S04E22 - The Wildebeest Implementation

No: 85  |  Season: 4   Episode: 22  |  Air Date: 2011-05-05  |  Runtime: mins

Summary

Sheldon invents a three-player chess game, Penny and Amy use Bernadette to spy on Leonard and Priya, and Raj tries a new drug to treat his social anxiety.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S04E22 - The Wildebeest Implementation

Quotes

(about a pair of shoes)
Penny: Ooh, these are cute. Of course, if I buy them, I'll have to rent my womb out to a gay couple.

Raj: Thank you for coming with me, Sheldon. You're a good friend.
Sheldon: I'm glad you think so. That's what I strive to emulate.

Amy: How do you feel about concealing a recording device in the cleavage of your ample bosom?
Bernadette: I don't want anything in my ample bosom.
Amy: Come on, Strawberries. Take one for the team.

Bernadette: You texted me Penny's dating an astronaut.
Amy: I texted architect. That's amusing. Auto-correct must've changed it.
Bernadette: Yeah, it's hysterical.

Sheldon: (about his new 3-person chess game) Do you know how I solved the balanced center combat-area problem? Five words: transitional quadrilateral to triangular tessellation.
Leonard: That, that's brilliant.
Sheldon: It's what I do.

Amy: How does the cheetah attack a herd of wildebeests? By going after its weakest member.
Bernadette: Well, what makes me the weakest member?
Amy: Your trusting nature, coupled with your teeny-tiny body. You wouldn't last a minute on the Serengeti.

Sheldon: (playing 3-person chess) My Catapult flings my Bishop to Howard's Queen's Gorilla two.
Howard: Nice. Okay, Rook to Transporter Pad. And he comes out at Leonard's Queen's Bishop five-and-a-third. Check on Leonard.
Leonard: Hang on. When is my Pawn allowed to use the Golf Cart?
Sheldon: When it's done charging. Or you land on the Time Machine - obviously.
Leonard: Oh, oh, Beekeeper to King twelve. I capture your Pope and release the Swarm. Checkmate on Sheldon.
Sheldon: I knew I should have given my Pope the jet pack.
Raj: (standing naked in the kitchen) Hey, I've got winners.

Amy: Have a good night. Try not to ogle my caboose as I walk away.

Bernadette: I'm not a very good liar. They kind of whup that out of you in Catholic school.
Amy: Don't worry. I'll teach you. I did two years of Cub Scouts before they found out I was a girl.

Bernadette: I can't do this anymore! I'm a good girl! I went to Catholic school!

Raj: (Considering taking anti-anxiety medicine) As a scientist, thinking is my bread and butter. I'm afraid if I take these I might lose that unique, special something that has made me so successful in my field.
Sheldon: Rajesh, I've had the privilege of working alongside you for many years. My advice to you is that you gobble these up like Tic-Tacs.

Penny: Didn't you get enough of this cliquey crap in high school?
Amy: I wish. A clique requires friends. I didn't have any.
Penny: No?
Amy: I used to take my lunch down to the maintenance room and eat with the janitor. It was nice until his wife called me a puta and made me stop.

Amy: Until I met you and Bernadette, my trips to the bathroom had been entirely focused on elimination. Now, they have a delightful social aspect.
Bernadette: Amy, you must have been in the bathroom with other women before.
Amy: Of course I have. But, they were strangers and seemed off-put when I engaged in friendly stall-to-stall chit chat.
Bernadette: Some women don't like to get chummy when their panties are down.

Sheldon: I don't know what color lonely is.
Raj: What?
Sheldon: Red is angry, yellow is frightened, green is jealous, and blue is depressed. Perhaps we can assign a color to lonely.
Raj: Nothing rhymes with orange. It's probably lonely.
Sheldon: All right. Come in. You positively orange with loneliness.
(Raj enters the apartment)
Sheldon: No, I don't see that catching on at all.

Bernadette: Did I tell you Priya invited me and Howard to have dinner with her and Leonard?
Penny: Oh, that's nice.
Amy: No it's not. It's a strategic maneuver. Leonard's new girlfriend is testing Bernadette's loyalty to you and the group. That bitch is crafty.

Sheldon: I must say, Leonard, ever since you've been having regular intercourse, your mind has lost its keen edge. You should reflect on that.
Leonard: Excuse me, but Einstein had a very busy sex life.
Sheldon: Yes, and he never unified gravity with the other forces. If he hadn't been such a hound dog, we'd all have time machines.

Notes and Trivia

During the coffee shop scene, after Raj takes off his underwear, Sheldon can be seen smiling/smirking which is why he has his finger over his mouth at that moment.

There are in fact several three-player chess variants. The type Sheldon designed has custom pieces (the Old Woman, the Grand Empress). These types of custom pieces are called "fairy-pieces" by chess aficionados.

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
Tiffany DupontAngela
Whitney AvalonElsie