S10E15 - The Locomotion Reverberation

No: 222  |  Season: 10   Episode: 15  |  Air Date: 2017-02-09  |  Runtime: mins

Howard: How'd you even get that up the stairs? Sheldon: I said to myself, I think I can, I think I can. And then I couldn't, so I paid two men who promised not to come rob us later.

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Summary

Leonard and Howard's attempt to keep Sheldon away from their Air Force project by sending him on a train trip backfires. Penny and Amy take Bernadette for her first night out since having the baby.

Director and Writers

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

Script

Script: S10E15 - The Locomotion Reverberation

Quotes

Bernadette: Sorry, Howie's back at work and there's just so much going on.
Amy: Is there anything we can do?
Bernadette: Sure: open up a college fund, shop for life insurance, and in the laundry room there's a mountain of dirty laundry. Wash it or burn it; your choice.

Sheldon: I'm an engineer now. And just so we're clear, a train engineer. Not the goofy kind you are.

Leonard: I got it.
(adds to Sheldon's equation on the whiteboard)
Howard: You really figured it out?
Leonard: No, but when we show this nonsense to Sheldon, it will make him crazy and he will have to fix it,
Howard: You're a genius.
Leonard: I know. That's not even a math symbol. That's just Charlie Brown's hair.

Sheldon: In the world of theoretical physics, you never finish. So much is unprovable. But when I was studying that railway guide, it was so tangible and so satisfying that something just clicked. Then it clacked. Then it clicked and clacked, click-clack, clickety-clack and here we are! Whoo-whoo!

Howard: OK. I'm zeroing out the electro-osmotic flow rate in the micro-fluidic channel.
Leonard: Nicely done, Howard.
Howard: Well, my wife is four foot ten and sexually satisfied, so clearly I know my way around tiny things.
Leonard: Good for you. On the cutting edge of new technology and still making inappropriate comments about the mother of your child...
Howard: And those are just the things I say out loud.
Sheldon: Gentlemen, we need to stop immediately.
Howard: What's wrong?
Sheldon: I've been looking at the math, and I think we can make the device between eight and ten percent smaller.
Sheldon: That's great, but the Air Force approved the specs; we're good to go.
Howard: Yeah, it doesn't need to be smaller.
Sheldon: Shame on you! Where would we be if poodle breeders had that attitude? I'll tell you: we would have the standard and miniature poodle, but no toy or teacup. Which, by the way, is not an official breed, but that's just poodle politics.
Leonard: Can we please stop talking about poodles!
Sheldon: Fine. Candy bars! Now, do you enjoy a fun size? I know you do.
Howard: Sheldon, we don't need to make this smaller and your work is done. Go home.
Sheldon: I don't want to go home.
Leonard: Fine. Go for little walk.
Sheldon: Then what?
Leonard: Just keep walking.

Stuart: Instead of arguing all night, let's just split up the baby chores.
Raj: Yeah, great. Um, I'll put food in the top half; you deal with whatever comes out the bottom.

Sheldon: GPS says we'll be at the railway in three hours.
Amy: I can get us there in two.

Leonard: You know, I do have a way to get him out of our hair. I've been holding on to this for a few years, but maybe now's the time.
Howard: We can just lock the door, you don't have to kill him.
Leonard: You can't kill him. He just respawns at the last save point.

Howard: Open a window; it's about to get smug in here.

Colonel Williams: (Pointing at Sheldon's board) What's this?
Leonard: Oh, nothing. Just some math we don't need.
Colonel Williams: This is a different approach. You're trying to make the guidance system even smaller?
Leonard: It's jlust a theory, it's not even worked out.
Colonel Williams: Oh. I want this.
Howard: But we already met the agreed-upon specs. Going smaller would require weeks of new computations.
Colonel Williams: So get the kid with the two shirts to do it.
Leonard: Sir, if I may, we've put a lot of thought and effort into making the current prototype. It's a really elegant solution, and mosst importantly, it works.
Colonel Williams: Yeah, I want this.
Howard: It's just a theory. It's not even a complete thought.
Colonel Williams: You both make excellent points. Thank you for presenting it so articulately. Make this.
Howard: The kid with the two shirts screwed us again.

Penny: Great. You guys ready to get crazy?
Amy: Well, the bra under here isn't beige.

Notes and Trivia

The diesel engine Sheldon works on is a Detroit Diesel 6V71. While not used in trains as he suggests, the 71 series is one of the most prolific marine diesels in existence.

The Nevada Northern Railway is an actual, operating railroad museum in Ely, Nevada (which really is 4 hours from any major airport!), and does offer rides, including allowing you to play engineer and operate the throttle on the moving train.

The shower curtain with the periodic table on it that was always hanging in the bathroom of apartment 4A (Sheldon and Leonard's former apartment) is now seen hanging in apartment 4B (Penny's old room) for the first time. Sheldon probably didn't bring it along when he moved his possessions in The Property Division Collision (2016), because Penny's old curtain could still be briefly seen while Amy was trying to seduce him in her wizard robes in The Birthday Synchronicity (2016). He must have retrieved it somewhere between episode 11 and 15.

The song playing during Amy's fantasy is "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions.

Goofs

None

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