The Big Bang Theory 1x12

The Jerusalem Duality

Season 1, Episode 12

{ Sheldon sighs }
   Leonard: Something you'd like to share? A tale of woe perhaps?
   Sheldon: Fifteen years old. Dennis Kim is 15 years old and he's already correcting my work. Today, I went from being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to... You know, that other guy.
   Howard: Antonio Salieri?
   Sheldon: Oh, God, now even you're smarter than me.


* Leonard: Just eat, Sheldon. You'll feel better.
   Sheldon: Why waste food? When a cow goes dry, they don't keep feeding it... they just take her out and shoot her between the eyes.
   Penny: I'm confused. Did Sheldon stop giving milk?


* Leonard: You knew that someday, someone would come along who's younger and smarter.
   Sheldon: Yes, but I assumed I would've been dead hundreds of years. And that there'd be an asterisk by his name because he'd be a cyborg.


* Penny: So you got a little competition. I really don't see what the big deal is.
   Sheldon: Of course you don't. You've never excelled at anything.


* Penny: What are you gonna do, just give up?
   Sheldon: Yes, it's what a rational person does when his entire life's work is invalidated by a prepubescent Asian wunderkind. He ceases his fruitless efforts, he donates his body to scientific research... and he waits to die.
   Penny: I'm confused again. Is he waiting, or do we get to shoot him between the eyes?

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* Sheldon: Now see, what's this here in the schematic, a laser array?
   Leonard: Yes.
   Sheldon: Now, hmm... What happens if you use argon lasers instead of helium-neon?
   Leonard: It would blow up.
   Sheldon: Are you sure?
   Leonard: Pretty sure.
   Sheldon: "Pretty sure" is not very scientific. Is this how you normally work? Just hunches and guesses and stuff?


* Howard: Is he here?
   Leonard: If he were, I wouldn't be.
   Raj: You know what he did? He watched me work... and then started to design a simple piece of software that could replace me.
   Leonard: Is that even possible?
   Raj: As it turns out, yes.


* Howard: What if something were to happen to him so he was no longer a threat to Sheldon? Then our problem would be solved.
   Leonard: Hang on, are we talking about murdering Dennis Kim?.. I'm not saying no. We don't have to go that far. There are other means.
   Raj: We can't send him back to North Korea. He knows how to get out.


* Raj: He is not interested in anything but physics.
   Howard: What about biology?
   Leonard: What?
   Howard: You know, biology. The one thing that can completely derail a world-class mind.
   Leonard: Howard, he's 15.
   Howard: Yeah, so? When I was 15, I met Denise Palmeri and my grade point average fell from a 5.0 to a 1.8.
   Raj: She was sleeping with you?
   Howard: No, I just wasted a lot of time thinking about what it would be like if she did.


* Raj: We need a social catalyst.
   Leonard: Like what? We can't get 15-year-old girls drunk.
   Howard: Or can we?
   Leonard: No, we can't.
   Howard: I don't think you mean we can't. I think you mean we shouldn't.


* Sheldon: Hey, Howard, you're a Jew. If there was another Wailing Wall exactly like the one in Jerusalem... but close to taco stands and cheap prescription drugs... would you still wail at it?


* Leonard: Yeah, mission accomplished.
   Raj: Forget the mission. How did that little yutz get a girl on his own?
   Howard: I guess times have changed since we were young. Smart is the new sexy.
   Leonard: Then why do we go home alone every night? We're still smart.
   Raj: Maybe we're too smart. So smart, it's off-putting.
   Leonard: Yeah, let's go with that.



--- Словарик:
woe — горе; скорбь, печаль
hunche — (амер. разг.) предчувствие; подозрение; интуиция; наитие
off-putting — смущающий, сбивающий с толку; обескураживающий


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