- Leonard and Penny contemplate reviving their romantic relationship.
- After thinking about it long and hard, Leonard decides to ask Penny out on a real date again, which not only garners a shocked reaction from Penny, but the same from the rest of their mutual friends. Penny accepts Leonard's date request. While Bernadette and Amy give Penny their two cents worth of advice, Howard and Raj give Leonard theirs. After what can be described as a disastrous date, Leonard and Penny make a decision on what to do about whether or not to get back together again. Much of their decision is based on Penny's assertion that Leonard over-thinks everything. An action by Leonard shows just how much he over-thinks everything. Meanwhile, Sheldon contemplates whether or not to keep the "Zachary Quinto" life-sized cardboard cutout of Spock he received, when he really ordered the "Leonard Nimoy" Spock. And a clueless Sheldon, while playing a game with Howard and Raj, has no idea his comments are laced with sexual innuendo.—Huggo
- Following Leonard's break up with Priya, Leonard decides to have another chance to restart his relationship with Penny. They soon discover they still have feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Sheldon purchases a Spock standee, but Sheldon gets the Zachary Quinto life-size standee and he wanted the Leonard Nimoy life-size standee.—dawsonpersi
- Sheldon ponders life if humans had evolved from Lizards. A package of life size cut out of Spock had arrived which has Sheldon excited. Penny's door is open and Leonard stares at her. The girls are listening to Amy's monkey poop-flinging story, but are interrupted when Leonard stops by the door and asks Penny out on a date. Amy and Bernadette get excited (OOOOOO!!!) and Penny agrees. Sheldon suddenly complains that he has been delivered the wrong Spock since he ordered the Leonard Nimoy version, but received the Zachary Quinto version.
Bernadette is excited to double date with Penny and Leonard, which offends Amy as she didn't think of Amy and Sheldon. The girls help Penny pick a dress for a date, not too hot, not too plain, just right. The girls wonder what prompted Leonard to ask Penny out for a date. Amy suggests maybe Leonard is dying and that it would be so romantic. Penny is sure that she is not going to sleep with Leonard again and will take it slow. Penny comes out in her initial blue-green t-shirt and jeans and tells them she is not making a big deal out of this date since it is just dinner. She is afraid to mess things up again with Leonard, as it took 2 yrs to finally get normal again.
At the guys' apartment, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj are playing The Settlers of Catan. Sheldon says he needs wood and Howard and Raj laugh. He already has sheep so he needs wood for his sheep. The guys burst out laughing at the sexual innuendo of "wood". When Leonard emerges from his room for his date, Raj reminds him that it took a relationship with Priya to get over Penny and now Leonard is making the same mistake again. Sheldon says Leonard likes Penny as she is the opposite of his mother. Leonard asks where Sheldon got that and Sheldon says from his mother's latest book Needy Baby, Greedy Baby.
On their date, Leonard and Penny start by pretending not to know each previously. Penny tells him about her dreams and Leonards says he is the king of nerds, working on a Govt grant to build lasers to knock incoming missiles out of the sky. They have a good time. Leonard asks if he and Penny can get back together, but Penny replies that she will always have feelings for Leonard. Leonard gets upset and says the word "always" is used to cover up the real meaning behind the fact that one does not want a relationship with someone. Penny says communicating with Leonard is hard.
At the guys' apartment, over the card game, Sheldon says that now that he has wood, he can start the erection of his settlement. Leonard returns home at 8 30 pm signaling that the date went badly. Later at night, Penny texts Leonard calling him to the lift area and ends up kissing him and having sex with him in her bed. Penny admits to Leonard that she is afraid of hurting Leonard again. He suggests they not look at it as a relationship but like a new version of software instead, a "Penny and Leonard 2.0". They test it out, shake out the bugs, and when they think it is solid enough, go public with it.
Sheldon catches Leonard returning to the apartment at 3 am. Leonard lies that he went to pee in the gas station across the street, since Sheldon was in their bathroom. Leonard was in his PJs, and without slippers, but had his inhaler, which convinces Sheldon. But he makes Leonard go back with $2 to buy beef jerky to support the Pakistani immigrant working the graveyard shift to make their way in America.
The gang gathers for dinner at the Cheesecake factory. Leonard insists that even though the date didn't go well, he and Penny have decided to be friends. Penny says it's fine since things do not always work out. Leonard agrees and says they will always have feelings for each other. Leonard tells Penny that Bernadette understands the meaning of "always". Penny says Leonard does not know how to let something go. She leaves the table saying she is on a break and sends someone else over to cover her shift.
Later that night, Penny again texts Leonard and they end up having sex again. Suddenly, Sheldon's voice calls Leonard's name...
Leonard snaps back to reality. His entire interaction with Penny from the moment he asked her out was a daydream. Sheldon complains that they sent him the wrong one since he wanted the Leonard Nimoy Spock, not Zachary Quinto's. Leonard walks over to Penny and asks her out on a date. Penny asks whether he has thought things through. Leonard says yes and he thinks they should go ahead anyway. Outside in the hall, Sheldon says he will just send back the Zachary Quinto Spock stand-up. Penny smiles at Leonard happy that he asked her out.
In Penny's bedroom, as she is choosing an outfit to wear to the date, Amy tells her that if she gets back together with Leonard, they can go on a double-date with her and Sheldon. Bernadette asks what about her and Howard, and Amy says they can come too, but looks at Penny and tells her Bernadette is feeling insecure. Bernadette asks Penny where their date is going to be, but Penny is daydreaming on her own. In it, she sees herself in a wedding dress and heavily pregnant with Leonard at the altar.
The minister asks her if she would take Leonard to be her lawfully-wedded husband. Penny rubs her large pregnant belly and tells him that it is too late to start saying "no" now. Penny snaps out of her daydream by Amy calling her name. She apologizes and tells the girls she just remembered that she needs to go to the drug store presumably for contraceptives.
Title reference: Leonard contemplating the ramifications of asking Penny out on a date.
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