TEXT: [ The apartment ] Sheldon: I recently read that during World War Two, Joseph Stalin had a research program to create supersoldiers by having women impregnated by gorillas. Howard: What a sick use of science. Raj: Hey, as long as the baby's healthy. Amy: I wonder if Stalin considered any other animals. Leonard: Hippos are the deadliest creature. A half-human, half-hippo soldier would be pretty badass. Howard: Yes, but when they're hungry-hungry, you can stop them with marbles. Sheldon: Yeah, the correct animal for interspecies supersolider is koala. You would wind up with an army so cute it couldn't be attacked. Raj: But half-man, half-owl could fly... Sheldon: The answer is cuddly soldiers with big flat noses. Moving on. Howard: So, Penny, when's the new job start? Penny: Next Monday. Bernadette: Did you get a chance to look over the materials I gave you? Penny: Uh, not yet, but I will. Bernadette: Great. When? Penny: I said I'll get to it. Sheldon: I'm sensing awkwardness, am I right? Amy: Yes. Sheldon: Swish. Bernadette: I don't want to be pushy, but you've never done pharmaceutical sales before. It seems like you could use this time to get a head start. Penny: Well, the first few weeks will be all training. They'll tell me everything I need to know. Bernadette: But imagine how impressed they'd be if you showed up already familiar with the material. Penny: Okay, so what, you want me to be like a teacher's pet? Bernadette: Couldn't hurt. Leonard: Mm, I don't know. Who here has ever been hurt because they were the teacher's pet? Sheldon: It was like the rest of the class wanted Ms. McDonald to forget the quiz. [SCENE_BREAK] <unk> Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state <unk> [SCENE_BREAK
SUMMARY:
Sheldon is allowed to study what he wants in exchange for becoming a junior professor and teaching a class; he is not happy, and nobody signs up for his class because of his reputation. Howard decides to take the class to work on a doctorate, but Sheldon focuses on areas of physics that Howard does not understand to humiliate him. Howard gets him back by being a horrible student leading to an incident where he shoots a spitball into Sheldon's mouth, causing him to be reported to Human Resources. After dropping the class, Howard asks Sheldon engineering questions most of which Sheldon answers apart from one difficult one he is forced to admit he doesn't know. The men eventually heal by celebrating their own genius, and asking each other questions. Meanwhile, Bernadette feels Penny should start studying for her pharmaceutical job, but Penny wants to wait since she will undergo training anyway which leads to tension. Amy loves being in the middle, pretending to agree with both of them. Now she can spend time with each one alone, and increase her bond of friendship by trash talking about the other woman and feeling immensely popular. Her good times are short-lived when Bernadette and Penny study and apologize to each other, and Amy ends up eavesdropping on her friends to see if they are getting along.