The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition

"The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition" is the nineteenth episode of the second season of the  sitcom The Big Bang Theory. This episode first aired on Monday, March 30, 2009.

Summary
Penny is not the only in  when another, slightly more successful  named Alicia moves into the apartment on the fifth floor of the building and the guys can't do enough for her.

Extended Plot
Penny comes down the in Apartment 4A, telling them that she  the  in the bathroom. As they sit down to dinner she mentions that the neighbors upstairs in Apartment 5A are moving out. This statement bothers Leonard because he hadn’t told Sheldon who is freaked out by this revelation. Though he had never met them, they were the perfect because they never made any noise. No awkward in the halls, no clickety-clack of  on hardwood floors. They might have well been a family of just jumping around from drape to drape, Howard suggest that he could move in upstairs to get way from his mother to which Penny uses Sheldon’s earlier exclamation, "The horror! The horror!"

The guys are willing to help Howard to move. Sheldon has negotiated it up to a Sony. He rejected the. Howard's mother decides to threaten Howard with cutting the cord completely if he moves out. Also, Penny no longer needs to put her head in the.

Back at the apartment lobby, they find moving and meet their tall, blonde, hot new  Alicia. Leonard is immediately smitten, but Sheldon is not yet impressed. He has a few for Alicia. He asks if she is light-footed, a, , or , fertile (crying infant possibility) and pro-rug. Her answers make him to welcome her to the building.

Alicia has Leonard carrying a heavy box up to the 5th floor. They run into Penny dressed in a " t-shirt. Alicia claims to be dressed like a, but isn't. They leave as Penny’s jealousy shows and she imitates Alicia. Sheldon amazingly picks up and does his impression from .

As Sheldon is "air computing," Penny comes in looking for Leonard so he can hook up her as promised. Leonard is still up at Alicia's, hooking up her stereo with Howard and Raj. Penny seems to have issues with that as well as her shows again.

Up at Alicia’s Howard is trying to hit on her as Leonard works on her. Penny walks in, under the guise of presenting a welcoming bottle of to Alicia, with  and a  that leaves as little to the  and complaining that she is dressed like a slob. Leonard tells her that Alicia is also an actress with several national and a recurring role on. Alicia has their full attention with a and a few "sweeties" and "honeys" thrown in. Penny asks Leonard to set up her printer and she gets “Don't nag me!" She tries a ’s joke that bombs before a liquored-up Raj hits on Alicia.

An angry and dejected Penny returns to Sheldon, who is unaffected by Alicia. He is complaining about the from upstairs and about a special he saw on. Sometimes a new queen bee enters a hive and they have to have a battle to the. Penny asks if he thinks she is threatened by Alicia and that it’s time for her to go. Sheldon was just talking about bees, not trying to give her advice.

Penny now tries to win back favor with the by buying them. She even remembers follows Sheldon detailed instructions (diced instead of shredded,, mustard and low-sodium from the market.) She us offering to play Halo or watch "Battlestar Galactica", when Alicia comes to the. She needs a ride to an audition for where she would play a  who gets killed. Leonard runs out to give her a ride; Howard will practice lines with her and them. Alicia will take them out for Chinese food...even though there's Chinese food right in front of them. Alicia even got Howard to drive to to get her  like Penny got Leonard and Sheldon (see Pilot) to do though Penny considers that  and.

Penny is very upset that Alicia and decides to confront her about it the next day in the laundry room. Alicia was disappointed that don't make a lot of. They are also going to her  and install a. Penny explains that her guys are special and don't know how to use their like on Star Trek. Penny is shocked that she is using a Star Trek. She doesn't want her to take advantage of them. Alicia gets ticked off and says that she does the same thing. After she calls her a they get into a. All the guys come into the lobby and find the girls fighting. Howard is excited and holds back Leonard knowing that he’ll break it up.

Later, Penny is having and is a mess with a, busted , and chipped. Howard tells her that she looks great to and she accepts the compliment. Howard realizes that her is broken. The stereo comes on from upstairs. Per Howard, she is seeing one of the producers on CSI. Noise comes from the bedroom as Penny comments, “Dead on TV, live one in real life." Sheldon then complains that the couple is merely  up and down on the bed while Penny realizes they are having some heavy-duty.

