21-Second Excitation

21-Second Excitation
Writers	Chuck Lorre (Story), Bill Prady (Story), Jim Reynolds (Story), Lee Aronsohn (Teleplay), Steve Holland (Teleplay), Steven Molaro (Teleplay)
Director	Mark Cendrowski
Starring	Melissa Rauch as Bernadette, Mayim Bialik as Amy Fowler, Wil Wheaton as Himself, Eric Andre as Joey, Ian Scott Rudolph as Captain Sweatpants
Air Date	November 11 2010
Vanity	Card #311
Guide	Episode #408
Quotes	Episode #408

Season 4, Episode 8 (0408)

Apology Insufficiency . . . << 21-Second Excitation >> . . . Boyfriend Complexity

Summary

While the guys camp in line for a long-awaited movie screening, Penny and Bernadette invite Amy to her first slumber party.

I. Leonard and Sheldon's apartment

• Penny and the guys are watching Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Penny comments on the movie.
• Leonard is shocked she hasn't seen the movie.
• Penny is shocked he hasn't read Eat. Pray. Love..
• Sheldon comments on who design the costumes for the movie.
• Leonard tells him to shut up.
• Howard invites Penny to go see it with them on that Friday.
• Penny wonders why she would go see it on Friday when she is watching it there.
• Sheldon reveals that the version that they are seeing on Friday has 21 seconds of unseen footage.
• Penny sarcastically notes that would be like seeing a whole new movie.
• Sheldon catches it.
• Penny passes on the movie.
• Leonard says if she had understood why he thinks it is so cool, that would still be together.
• Penny disagrees.
• Howard comments on Penny and Leonard's previous relationship.

Opening themes and credits

II. Cheesecake Factory

• Sheldon notes that it is five hours from the start time of the screening.
• Leonard tells him to relax.
• Sheldon asks Leonard what has happened to him.
• Amy chimes in and tells Leonard he is right.
• Howard reminds Leonard that he has a girlfriend and rubs it in Leonard's face.
• Howard asks Bernadette if she wants to go to the movie.
• Bernadette declines. She tells them about her and Penny's girl's night.
• Amy questions Bernadette about girl's night.
• Bernadette explains.
• Amy says she wants to join because she's a girl too.
• Amy goes and asks Penny if she can join.
• Penny says she can come and tells her to wear something comfortable.
• Amy notes she will have to go shopping.
• Sheldon displays how to properly give a knock-knock joke. He notes that they need to listen to him and gets up to leave for the movie.

III. The Theater

• Sheldon points out that they could've been further up in line if they could've gotten there earlier.

IV. Penny's apartment

• Amy talks about her unusally firm cervix.
• Penny notes that girl talk isn't actually about talking about their female parts.
• Bernadette notes that Penny's nails look good. Penny say thanks and notes where she got them done.
• Penny asks if they should go out. They decide to stay in.
• Amy notes that either Penny or Bernadette will become her BFF before the night is over.
• Penny opens up her second bottle of wine. Bernadette notes she shouldn't drink much more because she has to drive.
• Penny tells Bernadette she can sleepover.
• Amy finds the idea of a slumber party exciting.
• Penny and Bernadette find out that it is her first slumber party.

V. The Theater

• Leonard hopes they get let in soon.
• Raj mentions that they may not get in and Sheldon goes ballistic.
• Wil Wheaton walks up.
• The guy who works at the theater lets Wheaton and his friends in before everyone else.
• Sheldon freaks out and quotes Captain Jean Luc Picard.

VI. Penny's apartment

• Penny, Bernadette, and Amy are doing their nails.
• Bernadette says she likes Howard's one chest hair.
• Penny asks Amy how she likes her newly painted nails. Amy tells her to take it back off despite the fact that she likes it.

VII. The Theater

• Raj notes that they are beginning to let people in.
• Sheldon is furious over a tweet that Wheaton posted. Leonard asks him why he is reading it.
• Sheldon receives a phony phone call from Penny.

VIII. Penny's apartment

• Penny says, "And that girls, is how you make a phony phone call."
• Amy doesn't get the grasp of the phony phone call.
• Penny, Amy, and Bernadette play "Truth or Dare".

IX. The Theater

• Sheldon reads another tweet from Wheaton that makes him mad. Sheldon hopes Wheaton chokes on his popcorn.
• When the guys get up to the door, the person that works at the theater blocks them from entering.
• It makes Sheldon mad and turns around to the guys and says, "I told you so."
• They begin to leave and Raj trys to give alternate movies to go see.
• Sheldon notices a side door into the theater and goes in.
• The guys go in behind him.

X. Penny's apartment

• Amy is telling a dirty story. According to her, the dirtiest one ever written.
• Bernadette thought it was "pretty spicy".
• Amy asks Penny a question about her and Leonard's former relationship that makes her mad. Penny gets up and walks to her bedroom and slams the door.
• Amy tells Bernadette that they won.

XI. The Theater

• Leonard, Raj, and Howard are looking for Sheldon.
• Raj whistles and Howard jokes that Sheldon isn't a dog.
• Sheldon appears with the print of Raiders in his hands. He says if he can't see it no one else can.
• Wheaton cathes them.
• The guys run away from the whole theater crowd with the Raiders theme in the background.

XII. Penny's apartment

• Amy notes that loses "Truth or Dare" upset Penny because she is still in her bedroom.
• Amy tries to console Penny and tries an act of lesbianism on her.
• Penny freaks out.
• Bernadette suggest eating raw cookie dough would've been a better idea.

Resources

David Saltzberg's science blog about this episode

Notes and Trivia

In the scene where Penny quits the game of Truth or Dare and stalks off to her bedroom, actress Kaley Cuoco, whose leg is still in a cast from her accident, stepped off camera to the left of the scene while a stand-in walked across behind the couch.

Timeline

Still to come

Title

Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard are excited to see a print of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which includes 21 seconds of never-before-released footage.