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* CodeEmergency: "Code Milky Green" is an alert that [[AnnoyingPatient Sheldon]] is sick, and must be avoided at all costs.



* DirtyCoward: Howard and Raj abandon Leonard when they see [[OhCrap Penny caught them redhanded]].
* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them.
* IAteWhat: Leonard realizes that he's been making pancake batter in a cup Sheldon uses [[{{Squick}} for urinal purposes]].

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* DirtyCoward: Howard and Raj abandon Leonard when they see [[OhCrap feels awful about letting Sheldon enslave Penny caught them redhanded]].
when she calls him on the phone, but not enough to take her place.
* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And Since they've pissed Penny off, there's no one to take care of them.
* IAteWhat: Leonard realizes that he's been making pancake batter in a measuring cup Sheldon uses [[{{Squick}} for urinal purposes]].urine samples]].



* MadeASlave: Penny by sick Sheldon.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Just as Leonard was ready to leave Penny at the mercy of Sheldon, Howard and Raj abandon him when they see [[OhCrap Penny caught them redhanded]].
* MadeASlave: Penny by sick Sheldon. She's pressured to do everything from feeding him, applying Vaporub on his chest, to ''singing him a lullaby''.



* NoodleIncident: Sheldon has gotten sick a few times before in the 2000s decade, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints. Howard mentions Sheldon had an ear infection in 2006.
* PassThePopcorn: Raj wants Howard to do this. Howard objects.

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* NoodleIncident: Sheldon has gotten sick a few times before in the 2000s last decade, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints. Howard mentions Sheldon had an specifically how the "great ear infection in 2006.
* PassThePopcorn: Raj wants Howard
of '06" was the catalyst for planning ways to never do this. Howard objects.this again.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard's reaction when he hears Sheldon say "Leonard, I'm sick!"

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard's reaction when ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Leonard scrambles half-dressed to get out of the apartment the second
he hears Sheldon say "Leonard, I'm sick!" announce he's sick.



* UngratefulBastard: Sheldon, as usual.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Code: Milky Green" is short for "In Case [[AnnoyingPatient Sheldon]] Gets Sick, Run Away from Him".
* WhatHaveIDone: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny calls him on the phone for help.

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* UngratefulBastard: Sheldon, as usual. \n* UnusualEuphemism: "Code: Milky Green" is short for "In Case [[AnnoyingPatient Sheldon]] Gets Sick, Run Away from Him". \n* WhatHaveIDone: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny calls him on the phone for help.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Penny questions Sheldon coming into the Cheesecake Factory and dining ''in'' while he's sick, instead of ordering delivery.
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* TyphoidMary: Sheldon believes this trope applies to Penny, even referring to her as, "Typhoid Penny."

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* TyphoidMary: Sheldon believes this trope applies to Penny, even referring to her as, as "Typhoid Penny."



* WhatHaveIDone: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny called him on the phone for help.

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* WhatHaveIDone: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny called calls him on the phone for help.
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When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and [[DirtyCoward the guys run away]] and hide out at a movie theater playing all 5 ''Planet of the Apes'' movies (from 1968 to 1973) to avoid his whining demands ever since [[NoodleIncident the last time they took care of him]]. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead. At the theater, Leonard has his glasses broken and decides to sneak back into the apartment and get new ones without being noticed. However, he gets caught by Penny who was being forced to do menial tasks for Sheldon and as Leonard tries running away with her (while visually impaired), he injures his head by running into a support beam.

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When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and [[DirtyCoward [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere the guys run away]] and hide out at a movie theater playing all 5 ''Planet of the Apes'' movies (from 1968 to 1973) to avoid his whining demands ever since [[NoodleIncident the last time they took care of him]]. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead.instead, costing her a whole work day and then using her like a personal nurse. Leonard then makes up false stories to Penny to ward off her calls to get back home and treat Sheldon. At the theater, Leonard has his glasses broken and decides to sneak back into the apartment and get new ones without being noticed. However, he gets caught by Penny who was being forced to do menial tasks for Sheldon and as Leonard tries running away with her (while visually impaired), he injures his head by running into a support beam.
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Sheldon and Leonard sit sick and injured on the couch just waiting to recover or for Penny to return, neither of which are likely to happen soon.

