S08E12 - The Space Probe Disintegration

No: 171  |  Season: 8   Episode: 12  |  Air Date: 2015-01-08  |  Runtime: mins

Leonard: This isn't so bad. Sheldon: That's easy for you to say. Your chair's not facing the lingerie section. Boy, that's a lot of panties.

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Summary

Raj worries a probe he designed will not work in outer space, while Leonard and Sheldon go shopping with Penny and Amy.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S08E12 - The Space Probe Disintegration

Quotes

Leonard: (sitting on the department store while the girls shop) This isn't so bad.
Sheldon: Easy for you to say. You' chair isn't facing the lingerie section. Boy that's a lot of panties!

Penny: We could go horseback riding.
Amy: Oh, I can't. My hips can't open any wider than 22 degrees. Once I rode a very thin pony. First jump, popped right off.

Raj: I feel like I'm going to jump out of my skin
Bernadette: I told you not to wax down there. It's itchy when it grows back

Sheldon: Well, there were plenty of things to do before smart phones.
Leonard: That's true
Sheldon: I'll look them up.
(Pulls out phone before realizing)
Sheldon: Son of a biscuit!
Leonard: Just let it go.
Sheldon: What king of store doesn't have wifi? I'm calling their corporate offices - Son of a biscuit!

Raj: Space ice is no joke! I can't even watch Frozen anymore!

Howard: It's not like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, right? Some bald guy with horns isn't gonna rip out my heart?
Raj: Dude, that movie is an imperialist fantasy that makes the followers of a beautiful and peaceful religion look like a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians.
Howard: You love that movie.
Raj: Yeah, it's pretty great!

Raj: Whenever I walk into that temple, I realize that whatever happens, it's okay. We're all part of an immense pattern, and though we can't understand it, we can be happy to know that it's working its will through us. Whatever you call it God or the universe or the self, we're all interconnected and that's just beautiful.

Leonard: You make compromises?
Sheldon: All the time
Leonard: On Earth? In our lives? That we're living?

Sheldon: I have excellent peripheral vision... On a good day I can see my ears.

Leonard: Compromise is me driving you everywhere because you don't want to learn how to
Sheldon: I learnt how to, Amy taught me
Leonard: Then why won't you do it?
Sheldon: Well, it's scary, and sometimes I get the pedals mixed up. But more importantly, driving me to work is one of the things that gives your life purpose. I can't take that away from you, so what do I do?... Oh, come on, I'm practically feeding you the answer. I compromise.

Howard: You believe the way to understanding the universe is based on facts and evidence, here you are counting on some blue chick with a hundred arms to help you out
Raj: That is so offensive, does everything you know about Hinduism come from Indiana Jones?
Howard: No, also Apu from the Simpsons

Howard: (after arriving at a Hindu temple for Howard's first time) Is there anything I should know before I go in?
Raj: Like what?
Howard: Like... am I dressed OK?
Raj: Really? So every other place you've been you thought this was fine?

Bernadette: All I have is our new urine-flow drug. It won't help with his anxiety, but it's so strong, when he pees, he'll fly around the room like he's got a jetpack.

Penny: (to Amy) There has to be something fun we can do the guys will hate
Leonard: Hang on, why do we have to hate it?
Penny: Three words, Dr Who Convention
Leonard: I did not force you to go to that.
Penny: You walked out of the house in a fez and bow tie, I went so you didn't get beat up
Leonard: I wasn't going to get beat up
Penny: You were, somehow I held myself back

Leonard: Interesting. You accuse us of making you do things you don't like, but here you are doing the same thing to poor Amy.
Sheldon: You should point out the hypocrisy of that.
Leonard: I was.
Sheldon: Then you should have made it clearer. Maybe throw in a "How do you like them apples, Missy?"

Leonard: Because of you, I'm not allowed to adjust the temperature in my own home. I'm not allowed to whistle. I don't wear shoes that might squeak.
Sheldon: Well, you're a physicist, not a circus clown.

Sheldon: You know what you could make us do? Ice skating. The cold air will trigger Leonard's asthma, and it plays into my well-known fear of getting flattened by a Zamboni.
Leonard: Now you're helping them find ways to make us miserable?
Sheldon: I'm sorry, Leonard. I'm a problem solver, it's what I do.
Amy: I can't go ice skating. I have unnaturally brittle ankles.
Penny: Is there any part of you that's normal?
(Amy gives Penny a mischievous smile)

Sheldon: Just put on your squeaky shoes and eee eee eee your way out of my life.

Notes and Trivia

The Hindu temple seen when Raj takes Howard to visit, is actually the Malibu Hindu Temple, at 1600 Las Virgenes Canyon Road, in Calabasas, CA. (That's about 40 miles West of Pasadena, where the guys live and work.)

Title Reference: Refers to Raj's mental state over the success of a space probe mission he worked on.

Goofs

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