Sheldon has been up all night trying to view his work peripherally. Penny says she’s not any good until she has her coffee. Leonard walks in as Sheldon is now running around in weird loops around his board. He tells Penny, “Penny, I told you, if you don’t put him in his crate at night, he just runs around the apartment.” Sheldon then tries to look at his board through a peephole made with his hands, and Penny asks what he’s doing now. Leonard says he’s either trying to focus in on one aspect of his work, or he’s trying to find the alligator that ate his hand after Peter Pan cut it off. Sheldon corrects him by informing them that it was a crocodile, and if you’re going to mock him at least get it right. “Aye, aye, Captain.” Leonard suggests that Sheldon may want to get a fresh start to his work, as that might help him get unstuck. Sheldon thinks this is a great idea. He takes the board, opens the window, drops it out, and grabs a new one. In the background you hear cars crashing and horns going off.
In the breakroom, Sheldon is still working on his problem. Wallowitz asks how long he’s been stuck. Leonard says that it’s been 30 hours on the problem, but emotionally about 29 years. Wallowitz asks if he’s tried rebooting him. Nope, it’s a firmware problem. Raj wants to go to Disco Night at a rollerskating rink. Leonard and Wallowitz decide to turn it into a double date, but now Raj is disappointed that he’s not going. They look back on Sheldon. He apparently used butter as deodorant, and hasn’t been this stuck since the third Matrix movie. He’s willing to use lima beans and peas to work on his problem, but not corn.
After skating, Bernadette and Penny are talking about how horrible it was. Penny says the worst part was that people saw them leaving with them. Then you see Leonard and Wallowitz extremely happy about how well it went, their killer movies, and their boogie zone. They’re even wearing sequins and headbands. They walk into the apartment, and Sheldon has covered the floor in marbles to symbolize his formula. Penny and Leonard fall on their coccyx(s), and Bernadette realizes that it’s been at least three days since Sheldon slept. She uses science to force him to realize that he needs to go to sleep. When he says he doesn’t want to go to bed, she starts counting to three. After one, he goes. Penny and Leonard are asleep when a creepy laugh wakes them up. It’s the Joker from Batman. It creeps Leonard out, but he paid $3 for it. The call is about Sheldon. He’s escaped and is terrorizing the village. Penny tells him to go and have fun. Leonard finds him in a kids’ ball pit. The size ratio was too small, and he needed bigger carbon atoms. Sheldon refuses to leave, and starts hiding in the balls. Leonard goes after him, and he keeps popping up and “Bazinga”ing him.
Sheldon wakes Leonard and Penny up standing over their bed. He apologizes, and lets them know that Leonard’s cellphone is off. Leonard says he knows, he turned it off because they wanted privacy. Sheldon mentions that it didn’t work too well. He then tells them that he’s figured out the problem. It’s not the formula. He figured out how to figure it out. Penny tells Leonard that she knows she told him that she could handle his roommate, but she can’t and they have to break up. Sheldon has decided to work in a menial job to get his creative juices going – just like Einstein. He then leaves, but has a parting comment about how the snoring is better when they sleep on the side.
Penny says that Leonard doesn’t snore, and Sheldon says “I know, I wasn’t talking about him.” Leonard says a quick told you so. At the employment office, Sheldon says that he wants a menial job, like the interviewers. She thanks him for noticing – she was menial employee of the month. They start talking positions. He likes the idea of construction, but doesn’t know what sheetrock is. A floral delivery person is shot down, because he doesn’t drive. She asks what his last job was, and he tells her. She heads off for security. At the Cheesecake Factory, Sheldon shows up in an apron and starts bussing tables. He gives an explanation to Penny, and she’s just flabbergasted. Bernadette takes the whole thing in stride. Penny can’t believe they just gave him a job there. He says they didn’t, because he doesn’t need to get paid, he just grabbed a tub and started. When Penny points out that she’s not a busboy, he agrees with her, and starts waiting tables. The guys show up and he handles their orders perfectly. Penny gets upset. Then you hear a crash. Sheldon has dropped his tray, and suddenly he’s figured out what’s wrong with how he’s been working on his formula. He leaves. Penny stops him and asks him about the mess. “I don’t work here.” It’s Disco Night again. You see Raj and Wallowitz at the rink. Wallowitz is skating in neon pink spandex pants and you hear “One Night in Bangkok” in the background. Raj says he’s on a cloud, and they start spinning each other and doing the Saturday Night Fever poses.
We also got a final shot of the ball pit with Sheldon “bazinga”ing Leonard.
Giggles all around on this one.
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