TEXT: Scene: The lobby. Penny: Hey. Leonard: Oh, hey. You work the lunch shift? Penny: Yeah. I've got eight pounds of salmon that's about to go bad. Do you know how to cook it? Leonard: Not really. Penny: Damn it. Should have liberated the iffy chicken. What are you and Professor Fussyface up to tonight? Leonard: Star Wars on Blu-ray. Penny: Haven't you seen that movie, like, a thousand times? Leonard: Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray. Penny: Oh, Leonard. Leonard: I know, it's high-resolution sadness. Penny: Well, I'm going to take myself out to a movie tonight. You want to go? Leonard: Really? Do we do that? Penny: What do you mean? Leonard: You know, we haven't spent time alone together since we broke up. Penny: Oh, it's not a date, Leonard. It's just a man and a woman hanging out, and not having s*x at the end of the night. Leonard: Sounds like most of my dates. Sheldon (off, voice heard through apartment door as they approach): Oh, dear Lord, get away from me, you monster! Penny: What is that about? Leonard: Well, he's smart and crazy enough, he may have actually created a monster. (They enter. Sheldon is by the window.) Sheldon: Shoo, shoo! Be gone! Leonard: What the hell is going on? Sheldon: There's a bird outside the window, and he won't go away. That is the hell that is going on. We have no worms or seeds here. Shoo, shoo. Penny: Really? On top of everything else, you're afraid of birds? Sheldon: It's called ornithophobia. And someday it will be recognized as a true disability, and the landlord will be required by law to put a giant net over the building. Which is unfortunate, because I have a fear of nets. Penny: So movies, yes or no? Leonard: Movies,
SUMMARY:
Leonard and Penny decide to go to the movies as friends. However Leonard refuses to exhibit the familiar deference to her that he formerly displayed to her as her boyfriend to make her amenable to sex, insisting that they see a documentary on dams instead of a Jennifer Aniston movie and making her pay for her ticket and food. Irritated by Leonard's behavior, Penny begins to flirt with Kevin, a geeky screenwriter. Leonard retaliates by flirting with a woman named Laura. Penny then sabotages Leonard's meeting with Laura, leading to a fight between Leonard and Penny before they decide to return home. Outside the apartment, they apologise to each other and Penny tells Leonard that she actually liked his new-found confidence, but he misses the opportunity to get back together with her by defaulting to his usual deference. Meanwhile, Sheldon, who suffers from ornithophobia, is afraid and upset when he sees that a large Black-throated magpie-jay (incorrectly identified as a blue jay) has made a nest in his apartment windowsill. He tries all means to get rid of the bird, including mimicking a cat's meow and making Howard design an ultrasonic machine to scare away the bird, all of which fail. Eventually he decides to shoo the bird away using a broom, but when he opens the window, the bird enters the apartment and lands on his spot on the couch. A terrified Sheldon then asks Amy and Bernadette to get rid of the bird, but instead they help him overcome his fear by encouraging him to touch the bird. Sheldon soon grows fond of it, calling it "Lovey-Dovey" and decides to keep it as a pet. However, when Sheldon opens the window to shift the bird's nest to his apartment, the bird flies away, to his dismay. The episode ends with Sheldon revealing to Leonard that he found an egg in the nest and expressing his intention to become "a mommy" by incubating the egg.