TEXT: Scene: The apartment Leonard: Look, I know you guys don't want to do this, but we have no choice. So, you can either bitch and whine or we can just get it over with. Howard: I got whine. Sheldon: I got the B word. Leonard: Yeah, well, it's in our contract to serve on a university committee. And frankly, this is one I believe in. Okay, here we go. Encouraging more women to pursue a career in the sciences. Howard: Come on, if I was any good at convincing women to do stuff, I wouldn't have spent so much of my twenties in the shower. Sheldon: If you ask me, this whole thing is a waste of our time. Leonard: Helping women? Y Sheldon: Helping anyone. People should take care of themselves. Leonard: Oh, like yesterday, when you made me drive you to the dry cleaners, the pharmacy and the post office? Sheldon: I'm not saying people can't use tools. Even an otter picks up a rock when he wants a clam. Leonard: You don't think it's worthwhile to try to get more women working in science. Sheldon: I think that's incredibly sexist of you. I believe in a gender-blind society like in Star Trek, where women and men of all races and creeds work side by side as equals. Leonard: You mean where they were advanced enough to invent an interstellar warp drive, but a black lady still answered the space phone? Howard: Oh, I did spend a lot of my shower time with Lieutenant Uhura. Sheldon: Howard's disturbing recollections aside, I don't appreciate being forced to do banal committee work. Leonard: Yes, I know, you're too smart for this. Sheldon: Exactly. It's like asking the Human Torch to heat up your frozen burrito. Leonard: Got it. All right, I'm thinking one way to counter bias in the peer-review process, is for papers to be submitted under gender-neutral names. Like S. Smith instead of Samantha Smith. Sheldon: I suppose
SUMMARY:
As part of their Caltech contracts, Leonard, Sheldon and Howard must serve on a committee that promotes science among young women. Neither Sheldon nor Howard are interested, but on Leonard's cajoling, Sheldon suggests focusing on middle school girls and inspiring them to pursue science after completing school. They implement their ideas at Howard's old middle school but cannot enthuse the girls for science, so Sheldon calls Amy and Bernadette, both scientists, to talk to the class by phone about careers in science. The women have meanwhile skipped work to go to Disneyland and be made up as Disney princesses. All want to be Cinderella, but Bernadette insists she be Cinderella since she planned the trip and drove them there, so Penny is Aurora from Sleeping Beauty and Amy is Snow White. Back home, Bernadette's and Penny's costumes turn on their partners. Amy, still in her Snow White costume, wants Sheldon to awaken her with a kiss, but he is tired and uninterested. Elsewhere, Raj and Lucy have a "texting date" in the library: they interact by texting to circumvent their social problems. At the end of their date Lucy wants to kiss Raj, but gets shy before doing so. Raj is impressed, counting it as foreplay.