S08E11 - The Clean Room Infiltration

No: 170  |  Season: 8   Episode: 11  |  Air Date: 2014-12-11  |  Runtime: mins

Leonard: What about when you flipped the Mars Rover, or lost Koothrappali's dog, or almost drove off with that baby?

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Summary

Amy hosts a traditional Victorian Christmas Eve dinner as Raj's father comes to visit, while the guys try to shoo out a bird they let into the university clean room.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S08E11 - The Clean Room Infiltration

Quotes

Amy: I've always wanted to do a traditional Victorian Christmas: parlor games, goose, and figgy pudding...
Sheldon: Yuck! English pudding! You get yourself all excited for pudding, and here comes a cake with raisins in it. I'm not going.
Amy: You're going.
Sheldon: Why do you hate me?
Amy: I don't hate you, I love you.
Sheldon: Well, you call it "love", but it has a lot of raisins in it.

Bernadette: (Was singing to "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" when Sheldon turns off the radio) Why did you turn it off?
Sheldon: Because in the last ten minutes, Santa Claus came to town, kissed Mommy and ran Grandma over with a reindeer. I have a drunk uncle who did all those things and no one sings songs about him.
Bernadette: Well, maybe it would help if you thought of him as a superhero whose superpower is bringing joy to children.
Sheldon: My uncle did that too. It turned out to be legal in Oklahoma.

Bernadette: I think the nicest gifts I've got from Howie show how well he knows me.
Sheldon: Hm. Let's see. What do I know about Amy? She loves medieval literature. Chaucer's her favorite. Her eyes sparkle when she watches old French movies. I enjoy how harp music causes her fingers to dance as if she's playing along.
Bernadette: Wow. You really do love her.
Sheldon: I do. Now, let's find the kind of gift that makes her feel small and worthless.

Leonard: You can't catch a pigeon with a Slim Jim and a garbage bag.
(Pigeon dives in and takes the jerky off Leonard's hand)
Raj: Should have put it in the bag, dude.

Santa: Let me see if I got this straight. A picture of you on my lap is a way of punishing your girlfriend for making you celebrate Christmas?
Sheldon: Correct.
Santa: Santa thinks dating you is punishment enough.
Sheldon: There's an argument for that, but I want to make sure.

Leonard: Do you know what a disaster this is?
Howard: You mean 'cause this room isn't supposed to have dust in it and we just let in a flying crap machine?

Dr. Koothrappali: Relax. Easy for you to say. You're mother isn't cleaning out your bank account. 40 years, the woman never cleaned a thing,

Raj: (Howard is about to perform CPR on a bird) Don't blow too hard. If you pop him, I will vomit.

Leonard: You know what I love about the clean room? No allergies.
(Takes deep breath)
Leonard: Whoa, that's a lot of oxygen.

Leonard: How do we catch it?
Howard: What if we turn off all the lights except for one and it'll come to it?
Leonard: It's not a moth!

(Opening lines)
Amy: How are your parents doing, Raj?
Raj: Not good. They hired attorneys to speak to each other.
Sheldon: Speaking of attorneys, you know who I wouldn't hire to represent me in court? She-Hulk.
Penny: You almost stayed in topic. Good for you.
Amy: Wait, She-Hulk is a lawyer?
Howard: Yeah. She works at a lawfirm in New York.
Sheldon: And she's the only monster in the firm. Between you, me and the walls, I think she was an affirmative action hire.

Notes and Trivia

Having made several prior appearances on the show, this is the first time that Brian George as Raj's father appears on screen with the other characters and not via web cam.

Leonard derides Howard's idea to turn off the lights so that the pigeon flies toward the light of the open door. Actually, this is a tried and true method of getting a bird to leave a building into which it has flown and become trapped.

The game that Amy has them play - blowing a ball of wool on a table, with the goal of blowing it off the opponents end - was actually a Victorian era game. Her game 'Hot Boiled Beans' is also from that time, possibly even older.

Title Reference: The refers to the pigeon that Howard let into the clean room they were working in.

Goofs

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