- Sheldon goes to Vegas to win money for science. Also, Penny and Bernadette take Amy wedding dress shopping, but her terrible choice entangles them in a web of lies.
- Sheldon is generally all right with the notion that his current work on black holes can never be duplicated in an experiment and thus never be definitively proven. When Leonard devises a way for Sheldon to design an environment in which an experiment can be modeled, Sheldon decides to ask the university for the money needed to do so: $500,000,000. After his friends tell him there is no way the university is going to give him half a billion dollars, Sheldon has to decide whether to ask for a smaller amount which would no where come close to being able to achieve what he wants to do, or figure out some other way to get the money he really needs. Meanwhile, Amy is in the process of picking out a wedding dress. When Penny and Bernadette accompany her to the dress shop, Amy finds that every dress she tries on is "the one", with Penny and Bernadette agreeing that all the dresses have been beautiful. But when Amy finds the dress she truly believes is the one, Penny and Bernadette have to decide whether to tell Amy that that dress definitely is NOT the one.—Huggo
- Leonard and Sheldon are playing a driving video game where Sheldon keeps stopping at traffic lights even though he is driving a stolen police vehicle with a dead hooker in the trunk. Raj and Howard return from the faculty mixer. Sheldon considers it a waste of money since he would rather have them fund a proof of concept of his new formulas on entropy decrease due to quantum Decoherence. Raj tells him that to prove it; one must create a black hole that could destroy the earth. Sheldon is fine with that as long as he is proven right. Leonard suggests creating a contained microscopic-black hole.
Amy and Penny are looking through wedding dress magazines where Penny asks if she (Amy) wants a dress that is simple and elegant or whether to have a dress train. Sheldon comes in thinking they are discussing his kind of train. Then Sheldon asks them what he should wear to the university when he asks for funding for his project. He needs $500 million to construct an experiment to help prove his latest string theory assertion. He needs 2148 high powered lasers focused on 20 micro-grams of gold to generate a microscopic-black hole. Amy understands the problem because she wanted funding for a project to make brains grow younger, which she can't really do. Sheldon then considers getting it in installments. Penny tells him to start asking for $20 million. Amy explains it to Sheldon that he should take something big and advance with it slowly even if it takes eight long years; trying to not refer to her relationship with Sheldon.
Sheldon is now explaining his scientific approach to the Caltech President Siebert (Joshua Malina). He is impressed and then asks how much funding he needs. Sheldon asks for $20 million and then adds $50 million and then must double down, and again, and again. The president looks exasperated and Sheldon asks if they have a deal.
Back in apartment 4A, his friends commiserate with him. The Higgs Boson particle took fifty years to prove in reality. Sheldon wants to play with his theory now. Sheldon decides to try and raise the money now.
Penny and Bernadette are enjoying the dress shop service while helping Amy with her wedding dress choice. Amy feels beautiful in the first dress she tries on. Penny tells her not to buy the first one she tries on. It's like marrying the first man she ever....scratch that. She brings out another one that Bernadette thinks she looks beautiful in. Penny adds that when Sheldon sees her in it, he takes it off of her, carefully puts it away and then ravish her. Finally she has one with long lace sleeves and way too many ruffles that she loves. All the girls can say is "WOW!"
Sheldon comes in to bother Leonard to help him shoot a kick-starter video. Sheldon wants to raise some seed money to help attract some major investors. He is willing to offer to create a customized bathroom schedule (for $ 50,000), design a flag for your house ($ 100,000) or apartment or come over and tell one what is wrong with them ($ 500,000). All within Sheldon's talents.
At the Wolowitz House, the girls talk about Amy finding a dress that she likes until they finally admit that it is awful. Penny thought that she wanted their honest opinion. Bernie says that no one wants that and then she mentions Penny's dumb Cookie Monster tattoo. Bernie asks "Was that fun?" They both agree to tell her gently. And together. Later Penny tells Amy that she doesn't like her dress. Bernadette calls it beautiful. At the comic book store Sheldon brings in some of his comics to sell to raise his money. He doesn't sound like he wants to sell them, but advancing science is more important to him. He then quickly leaves when Stuart starts to open them (to appraise their value).
Penny is mad at Bernadette for throwing her under the bus. Bernadette admits that it makes her look bad, but she wonders if it's the first day that Penny has been a girl.
Now Sheldon is eating his own tuna fish sandwich because his mother wouldn't ship them from Texas. Up to this point Sheldon has raised $65,000. Raj suggests that he goes to Las Vegas. Sheldon doesn't think it's a bad idea. Leonard does. Sheldon mentions that scientists and mathematicians have beaten them all the time.
Penny goes to see Amy who asks if she should change first. She apologizes and says that all that matters is that she feels beautiful. "Thank you," Amy replies. Amy is still not okay because all she'll think about is that Penny hates it. She's the coolest, best dressed person she knows. Penny adds that it's just not a dress that she would buy. They are different people and Amy should buy the dress that makes her happy. Penny is going to make sure that the wedding is just about her. Amy calls her a good maid of honor. Then Bernadette calls and says that she doesn't like the dress either. Penny calls Bernadette the worst.
Sheldon is now in Las Vegas studying the roulette wheel. A casino employee asks if he can help Sheldon and he explains exactly what he was doing (he has figured out that the next roll will land at either a 17 or a 35 or a 2). The casino guard reports the code word "pelican" and Sheldon is escorted from the casino (as the next roll of the roulette lands on a 17 and Sheldon yells in agony).
Back in apartment 4B, Amy is wearing her wedding dress. Sheldon comes in describing his adventure in Vegas, is surprised and tells her that she looks beautiful. She looks like a pile of swans. He can't wait to marry her.
Title reference: Sheldon not having enough money for his miniature black hole experiment.
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