S07E19 - The Indecision Amalgamation

No: 154  |  Season: 7   Episode: 19  |  Air Date: 2014-04-03  |  Runtime: mins

Sheldon: On the one hand, the Xbox One has a better camera, but the PS4 has a removable hard drive. Thoughts? Amy: I can't feel my legs.

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Summary

While Raj is wracked with guilt when he tries to date Lucy and Emily at the same time, Penny wrestles with whether to take a role in a cheesy movie and Sheldon is torn trying to choose between two gaming systems.

Director and Writers

Director: Anthony Rich
Writers: Story by: Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland

Script

Script: S07E19 - The Indecision Amalgamation

Quotes

Leonard: So, you gonna see her again?
Raj: Yeah, we have plans this weekend. And if it's a clear night, I'm gonna lay some romantic astronomy on her.
Penny: Okay, like what? Show me.
Raj: I can't do that to Leonard. This is some powerful panty-dropping stuff.
Leonard: You have my blessing. Go for it.
Raj: Okay.
(clears throat)
Raj: Penny, two of the brightest stars in the night sky are Altair and Vega. And it is said they were deeply in love but forever separated by the celestial river of the Milky Way... But once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month, Vega cries so hard that all the magpies in the world fly up and create a bridge with their wings so the two lovers can be together for a single night of passion.

Leonard: Does it at least pay well?
Penny: Less than what I was making at the Cheesecake Factory.
Leonard: What does your agent think?
Penny: She's thinking of taking a job at the Cheesecake Factory.

Penny: Okay, look here, page 58. I oil-wrestle an orangutan in a bikini.
Leonard: Just to clarify, which one of you is wearing the bikini?
Penny: Both of us.

Penny: Sometimes I feel like I can control the killer gorilla instinct inside of me, but then I see these bananas and then I want to eat them and then kill people. What am I gonna do?
Leonard: For one thing, I wouldn't eat those bananas.

Sheldon: Now, the PS4 is more angular and sleak-looking.
Amy: (Sarcastically) No way!
Sheldon: it's true. But the larger size of the XBox One may keep it from overheating.
Amy: Huh, you wouldn't want your gaming system to overheat.
Sheldon: You absolutely would not! And furthermore, the XBox One now comes with a kinect included.
Amy: Included?
Sheldon: Yes, not sold separately. Although the PS4 uses cool new GDDR-5 RAM while the XBox's still using the conventional DDR-3 memory.
Amy: Why would they still be using DDR-3? Are they nuts?
Sheldon: See, that's what I thought! But then they go and throw an ES RAM buffer.
Amy: W-w-wait a second, who's 'they'?
Sheldon: XBox.
Amy: You're kidding!
Sheldon: I am not! This ES RAM buffer should totally bridge the 100 GB per second bandwith gap between the two RAM types!
Amy: This is a nightmare, how will you ever make a decision?
Sheldon: See, I don't know! What should I do?
Amy: Please pass the butter!

Amy: How can you possibly make a decision?
Sheldon: I don't know.
Amy: (shouting) Please pass the butter!

Raj: What if one of them asks me what I was up to the night before and I was with the other one. Then what, do I lie?
Bernadette, Howard: Yes.
Bernadette: What do you mean, yes?
Leonard: What do *you* mean, yes?
Bernadette: Were you seeing other women when we started dating?
Howard: No. Were you seeing other men?
Bernadette: No.
Leonard: Were you seeing other men?
Penny: No.
Leonard: Aren't you going to ask me?
Penny: Come on, really?

Bernadette: Does this make me a horrible person?
Amy: No, of course not. It was an accident.
Bernadette: What about that I wish she would die before she read the card?
Amy: Okay, now you're straddling the line.

Raj: Penny, two of the brightest stars in the night sky are Altair and Vega. And it is said they were deeply in love, but forever separated by the celestial river of the Milky Way.
Penny: Oh, that's sad.
Raj: It is. But once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month, Vega cries so hard that all the magpies of the world fly up and create a bridge with their wings so the two lovers can be together for single night of passion.
(Penny sighs)
Leonard: Okay, that's enough!

Wil Wheaton: I was in "Stand by Me" when I was a kid, and it was a huge success. The terrible movies I did came after that. Imagine how that feels.
Leonard: Sounds rough.
Wil Wheaton: I'm telling you, this business is brutal. To this day, I hate going on auditions. Okay, I walk in, and I can just feel them thinking, "He was such a cute kid. What happened to him?" And then I don't get the job, and I can never find out why. Honestly, I get so depressed, there are entire weeks that I can't even get out of bed.
Penny: Okay, this was helpful.

