| Season 3, Episode 1 (The Electric Can Opener
Fluctuation) |
No, Mother, I
cannot feel your church group praying for my safety. The fact that
I’m home safe does not prove that it worked. That logic is post hoc
ergo propter hoc. No, I’m not sassing you in Eskimo
talk. |
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Hello, Penny. I
realize you’re currently at the mercy of your primitive biological
urges, but as you have an entire lifetime of poor decisions ahead
of you, may I interrupt this one? |
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You think
you’re so clever. Well, let me just tell you, while I do not
currently have a scathing retort, you check your email periodically
for a doozy. |
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They were
threatened by my intelligence and too stupid to know that’s why
they hated me. |
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I’ll spend the
rest of my life here in Texas, trying to teach evolution to
creationists. |
| Season 3, Episode 2 (The Jiminy Conjecture) |
I’m not crazy.
My mother had me tested. |
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Oh, ho, a
clever, albeit obsolete, euphemism for insufficient blood flow to
the male sex organ. |
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Well, I grew up
with an older brother and a very contentious twin sister, and I
believe I can easily best you in any physical confrontation, be it
noogies, swirlies or the classic Why Are You Hitting
Yourself?. |
| Season 3, Episode 3 (The Gothowitz Deviation) |
Penny, while I
subscribe to the Many Worlds Theory, which posits the existence of
an infinite number of Sheldons in an infinite number of universes,
I assure you that in none of them am I dancing. |
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I can’t be
impossible – I exist! I believe what you meant to say is – ‘I give
up, he’s improbable’. |
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Interesting.
Sex works even better than chocolate to modify behavior. I wonder
if anyone else has stumbled onto this? |
| Season 3, Episode 4 (The Pirate Solution) |
Yes, since
their relationship became carnal, Penny has upgraded his designated
term of endearment, thus distinguishing him from those she calls
sweetie, usually in an attempt to soften a thinly veiled
insult. |
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Another reason
to consider a life of piracy. Even today, I understand that’s an
all-male profession. |
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There is a fine
line between wrong and visionary. Unfortunately you have to be a
visionary to see it. |
| Season 3, Episode 5 (The Creepy Candy
Coating) |
Photographic is
a misnomer. I have an eidetic memory as I’ve told you many times,
most recently last year at lunch on the afternoon of May 7th. You
had turkey and complained it was dry. |
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It might also
interest you to know that Wil Wheaton currently ranks sixth on my
All-Time Enemies list, between director Joel Schumacher, who nearly
destroyed the Batman movie franchise, and Billy Sparks,
who lived down the street from me and put dog poop on the handles
of my bicycle. |
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In the words of
Khan Noonien Singh in the immortal Wrath of Khan, 'He
tasks me, he tasks me and I shall have him. From Hell's heart I
stab at thee!' |
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Silence! How
much longer must I wait for my revenge? |
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So my path to
satisfaction is blocked by Lonely Larry and Captain Sweatpants?
Very well, they must be destroyed! |
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Wheaton!
Wheaton! Wheattooonnnn!!! |
| Season 3, Episode 6 (The Cornhusker Vortex) |
Actually, the
risk of throat cutting is very low. On the other hand, severe
string burn is a real and ever-present danger. |
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If you’re
interested, I also know all about frying meat that isn’t chicken as
if it were chicken. |
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I grew up in
Texas. Football is ubiquitous in Texas. There’s pro football,
college football, high school football, pee wee football, in fact
every form of football, except the original, European football.
Most believe it to be a commie plot. |
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If you’d like,
after the game I’ll take you outside and teach you how to shoot
close enough to a raccoon that it craps itself. |
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It seems like
an awful lot of trouble to go through for intercourse. Don’t you
have access to women that will do it for money? |
| Season 3, Episode 7 (The Guitarist
Amplification) |
You accidently
stare at a helium-argon laser, lose one turn and a
retina. |
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Stop it! Both
of you! All this fighting. I might as well be back with my parents.
'Damn it, George, I told you if you didn’t stop drinking I’d leave
you!' 'W’all I guess that makes you a liar cause I’m drunk as hell
and you’re still here.' 'Stop yelling, you’re making Sheldon cry!'
