- When the university forces Sheldon to use vacation days, he decides to hang out in Amy's lab. Howard becomes upset when he hears Bernadette wants him to sign a prenuptial agreement.
- Much to Sheldon's chagrin, President Siebert orders him to take his mandatory vacation time immediately. Sheldon does whatever he can to pretend to take his vacation but still go to work. Since that doesn't work, he decides to do what he considers the next best thing: invade someone else's laboratory, namely Amy's. Amy welcomes him, but will Sheldon, who believes he's superior to everyone else regardless of the field of endeavor, be able to take a subservient role in his girlfriend's laboratory work? Meanwhile, Bernadette is worried that Howard won't take the news well that her father wants him to sign a prenuptial agreement since she makes more money than he does.—Huggo
- To get kids excited about science, Sheldon invents Physics Mad-Libs which are very funny to him since they sound ridiculous to a scientist, but as usual misses the point on how the rest of the world sees it. During lunch at the canteen, President Siebert (Joshua Malina) comes by in a bad mood looking for Sheldon. Sheldon has to take his required vacation, even though Sheldon doesn't see the need for them. Siebert tells him to take a foreign holiday and suggests Afghanistan as a destination.
The next day, Leonard enjoys the Sheldon-free ride to work where he can listen to music, until he finds Sheldon hiding in the back seat, almost causing a car crash in the process. Sheldon wants to be smuggled into the university to do work, but Leonard drives him right back home.
Penny and Amy gave Bernadette a hand with her wedding invitations. Penny is glad that they aren't in Klingon, though Howard has managed to get it printed on the back. Bernadette hopes her relatives think it's Hebrew. Her father is pressuring her to have Howard sign a prenuptial agreement, since she makes more money than him. Amy had the same problem with her mother forcing her to shave her legs, which she let her (mother) do last year. Penny tells her to break the news to him in bed. Talking about the wife's dowry in earlier times, Amy believes that cute Bernadette would easily go for two oxen and a goose, while Penny would fetch a unicorn.
Elsewhere, the boys try to come up with a vacation idea for the finicky Sheldon. Hawaii is a first choice, but Sheldon describes it as a former leper colony built on a volcano where the disappointing ending to Lost was filmed. Florida is offered, but it is revealed that Sheldon once went there and got his hot dog taken by a seagull. Richard Feynman, a brilliant physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, once took his vacation in a biology lab. As Amy works in a biology lab, he decides to work with her for vacation.
In the hallway, Penny tells Leonard about Bernadette needing a pre-nuptial. Then Penny asks Leonard if he would sign one if she became a famous actress. He refuses. If he's at home with the children while she's on location cheating on him with Ryan Gosling, Leonard gets paid.
Sheldon is excited to be working in Amy's lab, and Amy herself is glad to have her boyfriend with her since it's romantic. Amy thinks of it like Madame Curie and her husband working together under the glow of the radium that eventually killed her. Sheldon's first assignment is to clean some beakers for her, which Sheldon thinks is beneath him. Amy explains that he has no experience in biology.
Leonard talks to Raj about breaking the news about the pre-nuptial to Howard. Howard is sort of cool with it. He has his Vespa, some vintage comics, and the double-plot burial at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery. The plot is next to the actor who played Mr. Roper on Three's Company. Raj gasps, "Mr. Roper's dead?"
Sheldon cleans the beakers, only for Amy to say that they have soap spots and that he has to do them over again. His next task of counting spores seemed much more up his alley, though Amy makes him lose count. Finally, he asks for a challenge and has to cut the hair-thin Locus Coeruleus from a brain sample, which he has no idea how to do. As his scalpel hand is trembling, he cuts his thumb instead and faints at seeing his blood. Amy remarks, "Sure, you're a biologist."
Howard and Sheldon go to drown their sorrows at the Cheesecake Factory bar, which Penny is manning. Penny asks them what they're doing there in the middle of the day, which they claim they have no particular reason for. She informs them that Bernardette and Amy text her about pretty much everything that happens to them and, therefore, is completely aware of both their situations, and they quickly confess. She decides to set both of them straight. "All right, Howard Wolowitz. Listen up. You will sign anything she puts in front of you because you are the luckiest man alive. If you let her go, there is no way you'll find anyone else. Speaking on behalf of all women, it's not going to happen. We had a meeting." Turning to Sheldon, "And you fainted at the sight of a little blood, ha ha!" Sheldon shows her his "substantial wound" and faints again.
Sheldon apologizes to Amy and still has to finish cleaning the beakers.
Howard decides he will talk to Bernadette's dad about the Pre-Nupital agreement. She warns him that her father is a retired police officer who still wears a gun, and that Howard should avoid topics like Jimmy Carter, gardeners, homosexuals, foreigners, Sean Penn, Vatican II, the designated hitter rule, organic food, or that he's Hewbrew. Then Howard changes his mind and that he'll call him from the International Space Station.
Title reference: Suddenly forced to take his vacation time, Sheldon decides to go to work with Amy in her biology lab.
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