S09E13 - The Empathy Optimization

No: 196  |  Season: 9   Episode: 13  |  Air Date: 2016-01-14  |  Runtime: mins

Penny: You mean a party bus with booze and music, not juice boxes and video games? Leonard: Yes. And Howard's birthday was a drop-off party, you didn't have to stay.

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Summary

After being forced to deal with a sick Sheldon, the rest of the gang try to treat themselves to a Sheldon-free weekend.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Dave Goetsch / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Saladin K. Patterson

Script

Script: S09E13 - The Empathy Optimization

Quotes

Amy: Sheldon, when you're sick you can be... unbearable. And that's why your friends have been known to work late or sneak out to the movies or stay at a neurobiology conference three days after it's ended.
Sheldon: You stayed in Michigan all week to avoid being around me?
Amy: No! No! Not just that. I mean... Detroit is *beautiful* when it's sleeting.

Sheldon: Leonard, I'm dying.
Leonard: You're not dying. It's just the flu.
Sheldon: I asked for chicken noodle. This is chicken & stars. It's killing me.

Sheldon: I had a 101 fever. If that's not a time to verbally abuse my love ones, when is?

Howard: Check out the stripper pole!
Bernadette: You know what that means.
Leonard: That Raj'll be on it before we make it to the freeway?
Raj: You know it! Ooh-ooh!

Sheldon: Oh,I've been on a little trip myself recently, not to Sin City but to Sincere City. Where instead of genital warts, the only growth you'll come back with is personal growth.
Penny: And there's your next t-shirt.

Penny: Hey, so I saw a movie trailer the other day. How could Batman possibly fight Superman? Isn't that dumb!
Bernadette: Maybe he uses kryptonite.
Emily: Well, Batman's got a lot of money; maybe he builds a suit that can do everything Superman can do.
Penny: No no no no no, I've seen that movie. It's called "Iron Man".
(the guys are stupefied)
Leonard: What is happening?
Howard: I don't know.
Raj: But it's beautiful.
Penny: Now Ben Affleck as Batman.
Emily: Oh, he was great in "Shakespeare in Love".
Penny: Ooh, we should watch that next girls' night.
Bernadette: We could do a double feature with the Leonardo DiCaprio "Romeo and Juliet".
Penny: Oh, I love me some Leo.
Leonard: And it's gone.

Emily: (as they leave Sheldon behind) I know he's a jerk, but I actually feel bad for him.
Penny: And now you see the problem.

Sheldon: Leonard, get ready for an apology. And with the added twist of an M. Night Shamalan movie, I'm going to mean it.
Leonard: Ah, so like every other M. Night Shamalan movie I've seen, you spoil it in advance...
Sheldon: Hey, if you didn't know Bruce Willis was dead the whole time, that's not on me.

Sheldon: Oh, where are we going?
Leonard: Well, Vegas, but...
Sheldon: Ugh! Atlantic City without the taffy? No thank you!

Amy: Hi Sheldon, what's new?
Sheldon: Our friends are jerks and I'm mad at all of them.
Amy: I said "what's new", but sure...

Penny: Shake it, baby!
Bernadette: Whoo, work that thing!

Sheldon: Are you relieved that you and Raj were able to patch things up?
Emily: At the moment, no, not really.

Notes and Trivia

Amy is still away at a convention and only shows up in a few brief scenes on a monitor in this episode and the previous one, so that Mayim Bialik could take some time off from the show.

Title Reference: Sheldon learning about the best way to be empathetic.

Goofs

None

Cast

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