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Sheldon and Leonard sit sick and injured on the couch just waiting to recover or for Penny (or anybody) to return, return and take care of them, neither of which are likely to happen soon.



* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them. Penny doesn't get a great ending either, she missed work hours thanks to Sheldon and she states she plans to write bad checks for her bills.

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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them. Penny doesn't get a great ending either, she missed work hours thanks to Sheldon and she states she plans to write bad checks for her bills.



** Penny as well when she's had enough of Sheldon's nursing demands and sees Leonard returned home, even though she could have done that much earlier and leave Sheldon as soon as she drove him home.

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** Penny as well when she's had enough of Sheldon's nursing demands and sees Leonard returned home, even though she could have done that much earlier and leave Sheldon as soon as she drove him home. home.



* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What Have I Done?]]: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny called him on the phone for help.

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* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What Have I Done?]]: WhatHaveIDone: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny called him on the phone for help.
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* TyphoidMary: Sheldon believes this trope applies to Penny, even referring to her as, "Typhoid Penny."

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When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and the guys run away and hide to avoid his whining demands. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead.

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When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and [[DirtyCoward the guys run away away]] and hide out at a movie theater playing all 5 ''Planet of the Apes'' movies (from 1968 to 1973) to avoid his whining demands.demands ever since [[NoodleIncident the last time they took care of him]]. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead. At the theater, Leonard has his glasses broken and decides to sneak back into the apartment and get new ones without being noticed. However, he gets caught by Penny who was being forced to do menial tasks for Sheldon and as Leonard tries running away with her (while visually impaired), he injures his head by running into a support beam.

Sheldon and Leonard sit sick and injured on the couch just waiting to recover or for Penny to return, neither of which are likely to happen soon.




* NoodleIncident: Before this episode, Sheldon has gotten sick a few times before, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints.

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* NoodleIncident: Before this episode, Sheldon has gotten sick a few times before, before in the 2000s decade, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints.complaints. Howard mentions Sheldon had an ear infection in 2006.


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* PlotHole: Why couldn't Howard and Leonard hide at Raj's place?
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* MadeASlave: Penny by sick Sheldon.
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* MommasBoy: Howard still relies on his mother to make him breakfast. Well, apparently she's a decent cook even if she's not a decent person or mother.

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* MommasBoy: Howard still relies on his mother to make him breakfast. Well, apparently she's a decent cook even if she's not a decent person or mother.
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* MommasBoy: Howard still relies on his mother to make him breakfast. Well, apparently she's a decent cook even if she's not a decent person or mother.
-->'''Mrs. Wolowitz''': WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR BREAKFAST?!!!
-->'''Howard''': CHOCOLATE MILK AND EGGOS, PLEASE!

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* AnnoyingPatient: Sheldon is the worst kind of needy patient.

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* AnnoyingPatient: Sheldon is the worst kind of needy patient.Guess who.
* DirtyCoward: Howard and Raj abandon Leonard when they see [[OhCrap Penny caught them redhanded]].


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* PassThePopcorn: Raj wants Howard to do this. Howard objects.


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** Penny as well when she's had enough of Sheldon's nursing demands and sees Leonard returned home, even though she could have done that much earlier and leave Sheldon as soon as she drove him home.


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* UngratefulBastard: Sheldon, as usual.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard's reaction when he hears Sheldon say "Leonard, I'm sick1"

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard's reaction when he hears Sheldon say "Leonard, I'm sick1" sick!"
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard's reaction when he hears Sheldon say "Leonard, I'm sick1"
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* IdiotBall: Leonard for not taking his glasses off ''before'' his chimp mask thus leading to his glasses falling on the ground in a dark movie room and Howard stepping on them by accident.
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* IWantMyMommy: The only person who would and could take well of Sheldon when he got sick was his mother, though he's now a grown man and his mother lives in Texas while he's in Pasadena, California. Sheldon then starts begging Howard (thinking it's Howard's mother) and then Penny for the special treatment his mother used to give him such as hot soup and belly rubs.
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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them. Penny doesn't get a great ending either, she missed work hours thanks to Sheldon and then says she plans to write bad checks for her bills.

