- Following his 'breakup' with Amy, the gang become concerned with Sheldon's obsessive search for non-human companionship and call his mother to intervene.
- Despite not considering her his girlfriend and visa versa, Sheldon and Amy are spending a lot of time together. This situation irks the gang, but especially Leonard as Sheldon's roommate, since they all detest Amy, who they consider sanctimonious and condescending. The gang's problem may self destruct when sanctimonious and condescending Amy has a fundamental disagreement with sanctimonious and condescending Sheldon, leading to the two deciding to break-up despite not having been boyfriend/girlfriend. Sheldon states that he is perfectly fine with the relationship ending, but his actions seem to imply otherwise as he replaces Amy with something else in his life. Concerned for his friend's state of mind, Leonard calls in the one person who he believes can get through to Sheldon.—Huggo
- Sheldon and Amy have created a game called "Counter Factuals," where they postulate a situation in the world that currently doesn't exist and pose questions to each other. The game can only be played by them because it requires that you know how the other person thinks thus proving that they are very compatible together. Leonard tries the game and fails miserably. Asked that in a world where mankind is ruled by a giant, intelligent beaver, what food is no longer consumed? Leonard's answer is cinnamon, but the correct one is cheese Danish. Since the people would build many dams to appease their overlord and flood the city of Copenhagen, devastating the Danish people enough to never invent their namesake pastry.
At the Cheesecake Factory, Howard and Raj are discussing the term "toilet" at the dinner table when Sheldon and Amy arrive. Amy had stop to get some feminine hygiene supplies, since she wears them all the time to avoid being surprised. Penny comes over and calls the couple "Shamy" which Amy does not like. Asking how everything is going, Amy replies it's the same as everybody else's: subject to entropy, decay, and eventual death. Leonard gets described as a "festival of humdrum chitchat." Howard only has a master's degree, so he's beneath her, and Raj luckily can't talk in front of women.
Leonard wants Sheldon to spend time with his girlfriend ("She's not my girlfriend!") elsewhere since she is judgmental, sanctimonious, and obnoxious just like Sheldon. But Sheldon points out that he suffered in silence for eight months of Penny's country music, rubbing her feet with a pumice stone, and poor documentaries about the Jersey Shore. Leonard reacts that he did not suffer in silence.
They try meeting in Penny's apartment as Howard insists on correcting Penny's use of the pumice stone and Raj insists on getting drunk and acting like a jerk.
At the cafeteria the next day, Leonard, Howard, and a hung over Raj are joined by John Lennon and Yoko Ono ("more like Yoko and Yoko," according to Howard) or Shamy as Amy has been given a tour. Amy thinks it's very impressive for theoretical work as opposed to the real-world applications of Neuro-Biology, she finds theoretical physics 'cute'. She claims that Neuro-Biology is a higher science than physics. Sheldon is appalled and says that they should end their relationship immediately. Amy agrees and then leaves.
Penny finds Sheldon in the laundry and asks how he is doing after his breakup with his girlfriend; however, Sheldon once again states that Amy is not his girlfriend. Sheldon assures her that his relationship with Amy was purely intellectual.
Leonard returns home to find that Sheldon has gotten himself a cat which he takes everywhere, even to work. The cat is named Dr. Robert Oppenheimer after the Los Alamos atomic scientist. Later Leonard finds him with six more cats. They are named after other Manhattan project scientists and were needed because Dr. Robert Oppenheimer was lonely. Zazzles is his favorite because he is so "zazzy." It's time for intervention so Leonard sends for Sheldon's mother.
Mary Cooper arrives and she first verifies that Sheldon had a real girlfriend and not something the boys cooked up in the lab. Upon entering Sheldon's bedroom, the normally unflappable Mary Cooper sees him with twenty-five cats. She tells Leonard that he should have called her sooner.
Mary Cooper makes dinner for the gang, but doesn't allow him to bring in any of his cats. Sheldon finds Amy as a guest who came because Sheldon was losing his mind over her and she wanted to see that. Mary Cooper found Amy a perfectly "unique" young lady and that it was good that they broke up because they were not suited for each other. Otherwise, she would have to have broken them up on her own. Sheldon objects, saying that Amy was more like him than anyone else he has met and they agree to resume their relationship. After Amy's suggestion, he agrees that 65% of their problems were his fault and he takes her off to show her his cats. She's elated, as cats are the epitome of indifference. Leonard correctly guesses Mrs. Cooper was using some reverse psychology on Sheldon. Mrs. Cooper insists that despite Sheldon's intelligence he acts like any other man when it comes to reverse psychology, citing that her brother "Stumpy" would still be called "Edward" if she hadn't told him to clean a wood-chipper by hand. Then she uses the same technique to get Leonard to bring over the food.
Finally, Sheldon and Amy are seen giving away the cats on a table marked "Cats $20," though they are not selling the cats; they are in fact paying people twenty dollars to take the cats away.
Title reference: Sheldon describes one of his cats as being very "zazzy", and he uses his cats to fill the void created by the breakup with Amy.
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