S05E01 - The Skank Reflex Analysis
No: 88 |
Season: 5
Episode: 1 |
Air Date: 2011-09-22 |
Runtime: mins
Summary
The gang deal with the fallout from Penny and Raj's night together.
Director and Writers
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Anthony Del Broccolo / Teleplay by: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
Script
Script: S05E01 - The Skank Reflex Analysis
Quotes
Penny: You know, I've done this before. In kindergarten, I was supposed to marry Jason Sorensen but by the time my class got out there, he was engaged to Chelsea Himmelfarb. What did I do? Hung upside down from the monkey bars. Let all the boys see my underpants.
Amy: You can't blame yourself. When your pre-frontal cortex fails to make you happy, promiscuity rewards you with dopamine. We neurobiologists refer to this as the "skank reflex".
Amy: (Talking to Penny) Oh I can so see you being the face of hemorrhoids.
Amy: Know the story of Catherine the Great? She ruled Russia in the late 1700s and one night, when she was feeling randy, she used an intricate system of pulleys to have intimate relations with a horse.
Penny: I'm sorry, what does this have to do with me?
Amy: She engaged in inter-species hanky-panky. And people still call her "great".
Leonard: Got any advice?
Beverly Hofstadter: Yes. Buck up.
Leonard: Excuse me! You're a world-renowned expert in parenting and child development and all you've got is "buck up"?
Beverly Hofstadter: Sorry. Buck up, Sissy Pants.
Leonard: (sarcastically) Thanks, Mother. I feel better.
Beverly Hofstadter: If you need any more help, my books are available on Amazon.
Sheldon: Geology isn't a real science!
Penny: Look, Honey. I was really drunk and made a huge mistake last night. We should have never slept together. It's what ruins friendships.
Raj: You can't ruin a friendship with sex! That's like trying to ruin ice cream with chocolate sprinkles!
Amy: A guest in my trundle bed and a boy at my door? I wish I could tell 13-year-old me it does get better!
(Penny is upset about being promiscuous when she gets drunk)
Penny: I feel like two totally different people: Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Whore.
Penny: You know what? Let's get out of here.
Amy: Where are we going?
Penny: Somewhere where no one's seen me naked. We may have to drive a while.
Raj: Can I say I ruined you for white men?
Sandy: (in a TV commercial) Ready to ride?
Penny: I don't think so, Mom. Not today.
Sandy: Oh, sweetie, hemorrhoids acting up again?
Penny: You don't know the half of it.
Sandy: Oh, yes, I do. Try a dab of this.
Penny: (reading the tube) 'Rose scented preparation H for women'?
Sandy: Now the 'H' is for 'her'!
Leonard: (watching the commercial) I'm proud of you.
Penny: Shh! Here comes my joke.
Sandy: (in the commercial, both are now riding) How are you doing?
Penny: Sittin' pretty.
Penny: You heard what I did?
Amy: Well, I heard *who* you did.
Sheldon: I've decided my rank will be Captain. If it's good enough for Kirk, Crunch and Kangaroo, it's good enough for me.
(Penny can't find a clean cup to pour some wine into. She then decides to use a measuring cup)
Penny: Yup, that's good. Wine glasses should have handles.
Leonard: What are you grinding about?
Sheldon: Penny's brain teaser this morning. She and Koothrappali emerge from your bedroom. She is disheveled and Raj is dressed only in a sheet. The sole clue: "It's not what it looks like".
Leonard: Just let it go, Sheldon.
Sheldon: If I could, I would. But I can't, so I shan't.
Sheldon: For the record, I do have genitals. They're functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Raj: As your friend, you might like to know that, um... we didn't have sex in the conventional sense.
Penny: Oh, God. Did you pull some weird Indian crap on me?
Raj: No, no. After we got undressed and jumped in bed, you... you asked if I had protection.
Penny: Oh, you did, didn't you?
Raj: Of course. I'm always packing. Anyway, um, I had trouble putting it on and you tried to help and... that was all she wrote.
Penny: So, we didn't actually...
Raj: I did. It was beautiful.
Bernadette: What the hell is wrong with you?
Raj: Well, uh, you were always so nice to me, I thought maybe you liked me.
Bernadette: (yells) I'm nice to everyone!
Notes and Trivia
Beverly's appearance was on a Skype screen since Christine Baranski was filming another series in New York.
Goofs
None
Cast
| Johnny Galecki | Leonard Hofstadter |
| Jim Parsons | Sheldon Cooper |
| Kaley Cuoco | Penny |
| Simon Helberg | Howard Wolowitz |
| Kunal Nayyar | Raj Koothrappali |
| Mayim Bialik | Amy Farrah Fowler |
| Melissa Rauch | Bernadette Rostenkowski |
| Christine Baranski | Dr. Beverly Hofstadter |
| Stacey Travis | Sandy |
