The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Maternal Combustion (2015)

Johnny Galecki: Leonard Hofstadter

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• Penny : Leonard, what time does your mom's plane get in?

  Leonard Hofstadter : I don't know. Sometime tomorrow morning.

  Penny : Don't you want to know for sure?

  Leonard Hofstadter : No need to. As soon as she flies into California airspace, I'll feel a disturbance in the Force.

• Penny : You know, your mom's never been too thrilled with our relationship. Maybe I should get her something so she warms up to me.

  Leonard Hofstadter : If you could run out and get a PhD, that might make her like you.

  Penny : Really? It didn't work for you.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Even with your mother here, you are deliberately hogging all the attention from my mom. You're like one of those elephant seal pups that steals the milk from two mothers!

  Sheldon Cooper : Do you mean what marine biologists refer to as "super weaning"?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Yes, you are a super weaner!

  Sheldon Cooper : Well, now I have to correct you. As a bit of an elephant seal buff, the more accurate comparison would be when two mother seals actively seek to nourish the same pup. So I believe the term you're looking for is a double mother suckler

  Leonard Hofstadter : Yeah, you're right. That is the term I'm looking for. You are a dirty double mother suckler!

  Sheldon Cooper : Okay, well, now that we have the terminology straightened out, how dare you?

• Leonard Hofstadter : Mom, tell Mary the story of how I made a Van der Graff generator out of our vacuum cleaner.

  Dr. Beverly Hofstadter : All right. He broke the vacuum cleaner.

• Leonard Hofstadter : I change my answer. It's amazing. It's hot. We can barely keep our hands off each other.

  Dr. Beverly Hofstadter : Seems odd to try and impress your mother with your sexual prowess. But then, you always did have that unresolved Oedipal complex.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Not once did my mother ever give me any love or affection for just being myself. I always had to earn it.

  Mary Cooper : Oh, Leonard, I'm sure she loves you very much. In her own cold godless way.

  Penny : Yeah, and you certainly don't have to earn my love.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Thank you.

  Penny : Of course you already knew that when you bought me this princess-cut drill bit.

• Dr. Beverly Hofstadter : Come to Mommy.

  Penny : It's okay. Go ahead.

  [Beverly hugs Leonard awkwardly] 

  Dr. Beverly Hofstadter : Oh, my son.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Oh, my mother.

  Penny : Oh, my God.