TEXT: Scene: The university cafeteria Raj: Mmm, gentlemen, I put it to you, the worst tapioca pudding is better than the best pudding of any other flavour. Sheldon: First off, that is axiomatically wrong, because the best pudding is chocolate. Secondly, the organic structure of tapioca makes it a jiggling bowl of potential death. It is extracted from the plant... Howard: Hey, I'm thinking of growing a mustache. Leonard: Ah, no kidding! A Fu Man Chu? A handlebar pencil? Sheldon: It is extracted from the plant... Howard: I'm not sure yet. You know, George Clooney has one now! Raj: Really? I once saw him shopping at Ralph's. He was buying tequila. Howard: Oh, you'd think a guy like that would have some kind of booze lackey. Leonard: Alright this is cruel, we better let him finish before his head explodes. Howard: Alright Sheldon, why is tapioca... Sheldon: Tapioca is extracted from the root of the plant Manihot Esculenta. Due to a high concentration of cyanide it is poisonous in its raw form and lethal if prepared improperly. Raj: Feel better now? Sheldon: It is also indigenous to Brazil, as is the Cocoa Bean, from which we get chocolate, the best pudding. And you promised you wouldn't do that anymore! Kripke (arriving): Hey Hofstadter! Leonard: Hey Kripke. Kripke: Heard about your watest pwoton decay expewiment, twenty thousand data wuns and no statistically significant wesults. Vewy impwessive! Howard: What a jerk. Raj: Don't feel bad Leonard, negative results are still results. Howard: Even twenty thousand of 'em. Leonard: Alright, please don't cheer me up anymore. Howard: C'mon, don't let him get to you. It's Kripke. Raj: Yeah, he's a ginormous knob. Howard: That's why he
SUMMARY:
Sheldon hears that Kripke controls access to an Open Science Grid computer, so he plans to befriend him to gain access to it. The socially inept Sheldon struggles, and his current friends are of little help in this area so, in the hope of finding self-help literature on friendship, he has Leonard drive him to the bookstore. There Sheldon tries making friends with a little girl, but Leonard makes him exit quickly before he is picked up as a pedophile. A children's book from the store helps Sheldon design an algorithm in flowchart form for making new friends. This pays off when Sheldon goes rock climbing with Kripke, but Sheldon faints due to his fear of heights. Back at the apartment, Sheldon decides to cut off Raj as a friend to make room for Kripke. However, when Kripke reveals he does not actually control computer access, Sheldon dismisses him and restores Raj as a friend.