TEXT: Scene: A radio studio. Ira Flatow: This is Science Friday. I'm Ira Flatow. My guest today is responsible for the discovery of the first stable super-heavy element. Welcome, Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Sheldon: Thank you. Uh, the university made me come here. I didn't want to. Uh, big fan of the show. Ira: So, I understand that you actually discovered this element by mistake. Sheldon: Yes. Ira: And some people in the science community are calling it The Wonder Blunder. Sheldon: Who? Give me their names. I bet it's Wolowitz. Ira: It's just such a fascinating story. Your calculations are way off, but they find the element anyway. It's like misreading a treasure map and still finding the treasure. Sheldon: Can we talk about something else? Do you know that I yodel? Ira: That's interesting, but this could be taking you down the path toward a Nobel Prize. And in chemistry, no less. And wouldn't that be unusual? Because you're a physicist. Sheldon: Yes, yes, I'd be a physicist with a Nobel in chemistry. Everyone laugh at the circus freak. You know, I don't need to sit here and take this, Flatow. It is because of bullies like you, every day more and more Americans are making the switch to television. Credits sequence. Scene: The apartment. Sheldon is on the phone. Sheldon: President Seibert, I don't know why you're yelling. You're the one who made me go on the radio. I was expecting a professional science interview, not an attack by some morning zoo shock jock. Well, if the university needs money so badly, perhaps you should start a swear jar. Whoa, that one's worth a dollar. Amy: I know you don't like it, but every time you do an interview, it raises the profile of the university. That translates to funding. Sheldon: Yeah, well, I'm not just some trained monkey dancing
SUMMARY:
Sheldon walks out of an interview with Ira Flatow on NPR's Science Friday after Flatow refers to Sheldon's heavy element discovery being accidental. Amy has Wil Wheaton talk with Sheldon about how to deal with unwanted fame. Later, Leonard reveals he disproved the existence of Sheldon's heavy element through his experiments. This infuriates Sheldon, who can now deal with fame and feels Leonard took away the one thing that made him famous. Sheldon's fury peaks when Barry Kripke berates him over Leonard's findings. Sheldon and Leonard argue with each other on Science Friday, while an embarrassed Amy and Penny listen. While Raj's apartment building is being fumigated, he and his dog, Cinnamon, move in with Howard and Bernadette for a week. Though Raj is very kind and helpful, his presence highlights deficiencies in Howard and Bernadette's relationship, leading them to quarrel. Eventually Raj is thrown out, and moves in with Leonard and Sheldon. He immediately gives Amy and Sheldon relationship advice; after he advises Amy to be patient with Sheldon's limits on physical contact, she makes Raj leave.