S10E06 - The Fetal Kick Catalyst

No: 213  |  Season: 10   Episode: 6  |  Air Date: 2016-10-27  |  Runtime: mins

Guy: I love your movie. Penny: Well, thanks. Guy: It has got to be one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life. Penny: Your love confuses me.

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Summary

Sheldon and Amy host a brunch. Penny is surprised by her popularity when her movie, "Serial Ape-Ist" is featured at a Van Nuys comic book convention. Howard starts to freak out about parenthood after feeling the baby kick for the first time.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Saladin K. Patterson & Anthony Del Broccolo

Script

Script: S10E06 - The Fetal Kick Catalyst

Quotes

Daniel: I have to ask. Were you TRYING to be that bad, or are you just a terrible actress?

Amy: Thank you, Sheldon. This is a fun surprise.
Sheldon: Ohhh. Well, the real surprise is how surprised you are that I'm great at surprises.
Amy: Well, that's not a surprise at all. I mean if I knew you were good at surprises I would have expected the surprise and therefore not have been surprised, but as it is I didn't know, and therefore my surprise should be unsurprising.
Sheldon: Don't get me all randy; guests are on the way.

Leonard: I should have punched that guy.
Penny: Well, he's right over there.
Leonard: Why do you do this? Can't you just let me have my moment?

Stuart: So I'm like a lab rat before your real friends come over?
Sheldon: Hmm, you see, your words sound reasonable, but your face looks angry.
(to Amy)
Sheldon: Help me out here, this is not where I shine.
Amy: Stuart, you know you're one of our favorite people.
Sheldon: Okay, now see, you look sincere, but your words are completely false. I'm glad we did this test run, these brunches are wild.

Sheldon: No fuss, no muss, not a single cuss.

Penny: Hey, have you ever heard of a Van Nuys Comicon?
Leonard: Yeah, it's a dinky little convention where they sell collectibles and get D-list celebrities to appear, why?
Penny: I got asked to sign autographs there.
Leonard: That's awesome! It- is this for Serial Apeist?
Penny: Well, it could be for the monkey movie; it could be my haemorrhoid commercial; the list does not go on.
Leonard: When is it?
Penny: It doesn't matter; I'm not doing it.
Leonard: What? Why not?
Penny: You just said yourself it's sad.
Leonard: Yeah, but it's not pathetic; that's where I draw the line. Come on, we'll have fun...
Penny: I don't know.
Leonard: Y-y-you'll have nerds fawning all over you; if you don't love that, this marriage is in trouble .
Penny: Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to meet some fans and make a little extra money.
Leonard: WOW! An appearance by George Lucas... 's dermatologist. Uh, I want that autograph.
Penny: Oh, yeah.

Amy: You know, now that we're living together, we should think about inviting people over.
Sheldon: We have people over all the time. Maintenance people, the pizza delivery guy, that UPS man who keeps asking how parts of me are hanging.

Bernadette: I don't wanna drive that, it's such a mom car.
Howard: The guy at the dealership said they're not just for moms anymore.
Raj: Then again, he did think you were my husband.
Bernadette: They thought it at the ultrasound, why not at the car dealership?

Penny: Hi!
Daniel: Hi. I love your movie.
Penny: Well, thanks.
Daniel: It has got to be one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life.
Penny: Your love confuses me.

Amy: (as Sheldon struggles to uncork a bottle of champagne) Sheldon, there's nothing to be afraid of.
Sheldon: Nothing to be afraid of? The average champagne cork has a speed of 25 miles per hour. If it's too fast around a school, it's too fast around a kitchen.
Amy: It's been fifteen minutes, that's all l'm saying.

Bernadette: What are you doing?
Howard: I felt a kick. There's a baby in there.
Bernadette: Oh yeah, that's where I put it.
Howard: No, I mean... I know you're pregnant; I just... never connected the idea of pregnancy and you actually having a baby.
Bernadette: Which MIT did you go to?

Stuart: You know what I love about you? Hmm? You never leave the house without a paper clip!
Sheldon: You never know when two pieces of paper might temporarily need fastening in the top left corner.
Stuart: I also love how you never use swear words.
Sheldon: You know, it turns out... you can hurt people just as well without 'em.
Amy: Maybe I can get a little help putting some of this stuff away?
Sheldon: Oh, calm down.
(holding up his mimosa)
Sheldon: I already put away five of these.
(to Stuart)
Sheldon: See, ain't no muss, no fuss, not a single cuss.

Sheldon: Let's say that we were to entertain people. What type of gathering did you have in mind? Huh? A meal? Lunch? Brunch? Dinner? Afternoon tea? A formal tea? Hmm? Is it a party? And if so, what kind of party? Is it a cocktail party? A Tupperware party? Ooh, yeah - is it a surprise party? Oh, I hope it's not a West Coast party, 'cause according to the man on the radio, a West Coast party don't stop.
Amy: I'm sorry I mentioned it.
Sheldon: Oh, don't be. You get your hopes up, I knock them down. That's called teamwork.

Bert: I had orange juice on my fridge so long it tasted like mimosa.
Amy: How long was it in there?
Bert: I'm not sure. I don't remember much after I drank it.

Sheldon: For our first time hosting, I thought it would be wise to conduct a trial run. You know, like how I practised for that Halloween haunted house by going into the bathroom at the bus station.
Amy: But you never went into that haunted house.
Sheldon: Yeah, you never saw what jumped out at me at the bus station.

Notes and Trivia

At the Van Nuys Comic-con, the table to Penny and Leonard's left is that of David Gerrold. He is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning American science fiction screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the Star Trek (1966) story The Trouble with Tribbles (1967) as well as dozens of novels, short stories, and TV scripts. He seems to be selling Tribbles at his table.

Leonard says that he once paid $20 for Theo Sassler's autograph, even though he didn't know who he was (he just liked the name). For the record, there is no celebrity named Theo Sassler in real life, it was just an invented name for the script.

Penny's name on the 'Serial Ape-ist' posters at the movie convention is cleverly hidden so not to reveal her surname.

The convention table to Penny's right features Alex Ross' art work on the back wall, so it may have been in the works to have him do a cameo, or it may have simply been a means to feature a notable name and justify the "ComicCon" part of the name.

The credits on the posters for Serial Ape-ist and Serial Ape-sit 2 list the director's credits to Nikki Lorre, who is the daughter of Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre. This implies that the male British director of the sequel who fired both Penny and Wil Wheaton in The Gorilla Dissolution (2014) was eventually fired himself, or quit the movie.

When discussing their party, Sheldon says "I hope it's not a West Coast party, 'cause according to the man on the radio, a West Coast party don't stop." He is referencing lyrics to the song "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" by Coolio.

Goofs

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