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* Though very sad, Amy's decision to take a break from her and Sheldon's relationship]] can count as one total for her growth. It's been mostly all take and no give on the part of Sheldon and Amy makes it clear that his actions and behavior really hurt her and that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jW4BF8WkQo she's not letting him get away with that]].

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* Though very sad, Amy's decision to [[LeavingYouToFindMyself take a break from her and Sheldon's relationship]] can count as one total for her growth. It's been mostly all take and no give on the part of Sheldon and Amy makes it clear that his actions and behavior really hurt her and that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jW4BF8WkQo she's not letting him get away with that]].
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** Made even more awesome that Sheldon correctly surmised that the two would actually believe he could pull off the "wormhole generator" he was discussing at the beginning of the episode. Basically, in order for them to believe the CGI thing, they would have to think Sheldon might actually be capable of creating a device that teleports people to other universes! That they did shows how much stock they put in his skills.

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** Made even more awesome that Sheldon correctly surmised that the two would actually believe he could pull off the "wormhole generator" he was discussing [[ChekhovsGun at the beginning of the episode.episode]]. Basically, in order for them to believe the CGI thing, they would have to think Sheldon might actually be capable of creating a device that teleports people to other universes! That they did shows how much stock they put in his skills.
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* OneSceneWonder Lalita giving Raj a WhatTheHellHero TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for being a boor on their date, calling her fat and his "future wife". Raj was being a boor, and as she points out, she hears enough of the old-fashioned Indian traditional stuff from her parents and she doesn't need to hear it from a guy that she only saw to get her family off her back.

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* OneSceneWonder Lalita giving Raj a WhatTheHellHero TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for being a boor on their date, calling her both fat and his "future wife". Raj was being a boor, and as she points out, she hears enough of the old-fashioned Indian traditional stuff from her parents and she doesn't need to hear it from a guy that she only saw to get her family off her back.



* When Sheldon is being completely unreasonable about Leonard and Penny 'betraying' him by hiding the fact that Leonard came home early from his expedition to the North Sea, Amy points out that Penny shouldn't be to blame. Sheldon then smugly tries to demand that Amy see his point of view, only for her to stand her ground despite him trying to manipulate her into agreeing with him.

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* When Sheldon is being completely unreasonable about Leonard and Penny 'betraying' him by hiding the fact that Leonard came home early from his expedition to the North Sea, Amy points out that Penny shouldn't be to blame.is not at fault. Sheldon then smugly tries to demand that Amy see his point of view, only for her to stand her ground despite him trying to manipulate her into agreeing with him.
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* In "The Contractual Obligation Implementation", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_j869cfKDs Sheldon answers Leonard's challenge to spend five seconds thinking of an idea for their project, to get more women into science]]. Sheldon spends less than two seconds and, instead of offering an idea, points out the fundamental flaw in everything Leonard's suggested so far -- all Leonard's ideas target women who are at university level and by then, it's far too late to get them into science. For once, it's nice to see Sheldon showing that yes, he really is that smart.
** Another where he points out it's more helpful for girls to hear from actual women scientists, than from bumbling male scientists about the need for women in the field

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* In "The Contractual Obligation Implementation", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_j869cfKDs Sheldon answers Leonard's challenge to spend five seconds thinking of an idea for their project, to get more women into science]]. Sheldon spends less than two seconds and, instead of offering an idea, points out the fundamental flaw in everything Leonard's suggested suggestion so far -- all Leonard's ideas target women who are at university level (specifically) and by then, it's far already too late to get them into science. For once, it's nice to see Sheldon showing that yes, he really is that smart.
** Another where he points out it's more actually helpful for girls to hear from actual women scientists, than from bumbling male scientists about the need for women in the fieldscientists.



** Amy and Bernadette's on-phone lecture to middle school girls about how the world of science needs more women but [[StayInTheKitchen unfortunately gir]][[MenActWomenAre ls are more encour]][[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty aged to worry about their looks rather than cultivate their minds]] and that [[DareToBeBadass everyone of them has]] [[YouGoGirl the capacity to be anything they want to be]]. One can call this {{Narm}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDdrnacKumg but sadly it's something still too many girls need to be told]].

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** Amy and Bernadette's on-phone lecture to middle school girls about how the world of science needs more women but [[StayInTheKitchen unfortunately gir]][[MenActWomenAre ls certain girls are more encour]][[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty aged encouraged to worry about their looks rather than cultivate their minds]] and that [[DareToBeBadass everyone of them has]] [[YouGoGirl the capacity to be anything they want to be]]. One can call this {{Narm}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDdrnacKumg but sadly it's something still too many girls need to be told]].



* In "The Space Probe Disintegration" we have Sheldon finally calling out [[DesignatedHero Leonard]] for how nasty he is to him and his hypocrisy regarding Sheldon's behavior.