Emily: Your friend e-mailed me because you were afraid to so you tracked me down and acted like a lunatic.

Sheldon: I'm employing the work of Dutch researcher Mirjam Tuk, who found that people with full bladders make better decisions.
Leonard: Why did I pee before I decided to move in here?

Sheldon: First, there was PS1, then PS2, followed by PS3, and now PS4. Logical, right? But with the XBox, instead of XBox 2, they had XBox 360. And now there's XBox One... Why one? Probably the amount of time it took to come up with the name.

Amy: How about this. They say if you flip a coin, it shows your true feelings, because you'll either be excited or disappointed by the outcome. So, heads it's an XBox One, tails it's a PS4.
Sheldon: All right.
(flips coin)
Amy: So, what is it?
Sheldon: A quarter.
(Tosses quarter away)
Amy: Could have given it back to me. That was a choice.

Sheldon: Quick poll! PS4 or Xbox One? Raj?
Raj: Uh, Xbox One.
Sheldon: Penny!
Penny: Huh?
Sheldon: Leonard!
Leonard: PS4.
Sheldon: Wolowitz!
Howard: They're both great.
Sheldon: Bernadette!
Bernadette: I like the Wii.
Sheldon: Thanks, grandma.

Emily: That's kind of adorable.
Raj: Are you sure? Because this is the part of the night where I've said something stupid and the girl usually leaves.
Emily: I'm still here.
Raj: Yeah, but now you make me wonder what's wrong with you.

Raj: What was I thinking? I can't handle two women. Zero women, that's my sweet spot.

Bernadette: Can I get your opinion on something that happened at work today?
Amy: Of course.
Penny: Sure.
Bernadette: Okay, well, I did something that will either make me look like a lovable goof, or a horrible monster, damned to spend eternity in hell.
Amy: Oh, I'm sure it's lovable.
Penny: I'm gonna' go with monster. What do ya' got?
Bernadette: Well, there's this lady in our office who's retiring, and they were passing around one of those big cards for us to sign, but no one told me she was in a horrible car accident over the weekend, and what I was signing was not a retirement card, but was actually a get well card.
Penny: (laughing) I'm liking my odds here.
Bernadette: So on the card, in the hospital, next to the woman who's clinging to life, are the words "Hey Vivian, you deserve this. And at least with you gone, no one will steal my yogurt out of the fridge. LOL, smiley. P.S., Good luck, wherever you wind up."
Penny: Why didn't I put money on this?

Leonard: I know it's a stupid question, but why are you being stupid?

Leonard: Oh. How you're audition go?
Penny: I killed it. I was able to cry real tears on the spot.
Leonard: Oh, that's great.
Penny: Next time I get pulled over for a speeding ticket, here comes the waterworks.
Sheldon: (Running away) Here comes the waterworks!
Leonard: Aren't you going to ask?
Penny: What? Is this my first day?

Sheldon: On the one hand, the XBox One has a camera. On the other hand, the PS4 has a removable hard drive. Thoughts?
Amy: I can't feel my legs.

Notes and Trivia

On the Chuck Lorre Productions, #451 vanity card displayed at the end of the episode, the SERIAL APE-IST 2 script cover page is shown (supposedly written by Vince Gilligan), with a cursive note that appears to say, "Thanks Vince, You're a good sport, bitch! Chuck Lorre". The catchphrase word "Bitch!" was frequently used by the character Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad (2008), which was created by Gilligan.

Raj's tale of Altair and Vega is the Chinese legend of Zhinu and Niulang which has been celebrated during the annual Qixi festival for the past 2600 years.

Sheldon mentions that he once made the mistake of going for the Microsoft Zune rather than the Apple iPod, a callback to his line to Raj in The Staircase Implementation (2010): "I assure you, you'll be sorry you wasted your money on an iPod, when Microsoft comes out with theirs." The Zune did mediocre business from the time of release and was discontinued a mere five years afterwards.

Sheldon's red T-shirt shows beakers of chemicals, a plus sign, lightning bolts, an equal sign, and the insignia for The Flash. This equation reflects the comic book origin story of the Flash, where a lightning bolt struck a case full of laboratory chemicals, drenching scientist Barry Allen and endowing him with superhuman speed: Chemicals + lightning bolt = The Flash.

Title Reference: Sheldon, Penny and Raj are all indecisive about choices they have to make.

While Penny and Leonard are reading the script for the movie Penny has been offered, "Ape-Ist 2: Monkey See, Monkey Kill," the front cover of the script is seen, with the screenplay author shown. The name of the screenplay author is Vince Gilligan, who in real life was the writer/producer of both Breaking Bad (2008) and The X-Files (1993).

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