"Big Bang Theory": More Cooperisms from Season 6 Quiz

Answer: He is having too much sex with Amy.

In "The Cooper/Kripke Inversion", Sheldon's world falls apart when he realizes that Kripke's work on fusion reactors is more advanced than his. "I read his research," Sheldon says to Leonard, "and it's leaps and bounds ahead of mine, which means the mommy of the smartest physicist at the university is not my mommy, as I had thought. It's his mommy." Kripke confronts Sheldon about it, but instead of mocking him he becomes envious because he thinks that Sheldon's work is suffering because of Amy. Sheldon plays along and lets Kripke believe that he is too busy "squishing all the desirable parts of Amy's body" to focus on his work. "What can I say?" he says awkwardly. "She enjoys my genitals. I am giving them to her on a nightly basis."

When Leonard asks Sheldon why he doesn't just tell Kripke the truth, Sheldon explains that it makes him look good, which leads Penny to ask Sheldon if he will ever have a physical relationship with Amy. Sheldon's reply is revealing. "Penny, all my life I have been uncomfortable with the sort of physical contact that comes easily to others," he says. "But I'm working on it, you know. Just recently, I had to put Vapor Rub on Amy's chest. A year ago, that would have been unthinkable." When Penny asks if that means he might become physical with Amy someday, Sheldon says, "It's a possibility."

Answer: Amy decides to move in with Sheldon.

Penny loves Leonard, but she isn't ready for them to move in together just yet. Leonard is naturally oblivious to this, as he is too caught up with his anger towards Sheldon for revealing the ending of the book he just started reading. There's hope for Penny, and it comes in the form of Amy, who seizes the opportunity to advance her relationship with Sheldon by presenting herself as his new ideal roommate. "Think about it, Sheldon," she argues. "I'm not a stranger. We're intellectually compatible. I'm willing to chauffeur you around town, and your personality quirks which others find abhorrent or rage-inducing, I find cute as a button." Sheldon can't come up with anything to counter Amy's logic, so he tries unsuccessfully to get Leonard to move back in.

When Penny and Sheldon realize that they both want the same thing, they decide to come clean and level with Leonard and Amy, but Sheldon chickens out at the last minute and throws Penny under the bus by telling Amy that she is to blame. "She doesn't want to live with Leonard, so he has to come live here again," he explains. "She's the snake in our garden. She's the reason we can't be happy." The truth comes out, and Amy becomes upset with Sheldon for not being upfront with her, and Penny becomes upset with Leonard for moving in without asking her if she was ready. As the girls head off together to drink wine and commiserate about what jerks their boyfriends are, Amy tells Penny, "You know what would show them? I should move in here with you."

Answer: He makes Amy his emergency contact at work

Alex thinks that she did a really good job with her gift choices, but we all know how difficult it is to impress Sheldon. She strikes out with her first two options; Sheldon rejects the music harp-shaped box on the basis that Amy already has a real harp that can play any song, and the map of England is rendered redundant by the Google Maps app on Amy's phone. The third option is a different story. "Oh, this is truly remarkable," Sheldon says when Alex presents him with the autographed brain cell drawing by the father of modern neuroscience. "I think I'll keep it for myself." Alex is taken aback. "What about your girlfriend?" she asks. "It's too late," Sheldon says. "I called dibs."

Later that evening, Amy gives Sheldon his present. Instead of the traditional evening of romance and gifts, she decides to forgo all that in favor of an evening of pizza and movies. "Well, I don't know what to say," Sheldon confesses. "This is the most thoughtful gift that anyone's ever given me. And that's including an amazing gift I gave myself today." Sheldon is so touched that he insists on giving Amy his present for her - he has made her his emergency contact at the university. Amy is won over. "This is the most beautiful gift you could have ever given me," she says, but her joy is short-lived. The episode ends with Amy being interrupted at work to deal with Sheldon's latest (imagined) medical emergency.

Answer: Acting lessons

When Sheldon recruits Penny to be his guest on "Fun With Flags", she points out that their interaction would look more natural if he talked to her instead of the camera. "Interesting," Sheldon observes. "A few people in the comments section have said that my delivery is robotic. Perhaps that isn't the compliment it sounds like." Penny starts giving Sheldon more tips that she picked up from her acting class, like adopting a more open and relaxed body language to better engage with the audience. He takes it a little too far, though, when he drapes himself seductively over the couch and stares intently at Penny while delivering his line, before sitting with his legs in an inappropriate, spread-eagled position in an attempt to achieve the desired 'openness'. "Spread your legs," Sheldon instructs Penny, "invite them in."

