S08E01 - The Locomotion Interruption

No: 160  |  Season: 8   Episode: 1  |  Air Date: 2014-09-22  |  Runtime: mins

Sheldon: Excuse me. Is it at all possible that you're knitting a pair of pants?

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Summary

Sheldon's trip comes to an end when he is robbed, Penny interviews for a job at Bernadette's company, and Howard is weirded out by his mother's relationship with Stuart.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S08E01 - The Locomotion Interruption

Quotes

Penny: I don't have any experience in sales... unless you count the bikini car wash I did in high school, but you already made me take that off my resume.
Bernadette: This job is a lot like being a waitress. Except instead of pushing the fish tacos because they're about to go bad, you'll be pushing our antidepressants before the FDA finds out they may cause rectal bleeding.
Penny: They do?
Bernadette: Maybe. Like our lawyers say, "The world is full of things that can cause a rectum to bleed."

Howard: I just want to pop and make sure that Ma's OK.
Raj: I thought Stuart was looking after her.
Howard: He was, but now that her cast is off, he moved out. Honestly, I'm kid of glad. It was getting a little weird.
Raj: How so?
Howard: I don't know, they were... chummy.
Raj: Like us?
Howard: No, not like us. Creepy chummy, like you and your dog.

Sheldon: Any leads on who stole my things, Officer Hernandez?
Officer Hernandez: Not yet.
Sheldon: You know, Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the possible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. Have you tried that?
Officer Hernandez: No.
Sheldon: There are hundreds of books titled Sherlock Holmes. There are no books titled Officer Hernandez.

Sheldon: You know, Sherlock Holmes liked to use cocaine to sharpen his focus. But I'm sure those Cool Ranch Doritos do the trick.
Leonard: Sheldon.
Sheldon: Oh. Leonard. Oh. I'm so happy to see you.
Amy: Are you okay?
Sheldon: Oh. I'm fine. Why did you come?
Amy: What do you mean why did I come? You're my boyfriend. I haven't seen you in over a month. I just drove six hours to help you out. Don't you have anything to say besides, "Why did you come?"
Sheldon: I do, but... I feel uncomfortable saying it out loud in front of these police officers.
Amy: Fine. Whisper it.
Sheldon: Shotgun!

Penny: Wanna do yoga with me?
Leonard: Let me have some coffee first, so I can have the strength to tell you how much I don't want to do that.

Sheldon: I feel renewed. I feel strong enough to take any new changes that come my way.
Penny: Hey, you're back!
Sheldon: You changed your hair. Your hair is different. I can't take this. I'm out.

Don: So, why do you think you'd make a good pharmaceutical sales rep?
Penny: Well, I'm a people person. People like me. Some of my favorite people are people. I feel like I'm saying "people" a lot. People. People. People. Pe... OK, I'm done.
Don: You sure?
Penny: People. Yea.

Sheldon: Excuse me. Is it at all possible that you're knitting a pair of pants?

Don: Wait, wait, you're scared of Bernadette?
Penny: Yeah, kind a.
Don: I thought it was just me! Everyone thinks she's so nice with that squeaky little voice.

Leonard: Thanks for coming with me. It would have been a lonely six hour drive by myself.
Amy: No problem. And I'm not angry at all that my boyfriend was in trouble and called you instead of me. I LOVE that!
Leonard: Gonna be a long six hours.

Bernadette: Anyway I talked you up to Don. He's the guy who'll be interviewing you.
Penny: Oh, I really appreciate this. I just hope I'm not in over my head.
Bernadette: You'll be fine. Just be yourself.
Penny: I wish I felt more confident.
Bernadette: I wouldn't put you up for this job if I didn't think you could handle it.
Penny: Oh thank you, but maybe I should cancel.
Bernadette: It's too late to cancel. You're going.
Penny: But I don't know anything about pharmaceuticals.
Bernadette: Oh, I understand. You want something you're really good at. I know. Why don't I get you a job at the "sitting around all day wearing yoga pants" factory?
Penny: They're comfortable.

Raj: Thanks for giving me a ride.
Howard: No problem. What happened to your car?
Raj: I'm having the window tints removed. Now that I have a girlfriend, I want all the haters to see.
Howard: What haters? No one pays attention to you.
Raj: Wow. How's that Haterade taste, bro?

Notes and Trivia

Kevin Sussman (Stuart) once again receives a series' regular credit, after being demoted to guest star for the entire seventh season.

Marks the first appearance of Penny with her new short pixie style haircut. Kaley Cuoco cut her hair between filming of season 7 and 8, and which she makes humorous reference to in the first scene. She officially cut it for a role in the indie movie Burning Bodhi (2015), but later admitted that in reality, she was done with her long hair because of the time needed to style it for the show. By cutting it off, she hoped it would save her time in the makeup chair, but styling her shorter haircut turned out to be even more difficult and time-consuming, making it her worst decision ever.

Taping was delayed by a week due to the contract negotiations of the original five actors, which led to Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki earning their first million dollar each.

The story resumes exactly 45 days after the previous episode's events.

Title Reference: The title refers to the interruption of Sheldon's soul-searching train trip.

When Leonard agrees to pick Sheldon up at the Kingman, Arizona, police station and asks him for the address, Sheldon can be heard through Leonard's phone stating that the address is 2730 East Andy Devine Avenue. That is the actual address of the Kingman Police Department. Veteran Western character actor Andy Devine grew up in Kingman, which named that stretch of historic Route 66 after him.

Goofs

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