S09E17 - The Celebration Experimentation

No: 200  |  Season: 9   Episode: 17  |  Air Date: 2016-02-25  |  Runtime: mins

Sheldon: If I can walk past that pet shop with the parrot in the window, I suppose I can do this. (Enters apartment...) All: Happy birthday!

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Summary

The gang convinces Sheldon to celebrate his birthday and throw him a party.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez

Script

Script: S09E17 - The Celebration Experimentation

Quotes

Amy: (as they walk down the stairs) So, Sheldon, there's something I've been wanting to talk about, but I know it's kind of a touchy subject.
Leonard: Way to narrow it down to everything.
Sheldon: What is it?
Amy: Well, your birthday's coming up, and you've never let us celebrate it, and I was hoping maybe this year we could.
Sheldon: Oh, I suppose that's a discussion we could have.
(he runs back upstairs)
Amy: OK, great. I mean, it doesn't have to be a big party or anything. I just...
(she notices he isn't there)
Amy: Where'd he go?
Penny: Whoa, wait a minute; you mention his birthday and he vanishes?
Leonard: Well, where's that information been this whole time?

Raj: So, what was Adam West like on the phone?
Leonard: Nice guy. But it was a little weird to hear Batman say, "Don't ring the door bell or my poodles will go crazy."

Penny: You know if you had a party now you have plenty of friends who would love to come.
Leonard: And we live here so we have no choice.
Penny: Yeah.

Adam West: So who's taking me home?

Leslie Winkle: In the past I would have said something obnoxious, like "Happy birthday, dumbass," but I'm not going to do it. You and I have both grown a lot, and it's just so nice to see you all again. So... Happy birthday, Sheldon.
Sheldon: Oh now, you know I hate change. Say it.
Leslie Winkle: Happy birthday, dumbass!

Adam West: There's another reason I should be higher on the list: all those other guys had muscles built in their costumes. All I had on my bat-suit was 100% grade-A West.

Penny: You know, I hate that your sister and her friends used to torture you. But what I hate even more is if I was there I... would have tortured you too.
Sheldon: Based on this pep talk I'd say you're still doing it.
Penny: My point is... there is a time I never would have been friends with someone like you, and now... you are one of my favorite people, so... if what you need is to spend your birthday in a bathroom, I'm happy to do it with you.
Sheldon: But everyone will think I'm weird.
Penny: Sweetie, you *are* weird. Everyone knows you're weird, but they're all still here because they care about you so much.

Sheldon: Thank you all so much for coming. Beverly, Wil Wheaton, Adam West for some reason...
Leonard: Batman finally came to your party.
Adam West: Happy birthday, Sherman!

Sheldon: Is there a reason I had to leave my own apartment?
Amy: Well, I think they just want you to see it for the first time all decorated.
Sheldon: But who's gonna tell them they're doing it wrong?
Amy: Well, I'm sure they'll ask you to give a speech, and that's when you just tear 'em a new one.

Amy: Have to say you do look good in that suit.
Sheldon: Uh, thank you.
Amy: Maybe later I'll, uh, get to see you in your 'birthday suit'.
Sheldon: This is my birthday suit.

Penny: While they get the cake, Sheldon, I just want to say I hope you didn't think you were going to get through tonight without a hug.
Sheldon: You know, I used to hate these hugs.
(she hugs him and he returns the hug)
Sheldon: Now they're just extremely irritating.

Penny: You want to just bring a few people in here? You know, Wil Wheaton in the bathtub, Batman on the toilet. It'll be like the weirdest ComiCon ever.

Leonard: So, mother, surprised you came all this way for Sheldon's birthday.
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: Oh, I was happy to; he did come to my sixtieth.
Leonard: Oh, you had a party for your sixtieth?
Penny: I wouldn't call it a party. Just a few close friends. And your sister and brother.
Penny: Yeah, to be fair, we did get married in Vegas and didn't invite her.
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: And I never did thank you for that, dear.

Kripke: Someone call animal contwol. There's a cougar on the woose.

Penny: Hey, everybody. Sheldon is going to come back out, but I think he's a little embarrassed so let's all be extra nice, OK?
Kripke: What are you wooking at me for? I'm a saint!
(to Beverly)
Kripke: But a sinner in the sack.

Howard: You have any idea what you're getting Sheldon for his birthday?
Raj: He's been fascinated with dinosaurs lately; maybe we could get him a fossil.
Leonard: Just don't get anything Jurassic. He feels like that whole chunk of time's gone Hollywood.

Leonard: Hey Stuart, didn't you try to get Adam West to do a signing here once?
Stuart: Yeah, but there was kind of a scheduling conflict. He, uh, wanted to know when he'd get paid... and I wouldn't tell him.

Sheldon: I know you worked hard to put this together; I'm sorry I'm ruining it.
Penny: Oh, plea-, you're not ruining it. Look, at some point Raj will try to get everyone to do the electric slide; now, that will ruin it.

Notes and Trivia

Leslie Winkle returns and makes a special guest appearance. She was never mentioned between her previous appearance, season 3's The Lunar Excitation (2010), and this episode.

Sheldon says that for music, he would like Tibetan throat singing. Sheldon himself showed his talent for Tuvan throat singing in The Large Hadron Collision (2010).

Since this is the 200th episode in the series, rumors circulated for weeks as to which celebrities would appear as guest stars on the episode.

With Leonard, Penny and Leslie Winkle present in one room, it reunites Leonard with two of his love interests on the show (one current, one former), as well as Johnny Galecki with two of his real-life ex-girlfriends (Kaley Cuoco and Sara Gilbert).

Goofs

None

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