TEXT: [ The apartment ] Bernadette: I like your suit. Penny: Oh, thanks. Got a couple new outfits for work. Howard: How does it feel knowing your fiancée's job is to go out and flirt with doctors, looking like that, while you sit here, you know, looking like this? Leonard: She doesn't flirt with doctors. Penny: Yeah. It's all very professional. Amy: You know when you bend over, I can see down your shirt? Penny: Okay, good. Bernadette: Speaking of new careers, how are things going with dark matter, Sheldon? Sheldon: Oh, yeah, I'd have to say it's the most exiting time in the history of the field. Bernadette: Oh. What's going on? Sheldon: I started doing it. Raj: You know, the government funded the biggest experiment yet to detect dark matter. Leonard: Yeah, I've read about that, they're sending research teams down into abandoned salt mines. Raj: You know, Sheldon, if we apply to be one of those teams, we could be on the ground floor of something big, not just for theoretical physics but for astrophysics as well. Penny: Wait, hang on, you guys are gonna work in a mine? Sheldon: Why not? Penny: You had a panic attack when we went through the car wash. Sheldon: Perhaps the emotion you're referring to was shock at you having something cleaned. Leonard: I think what Penny meant is, the thought of you two in a mine is kind of funny, it's like a cat riding a Roomba. Howard:If they get scared, they'll have those hats with the lights on them, 'cause down there it's night-night all the time. Bernadette: Maybe they could ride around in one of those mine carts that go (squeakily) ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-oo. Leonard: Yeah, it'll help them get away when they see a g-g-ghost. Sheldon:Are they making fun of us? Raj: Yup.
SUMMARY:
After Penny gets a company car, she sells the one that Leonard gave her months ago and gives him the money. It bothers Leonard and leads to a conflict between the two. They later share a dinner with Howard and Bernadette to seek their counsel on marriage and finances, but this in turn leads to an argument between Bernadette and Howard over money since Bernadette earns more than Howard. Leonard and Penny decide to use it as an example of what not to do in their marriage and finish having sex on the money. Bernadette and Howard eventually make up as well. Raj and Sheldon see a chance to study dark matter by participating in experiments conducted in a salt mine. To test themselves, they crawl into a hot, sweaty steam pipe tunnel in the university basement with Amy waiting above ground. Sheldon fights several phobias including fear of enclosed places. He also reveals his fear that his new research will fail him like string theory did. Raj consoles him by relating his own fear when he first left India. When some rats show up, a panicked Sheldon quickly abandons Raj, who later excoriates Sheldon for doing so. Their simulation lasts eleven minutes, longer than Amy's estimates.