First Episode vs. Last Episode ¦ The Big Bang Theory

So if a photon is directed through a plane with two slits in it and either slit is observed, it will not go through both slits. If it's unobserved, it will. However, if it's observed after it's left the plane but before it hits its target, it will not have gone through both slits. Agreed. What's your point? No point. I just think it's a good idea for a t-shirt. Excuse me. Hang on. One across is Aegean. Eight down is Nabokov. Twenty-six across is MCM. Fourteen down is your finger. Phylum, which makes fourteen across Port-au-Prince. See? Pompadour's capital idea. That's Port-au-Prince. Haiti. Can I help you? Yes. Is this the High IQ Sperm Bank? If you have to ask, maybe you shouldn't be here. I think this is the place. Fill these out. Thank you. We'll be right back. We'll take your time. I'll just finish my crossword puzzle. Oh, wait. Leonard, I don't think I can do this. What are you, kidding? You're a semi-pro. No. We are committing genetic fraud. There's no guarantee that our sperm is going to generate high IQ offspring. Think about that. I have a sister with the same basic DNA mix who hostesses at Fuddruckers. Sheldon, this was your idea. A little extra money to get fractional T1 bandwidth in the apartment? I know, and I do yearn for faster downloads. If there's some poor woman who's going to pin her hopes on my sperm, what if she winds up with a toddler who doesn't know if he should use an integral or a differential to solve for the area under a curve? I'm sure she'll still love him. I wouldn't. Well, what do you want to do? I want to leave. Okay. What's the protocol for leaving? I don't know. I've never reneged on a proffer of sperm before. Let's try just walking out. Okay. Bye. Bye-bye. Nice meeting you. Are you still mad about the sperm bank? No. You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs? Stop reading. If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimeters, most people will trip. I don't care. Two millimeters? That doesn't seem right. No, it's true. I did a series of experiments when I was 12. My father broke his clavicle. Is that why they sent you to boarding school? No, that was the result of my work with lasers. New neighbor? Evidently. Significant improvement over the old neighbor. 200-pound transvestite with a skin condition? Yes, she is. Oh, hi. Hi. Hi. Interrupt. We live across the hall. Oh, that's nice. Oh, no, we don't live together. I mean, we live together, but in separate heterosexual bedrooms. Oh, okay. Well, guess I'm your new neighbor. Penny. Leonard. Sheldon. Hi. Hi. Hi. Well, uh, oh, welcome to the building. Oh, thank you. Maybe we can have coffee sometime. Oh, great. Great. Great. Great. Well, uh, bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Should we have invited her for lunch? No, we're going to start season two of Battlestar Galactica. We already watched the season two DVDs. Not with commentary. I think we should be good neighbors. Invite her over. Make her feel welcome. We never invited Louie slash Louise over. And that was wrong of us. We need to widen our circle. I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on Myspace. Yes, and you've never met one of them. That's the beauty of it. I'm going to invite her over. We'll have a nice meal and chat. Chat? We don't chat. At least not offline. Well, it's not difficult. You just listen to what she says, and then you say something appropriate in response. To what end? Hi. Again. Hi. Hi. Anyway, um, we brought home Indian food. And, um, I know that moving can be stressful. And I find that when I'm undergoing stress, that good food and company can have a comforting effect. Also, curry's a natural laxative, and I don't have to tell you that, you know, a clean colon is just one less thing to worry about. Leonard, I'm no expert here, but I believe in the context of a luncheon invitation, you might want to skip the reference to bowel movements. Oh, you're inviting me over to eat? Uh, yes. Oh, that's so nice. I'd love to. Great. So, what do you guys do for fun around here? Well, today we tried masturbating for money. And in the field of physics, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler and Dr. Sheldon Cooper for their discovery of super asymmetry. Just to be clear, this isn't a date. I know. Then why are you holding my hand? Thank you, your majesties. Thank you to the Nobel Committee. We are deeply honored. I would just like to take this moment to say to all the young girls out there who dream about science as a profession, go for it. It is the greatest job in the world. And if anybody tells you you can't, don't listen. And now, speaking of not listening, my husband, Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Sheldon. Did you finish? Great job. Thank you, Dr. Fowler. I have a very long and somewhat self-centered speech here, but I'd like to set it aside. Because this honor doesn't just belong to me. I wouldn't be up here if it weren't for some very important people in my life, beginning with my mother, father, meemaw, brother and sister, and my other family, who I'm so happy to have here with us. Is that Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I was under a misapprehension that my accomplishments were mine alone. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have been encouraged, sustained, inspired, and tolerated, not only by my wife, but by the greatest group of friends anyone ever had. I'd like to ask them to stand. Dr. Rajesh Koothrappali, Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, astronaut Howard Wolowitz, and my two dearest friends in the world, Penny Hofstadter and Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. I was there the moment Leonard and Penny met. He said to me that their babies would be smart and beautiful. And now that they're expecting, I have no doubt that that will be the case. Thanks, Sheldon. I haven't told my parents yet, but... Oh, I'm sorry. Don't tell anyone that last thing. That's a secret. Howard, Bernadette, Raj, Penny, Leonard, I apologize if I haven't been the friend you deserve, but I want you to know, in my way, I love you all. And I love you. Thank you. Developed tools, we built a wall, we built the pyramids. Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery. That all started with a big bang.