S07E03 - The Scavenger Vortex

No: 138  |  Season: 7   Episode: 3  |  Air Date: 2013-10-03  |  Runtime: mins

Penny: Sheldon's spot. The coin is in your spot. Sheldon: Oh, that's clever.

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Summary

The gang get competitive when they are forced to take part in Raj's scavenger hunt.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S07E03 - The Scavenger Vortex

Quotes

Penny: (after Sheldon explains how he came to the solution of the riddle) Wow. I can drink a beer under water.
Sheldon: And I'm sure your parents are proud.

Howard: Wow, you're really good at puzzles.
Amy: I did them all the time as a kid. As my mom used to say: when you're doing a puzzle, it's like having a thousand friends. She was full of fun lies like that.
Howard: If it makes you feel any better, my mom's just full of pound cake.
Amy: Sorry you got stuck with me. I bet you wanted to be with Bernadette.
Howard: Have you ever played a game with Bernadette?
Amy: No.
Howard: Have you ever gone into a steel cage with a wolverine?

Leonard: Hey, Penny, I just wanted to say good luck, and I hope there's no hard feelings.
Bernadette: (angrily) Hey!
(punches Leonard in the chest hard)
Bernadette: Romeo! Repair your relationship on your own time!

Leonard: I'm okay with you driving my car; I'm not okay with you flying my car.
Bernadette: Don't sweat it; my dad's a cop; used to fix things.
Leonard: Uh-huh. Like *death*.

(everyone is shocked at Raj about the outcome of the game)
Leonard: (tiredly) Are you kidding me?
Penny: (incredulously) That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Bernadette: (huffing) You suck... so hard!

Raj: So. Couldn't help but notice. None of you RSVP'd to my murder mystery dinner party.
Leonard: Oh yeah. We were meaning to do that.
Raj: No you weren't, because it was a week ago and nobody came! So if you want to solve the mystery of who stabbed Koothrappali in the back with the weapon of indifference, it was all of you.
Sheldon: Don't think that qualifies as a mystery. We all knew what we were doing.
Amy: We're sorry, Rajesh.
Bernadette: Maybe we can do it next week.
Howard: Whoa, whoa, not that sorry.
Raj: Don't worry, I can take a hint. No more murder mystery parties.
Sheldon: Great.
Leonard: Thank you.
Howard: Hallelujah.
Raj: Because I've got something better planned!
Howard, Leonard, Amy: Aaw.
Sheldon: Come on.
Raj: Just hear me out. I'm going to make you guys a scavenger hunt like they have at M.I.T.
Howard: Oh, I loved those. I did them every year there.
Leonard: We did them at Princeton too.
Howard: Oh, that's cute. Like it's a real college.
Sheldon: Amusing. I was going to say that about M.I.T., but it works for Princeton, too.
Amy: Scavenger hunts at Harvard we're really tough. I always got stuck on the first challenge; trying to find someone to be on a team with me.
(laughs)
Amy: I guess that story's more sad than funny.

Amy: (scrolling through the playlist on Howard's iPod) The Beatles? Boring. Eminem? Scary. Weird Al? How old are you?

Penny: (to Leonard) You know, I'm surprised you want to copy my answers since I'm not even smart enough to be on your team.
Leonard: Well, why would you want to be on someone's team who you like to call a... I can't even say it in front of Sheldon.
Penny: What are you talking about?
Leonard: You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Bernadette: No, he doesn't. I just made that up.
Leonard: Why would you do that?
Bernadette: Because you were about to quit like a big... Sheldon, cover your ears.
Sheldon: I'm not a child. I know the word "ninny".
Penny: (to Leonard) Yeah, well, you should have quit 'cause I'm still gonna beat your ass.

(singing karaoke)
Howard: Hey, she got the way to move me / Cherry
Amy: She got the way to groove me
Howard: Cherry, baby
Amy: She got the way to move me
Howard, Amy: She got the way to groove me / ba ba ba ba / She got the way to move me / Cherry / She got the way to groove me
Howard: Yah.

Sheldon: Okay. Another thirty feet...
Penny: Oh, it's a bowling alley!
Sheldon: (picks up his bowling ball) Yes! Yes! My brain is better than everybody's!

Raj: Okay, guys, go ahead and divide yourselves into teams of two.
Bernadette: Should we just do couples?
Leonard: Couples sounds great, or we could mix things up. Maybe pick names out of a hat; whatever.
Penny: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why don't you just admit you don't want to be on a team with me?
Leonard: I just said couples sound great.
Penny: Hm-mm. Yeah. You don't think I'm smart enough. You just think I'm going to be a liability. Even though I totally just used liability correctly in a sentence.
(Amy nods at her)
Leonard: So, let's do couples. I want to.
Penny: No, no, no. Let's mix things up. I choose Sheldon; we're going to kick your ass.
Sheldon: Really? The only time I'm ever picked first for a team, and I'm stuck with the liability.
Amy: Stop that. Penny is not a liability.
Penny: Thank you. Do you want to be on my team?
Amy: Maybe we pick names out of a hat?

Penny: (to Raj, coldly, regarding the outcome of the game) Run. Run to India.

Bernadette: Quitting would be the worst thing for your relationship.
Leonard: Why?
Bernadette: Because it would make you seem like something she already thinks you are.
Leonard: What does she think I am?
Bernadette: How do I put this? She's been known to call you a name that usually applies to a lady part... Or a cat... Or a willow.

Bernadette: How am I faster than you? I'm in heels, *and* I stopped to take a phone call!
Leonard: I have asthma. Back off!

(Penny runs into the comic book store, only to find everyone else there)
Penny: Ugh! We're the last ones here! Hurry up!
Sheldon: (coming in, wearing a backpack) It is a marathon, not a sprint.
Penny: People run in a marathon!
Sheldon: Not with a bowling ball on their back.

Sheldon: It's dirty laundry. You're up.
Penny: Why me?
Sheldon: Because you've been training for this your whole life. You live in a pile of dirty laundry.

Amy: Sheldon never lets me listen to music in the car. He doesn't want to be mistaken for a gang member.

Notes and Trivia

The map coordinate 34.1516,-118.0767 does point to a bowling alley in reality - Bowlmor Pasadena. It is formerly named "300 Pasadena", the name that appeared at the gate of the bowling alley in the show, and the name that Google Maps labels it.

Goofs

None

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