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WackyMeetsPractical
Since: Oct, 2009
2011-04-29 23:23:17
Can't seem to find it anywhere, but definitely tropable. If you can't find it, you should take it to the YKTTW.
originalhobbit
Since: Dec, 2009
2011-04-30 07:51:09
It's used in The L Word too, Alice wants to break up with her girlfriend, and Bette, Tina, and Shane, I think, give her a break up speech. She later repeats the speech, verbatim, to her girlfriend.
It's a good thing our last name isn't Drew, because then you'd be Nancy Drew and I'd be Andrew Drew. -Andy Botwin

Breakup Speech!
If it's not used anywhere other than The Big Bang Theory, it's at least lampshaded in "The Vartabedian Conundrum":
"Leonard: Oh, right, yeah, um, so, Stephanie, here’s the thing. I really like you.
Steph: Oh, God, here comes the speech.
Leonard: What speech?
Steph: I really like you, but maybe we should spend a little less time together ‘cause I need my space but I’ll call you on Tuesday, and then you never call me so I call you, but you don’t call me back and then when I run into you at the coffee shop you pretend like you’ve been having problems with your voice mail and I know that you’re lying, but I pretend like I don’t care even though I’m dying inside!
Leonard: No! No, no! I wasn’t going to say any of that. I was just going to say, I really like you.
Steph: Oh. Oh, good! ‘Cause I really like you, too.
Leonard: Terrific."
Edited by IantheGecko