TEXT: Scene: A barber's shop. Leonard: I'm just gonna run to the store and get a few things. I'll pick you up when you're done. Sheldon: Okay. I like it a little better when you stay, but all right. Barber: Hey, Sheldon. Sheldon: Hello. I'm here for my haircut with Mr. D'Onofrio. Barber: I'm sorry, Uncle Tony's in the hospital. He's pretty sick. Sheldon: Oh, dear, Mr. D'Onofrio's in the hospital. Why do these things always happen to me? Barber: I can cut it for you. Sheldon: You're not Mr. D'Onofrio. I get my hair cut by Mr. D'Onofrio. You believe this guy? Leonard: Excuse us for a second. Sheldon, it's okay, he can do it. He's a barber. Sheldon: He's not a barber, he's the nephew. He's an example of the kind of nepotism that runs rampant in the barbering industry. Besides, Mr. D'Onofrio knows exactly how I like my hair done because he has all my haircut records from my barber in Texas. Leonard: What are you talking about? Sheldon: When I first moved here I was nervous about finding a new barber, so my mother had all my haircut records sent here to Mr. D'Onofrio. Leonard: There's no such thing as haircut records. Sheldon: Yes, there are. Leonard: Have you ever seen them? Sheldon: No, but my mother assured me they were sent here, and I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that this one doesn't have them. Uh, excuse me. Do you have access to my haircut records? Barber: Your what? Sheldon: To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a nephew. Leonard: Sheldon, you're a grown man, he's a professional
SUMMARY:
Sheldon's regular barber Mr. D'Onofrio has been hospitalized in a coma and he refuses to get his hair cut from his nephew Angelo. Penny offers to cut Sheldon's hair as she used to cut her brother's hair, but he refuses. A week later, Sheldon has still not got his haircut and on Penny's advice, decides to relax his regimented lifestyle and "embrace the chaos". He begins to do things he never used to do before, like wearing his Tuesday pajamas on Thursday night and playing bongos at 3 am. This wakes Leonard and Penny, who plead with Sheldon to stop playing the bongos, to no avail, and he leaves the apartment still playing them. The next morning, they find him asleep on Amy's couch. With Amy's vote of confidence, Sheldon agrees to let Penny cut his hair. Sheldon is impressed with the way Penny had cut his hair, but when she is trimming his neck, she shaves off the back of his head accidentally. Meanwhile, Howard goes for astronaut training in Houston to prepare for his space mission. He confides to Bernadette via webcam his experiences in training, which involved vomiting during Zero-G training and having a horrible survival test. Bernadette feels pity for Howard and rushes to Houston, where she quickly finds out that his mother is already there to take care of him.