- The guys's skills are put to the test when they get a flat tire on the way to Mexico for Leonard's bachelor party. The girls throw Penny a mini-bachelorette party.
- Because Leonard and Penny eloped, neither got a bachelor or bachelorette party before their marriage. As such, Howard and Raj, with Penny's help, kidnap a willing Leonard and a less than willing Sheldon to take them away to a mystery destination for a bachelor party. The plan in general sits well with Leonard, and a little less so with Sheldon, until he learns of some science related aspects to the plan. But all four will have to use a little more science on this trip than they anticipated. With the boys out of town, the girls have a bachelorette party of their own. As Penny doesn't want to go to a strip club, they decide instead to have a girls' night in to talk about their current lives. Penny's marriage to Leonard and Amy's break-up with Sheldon lead to two telephone calls, one which contains a little more information than Penny would have liked, and a physical transformation for a new look.—Huggo
- Howard and Raj want to give Leonard a bachelor party. And he says OK and they "take" Sheldon with them. They plan to go to Mexico in an old van which was owned by one of Sheldon's idols. When the van breaks down they have a hard time trying to repair it. The girls get together and they encourage Penny to call her mother and tell her she married Leonard. Only her father answers and he takes the moment to tell her something he's been keeping to himself. And they also learn Amy didn't tell her mother that she broke up with Sheldon and tells her to call her mother.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- While Sheldon and Leonard are fixing lunch in Apartment 4A, Leonard offers up a fun fact about mustard although Sheldon already knows about its component that can be used to ward off caterpillars. Raj and Howard enter, they are going to kidnap Leonard and take him to an unknown destination to celebrate his bachelor party. Sheldon complains that their kidnapping is missing a blindfold, Duct tape and a ransom call.. Penny already packed his bag AND Sheldon is coming too. He asks how they are going to make him come, so they kidnap him; rope and blindfold included.
Driving down the Interstate highway, Sheldon is again complaining about being taken against his will into a hippie's mobile sex dungeon. The van they are using once belonged to Richard Feynman, one of Sheldon's favorite physicists. Both Sheldon and Leonard get excited. According to Howard they are heading to Meh-i-co. Raj wonders what problems he has with where they're going. Mariachi bands, wild dogs and Mexican jumping beans with little worms in them that jump around. The theme of the trip is to go to Mexico in Richard Feynman's van to stay in the house that Richard Feynman's house bought with the money he was given for his Nobel Prize. "Viva la Imodium", shouts Sheldon.
In apartment 4B, Bernadette is trying to get Penny to go to a strip club since the boys are off on a bachelor weekend. Amy joins them, bringing some cookies for the mini-hens party. The cookies are shaped like penises with gummy worms for veins, circumcised and uncircumcised. Penny tells the world to watch their daughters or Sheldon may spend the night explaining NAFTA to them which did happen to Amy.
Sheldon finds out the limits that US Customs have on returning with DVDs, CDs and VHS tapes. There could be some VHS tapes leftover in a van that old. Especially Jane Fonda workout tapes.
The girls discussed married life with Penny who has a husband who has not yet moved out of his apartment. He does sleep there at night; however, it is only time before Sheldon has a nightmare and finds the pile of pillows in Leonard's bed.
Penny tells Amy that it's not uncommon for a woman to get a makeover after a breakup. Amy is considering maybe changing one thing. Your glasses. Your sweater. Your hair. Your shoes. No, she wants her ears pierced. She never got it done because her mother thought that it was for whores, pirates and genies. Amy wants to get it done elsewhere, but Penny can do it with a needle and an ice cube. Penny begs her that she will be gentle and to let her take her ear virginity.
On their way to Mexico, Sheldon tells Howard to watch his speed since Mexican police have it in for tourists. Leonard compares that it's like riding around in the Batmobile if Batman was a physicist. They all hope that Feynman's Mojo will rub off on them, inspiring them to greatness. Suddenly they get a flat tire and Sheldon is worried that they are being shot at by bandits and may end up in a Mexican factory making Bart Simpson pinatas. Sheldon then again says that he is getting too old for this crud.
Their van has a flat tire and Howard is trying to fix it. He learned that skill so that he could change the tires of damsels in distress (Meet women). Sheldon is trying to find and stay away from scorpions. Howard can't get the last lug nut off. Raj wonders if he is turning it the right way and tries it himself. It doesn't turn the opposite way.
While Penny finishes up with Amy's ears, Bernadette notes that Amy hasn't changed her Facebook status. Amy agrees that she should let her Facebook friends know that. Penny hasn't yet changed hers since she hasn't yet told her parents that she is married. Her father wanted a father/daughter dance at her wedding. He didn't get to do it at her sister's wedding because her water broke when they started. Penny figures her Dad isn't getting any younger so she'll just wait until he cannot remember things and she'll tell him that it was magical.
As Amy admires her pierced ears, she remarks that if her mother saw her now she would lock her in "The Sin Closet". Bernadette adds that at least she would have told her if she had gotten married. Penny agrees to call them. They both think that Amy has told her mother about Sheldon, but she hasn't. Penny insists she call home and tell her family that she broke up with Sheldon. She calls her Dad and tells him that she married Leonard last week on the spur of the moment and is sorry that she didn't tell him. He is glad that she is happy. Penny calls him the best Dad ever. He replies for her to hold that thought. Her father accidentally ran over her pet pig Moondance with the tractor's new rototiller ten to twelve months ago. And he didn't tell Penny for a whole year?
All the guys are pushing on the lug trying to turn it. Raj is doing LaMaze breathing to help push. Howard figures that he is pushing with his uterus. Leonard just considers this a physics problem. Sheldon quotes Archimedes where if he had a long enough lever, he could move the world.
Penny sarcastically reprimands the girls for making her make the call because previously, in her mind, her pet pig was alive and rolling around in the mud. Now it's illegally buried in the backyard next to her great-grandmother. Now it's Amy's turn. First Amy fakes trying to dial and then she gets her mother, but makes stalling with small talk, Penny grabs the phone and tells her Mom about Sheldon, the ear piercing and the "penis cookies." Penny then hands back the phone because her mother wants to talk to her.
Still working on the lug nut, Howard is hanging from a lever made out of a stop sign and pole. Then they muse about Star Trek Phasers, Superman's heat vision, Green Lantern's ring and The Incredible Hulk, who might not get across the border with his temper. Leonard tells them that they are scientists and should be able to use real science. Percussive shock, they keep hammering at the lug with the rhythm inspiring them to sing "We Will Rock You". Sheldon gets excited and breaks into a tenor doing the refrain. Thermal expansion, they try to heat up the lug with a tortilla chip. Sheldon is afraid the cooking chip would attract animals. Accelerated corrosion, using burning salsa and two electrodes, he hopes to corrode it off. Sheldon considers his idea innovative and doesn't feel he gives his M.I.T. education enough credit. Howard saw it on "MythBusters". Exothermic Reaction, using rust and aluminum they make some Thermite to melt it off. Howard says that the lug nut put up a good fight, but "met its match" as he lights the match. Next, they are standing next to the van in glorious flames. Raj notes that the lug nut is finally off.
Finally a filthy Sheldon and Leonard and coming up the staircase they meet Penny going down with their laundry. Leonard mentions that they had a flat and couldn't get it off. Penny mentions that she pierced Amy's ears and her mother had Amy sit in Penny's closet. Sheldon told her that they blew up the van. Penny's pig was killed by her father's tractor. Leonard says that he had to spend the weekend in Mexico with Sheldon. Penny tells Leonard that he wins.
Title reference: The men's bachelor party plans being ruined by the corroded bolt holding the flat tire.
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