To return the favor, Sheldon agrees to support Penny in her upcoming performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire", where she impresses everyone with her acting ability. The episode ends with Sheldon marveling, "How can she remember all those lines, but as a waitress she can't remember 'no tomato' on my hamburger?"

Answer: Organizing Howard and Bernadette's closet

When Howard is told off by Bernadette for using their closet as a dumping ground while tidying up for the party in "The Closet Reconfiguration", he gets the idea to have Sheldon organize their closet for them. "He's our guest," Bernadette objects, "We can't just ask him to straighten our closet." Howard's plan is subtler. "No, we wouldn't ask him. We'd just show him the closet and let the goblins in his head take it from there."

The plan works like a charm, and it isn't long before Sheldon is asking Howard if he would like his clothes arranged seasonally or by color. (The correct answer is seasonally.) Sheldon does such a thorough job going through the contents of the closet that he even reads a private letter from Howard's absent father that Howard had kept unopened for years, causing Howard to burn the letter on impulse. The rest of the gang trick Sheldon into revealing the contents of the letter to them, leaving Howard as the only person who doesn't know what his father wrote to him. Sheldon comes up with the idea for each person to provide Howard with a version of the contents of the letter, only one of which is true, thereby giving Howard some closure on the matter. Sheldon then reveals that the letter wasn't the most interesting thing he read in the closet, as Bernadette's diary contains some "saucy passages", and copyright law would allow him to "quote snippets in the context of a review".

Answer: A "Roots" DVD

With only one tenure position becoming available upon Professor Tupperman's death, Leonard, Sheldon and Raj find themselves competing with each other (and Barry Kripke) for tenure at the university. Leonard tries to suck up to Mrs. Davis at the gym, but just ends up out of breath, while Raj gives new meaning to the term "overkill" when he sends her a 90-minute self-promotional video. Sheldon tries to make up for calling Mrs. Davis a "slave" in "The Egg Salad Equivalency" by giving her a DVD set of the television mini-series "Roots", which Sheldon describes as "the tragic history of slavery in America - fun for the whole family". Mrs. Davis is taken aback and asks, "Why would you think this is an appropriate gift?" Sheldon's response is "Um. Well. You are black, right?", which brings the meeting to an abrupt end.

Sheldon eventually learns that Mrs. Davis short-listed him, Leonard, and Raj for the tenure position despite their disastrous attempts to butter her up, on the basis that they were all accomplished in their respective fields. He goes to convey his gratitude, but ends up offending her yet again when he attempts a gangsta handshake and calls her "sista".

Answer: Strawberry Quik

When Sheldon almost has a meltdown after he learns that the Syfy Channel cancelled "Alphas" after a cliffhanger season two finale, Amy postulates that he has a problem with closure. She offers to employ behavioral neuroscience techniques to retrain his neural pathways so that he can learn to "let go" of situations that have no resolution. When Sheldon insists that he doesn't have a problem, Amy knocks out the start of "Shave and a Haircut" on the table, which leaves Sheldon compelled to complete the tune. "That proves nothing," he says, but eventually agrees to let Amy try a few things.

She begins by starting a game of Tic-Tac-Toe with Sheldon, and then erasing the whiteboard before he can make his winning move. When she asks him how that makes him feel, he says, "Same way any normal person would. I feel like I want to peel off my own face and tear it in two, and then again and again until I have a hand full of Sheldon face confetti." Next, Amy plays "The Star Spangled Banner" on a keyboard, but cuts off the song before singing the last word. Amy also compliments Sheldon on his impressively elaborate layout of dominoes on the floor, before telling him, "Let's box it up." When Sheldon plays with a wind-up jack-in-the-box that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel", Amy wrestles the box away from Sheldon before the end of the song. In the end, Sheldon thanks Amy for a "transformative evening", but it is just a ruse to get rid of her so that he can finish all the activities that Amy had kept him from completing all day. He plays Tic-Tac-Toe with himself and wins. He finishes the song and gets the jack-in-the-box to come out. Finally, he lays out the dominoes and finally gets to see them topple over. "Don't stop, yes, keep going. Just like that. Almost there... almost there. Uh-hhhh," Sheldon cries, as he crumples in a state of unbridled ecstasy on the floor.

Answer: The hospital

When Sheldon discovers Professor Proton online, he suggests to Leonard that they hire him for the day. When Leonard asks what they would do with him, Sheldon replies, "Whatever we want. Hang out. Do experiments. Make him take 12 pictures with us so we can make a calendar." The day gets off to a bad start when Dr. Jeffries spends half an hour walking up the stairs, but doesn't make it past the third floor landing. When he finally gets to the apartment, Sheldon is thrilled to be told by Dr. Jeffries to call him Arthur, as it means that they are friends. "No," Dr. Jeffries says, "a friend would have told me about the elevator."

