.

Priya: Section 7 here, on the right to enter the bathroom in emergency situations is not specific as to what constitutes and emergency.
Sheldon: That's ridiculous. A bathroom emergency is self-explanatory.
Priya: Is it? If Leonard forgot to trim his nose hair, could he barge in while you were showering?
Sheldon: Irrelevant. Leonard doesn't trim his nose hair. He thinks because he's short, nobody can see up there.

Sheldon: Good morning, Amy.
Amy: It most assuredly is not.
Sheldon: Are you experiencing dehydration, headache, nausea, and shame?
Amy: Yes. I also found a Korean man's business card tucked into my cleavage. What happened last night?
Sheldon: Oh, memory impairment. The free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle.
Amy: Sheldon.
Sheldon: All right. Last night, you gave me some excellent advice regarding my problem here at home. You kissed me, and then vomited on and off for 40 minutes, following which you passed out on your bathroom floor. I then folded a towel under your head as a pillow, set your oven clock to the correct time because it was driving me crazy, and I left.
Amy: Okay... I don't really know where we go from here.
Sheldon: I suggest we treat our relationship as if it were a crashed computer and restore it to the last point we both agree it worked.

Sheldon: In the South, preadolescent children are forced through a process called cotillion, which indoctrinates them with all the social graces and dance skills needed to function in 18th century Vienna.

Amy: How come, if we're the smart people, we don't do this every night?
Sheldon: What's 16 times 14?
Amy: My burps taste like cranberry juice.
Sheldon: And there's your answer.

Leonard: (as Sheldon counts down the "self destruct sequence") It's blackmail!
Priya: We give up.
Leonard: This is ridiculous.
(unplugs the laptop)
Sheldon: It's a laptop with a full charge. Honestly, what do you see in him?

Notes and Trivia

After kissing Amy for the first time, Sheldon says "fascinating." This is the catchphrase of his idol, Spock from Star Trek (1966).

The code Sheldon uses to activate the "self destruct" sequence on his laptop, 1-1-A-2-B, is the code used by Spock in Star Trek (1966): Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969). The layout of the program he is using for the countdown is similar to the designs of the computer screens seen first in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).

The waltz that Sheldon la-la's to the taxi driver is The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss the Younger.

Goofs

None

Cast

Johnny GaleckiLeonard Hofstadter
Jim ParsonsSheldon Cooper
Kaley CuocoPenny
Simon HelbergHoward Wolowitz
Kunal NayyarRaj Koothrappali
Mayim BialikAmy Farrah Fowler
Melissa RauchBernadette Rostenkowski
Aarti MannPriya Koothrappali
Arnold ChunHo-Jun
Tom YiDispatcher