TEXT: Scene: The apartment, Leonard is attaching something to a lamp. Leonard: Okay, the X10s are online. Howard: Gentlemen, I am now about to send a signal from this laptop through our local ISP, racing down fibre-optic cable at the speed of light to San Francisco, bouncing off a satellite in geosynchronous orbit to Lisbon, Portugal, where the data packets will be handed off to submerged transatlantic cables terminating in Halifax, Nova-Scotia, and transferred across the continent via microwave relays back to our ISP and the X10 receiver attached to this (clicks mouse, lamp switches on) lamp. (The others cheer and clap). Sheldon: Look at me, look at me, I've got goosebumps. Howard: Are we ready on the stereo? Raj: Go for stereo. (Howard clicks mouse again. Also Sprach Zarathustra begins to play. At the climactic notes, the four jump in the air and begin pretend conducting or jumping about in time to the music.) Penny (entering): Hey guys. All (calming down, embarrassed): Hello. Penny: It's a little loud. Howard: No problem, turning it down. (Using mouse again) San Francisco, Lisbon, Halifax (the music gets quieter) et voila. Penny: Okay, thanks. Leonard: Hang on, hang on, do you not realise what we just did. Penny: Yeah, you turned your stereo down with your laptop. Sheldon: No, we turned our stereo down by sending a signal around the world via the internet. Penny: Oh. You know you can just get one of those universal remotes at Radio Shack, they're really cheap. Leonard: No, no, no, you don't get it, um, Howard, enable public access. Howard: Public access enabled. (They all stare around for a moment in silence.) Penny: Boy, that's brilliant, but I'll see you. Leonard: No, hang on, hang on. (The lamp goes off and on again.) See! Penny: No. Sheldon: Someone in Sezchuan province, China is using his computer to turn our lights on and off. Penny: Hu
SUMMARY:
Leonard cleans up after an Internet experiment, and in the trash can he finds an invitation to him and Sheldon to present their joint research at an academic conference. Sheldon disapproves of presenting research in person, but Leonard defies him and goes alone. This causes a rift between the two which Penny tries to mend but accidentally makes worse. Sheldon appears at the conference and tries to discredit Leonard's presentation by attempting to "blow up" Leonard's head with his mind à la the movie Scanners, starting a physical altercation between the two. Howard films the fight on his cellphone and puts it on YouTube, but angers Penny by also posting a photo on Facebook of her sleeping on his shoulder during the presentation, entitled "Me and my girlfriend".