S10E22 - The Cognition Regeneration

No: 229 | Season: 10 Episode: 22 | Air Date: 2017-04-27 | Runtime: mins

Zack: (About Sheldon) He's like the Swedish Chef Muppet. I don't know what he's saying, but he's funny. Leonard: Oh, I know what he's saying, and he's not funny.

Summary

Leonard is less than thrilled when Penny considers accepting a job offer from her ex-boyfriend, Zack. Sheldon worries that he hasn't reached his full potential soon enough.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe / Teleplay by: Dave Goetsch & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds

Script

Script: S10E22 - The Cognition Regeneration

Quotes

Amy: You said juggling was dumb, too.
Sheldon: Well, it is. If I wanted to hold 3 things at once, I'd wear cargo pants.

Sheldon: (walking along the sidewalk on very tall stilts) I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm tall, and I'm doing it.
(wakes up in bed)
Sheldon: Aw, man.

(Sheldon has just stormed out)
Amy: His mother warned me. Everybody warned me. Actually, * he* warned me.

Bernadette: It's not like I wanted to be a ventriloquist. I was in beauty pageants and I needed a talent besides spreading rumors that the other contestants were pregnant.

Leonard: We're pinned down!
Howard: We can't get through!
Raj: Sheldon, get over here and help!
Sheldon: OK, one second.
Leonard: Sheldon, why are you jumping up and down?
Sheldon: I'm trying to shoot!
Howard: Then use the 'Shoot' button not the 'Wonderful-thing-about-Tiggers' button!
Leonard: Aaaw.
Raj: That's it. We're dead.
Howard: Challenge them again.
Leonard: Doing it right now. They can't; there's an important Little League game tomorrow.
Howard: No wonder they beat us; they're jocks.

Amy: I'm sorry I called you a quitter.
Sheldon: Oh, it's okay. I stopped being upset about that. And no, the irony is not lost on me.

Zack: What are the odds of running into you here?
Penny: Well, it's a bar, so pretty good.

Amy: What happened to learning the unicycle?
Sheldon: I stopped that; it was dumb. Uni-, bi-, tri-, menstrual; all cycles are dumb.

Notes and Trivia

Another one of her many talents, actress Melissa Rauch actually did her own ventriloquism in the scene where she has Tammy Jo St. Cloud talk to her husband, Howard.

Despite scenes set at the Comic Book Store and the Wolowitz's residence, Stuart (Kevin Sussman) is absent from this episode. However, Brian Thomas Smith, a previous regular guest star, makes another appearance as Zack, his first since The Fermentation Bifurcation (2016) a year before.

Oddly, and for the first time in the whole series, a previously used Vanity Card is displayed (#552 from The Allowance Evaporation (2017)).

Sheldon and Amy discuss the likelihood of him winning a Nobel Prize before he turns 40. This is, in fact, how the series ends, with them sharing the accolade for their joint research.

Goofs

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Cast

Johnny Galecki	Leonard Hofstadter
Jim Parsons	Sheldon Cooper
Kaley Cuoco	Penny Hofstadter
Simon Helberg	Howard Wolowitz
Kunal Nayyar	Raj Koothrappali
Mayim Bialik	Amy Farrah Fowler
Melissa Rauch	Bernadette Rostenkowski
Brian Thomas Smith	Zack Johnson