The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Russian Rocket Reaction (2011)

Simon Helberg: Howard Wolowitz

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• Howard Wolowitz : [after everyone cheers for him and his team design going to space]  It gets better! Someone has to go up with the telescope as a payload specialist, and guess who that someone is!

  Sheldon Cooper : Mohammed Lee.

  [everyone's looking confused] 

  Howard Wolowitz : Who's Mohammed Lee?

  Sheldon Cooper : Mohammed is the most common first name in the world, and Lee the most common surname. As I didn't know the answer, I thought that gave me a mathematical edge.

• Mrs. Wolowitz : [shouting from off-screen]  Howard! Bernadette's here!

  Howard Wolowitz : [shouting back]  Tell her I'm not home!

  Mrs. Wolowitz : What kind of a schmuck play is that? She can hear you shouting!

• Bernadette Rostenkowski : NASA doesn't have a shuttle anymore. How are you gonna get up there?

  Howard Wolowitz : Oh, it's really cool. You fly to Moscow, they take you to Kazakhstan. Then you get in a Russian Soyuz rocket which shoots you into a low earth orbit. Or it just sits on the launch pad because the Kazakhi mafia sold the rocket fuel on the black market, heh.

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Are those Russian rockets safe?

  Howard Wolowitz : Safe as it can be when it was built by the folks who brought you Chernobyl.

• Howard Wolowitz : You know, there's a saying we have at NASA: What makes the right stuff so right is that it always comes home.

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Just stop talking, Howard!

  Howard Wolowitz : This isn't the reaction I expected when I told you I was gonna be an astronaut.

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : What did you think was gonna happen?

  Howard Wolowitz : Honestly? Sex, heh... Do you realize what a big deal this is? What an honor it is to be chosen to go into space?

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Yeah, I get it. I just wish you included me in the decision. We're supposed to be partners. We're supposed to be a team.

  Howard Wolowitz : I'm sorry. You're right. Uh, okay, let's try this again. Bernadette, an opportunity has come up that impacts both of us and I'd like to discuss it... Heh, I've been offered a chance to go up to the International Space Station for three weeks. What are your thoughts on that?

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Well, first of all, thank you for including me in the decision making process.

  Howard Wolowitz : Hey, we're a team. Heh. So, what do you think?

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : No!

• Leonard Hofstadter : You actually asked Bernadette to leave your house in the middle if the night?

  Howard Wolowitz : What choice did I have? She went behind my back and turned my own mother against me.

  Raj Koothrappali : Wow, you're not only our first astronaut, you're also the first one of us to kick a girl out of bed.

• Bernadette Rostenkowski : Howard?

  Howard Wolowitz : Change you mind about sex? I'm still mad, but I'll do it.