S06E17 - The Monster Isolation

No: 128  |  Season: 6   Episode: 17  |  Air Date: 2013-02-21  |  Runtime: mins

Leonard: Whoa. Raj: What? Leonard: Nope, just, just, whoa.

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Summary

Raj falls apart after his date sneaks out on him, and Sheldon reluctantly returns the favor after Penny helps him out with his "Fun With Flags" program.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S06E17 - The Monster Isolation

Quotes

Amy: (yelling at her test monkey) Yeah, yeah, you want a cigarette; well, I'd like a normal boyfriend! Deal with it!

Raj: I kind of have a hard time around people I don't know.
Raj: Really? Then what were you doing at the comic book store that night?
Lucy: I've been trying to force myself into situations that I'm not comfortable with. I saw the flyer in the store window, and I made myself go in. I don't even like comic books.
Raj: Yeah. Me neither.
Lucy: Then what were you doing there?
Raj: I lied, I love them. I only said that so you'd go out with me.
Lucy: You don't want to do that. I'm kind of broken.
Raj: That's great! I'm broken too.
Lucy: Oh, no, you're not.
Raj: Oh, I totally am! If it wasn't for this beer, I couldn't even talk to you right now. I'm a wreck. There are many things seriously wrong with me. And not quirks, either. Like, diagnosable, psychological problems.
(pauses)
Raj: Maybe brain damage.
Lucy: How do I know you're not just saying that?
Raj: Go out with me on one date, and I promise you you'll see.
Lucy: OK. Text me. Bye.
(starts to leave)
Raj: (yelling at her as she leaves) You won't regret it! I'm the most pathetic guy you've ever met!
(to himself)
Raj: And that, boys and girls, is how it's done.

Penny: Maybe this time you could work on your body language a bit. You know, when you're all hunched like that you're shutting the audience out, but when you're relaxed and open you're inviting them in.
Sheldon: Right. And which one do I want?

Penny: (Opens the door just as Sheldon approaches) Oh, hi. What's up?
Sheldon: (Uneasy) Um... ..
Penny: Do you want me to shut the door so you can do your knocking thing?
Sheldon: No, I didn't start yet. It's fine
Penny: Okay. So, whaddaya need?
Sheldon: Well, I was thinking about you helping me out last night...
(knock, knock, knock)
Sheldon: ... Penny. And I just wanted to tell you
(knock, knock, knock)
Sheldon: Penny, that the answer to the question "who did a great job" is you
(knock, knock, knock)
Sheldon: Penny.

Raj: From now on, I-I-I'm a monk. I renounce all worldly pleasures. Except for lobster. And garlic butter.

Sheldon: How's the final stage of your nicotine addiction study going?
Amy: (as monkeys screech loudly off-screen) Fine. Just hold on.
(yells at monkeys)
Amy: Mommy's on the phone!
(Back to Sheldon)
Amy: Sorry. We've cut the monkeys down to one cigarette a day, so things are a little intense. Makes me miss my marijuana-abusing flatworms; those guys were mellow.

Howard: I'm telling you, something's wrong. I can always feel it when Raj is in trouble.
Bernadette: Jeez. How close were you guys before we got married?
Leonard: Don't look under that rock.

Sheldon: I haven't seen Raj in several days. Is he no longer a part of our social group? And if so, should we be interviewing for a replacement? Perhaps this time we go Latin.
Howard: Just decided he's never leaving his apartment again.
Sheldon: Ah, brilliant! I've been itching to pull that trigger.

Sheldon: Hello. I'm Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Welcome to Sheldon Cooper presents 'Fun with Flags'. My apologies that this episode is coming late. I did shoot one last week in honor of Black History Month, but I was informed by my roommate that my spot-on portrayal of George Washington Carver could be considered wildly racist. My heart goes out to the members of the African-American community, who, like me, have been kept down by the Man.

Howard: (to Lucy) I gotta warn you, Raj is a proud, passionate man. If you go running out on him again, you're... only gonna get like three or four more chances before you are history.

Raj: I was humiliated by yet another woman.
Howard: You didn't kill her and chop her up, that's not what we're smelling, right?

Raj: So, then I went to Cambridge, which was wonderful; not only because it's a good school, but because it totally looks like Hogwarts. That's where I fell in love with astronomy and now I'm an astrophysicist at Caltech, so I guess you could say, uh, Raj is my name and stars are my game. And rhyming is also my game. So, uh... two games. Uh, anyway, that's uh, that's enough about me; I want to hear everything about you.
Lucy: I have to go to the bathroom.
Raj: I go to the bathroom too. Sometimes more frequently than I care to admit. Oh, I've had it checked out; it's nothing.
(Lucy heads off)
Raj: This is going great! Can I have a refill on my chai tea? Ah, yes, I've a good feeling about this.
(Lucy sneaks out)
Raj: I should have bought condoms!

Sheldon: A few people in the comments section have said that my delivery is robotic. Perhaps that isn't the compliment it sounds like.

Raj: (asking Lucy why a date ended badly) Can you at least tell me what went wrong? It's OK. I can take anything. Unless it's something I did, or said, or am, 'cause those are like my buttons.

Leonard: So, Amy, what's going on with your addiction study?
Amy: Sadly, I'm no longer associated with that project.
Leonard: Why? What happened?
Amy: Typical bureaucratic nonsense. You can get animals addicted to a harmful substance, you can dissect their brains, but you throw their own feces back at them, and suddenly you're unprofessional.
Leonard: I'm sorry... that I asked.

Sheldon: So, Penny, what sort of flag questions keep you awake at night?
Penny: Um, well, I'm from Nebraska. So what can you tell me about the state flag?
Sheldon: Gosh, Penny. What'd you have for breakfast, a big glass of good-question juice?

Penny: (Penny is performing on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois) You love her very much, don't you?
Tom: Yes.
Penny: I think you have great capacity for devotion. You'll be lonely when she passes on, won't you? I understand what that is.
Tom: To be lonely?
Leonard: She's pretty good, huh?
Sheldon: She is, but when do they get to the part about streetcars?
Penny: ...when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen years old I made the discovery. Love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow. That's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.
Sheldon: She's remarkable.
Leonard: She really is.
Amy: Our Penny's a star.
Sheldon: How can she remember all those lines, but as a waitress she can't remember "no tomato" on my hamburger?

Sheldon: If our friend the flag's taught me anything, it's to go where the wind takes you... as long as you remain firmly attached to a rigid pole.

Notes and Trivia

Both Raj and his sister Priya attended Cambridge University.

Penny demonstrates her acting skills for the second time, the first being a hemorrhoid commercial in Season 5's The Skank Reflex Analysis (2011).

Penny is the guest on Sheldon's "Fun with Flags" with a show honoring the state flag of Nebraska.

When Sheldon is filming his "Fun with Flags" segment, behind him to his right is the flag of the United States of America. On the other side of the white board is Sheldon and Leonard's apartment flag - Lion rampant on field of azure, as described in Season 3's The Staircase Implementation (2010).

Goofs

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