S08E18 - The Leftover Thermalization

No: 177  |  Season: 8   Episode: 18  |  Air Date: 2015-03-12  |  Runtime: mins

Sheldon: Let the anger go, buddy. You just, you relax all your muscles. Except for your pubococcygeus and anal sphincter. Let's keep those tight.

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Summary

Tension arises when a magazine fails to mention Leonard in an article about the paper he co-wrote with Sheldon, and a blackout at Mrs. Wolowitz's home leads to a final family dinner in her honor.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S08E18 - The Leftover Thermalization

Quotes

Sheldon: All he had was an idea.
Amy: Well, that's an important part.
Sheldon: Oh, please. I have ideas all day long. Reverse Sea World where dolphins are allowed to pet people. A new clothing size between medium and large called marge. Snow White as retold from the point of view of Sneezy. Why won't Doc prescribe him something? We finally find out.
Amy: Leonard's idea was good.
Sheldon: Fine. Then Grumpy. Why is he so grumpy all the time? Maybe his girlfriend won't take his side.

Howard: Thanks for helping us sort through all of Ma's stuff.
Raj: No problem. I know what it's like to go through a loved one's belongings. My uncle was a believer of Krishna, but when we went through his stuff, we found a statue of Shiva. It's not Crips and Bloods, but in India that is a thing.

Raj: Marvel has mad Tor a female.
Penny: Wait, who's Tor?
Raj: You know, Tor, the God of Tunder.

Sheldon: I have mixed feelings about doing interviews. I like the part where I talk. I do not like the part where the other man talks.

Penny: Who even reads Scientific American?
Leonard: It's kind of a big deal.
Penny: If it's such a big deal, how come the biggest celebrity they could get for the cover is a molecule?

Howard: Stuart, we're home!
Raj: I think it's nice that you're letting him live in your home.
Howard: Well, we tried putting him over by the curb, but nobody took him.

Penny: (Leonard and Sheldon are arguing during dinner) Guys, if I wanted to hear people be bitchy I'd go to my real salon!

Howard: (about his mom's matzo ball soup) She always had some handy when I got sick. Mom always believed her cooking could cure anything. Including the food poisoning I got... from her cooking.

Bernadette: (Sheldon and Leonard are arguing during dinner) Hey! Sheldon, Leonard, living room right now!
Sheldon: (Sheldon and Leonard follow her) She said my name first, that must kill you.
Bernadette: (yelling from off screen, sounding eerily familiar to everyone) I don't know what you think you're doing, but this is a very difficult time for my husband! We're eating the last food his mother ever made and you are gonna throw it at each other like children? Whatever it is you're fighting about, put it aside, go back in there and be a good friend to Howard or there's no dessert for either of you! Look at me when I'm talking to you! And don't think...
Howard: (Bernadette keeps yelling) Do you guys ever notice sometimes Bernadette sounds like my mom?
Amy: I don't hear it.
Raj: No, not at all.
Stuart: Nah.
Penny: Not really.

Sheldon: Was it my fault that I have a bigger reputation than he does?
Amy: It's not your fault.
Sheldon: Is it my fault that my name comes first alphabetically on the title?
Amy: Not at all.
Sheldon: Is it my fault that when they identified me as lead scientist I didn't correct them?
Amy: Hey, look at that pretty bird!

Penny: I don't think I've eaten that much in my entire life.
Howard: That's why my people wandered the desert for forty years. Took that long to walk it off.

Howard: Oh, man. This is the boutineer from my high school prom. A piece of cake from my Bar Mitzvah.
Bernadette: Did she throw anything away?
Howard: No. If I find my foreskin, I'm gonna kill myself.

Raj: Okay, so we've got 3 briskets, 4 meat loafs, one lasagna...
Howard: No, that's noodle kugel.
Raj: One Jewish lasagna...

Sheldon: (Giving Leonard a shoulder massage) You relax all of your muscles. Except for your pubococcygeus and your anal sphincter. Let's keep those tight.
Leonard: (about the massage) Sheldon, that won't be necessary.
Sheldon: Of course it is. They control urine and faeces.

Howard: It's all defrosting.
Bernadette: It's okay. It's only food
Howard: No, it's not just food! This is the last food my mother ever made. This is her last brisket. This is her last meat loaf. This is her last... I have no idea what this is, but it's her last one.

Notes and Trivia

Leonard and Sheldon spend most of the episode arguing which is more important, the theory or execution. Sheldon fights for execution and Leonard fights for the idea. Oddly enough, Sheldon is a theoretical physicist and Leonard is an experimental physicist, meaning Sheldon normally is the one with the idea and Leonard normally is the one that executes it.

The part where Bernadette screams to Leonard and Sheldon with the voice of Mrs. Wolowitz is based on the inside joke of the cast that Melissa Rauch does the best impression of her voice. There was even brief talk of Rauch taking over the voice role when original actress Carol Ann Susi passed away, but it was finally decided to have Mrs. Wolowitz pass away in the show as well.

Goofs

None

Cast

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