S05E13 - The Recombination Hypothesis

No: 100  |  Season: 5   Episode: 13  |  Air Date: 2012-01-19  |  Runtime: mins

Penny: No, that's okay, Bernadette. Sometimes these things just don't work out. Leonard: Yeah, it's all good. We'll always have feelings for each other. Bernadette: Oh, that's nice.

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Summary

Leonard and Penny contemplate reviving their romantic relationship.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre / Teleplay by: Bill Prady & Steven Molaro

Script

Script: S05E13 - The Recombination Hypothesis

Quotes

Bernadette: Sometimes Howard and I pretend that his arrhythmia is acting up, and I'm his sexy cardiologist. And the naughty part is I'm not in his HMO network.

Sheldon: Now, back to our game.
Raj: You were in the middle of an erection.
Sheldon: Oh, of course! It's right here in my hand.

Reverend White: (Penny imagines her wedding to Leonard) Do you, Penny, take Leonard to be your lawfully wedded husband?
(Penny turns around, revealing she's pregnant)
Penny: Well, it's a little late for me to start saying no, isn't it.
(Back to reality)
Amy: Penny.
Penny: Sorry. Just remembered, I have *got* to stop by the drug store.

Sheldon: Leonard, promise me that when our new waitress comes over, you will not start a complicated on-again-off-again relationship with her, because I'm very, very hungry.

Raj: If they ever make a movie version of that book, you know who should play Leonard's mother? Sandra Bullock.
Howard: Why?
Raj: Because she's great in everything.

Bernadette: Boy, I don't know if I could be friends with Howie if we broke up.
Howard: Why not.
Bernadette: I'm a very vengeful person.
Howard: Really?
Bernadette: With access to weaponized smallpox.

Penny: You are so funny.
Leonard: Good. Remember that when I take my shirt off.

Sheldon: The reason you're fixated on a good-natured simpleton like Penny is that she's the exact opposite of your first romantic attachment - your brilliant yet intimidating mother.
Leonard: Where on earth did you get that from?
Sheldon: It's in her book, "Needy Baby, Greedy Baby".
Leonard: That doesn't make it true.
Sheldon: It's called non-fiction for a reason, Leonard.

Leonard: Isn't sex after fighting kinda what we do now?
Penny: Yeah, kinda, yeah.

Sheldon: And now that I have some wood, I'm going to begin the erection of my settlements.
Raj: (sotto, to Wolowitz) He's got to be doing this on purpose.

Penny: Do not overthink this!

Leonard: Feel like trying something new for dinner? Maybe indian? Tex-Mex?
Sheldon: You ever wonder how humans would be different if they evolved from lizards instead of amammals?
Leonard: Okay, let's talk about that.
Sheldon: As you know, lizards, cold-blooded animals, lack the ability to sense temperature, but they do move more sluggishly when it's cold. So, lizard weathermen would say things like, "Bring a sweater. It's slow outside". I love my mind.
Leonard: We all do. Now, how about dinner?
Sheldon: Oh, I would assume we'd enjoy insects, or smaller lizards. We could also pull each other's tails off and grill them; they'll just grow back.

Sheldon: You want to know my opinion?
Leonard: (Sarcastic) Oh boy, do I!
Sheldon: (to Howard) Sarcasm?
Howard: (Spiteful) No.

Sheldon: Now, where were we? Oh, yes. Does anyone have any wood?
(Raj and Howard laugh)
Sheldon: Oh, come on! I just want wood! Why are you making it so hard?
(Raj and Howard laugh harder)

Howard: Ooh, 8:30. You and Penny decide to go out and paint the town beige?
Leonard: You're 30 years old and you live with your mother!
Raj: I guess it didn't go well.
Sheldon: Now, we don't know that. Not to a certainty. All we know is that Leonard is home.
(Leonard groans loudly from his room)
Howard: How about now?
Sheldon: Again, not enough evidence. For all we know, he's being murdered.

