TEXT: Scene: The Apartment Howard: Okay, Raj, hand me the number six torque screwdriver. Sheldon: Stop. We can't do this, it's not right. Raj: Sheldon, you have two choices. Either you let him put a bigger hard drive in the TiVo, or you delete stuff before we go out of town. Sheldon: But once you open the box, you've voided the warranty. The warranty is a sacred covenant we've entered into with the manufacturer. He offers to stand by his equipment, and we in return agree not to violate the integrity of the internal hardware. This little orange sticker is all that stands between us and anarchy. Leonard: Okay, then we won't touch the hard drive. We'll just erase the first season of Battlestar. Sheldon (ripping off sticker): There. We're outlaws. Penny (entering with a pink suitcase): Here you go, Leonard. Is this going to be big enough? Leonard: It's perfect. Howard: For taking daffodils to your unicorn. Leonard: It's just for my notebooks. Thanks, Penny. Penny: Oh, I love San Francisco. I wish I was going with you. Sheldon: I understand your envy. This is a can't-miss symposium. There are going to be discussions on bioorganic cellular computer devices, the advancements in multi-threaded task completion, plus a roundtable on the nonequilibrium Green's function approach to the photoionization process in atoms. Penny: When I go, I usually just get hammered and ride the cable cars. Leonard: This conference is kind of a big thing. The keynote address is being delivered by George Smoot. Penny: Oh, my God, the George Smoot? Leonard: You've heard of him? Penny: Of course I haven't. Sheldon: George Smoot is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, one of the great minds of our time. His work in black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation cemented our understanding of the origin of the universe. Penny: It
SUMMARY:
The guys take a trip to a conference in San Francisco to meet guest speaker and 2006 Nobel Prize laureate Dr. George Smoot. On the train, the guys notice Summer Glau of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on their car. Raj drinks a beer before being the first to approach her, and they get on well until Howard discovers Raj actually drank non-alcoholic beer, which apparently had a placebo effect, and points this out to Raj who thereupon reverts to his usual selective mutism. Howard then takes over, but creeps Summer out with his awkward style. Leonard finally gets his chance, but Summer gets off the train before he can introduce himself. Meanwhile, Sheldon realizes he forgot the USB flash drive with the paper he wants to show to Smoot, and needs extensive help from Penny to find it and email it to him. At the conference, however, Smoot is not impressed by Sheldon, asking "With all due respect, Dr. Cooper, are you on crack?"