'I’ll tell you what’s making Sheldon cry, that I let you name him
Sheldon.' |
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I’ve heard that
before. Then the next thing you know, I’m hiding in my bedroom
blaring a Richard Feynman lecture while my Mom is shouting that
Jesus would forgive her if she put ground glass in my Dad’s
meatloaf. And my Dad’s on the roof skeet shooting her Franklin Mint
collectible plates. |
| Season 3, Episode 8 (The Adhesive Duck
Deficiency) |
You keep in
mind that my sharply worded comments on Yelp.com recently took down
a muffin store. |
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Mister Spock
did not pilot the Enterprise. He was a Science officer. And I
guarantee you if he ever saw the Enterprise’s check engine light
blinking, he would pull the ship over immediately. |
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According to
the inexplicably irritable nurse behind the desk, you’ll be seen
after the man who claims to be having a heart attack, but appears
to be well enough to play Doodle Jump on his iPhone. |
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Now remember,
you were given powerful pain medications and a muscle relaxer. So,
uh, don’t operate heavy machinery. And try not to choke on your own
drool. |
| Season 3, Episode 9 (The Vengeance
Formulation) |
Why are you
such a stupidhead? That is also rhetorical. Sorry you had to hear
that. |
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Biologically
speaking, Howard is perfectly justified in seeking out the optimum
mate for the propagation of his genetic line, and if that
propagation is in the interest of humanity is, of course, an
entirely different question. |
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I never admit
defeat. However, on an unrelated topic, I’m never getting off this
bed again. |
| Season 3, Episode 10 (The Gorilla Experiment |
That’s a false
equivalency. More does not equal merry. If there were two thousand
people in this apartment right now, would be we celebrating? No!
We’d be suffocating! |
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Research
Journal, Entry One. I’m about to embark on one of the great
challenges of my scientific career – teaching Penny physics. I’m
calling it Project Gorilla. |
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Here. That’s
college ruled. I hope that’s not too intimidating.  |
| Season 3, Episode 11 (The Maternal
Congruence) |
Oh, on the
contrary. I found the Grinch to be a relatable, engaging character,
and I was really with him. Right up to the point that he succumbed
to social convention and returned the presents and saved
Christmas... what a buzz kill. |
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Jesus, on the
other hand, was actually born in the summer. His birthday was moved
to coincide with the traditional pagan holiday that celebrated the
winter solstice with lit fires and slaughtered goats, which,
frankly, sounds like more fun than twelve hours of church with my
mother followed by fruitcake. |
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What I want is
to be departing the Starship Enterprise in a one man shuttlecraft,
headed to the planetoid I rule known as Sheldon Alpha
Five. |
| Season 3, Episode 12 (The Psychic Vortex) |
If outside is
so good, why has mankind spent thousands of years trying to perfect
inside? |
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I don’t say
anything. I merely offer you a facial expression that suggests
you’ve gone insane. |
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Hulk agree to
second date with puny humans! |
| Season 3, Episode 13 (The Bozeman Reaction) |
You know, the
more I think about it, the Mobster Sauce couldn’t possibly contain
chunks of mobster. It was listed under Seafood. |
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I’ve seen the
underbelly of Pasadena, this so-called City of Roses and it haunts
me. Ah, the injustice. I lie here awake, tormented, while out there
evil lurks. Probably playing Donkey Kong on my Classic
Nintendo. |
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My new computer
came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user friendly than
Windows Vista. I don’t like that. |
| Season 3, Episode 14 (The Einstein
Approximation) |
I don’t need
sleep, I need answers. I need to determine where, in this swamp of
unbalanced formulas, squatteth the toad of truth. |
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Don’t be
absurd, that’s in Washington. You know I can’t live in a city laid
out in a hub and spoke pattern. |
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I asked myself,
what is the most mind-numbing, pedestrian job conceivable and three
answers came to mind: Toll booth attendant, Apple Store Genius and
what Penny does. Now, since I don’t like touching other people’s
coins, and I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word
Genius – here I am. |
| Season 3, Episode 15 (The Large Hadron
Collision) |
There’s an
economic concept known as a Positional Good in which an object is
only valued by the possessor because its not possessed by others.
The term was coined in 1976 by economist Fred Hirsch to replace the
more colloquial but less precise ‘neener-neener’. |
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Help me out.
