The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Bus Pants Utilization (2011)

Simon Helberg: Howard Wolowitz

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Howard Wolowitz : [on cellphone]  Ma, ma, calm dow- listen to me! I know it says click with the mouse, but on a laptop the trackpad is the mouse. Now put your finger on it.

  Howard Wolowitz : Doesn't matter which finger.

  Howard Wolowitz : Good choice. Now move it down to your e-mail icon.

  Howard Wolowitz : The little envelope.

  Howard Wolowitz : What do you mean what does it look like? It looks like an envelope!

  Howard Wolowitz : Fine, you don't like the computer, don't use it!

  Howard Wolowitz : Sure. We can exchange it for a salad spinner. Good-bye.

  Raj Koothrappali : That's a Hanukkah present you're regretting, huh?

  Sheldon Cooper : I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged. But, if we made an example of one or two it might give the others incentive to try harder.

• Raj Koothrappali : Last night, I had a dream we got so rich from the app, you and I bought matching side-by-side mansions. But there was a secret tunnel connecting your front yard to my back yard. What do you think it means?

  Howard Wolowitz : It means after we play handball, I'm showering at home.

• Howard Wolowitz : Eureka!

  Raj Koothrappali : [upset]  Hey, we agreed when it was 'Eureka' time, we were all gonna say it together.

  Howard Wolowitz : Fine. Let's say it together.

  Raj Koothrappali : [revolted]  No. The moment has passed!

• Sheldon Cooper : Consider this unlikely, but very plausible scenario: A young woman, alone in the big city. Her ridiculous dream of becoming an actress lies shattered about her.

  Penny : Hey, wait a minute.

  Howard Wolowitz : Hang on. Let's see where he's going.

  Sheldon Cooper : Then it hits her. How is she going to survive? She has no prospects, no marketable skills. And then one day, she meets a group of geniuses and their friend, Howard.

  Howard Wolowitz : Hey, I...

  Penny : Hang on, let's see where he's going.

  Sheldon Cooper : She befriends them and then lies in wait until they reveal a marketable idea, which she steals and sells to the highest bidder.

  Leonard Hofstadter : That is ridiculous.

  Sheldon Cooper : Oh is it? Let's see you come up with an explanation as to why this woman hangs out with us all the time.

  [everyone looks at Penny] 

  Penny : Oh great. You know what? I've already mooched dinner off you guys, I don't need to listen to this.

  Howard Wolowitz : There's your answer, free food.