TEXT: Scene: The apartment. Howard: All right, that's the last servo. Behold the Mobile Omnidirectional Neutralization and Termination Eradicator. Or... All: MONTE. Howard: Featuring one articulated razor-sharp killing saw, one polycarbonate grinding and flipping wheel, steel armour plate exoskeleton top and bottom, and enough horsepower to drive a 110 pounds of mechanized death from zero to holy crap in 4.8 seconds. Sheldon: Is it wrong to say I love our killer robot? Raj: As with my father, I both love and fear it. Howard: All right, enough chitchat, let's destroy something. Together (lifting): One, two, three, go. Raj: Okay. What shall be first to taste the wrath of Monte? Leonard: Maybe we should start small. Raj: Okay. Ooh, perhaps today is the day we finally find out what's inside the Magic Eight Ball. Sheldon: Did it when I was four. It's an icosahedral dye floating in tinted blue water. Raj: Man, call spoiler alert before you say things like that. Leonard: How about the toaster oven? Sheldon: What did the toaster oven ever do to you? Leonard: What did I ever do to Jimmy Mullins in the third grade? He still punched me in the face with my own fists. Sorry, you little nerd, you were just in the wrong boys' room at the wrong time. Howard: Gentlemen, goggles. Sheldon: Yeah, this is an auspicious moment. Yeah, like Robert Oppenheimer or Neil Armstrong, we need the appropriate words to mark this historic scientific event. Raj: How about "Die, toaster, die"? Leonard: That'll do it. Raj (after watching complete destruction of toaster oven): All right, what's next? Scene: The stairwell. Penny: No, I think I'm just going to stay in tonight and do laundry. (Monte bursts through boys door. Penny screams and runs down the stairs.) Credits sequence. Scene: Outside in stairwell Howard: Oh
SUMMARY:
Howard designs a combat robot, M.O.N.T.E. (Mobile Omnidirectional Neutralization and Termination Eradicator) for the "Southern California Robot Fighting League Round Robin Invitational", which the guys plan to enter. When Penny arrives at the apartment, Howard begins to flirt with her but pushes it too far, and she furiously lashes out at him with some uncomfortable home truths. Hurt and depressed, Howard returns home and remains in his room, refusing to go to work or meet friends. Leonard persuades Penny to go to Howard's house and apologize. Howard tells Penny about all his failed romances, and she consoles him by saying that he is a good guy at heart and he just tries too hard to get girls. He thereupon tries to kiss Penny, who intercepts him with a punch that breaks his nose. Howard is left happy, feeling he is halfway to 'pity sex'. Meanwhile, the guys' co-worker Barry Kripke, who is also entering the competition, challenges Sheldon and the guys to a one-on-one fight between their robots. Sheldon accepts, but Kripke's robot turns out to be far superior to M.O.N.T.E. and, with engineer Howard indisposed, Barry can easily win. Sheldon refuses to concede defeat, and M.O.N.T.E. is destroyed by Kripke's robot.