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Look, I know you guys don't want
to do this,
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but we have no choice.
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So, you can either
bitch and whine
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or we can
just get it over with.
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I got "whine."
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I got the "b word."
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Yeah, well,
it's in our contract
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to serve on a
university committee.
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And frankly,
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this is one I believe in.
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Okay, here we go.
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Encouraging more women to
pursue a career in the sciences.
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Come on,
if I was any good
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at convincing women to do stuff,
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I wouldn't have spent so much of
my 20s in the shower.
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If you ask me,
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this whole thing is a waste of
our time.
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Helping women?
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Yeah, helping anyone.
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People should take care
of themselves.
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Oh, like yesterday,
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when you made me drive you
to the dry cleaners,
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the pharmacy
and the post office?
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I'm not saying people
can't use tools.
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Even an otter picks up a rock
when he wants a clam.
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You don't think it's worthwhile
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to try to get more women
working in science.
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I think
that's incredibly sexist of you.
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I believe in a
gender-blind society
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like in Star Trek,
where women and men
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of all races and creeds
work side by side as equals.
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You mean
where they were advanced enough
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to invent
an interstellar warp drive,
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but a black lady still answered
the space phone?
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Oh, I did spend a lot of my
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shower time
with Lieutenant Uhura.
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Howard's
disturbing recollections aside,
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I don't appreciate
being forced to do
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banal committee work.
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Yes, I know,
you're too smart for this.
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Exactly.
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It's like
asking the Human Torch
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to heat up your frozen burrito.
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Got it.
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All right,
I'm thinking one way
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to counter bias
in the peer-review process,
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is for papers to be submitted
under gender-neutral names.
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Like S. Smith
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instead of Samantha Smith.
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I suppose there is a history of
professional women
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using their initials,
so as not to be pre-judged.
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Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling,
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uh, Star Trek's D.C. Fontana.
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Van Nuys pole-dancer
D.D. Melons.
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All right, I think we've
really helped women today.
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Let's fire
up the old Xbox.
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Guys, please don't make this
a school project
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where I'm the smart kid doing
all the work
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while the slackers
sit back and watch.
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No, we're not.
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This time you're the smart
kid doing all the work
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while the even smarter kids
sit back and watch.
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So, you think I'm
one of the smarter kids?
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No, you're a tool I was
using to make my point.
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♪ Our whole universe
was in a hot, dense state ♪
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♪ Then nearly 14 billion years
ago expansion started... Wait! ♪
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♪ The Earth began to cool
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♪ The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools ♪
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♪ We built the Wall
♪ We built the pyramids ♪
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♪ Math, Science, History,
unraveling the mystery ♪
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♪ That all started
with a big bang ♪
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♪ Bang! ♪
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♪ The Big Bang Theory 6x18 ♪
The Contractual Obligation Implementation
Original Air Date on March 7, 2013
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== sync, corrected by elderman ==
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Guys, our topic is "Encouraging
Women in Science."
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Can you at least play
a less sexist game
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How is it sexist?
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My character wields a
battle axe as well as any man.
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Not to mention she
has mammary glands
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that could
nurse a family of 30.
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And have enough milk left over
to open a Baskin Robbins.
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Mother, warrior-princess,
franchise owner--
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I hear glass ceilings
shattering all over town.
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Sheldon,
you're always saying
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how much smarter
you are than me.
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Spend five seconds
and come up with one idea
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on how to get more women
into science.
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All your ideas address the issue
at a university level.
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By then it's too late.
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You need to
design an outreach program
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that targets girls
at the middle school level
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and sets them on an
academic track
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towards the hard sciences.
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That's actually good.
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Why didn't I
think of that?
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Some people are otters,
some people are rocks.
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I wonder if there's a way
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we could give the idea
a trial run.
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Maybe I could call my old
middle school,
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see if we can talk to some of
the female students.
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That's great--
try to set up something
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for the three of us
to go over there.
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Oh, hold on.
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While I'm comfortable speaking
about science,
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I'm not sure I know how to spark
the interest of schoolchildren.
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Better Google it.
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What exactly are you looking up?
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"How do I get
12-year-old girls excited."
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No!
No!
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Thanks again for letting
me crash "girls' night."
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Are you kidding?
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You brought fancy
wine and made fondue.
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I've slept
with guys for less.
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It's a joke.
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Based on real events.
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Anyway,
I was hoping I could, uh,
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pick your brains a little.
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I'm supposed to take
Lucy out Friday
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and I need a killer first date.
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Well, evolutionary biology
says that women are attracted
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to a man who is steady
in the face of danger,
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so I recommend an
unsafe environment.
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Seedy bar on the wrong
side of the tracks...
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picnic near
a lunatic asylum...
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a wine tasting on Skid Row.
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Eh, Lucy has some,
uh, social anxiety issues.
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Maybe we could start
with something simpler.
