S09E03 - The Bachelor Party Corrosion

No: 186  |  Season: 9   Episode: 3  |  Air Date: 2015-10-05  |  Runtime: mins

Summary

The guys's skills are put to the test when they get a flat tire on the way to Mexico for Leonard's bachelor party. The girls throw Penny a mini-bachelorette party.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S09E03 - The Bachelor Party Corrosion

Quotes

Sheldon: It's bad enough I'm being taken against my will. I don't see why it has to be in some hippie's mobile sex dungeon.

Amy: In the spirt of the bachelorette party, I baked cookies shaped like male genitals.
Penny: Oh, Amy, you didn't have... Wow! That is anatomical!
Amy: Thank you. The veins are blue gummy worms.
Bernadette: Oh, look. Jewish and gentile.
Amy: I had some dough left over.

Sheldon: Are you really going to let them take you in a van to an undisclosed location?
Howard: Oh, you're coming too.
Sheldon: Oh? And how are you going to get me into that van?
(Cut to Sheldon tied and blindfolded as he's carried into the van by Leonard and Howard)
Sheldon: Put me down! This is ridiculous!
Howard: I told you we should have put a gag in his mouth.
Raj: And I told you he bit me!

Howard: There's something about this van I think you'll find interesting.
Sheldon: Does it run on syphilis?

Bernadette: Amy, I noticed your status still says "in a relationship" on Facebook.
Amy: You're right. I should probably let all of my Facebook friends know. Penny, I'm no longer in a relationship.

Bernadette: Come on. Leonard's doing bachelor stuff. You sure we can't take you to a strip club?
Penny: No, if I wanna see a naked dancing man I just flush the toilet while Leonard's in the shower.

Sheldon: Are you all up on your yellow fever inoculations?
Howard: You don't need yellow fever shots to go to Mexico.
Sheldon: You can never be too careful. I had mine last year before going to EPCOT.

Amy: Sheldon had this clause in the relationship agreement forbidding cosmetic surgery unless it's to look like a Klingon.

Penny: Before I made that call, my pig was alive and happy, rolling around in the mud. Now he's illegally buried in our back yard next to my great grandmother.
Bernadette: Really, they didn't eat him?
Penny: No, he was a beloved member of the family.
Bernadette: The breakfast meat family?

Leonard: If there was a hidden compartment, don't you think you'd be stuffed in it by now?

Howard: I bet he picked up a lot of cute grad students in this bad boy.
Sheldon: And talked about physics with them!

Penny: Amy got her ears pierced, she broke up with Sheldon, and she made us eat penis cookies.

Amy: My mom said pierced ears were for whores, pirates and genies.

Amy: If my mother could see me now, she'd send me to the sin closet.
Bernadette: That's a joke, right?
Amy: The joke was on her. I could still watch TV through the slats.

Notes and Trivia

Following her divorce announcement about her husband Ryan Sweeting, Kaley Cuoco's name in the opening credits were reverted to its original billing.

Howard (Simon Helberg) says he learned about the salsa-plus-electricity method, which he uses on the lug nut, from MythBusters (2003). Salsa Escape (2005) of Mythbusters, which aired on 2/23/2005, did, in fact, detail a possible way that a person in jail could have used this method to corrode the bars in his cell to escape.

The recipe for thermite that Sheldon gives is inaccurate, in keeping with standard television practice not to show actual methods of producing dangerous materials.

The van used is the actual van that had been owned by Richard Feynman.

Title Reference: The title refers to the bachelor(ette) parties that corrode and go down hill and the corrosion method applied to the tire lug nut.

When trying to change the tire using percussive shock, Howard and Raj parody Queen's "We Will Rock You", using the words "We Will Percussive Shock You"

Goofs

None

Cast

Johnny GaleckiLeonard Hofstadter
Jim ParsonsSheldon Cooper
Kaley CuocoPenny Hofstadter
Simon HelbergHoward Wolowitz
Kunal NayyarRaj Koothrappali
Mayim BialikAmy Farrah Fowler
Melissa RauchBernadette Rostenkowski
Keith CarradineWyatt