S07E20 - The Relationship Diremption

No: 155  |  Season: 7   Episode: 20  |  Air Date: 2014-04-10  |  Runtime: mins

Sheldon: I suppose I could see myself in a scientific boy band. Of course, I'd be the dreamy one and the smart one.

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Summary

Penny tries to help Sheldon when he reconsiders his "relationship" with String Theory. During a dinner with Howard and Bernadette, Raj discovers Howard once embarrassed himself on a date with Emily.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Steven Molaro & Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds / Teleplay by: Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland

Script

Script: S07E20 - The Relationship Diremption

Quotes

Voicemail: Next message.
Sheldon: It's me again. I gave up string theory. You should give up black holes and we could totally solve crimes together.
Voicemail: Next message.
Sheldon: You know what's great? Geology! Look at this geode! That's fun to say. Gee-ode. Gee-ode.
Voicemail: Next message.
Sheldon: Gee-ode. Gee-ode. I kiss girls now.
Voicemail: Next message.
Sheldon: Hey, guess who I am? Beep-bop-boop-bop! I'm you! Get it?
Voicemail: Next message.
Sheldon: Are you mad at me? Oh, no! You're mad at me! I'm so sorry! Beep-bop-boop-bop!
Voicemail: Next message.
Sheldon: Thiospinel sulfide. Thiospinel sulfide. That's even more fun to say than gee-ode. Hey, did you see the Lego Movie?
Stephen Hawking: What a jackass.

Emily: All my friends love this story. They call you Clogzilla.
Raj: (laughs) Get it? Because you clogged up her bathroom like a radioactive monster.

Sheldon: Why do we have a Geology book? Leonard, did you throw a children's party while I was in Texas?

Penny: OK, I get it. Not all the jibber jabber in the middle, but I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something and get nothing out of it.
Sheldon: You mean your acting career.
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Your relationship with Leonard.
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Your failed attempt to go back to college.
Penny: NO! I'm saying you and string theory sound like a relationship and I know what it's like to be in one and realize it's never going to turn out the way you want.
Sheldon: I said Leonard. You said no.
Penny: I'm talking about other guys.
Sheldon: OK. Well. What do you do?
Penny: You have to have the courage to end the relationship. You know, break it off, shake hands, walk away.

Leonard: (Penny is about to give Sheldon a haircut) Are you sure you want to do this?
Sheldon: The magazine article suggests that one of the ways to get over a breakup is a new look.
Leonard: What about your old look? Well groomed ventriloquist doll.
Penny: (moving Sheldon's arm as if he's a ventriloquist's dummy) Oh, my God. I do look like that!
Sheldon: Oh, stop it!
Penny: So how do you want me to cut it?
Sheldon: Oh, how 'bout Bill Gates meets Nikola Tesla?
Leonard: So, business in the front, science in the back!

Bernadette: So Emily. Why did you decide to specialize in dermatology?
Emily: I like cutting people with knives, and all the other jobs where you get to do that are illegal.
Bernadette: You're kidding, right?
Raj: She's scary, but it's a cute scary.

Sheldon: But now I realize I was just a simple country boy seduced by a big city theory with variables in all the right places.

Howard: I just hope he doesn't blow it.
Bernadette: Why would you say that?
Howard: Because he's Raj, that's his thing. Beckham can bend it, Ralph can wreck it, Raj can blow it.

Sheldon: You know, I didn't seek out string theory. It just hit me over the head one day.
Amy: How does that happen?
Sheldon: A bully chased me through the school library and hit me over the head with the biggest book he could find.

Sheldon: It suggests that I set these on fire, but the smell of burning books reminds me of church picnics in East Texas.

Howard: Oh crap, I know that girl.
Bernadette: How?
Howard: In a bad way, very bad. Whatever you hear tonight, just remember I love you.

Leonard: (In the morning Sheldon walks in with a GEOLOGY book) How you feeling?
Sheldon: Not so good.
Leonard: Are you going to introduce me to your friend?
Sheldon: It's not my friend. Nothing happened.
Leonard: I don't know. I heard you reading pretty loud last night.
Sheldon: Oh dear lord. Where's Amy?
Leonard: After she put you to bed, she went home.
Sheldon: Oh. I should call her and apologize. Oh no.
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: Apparently, I called Stephen Hawking last night.

