Scene 1 (Cold Open): Sheldon at radio station
This scene was pre-taped and only played once.
Sheldon is being interviewed by NPR radio host Ira Flatow (playing himself) on his morning show, “Science Friday”. Ira introduces Sheldon as the Caltech theoretical physicist who discovered a new element due to a mathematical error. Ira calls it a “wonder blunder” and compares the discovery to finding a treasure without a map. He asks Sheldon how he feels about possibly getting a Noble Prize in Chemistry even though his life’s work is in Physics. Sheldon says there’s no need to point out that he is “a clown freak”, then gets up and leaves in a huff.
Scene 2: L/S apartment
Sheldon, Amy, Leonard and Penny are having dinner. Sheldon is on the phone with President Siebert. Sheldon tells Siebert to stop yelling at him. Sheldon didn’t go to an interview to get attacked by a morning show jock. If the university needs funds so badly, maybe they should start a swear jar… “ah, there’s a dollar” (presumably in response to Siebert swearing at him on the phone). Sheldon hangs up.
Amy tells Sheldon that she knows he doesn’t like doing it, but interviews help raise the university’s profile which translates into funds. Sheldon doesn’t look happy. He says he feels like a trained monkey dancing for coins. Leonard says that Sheldon is not a trained monkey … people love trained monkeys.
Penny doesn’t know what Sheldon is complaining about: he’s tall, thin and famous. Then she says “Oh my god, I am jealous of Sheldon”. Sheldon says they don’t know how it feels to be famous for something you wish nobody knew about. In the first take, Penny says he forgot about when Leonard wore a fedora for a whole week. In the second take, she says understands because that she did something in Mardi Gras she wishes nobody knew about. The others react expectantly but she does not elaborate.
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This scene was pre-taped and only played once.
Sheldon is being interviewed by NPR radio host Ira Flatow (playing himself) on his morning show, “Science Friday”. Ira introduces Sheldon as the Caltech theoretical physicist who discovered a new element due to a mathematical error. Ira calls it a “wonder blunder” and compares the discovery to finding a treasure without a map. He asks Sheldon how he feels about possibly getting a Noble Prize in Chemistry even though his life’s work is in Physics. Sheldon says there’s no need to point out that he is “a clown freak”, then gets up and leaves in a huff.
Scene 2: L/S apartment
Sheldon, Amy, Leonard and Penny are having dinner. Sheldon is on the phone with President Siebert. Sheldon tells Siebert to stop yelling at him. Sheldon didn’t go to an interview to get attacked by a morning show jock. If the university needs funds so badly, maybe they should start a swear jar… “ah, there’s a dollar” (presumably in response to Siebert swearing at him on the phone). Sheldon hangs up.
Amy tells Sheldon that she knows he doesn’t like doing it, but interviews help raise the university’s profile which translates into funds. Sheldon doesn’t look happy. He says he feels like a trained monkey dancing for coins. Leonard says that Sheldon is not a trained monkey … people love trained monkeys.
Penny doesn’t know what Sheldon is complaining about: he’s tall, thin and famous. Then she says “Oh my god, I am jealous of Sheldon”. Sheldon says they don’t know how it feels to be famous for something you wish nobody knew about. In the first take, Penny says he forgot about when Leonard wore a fedora for a whole week. In the second take, she says understands because that she did something in Mardi Gras she wishes nobody knew about. The others react expectantly but she does not elaborate.
Read the rest over at Fanforum
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