S06E05 - The Holographic Excitation

No: 116  |  Season: 6   Episode: 5  |  Air Date: 2012-10-25  |  Runtime: mins

Amy: I'm Raggedy Ann, and he's Raggedy C-3PO. Sheldon: We compromised. I lost.

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Summary

While Raj plans Stuart's Halloween party at the comic book store, Howard annoys the rest of the gang by constantly talking about space, and Penny tries to take more of an interest in Leonard's work.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari

Script

Script: S06E05 - The Holographic Excitation

Quotes

Howard: Astronaut Wolowitz reporting for booty... preparing thrusters... we have liftoff... are we clear to jettison that nightgown?

Leonard: You know, there's a foundational idea in string theory that the whole universe may be a hologram.
Penny: What do you mean?
Leonard: Well, the holographic principle suggests that what we all experience every day in three dimensions may really just be information on a surface located at the farthest reaches of our cosmos. So it's possible that our lives are really just acting out a painting on the largest canvas in the universe.
Penny: Huh.
Leonard: What?
Penny: Sometimes I forget how smart you are.
(kisses Leonard)
Leonard: You should visit more often.

Amy: Ladies night at the Cheesecake Factory. Does it get any better than this?
Penny: I hope so.
Amy: (to Bernadette) Question. Do you think your husband's fondness for turtlenecks is an expression of longing for his missing foreskin?
Penny: It's not getting any better.

Bernadette: (They both walk into the back, to a couple already there) You! Out!
(They leave, she turns on Howard)
Bernadette: You are being very rude!
Howard: No I'm not. They're all being rude, and you're being rude.
Bernadette: Me? What did I do?
Howard: (Almost robotic imitation of Bernadette's voice) Oh Howie, stop talking about space so much. Nobody likes it.
Bernadette: (pause, then in a deeper voice, actually Melissa Rauch's real voice) I don't sound like that.

Sheldon: What kind of tea would you like?
Amy: I think I'm gonna try green tea mixed with lemon zinger.
Sheldon: Two teabags in one cup? You're not at a rave.

Raj: For the photo booth, we could go with a creepy theme, or we could also get the TARDIS from Dr. Who.
Sheldon: The TARDIS is a time machine from a sci-fi show, it has nothing to do with Halloween. That being said, if you don't get a TARDIS, then you stink and your party stinks.

Penny: (getting a text) Ugh. It's Leonard. He wants to go costume shopping later.
Amy: I thought you liked Halloween.
Penny: No, I do, it's just he wants to go to that party at the comic book store. A lot of the guys that hang out there are kind of creepy.
Bernadette: Like my husband?
Amy: And my boyfriend?
Penny: (trying to change the subject) I'm... I'm sorry, Amy, you were saying something about Howard's foreskin?

Bernadette: I just think in relationships, you get back what you put into them.
Amy: That's not always true. Last night, I gave Sheldon my best come-hither look and he responded by explaining how wheat came to be cultivated.
Penny: Uh, I guess I could try probably try a little harder.
Bernadette: You could start by taking an interest in his work.
Penny: Yeah, that's kind of a problem.
Amy: Why?
Penny: Not really clear on what he does.
Bernadette: He's an experimental physicist.
Penny: Yeah, I'm not really clear on what that means.
Amy: He takes hypotheses and designs protocols to determine their accuracy.
Penny: Yeah, you're really just making it worse.

Raj: Before I forget, I'd like your opinion on the menus I've prepared for the Halloween party. The theme is "Food that goes bump in the night."
Howard: Creature from the Black Forest Ham Lagoon.
Raj: On Sesame seed Bunzillas.
Sheldon: Night of the Living Garlic Bread?
Raj: It's funny because "bread" sounds like "dead".
Sheldon: I'm sorry, but these are just ordinary foods with the names bent into tortured puns. Uh, the dishes themselves are in no way Halloweeny.
Raj: (writing it down) Ooh, Hallow-weenies! That's a good one. They'll pair nicely with my "Draculoni and Cheese." How do I do it?

Sheldon: Couples' costumes are one of the few benefits of being in a relationship. Now, imagine this: you and I entering Stuart's party and all eyes turn to see America's most beloved and glamorous couple.
Amy: (excited) Yeah?
Sheldon: (her face falls) R2-D2 and C-3PO! Dibs on 3PO.
Amy: Sheldon, when I said couples' costume, I meant like, uh, Romeo and Juliet or Cinderella and Prince Charming, not two robots from some silly movie I don't even like.
Sheldon: Y... okay! I'm gonna let that slide because I know you're hopped up on teabags.
Amy: I make compromises for you all the time. Just this once, can't we find something that we're both happy with?
Sheldon: Fine. How about one of the most beguiling and influential couples of the 20th century? Hewlett and Packard. Dibs on Hewlett.
(seeing her look)
Sheldon: What, you want to be Hewlett?

Penny: (after Leonard and Penny emerge from the TARDIS) Nothing to see here. Sexy police business.
Leonard: Just explaining the theory of relativity.
(whispers to Howard)
Leonard: twice

Penny: (for Halloween, Leonard is dressed as Albert Einstein and Penny as a 'sexy cop') I told you in the car, no accent.
Leonard: Sorry, officer.

Bernadette: What's that?
Howard: It's just a video Raj sent me of Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz Aldrin: (Handing out Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters) Here's a Milky Way. The Milky Way is a galaxy in space. I've been to space. Here's a Mars bar. I'm an astronaut. This one's a Moon Pie. I've walked on the moon. What have you done?
Howard: Okay, I get it.

Penny: Better not be building a robot girlfriend.
Leonard: No, although Howard was making some real strides in that area until he met Bernadette.
Penny: You're kidding.
Leonard: Nope. Now the Lisatronic 3000 just sits in a box waiting for the phone to ring.

