S07E14 - The Convention Conundrum
No: 149 |
Season: 7
Episode: 14 |
Air Date: 2014-01-30 |
Runtime: mins
Summary
When the guys can't get hold of any Comic-Con tickets, Sheldon tries to hold his own convention and ends up spending a wild night with James Earl Jones. Meanwhile, the girls try to feel more mature by going to a fancy hotel for tea.
Director and Writers
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Adam Faberman / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
Script
Script: S07E14 - The Convention Conundrum
Quotes
Sheldon: No, wait, I need you to call Stan Lee, Leonard Nimoy, and Bill Nye, the Science Guy, because legally, I'm not allowed to. Oh, and also Carrie Fisher. I hear she can be pretty nuts.
Sheldon: Gentlemen, I am one step away from securing a huge guest for my convention.
Leonard: Does that step include chloroform and a roll of duct tape?
Sheldon: I don't think that will be necessary for Mr. James Earl Jones. You heard me. The voice of Darth Vader, the Lion King's dad, and F.Y.I., the guy who says "This is CNN", which also sounds like Darth Vader.
Sheldon: Singing with James Earl Jones : in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight-take it away mufasa!
Penny: (the guys have been unable to buy Comic-Con tickets) Guys, this is really sad. And in a different way than it was twenty minutes ago.
Sheldon: (on top of the Santa Monica Ferris wheel) Hey, Los Angeles! I'm on a Ferris wheel with Darth Vader! And he's nicer than you'd think!
James Earl Jones: I am!
James Earl Jones: (looks up from his menu to see Sheldon standing there) Let me guess: you like Star Wars.
Sheldon: (nods)
James Earl Jones: You know I've been in other movies.
Sheldon: (nods again)
James Earl Jones: But you don't care about those, do you?
Sheldon: (shakes his head)
James Earl Jones: (motions Sheldon closer) I have one thing to say to people like you: I like Star Wars too! Care to join me?
Sheldon: Thank you! My friend Leonard said if I bothered you while you were eating, you'd think I was a creepy stalker.
James Earl Jones: Well, your friend Leonard sounds like a real weenie!
Sheldon: He is, Mr. Earl Jones, he is!
James Earl Jones: You know, when I first read the script for Empire Strikes Back, and Darth Vader told Luke he was his father, I thought for sure he was lying.
Sheldon: You too? But he wasn't, was he?
James Earl Jones: He was not! How messed up was that?
Sheldon: (sneaking up to a house) I don't understand what we're doing.
James Earl Jones: Shhhh!
Sheldon: Whose house is this?
James Earl Jones: Carrie Fisher. And she's a little crazy, so get ready to run.
(he rings the doorbell, and they run for it)
Carrie Fisher: (storms out with a baseball bat) It's not funny anymore, James!
James Earl Jones: Then why am I laughing?
Raj: Hey, since Sheldon's not going to Comic-Con, maybe we could find a cool trio to dress up as.
Leonard: Mmm... what if we go as the Fantastic Four and just tell people that the Invisible Girl is standing there with us?
Howard: Aww, and I thought our days of pretending to be with women who don't exist were over.
Leonard: (trying to buy tickets to Comic-Con) I did it! I did it! I'm in the queue!
(Sheldon, Raj, and Howard all cheer)
Sheldon: And they say firefighters are the real heroes.
Raj: Uh... what number in line are you?
Leonard: Fifty...
Howard: Great!
Leonard: ...thousand two hundred and eleven.
Howard: Damn!
James Earl Jones: (in a steam room) What were you trying to ask me at the strip club?
Sheldon: Oh. "How much does it cost to get them off my lap?"
James Earl Jones: No, something about a convention.
Sheldon: Oh, right! Well, my friends and I couldn't get into Comic-Con this year, and I was trying to start my own convention, and I was going to ask if you would be a panelist.
James Earl Jones: Why don't you and your friends come to Comic-Con with me?
Sheldon: Really?
James Earl Jones: Of course. And San Diego is right across the border from my favorite city on Earth, Tijuana, where I'm taking you every night!
Sheldon: Ay-yi-yi.
James Earl Jones: Ay-yi-yi-bang-bang!
Notes and Trivia
Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones, who played Princess Leia and Darth Vader in Star Wars respectively, had never met in real life before this episode, even though they play major characters in the original Star Wars movies. James Earl Jones would always be in a sound booth providing the voice of Darth Vader, and Carrie Fisher would be on set with David Prowse, who provided the physical acting of Darth Vader. This is paralleled in their scene together in this episode where we see Carrie Fisher on-screen , but only hear the voice of James Earl Jones, who is off-screen. The first time they met, Fisher yelled "DAD!" to Jones, a reference to Darth Vader being the father of Princess Leia.
Carrie Fisher lives at number 138, which most likely refers to her character Princess Leia being imprisoned in cell block 1138 in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). The same number is used as an Easter Egg throughout the Star Wars franchise, and was derived from the title of THX 1138 (1971), a previous movie by director George Lucas.
James Earl Jones came up with the idea of the scene where he rings Carrie Fisher's doorbell and runs away.
Sheldon and Leonard own the limited edition R2-D2 Xbox console. It can be seen in the part where Leonard convinces Raj and Howard to go through with purchasing scalper's tickets.
The names of the possible guests for Sheldon-Con, as seen on his white-board, are as follows: Zachary Quinto, Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Matt Smith, Billy Dee Williams, Simon Pegg, Jon Favreau, Ian McKellen, Stan Lee, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, Wil Wheaton, Ahmed Best, Robert Downey Jr., Leonard Nimoy, Bill Nye, Carrie Fisher, Adam West, Anybody who played Uncle Ben, Anybody who shot Uncle Ben.
The sushi restaurant Sheldon meets James Earl Jones at is called "Kaiju Sushi". Kaiju means "strange creature" in Japanese, and is also the name of the huge monsters in the movie Pacific Rim (2013). The most famous Kaiju is Godzilla.
Goofs
None
Cast
| Johnny Galecki | Leonard Hofstadter |
| Jim Parsons | Sheldon Cooper |
| Kaley Cuoco | Penny |
| Simon Helberg | Howard Wolowitz |
| Kunal Nayyar | Raj Koothrappali |
| Mayim Bialik | Amy Farrah Fowler |
| Melissa Rauch | Bernadette Rostenkowski |
| James Earl Jones | James Earl Jones |
| Carrie Fisher | Carrie Fisher |
