"Big Bang Theory": More Cooperisms from Season 7 Quiz

Answer: James Earl Jones

In "The Convention Conundrum", the guys are faced with resorting to purchasing scalped tickets to Comic-Con or not going at all, when Sheldon decides that he should simply start his own convention. "There was a time when Comic-Con didn't exist at all until one lone dreamer with a unique vision made it happen," he says, "And you mark my words, I'm gonna rip that guy off." Sheldon attempts to secure the celebrity panelists for his convention, but he gets absolutely nowhere with Robert Downey Jr.'s people, and he is legally precluded from contacting Stan Lee, Leonard Nimoy or Bill Nye the Science Guy. Even his good friend Wil Wheaton gives him the runaround. "Wil thinks this is a great idea. He was just concerned that he wasn't a big enough celebrity to headline such an amazing event," Sheldon says in defense of Wil. "Also, that's the same day that he shampoos his beard."

Things start looking up for Sheldon when James Earl Jones tweets about his dinner plans that evening, allowing Sheldon to track down the "Star Wars" actor at his favorite sushi restaurant. He turns out to be gracious and accommodating, and the pair get on like a house on fire. They leave the sushi restaurant and get sundaes at an ice cream parlor, where Sheldon grills Mr. Earl Jones about his childhood and what it was like to voice Darth Vader. They take a ride on a ferris wheel, sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" at a karaoke bar, prank Carrie Fisher at her house, and end up in a sauna. When Sheldon brings up the topic of his convention, James Earl Jones invites Sheldon and his friends to attend Comic-Con with him, where he plans on spending each night across the border in his favorite city - Tijuana!

Answer: The trip to Napa will be on a vintage train.

In "The Locomotive Manipulation", Amy's proposed weekend getaway triggers all of Sheldon's usual fears - his dislike of eating with strangers, sharing a bedroom, and the paralyzing potential of a claw-foot bathtub - but Amy has an answer for each of his excuses. "Look, I appreciate the effort, but I'm still unclear how this trip is supposed to be enjoyable for me," Sheldon says. "We're going to have Valentine's Day dinner on a fully functioning vintage train," Amy explains. "An Alcoa FA-4 diesel locomotive leading a train of meticulously restored 1915 Pullman first-class coaches."

Sheldon is on board with the idea, but he alienates his travel companions when he spends the entire dinner obsessing over every little detail about the train and its restoration, and ignores Amy in favor of a fellow train enthusiast he just met. When Amy finally has had enough, she confronts Sheldon about him giving her the cold shoulder all evening. "I remember you saying that this trip was going to be something we could both enjoy," Sheldon replies. "Did you mean that, or were you just trying to trick me?" Amy admits that she was hoping for some romance this evening, and didn't know how else to make it happen. "Well, if you want romance, then let's have romance," Sheldon says flippantly. "Oh, look, there's wine." He takes a sip. "Mmm. Grape juice that burns." Next, he stares intently at Amy and says, "Now let's gaze into each other's eyes, hmm? You blinked. I win." Amy starts to get upset, but Sheldon surprises her. "What's next? Oh, kissing's romantic," he says, as he leans in and kisses her on the mouth, more than making up for the lousy evening. "That was nice," says a subdued Amy. "Good," Sheldon replies. He later tells Leonard that Amy's lips tasted like the brownie they had for dessert.

Answer: A dining table

The problem starts when Raj occupies Penny's usual chair during one of their communal meals, leaving her to sit on the floor. Bernadette asks if they ever thought of getting a dining room table, and Amy points out that there is room in the alcove next to the window. "Oh, sure, I sit on the floor for years, no one cares," Raj says. "The pretty white girl's there ten seconds, and suddenly we're all running to IKEA." Sheldon quickly dismisses the idea. "No one is running anywhere. We're not getting a dining room table."

