- Howard tries to get Penny's help in winning back Bernadette, but first has to confess the embarrassing reason why they broke up in the first place. Raj and Sheldon clash over a desk.
- Howard is still uncomfortable in even seeing Bernadette, which is obvious when he spots her at work at the Cheesecake Factory. But when Bernadette enters his dreams instead of his usual fantasy girl, Howard wonders if Bernadette would be willing to get back together with him despite the embarrassing reason why she broke up with him. Penny vows to help him only if he discloses to her the reason for the break-up. Howard gets a little advice from two other unlikely sources. Meanwhile, Raj is mad at Sheldon for not letting him have a desk in their shared office. But once Sheldon reluctantly agrees only on the condition that Raj pay for it himself, Raj decides to exact his own form of revenge, which escalates into an all out office war.—Huggo
- Sheldon and Raj are arguing about whether or not slow-moving xenon particles would emit light. Sheldon thinks he's right and Raj calls him out on his arrogance. If Sheldon was a superhero, he'd be Captain Arrogant. Sheldon prefers Dr. Arroganto. To get Raj to shut up he calls Penny over. Howard spots his old girlfriend, Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), and wants to play it cool and then crawls under the table.
That night in Howard's bedroom, he is in his burgundy silk pajamas ready for love. In pops Katee Sackhoff in her full "Battlestar Galactica" flight suit. She greets him and then sarcastically yearns for him. ("Oh ravish me, Howard. My loins ache for you.") Howard then looks over again and sees Bernadette in her waitress' uniform. Fantasy Bernadette tells Howard that he must not yet be over her, to which Katee agrees. Howard confesses his confusion, and George Takei joins the fantasy. Katee asks if he has any interest which Howard denies. Katee and George leave talking about how not to be typecast. Howard's mother starts yelling at him ending the night's activities.
The mystery surrounding why Howard and Bernadette broke up continues. Howard merely says it was something stupid. Ideas discussed include farting in bed and killing a homeless guy. Raj wants a desk in Sheldon's Office and Sheldon doesn't have the funds, even though he can afford a glow-in-the-dark ant farm. Howard suggests that Raj buy his own and Sheldon doesn't have an argument to counter it.
Penny hears Sheldon knock and finds Howard at the door with a recording of Sheldon. Howard asks her to talk to Bernadette to see if she'll agree to meet with him. She wants to know why he broke up with Bernadette. He tells her, much to his embarrassment, that she caught him playing World of Warcraft and having cybersex with Glisinda the Troll. Penny does agree that that is embarrassing. Howard then lays on a psychological guilt trip that gets her to immediately call Bernadette.
Sheldon enters his office to find Raj behind a gargantuan wooden desk that takes up most of the remaining room. Sheldon said that the desk was a "Brobdingnagian monstrosity" which Raj makes him continually repeat. Sheldon tells him to prepare for some escalating juvenile tit-for-tat exchanges.
Bernadette and Howard meet at the Cheesecake Factory with Penny working nearby. She brings by ice tea and nachos and then asks for them to pay for them. Bernadette was still mad. Howard was going crazy because they weren't having sex. Bernadette replied that she wanted to, but he never made the move.
Later Howard learns from Leonard that Steve Patterson, the greasy old fat guy in Facilities Management, was Glissinda the Troll. They also witness Sheldon and Raj fighting with marshmallow and Nerf guns in their office.
At the end of a date with Bernadette, they start to kiss. Katee Sackhoff and George Takei are offering advice from the back seat. Katee tells him to go for it, while George says that a lady wants to be wooed. Howard makes the move, and Bernadette stops him. She needs to get to know him again before they sleep together. She is optimistic and tells him to be patient, because they'll get there.
Finally, in the war between Sheldon and Raj, Sheldon mixing hydrogen sulfide and ammonia gas to counter Raj's cinnamon-apple scented aroma therapy candles. Since the gases are flammable there is an explosion leaving Raj a mess.
Title reference: Howard's online affair in World of Warcraft with a female troll.
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