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1	'''"The Skank Reflex Analysis"''' is an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' that first aired on September 22, 2011. Directed by Creator/MarkCendrowski. Teleplay by Creator/ChuckLorre, Bill Prady and Steven Molaro, based on a story by Eric Kaplan, Creator/MariaFerrari and Creator/AnthonyDelBroccolo.
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3	After getting caught leaving Sheldon and Leonard's apartment after sleeping with Raj, Penny worries that her behavior has screwed things up permanently with her friends. Meanwhile, Sheldon takes command of their paintball team, but the guys are too worried about their own personal problems to take it seriously.
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5	!!Episode Tropes:
6	* BadBadActing: The hemorrhoid commercial Penny starred in.
7	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Raj's got a crush on Bernadette, and assumed something might be going on since she is always nice to him. Bernedette just exasperately replied that she is nice to everyone.
8	* ButLiquorIsQuicker: Penny reflects on how she becomes more promiscuous while drunk, calling herself [[JekyllAndHyde "Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Whore"]].
9	* CrucifiedHeroShot: Sheldon letting himself get shot at paintball, specifically spoofing ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.
10	* DeathbedPromotion: Parodied when Sheldon assigns himself the rank of Captain of the guys' paintball squad. During the match, in order to revitalize the fighting spirit of the guys, who were uninterested in the game because of personal issues, Sheldon sacrifices himself by standing in the open and calling out, causing him to be 'killed'. In a later scene Leonard proposes a toast to 'Captain Sheldon Cooper', only for Sheldon to remark that it is actually ''Major'' Sheldon Cooper, having granted himself a battlefield promotion with his 'last breaths.'
11	* HardOnSoftScience: Sheldon's hatred towards geology comes up, as he shouts "Geology is not a real science!" to draw the fire of the opposing team during paintball.
12	* HeroicSacrifice: Sheldon pulls a rather hilarious one during paintball to inspire Leonard, Howard and Raj to always [[TrueCompanions be there for each other]], by standing out in the open shouting "Geology isn't a real science!" and he gets hit by a lot of paintballs as if he's been shot during a war.
13	-->'''Howard:''' '''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner DAMN THOSE SONS OF BITCHES!!!]]'''
14	* ImplausibleDeniability: When Leonard reveals that Raj was making love poems about Bernadette, Howard's fiancé, right in front of Howard, Raj tries to deny it, assuring Howard that Leonard is "talking rubbish". Then when Leonard recites the same inappropriate poem Priya told him Raj made ("Oh Bernadette, please play my clarinet!") Raj says "that could be about anyone".
15	* InternalReveal: Both Howard and Bernadette find out about Raj's infatuation over the latter. And neither of them are happy about it.
16	* IntimateHairBrushing: Amy is brushing Penny’s hair. After she's done, she asks Penny to brush her hair, too.
17	-->'''Amy:''' Ninety-nine, one hundred. It’s like a waterfall of liquid gold. My turn.
18	* LiteralMinded: Sheldon tries to figure out what happened between Penny and Raj, and immediately eliminates they slept together since that's what appears to have happened and Penny said "[[NotWhatItLooksLike it's not what it looks like]]". All it takes is Leonard pointing it out to Sheldon that she lied for him to figure it out, and he seems upset it took him so long to realize something so obvious.
19	-->'''Leonard:''' They slept together [[SarcasmMode Sherlock]].\
20	'''Sheldon:''' No, you weren't listening. She said, it’s ''not'' what it looks like.\
21	'''Leonard:''' ...She ''lied''.\
22	'''Sheldon:''' ...Oh.
23	* NotAGame: Sheldon is upset at the others not taking their paintball game seriously.
24	-->'''Sheldon:''' You think this is a game? Was the Battle of Antietam a game? Was the sack of Rome a game?\
25	'''Leonard:''' Yes, no and no.
26	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Penny says this after she's caught coming out of Leonard's bedroom with Raj. Sheldon [[LiteralMinded took it literally]] and spent a long time trying to figure out what they did, eventually concluding that Penny was checking Raj's anal region. Leonard and Howard think that Penny lied and that she did have sex with Raj, but as we find out later in the episode as Raj tells Penny.......it wasn't what it looked like.
27	* PaintballEpisode: The B plot. Notably, Sheldon takes off his goggles while doing his HeroicSacrifice, which in real life is prohibited for safety reasons.
28	* PreviouslyOn: The episode starts with a quick review of what happened in the previous episode.
29	* ThrowTheDogABone:
30	** After an overall pretty miserable episode for the gang, at the end they manage to win one of the universities paintball tournaments after Sheldon inspires the others with a sacrifice.

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