The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Holographic Excitation (2012)

Johnny Galecki: Leonard Hofstadter

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• Bernadette Rostenkowski : Let me guess. Slutty cop?

  Penny : No, sexy cop. Slutty cop only came with the skirt and two badges.

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : And Albert Einstein?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Ja, und later, she's going to arrest me for going faster than the schpeed of light.

• Leonard Hofstadter : You know, there's a foundational idea in string theory that the whole universe may be a hologram.

  Penny : What do you mean?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well, the holographic principle suggests that what we all experience every day in three dimensions may really just be information on a surface located at the farthest reaches of our cosmos. So it's possible that our lives are really just acting out a painting on the largest canvas in the universe.

  Penny : Huh.

  Leonard Hofstadter : What?

  Penny : Sometimes I forget how smart you are.

  [kisses Leonard] 

  Leonard Hofstadter : You should visit more often.

• Penny : [for Halloween, Leonard is dressed as Albert Einstein and Penny as a 'sexy cop']  I told you in the car, no accent.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Sorry, officer.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Have you noticed that Howard can take any topic and use it to remind you that he went to space?

  Sheldon Cooper : Interesting hypothesis. Let's apply the scientific method. Perform an experiment.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Okay. Hey Howard, any thoughts on where we should get dinner?

  Howard Wolowitz : Anywhere but the space station. On a good day, dinner was a bag full of meatloaf. But hey, you don't go there for the food, you go there for the view.

  Sheldon Cooper : Fascinating. Let me see if I can duplicate the result. Howard, I've always thought the lemon was an underrated fruit. Care to weigh in?

  Howard Wolowitz : Not really.

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh, well.

  Howard Wolowitz : You know, people say the Soyuz capsule is a lemon. But, hey, that baby got me to space and back.

• Penny : Better not be building a robot girlfriend.

  Leonard Hofstadter : No, although Howard was making some real strides in that area until he met Bernadette.

  Penny : You're kidding.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Nope. Now the Lisatronic 3000 just sits in a box waiting for the phone to ring.

• Howard Wolowitz : Oh, hey, Stuart, I got you a little souvenir from my trip to space.

  Stuart : Well, Howard, that's very nice of you.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Yeah, maybe. Open it first.

  Howard Wolowitz : It's my official NASA portrait.

  Stuart : "To Stuart. Your comic book store is out of this world. Just like the guy in this picture was."

  Sheldon Cooper : For the record, he also thinks the Walgreens and the dry cleaners are out of this world.

  Howard Wolowitz : That's not true. At the Walgreens, I was "over the moon" for their store-brand antacids.

• Penny : [after Leonard and Penny emerge from the TARDIS]  Nothing to see here. Sexy police business.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Just explaining the theory of relativity.

  [whispers to Howard] 

  Leonard Hofstadter : twice