The Big Bang Theory 1x06

The Middle Earth Paradigm

Season 1, Episode 6

* Penny: So how was paintball? Did you have fun?
   Sheldon: Sure, if you consider being fragged by your own troops fun.


* Penny: Oh, hey, guys.
   Leonard: Hey, sorry we're late.
   Penny: Late? It's 7:05.
   Sheldon: And you said the party starts at 7.
   Penny: Yeah, I mean, when you start a party at 7, no one shows up at, you know, 7.
   Sheldon: It's 7:05.


* Howard: Hey, guys, check out the sexy nurse. I believe it's time for me to turn my head and cough.
   Rajesh: What is your move?
   Howard: I'm going to use the mirror technique. She brushes her hair back, I brush mine. She shrugs, I shrug. Subconsciously, she's thinking, "We're in sync. We belong together."
   Leonard: Where do you get this stuff?
   Howard: You know, psychology journals, Internet research. And there's this great show on VH1 about how to pick up girls.

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* Leonard: I wanna get to know Penny's friends. I just... I don't know how to talk to these people.
   Sheldon: Well, I actually might be able to help.
   Leonard: How so?
   Sheldon: Like Jane Goodall observing the apes I initially saw their interactions as confusing and unstructured. But patterns emerge. They have their own language, if you will.
   Leonard: Go on.
   Sheldon: Well, it seems that the newcomer approaches the existing group with the greeting, "How wasted am I?" Which is met with an approving chorus of "Dude."
   Leonard: Then what happens?
   Sheldon: That's as far as I've gotten.


* Leonard: Look, if this was 15,000 years ago, by virtue of his size and strength Kurt would be entitled to his choice of female partners.
   Sheldon: And male partners, animal partners, large primordial eggplants... pretty much whatever tickled his fancy.
   Leonard: Yes, but our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, Sheldon, you and I are the alpha males. And we shouldn't have to back down.
   Sheldon: True. Why don't you text him that and see if he backs down?
   Leonard: No. I'm going to assert my dominance face to face.
   Sheldon: Face to face? Are you gonna wait for him to sit down or you gonna stand on the coffee table?


* Penny: Oh, hey, guys. You having a good time?
   Sheldon: Given the reaction to my costume this party is a scathing indictment of the American education system.
   Kurt: What? You're a zebra, right?
   Sheldon: Yet another child left behind.


* Leonard: I understand your impulse to try to physically intimidate me. You can't compete with me on an intellectual level and so you're driven to animalistic puffery.
   Kurt: You calling me a puffy animal?
   Penny: Oh, of course not. No, he's not. You're not, right, Leonard?
   Leonard: No, I said animalistic. Of course, we're all animals... but some of us have climbed a little higher on the evolutionary tree.
   Sheldon: If he understands that, you're in trouble.
   Kurt: So what? I'm unevolved?!
   Sheldon: You're in trouble.


* Sheldon: If it's any consolation... I thought that Homo habilis line really put him in his place.


* Penny: Boy, you're really smart.
   Leonard: Yeah, I'm a freaking genius.
   Penny: Leonard, you are so great. Why can't all guys be like you?
   Leonard: Because if all guys were like me, the human race couldn't survive.



--- Словарик:
frag — убить осколочной гранатой
emerge — выясняться, явствовать, следовать; выявляться
primordial — первобытный
eggplants — (бот.) баклажан
scathing — едкий, злой, уничтожающий
intimidate — пугать, запугивать; угрожать, устрашать; шантажировать
animalistic — в виде животного; чувственный, плотский
puffery — чрезмерное рекламирование; непомерное восхваление; дутая реклама
puffy — напыщенный, высокопарный
evolve — развиваться, эволюционировать
consolation — утешение
habile — ловкий, умелый, искусный


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