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The Killer Robot Instability

The Killer Robot Instability
Season 2, Episode 12 - Aired January 12, 2009

The guys are entering the enter the local killer robot contest but their plan goes awry when they lose their engineer, Howard, after Penny's comment about his love life sends him into a funk.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: We're all pathetic and creepy, and can't get girls. That's why we fight robots.

Quote from Howard

Mrs. Wolowitz: Want me to get you a popsicle?
Howard: Cherry, please!
Mrs. Wolowitz: I ate the cherry. All that's left is green.
Howard: You make me wanna kill myself!

Quote from Mrs. Wolowitz

Mrs. Wolowitz Howard, there's a blonde girl, Patsy, here to see you.
Howard: Who?
Mrs. Wolowitz Okay, now she's saying it's Penny.

Quote from Howard

Wolowitz: The way I see it, I'm halfway to pity sex.

Quote from Howard

Wolowitz: As delicious as the appetizer may be, sooner or later we will have to succumb and eat the entree while its still ... hot.

Quote from Sheldon

Penny: Normally, I can just ignore you. I mean, I get it. You're a little peculiar. Like Sheldon.
Sheldon: Excuse me, Penny, but in this room, you're the one who's peculiar.

Quote from Mrs. Wolowitz

Mrs. Wolowitz Should I ask Leonard to bring over your homework?
Howard: I don't have homework. I'm a grown man with a master's degree in engineering.
Mrs. Wolowitz Excuse me, Mr. Fancy Pants. Want me to get you a popsicle?

Quote from Raj

Raj: I'm curious, what part of America is that accent from?

Quote from Raj

Raj: Okay, what shall be the first to taste the wrath of MONTE?
Leonard: Maybe we should start small.
Raj: Okay, oh, perhaps today is the day we finally find out what's inside the Magic 8 Ball.
Sheldon: Did it when I was 4. It's an icosahedral die floating in tinted blue water.
Raj: Man, call spoiler alert before you say things like that.

Quote from Leonard

Leonard: Remember the day we first met and you asked me to go to your boyfriend's apartment to get your TV back? And he was 9 feet tall and he took my pants off and you said- What was that? What did you say? Oh, yes, you said you owed me one.
Penny: Oh, come on, that's not fair.
Leonard: I came home with no pants.

Quote from Leonard

Penny: What?
Leonard: He said we should maybe enter you in the killer robot competition.

Quote from Raj

Rajesh: Die, Toaster, Die!

Quote from Leonard

Leonard: Okay, don't take this as a criticism but you do have that over exposed to gamma radiation thing going on.
Penny: What?
Leonard: Usually your the easy going Bruce Banner but when you get angry you turn into (makes growling noise).
Penny: I turn into a bear?
Leonard: Gamma radiation, Bruce Banner; you didn't get the Incredible Hulk from that?

Quote from Raj

Sheldon: Is it wrong to say I love our killer robot?
Rajesh: As with my father I both love and fear it.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: Tell you what. Forget the SCRFLRRI, let's settle this roboto-a-roboto. There's no guarantee we're going to go against each other in the round robin, so let's throw down. You know, unless you're afraid.

Quote from Leonard

Sheldon: This is an auspicious moment, like Robert Oppenhiemer or Neil Armstrong, we need the appropriate words to mark this historic scientific event.
Rajesh: How about, die toaster, die!
Leonard: That'll do it!

Quote from Leonard

Howard: Behold the Mobile Omni-Directional Neutralization and Termination Eradicator! Or...
Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, Raj: Monte.

Quote from Howard

Sheldon: So what do you think, Howard? It's not that bad, right?
Howard: A little electrical tape, some solder ... Are you insane? I've seen space probes that crashed into the desert that were in better shape than this.

Quote from Leonard

Sheldon: What did the toaster oven ever do to you?
Leonard: What did I do to Jimmy Mullins in the third grade? He still punched me in the face with my own fists. Sorry, you little nerd. You were just in the wrong boys' room at the wrong time.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: I will, however, give you the opportunity to concede my superiority now and offer my your robot as the spoils of war.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: If you're not there, you'll be exposed to ridicule.

Quote from Barry Kripke

(O.S. - In video) Barry Kripke: As you can see, the Kripke Crippler is reducing the Chevy Cavalier to rubble.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Leonard: Nice little bot you've got here.
Barry Kripke: I'm aware.
Leonard: What's this do? Spin?
Barry Kripke: Yeah, at 3400 RPM. It can cut through steel like it was rubber.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: What is his problem?

Quote from Barry Kripke

Sheldon: Never. I'd rather see MONTE dead than in your hands.
Barry Kripke: That can easily be arranged.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: Well, if you have any delusions about entering him against my robot, the Kripke Crippler, in the Southern California Robot Fighting League Round Robin Invitational - AKA the SCRFLRRI - his name is going to be Scrap Metal.

Quote from Sheldon

Sheldon: Your robot is inferior and it will be defeated by ours because ours exceeds yours in both design and execution. Also, I'm given to understand that your mother is overweight.


Raj: Oh, snap.


Sheldon: Now of course if that is a result of a glandular condition and not sloth and gluttony, I withdraw that comment.


Raj: What difference does it make, fat is fat.


Sheldon: There are boundaries!

Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: Are you crazy? This is a street fight. The street has no rules.

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