Sheldon resorts to passive aggressive behavior to assert his position on the dining table. He starts using the ancient computer on the desk by the window, despite the fact that it runs on Windows 98. "Seriously? You haven't used this desk in years. The second I want to get rid of it, you're up here working?" Leonard asks. "I can't talk right now," Sheldon replies. "I have several thousand updates to install." When Leonard gets a dining table anyway, everyone uses it for dinner, except Sheldon and Amy, who take up their usual spots on the couch. When Penny tries to get them to join them at the table, Sheldon decides to appeal to sentimentality. "We're fine," he says. "I mean, if you people want to eat at the table, then that's what you should do. I like eating down here because this is how we've always done things. But if those days are gone, they're gone. It just makes me sad." The guilt trip works, and the gang all end up leaving the table to join Sheldon and Amy in the living room.

Answer: Bad turbulence on their flight

In "The Friendship Turbulence", Sheldon explores the genesis of his antagonistic relationship with Howard by tracing it back to the first time they met, when Howard commented that Sheldon looked like C-3PO and Pee-Wee Herman, and started calling him "C-3P-Wee Herman". Thus began a "decade-long progression of insults, pranks and unwanted magazine subscriptions". Howard resolves to be a better friend, and invites Sheldon to accompany him on a trip to NASA in Houston.

Howard begins to regret his decision on the flight to Texas, when Sheldon keeps trying to get past him in the aisle seat to use (or rather, not use) the bathroom. Just as they start to get on each other's nerves again, the plane suddenly hits a spot of rough air. "What's the matter? Scared of a little turbulence?" Howard asks. "No, turbulence is just the equalization of diurnal temperature variations in the atmosphere. I'm not scared at all," Sheldon replies. "Oh, apple juice, stay where you are." The plane continues to shake violently, prompting Sheldon to say, "I take it back. I'm scared of turbulence!" Howard and Sheldon end up clutching each other in their seats, apologizing for every mean thing they ever said or did to each other. Sheldon even admits that if Howard wasn't his friend, there'd be a hole in his life like when "Firefly" was cancelled, just not as big. The episode ends with the plane stabilizing and the captain turning off the "fasten seat belt" sign. "Should we stop holding hands now?" Howard asks Sheldon. "In a minute," Sheldon replies.

Answer: Having sex

Sheldon is looking forward to surprising his mother as he walks up her driveway. "Boy, I can't wait to see the look on her face," he says, as he glances in the living room window and stops dead in his tracks. "We're leaving right now." When Howard asks Sheldon what's wrong, he replies, "I saw my mommy with a naked man and she was trying to be a mommy again." Howard takes Sheldon to a bar to drink away his troubles, but Sheldon can't stop thinking of going back to confront his mother. "How can we ever hope to have a healthy relationship if I don't tell her how disappointed I am, and that I'll never forgive her?" he says. When Howard points out that his mother is a grown woman and this is none of his business, Sheldon disagrees. "I used to live in those genitals," he explains. "If someone wants to move into my old room, I should at least get a vote."

They return to the house, where Sheldon tries to have an adult conversation with his mom about what he saw, but it doesn't go very well. When Mrs. Cooper tells Sheldon that she met Ron at her prayer group and had been seeing him the last few months, Sheldon asks, "And of those few months, how long have you been a demented sex pervert?" When Mrs. Cooper tells Sheldon that is no way for him to speak to his mother, Sheldon replies, "Perhaps not. But it is a way to speak to a woman who quoted the Bible to me my whole life, and then desecrates one of Ethan Allen's finest sofas." Sheldon gets sent to his room, where Howard reveals that he always regretted the time he came between his mother and the first man she started seeing after his dad left. Sheldon goes back and explains to his mother that the thing that upsets him the most is her hypocrisy. "Doesn't this contradict all the religious rules you've been espousing your whole life?" he asks. Mrs. Cooper admits that it does, but says she isn't perfect. "Well, this is confusing for me, but I don't want to stand in the way of your happiness, so, I'll condemn you internally while maintaining an outward appearance of acceptance," Sheldon finally says. "That is very Christian of you," replies his mom.

