S07E23 - The Gorilla Dissolution

No: 158  |  Season: 7   Episode: 23  |  Air Date: 2014-05-08  |  Runtime: mins

Bernadette: You'd hire a total stranger to take care of the woman who raised you? That's so cruel. Howard: Not if we pay them well and let them listen to the music of their homeland.

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Summary

Penny gets fired from her movie and takes a serious look at her life. Raj sees Emily on a date with another man at the movies. Howard and Bernadette have to take care of his mother after she breaks her leg.

Director and Writers

Director: Peter Chakos
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan

Script

Script: S07E23 - The Gorilla Dissolution

Quotes

Kenneth: And action.
Wil Wheaton: Please don't shut me out.
Penny: Go away. Just go away.
Wil Wheaton: I swear, I will find a way to turn you back.
Penny: What gave you the right to mix my DNA with that of a killer gorilla?
Wil Wheaton: I was trying to save your life.
Penny: Life? What life? Look at me I'm a monster! And now I have blood on my hands or paws. I don't know.
Wil Wheaton: You can't give up. I love you.
Penny: I love you too. But I'm afraid I love killing more. Like, one day, I might actually try and kill you.
(Ape screaming at him)
Kenneth: And cut. All right. All right, let's set up for the next scene.
Penny: Actually, you know what? Can we do one more? I think I could do it better.
Kenneth: Let's just move on. No one cares.

Penny: It's easy for you to say. You used to be famous.
Wil Wheaton: Penny, it's not about being famous, it's about the art, it's about the passion you have for our craft.
(Gets a text message on phone)
Wil Wheaton: I have an audition for Sharknado 2.
(Gets up to leave)
Wil Wheaton: When this is over, I'll be back to being depressed.

Howard: The doctor says you need to get exercise!
Mrs. Wolowitz: I get plenty of exercise!
Howard: Crushing my will to live isn't exercise!

Mrs. Wolowitz: I told you this thing would kill me!

Sheldon: I know let's go see the new Spiderman movie.
Amy: Sheldon, we're talking about your friend's mother. She got hurt.
Sheldon: I thought that subject had run its course so I changed it. It's called reading the room, Amy.

Sheldon: Well, good night.
Raj: Don't send me home. I can't be alone right now.
Sheldon: That's your problem. You can't be alone.

Bernadette: You think we should get one of those machines to help her up the stairs.
Howard: You mean a forklift?

Raj: So you have tattoos?
Emily: Yeah.
Raj: I don't. I have a hole in my belly button that may or may not have been a piercing.
Emily: That's cool.
Raj: It's a piercing. So how many tattoos?
Emily: One on my shoulder, one not on my shoulder and one REALLY not on my shoulder.
Raj: It's been a long time since I've seen a girl's "really not my shoulder".
Emily: Well, how about you show me your piercing and I show you my tattoos?
(Kiss)
Raj: But before I take my shirt off I need like ten minutes to do some crunches.

Sheldon: I'm sorry. I don't have all the ingredients to make chai tea.
Raj: You don't have to make me anything.
Sheldon: No, I do. You're upset about Emily and you're Indian. I need to make you chai tea. I have all the ingredients except cardamom seeds. You happen to have any on you?
Raj: Sorry, I left them in my turban.

Wil Wheaton: If you fire her, you're gonna have to fire me too.
(Cut to Wil, Penny and Leonard at a bar)
Wil Wheaton: Wow, that went bad very quickly.

Mrs. Wolowitz: I'm hungry again!
Howard: It's like the world's fattest cuckoo clock.

Leonard: You know I want to marry you, but you're only doing this because you got fired and you're feeling sorry for yourself.
Penny: Okay, it may look that way, but getting fired from that movie was the best thing that could ever happen to me, okay? I finally realize I don't need to be famous or have some big career to be happy.
Leonard: Then what do you need?
Penny: You, you stupid Pop Tart!
Leonard: Oh. Then I guess I'm in.
Penny: Really? You guess you're in?
Leonard: Not like "I guess I'm in:" Like "I guess... I'm IN!"
Penny: Okay. Cool.
Leonard: So is that it? Are we engaged?
Penny: Yeah, I think so.
Leonard: All right.
Penny: What's wrong?
Leonard: I'm not sure. Just feels a little anticlimactic.
Penny: Yeah, it kind of does, huh?
Leonard: Oh, I know. This might help.
(Takes out a ring from his wallet)
Penny: Where did you get a ring?
Leonard: I've... had it for a couple of years, not important.
(Gets on knee)
Leonard: Penny, will you marry...
Penny: Oh, my God. Yes.
Leonard: This would have been so much more romantic if you didn't have monkey hair on your finger.

Penny: I need to start making some smart decisions.
Leonard: With your career?
Penny: With my life.
Leonard: Like what?
Penny: I don't know.
(pause)
Penny: We could get married.
Leonard: Come on, be serious.
Penny: I am.
Leonard: Why? Because I'm a smart decision?
Penny: Well, yeah.
Leonard: So I'm like a bran muffin.
Penny: Well, no. That's not what I'm saying.
Leonard: No, it's exactly what you're saying. I'm the boring thing you're choosing because I'm good for you.
Penny: What does it matter? The point is I'm choosing you.
Leonard: Well, it matters a lot. I don't want to be a bran muffin. I want to be a Cinnabon, you know? A strawberry Pop Tart. Something you're excited about even though it could give you diabetes.
Penny: Sweetie, you can be any pastry you want.
Leonard: No, no, no. It's too late. I'm your bran muffin. Probably fat-free and good for your colon.

Raj: Aren't you going to get 3-D glasses?
Sheldon: I brought my own. No sense risking bridge-of-nose herpes.
Raj: Is that a thing?
Sheldon: Until they make a nose condom, I'm not going to find out.

Penny: There's no reason why I shouldn't be the best bisexual go-go dancer slowly transforming into a killer gorilla that anyone has ever seen.
Leonard: I don't know. The bisexual killer gorilla go-go dancer in "Schindler's List" is tough to beat.
Sheldon: It's funny, because a killer gorilla go-go dancer of any sexual orientation would be out of place in a movie about the Holocaust.
Leonard: It only gets funnier when you explain it.
Sheldon: I know.

Penny: You know, the only thing worse than being in a movie where they glue monkey hair to your ass is being fired from a movie where they glue monkey hair to your ass.

Notes and Trivia

The new Spider-Man movie that Sheldon and Raj are trying to see is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), which was released the week before this episode aired.

Title Reference: Penny's role of the girl/gorilla clone ends after she is fired from the movie.

Wil Wheaton did wind up making a cameo in Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014).

Goofs

None

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