The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Skank Reflex Analysis (2011)

Mayim Bialik: Amy Farrah Fowler

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• Penny : You heard what I did?

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Well, I heard *who* you did.

• Amy Farrah Fowler : A guest in my trundle bed and a boy at my door? I wish I could tell 13-year-old me it does get better!

• Penny : You know, I've done this before. In kindergarten, I was supposed to marry Jason Sorensen but by the time my class got out there, he was engaged to Chelsea Himmelfarb. What did I do? Hung upside down from the monkey bars. Let all the boys see my underpants.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : You can't blame yourself. When your pre-frontal cortex fails to make you happy, promiscuity rewards you with dopamine. We neurobiologists refer to this as the "skank reflex".

• Amy Farrah Fowler : Know the story of Catherine the Great? She ruled Russia in the late 1700s and one night, when she was feeling randy, she used an intricate system of pulleys to have intimate relations with a horse.

  Penny : I'm sorry, what does this have to do with me?

  Amy Farrah Fowler : She engaged in inter-species hanky-panky. And people still call her "great".

• Penny : You know what? Let's get out of here.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Where are we going?

  Penny : Somewhere where no one's seen me naked. We may have to drive a while.

• Amy Farrah Fowler : [Talking to Penny]  Oh I can so see you being the face of hemorrhoids.