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Quotes from ‘The Lunar Excitation’

The Lunar Excitation

The Lunar Excitation
Season 3, Episode 23 - Aired May 24, 2010

After Penny grows tired of her dim-witted date, she worries that dating Leonard has ruined her for dating normal guys. Meanwhile, Wolowitz and Koothrappali conspire to find Sheldon's perfect match online.

Quote from Zack Johnson

Zack: One question. How can you be sure it won't blow up?
Leonard: The laser?
Zack: The moon.

Quote from Zack Johnson

Leonard: Don't worry about the moon. We, we set our laser to stun.
Zack: Smart.
Leonard: Now, we'll be able to see the beam when it leaves, but it won't be strong enough when it comes back to be seen by the naked eye.
Zack: (chuckling) Naked.

Quote from Howard

Leonard: She didn't dump me. We were just in different places in the relationship.
Sheldon: I fail to see how a relationship can have the qualities of a geographical location.
Wolowitz: It's very simple. Leonard was living in a little town called "Please don't leave me", while Penny had just moved to the island of "Bye-bye!"

Quote from Sheldon

Leonard: Relax, it's just a dirty sock.
Sheldon: How on earth can you say "dirty sock" and "relax" in the same sentence?

Quote from Zack Johnson

Zack: Is that the laser? It's bitchin'.
Sheldon: Yes. In 1917, when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundation for the laser in his paper "Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung", his fondest hope was that the resultant device be bitchin'.
Zack: Well, mission accomplished!

Quote from Sheldon

(Sheldon notices Penny taking Leonard to his bedroom)
Sheldon: What's going on?
Penny: Get your noise-cancelling headphones, 'cause it's gonna get loud.
Sheldon: Oh, not this again.

Quote from Sheldon

Sheldon: Incidentally, one can get beaten up in school simply by referring to oneself as one.

Quote from Penny

Penny: Damn you, you rat bastard! In the olden days, I never would have known he was that stupid.

Quote from Sheldon

Sheldon: As a native Texan, I must say I've never heard the phrase "yeeehaw" used in quite that context.

Quote from Amy

Amy: I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance.

Quote from Sheldon

Sheldon: Hello, Amy Farrah Fowler. I'm sorry to inform you that you've been taken in by unsupportable mathematics designed to prey upon the gullible and the lonely. Additionally, I am being blackmailed with a hidden dirty sock.
Amy: If that was slang, I'm unfamiliar with it. If it was literal, I share your aversion to soiled hosiery.

Quote from Sheldon

Sheldon: I should've brought an umbrella.
Leonard: What for? It's not going to rain.
Sheldon: I know that, but with skin as fair as mine, moon burn is a real possibility.
Howard: That's a bazinga, right?
Sheldon: One of my best, don't you think?

Quote from Zack Johnson

Leonard: Think about what this represents. The fact that we can do this is the only way of definitively proving that there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane.
Zack: What species is that?

Quote from Zack Johnson

Zack: Hey, I want to see this laser thing.
Penny: Oh, but what about the party?
Zack: It's a surprise party, doesn't matter when we get there.

Quote from Zack Johnson

Zack: How can you bounce a laser off the moon if there's no gravity?

Quote from Howard

Howard: *Noticing Raj peeking through someone's window using the telescope* Oh, Raj, no. Billions of dollars have gone into inventing the Internet and filling it with pictures of naked women, so we don't have to peep through windows.

Quote from Sheldon

Sheldon: That's not afternoon. That's prevening.
Howard: What?
Sheldon: It's a time of day I invented. It better defines the ambiguous period between afternoon and evening. Prevening. I'm fairly certain it will catch on as it fills a desperate need.
Raj: Right, okay. What are you doing tomorrow prevening?
Sheldon: Well, tomorrow's Saturday. Saturday night is laundry night, so I'll be spending the prevening pre-sorting and pre-soaking.

Quote from Zack Johnson

Zack: Cool, it's gonna be in 3-D!

Quote from other character

Amy: You should also know that all physical contact, up to and including coitus, is off the table.
Sheldon: May I buy you a beverage?
Amy: Tepid water please.
Wolowitz: My God, what have we done?

Quote from Howard

Wolowitz: Good God, what have we done?

Quote from Raj

Raj: I'm telling you, dude. The only way to feel better about Penny going out with other guys is for you to get back on the whores.

Quote from Raj

Raj: The Good Wife is on. I tell you, this is my new Grey's Anatomy.

Quote from Zack Johnson

Leonard: So, how'd you two guys meet?
Zack: My company designs the menus for the Cheesecake Factory.
Leonard: Your company?
Zack: Well, it's my dad's, but me and my sister are VPs.
Leonard: So, menus?
Zack: I know it sounds easy but there's a lot of science that goes in designing them.

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