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Why don't you take
her to Disneyland?
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You go on Space Mountain,
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you're in the dark,
she's holding onto you.
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Yeah, but you
just have to remember,
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that ride is
shorter than you think
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and they take a
picture of you at the end,
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so make sure
you got your clothes back on.
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It's a joke.
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Based on real events.
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Mm, Disneyland?
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I don't know.
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With all the crowds and the
weird characters walking around,
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just reminds me
too much of India.
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I haven't been to Disneyland
since I was a kid.
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We should
definitely go one weekend.
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Weekends are too crowded.
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So, blow off work,
go on a weekday.
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Hooky?
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I've never
played hooky in my life.
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My mom said
that's how girls end up
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addicted to
reefer and jazz music.
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It's more like how girls end up
at a Best Western hotel
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with a 34-year-old guy
named Luther.
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Joke?
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I can laugh about it now.
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So, what do you say?
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This Friday we ditch work
and go to Disneyland?
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I'm in.
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Me, too.
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Excuse me,
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I thought we were trying to
solve my problem?
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Oh, yeah, right.
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Wait, what was your problem
again?
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I am a man
who can't talk to women,
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trying to figure out how to go
on a romantic date
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with a girl who suffers
from such crippling
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social anxiety she can't be
around other people.
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Yeah, that's a toughie.
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Let's think.
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Hmm.
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We doing just Disney
or California Adventure, too?
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It's nice
of your old school
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to let us try out our science
talk on some female students.
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Well, they're
actually pretty excited.
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I'm their
most famous alum.
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If you don't
count the serial killer
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who ate all
those prostitutes.
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This must feel
pretty good for you,
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coming back to your
alma mater as an astronaut.
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Yeah, last time I was here, I
was just a scrawny little nerd.
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And now
you're also an astronaut.
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So many memories.
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I mean, how many
times in these hallways
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was I tripped,
punched and spit on?
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Oh, look,
here's my old locker.
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I have a
masters in engineering
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and I still can't figure out
how Scott Kapinski
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got me and my briefcase
to fit in there.
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Hey.
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What?
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Nothing.
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Smart. We don't
want any problems.
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I can't believe I ditched work
for Disneyland.
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What did you
tell your boss?
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Oh, I was very clever,
I did it in stages.
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At 7:00 last night,
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I called about
a problem at the lab
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and casually mentioned
I was going out for seafood.
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At 9:30,
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I called and told him that
one of my scallops tasted weird.
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At 11:30, I called and said
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I was
throwing up like a fire hose.
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At 12:45, I called and made
nothing but dry heaving sounds,
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and now I'm
going to Disneyland.
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Penny, what did you say?
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I work at the
Cheesecake Factory,
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I said "bye."
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So, what are we
gonna do first?
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I don't know
about you guys,
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but I'm gonna make
a beeline for the place
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that gives you
a princess makeover.
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Ooh, that sounds like fun.
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You're
kidding, right?
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We're not just gonna get drunk
and go on rides?
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Come on, do it with us.
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All right, whatever.
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How does it work?
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Okay, so,
you pick your princess--
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Sleeping Beauty, Snow White
Cinderella--
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they give you
hair, makeup, the works.
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Guess it would be fun
to be Cinderella.
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Oh, I want to be Cinderella, too.
Yeah.
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We can't all be Cinderella.
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Then how do we decide?
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Well, it's simple.
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This was my idea.
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I'm driving.
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I'm Cinderella.
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You bitches
got a problem with that,
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we could stop the car right now.
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Excuse me,
I'm meeting a girl here.
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It's kind of our first date.
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In a library?
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She and I
are both a little awkward
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in social situations,
so this seemed like a good idea.
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People say
I'm a little awkward, too.
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May I join you?
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No, you can't join us.
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Just go-go climb back up
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whatever beanstalk you came
down from.
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You can do better.
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Oh, we're eating here?
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We're having
a texting date?
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I love that.
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As you're reading,
it will help to remember
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I have an adorable accent.
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Okay,
who's ready for some science?
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Me, too.
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Okay, I am
Dr. Leonard Hofstadter.
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I am here with my friends
Dr. Cooper
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and real-life astronaut
Howard Wolowitz,
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and we are going
to show you girls
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how cool a job
in science can be.
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How cool, you ask?
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Well, how about
negative 273 degrees,
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'cause that's the temperature
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at which entropy reaches
its minimum value.
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Did I just learn something new
and have fun doing it?
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What?
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All right!
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So now let's bring out
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theoretical physicist
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Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
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Hello, female children.
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Allow me to inspire you
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with a story
about a great female scientist.
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Polish-born, French-educated
Madame Curie.
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Codiscoverer of
radioactivity,
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she was a hero
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of science...
until her hair fell out;
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her vomit and stool became
filled with blood...
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and she was poisoned
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to death by her own discovery.
