The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Table Polarization (2014)

Johnny Galecki: Leonard Hofstadter

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• Leonard Hofstadter : Sheldon doesn't like reclaimed wood.

  Penny : Why not?

  Leonard Hofstadter : He's afraid the original owners will come back.

• Sheldon Cooper : Think of me as Arthur Dent In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy lying in front of the bulldozers protecting his home.

  Leonard Hofstadter : If you recall, the Vogon Fleet blew up the earth anyway.

  Sheldon Cooper : It's a made up story, Leonard. I don't even know why you're talking about it.

• Penny : Hi. Sorry I'm late. I was at an audition.

  Howard Wolowitz : Ahh.

  Sheldon Cooper : You'll get 'em next time.

  Penny : How about instead of assuming I failed, you ask me how it went?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Sorry. How did it go?

  Penny : Just shut up.

• Leonard Hofstadter : This spot that no one else can sit in only exists because despite your objections I bought this couch. Me. So explain why that change is bad and this change was good.

  Sheldon Cooper : Um.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : You don't need to explain yourself to him.

  Sheldon Cooper : I don't need to explain myself to you.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : You're sick of his nonsense and ready to move in with me.

  Sheldon Cooper : Keep the table. We don't use that space.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Damn it, I got cocky.

• Sheldon Cooper : OK. I think we found the problem here. It's not the table at all. It's you.

  Penny : Me?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well. It's always me. Take one for the team.

  Sheldon Cooper : I have spent years turning this lump of clay into an acceptable conduit for my will and then you came along and reshaped him with your newfangled ideas and your fancy genitals.

  Penny : Are you gonna let him talk to me like this?

  Leonard Hofstadter : "Fancy" sounds like a compliment.

  Penny : OK, I have not tried to change Leonard. That is just happens in relationships. Look how much Amy has changed you.

  Sheldon Cooper : That's not true.

  Penny : Oh sweetie. When I first met you were incapable of touching another human being. Now you're holding holds, going on dates, you even made out with her on a train.

  Leonard Hofstadter : She told you?

  Penny : Of courses she told me. It's the most interesting thing that happened to her entire life.

  Leonard Hofstadter : You're too close to it, but Amy has had a huge impact on you.

  Sheldon Cooper : You're right. Without realizing I allowed that woman to alter my personality.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Mmm. You didn't have a personality; you just had some shows you liked.

  Sheldon Cooper : No. No, I've changed. Like the frog that's put in a pot of water that's heated so gradually he doesn't realize he's boiling to death.

  Penny : Or you're the frog that's been kissed by the princess and turned into a prince.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Or you're just a tall annoying frog.

  Sheldon Cooper : Excuse me. I have to break up with my girlfriend.

  Penny : Oh, Sheldon. Wait.

  Sheldon Cooper : No. You've opened my eyes to the truth. Amy has made me a more affectionate open-minded person. And that stops now.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well, we should call her.

  Penny : Yeah. Amy. It's Penny. Hey. Just a little heads up. Leonard bought a dining room table. Yeah. Sheldon's breaking up with you.

• Sheldon Cooper : Well. Is this really worth it? We've lived together for years with nary an argument.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Huh?

  Sheldon Cooper : But we start talking about a table and suddenly we're at each other's throats.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Nary an argument"? "Nary"?

  Sheldon Cooper : Well that means "not on" or "not any". Maybe instead of a table you should buy a dictionary. Well, I don't know if I won that, but at least he's upset.

• Penny : Sheldon's not here.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well he is here.

  [Points to his head] 

  Leonard Hofstadter : So unless you want to dig him out with a bone saw and a melon baller there's nothing I can do about it.