Which ski cap says après-super-collider? |
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I’ve lived up
to my commitments under the agreement. At least once a day I ask
how you are, even though I simply don’t care. I no longer stage
spontaneous biohazard drills after 10 pm, and I abandoned my goal
to master Tuvan throat singing. |
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Since I rarely
hug, I’m relying on your expertise as to the duration. |
| Season 3, Episode 16 (The Excelsior
Acquisition) |
Oh, I don’t
want to know that! How can I possibly discuss with Stan Lee the
scientific foundation for interstellar flight on a silver surfboard
when part of my brain will be scanning his face for signs of a
contagious skin disease? |
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I don’t trust
banks. I believe that when the robots rise up, ATM’s will lead the
charge. |
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I would point
out that I am at the top of my profession, while you preside over
the kiddy table of yours. |
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You boys may
have had gelato with Stan Lee and gotten autographed comics, but I
saw the inside of his house and got an autographed application for
a restraining order. |
| Season 3, Episode 17 (The Precious
Fragmentation) |
Technically,
magic beans would be food. Although eating them would be quite a
waste since you plant them and overnight have a giant beanstalk,
which would provide enough roughage for a small city. |
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I have a twin
sister whose assaults begin in utero. If only I’d had the presence
of mind to reabsorb her then I’d have a mole with hair on it
instead of a tedious yearly Christmas letter. |
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I have no
illusions about my mother, She’s a kind, loving, religiously
fanatical, right wing Texan, with a slightly out of scale head and
a mild Dr. Pepper addiction. |
| Season 3, Episode 18 (The Pants Alternative) |
I’m the William
Shatner of theoretical physics. |
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Oh, no. A
Godzilla-like monster is approaching the city. I have to get my
people to safety. “People of Sheldonopolis, this is your mayor.
Follow me. If the children can’t run, leave them behind!” Oh, the
simulated horror! |
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If it will help
speed things along my answers to the standard Rorschach ink blot
tests are: A – a bat. B – a bat. C – a bat. And D – my father
killing my mother with a hypodermic needle.
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For the
astronomers in the audience, get ready to see the dark side of the
moon. And here’s Uranus! |
| Season 3, Episode 19 (The Wheaton Recurrence) |
You're ignoring
the square-cube law. The giant ant would be crushed under the
weight of its own exoskeleton. And for the record, the appropriate
ranking of cool modes of transportation is jet pack, hoverboard,
transporter, batmobile, and then giant ant. |
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Well, well,
well. If it isn't Wil Wheaton. The Green Goblin to my Spiderman.
The Pope Paul V to my Galileo. The Internet Explorer to my
Firefox. |
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I don't know if
Stewart told you what you're up against tonight, but before you
stands the co-captain of the East Texas Christian Youth Holy Roller
Bowling League championship team. Seven- to twelve-year-old
division. |
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A common spare.
The Miss Congeniality of the bowling pageant. |
| Season 3, Episode 20 (The Spaghetti Catalyst) |
Oh, yes, it was
a lot of work to accommodate you in my life. I'd hate for that
effort to be in vain. |
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My existence is
a continuum, so I've been what I am at each point in the implied
time period. |
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That's the
sauce my mother uses. She likes cooking Italian because according
to her, that's what the Romans made Jesus eat. |
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We had dinner
last night. She made me spaghetti with little hot dogs cut up in
it. Well, little hot dog. I gave up the other five hot dogs to a
real dog. A real big dog. A hell hound. Tangential to the primary
story, how about I circle back to it? |
| Season 3, Episode 21 (The Plimpton
Stimulation) |
Now, listen. On
the of the great minds of the 21st century is about to play host to
one of the other great minds of the 21st century. So pay attention:
years from now my biographer might ask you about this
event. |
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I apologize.
He's only an experimental physicist. |
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She's my guest.
If anyone should offer her anything, it should be me. Elizabeth,
can I get you something? Perhaps a feminine hygiene product, or a
bowel regulating yogurt? |
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Oh, Penny. This
is Dr. Plimpton, a leading expert on quantum cosmology. Dr.
Plimpton, Penny is a waitress who doesn't understand the role
gasoline plays in an internal combustion engine. |
| Season 3, Episode 22 (The Staircase
Implementation) |
Roommates agree
that Friday nights will be reserved for watching Joss Whedon's
brilliant new series, Firefly. |
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The apartment
flag is gold lion rampant on a field of azure. |
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I'm here
because you violated our roommate agreement, specifically Section
Eight, 'Visitors', sub-section C, 'Females', Paragraph 4, 'Coitus'.
Roommates shall give each other twelve hours' notice of impending
coitus. |
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I assure you,
you'll be sorry you wasted your money on an iPod, when Microsoft
comes out with theirs. |
| Season 3, Episode 23 (The Lunar Excitation) |
Yes, in 1917,
when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundation for the
laser in his paper 'Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung,' his fondest
hope was that the resulting device be 'bitchin'.' |
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When one gets
beaten up every other day in school, one of necessity develops a
keen sense of hearing. Incidentally, one can get beaten up in
school simply by referring to oneself as 'one.' |
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It’s a time of
day I invented. It better defines the ambiguous period between
afternoon and evening: prevening. Fairly certain it will catch on,
as it fills a desperate need. |
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In a few
minutes, when I gloat over the failure of this enterprise, how
would you prefer I do it? The standard 'I told you so' with a
classic 'neener-neener'? Or just my normal look of haughty
derision? |