Raj: (offering to help Stuart with his Halloween party) You know, you don't worry about money. I'll take care of everything.
Stuart: Really?
Raj: Yeah, you'll love it. Ain't no party like a Koothra-party.
Howard: But you know what wasn't a party? That hotel in Kazakhstan they put you up in before the launch. I mean, it's your last night on Earth. You'd think you'd get one porn channel.

Sheldon: Raggedy Ann and Andy stand for three things I don't care for: clowns, children and raggediness.

Bernadette: Howie, I know you went to space. I'm incredibly proud of you. But you might wanna try and not bring it up every minute.
Howard: I don't talk about it every minute.
Bernadette: Tonight at dinner, you went on about it for an hour straight.
Howard: What was I supposed to talk about? We were eating at Johnny Rockets.
Bernadette: I'm just saying, people are getting a little tired of it.
Howard: So, I did this amazing thing and I'm never allowed to mention it?
Bernadette: Of course you can. But maybe a good rule would be to wait for people to bring it up.

Leonard: Have you noticed that Howard can take any topic and use it to remind you that he went to space?
Sheldon: Interesting hypothesis. Let's apply the scientific method. Perform an experiment.
Leonard: Okay. Hey Howard, any thoughts on where we should get dinner?
Howard: Anywhere but the space station. On a good day, dinner was a bag full of meatloaf. But hey, you don't go there for the food, you go there for the view.
Sheldon: Fascinating. Let me see if I can duplicate the result. Howard, I've always thought the lemon was an underrated fruit. Care to weigh in?
Howard: Not really.
Sheldon: Oh, well.
Howard: You know, people say the Soyuz capsule is a lemon. But, hey, that baby got me to space and back.

Amy: There are certain things that say to the world, I have a boyfriend and he's not made up. matching costumes, hickeys, and sex tapes. Pick one.
Sheldon: What's a hickey?

Bernadette: Let me guess. Slutty cop?
Penny: No, sexy cop. Slutty cop only came with the skirt and two badges.
Bernadette: And Albert Einstein?
Leonard: Ja, und later, she's going to arrest me for going faster than the schpeed of light.

Howard: Boy, it's nice to sleep in a bed with gravity again. Did I tell you about the night my retainer floated out of my mouth and into the air lock?
Bernadette: Yeah, you mentioned it once or twice.

Raj: Hey, Stuart, I see you're getting ready for your Halloween party.
Stuart: Yeah, it's my annual attempt to meet women. Ninth time's the charm.
Raj: Would you like me to help? I do have a certain je ne sais quoi when it comes to soirees.
Stuart: Thanks, but I can't afford je ne sais quoi. How much for just quoi?

Bernadette: You have to go to that party 'cause we're going.
Penny: Yeah, I'm gonna go. It's just not my idea of a good time.
Bernadette: Leonard does things he doesn't like to make you happy.
Penny: Well, yeah, he's my boyfriend. Isn't that, like, his job?
Amy: Then what's your job?
Penny: Letting him make me happy.

Amy: I'm Raggedy Ann, and he's Raggedy C-3PO.
Sheldon: We compromised. I lost.

Howard: Oh, hey, Stuart, I got you a little souvenir from my trip to space.
Stuart: Well, Howard, that's very nice of you.
Leonard: Yeah, maybe. Open it first.
Howard: It's my official NASA portrait.
Stuart: "To Stuart. Your comic book store is out of this world. Just like the guy in this picture was."
Sheldon: For the record, he also thinks the Walgreens and the dry cleaners are out of this world.
Howard: That's not true. At the Walgreens, I was "over the moon" for their store-brand antacids.

Amy: Sheldon, I was thinking, since this is gonna be our first Halloween party as boyfriend and girlfriend, I thought it might be fun for us to go in a couples costume.
Sheldon: I couldn't agree more.
Amy: Really? I find that inconsistent with everything I know about you.

Howard: Bernadette said you guys are all sick of me talking about my trip to space. Is that true?
Sheldon: Yes.
Raj: No.
Sheldon: We seem to have different approaches here. I was going for helpful honesty. I have no idea what you're doing.
Raj: It's called being nice.
Sheldon: Okay. If you think being nice will get him to shut up, I'll try it.

Notes and Trivia

Besides the above mentioned couples costume ideas, the ones listed on Sheldon's side are R2-D2 and C-3PO, Hewlett & Packard, Batman & Robin, Jobs & Wozniak, Kirk & Spock, Arthur Dent & Ford Prefect, and Doctor Who & a Dalek. The ones on Amy's side (besides those mentioned above), are Cinderella & Prince Charming, Anthony & Cleopatra, Lady & Tramp, Romeo & Juliet, Jack & Rose from Titanic (1997), and Dharma & Greg (a show also produced by Chuck Lorre). Also mentioned in dialog: Sheldon suggests salt and pepper (the condiments, not the rappers), and Amy offers Raggedy Ann and Andy.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong, makes his first guest appearance on the show.

Howard makes a point of how everyone's tired of him bragging about being in space by doing a perfect imitation of Bernadette, to which she responds (in a lower tone than usual) "I don't sound like that." Melissa Rauch uses her actual voice when saying this line.

Leonard and Penny's tryst inside the TARDIS is an inside joke. It parodies the honeymoon of the Doctor's companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams in Doctor Who (2005), which took place inside the TARDIS and is a major plot point of the sixth season. In addition, Penny wears a sexy Policewoman's outfit, parodying Amy's job as a kiss-o-gram girl in a similar costume.

The purple witch at the comic store party, Janelle Marra, had previously appeared with Kaley Cuoco in the Charmed (1998) episode Repo Manor (2006). In the Charmed episode however, Cuoco played a witch who vanquished Marra's demon.

Goofs

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