Season 1 | Episode 02 --
The Big Bran Hypothesis | Scene 9

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Scene 9 - Penny's Apartment

(Sheldon sits over the opened furniture box while Leonard reads a manual over his shoulder. Penny, Rajesh, and Howard linger near the kitchen.)

Leonard: Six, two-inch dowels.

Sheldon: (sorting pieces) Check.

Leonard: One package, Phillips-head screws.

Sheldon: Check.

Penny: (walking to the box) Guys, seriously. I grew up on a farm. Okay, I rebuilt a tractor engine when I was like twelve. I think I can put together a cheap Swedish media center.

Leonard: No, please. We insist. It's the least we can do considering.

Sheldon: Considering what? How great this place looks?

Howard: (studying furniture diagram) Oh boy, I was afraid of this.

Leonard: What?

Howard: These instructions are a pictographic representation of the least imaginative way to assemble these components. This right here is why Sweden has no space program.

Penny: Well, uh, it looked pretty good in the store.

Leonard: It is an inefficient design. For example, Penny has a flat screen TV which means all the space behind it is wasted.

Sheldon: We could put her stereo back there.

Leonard: And control it how?

Sheldon: Run an infra-red repeater. Photocell here (pointing), emitter here (pointing again), easy-peasy.

(Rajesh whispers into Howard's ear.)

Howard: Good point, how you going to cool it?

Penny: Hey guys, I got this.

Sheldon: (finger in air) Hang on Penny. How about fans, here and here?

Leonard: Also inefficient and might be loud.

Howard: How about liquid coolant? Maybe a little aquarium pump here, run some quarter inch PVC.

Penny: Guys, this is actually really simple.

Howard: (condescending) Hold on, honey. Men at work. The PVC comes down here, maybe a little corrugated sheet metal as a radiator here.

Leonard: Oh, really, show me where we put a drip tray, a sluice, and an overflow reservoir?

Sheldon: And if water is involved we're going to have to ground the crap out of the thing.

Penny: Guys, it's hot in here. I think I'll just take off all my clothes.

(The men continue to focus on the diagram.)

Leonard: Oh, I've got it. What about, if we replace panels A, B, and F, and crossbar H with aircraft grade aluminum.

Sheldon: Right, then the entire thing's one big heat sink.

Howard: (quickly) Perfect! Leonard, why don't you and Sheldon go down to the junk yard and pick up about six square meters of scrap aluminum. Raj and I will run down to my lab and get the oxy-acetylene torch.

Leonard: Meet back here in an hour?

Howard: Done.

Leonard: Got it.

(The men exit the apartment in unison.)

Penny: (to self) Okay, this place does look pretty good.

[End Credits Roll]