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* GayBestFriend: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Leonard, in his attempt to cheer up Penny, ends up inadvertently convincing her to go and makeup with her ex instead.
---> '''Leonard''': Huh, maybe I am her gay friend.
* HeartbreakAndIcecream: When Leonard visits Penny after her breakup, she's in the middle of junk food binge, eating an entire tub of ice cream, with copious amounts of chocolate sauce, and wolfing down whipped cream directly from the can.
---> '''Leonard''': Huh, maybe I am her gay friend.
* HeartbreakAndIcecream: When Leonard visits Penny after her breakup, she's in the middle of junk food binge, eating an entire tub of ice cream, with copious amounts of chocolate sauce, and wolfing down whipped cream directly from the can.
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and "Your monkey sleeps inside me."
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and concrete?", "Your monkey sleeps inside me."", and "Oxen are in my bed! Many, many oxen!"
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Both Leonard and Penny turn to Sheldon for advice, and he gives advice, but he doesn't really care what happens to their romantic relationship. Sheldon has a much more pressing issue: the Chinese restaurant is passing orange chicken off as tangerine chicken. To properly confront them, Sheldon decides he must learn Mandarin Chinese. Howard teaches Sheldon.
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Both Leonard and Penny turn to Sheldon for advice, and he gives advice, but he doesn't really care what happens to their romantic relationship. Sheldon has a much more pressing issue: the a Chinese restaurant restaurant, the Szechuan Palace, is passing orange chicken off as tangerine chicken. To properly confront them, Sheldon decides he must learn Mandarin Chinese. Howard teaches Sheldon.
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* RunningGag: Sheldon using UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat as advice about Penny and Leonard dating. Penny has trouble understanding it, but with Leonard all he has to do is mention it once and Leonard gets it immediately.
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* RunningGag: Sheldon using UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat as advice about Penny and Leonard dating. Penny has trouble understanding it, but with Leonard all he has to do is mention it once and Leonard gets it immediately.immediately.
* SeasonFinale: The show's first season finale has a SequelHook for Season 2: how does Leonard and Penny's date go? And maybe some viewers also care whether or not Sheldon ever eats at the Szechuan Palace again.
* SeasonFinale: The show's first season finale has a SequelHook for Season 2: how does Leonard and Penny's date go? And maybe some viewers also care whether or not Sheldon ever eats at the Szechuan Palace again.
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In the first season finale of the series, Leonard finally works up the courage to ask out Penny. Nervous about what to do on the upcoming date, they unknowingly both go to the same unexpected source for advice: Sheldon.
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Penny angrily dumps a man who posted private details of
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Both Leonard and Penny turn to Sheldon for advice, and he gives advice, but he doesn't really care what happens to their romantic relationship. Sheldon has a much more pressing issue: the Chinese restaurant is passing orange chicken off as tangerine chicken. To properly confront them, Sheldon decides he must learn Mandarin Chinese. Howard teaches Sheldon.
At the restaurant, Sheldon confronts Chen (Creator/JamesHong) in Mandarin, but instead of saying anything about
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and "Your monkey sleeps inside me." [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Since Howard was teaching him, there's the possibility that he was screwing with Sheldon.]]
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and "Your monkey sleeps inside me." [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Since Howard was teaching him, there's the possibility that he was screwing with Sheldon.]]"
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and "Your monkey sleeps inside me." Since Howard was teaching him, there's the possibility that he was screwing with Sheldon.
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and "Your monkey sleeps inside me." [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Since Howard was teaching him, there's the possibility that he was screwing with Sheldon.]]
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* BrickJoke: Penny throws her boyfriend's iPod out the window. Some time later, Raj comes in with the iPod in hand, now cracked and useless (he plans to sell it as "slightly used" on eBay).
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Sheldon tries to learn Mandarin to confront the owners of their favorite Chinese restaurant about their mandarin chicken. Unfortunately, his grasp is not as firm as he thinks it is, so he ends up saying things like "Long live concrete", "Oxen are in my bed! So many oxen!", and "Your monkey sleeps inside me." Since Howard was teaching him, there's the possibility that he was screwing with Sheldon.
* RunningGag: Sheldon using UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat as advice about Penny and Leonard dating. Penny has trouble understanding it, but with Leonard all he has to do is mention it once and Leonard gets it immediately.
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