Answer: An Xbox One or a PS4

Sheldon and Amy are having date night in her apartment, but Sheldon spends all his time talking about his dilemma - whether to buy an Xbox One or a PS4 - and ignores Amy's repeated requests to pass the butter. She humors Sheldon as long as she can while he explains the differences between the two gaming systems; the Xbox One can control an entire entertainment system with voice commands, while the PS4 is "more angular and sleek-looking"; the Xbox One comes with Kinect included, and its larger size may help prevent overheating, while the PS4 uses newer GDDR5 RAM compared to the Xbox One's older DDR3 memory. "What should I do?" Sheldon asks plaintively, prompting Amy to scream, "Please pass the butter!"

Later at the store, Sheldon seems firm in his decision to buy the Xbox, but hesitates as he walks past the PS4 display. "How about this?" Amy says. "I've heard that if you flip a coin, it will tell you how you actually feel, because you'll either be disappointed or excited by the outcome." Sheldon is desperate to try anything, so he flips the coin and stares at the result. "What is it?" Amy asks. "A quarter," Sheldon replies, as he throws it across the store. The episode ends with Sheldon and Amy sprawled across the floor of the store, with Sheldon comparing the virtues of each system. When a store assistant informs them that they have to come back tomorrow because the store closed five minutes ago, Sheldon begins to cry. "Let's get you some food. You'll feel better after you eat," Amy suggests, as they head for the exit. "What do you want? Thai food? A burger?" she asks. "I don't know," Sheldon wails, as he comes across something on the floor. "Hey, look, a quarter."

Answer: A breakup

When Sheldon starts questioning if he is wasting his time on string theory, help comes from a surprising source. "I've devoted the prime of my life to string theory and its quest for the compactification of extra dimensions. I've got nothing to show for it, and I feel like a fool," he tells Penny, who empathizes with his struggle. "You and string theory sound like a relationship," she says, "And I know what it's like to be in one and realize it's never gonna turn out the way you want." When Sheldon asks her what he should do, Penny says, "You have to have the courage to end the relationship. You know? Break it off, shake hands, walk away."

Sheldon turns to "Cosmo" for help, since "there's an article on how to get over a breakup in literally every issue". He gives away all his books on string theory, because the magazine recommends getting rid of all reminders of the relationship so that he can "move on". As Sheldon explains, "I can't keep postulating multidimensional entities and get nothing in return. I have needs, too." Another way to get over a breakup is to get a new look, so Sheldon gets Penny to give him a new hairstyle, which Amy vetoes because it makes him too desirable. Sheldon starts evaluating alternative fields of study, but Penny advises him against "rushing into something new" and to "take [his] time" and "enjoy [his] freedom". To celebrate his new-found autonomy, Sheldon has a drink ("Since my cerebral cortex is twiddling its proverbial thumbs, why not soak it in grape juice that's been predigested by a fungus?"). He ends up drunk-dialing Stephen Hawking and telling him, "I gave up string theory. You should give up black holes, and we can totally solve crimes together."

Answer: A psychic

In "The Anything Can Happen Recurrence", Sheldon, Leonard and Penny are under the impression that Bernadette is working late and Amy is sick, so they are surprised to stumble upon them at a bar having a drink together. It turns out that they were avoiding Penny and Sheldon - Amy just needed a break from hearing Sheldon obsess over his new field of research, and Bernadette was tired of listening to Penny complain about how she disliked working on the "Serial Apist" sequel she was filming. Penny decides to spend the rest of the evening alone with Sheldon. "You're gonna tell me all about your science stuff and I'm gonna complain about my movie, and we're gonna support each other because that's what friends do," she says.

