S09E20 - The Big Bear Precipitation

No: 203  |  Season: 9   Episode: 20  |  Air Date: 2016-04-07  |  Runtime: mins

Raj: Hello. Bernadette: You saw him carrying that. Howard: Astronauts saw him carrying that.

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Summary

Secrets are revealed when Amy and Sheldon join Penny and Leonard on a weekend cabin trip. Raj is more excited about Howard's and Bernadette's impending parenthood than they are.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Tara Hernandez / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds

Script

Script: S09E20 - The Big Bear Precipitation

Quotes

Amy: You know, if that study's real, Leonard might come back smarter than you.
Sheldon: Are you trying to manipulate me?
Amy: Yes.
Sheldon: Well done, it worked. We're going.

Sheldon: Never have I ever drunk milk past its expiration date.
Amy: Never have I ever cancelled a dentist appointment.
Sheldon: Oh, uh, never have I ever put my foot in the ocean.
Amy: Never have I ever honked if I liked anything.
Sheldon: Oh, uh, never have I ever thrown, caught or touched a Frisbee.
Amy: Never have I ever put salt on my food without trying it first.
Sheldon: Unph. Never have I ever pushed all the buttons in an elevator.
(Amy drinks, Sheldon gasps)
Amy: Well, we all have a past.

Penny: You know, there's a cabin in Big Bear that a doctor I work with keeps offering me.
Leonard: Because he's hitting on you?
Penny: She!
Leonard: Oh, good.
Penny: But I could get her.

Penny: Never have I ever...
Amy: If she's trying to think of somethilng she hasn't done, we might be a while.
Penny: Very funny. Never have I ever... okay, I got nothing, let's go around.

Sheldon: Cell service is down to one bar, so if anyone needs medical attention, or to tell a stranger their political views are stupid, now's the time.
Amy: Have you ever been off the grid before?
Sheldon: Once. The battery ran out on my phone; I had to wait for my iPad to turn on.
Leonard: I was afraid he was going to eat me.

Sheldon: Shall we check each other for ticks?
Amy: Sheldon, all we did was walk in from the car.
Sheldon: Oh, well, suit yourself. Who wants to check me?
(Drops his pants)
Amy: On the other hand, safety first.

Sheldon: (about Penny and Leonard going to a cabin) You be sure and say hello to all the mosquitoes, bees, bears, snakes, possums, poison oak. Oh, and last but not least, teenagers with guitars.

Howard: Do you think Raj is getting a little carried away with all the baby stuff?
Bernadette: I don't think so; he just wants to be part of the experience.
Howard: Right. If you say so. What's in the box?
Bernadette: Oh, it's an ultrasonic microphone so we can hear the baby's heartbeat.
Howard: Oh. That's cool; can we try it?
Bernadette: Actually, Raj ordered it. He made me promise to wait 'til he was here.
Howard: So he can be "part of the experience"?
Bernadette: Yeah.
Howard: Surprised he let us conceive without him.
Bernadette: It's a sore spot; don't bring it up.

Penny: We could still go; a little rain isn't going to kill us.
Leonard: Have you been outside in the rain with Sheldon?
Penny: No.
Leonard: You'd wish it would kill you.

Penny: What's that?
Leonard: Oh, I bought a baseball cap.
Penny: I can see that. What team?
Leonard: Hufflepuff from the Harry Potter movies.
Penny: Well, we'll be in the woods.

Amy: (to Sheldon) I can't believe you've been arrested!
Sheldon: I can't believe Penny hasn't!

Leonard: You have shoes you love but never wear. I have money I love but never spend. We're kind of a cute couple that way.

Penny: Hey, you guys wanna play a drinking game?
Sheldon: Oh, now, w-now, we'll never win. You always play the drinking game.
Penny: Not *the* drinking game, *a* drinking game.
Leonard: To be fair, you're good at both.

Sheldon: (Over footage of a forest) It's nice to get back to nature. Why don't I do this more often?
(Cut to Sheldon in his apartment wearing a virtual reality headset; Leonard and Penny enter)
Sheldon: What a beautiful forest. Oh, hello, little butterfly. What's your na-?
Sheldon: (as he reaches out to touch the butterfly, Leonard puts his face to Sheldon's hand, startling him) Ow!
Leonard: Whatcha doing?
Sheldon: I was enjoying some virtual reality, 'til you ruined it with your actual face.

Howard: (about Raj) You're not concerned he's acting like somehow this is his kid too.
Bernadette: He's just trying to be supportive.
Howard: Just supportive. Not over the top in any way?
Bernadette: No.
Raj: Hello-o!
(Raj enters, with a huge stuffed bear)
Bernadette: You saw him carrying that.
Howard: *Astronauts* saw him carrying that.

Leonard: There goes our hike.
Sheldon: Aw, not the hike? Now we'll have to stay here safe and warm.

Penny: Is that the way you want to play it? All right. Never have I ever made up a name for my genitals.
Leonard: I never should have told you about Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Raj: You guys made a person.
Howard: (Putting his head on Bernadette's shoulder) We did.
Raj: (Putting his head on Bernadette's other shoulder) And I like to think I helped.
Howard: You didn't.

Leonard: You know, never have I ever made love out in the woods in the rain.
Penny: All right, guess I have to drink.

Penny: (about Leonard's secret bank account) My God, Leonard, do you know what I could do with that money?
Leonard: Oh, I do, and that's why I hid it

Notes and Trivia

At the cabin, as always, Sheldon is sitting in his traditional spot: on the right seat of a couch that sits in the middle of the room.

The cabin used that Penny, Leonard, Sheldon and Amy go to for the weekend is filmed on the same set used in an episode of 2 Broke Girls (2011) when they unknowingly join a cult.

The cabin was also used as the Forrester Big Bear cabin in The Bold and the Beautiful (1987).

The episode title "The Big Bear Precipitation" refers directly to the location of the cabin, Big Bear, and the fact that it rains (precipitation meaning falling water particles). However, the title also refers to the large teddy bear that Raj impulsively buys for the Wolowitz family (precipitation meaning rashness). Precipitation can also mean "the fallout" or results of something, in this case, the revelation of Leonard's bank account and Penny's dislike of her work. Discovery of the bank account is the fallout of playing the game.

Goofs

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