TEXT: Scene: The Apartment. Leonard: How's your mom holding up? Howard: She's doing okay, but we just lost another nurse. Amy: How many is that now? Howard: Two, and I know what you're thinking, she's eating them. Bernadette: She's just so impossible, they keep quitting. Sheldon: So, who's watching her now? Howard: A bowl full of M&M's with a few Ambien tossed in. Raj: What up, guys? All: Hello, hey! Leonard: Okay. Well, now that everyone's here, Penny and I have some big news. We're engaged. General cheering and congratulations. Raj: And I thought me having s*x with Emily was gonna be the big news. General cheering and congratulations. Leonard: Hey, hey, what the hell? Bernadette: You guys propose all the time. This never happens. Penny: You're right! Yay! Credits sequence. Scene: The cafeteria. Raj: Boy, I'm so hungry today. I wonder why? Howard: Because you had s*x the other night? Raj: You know what? That may be it. By the way, it isn't like riding a bike. Like, I fell off a few times. Leonard: Hey, buddy. Sheldon: Hello. Leonard: You okay? Sheldon: I just got called into President Siebert's office. The university won't let me switch my field of study to inflationary cosmology. They're forcing me to continue with string theory. Howard: Why? Sheldon: He said it's why they hired me, it's, it's what my grant was designated for, and that everybody has to do things they don't want to do. He then gave an example of something he had to do, even though he didn't want to, which was look at my stupid face. Leonard: That's a rude thing to say, out loud. Sheldon: It's an outrage. Honestly, I'm tempted to leave the university. Howard: You know, if you're really serious about that, I hear there are some exciting opportunities in home care for
SUMMARY:
Leonard and Penny tell the group they are engaged; all are happy, but make a bigger deal of Raj and Emily having had sex. Leonard's mother is unmoved by his engagement, but accepts Penny because Sheldon is very fond of her. Sheldon is angered the university will not let him change research fields and considers quitting. He is further upset that Leonard and Penny do not want to live with him when married. He is disturbed at Amy's suggestion they could live together, and his last nerve breaks on discovering Stuart's comic book store was destroyed by a fire. Sheldon decides to leave town to figure out what he wants. Leonard tracks him down at the train station and convince him to come home with them but Penny says they should let him go. Sheldon calls Amy to say he is all right, after which a distraught Amy attacks Leonard with a pillow for letting him go. Howard's mother drives away all nurses hired to look after her, even Penny. Howard offers Stuart the job, giving him money and a home while he gets back on his feet after losing his store. He loves the job, becoming surprisingly close to Howard's mother.