The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)
The Recombination Hypothesis (2012)
Johnny Galecki: Leonard Hofstadter
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Quotes
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Leonard Hofstadter : So, uh, do they have a name for a first date with someone you used to go out with?
Penny : Oh, that's a good question. How about 'awkward'?
Leonard Hofstadter : That sounds right. Hey, how about if we pretend we're actually on a first date? See how that goes.
Penny : Okay.
Leonard Hofstadter : So, Polly, tell me about yourself.
Penny : It's Penny.
Leonard Hofstadter : Oh sorry, yeah, awkward...
Penny : Okay, uh, let's see, I'm from Nebraska, and ever since I was little girl I dreamed of moving to L.A. and becoming a movie star. Anyway, after four years of acting lessons and waiting tables, I've done a hemorrhoid commercial and a production of Anne Frank above a bowling alley. So, you know, dreams do come true! Your turn!
Leonard Hofstadter : Ah, let's see. I am an experimental physicist at Caltech. Most of my research is with high-powered lasers and, oh, I've just gotten a big government grant to see if they can be used to knock out incoming ballistic missiles.
Penny : Wow! Can they?
Leonard Hofstadter : Oh, God no! The money's pretty good. And I use the equipment to make my own Bat Signal.
Penny : Bat Signal? What are you, some kind of nerd?
Leonard Hofstadter : Not "some *kind* of nerd". I am the king of nerds!
Penny : What does that mean?
Leonard Hofstadter : Well, it means if anyone displeases me, I don't help them set up their printer.
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Leonard Hofstadter : Penny, do you have plans for dinner tonight?
Penny : Why? Are you guys going somewhere?
Leonard Hofstadter : No, I mean, just you and me.
Penny : You mean like a date?
Leonard Hofstadter : Not "like a date", a date!
Amy Farrah Fowler : Woooooooooo!
Bernadette Rostenkowski : Woooooooooo!
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Sheldon Cooper : The reason you're fixated on a good-natured simpleton like Penny is that she's the exact opposite of your first romantic attachment - your brilliant yet intimidating mother.
Leonard Hofstadter : Where on earth did you get that from?
Sheldon Cooper : It's in her book, "Needy Baby, Greedy Baby".
Leonard Hofstadter : That doesn't make it true.
Sheldon Cooper : It's called non-fiction for a reason, Leonard.
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Leonard Hofstadter : I don't know how you have a relationship without talking.
Penny : I went out with this one guy, T.J., for eight months, we never talked. To this day, I don't even know what T.J. stands for.
Leonard Hofstadter : Wait, if you guys didn't talk, then... Never mind, stupid question.
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Penny : [after Leonard asks her out for real] Have you thought this through?
Leonard Hofstadter : Yes, and I think we should go anyway.
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Howard Wolowitz : Ooh, 8:30. You and Penny decide to go out and paint the town beige?
Leonard Hofstadter : You're 30 years old and you live with your mother!
Raj Koothrappali : I guess it didn't go well.
Sheldon Cooper : Now, we don't know that. Not to a certainty. All we know is that Leonard is home.
[Leonard groans loudly from his room]
Howard Wolowitz : How about now?
Sheldon Cooper : Again, not enough evidence. For all we know, he's being murdered.
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Leonard Hofstadter : I didn't *defile* your sister. We had a relationship.
Raj Koothrappali : I heard you call her "Brown Sugar". In my book, that's defilement.
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[first lines]
Leonard Hofstadter : Feel like trying something new for dinner? Maybe indian? Tex-Mex?
Sheldon Cooper : You ever wonder how humans would be different if they evolved from lizards instead of amammals?
Leonard Hofstadter : Okay, let's talk about that.
Sheldon Cooper : As you know, lizards, cold-blooded animals, lack the ability to sense temperature, but they do move more sluggishly when it's cold. So, lizard weathermen would say things like, "Bring a sweater. It's slow outside". I love my mind.
Leonard Hofstadter : We all do. Now, how about dinner?
Sheldon Cooper : Oh, I would assume we'd enjoy insects, or smaller lizards. We could also pull each other's tails off and grill them; they'll just grow back.
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Sheldon Cooper : You want to know my opinion?
Leonard Hofstadter : [Sarcastic] Oh boy, do I!
Sheldon Cooper : [to Howard] Sarcasm?
Howard Wolowitz : [Spiteful] No.
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Leonard Hofstadter : Isn't sex after fighting kinda what we do now?
Penny : Yeah, kinda, yeah.
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Penny : You are so funny.
Leonard Hofstadter : Good. Remember that when I take my shirt off.
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Sheldon Cooper : After you used the facilities at the gas station, did you make a purchase?
Leonard Hofstadter : What?
Sheldon Cooper : It's customary when using the restroom at a retail establishment to make a small purchase. Did you?
Leonard Hofstadter : No.
Sheldon Cooper : [snorts] Here's two dollars. Go buy some beef jerky.
Leonard Hofstadter : I don't want beef jerky.
Sheldon Cooper : It's not about *you*. It's about a poor immigrant from Pakistan trying to make his way in America by working the graveyard shift at the Colorado Boulevard Chevron.