TEXT: Scene: The apartment. Howard is looking at his mobile phone. Howard: Ooh, more details about the new Star Trek film. There's going to be a scene depicting Spock's birth. Raj: I'd be more interested in a scene depicting Spock's conception. Sheldon: Oh, please. For Vulcans, mating, or, if you will, Pon Farr, it's an extremely private matter. Leonard: Still, I'd like to know the details. His mother was human, his father was Vulcan, they couldn't just conceive. Howard: Maybe they had to go to a clinic. Imagine Spock's dad in a little room with a copy of pointy ears and shapely rears. Raj: How come on Star Trek everybody's private parts are the same. No alien lady ever told Captain Kirk, hey, get your thing out of my nose. Penny (entering): Hi, can you help me, I was writing an email and the A key got stuck. Now it's just going "aaaaaaa". Leonard: What did you spill on it? Penny: Nothing. Diet coke. And yoghurt. A little nail polish. Leonard: I'll take a look at it. Howard: Gentlemen, switching to local nerd news. Fishman, Chen, Chowdry, McNair aren't fielding a team in the university physics bowl this year. Leonard: You're kidding, why not? Howard: They formed a barbershop quartet, and got a gig playing Knotsbury Farm. Penny: Wow, so in your world, you're like, the cool guys. Howard: Recognise. Leonard: This is our year! With those guys out, the entire physics bowl will kneel before Zod. Penny: Zod? Howard: Kryptonian villain. Long story. Raj: Good story. (Clasps hands to mouth in shock.) Sheldon: Well count me out. Howard: What? Why? Sheldon: You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition? Would you ask Picasso to play Pictionary? Would you ask Noah
SUMMARY:
The guys decide to compete in a university quiz called physics bowl after the strong competitors drop out, but Sheldon's showboating is too much, and they eject him from the team. Sheldon, upset, vows to form his own team and compete against them. The guys, in need of a fourth member, ask Leslie Winkle. She at first declines, but accepts on hearing they are opposing Sheldon, who has often criticized her research and gender. The guys name themselves PMS (Perpetual Motion Squad, an unintentional pun on premenstrual syndrome). Sheldon's team is named AA (Army Ants, an unintentional pun on Alcoholics Anonymous), and comprises Sheldon (who forbids answers from his teammates), the 3rd floor janitor, the lunch lady, and her son (or possibly her butcher). PMS win when Sheldon, unable to answer the last question, refuses to accept the janitor's answer, which is actually correct: he explains that despite working as a janitor in America, he was a physicist in the former Soviet Union.