S05E24 - The Countdown Reflection

No: 111  |  Season: 5   Episode: 24  |  Air Date: 2012-05-10  |  Runtime: mins

Leonard: Howard and Bernadette. You are lucky enough to be best friends who love each other and that's the strongest kind of love because at its core it has kindness, patience, and respect. Qualities that are hard to find in people these days.

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Summary

As Howard prepares for his mission into space, flashbacks show the recent events leading up to his and Bernadette's wedding.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland / Teleplay by: Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds

Script

Script: S05E24 - The Countdown Reflection

Quotes

Sheldon: Boldly go, Howard Wolowitz.

Howard: We have the where and the when, but we still need to figure out who's going to do the ceremony.
Penny: That's easy. Anyone can go online and get ordained as a minister. I know a piercing parlor where for a hundred bucks they'll marry you and stick a wedding ring through any body part you want.
Howard: Great. Well, who's it gonna be?
Sheldon: I'll do it. Provided I can perform the ceremony in Klingon.
Bernadette: No.
Sheldon: What do you see in her?

Howard: Close your eyes, put out your hand. I got you something special.
Bernadette: Come on, Howard. I'm not falling for that again.

Sheldon: Remarkable. In just under a half hour, two hundred metric tons of fuel will ignite in a controlled explosion right beneath Howard's keister. And all from a country whose entire contribution to the global economy has been Tetris and mail-order brides.

Howard: There's fuel leaking and we're still gonna go?
Massimino: Don't lose your fruit loops, Fruit Loops.
Dimitri: This happens a lot. Nine times out of ten, no problem.
Howard: What happens on the tenth time?
Dimitri: Problem.

Dimitri: You and Mrs. Loops have a big wedding?

Sheldon: Thank you for the invitation, but I have to decline because it doesn't sound like something I'll enjoy.
Leonard: C'mon, Sheldon, it'll be fun.
Sheldon: That's what you said about the Green Lantern movie. You were a hundred and fourteen minutes of wrong.

Raj: Howard and Bernadette, the five of us stand before you as your friends and newly ordained ministers.
Mrs. Wolowitz: LOUDER!
Bernadette: They all got ordained. They're all marrying us. It's adorable. If you want to hear it, come closer.
Raj: Guys. When I look at the two of you starting your lives together it fills... my heart... it fills my heart. Forget it, I need a minute.
Penny: Okay, I'll, I'll go. Howard and Bernadette. I know you two planned on getting married in a big fancy wedding, but when you're in love in doesn't matter where or how these things happen. It just matters that you have each other.
Leonard: Hmm.
Penny: Problem?
Leonard: No.
Sheldon: I think the Revered Hofstader is making an ironic connection between your statement about love and your rejection of his proposal in the bedroom.
Penny: Oh, grow up.
Leonard: I didn't say it.
Amy: That's enough from the both of you.
Penny: Well, he started it.
Leonard: Well, I'm ending it. Bernadette, I want to thank you for allowing me to be your maid of honor. I also want you to know that I will be happy to do it again if this marriage craps out.
Leonard: Thank you, Amy. Very touching. Howard and Bernadette. You are lucky enough to be best friends who love each other and that's the strongest kind of love because at its core it has kindness, patience, and respect. Qualities that are hard to find in people these days.
Sheldon: Would you like some aloe vera? You just got burned. All right, my turn. Howard. Bernadette.
(Klingon)
Bernadette: Sheldon! I told you no Klingon!
Sheldon: Fine, I'll do it in English. But it loses something. The need to find another human being has to share one's life with has always puzzled me. Maybe because I am so interesting all by myself. With that being said, may *you* find as much happiness with each other as I find on my own. The Klingon would have made you cry.
Raj: I believe you two have prepared vows.
Bernadette: Howard Joel Wolowitz, like you this is going to be short and sweet. I love you with all my heart and soul and promise to be with you forever.
Howard: Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski.
Mrs. Wolowitz: SPEAK UP!
Howard: From now on she's the only woman who can yell at me! Until I met you I couldn't imagine spending my life with just one person. And now, I can't imagine spending one day of it without you.
Raj, Penny, Leonard, Sheldon, Amy: By the power vested in us by the state of California...
Sheldon: ... and the Klingon High Council...
Raj, Penny, Leonard, Sheldon, Amy: ... we now pronounce you husband and wife.

Raj: I know how to make it special.
Howard: I told you we are not re-creating the wedding from 'The Sound of Music'.
Raj: Yes, you made that brutally clear to me. What I was going to suggest is that if you're willing to wait until Sunday morning, the Google satellite will be over Pasadena. You can have your wedding photographed from space.

Howard: (as the rocket gets ready for lift-off) I changed my mind, I don't wanna do this.

Bernadette: Oh, Howie! A little star. It's beautiful! Put it on me.
Howard: Okay. But I'm gonna have to get it back from you, so I can take it to the International Space Station. That way, when I come home, you will have a star that was actually in space.
Bernadette: My God!
Howard: Take that, every guy who's ever bought you anything!

Massimino: OK, we're in the final countdown. How you doing over there?
Howard: Good, good. A quick question; I missed it in the briefing. How much urine do these suits hold?

Massimino: Hey Fruit Loops, want to hit your fan switch?
Howard: Check.
Dimitri: He calls you Fruit Loops because of your very gay haircut?
Howard: No, it's 'cause I live with my mom and she makes me Fruit Loops.
Dimitri: Go with gay story. People are more accepting of that.

Mrs. Wolowitz: I'm going to the supermarket to buy snacks for your trip. Do you want me to buy those little boxes of Fruit Loops you like?
Howard: No, when I eat Fruit Loops, the other astronauts make fun of me.

Notes and Trivia

The wedding was held on the roof of the Madison Luxury Apartments at 215 S. Madison St. in Pasadena.

Goofs

None

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