The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Tenure Turbulence (2013)

Kunal Nayyar: Raj Koothrappali

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• Raj Koothrappali : Unbelievable! You have some nerve showing up here just to schmooze with the tenure committee.

  Sheldon Cooper : You're here.

  Raj Koothrappali : Excuse me. I'm here to pay my respects to Professor Tupperware or whatever his name is.

  Sheldon Cooper : So am I. His passing makes me feel bad.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well, well, well, Sheldon, fancy meeting you here. I guess the train store in Glendale wasn't having a cotillion after all.

  [to Raj] 

  Leonard Hofstadter : And you. You said you weren't coming here either.

  Raj Koothrappali : I have a thick accent. You don't know what I said.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : I'd like to know why Penny's here.

  Penny : I'm here to support my man, just like you.

  Sheldon Cooper : What are you going to do? Take people's drink orders and get them wrong?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Do it!

  [Penny slips off her coat and is wearing a short black dress with prominently displayed breasts. Raj stares at her] 

  Sheldon Cooper : What? Did she do it yet?

  Amy Farrah Fowler : She plans on flirting with members of the tenure committee to further Leonard's cause.

  Sheldon Cooper : Well, that's a fine how do you do. Don't just stand there, take your breasts out.

  Howard Wolowitz : Ooooohh, meerkat fight.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : You're all wasting your time. Sheldon is the most qualified for the job, and no amount of gravity defying bosom's going to change that. Seriously, is that tape? Like how are they staying up like that?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Way to hit 'em with both barrels.

  Raj Koothrappali : You two should be ashamed of yourselves. Using women to advance your cause with sexuality and whatever Amy plans on doing.

• Barry Kripke : Wemember when we were twying to figure out what that smell coming fwom Pwofessor Tupperman's office was?

  Howard Wolowitz : Yeah.

  Barry Kripke : Turns out it was Tupperman. Dead at his desk for two weeks.

  Howard Wolowitz , Leonard Hofstadter , Raj Koothrappali : Ugh.

  Barry Kripke : In wieu of fwowers, the department chair is asking that everyone donate a bottle of Febweze.

• [first lines] 

  Leonard Hofstadter : I was reading about this jellyfish that never dies; instead it reverts to its asexual and then grows up again.

  Howard Wolowitz : We thought my ninety-year-old grandfather had reverted to an asexual state, but the lawsuit from his Jamaican caregiver proved us all wrong.

  Leonard Hofstadter : My point is immortality is not only a possibility; it is real.

  Raj Koothrappali : Only if you're this jellyfish, which periodically reverts to a mass of undifferentiated protoplasm.

  Sheldon Cooper : If I could keep my Gmail account I'd be OK with that.