Dr. Jeffries settles down to perform his show, but is troubled to discover that there are no kids in the apartment. "Let me see if I have this straight," he says. "You two are physicists and you want me to do a children's science show?" Halfway through his act, he announces that he's done, and doesn't want to be Professor Proton anymore. Sheldon tries to convince Arthur that his life's work did serve some purpose, as he credits Professor Proton for ensuring that he became a world class physicist. Leonard adds, "I bet there are important discoveries being made every day because you inspired millions of kids to pursue science. In a way, their discoveries are your discoveries." Just then, Professor Proton starts having problems with his pacemaker, and the gang has to call him an ambulance. "Sorry things turned out this way," Arthur says, as he is being wheeled out of the apartment by the emergency response unit. "Well, at this point I'm just glad someone's carrying me down the stairs." The episode ends with Arthur in the hospital, with Sheldon singing "Soft Kitty" to him and calling him "father".

Answer: Sheldon and Amy

When the girls head off to Vegas, the guys plan on spending all weekend on a "Dungeons and Dragons" marathon. Those plans get interrupted when Amy gets placed on the no-fly list after breaking a TSA agent's nose with her elbow while going through airport security. Leonard feels sorry for the girls and invites them to join them for their "D&D" weekend. Howard turns out to be a wonderful dungeon master and everyone is having a great time, until Sheldon mistakes Howard and Bernadette's flirting for the start of a new quest, and signs himself up. When Amy explains that they were talking about sex, this gives Penny an idea. "Since it's not happening anytime soon, why don't your character and your character do it in the game?" she says to Sheldon and Amy. Bernadette cast a "love spell" on them, and everyone waits to see what the pair will do. Amy becomes uncomfortable and says, "I don't like this," and runs off to Sheldon's room to hide. When Sheldon goes to see if Amy is okay, she asks him if their relationship is ever going to become intimate. Sheldon bares his soul, and explains that before he met Amy, he never had any interest in being intimate with anyone, but now he hasn't ruled it out. "I know it doesn't seem like it to you," he says, "but for me what we have is extremely intimate." When Amy says that she still wants more, Sheldon says, "More? Look at us. It's only been three years, and here we are in bed together."

Amy is ready to go back out to the living room, but Sheldon has a thought. "Hold on," he says. "My Elven magic user and your Half-orc warrior did have a love spell cast on them. We wouldn't really be playing the game right if we didn't see that through." The pair end up rolling dice to determine their characters' actions in the game. "I lead you to a secluded area where I attempt to remove your leather armor," Sheldon says as he rolls the dice. "It comes off." Their characters kiss passionately, and Sheldon starts getting into it. "I erotically caress your... nose," he says as he rolls the dice again. "Keep rolling," Amy says.

Answer: He was jealous of Leonard.

In "The Bon Voyage Reaction", Stephen Hawking's team needs a physicist to join his team on a four-month long expedition to the North Sea, and Howard recommends Leonard. Sheldon tries in a not-so-subtle way to convince him that he shouldn't go. "I've been doing some reading about vehicular safety. Did you know that the highest number of drowning accidents happen on or around boats?" he mentions casually. "I know what you're doing," Leonard says. "You don't want me going on this research trip because you're afraid to be alone." Sheldon isn't giving up that easily. "I'm not afraid to be alone," he says, before adding, "On land. On sea, it would be terrifying because of all the drowning."

Later, Penny tries to convince Sheldon to be supportive of Leonard, as the expedition is a really big deal for him. "It's not that big of an opportunity," Sheldon says. "Even if Hawking's theories are correct, all they're going to prove is where the universe came from, why everything exists and what its ultimate end will be. Me? I'm interested in the big questions." A look of realization dawns on Penny's face as she says, "Oh my God. Sheldon the genius is jealous of Leonard." Sheldon looks irritated. "I'm not jealous," he says. "I'm just very unhappy that good things are happening for him and not happening for me." Penny convinces Sheldon to tell Leonard that he is happy for him even if he doesn't mean it, because that's what friends do, so Sheldon makes a sincere toast to Leonard at the party thrown in his honor. "That's really nice of you to try to be happy for Leonard," Howard says to Sheldon. "It must have killed you when I went to space."

"It did not kill me when you went to space," Sheldon replies, before adding, "Monkeys went to space."