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* In "The Space Probe Disintegration" we have Sheldon finally calling out [[DesignatedHero Leonard]] for how nasty horrible he is to him and his hypocrisy regarding Sheldon's behavior.
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* In "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" Amy calls Sheldon lame for liking comic book's he responds "A) comic books employ storytelling through sequential art, a medium that dates back 17000 years to the cave paintings of Lascaux and B) [[HypocrisyNod you play the harp, like that's cool.]]

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* In "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" Amy calls Sheldon lame for liking comic book's he responds "A) comic books employ storytelling through sequential art, a medium that dates back 17000 years to the cave paintings of Lascaux and B) [[HypocrisyNod you play the harp, like that's cool.]]

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* Stuart casually manipulating Sheldon into paying $1200 for an Aquaman statuette, and then starting up the same con ''again'' with a Batman squirt gun.
** It should be noted that at first, Sheldon didn't even ''want'' the statuette!



* In "The Intimacy Acceleration," Leonard, Amy, Raj, and Emily buy tickets to a "real escape game" (an actual type of entertainment that are basically real-life versions of online room escape games). The quartet is locked in a faux-scientific laboratory (complete with a zombie!) and told that they must solve challenging puzzles to find the key and escape. They [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRFb6c70J8 proceed to do this]] in ''six minutes flat.'' It just goes to show that for as nerdy as these characters are, they're all extremely smart.

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* In "The Intimacy Acceleration," Leonard, Amy, Raj, and Emily buy tickets to a "real escape game" (an actual type of entertainment that are basically real-life versions of online room escape games). The quartet is locked in a faux-scientific laboratory (complete with a zombie!) and told that they must solve challenging puzzles to find the key and escape. They [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRFb6c70J8 proceed to do this]] in ''six minutes flat.'' It just goes to show that for as nerdy as these characters are, they're all extremely smart.
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* Leonard being decisive when distributing grant money, his strong and determined persona turns Penny on.

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* Leonard being decisive when distributing grant money, his strong and determined persona turns Penny on. Even better, after being constantly pestered by his fellow employees, he ultimately decided to give the grant money to his own department, realizing that no matter what decision he made, someone would be mad at him, so he might as well get himself a new laser.
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'''Sheldon''': "That is your badge of honor, your 'warriors wound' if you will. I was wrong, minstrels will write songs about YOU."

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'''Sheldon''': "That is your badge of honor, your 'warriors 'warrior's wound' if you will. I was wrong, minstrels will write songs about YOU."



* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQAPJjEvCg Raj and Sheldon have a montage of "doing physics" with 'Eye of the Tiger' as the background music]].

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQAPJjEvCg Raj and Sheldon have a montage montage]] of "doing physics" ''doing physics'' with 'Eye of the Tiger' as the background music]].
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* Sheldon finally acknowledging his friend with the title he deserves: ''Astronaut'' Howard Wolowitz.
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* In "The Luminous Fish Effect", Sheldon gets fired from his job by insulting their new boss on ther very first meeting at a office party. After everyone fails to get Sheldon to go say sorry, Leonard calls Sheldon's mom who forces Sheldon to leave his room and go say sorry to his boss. Right away, Sheldon's mom, Mary Cooper, shows she doesn't take his crap when Sheldon refuses, even saying in a flat tone "Did I say if it pleases your highness" when Sheldon says no to the idea of seeing his boss. When Mary Cooper starts to flirt with Sheldon's new boss, and he askes Sheldon if he should be working, she gives him a dead angry look that makes him leave the room confused. She's the first character we ever see who Sheldon doesn't have the power to refute. The look on her face of "get out" that is only directed towards Sheldon when she wants to flirt with this boss makes it all the more awesome.

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* In "The Luminous Fish Effect", Sheldon gets fired from his job by insulting their new boss on ther very first meeting at a office party. After everyone fails to get Sheldon to go say sorry, Leonard calls Sheldon's mom who forces Sheldon to leave his room and go say sorry to his boss. Right away, Sheldon's mom, Mary Cooper, shows she doesn't take his crap when Sheldon refuses, even saying in a flat tone "Did I say if it pleases your highness" when Sheldon says no to the idea of seeing his boss. When Mary Cooper starts to flirt with Sheldon's new boss, and he askes Sheldon if he should be working, she gives him a dead angry look that makes him leave the room confused. She's the first character we ever see who Sheldon doesn't have the power to refute. The look on her face of "get out" that is only directed towards Sheldon when she wants to flirt with this his boss makes it all the more awesome.
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* In "The Luminous Fish Effect", Sheldon gets fired from his job by insulting their new boss on ther very first meeting at a office party. After everyone fails to get Sheldon to go say sorry, Leonard calls Sheldon's mom who forces Sheldon to leave his room and go say sorry to his boss. Right away, Sheldon's mom, Mary Cooper, shows she doesn't take his crap when Sheldon refuses, even saying in a flat tone "Did I say if it pleases your highness" when Sheldon says no to the idea of seeing his boss. When Mary Cooper starts to flirt with Sheldon's new boss, and he askes Sheldon if he should be working, she gives him a dead angry look that makes him leave the room confused. It's awesome how she doesn't have patients for her son's nonsense.

