The Loobenfeld Decay
- Episode aired Mar 24, 2008
- TV-PG
- 21m
Leonard lies to Penny so he and Sheldon can get out of watching her perform, but Sheldon believes that the lie has too many loose ends, so he comes up with a new, unnecessarily complex one t... Read allLeonard lies to Penny so he and Sheldon can get out of watching her perform, but Sheldon believes that the lie has too many loose ends, so he comes up with a new, unnecessarily complex one to replace it.Leonard lies to Penny so he and Sheldon can get out of watching her perform, but Sheldon believes that the lie has too many loose ends, so he comes up with a new, unnecessarily complex one to replace it.
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- TriviaThis episode starts Sheldon's habit of repeatedly knocking on a door while repeatedly calling out to the person, although it is a series of four knocks instead of three.
- GoofsWhen Sheldon drops the chicken in the trash, it's sitting on the edge of the can as he lets it go and the bag tips over on its side as it falls in. When he goes back to the trash can to get the chicken, the bag is sitting upright in the can allowing him to just grab the handles and pull the bag out.
- Quotes
Sheldon Cooper: [Leonard lied to Penny] So, lack of a physiological reaction while lying is characteristic of a violent sociopath.
Leonard: Sheldon, are you worried about your safety?
Sheldon Cooper: No. I imagine if you were going to kill me, you'd have done it a long time ago.
- Crazy creditsCHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #198 Censored! Well, wouldn't ya' know it. Just two episodes back from the strike and I've already managed to write a vanity card that is completely unacceptable to the good folks at CBS. I wasn't trying to offend. Honest. I just saw an opportunity to poke some proverbial fun, to knosh on the hand that feeds, if you will. They were not amused. If you would like to read my latest exercise in poor judgment, I'm sure you can find it somewhere on that thing we writers were striking to claim dominion over. Just to be on the safe side, I apologize in advance. Please know that my aim was only to provoke a bit of gaiety through the judicious use of a little thing I like to call "the truth." Unfortunately, in the television business, the truth rarely sets anyone free. More often than not, it just pisses them off.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Jeopardy!: Episode #26.112 (2010)
- SoundtracksOut Tonight
(uncredited)
Music by Jonathan Larson
Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Performed by Kaley Cuoco
[Penny sings the song when Leonard and Sheldon are walking up the stairs]
Howard: Wait a minute, Farminfarmian is speaking and you're Bogarding the symposium.
Leonard: Howard, I'm sorry we're we're
Howard: No, no, you're quark-blocking us.
Leonard: I don't know what to say.
Howard: Wow.
Leonard: Howard, listen
Howard: No, it's okay, it's your Millennium Falcon, you and Chewbacca do whatever you want to do. Me and Princess Leia here will find some other way to spend the evening.
This is all part of one of those things that start as a cover-up for a little white lie and ends up with an enormous production to keep a whole fictional situation intact. But it's so well done that, watching it, you start to get one of those feelings you usually only get in a horror movie: "I can't see how this is going to end well", while waiting for the house of cards to come tumbling down. I won't (because I can't!) summarize the plot of this maze that poor Leonard gets into - all in an effort to avoid hurting Penny's feelings with his opinion of her horrible singing. I'll just skip to the end to note that when "Toby" goes off-script ("Toby: Damn you, Chaplain Horrigan! ") in the final deception, it's one of the best moments of the episode. I've seen a lot of TBBT episodes; many are good, all are funny, but this has my vote as the best episode ever.
- MotoMike
- Mar 16, 2016