S09E24 - The Convergence Convergence

No: 207  |  Season: 9   Episode: 24  |  Air Date: 2016-05-12  |  Runtime: mins

Mary: Let's all remember what it says in the Bible... He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty. Beverly: Oh, dear woman, can you please read another book?

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Summary

Leonard and Penny try to have a wedding ceremony that everyone can attend, but it creates serious conflict among Sheldon's mother and Leonard's divorced parents. Meanwhile, Howard and Raj become convinced the government is out to get them.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S09E24 - The Convergence Convergence

Quotes

Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: (yells) How dare you invite your father without consulting me!
Leonard: I'm sorry, but I don't think I need your permission to have *my* father at *my* wedding.
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: You do understand our marriage ended because he had an affair.
Leonard: I know, and there- there's no excuse for that.
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: He claimed I was cold, emasculating and hadn't shown him any physical affection for years.
Leonard: (mutters) Well, I was wrong; there's three excuses for that.

Sheldon: Good news. I just got off the phone with my mother; she is coming to the wedding.
Penny: OK, loo- you're inviting people to *our* wedding?
Sheldon: Yes, I'm inviting people to *our* wedding.

Alfred Hofstadter: Hello, my hateful shrew.
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: Hello to YOU, you wrinkled old bastard.

Penny: (to Leonard) So funny. I never thought my second marriage would be to you.

Sheldon: She's still not answering.
Leonard: My father's not texting me back.
Penny: (singsong) 'Cause they both turned their phones off.
Sheldon: I don't like this at all.
Leonard: I don't like it either.
Penny: Really?
(bursts out laughing)
Penny: 'Cause I love it!

Mary Cooper: Let's all remember what it says in the Bible: "He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty."
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: Oh, dear woman, can you please read another book?
Mary Cooper: When God writes one, I will.

Penny: Hey.
Penny: Hi, how was the screening?
Leonard: Oh, Sheldon invoked Rosa Parks to make somebody who cut the line feel bad, but... only the white people felt bad.
Penny: Uh, should never've bought him that coloring book that explains Black History Month.
Leonard: How'd it go with my mother?
Penny: Uh, you know it started a little rocky, but I think we got to a good place.
Leonard: Oh, well done.
Penny: Yeah, and when I dropped her off at the hotel, she even gave me a hug.
Leonard: She think you were choking or...? Oh, I'm sorry. That's great. Thank you for spending time with her.
Penny: No problem. Um, so, listen; I don't know if you have any plans next weekend, but I kind of promised your mom we'd have another wedding ceremony so she could attend this time.
Leonard: Wait, we're going to get married again?
Penny: Yeah, kind of, and now we can invite our friends and family.
Leonard: Seems like a lot of trouble for a hug.

Alfred Hofstadter: Hello, my hateful shrew.
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter: Hello to you, you wrinkled old bastard.

Howard: (about the military) They're going to make us disappear! Like *every* American Idol after season 4!

Leonard: Penny, I've always known I loved you, but this last year has shown me that I also love being married to you. Thank you for saying yes.
Penny: No, thanks for asking until I did.

Alfred Hofstadter: I'm an agnostic myself, but I have prayed many times to God. To turn my wife into a pillar of salt.
Mary Cooper: Well, he came close. Turned her into a giant block o' ice.

Notes and Trivia

Johnny Galecki had met Judd Hirsch at the James Burrows tribute show long before this episode, and had personally asked him to play Leonard's father. Galecki really wanted Hirsch since he had already patterned Leonard after Hirsch' character Alex Reiger from Taxi (1978), who was also one of the more normal people in a group of crazies.

Judd Hirsch, who plays the father of physicist, Leonard Hofstadter, has a degree in physics. He earned it from the City College of New York, circa 1956.

The cop that pulls Howard over is played by the same actor, Marcus Folmar, who played the mall security guard in The Hesitation Ramification (2014). Raj & Stuart were at the mall to practice talking to girls but the guard was the only stranger Raj spoke to. He asked if the guy liked being a mall security guard.

The pink photo frame with the picture of Penny's old car that she gave to Leonard in The Expedition Approximation (2014) can be seen in Leonard's bedroom.

Title Reference: The episode features two coming-togethers ('convergence'): the group gathers together with Leonard and Sheldon's parents, and Leonard's father and Sheldon's mother have their own special get-together.

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