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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them. Penny doesn't get a great ending either, she missed work hours thanks to Sheldon and then says she states she plans to write bad checks for her bills.
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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them.

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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them. Penny doesn't get a great ending either, she missed work hours thanks to Sheldon and then says she plans to write bad checks for her bills.
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Code: Milky Green" is short for "In Case Sheldon Gets Sick, Run Away from Him".

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* UnusualEuphemism: "Code: Milky Green" is short for "In Case Sheldon [[AnnoyingPatient Sheldon]] Gets Sick, Run Away from Him".
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Milky green" is the code the guys use for "In Case Sheldon Gets Sick, Run Away from Him".

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* UnusualEuphemism: "Milky green" "Code: Milky Green" is the code the guys use short for "In Case Sheldon Gets Sick, Run Away from Him".
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* NoodleIncident: Before this episode, Sheldon has gotten sick before, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints. This time, the three are all prepared and devise an elaborate plan to hide from him.

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* NoodleIncident: Before this episode, Sheldon has gotten sick a few times before, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints. This time, the three are all prepared and devise an elaborate plan to hide from him. complaints.
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* SickEpisode
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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery.

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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery. And there's no one to take care of them.
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* DownerEnding: Sheldon and Leonard sit on the couch sick and injured grieving and awaiting recovery.
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Despite being lambasted by TV critics for its boring story and shortage of plot devices, [[CriticProof this episode has been one of the most popular and economically viable]] of the show due to introducing the "Soft Kitty" song.

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Despite being lambasted by TV critics for its boring story story, thin plot and shortage of plot devices, irony, [[CriticProof this episode has been one of the most popular and economically viable]] of the show due to introducing the "Soft Kitty" song.
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Despite being lambasted by TV critics for its boring story and shortage of plot devices, [[CriticProof this episode has been one of the most popular and economically viable]] of the show due to introducing the "Soft Kitty" song.


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* UnusualEuphemism: "Milky green" is the code the guys use for "In Case Sheldon Gets Sick, Run Away from Him".

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'''The Pancake Batter Anomaly''' is the 11th episode of the first season of ''Series/{{TheBigBangTheory}}''.

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'''The Pancake Batter Anomaly''' is the 11th episode of the first season of ''Series/{{TheBigBangTheory}}''.''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.



When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and the guys run away to avoid his whining demands. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead.

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When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and the guys run away and hide to avoid his whining demands. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead.



* NoInsideVoice: Mrs. Wolowitz

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* IWantMyMommy: The only person who would and could take well of Sheldon when he got sick was his mother, though he's now a grown man and his mother lives in Texas while he's in Pasadena, California. Sheldon then starts begging Howard (thinking it's Howard's mother) and then Penny for the special treatment his mother used to give him such as hot soup and belly rubs.
* NoInsideVoice: Mrs. WolowitzWolowitz
* NoodleIncident: Before this episode, Sheldon has gotten sick before, and Leonard, Howard and Raj all had to take care of him and listen to his complaints. This time, the three are all prepared and devise an elaborate plan to hide from him.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What Have I Done?]]: Leonard feels awful about letting Sheldon just enslave Penny when Penny called him on the phone for help.
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'''The Pancake Batter Anomaly''' is the 11th episode of the first season of ''Series/{{TheBigBangTheory}}''.




When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and the guys try to avoid him.

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\nWhen Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and the guys try run away to avoid him.his whining demands. Sheldon extracts servitude from Penny instead.




* AnnoyingPatient : Sheldon is the worst kind of needy patient.
* NoInsideVoice : Mrs. Wolowitz

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\n* AnnoyingPatient : AnnoyingPatient: Sheldon is the worst kind of needy patient.
* NoInsideVoice : IAteWhat: Leonard realizes that he's been making pancake batter in a cup Sheldon uses [[{{Squick}} for urinal purposes]].
* NoInsideVoice:
Mrs. Wolowitz Wolowitz
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When Penny returns from a trip to Nebraska, she brings home a flu virus. Sheldon gets sick and the guys try to avoid him.

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* AnnoyingPatient : Sheldon is the worst kind of needy patient.
* NoInsideVoice : Mrs. Wolowitz

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