TEXT: [ The apartment ] [SCENE_BREAK] Leonard: Okay, we're headed out, see you later. Sheldon: Before you leave, could you test these noise-cancelling headphones? Leonard: Yeah, sure. Sheldon: Okay. Go ahead. Leonard: Hello, can you hear me? Sheldon, I haven't changed the filter in the water pitcher in two years. Penny: Uh, Bernadette's nickname for you is the virgin pi<unk> a colada. Leonard: Your George Lucas autograph is really a me autograph. Penny: Yeah, once I was too lazy to walk across the hall, so I used your toothbrush. Leonard: Ooh, and one time when you were asleep, Amy totally took off her... and that's why you're the best roommate ever. Sheldon: Aw, now I'm sad I didn't hear it. Penny: So what do you need the headphones for? Sheldon: Well, I've been struggling for months to come up with a theory of dark matter that doesn't make protons decay. I'm hoping to finally tackle it by optimising my work environment. See, I've got, uh, my tea is at the perfect sipping temperature. Uh, I have fleece-lined boxer shorts to keep my tushie toasty. And then, oh, last but not least, this inspirational cat poster improved with the reassuring face of physics renegade Richard Feynman. Penny: Is that why you had to take him to Office Depot last night? Leonard: I don't want to talk about it. There, the place is all yours. Penny: Yeah, have fun. Sheldon: Oh, I will, nothing more fun than a paradigm-shifting evening of science. Penny: And you thought it was soaping me up in the shower. Leonard: Bye. Sheldon: Okay. Here we go. Proton decay. Proton decay. (Time shift) Proton decay. Proton decay. (Time shift) Proton decay. Proton decay. Leonard: Hey, we're home. Any progress? Sheldon:
SUMMARY:
Sheldon has a problem in his dark matter proton decay research. After Penny says doing a fitness routine she hates motivates her, Sheldon seeks to do the same with his anxiety level while he works. The guys enjoy irritating Sheldon when he asks them to do so, while he annoys the women when he tries to listen to their mindless girl talk. Sheldon becomes exhausted and hallucinates among other things. A frustrated Amy throws him out of her apartment when he focuses on his research and anxiety during their date night. On the bus home he hallucinates a man is really a mix of an armadillo and Isaac Newton. Leonard and Penny are able to get an exhausted Sheldon to sleep after singing Soft Kitty to him. Sheldon is able to continue his research afterwards. Meanwhile, Howard has invented a game 'Emily or Cinnamon' where the rest of the friends try and guess whether an embarrassing quote from Raj was said to his girlfriend or his dog. Raj is annoyed, but Emily is okay with it, thinking it is sexy that Raj is sensitive, until she kisses Raj and is repulsed by the dog hair in his mouth.