TEXT: Scene: Sheldon and Leonard's apartment. Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Raj are using laptops. All are wearing microphone headsets. Howard: Alright, just a few more feet, and.... here we are gentlemen, the Gates of Elzebub. Sheldon: Good lord! Raj: Oooh. Leonard: Don't panic, this is what the last 97 hours have been about. Howard: Stay frosty, there's a horde of armed goblins on the other side of that gate guarding the Sword of Azeroth. Leonard: Warriors, unsheathe your weapons, magic wielders raise your wands. Sheldon: Lock and load. Howard: Raj, blow up the gates. Raj: Blowing the gates. Control, shift, B! Oh, my God, so many goblins! Howard: Don't just stand there, slash and move, slash and move. Leonard: Stay in formation. Howard: Leonard, you've got one on your tail. Leonard: That's alright, my tail's prehensile, I'll swat him off. Raj: I've got him Leonard. Tonight I spice my meat with goblin blood! Leonard: Raj, no, it's a trap, they're flanking us! Raj: Oooh, he's got me. Howard: Sheldon, he's got Raj, use your sleath spell. Sheldon! Sheldon! Sheldon: I've got the Sword of Azeroth! Leonard: Forget the sword, Sheldon, help Raj. Sheldon: There is no more Sheldon, I am the Swordmaster! Howard: Leonard look out! Leonard: Dammit man, we're dying here. Sheldon: Goodbye, peasants. Leonard: The b*st*rd teleported. Raj: He's selling the Sword of Azeroth on ebay. Leonard: You betrayed us for money, who are you? Sheldon: I'm a rogue knight elf, don't you people read character descriptions?
SUMMARY:
When he sees Penny kissing a man in front of her apartment door, Leonard is devastated that she has "rejected" him. The guys persuade him to date someone at work, so he approaches fellow scientist Leslie Winkle. In an experiment to strip the usual dating procedure to its essentials, she suggests fast forwarding to a kiss. She finds their kiss good but unexciting, so she turns him down. As Leonard becomes more depressed, thinking of buying a cat (hypoallergenic in view of Sheldon's asthma - though in later episodes Leonard is the one with asthma), Sheldon points out Leonard was not actually rejected by Penny as he never asked her out, so Leonard asks her out to dinner. As she misinterprets this as an invitation to hang out with all the guys, he devises reasons for their absence from the date. Penny says the man Leonard saw was not her boyfriend: casual weekend sex helps her get over relationships. Leonard, excited, regains his confidence, but he accidentally hurts himself and Penny has to take him home. In the end, Leonard does not find the courage to reveal his true feelings to Penny, though she suspected what he was up to.