The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Tangerine Factor (2008)

Jim Parsons: Sheldon Cooper

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• Penny : [scares the hell out of Sheldon after touching him in the back]  Do you have a second?

  Sheldon : A second what? Pair of underwear?

• Howard Wolowitz : I'm so glad you're learning Mandarin.

  Sheldon : Why?

  Howard Wolowitz : Because then you'll have a billion people to annoy instead of me.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Why are you learning Mandarin?

  Sheldon : I suspect that the people at the Szechuan Palace are passing off orange chicken as tangerine chicken, and I intend to confront them.

  Leonard Hofstadter : If I were you, I'd be more worried about what they're passing off as chicken.

• Sheldon : I think I need another Mandarin lesson. I don't think I got through to them.

  Howard Wolowitz : For heaven's sake, if you don't like the tangerine chicken, don't order the tangerine chicken.

  Sheldon : I like tangerine chicken, I'm just not getting tangerine chicken.

• Sheldon : But why talk to me? Why not Koothrappali or Wolowitz?

  Penny : Well, Koothrappali can't talk to me unless he's drunk, and Wolowitz is... just disgusting.

  Sheldon : Yes, I guess he is.

• Penny : Leonard isn't the kind of guy I usually go out with.

  Sheldon : Leonard isn't the kind of guy anyone usually goes out with.

• Sheldon : What do I have to say to bring this discussion to a speedy conclusion?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Tell me whether or not I should go out with Penny.

  Sheldon : Schrodinger's cat.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Wow, that is brilliant!

  Sheldon : You sound so surprised.

• Penny : I guess you're aware that Leonard asked me out.

  Sheldon : He didn't actually say anything, but when he came back to the apartment he was doing a dance that brought to mind the happy hippos in Fantasia.

• Penny : [meeting Sheldon in the hallway]  I'm sorry... look, do you have a second?

  Sheldon : A second what? Pair of underwear?

• Penny : Wanna sit down?

  Sheldon : Oh, I wish it were that simple... You see, I don't spend much time here, so I've never chosen a place to sit.

  Penny : Well, choose.

  Sheldon : There are a number of options... I'm really not familiar enough with the cushion densities, airflow patterns and dispersion of sunlight, to make in informed choice.

• Leonard Hofstadter : I don't think I can go out with her tonight.

  Sheldon : Then, don't.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Other people would say "Why not?"

  Sheldon : Other people might be interested.

  Leonard Hofstadter : I'm gonna talk anyway.

  Sheldon : I assumed you would.

• Leonard Hofstadter : She doesn't want to talk.

  Sheldon : Penny's emotional response is originated in the primitive portion of the brain, known as the amygdala. While speech is centered in the much more recently developed neo-cortex. The former can easily overpower the latter, giving scientific credence to the notion of being "rendered speechless."

  Sheldon : Or maybe she just doesn't want to talk.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Now that I'm actually about to go out with Penny. I'm not excited. I'm nauseous.

  Sheldon Cooper : Ah, then your meal choice is appropriate. Starch absorbs fluid, which reduces the amount of vomit available for violent expulsion.