Sheldon: I suppose I could see myself in a scientific boy band - of course I'd be the dreamy one and the smart one.

Kripke: ...there actuawwy was some big stwing theowy news today out of the Hadwon Cowwider.
Sheldon: Really? Did they find evidence to support extra dimensions or supersymmetry?
Kripke: No, but they did find evidence that you'll bewieve
(laughing)
Kripke: anything.
Sheldon: Why would you do that? You're a string theorist as well.
Kripke: Incowwect; I am a stwing pwagmatist. I say I'm going to pwove something that cannot be pwoved, I appwy for gwant money, and then I spend it on wiquor and bwoads.

Raj: If we're really going to do a double date, we need to go over some ground rules about Emily.
Howard: Like when it turns out she's made of rubber, I don't say anything?
Raj: She's very real.
Howard: That's what it says on the box. Right next to "dishwasher safe".

Leonard: What about loop quantum gravity?
Sheldon: (High-pitched voice) Ooh, Duchess, look at me! My quantum gravity is positively loopy!
Penny: Who's the duchess?
Leonard: One of the people that lives in his head.

Penny: What's wrong with geology?
Sheldon: Let me put this in a way you'll understand Penny. You remember how you explained to me that the Kardashians aren't real celebrities? Well, geology is the Kardashians of science.

Sheldon: Penny pointed out that what I am going through is essentially a breakup. And according to Cosmopolitan magazine, one of the most effective techniques for moving on is to get rid of all reminders of the relationship.
Howard: You're reading Cosmo?
Sheldon: Yes. As it turns out, there is an article on how to get over a breakup in literally every issue.

Howard: Well, turns out I had already met the girl Raj is seeing, when I did a number on her bathroom. And that number was two.

Penny: Hey, you're up early.
Sheldon: I couldn't sleep.
Penny: I told you those Walking Dead pillow cases were a bad idea.

Leonard: Hey, how is dating two women going?
Raj: Um, kind of hit a bump. When I was honest and told Emily she wasn't the only person I was seeing, it went great. So, I tried the same thing with Lucy.
Howard: And?
Raj: She had mixed feelings. But when I said, "Emily was cool with it. Emily's the best. Why can't you be more like Emily?", those feelings became less mixed.

Leonard: I got to tell you the more I read about the primordial gravity wave discovery the more excited I get.
Raj: I know. Being an astrophysicist right now is like being a rock star.
Howard: Only without the sex.

Sheldon: (knock-knock-knock) Empty room.
Sheldon: (knock-knock-knock) Empty room.
Sheldon: (knock-knock-knock) Empty room. If somebody says, "Come in", I'm gonna freak out!

Leonard: Have you considered studying standard model physics?
Sheldon: You want me to give up string theory for something that's less advanced? You know, why don't you break up with Penny and start dating a brown bear?
Penny: Like you could get a brown bear.
Leonard: Hey, I've got a good job. I could buy salmon. You don't know.

Amy: What did you do?
Penny: I gave him a new look. It's cute, huh?
Amy: Yeah, it's cute: that's the problem. I don't need other girls to see him walking around like sex on a stick.
Sheldon: She's right. I'm too hot.

Notes and Trivia

In the first season episode The Jerusalem Duality (2008), Dennis Kim already predicted that string theory was a dead end, and that Sheldon would eventually see it as well. It took Sheldon an additional six years to come to the same conclusion.

One of the fields that Leonard suggests for Sheldon to study is Loop Quantum Gravity. Sheldon once started a fight with Leonard's ex-girlfriend Leslie Winkle (Sara Gilbert) over the superiority of String Theory over Loop Quantum Gravity in The Codpiece Topology (2008), so it is not surprising that he shoots it down immediately.

Title Reference: After advice from Penny, Sheldon starts to treat his giving up of string theory as a diremption (separation or split) between him and his work, like breaking off a personal relationship.

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