The Best Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton Quotes

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Nice to finally meet you in person.
Sheldon: I would imagine it is. This is my friend and roommate, Dr. Leonard Hofstadter.

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Ah, Dr. Cooper, thank goodness. I completely forgot your address. But then I remembered that I'd written it on my hand. Lucky for me, I didn't confuse it with what I'd written on my other hand, which are the coordinates for a newly discovered neutron star. 'Cause if I tried to go there, I'd be crushed by hypergravity. Anyway, hello.

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Oh, good, Leonard's here.
Raj: [astounded] Good?
Leonard: Elizabeth, what's going on?
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: What's going on is you and Howard are my moving men, and Raj is my new landlord, and I don't have enough money to pay any of you.
Leonard: Is she suggesting what I think she's suggesting?
Howard: Yep. Welcome to the Penthouse Forum!
Raj: OK, Show of hands, who's up for this?
[Only Howard raises his hand]
Leonard: We'll all be in naked in front of each other.
Howard: I'm out.

Sheldon: In here, you'll find emergency provisions: an eight day supply of food and water, a crossbow, Season Two of Star Trek: The Original Series on a high-density flash drive.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: What if there's a disaster that destroys all the USB ports?
Sheldon: Then there's really no reason to live, is there?

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: You two figure out the details; I'm going to go change into something I don't mind getting ripped off my milky flesh!
[she goes into another room, closing the door behind her]
Howard: What the frack?
Raj: Go away! She wants New Delhi, not kosher deli!
[pause]
Raj: Besides, you have a girlfriend!
Howard: We broke up weeks ago!
Raj: Why didn't you say anything?
Howard: I was waiting for the right time! This is the right time!

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Thank you so much for opening up your home to me.
Leonard: Uh, well, who wants to stay in a hotel, with windows that don't open, those crazy card-shaped keys?
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: I'm so glad you understand.
Sheldon: No, he doesn't understand; *I* understand.
Leonard: Well, I understand too.
Sheldon: You're just misappropriating my understanding.

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Would you be a dear and get me a cup of coffee?
Leonard: Sure, black, right?
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: [turns and looks at Raj] Actually, now I think I want it hot, brown, and sweet.
[Raj takes a swig from his flask]

Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Can I ask you a question about your roommate?
Sheldon: He's an odd duck, isn't he?
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: What's his relationship status?
Sheldon: Well, there was a misbegotten adventure with a waitress who lives across the hall. It ended as inexplicably as it began. They had very little in common except for carnal activity. That's why I acquired these noise-cancelling headphones.

[Elizabeth knocks on door]
Leonard: Yes?
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: I saw your light on.
Leonard: Is everything all right?
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Yeah, I just couldn't sleep.
Leonard: Me neither. Look what I'm reading.
[Points to her picture on the back of the book]
Leonard: It's you.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: I thought you already read it.
Leonard: I did. But it's been a while, and I wanted to sound smart over breakfast.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Aw, you're smart!
Leonard: Oh, good. I wasn't sure it was coming across.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: What chapter are you on?
Leonard: Uh, six.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Ah. The extragalactic distance ladder. Want to know a little secret?
Leonard: Sure.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: I wrote the section on the Wilson-Bappu Effect completely naked.
Leonard: Really? Sure doesn't read that way.
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: Here, let me show you.
[Removes her robe as she speaks revealing she is naked]
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton: When we consider the brightness of pulsating variable stars we start to see a possible explanation for some of the discrepancies found in Hubble's constant.
Leonard: Wow. You really make science come alive.