TEXT: Scene: The apartment. Penny: Okay, it's done. Look, guys, for the future, I don't mind killing the big spiders, but you have to at least try with the little ones. Sheldon: Penny, please, we're facing a far more serious problem than stray arachnids. Leonard: Sheldon, it's not that bad. Sheldon: Not bad? It's horrible. I mean, you hear stories about this sort of thing, but you never think it'll happen to you. Leonard: So they steamed your dumplings, get over it. New topic, please. Howard: All right, Penny, let me take this opportunity to point out that you are looking particularly ravishing today. Penny: Not with a thousand condoms, Howard. Howard: So, there is a number. Penny: Okay, new topic, please. Hey, did you hear the people upstairs in 5A are moving out? Leonard: Shh-shh-shh! Sheldon: What? Penny: The people upstairs are moving out. Leonard: No! Sheldon: The horror! Leonard: Why would you just say something like that? Sheldon: No, no, no, no, no, no, no... Penny: How else was I supposed to say it? Leonard: Slowly, like putting a new fish in a tank. You don't just drop it in, you let the bag sit in the water a while. Sheldon: The horror! Penny: Sheldon, I'm sure it's going to be fine. Sheldon: No, it's not going to be fine, change is never fine. They say it is, but it's not. Penny: Okay, honey, did you even know the people that are moving out? Sheldon: I never met them. That's what made them perfect, there were no awkward hellos in the halls, there was no clickety-clacking of high heel shoes on hardwood floors, they may as well have been a family of cats just jumping around from drape to drape without that annoying ammonia urine smell. Penny: Well, I'm sure the new people will
SUMMARY:
The former tenants of the apartment above Leonard and Sheldon's move out. After an unsuccessful attempt by Howard to rent the apartment, an attractive blonde named Alicia moves in. Alicia, like Penny, is an aspiring actress; she obtains a role as a dead hooker in an episode of the TV series CSI. Apart from Sheldon the guys are fascinated by Alicia, and she takes advantage of this by having them help her move in and otherwise labor for her. Penny thus loses the guys' attention, and begins to resent the way Alicia exploits them. Penny tries to win her friends back by bribing them with Chinese food, offering to watch Battlestar Galactica with them, and even memorizing a quantum physics joke. After Alicia brags about her exploitation of the men, while also desiring their incomes, Penny confronts her. Alicia responds that Penny exploits the men just as she does, upon which Penny physically attacks her. After the fight, the guys take an injured Penny back to Leonard and Sheldon's apartment and learn that Alicia is sleeping with one of the CSI producers, leading Penny to comment that Alicia is a "dead whore on TV, live one in real life".