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The Big Bang Theory :: The Luminous Fish Effect (01x04)
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| Title: | The Luminous Fish Effect |
| Episode #: | 01x04 |
| Production Number: | 3T6603 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday October 15th, 2007 |
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Mar 23, 2009 |
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When Sheldon gets fired, he tries to explore life like everyone else sees it. He goes food shopping with Penny, although she is less than happy about it, and afterwards he starts to perform a lot of different experiments he hasn’t been able to do with his busy job. It gets so serious that Leonard calls Sheldon’s mom for advice and she decides to make a visit to Sheldon, who becomes angry about Leonard calling her without his permission.
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Rating: 8.15 million
| Not only does Sheldon not look anything like his mother, she is a very religious woman, which he doesn't care about, while she doesn't care about this science stuff. This is a very odd mother-son-relationship.
| This episode reveals that Sheldon can speak Hawaiian.
| The title ("The Luminous Fish Effect") refers to one of Sheldon's experiments he does during his period of unemployment, and the experiment includes glow-in-the-dark fishes.
| This episode reveals that Sheldon is called "Shelly" by his mother, Mary Cooper.
| This episode reveals that Sheldon’s father is dead.
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Sheldon: Well, here's an interesting turn of events.
(Howard walks into the party with a tall gorgeous blond on his arm.)
Leonard: Howard brought a date?
Sheldon: A more plausible explanation is that his work in robotics has made an amazing leap forward.
(Howard joins their conversation.)
Howard: Hey, what up, science bitches?
| Leonard: You're making eggs for breakfast?
Sheldon: This isn't breakfast, it's an experiment.
Leonard: Huh. 'Cause it looks a lot like breakfast.
Sheldon: I finally have time to test my hypothesis about the separation of water molecules from the egg proteins and its impact on the taste.
Leonard: Sounds yummy. I look forward to your work with bacon.
| Mary: I tell ya, I love the boy to death, but he has been difficult since he fell out of me at the Kmart.
| Penny: Has Shelly ever freaked out like this before?
Mary: Oh, all the time. I remember one summer when he was 13, he built a small nuclear reactor in the shed and told everybody he was gonna provide free electricity for the whole town. Well, the only problem was he had no, watchacall, "fissionable materials". Anyway, when he went on the Internet's to get some, a man from the gover'ment came by, and sat him down real gentle, and told him it's against the law to have yellow-cake uranium in a shed.
| Penny: Oh, my God, this is the best cobbler I've ever had!
Mary: It was always Sheldon's favorite. You know what the secret ingredient is?
Penny: Love?
Mary: Lard.
| Mary: Leonard, the Lord never gives us more than we can handle. Thankfully, he blessed me with two other children who are dumb as soup.
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Sheldon's mother (Laurie Metcalf)
The actress playing Sheldon's mother is Laurie Metcalf, who had a part on ABC's 1988-1997 TV show "Roseanne". She has this in common with the actor playing Leonard and the actress playing Leslie Winkle, as all three were in "Roseanne" together.
| Leonard: Should I call Science Magazine and tell them to hold the cover.
Leonard is probably referring to the science magazine known as "Science 80" that was released in November 1979 and was published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This magazine was stopped in July 1986.
| Mary: I tell ya, I love the boy to death, but he has been difficult since he fell out of me at the Kmart.
Kmart (also referred to as "K-Mart") is a chain of discount department stores that are located in United States, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Guam. It was originally founded as "S. S. Kresge Company" in 1899, but was renamed Kmart in 1962.
| Mary: The Lord spoke to him and moved him to give us all 20 percent off on LASEK.
LASEK (shortened for Laser-Assisted Sub-Epithelial Keratectomy) is a laser eye surgery procedure intended for the use of correcting a person's vision, which reduces the need of glasses or contact lenses. The first LASEK was done in 1996 by Dimitri Azar, an ophthalmologist and refractive surgeon.
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