They end up having dinner in an Asian fusion restaurant, and on their way back they find themselves outside a psychic's shop. The pair go in for a consultation despite Sheldon's reservations ("If I wanted to waste my time on nonsense, I'd follow Leonard on Instagram."). Sheldon wastes no time breaking the ice. "I don't mean to be rude or discourteous, but before we begin, I'd just like to say there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support clairvoyance of any kind. Which means, and again, no insult intended, that you're a fraud, your profession is a swindle, and your livelihood is dependent on the gullibility of stupid people." The psychic begins her reading, and senses that Sheldon is in a romantic relationship with a dark-haired woman but has difficulty being close with her. When Penny asks what Sheldon should do, the psychic replies, "He should give himself to this relationship. Once he does, all his other pursuits will come into focus." Sheldon declares the session to be "malarkey" and leaves, followed closely by Penny. The episode ends with Amy trying to make up for her deception by taking a leaf out of Bernadette's book and showing up at Sheldon's door dressed as a Catholic schoolgirl, prompting Sheldon to say, "Unless you have 'Gravity' on Blu-ray under that skirt, I don't know where you're going with this."

Answer: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Sheldon feels that "mourning the inevitable is a complete waste of time" and decides not to go to the funeral so that he can observe "Star Wars" Day instead, but he is just covering up how much Arthur's passing is affecting him. He begins to have dreams involving the recently departed Dr. Jeffries, who appears to him dressed in Jedi robes. Arthur is disoriented by his unusual appearance and doesn't understand why he is appearing to Sheldon in his dreams, but Sheldon figures it out. "You've come to me because you're my Obi-Wan," he says, before explaining, "Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character from 'Star Wars'. After his physical demise, he comes to Luke Skywalker as his mentor in spirit form."

When Sheldon is disappointed that the only advice Arthur has to offer is "always get a pre-nup", he deduces that his presence must have something to do with his recent demise. Arthur asks Sheldon if this is the first time he's lost someone close to him, and Sheldon reveals that his grandfather died when he was five, and that his father died when he was 14. "And now you're gone, too," Sheldon realizes. "It's like all the men I've looked up to have gone away." Arthur tells Sheldon that while it's all right for him to feel sad about the people he's lost, he should try to appreciate those who are still there for him. Just then, Sheldon is awoken by Leonard knocking on his bedroom door. He has just come back from Arthur's funeral and begins to tell Sheldon all about it, but is interrupted by Sheldon, who gives him a hug and doesn't let go. The episode ends with Sheldon falling asleep during a "Star Wars" marathon, only to dream of Arthur appearing to him to tell him that he's watching too much "Star Wars".

Answer: He is leaving Pasadena.

In "The Status Quo Combustion", Sheldon struggles to adapt to the changes all around him that are occurring while he is stagnating in his own professional life. Raj is in a stable relationship with a non-canine female. Leonard and Penny are engaged, and they speak to Sheldon about their future living arrangements, which probably won't feature living with Sheldon. When Sheldon commiserates with Amy, she makes the mistake of suggesting that they could live together, prompting a sarcastic rejoinder from Sheldon. "Oh, sure," he says, "and while we're at it, why don't we get engaged, too? Why don't we get a little house, start a family? Enjoy our sunset years together? Do you hear yourself, woman?"

Sheldon goes to the comic book store to cheer himself up, but finds that it has burnt down. His entire world is changing all around him, and there's nothing he can do to stop it, so he decides on his next course of action. When Leonard and Penny eventually track him down at the train station, Penny comments that they were worried about him. "Don't be melodramatic," Sheldon replies. "I'm just getting on a train and leaving forever." He explains that he has reached his breaking point, and just needs to leave Pasadena. "So a few things don't go your way and your best decision is to ride the rails like a hobo?" Leonard asks. "I am overwhelmed," Sheldon explains. "Everything is changing and it's simply too much. I need to get away and think." Leonard still wants to take Sheldon home, but Penny persuades him that they can't protect him forever, and that it might be good for him to fend for himself. They share a tender goodbye at the train station, and the episode ends with Amy assaulting Leonard in the apartment with a cushion, screaming "How could you let him go?"