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With a little hard work,
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I see no reason why
that can't happen to any of you.
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Are we done?
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Can we go?
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The thing to remember is
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you can go to outer space, too.
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I mean, look at me.
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I went to this very school.
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Those desks you're sitting in,
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I was once superglued
to one of them.
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Did you go to the moon?
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No, but I did go
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to the
International Space Station.
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Did you fly the rocket?
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No,
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but I was in the rocket.
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I didn't actually...
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So you just flew around?
That's kind of like my uncle.
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He's a flight attendant.
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No...
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I'm an American hero.
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Your uncle
brings people nuts, okay?
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Boy, we are learning
a lot here, huh?
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Thank you, astronaut Howard.
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Um, I am what's called
an experimental physicist,
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which is super-fun,
because I get to test theories
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and work with lasers.
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Yes?
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How did you decide
to become a scientist?
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Uh, excellent question.
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Um, I suppose I've always been
into science, you know...
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My mother and father
are scientists,
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so I was kind of led
in that direction.
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Eh, pushed might be
a better way to describe it.
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To be honest
with you guys,
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when I was your age,
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I wanted to be a rap star.
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Like Snoop Dogg,
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but with a healthy respect
for the police.
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Yeah, no, sure, you laugh.
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Just like my mother did.
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After I confided,
I was derided
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and chided,
my moms and I collided.
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She said my dreams
were misguided.
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That's just a little freestyle.
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My dad's a gynecologist
in India,
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so if you're over there
and need a check up,
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as he likes to say,
he's "at your cervix."
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That's terrible.
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Your dad should be sent
to the pun-itentiary.
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That's a fitting
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pun-ishment.
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I still don't know
what you do for a living.
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Web design.
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Anything I might have seen?
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I don't know.
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You ever look
at porn Web sites?
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No, never.
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What is porn?
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Sorry. Autocorrect.
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That was supposed to say
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"prom Web sites."
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Ooh, fun. I love prom.
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The romance, the gowns,
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it's like a fairy tale come
to life.
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Sorry. Autocorrect.
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That was supposed to say,
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"I like sports."
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I never wanted to play
the cello.
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How do you meet girls
playing the cello?
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"Hey, you want
to come over to my house
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"and listen to me play
an instrument
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that sounds like
a suicidal bumblebee?"
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Quick,
pull the fire alarm.
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Let's get out of here.
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Uh, hello again.
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Um, yeah, I don't know
if women in general
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have been actively discouraged
from pursuing the sciences,
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but it's clear you young women
here, today, have been.
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While I was listening to
my colleagues waste your time,
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it occurred to me that it
might be much more meaningful
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to hear about women in science
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from actual women in science,
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and, uh, I happen to know
two brilliant examples
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who have agreed to speak
to you on the phone right now.
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Uh, Dr. Rostenkowski,
Dr. Fowler, are you there?
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We're here.
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Thank you for taking time
out of your very busy schedule
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to enlighten these young women.
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It's our pleasure.
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I'm Dr. Fowler, and
I'm a neuroscientist.
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And I'm
Dr. Rostenkowski Wolowitz,
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and I'm a microbiologist.
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The world of science
needs more women,
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but from a young age, we
girls are encouraged to care
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more about the way we look
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than about the
power of our minds.
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That's true.
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Every one of you has
the capacity
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to be anything you want to be.
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Unless you want
to be Cinderella.
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Come at me.
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See what happens.
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This was really fun.
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My battery's dying,
so I'm just gonna talk.
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00:17:52,111 --> 00:17:54,362
Thanks for today.
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I've been trying to do
more things that scare me,
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and coming here
was definitely one of them.
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But it was also really nice.
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So thanks, and, um,
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I'm gonna go.
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Maybe I could do
one more scary thing
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before I go
and give you a kiss good-bye?
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You know,
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if that's okay.
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00:18:24,476 --> 00:18:27,278
Okay.
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00:18:28,814 --> 00:18:30,998
Panic attack!
Maybe next time.
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I'm counting that as foreplay.
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Bernie,
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I'm home.
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You have fun today?
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Yes, and I have a
surprise for you.
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Please be Cinderella.
Please be Cinderella.
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00:18:58,766 --> 00:19:02,251
Well, hello, Prince Charming.
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Milady.
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00:19:20,104 --> 00:19:23,189
Hey, how was your... what?
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I can explain.
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00:19:24,776 --> 00:19:26,359
I played hooky with the girls,
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then we all went to Disneyland
and got...
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What are you doing?
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00:19:29,831 --> 00:19:32,949
Disneyland. Go on,
I'm listening.
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00:19:35,285 --> 00:19:41,007
Sheldon, all Snow White needs
is one little kiss to wake up.
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00:19:41,009 --> 00:19:43,686
Heard you the first time.
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== sync, corrected by elderman ==