Sheldon: O-o-oh, my life-size cardboard Mr. Spock is here! I know he wouldn't care for an outburst of human emotion, but oh goody, oh goody, oh goody!

Penny: (enters from closet wearing a low-cut green dress) Too much?
Bernadette: Yes.
Amy: (Simultaneously with Bernadette) No.
Penny: Okay, just hang on.
(Goes back into closet)
Amy: (to Bernadette) You just can't handle her raw sexuality, can you?

Sheldon: After you used the facilities at the gas station, did you make a purchase?
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: It's customary when using the restroom at a retail establishment to make a small purchase. Did you?
Leonard: No.
Sheldon: (snorts) Here's two dollars. Go buy some beef jerky.
Leonard: I don't want beef jerky.
Sheldon: It's not about *you*. It's about a poor immigrant from Pakistan trying to make his way in America by working the graveyard shift at the Colorado Boulevard Chevron.

Sheldon: I want to build a road, but I need wood. Either of you fellows have wood?
(Raj and Howard snicker)
Sheldon: I don't understand the laughter. The object of "Settlers of Catan" is to build roads and settlements. To do so requires wood. Now I have sheep; I need wood. Who has wood for my sheep?

Leonard: I didn't *defile* your sister. We had a relationship.
Raj: I heard you call her "Brown Sugar". In my book, that's defilement.

Penny: (after Leonard asks her out for real) Have you thought this through?
Leonard: Yes, and I think we should go anyway.

Leonard: I don't know how you have a relationship without talking.
Penny: I went out with this one guy, T.J., for eight months, we never talked. To this day, I don't even know what T.J. stands for.
Leonard: Wait, if you guys didn't talk, then... Never mind, stupid question.

Leonard: So, uh, do they have a name for a first date with someone you used to go out with?
Penny: Oh, that's a good question. How about 'awkward'?
Leonard: That sounds right. Hey, how about if we pretend we're actually on a first date? See how that goes.
Penny: Okay.
Leonard: So, Polly, tell me about yourself.
Penny: It's Penny.
Leonard: Oh sorry, yeah, awkward...
Penny: Okay, uh, let's see, I'm from Nebraska, and ever since I was little girl I dreamed of moving to L.A. and becoming a movie star. Anyway, after four years of acting lessons and waiting tables, I've done a hemorrhoid commercial and a production of Anne Frank above a bowling alley. So, you know, dreams do come true! Your turn!
Leonard: Ah, let's see. I am an experimental physicist at Caltech. Most of my research is with high-powered lasers and, oh, I've just gotten a big government grant to see if they can be used to knock out incoming ballistic missiles.
Penny: Wow! Can they?
Leonard: Oh, God no! The money's pretty good. And I use the equipment to make my own Bat Signal.
Penny: Bat Signal? What are you, some kind of nerd?
Leonard: Not "some *kind* of nerd". I am the king of nerds!
Penny: What does that mean?
Leonard: Well, it means if anyone displeases me, I don't help them set up their printer.

Sheldon: (Sheldon discovers he's received the wrong cardboard cut-out Spock) Oh no! They sent the wrong Spock! Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto!

Leonard: Penny, do you have plans for dinner tonight?
Penny: Why? Are you guys going somewhere?
Leonard: No, I mean, just you and me.
Penny: You mean like a date?
Leonard: Not "like a date", a date!
Amy: Woooooooooo!
Bernadette: Woooooooooo!

Notes and Trivia

The game featured in this episode, "Settlers of Catan", is a real game, and the concept of "wood for sheep" has been a running joke among regular players of the game since its inception.

This episode marks the 100th episode of the show, which began airing on September 24 2007, with the pilot episode.

When Leonard first sees Penny she is framed in the doorway of her apartment and dressed in the same clothes, blue shirt with a pink floral design, as the way Leonard first saw her in the series pilot. Leonard and Sheldon are also dressed in a similar fashion.

Goofs

None

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