The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Collaboration Fluctuation (2017)

Jim Parsons: Sheldon Cooper

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• [last lines] 

  Sheldon Cooper : Can you read them back?

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Revised ground rule number one: we are on the same team but it *is* a competition.

  Sheldon Cooper : Excellent, excellent. And on a related point, you're going down, punk.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Revised ground rule number two: there are definitely stupid questions, and those who ask them can be told so right to their *stupid* face.

  Sheldon Cooper : I love that one.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Thanks, babe. Number three: fair topics for insult include educational pedigree, scientific field, intellectual prowess, and mommas.

  Sheldon Cooper : That list is *strong*. Like your mother's urge to be promiscuous with sailors.

• Sheldon Cooper : I believe I've made some progress on our ground rules.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Oh, good. What are they?

  Sheldon Cooper : Number one: in matters of physics, I have the final say. In matters of neuroscience, you have the final say, unless I disagree. Number two: when we publish, my name goes first. Oh, subsequently, if we win any awards, I speak first. I don't want to be talking when the orchestra plays us off.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Can I see that?

  Sheldon Cooper : Of course.

  [Amy takes notebook and tosses it out the window] 

  Sheldon Cooper : I'll get that back. Like all my underwear, that notebook says "Property of Sheldon Cooper".

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Sheldon, if we're gonna have ground rules, I'll tell you the first ground rule: I make the ground rules.

  Sheldon Cooper : I'd write that down, but I can't now, can I?

• Amy Farrah Fowler : We're finally making progress. I wish we could do it without fighting.

  Sheldon Cooper : What if the fighting is the reason we're making progress?

  Amy Farrah Fowler : I suppose it's conceivable that the hormones associated with our fight or flight response could be sharpening our cognitive processes.

• Amy Farrah Fowler : I had a feeling you were using the wrong computational model, but I didn't say anything 'cause you're so sensitive!

  Sheldon Cooper : Just because I'm easily bothered by light, heat, sound, smell and the way birds look at me does not mean I'm sensitive!

• Sheldon Cooper : Gentlemen, the most interesting thing just happened with this spoon.

  Howard Wolowitz : Unless it was singing "Be Our Guest", I doubt it.

• Amy Farrah Fowler : [Looking at their boards]  Wow. Look at that.

  Sheldon Cooper : Yes. It's remarkable.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : So we're agreed: it's total garbage.

  Sheldon Cooper : By the way, your name can go first.

• Sheldon Cooper : Can you stop breathing so loud? I can hear your nose whistling.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : I can hear your face talking, so we're even.

  [Beat] 

  Sheldon Cooper : All right! Either blow your nose or teach it to play Camptown Races!

  Amy Farrah Fowler : FIne! Fine! You want me to blow my nose? Here, I'll blow it!

  [Blows nose really hard at Sheldon] 

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Better?

  Sheldon Cooper : No, I can still hear it. Oh, wait, that's me. Never mind, it's fine.

• Sheldon Cooper : If good ideas came out of your brain the way mucus comes out of your nose, we'd be in good shape.

• Sheldon Cooper : It could be the most inspired combination since I mixed red Icee into my blue Icee. It was like drinking two sevenths of the rainbow.

• Sheldon Cooper : It seems we have a choice to make. Abandon all ground rules in the name of science or give up collaborating for the sake of our relationship.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : There's only one clear choice.

  Sheldon Cooper : Science.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : No, you bonehead!

• Sheldon Cooper : Biology and physics coming together, this is like the peanut butter cup of the mind.