S08E08 - The Prom Equivalency

No: 167  |  Season: 8   Episode: 8  |  Air Date: 2014-11-06  |  Runtime: mins

Leonard: Bruce Wayne doesn't make his roommate tie it for him. Sheldon: His name is Alfred, and, yes, he does.

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Summary

The girls decide to re-enact their high school proms with the guys. While Sheldon feels under pressure to commit to his relationship with Amy, Howard worries about who Stuart will bring as his date.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S08E08 - The Prom Equivalency

Quotes

Howard: He's gonna bring my mom. Why did you even invite him?
Bernadette: Because he's our friend, and you two need to get along. And why can't he take your mom? You took her to your prom.
Howard: I didn't "take" her; she was a chaperone.
Bernadette: I saw a picture of you two dancing together.
Howard: W-What was I gonna do? They were playing our song! I can't take this anymore.
(makes a phone call)
Howard: Stuart, we have to talk. This thing with you and my mom, I-I hate it. It's making me crazy. You and I were friends for years, and now you're bringing my mother to a party I'm going to? What the hell?
Stuart: I'm not bringing your mother, I have a date.
Howard: Oh, so now you're cheating on my mother?

Leonard: (Tying Sheldon's bow tie) One of these days you have to learn to do this yourself. There are some clip-ons you could try.
Sheldon: Bruce Wayne doesn't use a clip-on.
Leonard: Bruce Wayne doesn't have his roommate tie his bowties for him.
Sheldon: His name is Alfred, and yes he does.

Stuart: What are you talking about? There's nothing weird going on between me and your mother.
Debbie Wolowitz: Stewie! Your bath is getting cold!
Stuart: Sorry, gotta go.

Amy: (Picks up a red dress) And what is this?
Penny: That, believe it or not, was my prom dress.
Bernadette: You still have it? I thought it would be balled up in the corner of a barn somewhere.
Penny: What kind of teenager did you think I was?
Bernadette: Slutty.
Amy: Easy
Penny: The word is popular.

Stuart: So, I met Jeanie at your Aunt Gladys's. She passed me the Manischewitz, so I took one look at this punim and almost plotzed on the kugel.

Bernadette: (Howard is choking Stuart) Howie, get off of him!
Howard: Not until he stops humping his way up my family tree.

Sheldon: There's no denying that I have feelings for you that can't be explained in any other way. I briefly considered that I had a brain parasite, but that seems even more far-fetched. The only conclusion was love.

Leonard: Look at me. I'm dancing with the prettiest girl at the prom.
Penny: Want to send a photo to your chess club friends?
Leonard: I sent them a bikini shot of you a long time ago.

Leonard: Thank you for wearing flats.
Penny: Thank you for wearing heels.

Amy: Sheldon, there's something else I've been wanting to say. But before I do, just... I want you to know you don't have to say it back. I know you're not ready, and I don't want you to say it just because social convention dictates...
Sheldon: I love you too.
Amy: You said it.
Sheldon: There's no denying I have feelings for you that can't be explained in any other way. I briefly considered I had a brain parasite, but that seems even more far-fetched. The only conclusion was love.
(Amy starts hyperventilating)
Sheldon: I know what that is. You're having a panic attack. SoccerMom09 says to lie down on your back.
Amy: Thank you.
(runs over to Sheldon's bed)
Sheldon: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Just because I love you doesn't mean that girls are allowed in my room.

Amy: Sheldon, are you all right?
Sheldon: Not really. I seem to be having a panic attack, according to this chatgroup I found. SoccerMom09 had the same symptoms. Although to be fair, the twins were being terrible that day.

Howard: There are lots of people who wear matching pajamas who aren't dating.
Raj: Oh, really? Like who?
Howard: You and your dog.
Leonard: Don't rule out the dating.

Sheldon: Pretending to be an alien is a valuable coping mechanism I've used many times. I did it the first time I went to see you in a play. You had no idea that Commander Umfrumf of Ceti Alpha 3 was in the audience. Oh, don't worry. He gave you seven thumbs up.

Sheldon: You think you got it bad, consider the gibbon. The gibbon is the only member of the ape family who isn't classified as a great ape. All the non-human members of the ape family are great apes except him, so taxologists made up the classification of lesser ape just to single him out as the weird kid in the playground.
Leonard: A gibbon doesn't care how he's classified. He doesn't even know he's called a gibbon.
Sheldon: That's true.
(to Howard)
Sheldon: Sorry, kid. You've got it worse than a gibbon.

Raj: Ever since I saw Pretty in Pink, I always wanted to go to an American prom. Then I saw Carrie and then, not so much. Then I saw Never Been Kissed and I was into it again. Boy, this prom thing has been a real roller coaster.

Bernadette: (noticing Emily's tattoo) That's a neat tattoo.
Emily: Oh, thanks. It's Sally from "Nightmare Before Christmas".
Bernadette: Aw, that movie's so cute.
Howard: Do you like her because you both have red hair?
Emily: A little, but more that she's covered with scars and can pull her own limbs off and sew them back on.
Bernadette: (awkward pause) I like "Cinderella".
Emily: Did you know in the original book the sisters cut their toes off with knives in order to fit in the glass slipper?
Bernadette: (looking uneasy) I like "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo".

Notes and Trivia

Emily says that in the original Cinderella story the two ugly sisters cut off their toes in order to fit the glass slipper. However, if she indeed had read the original (in French), she would know that the shoe wasn't a glass slipper. Instead it was a shoe made out of squirrel fur. It was translated incorrectly initially and the "glass" slipper stuck.

The final episode to feature Carol Ann Susi as the voice of Debbie Wolowitz, who passed away from cancer just one month after this episode was taped, and 5 days after it aired. She could be heard one last time in the ninth season's The Bitcoin Entanglement (2017), where they used an old audio fragment of her.

The scene where Sheldon tells Amy that he loves her was accomplished in one take, making the audience reaction genuine and enthusiastic.

Goofs

None

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