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* In "The Luminous Fish Effect", Sheldon gets fired from his job by insulting their new boss on ther very first meeting at a office party. After everyone fails to get Sheldon to go say sorry, Leonard calls Sheldon's mom who forces Sheldon to leave his room and go say sorry to his boss. Right away, Sheldon's mom, Mary Cooper, shows she doesn't take his crap when Sheldon refuses, even saying in a flat tone "Did I say if it pleases your highness" when Sheldon says no to the idea of seeing his boss. When Mary Cooper starts to flirt with Sheldon's new boss, and he askes Sheldon if he should be working, she gives him a dead angry look that makes him leave the room confused. It's awesome how she She's the first character we ever see who Sheldon doesn't have patients for the power to refute. The look on her son's nonsense.
face of "get out" that is only directed towards Sheldon when she wants to flirt with this boss makes it all the more awesome.
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* Amy giving Sheldon a much deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after he hurts the gang due to his selfishness.

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* Amy giving Sheldon a much deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after he hurts the gang due to his selfishness.[[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]].



--> '''Sheldon:''' I didn’t mean to.

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--> '''Sheldon:''' [[InnocentlyInsensitive I didn’t mean to.]]
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** While it was an invasion of Penny's privacy, Amy gets one for pointing out Penny jumped the gun on dumping Leonard and warning her if she becomes ready to go to the next level with him, he might've already found someone else who saw what she saw in him. Pretty impressive for someone who before Sheldon had only dated once a year to appease her mother.


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* In "The White Asparagus Triangulation", after his failed attempt to show Leonard's physical prowess, Sheldon hacked his Facebook account formalizing his relationship with Stephanie. At first Leonard yells at Sheldon that Sheldon is going to ruin their relationship. All of a sudden, Stephanie has updated her own status to mirror Leonard's. Helping his roommate with just his ControlFreak tendencies is pretty impressive after all.

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* The entire cast dressing up as the ComicBook/JusticeLeague for a New Years party. It summarizes everything that makes this show awesome in one episode.

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* The entire cast dressing up as the ComicBook/JusticeLeague for a New Years Year's party. It summarizes everything that makes this show awesome in one episode.
** The same episode gives a great one to Penny. She's started dating [[BrainlessBeauty Zack]] again, and when he comes over, he wants to "talk science with the science dudes." Keep in mind that Zack is a NiceGuy who genuinely wants to be friends with the group and is interested in their work--but Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj all pull an InsufferableGenius act and insult Zack's intelligence with snide comments. Zack is deeply hurt and leaves, giving Penny the opportunity to call out the group's DoubleStandard and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] in a brief but compelling TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
--->'''Penny''': You know, for a group of guys who claim they spent most of their lives being bullied, you can be real ''jerks.'' Shame on all of you.
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* In "The Luminous Fish Effect", Sheldon gets fired from his job by insulting their new boss on ther very first meeting at a office party. After everyone fails to get Sheldon to go say sorry, Leonard calls Sheldon's mom who forces Sheldon to leave his room and go say sorry to his boss. Right away, Sheldon's mom, Mary Cooper, shows she doesn't take his crap when Sheldon refuses, even saying in a flat tone "Did I say if it pleases your highness" when Sheldon says no to the idea of seeing his boss. When Mary Cooper starts to flirt with Sheldon's new boss, and he askes Sheldon if he should be working, she gives him a dead angry look that makes him leave the room confused. It's awesome how she doesn't have patients for her son's nonsense.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRIkXlx2QOA Game night that turned into a battle of the sexes]], one in which the girls handily trounce the guys. Not only does Penny waste Sheldon in a wrestling match (with a TakeThatKiss leaving heavy lipstick on his nose), but it also may be the only time Penny could beat Sheldon in a math-based game.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRIkXlx2QOA Game night that turned into a battle of the sexes]], one in which [[CurbStompBattle the girls handily trounce the guys.guys]]. Not only does Penny waste Sheldon in a wrestling match (with a TakeThatKiss leaving heavy lipstick on his nose), but it also may be the only time Penny could beat Sheldon in a math-based game.
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* While also sad, it's nice to see Raj standing up to Howard for the latter's constant put downs and ending their friendship until Howard learns to be a better friend.

