- [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?
- [first lines]
- Raj Koothrappali: So, Downward Facing Dog comes from the Sanskrit phrase Adho Mukha Svanasana.
- Penny Hofstadter: Oh, that's beautiful. What does it mean?
- Raj Koothrappali: Downward facing dog.
- Penny Hofstadter: Yeah, I guess they don't have Sanskrit for butts up and heads down.
- Raj Koothrappali: Hey, we wrote the Kama Sutra; if it involves butts there's a word for it.
- 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.
- Amy Farrah Fowler: [after carrying her harp up the stairs] You know, I like harp lessons, but I'm thinking of switching to elevator repair lessons.
- 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.