The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Gorilla Experiment (2009)

Johnny Galecki: Leonard Hofstadter

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• [last lines] 

  Leonard Hofstadter : Most people aren't that interested in what I do.

  Penny : Ahem. Actually, that's not true, Leonard. In fact, recently I've been thinking that given the parameters of your experiment the transport of electrons through the aperture of the nano-fabricated metal rings is qualitatively no different than the experiment already conducted in the Netherlands.

  [Leonard is astounded] 

  Penny : Their observed phase shift in the diffusing electrons inside the metal ring already conclusively demonstrated the electric analog of the Aharonov-Bohm quantum interference effect.

  [Everyone is dumbfounded] 

  Penny : That's it; that's all I know. Oh, wait! Fig Newtons were named after a town in Massachusetts, not the scientist.

• [first lines] 

  Penny : Hey, Leonard. Check this out.

  [Throws a dumpling up in the air and catches it with her mouth] 

  Sheldon Cooper : Leonard, she's doing it again.

  Leonard Hofstadter : I think it upsets Sheldon when you play with the food.

  Sheldon Cooper : No, it upsets Sheldon when she willy-nilly takes it from the containers without regard for its equitable distribution.

  [Turns to Raj] 

  Sheldon Cooper : This is essentially why you have famine in India.

  [Raj shakes his head no at Penny] 

  Penny : [Mouth open so the dumpling is visible]  You want me to put it back?

  Sheldon Cooper : Leonard...

  Leonard Hofstadter : It upsets Sheldon when you play with the Sheldon.

• Penny : Oh, yeah, you can't sit there.

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Why not?

  Leonard Hofstadter : That's where Sheldon sits.

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : He can't sit somewhere else?

  Penny : Oh no, you see in the winter, that seat is close enough the the radiator so he's warm yet not so close that he sweats. In the summer it's directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that isn't direct so he can still talk to everybody yet not so wide that the picture looks distorted.

  Sheldon : Perhaps there's hope for you after all.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Relax, it'll be fine. Sit down, you guys.

  Leonard Hofstadter , Penny , Raj Koothrappali : [as Bernadette goes for Sheldon's spot]  No!

  Bernadette : What?

  Penny : Oh, yeah. You can't sit there.

  Bernadette : Why not?

  Leonard Hofstadter : That's where Sheldon sits.

  Bernadette : He can't sit somewhere else?

  [from across the room Sheldon turns, stares and raises an eyebrow a freakishly long way] 

  Penny : Oh, no, no. You see, in the winter that seat is close enough to the radiator so that he's warm yet not so close that he sweats. In the summer, it's directly in the path of the cross breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television on an angle that isn't direct so he can still talk to everybody, yet not so wide that the picture looks distorted.

  Sheldon Cooper : Perhaps there's hope for you after all.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Are you interested in physics?

  Bernadette : I find it fascinating. If I hadn't gone into microbiology, I probably would have gone into physics... or ice dancing.

• Bernadette : [forgiving Wolowitz after an argument]  Come here, Tushy Face.

  Leonard Hofstadter : [as they kiss, he snickers and pulls out his phone]  "Tushy Face". That is going on Twitter right now.

• Howard Wolowitz : Thought I'd give the little woman a tour of the old salt mines.

  Bernadette : to Leonard: He doesn't mean salt mine. He means where he works.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Yah. I know. I got it.