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--> '''Sheldon:'''(furious) How can you call them friends when they’re abandoning us?

--> '''Amy:'''(Angry) They’re abandoning us because you broke their hearts.

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--> '''Amy:'''(Angry) '''Amy:''' (angry) They’re abandoning us because you broke their hearts.
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* Though very sad, Amy's decision to take a break from her and Sheldon's relationship]] can count as one total for her growth. It's been mostly all take and no give on the part of Sheldon and Amy makes it clear that his actions and behavior really hurt her and that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jW4BF8WkQo she's not letting him get away with that.

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* Though very sad, Amy's decision to take a break from her and Sheldon's relationship]] can count as one total for her growth. It's been mostly all take and no give on the part of Sheldon and Amy makes it clear that his actions and behavior really hurt her and that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jW4BF8WkQo she's not letting him get away with that.that]].
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* The same episode, the girls decide to take a trip to Vegas. While you'd expect Penny to get drunk ([[TheAlcoholic as usual]]), but she refuses to take one sip of booze. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giefwSzHMnk Even when the girls go to a strip club, Penny just spends the time studying]]. For the resident party girl, that's impressive.

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* The same episode, the girls decide to take a trip to Vegas. While you'd expect Penny to get drunk ([[TheAlcoholic as usual]]), but she refuses to take one sip of booze. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giefwSzHMnk Even when the girls go to a strip club, Penny just spends the time studying]]. For the resident party girl, that's impressive.
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* Penny's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing verbal comeback]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LOnCYqF2k at Howard]] (after he's being his perverted and shallow self) is Awesome despite [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass looking bad by episode standards]], she is standing up for herself. She also then later tells him that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre he has his charms but needs to stop overcompensating]], which leads to some CharacterDevelopment for Howard.

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* Penny's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing verbal comeback]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LOnCYqF2k at Howard]] Howard (after he's being his perverted and shallow self) is Awesome awesome despite [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass looking bad by episode standards]], she is standing up for herself. She also then later tells him that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre he has his charms but needs to stop overcompensating]], which leads to some CharacterDevelopment for Howard.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVOV6eCyLCI The entire cast dressing up]] as the ComicBook/JusticeLeague for a New Years party. It summarizes everything that makes this show awesome in one episode.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVOV6eCyLCI The entire cast dressing up]] up as the ComicBook/JusticeLeague for a New Years party. It summarizes everything that makes this show awesome in one episode.
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->''[[AGodAmI I possess the DNA of]] Creator/LeonardNimoy?!''

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->''[[AGodAmI I ->''I possess the DNA of]] of Creator/LeonardNimoy?!''
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* At one point, there existed a ripoff version of the show in Belarus called "The Theorists". When the Belarusian main cast found out that they were on an unauthorized copy of a show, they all immediately quit.
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* In "The Locomotion Reverberation", after Leonard and Howard need to get Sheldon back to help them work on the guidance system prototype, Leonard decides to play on Sheldon's well known neurosis and deliberately writes an incorrect solution to the equation on the work Sheldon started, figuring that when Sheldon saw it, he would have no choice but to work on it. He even proudly tells Howard that one of the squiggles on the board isn't even a legitimate scientific notation, just a doodle of Charlie Brown's hair. When Sheldon does see the equation, he chastises Howard and Leonard for their incorrect work. The duo ask him to help them, and he seemingly agrees, telling them it will be the last time. He walks over to the board, does some erasing, and begins to work...on drawing the rest of Charlie Brown around the area where his hair had been drawn. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
-->'''Sheldon''': ''Nice try, blockheads.''
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* Leonard for disapproving Sheldon's new element, not only does he unintentionally get payback for Sheldon earlier torture using the sweater, but proves he's just as capable in science as Sheldon is.
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** It's all awesome as being one of the best performances Johnny Galecki has given throughout the whole Big Bang story.

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** It's all awesome as being also one of the best performances Johnny Galecki has given throughout the whole Big Bang story.
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* Leonard being decisive when distributing grant money, his strong and determined persona turns Penny on.


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** It's all awesome as being one of the best performances Johnny Galecki has given throughout the whole Big Bang story.
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-->'''Sheldon''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAW28Cy1_fA Bazinga, punk. Now we're even.]]

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-->'''Sheldon''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAW28Cy1_fA Bazinga, punk. punk]]. [[MakesUsEven Now we're even.]]
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* The most awesome part is that this is the speech that finally breaks Sheldon and forces him to acknowledge his faults and make a full FaceHeelTurn for good.

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* The most awesome part is that this is the speech that finally breaks Sheldon and forces him to acknowledge his faults and make a full FaceHeelTurn HeelFaceTurn for good.

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