- Howard questions his engineering abilities when he and Sheldon can't get a toy drone to fly. A cancelled flight nearly prevents Leonard from giving the commencement address at his former high school. Raj pits his parents against each other when his father cuts him off financially.
- Leonard has been asked by those at his New Jersey high school to provide the commencement speech as this year's graduation ceremony. He plans to take Penny along with him, which along with his work is meant for him to show metaphorically his past that he is a success despite the pain he endured in high school. Their plans hit a snag when a storm on the east coast has grounded all flights into the region to make it to New Jersey in time for the ceremony. Penny, figuring there are other ways in this day and age of technology, arranges for Leonard to be able to give his speech to the graduating class via Skype. But Leonard has a change of heart about the core message of his speech as he gives it based on reliving that pain. Meanwhile, Raj has purchased a drone as a toy. As it isn't working, he asks Howard and Sheldon to help him fix it. While mechanically inclined Howard does whatever he can to fix it - which isn't as easy as he or Sheldon would have believed - Raj runs into an associated problem involving his father.—Huggo
- Howard is looking over the helicopter that Raj has bought. Even though it's the top of the line, Raj just can't get it to work. Leonard enters with his packed suitcase to find that Penny is not even ready. The two of them are off to Leonard's old high school in New Jersey where he is giving the Commencement Address. Sheldon is worried that Leonard will lose an eye when all their mortar board hats are thrown in the air. After a poor high school experience, he gets to return as a successful scientist with a beautiful girl on his arm and, per Sheldon, a pointy hat sticking out of his eyeball.
As Penny and Leonard head down the stairs, Penny explains how she packed so fast. One spring break she took nothing, but a long T-shirt and a belt (the belt being used for "an evening look"). As Leonard is knocking on New Jersey, he gets a text message that their airline flight has been canceled due to bad weather. To lighten the mood, Penny suggests that he give the speech to her (giving him the thought of her as a high school cheerleader fascinated with esteemed alumni).
Howard and Sheldon are trying to get the helicopter video system to work. First they are trying to calibrate it. The procedure doesn't work and they have to do it again trying to get the colored light sequence correct.
In his apartment, Raj receives a Skype call from his father. First he asks about his girlfriend Emily and then yells at him for spending a month's rent on a toy helicopter. His father wants to teach him some responsibility and is going to eliminate all of his monthly allowance.
Howard is still trying to re-calibrate the copter and succeeds until the final step. Now Howard wants to look inside it to fix it even though it voids the warranty. As is often the case, he does point out his master's degree from M.I.T.
The next day, Penny returns from shopping with a pick-me-up present for Leonard. She bought him a cap and gown and arranged with his old high school to give his address on Skype. The gown is from a costume store and is very short since it is a "sexy graduate" costume.
The helicopter is completely disassembled on the kitchen counter. Howard doesn't seem completely sure what all the parts do, but he still flaunts his education. Sheldon reminds him of the space toilet he built for the space station that didn't work. Howard counters that the toilet wasn't designed for the Russian cosmonaut's potato based diet. Raj shows up and freaks out that he took it apart. Raj wants to return the helicopter due to his father's actions. After Howard gets him to calm down, Raj decides to take responsibility for his life and calls his mother (Alice Amter). She finds him calling her a nice surprise. He tells her that his father can't send him funds anymore due to his active social life. Curious, his mother wants to know who he has been seeing and she promises to send Raj more money than his father was. Raj tells the guys that he'll buy helicopters for everyone.
Leonard comes out of the bedroom dressed only in his sexy graduate dress just for Penny who appreciates it. Penny tells him that he looks sexy and is supposed to wear clothes under his robe. He is surprised that she knows that. Leonard is going to dress up more to deliver his speech, still putting on pants despite no one seeing his legs. Penny offers to take him someplace nice if he'll put on a belt like her own Spring break outfit.
Howard had narrowed down the problem to a faulty pin on a computer chip. Sheldon is impressed and asks him if he could fix a toy locomotive that no longer puffs smoke. Bernadette shows up with the tool that Howard asked for. Raj plans on just buying a new helicopter; however, Howard, as an engineer, wants to fix the problem anyway. Bernadette suggests that they call tech support. The geniuses balk at that suggestion since they laugh at people who call those folks, proceeding to do so with Bernadette, who does call them.
At Leonard's old high school, he is introduced as a distinguished alumnus, the noted Caltech physicist, Doctor Leonard Hofstadter. Leonard remembers that last time he was in that auditorium, the lacrosse team played with his asthma inhaler. He thanks his beautiful fiance for setting up the broadcast and then surprises Penny by showing her on video. She says "hi" and for everyone to stay in school and stay off drugs, even though they are currently graduating.
The helicopter now has a working power supply, WiFi, GPS, and a charged battery. Preparing for takeoff as the helicopter lets out a puff of smoke just like Sheldon's locomotive used to. Howard concedes to Bernadette to call tech support. He thinks he'll end up talking to a foreigner looking at the same manual he has. As he dials the number, Raj's phone rings; however, it's really his father. He wants to know what he talked to his mother about. Raj claims that she has a lot of imagination and that it's good he took after his father. Dr. K was Raj's role model and that is what got him into science so he claims. Then Raj charges into the apartment asking who wants to fly to Vegas on a real helicopter.
Continuing his speech about knowledge, Leonard changes the subject to that they are probably as bored with the speech as he is or Penny. Reflecting on how he didn't feel like he existed, he then speaks to the smart and invisible students currently at the high school. With all that time they are spending alone, they are just becoming interesting and people out in the world find them a lot cooler than they thought. For the popular kids, their popularity is now over.
The guys are still waiting to have a tech rep get on line. Howard muses that he has become an old man now baffled by modern technology. Suddenly the helicopter turns on and starts flying. No one is piloting it because it picked up a random WIFI signal from elsewhere. It starts to fly around the apartment terrorizing everyone. Tech support answers and an anxious Sheldon tells him that there's a robot uprising and he should call the police. In the last scene, the helicopter is still flying all over and attacks Leonard and Penny in the hallway.
Title reference: Leonard's speech being transmitted over Skype.
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