S11E18 - The Gates Excitation

No: 249  |  Season: 11   Episode: 18  |  Air Date: 2018-03-29  |  Runtime: mins

Howard: We're just hanging out in a hotel lobby. Plenty of people do that: businessmen, high-end prostitutes. Raj: That's a fun new game, CEO or Ho.

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Summary

Leonard, Howard and Raj try to meet Bill Gates, who's meeting with Penny to merge their companies; Sheldon thinks he's the victim of an April Fool's prank.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Andy Gordon / Teleplay by: Steve Holland & Tara Hernadnez & Jeremy Howe

Script

Script: S11E18 - The Gates Excitation

Quotes

Bernadette: Amy made me realize that new mothers are cognitively primed to take in new information, and I've been wasting it making up songs about our babies' toes.
Howard: To be fair, I co-wrote "Pinky Toe, Pinky Toe".
Bernadette: Evolution gave me this mom brain to focus on the baby, but I figure I can hack it to learn all kinds of new things.

Leonard: I've totally just solved what hotel he's staying at.
Howard: What are we waiting for?
Leonard: For Penny to walk down the stairs, get in her car, and drive away.

Leonard: Why is your screen name John Williams?
Raj: Because I always score.

Sheldon: Fool me N times, where N is the number of times you've fooled me before, shame on you. Fool me N plus one times, shame on me.

Leonard: Didn't you hear me yell "hold the door"?
Sheldon: Yes, but you know what they say: hold the door, get robbed some more.
Leonard: No one says that.
Sheldon: Well, they should. It's true and it rhymes.

Howard: Do you think you could get Bill Gates to sign something for me?
Penny: Yeah, maybe. Like what?
Howard: My arm, my chest, his call.
Penny: His call will be to the police.

Sheldon: Oh, Penny, I folded your laundry for you.
Penny: That's not mine.
Sheldon: It's not?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: (holds up a pair of large pink panties) So you're telling me that this is not yours.
Penny: Nope.
Sheldon: So I'm holding a stranger's underpants.
Penny: Yeah.
Sheldon: (drops the panties and puts Purell on his hands) And just like that, it's the worst day of my life.

Amy: You wanna take a break and get something to eat?
Bernadette: Sure.
(as Amy starts to leave, Bernadette sits watching the TV)
Wendy: (on the TV) A job's come in. A streetlight's been knocked over.
Amy: Why does it not feel like we're going?
Bernadette: Hang on. I just wanna see if Bob can fix it.
Wendy: (on TV) Can you fix it?
Bob: (on TV) Yes I can.
Bernadette: Yes he can!
(Amy adjusts her glasses in frustration)

Bernadette: Can I get you anything? Juice box? Nanners?
Amy: Nanners?
Amy: Sorry, mom-brain. I think I forgot how to talk to grown-ups. I meant *buh*-nanners.

Bernadette: God. What's happening? I'm a smart, educated, successful...
Amy: 'Woman'?
Bernadette: I was gonna get it.
Amy: Don't be so hard on yourself. Pregnancy and childbirth actually cause physical changes to the structure of your brain.
Bernadette: I liked the old structure of my brain. But then
(takes a look at her frame)
Bernadette: , I liked a lot of my old structures.
Amy: Well, these are positive changes. Studies with rats show that new mothers are more sensitive to danger, better at multitasking and bolder in the pursuit of food.

Sheldon: Leonard, I can't stay mad at you. I forgive you.

Sheldon: So, it wasn't a joke and I actually could have met him.
Leonard: He's probably still there.
Sheldon: What hotel?
Leonard: La Quinta Inn, Thousand Oaks, under the name Hernandez.
Sheldon: Thank you! Thank you so much.
Leonard: (after Sheldon leaves) April Fools.

Raj: What would you do if you had a billion dollars?
Howard: Same as Bill Gates. I'd use it to make the world a better place, only I'd do it while wearing a fully working Iron Man suit.
Raj: Didn't know those came in a boys medium.

Notes and Trivia

Although Penny hopes that doing a good job on giving Bill Gates a tour around her work may land her that PR job that she really wants, the PR job is never spoken of again.

Chuck Lorre's Vanity Card at the end of the credits commemorates the passing of frequent guest character Stephen Hawking, who had died two weeks before this episode was aired in the USA.

The blue shirt Sheldon wears in the "giant panties" scene displays a graphical representation of the Fibonacci Sequence, wherein each succeeding digit is the sum of the two preceding digits i.e. 0112358 etc.

Goofs

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