Critics

 * "Excellent stuff. It’s sad in a way that it has taken two seasons to finally produce a proper character episode for Penny. But when it is this good, I won’t complain." - The TV Critic's Review
 * IMDb user reviews

Trivia

 * The quantum physics joke Penny tells the guys was told to the producers by Nobel Prize-winning, Dr. George Smoot (CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #247) and was originally written by comedian Kevin L. Schwartz in 2002(The Best Science Joke on the Internet).
 * This episode is the highest rated one by The TV Critic.
 * Valerie Azlynn has, in fact, been in a "" episode, but not as a.
 * Sheldon has a lifting now, as he stated otherwise in "The Big Bran Hypothesis".
 * When Sheldon and Leonard meet Alicia for the first time, the dialogue among the three are quite analogous to that when Sheldon and Leonard first met Penny in the pilot: repetitive "hello's" and Leonard's redundant explanation.
 * Penny is seen wearing a Penny Blossom that she made in the previous episode.
 * The line "The horror" was referencing the film . Penny says this line in a similar fashion in "The Toast Derivation" (S4E17).
 * The line "They're here" was referencing the film .
 * The pink spotted seen in the milk crate during Alicia's discussion with Sheldon while she is moving in can be seen previously in Season 2 on Penny's.
 * In the scene where the gang leaves Sheldon and Penny with the that Penny bought, her rant is poorly edited in that the whole time she goes from  to  and then back and forth the whole time she rants.
 * One of the few strictly Penny stories.
 * This episode marks Alicia's only appearance in the series.

Goof

 * Sheldon is horrified when his dumplings are steamed, exclaiming that "...you hear stories of this sort of thing, but you never think it'll happen to you". In "The Dumpling Paradox" (S1E7) at Szechuan Palace, Sheldon explains that the gang's standard order includes the steamed dumpling appetizer, consisting of four dumplings to be divided among the four of them.

Quotes

 * Howard: ENOUGH WITH THE GUILT, MA, WE'LL STILL SEE EACH OTHER, AND I'LL COME OVER EVERY NIGHT AND HAVE YOU FOR DINNER!
 * Mrs. Wolowitz: THE HELL YOU WILL! WHAT AM I RUNNING HERE, A FANCY RESTURANT?! DOES THIS LOOK LIKE OLIVE GARDEN?!
 * Howard: OKAY, I GET IT, YOU'RE ANGRY... YOU DON'T WANNA SEE YOUR LITTLE BIRD LEAVE THE NEST!
 * Mrs. Wolowitz: LITTLE BIRD?! YOU'RE ALMOST 30! FLY, FOR GOD'S SAKE!
 * Howard: FINE! I'LL STAY! YOU HAPPY, CRAZY OL' LADY? I SURE AS HELL HOPE SO BECAUSE YOU'RE RUININ' MY LIFE!


 * Sheldon (to Penny): Ah, mimicry. I've been working on my impression of Admiral Ackbar. "It's a trap!"... You have to imagine me with a giant squid head.


 * (Scene at the apartment where Sheldon is listening to music on the TV just as there is a doorhandle sound in the background which pans to the scene of which Penny walks into the apartment looking very cross just as she slams the door and collapses on the sofa. Sheldon now looks puzzled for a few seconds)
 * Sheldon: Who is it? Oh hello, Penny, it’s open, come in. (Penny glares angrily at Sheldon) Sarcasm.
 * Penny: Well, they’re all still up there.
 * Sheldon: You think I can’t hear them? Listen to that. Stomp, stomp, stomp. That’s Wolowitz in his stacked heels that fool no one.
 * Penny: I don’t even know why I care. I don’t care. All right, I cared enough to memorize that stupid joke, but that’s all I care.
 * Sheldon: You know, Penny, there’s something that occurs in beehives you might find interesting. Occasionally, a new queen will arrive while the old queen is still in power. When this happens, the old queen must either locate to a new hive or engage in a battle to the death until only one queen remains.
 * Penny: What are you saying, that I’m threatened by Alicia? That I’m like the old queen of the hive and it’s just time for me to go?
 * Sheldon: I’m just talking about bees. They’re on the discovery channel. What are you talking about?
 * Penny: Bees. Aaah! I just got that physicist joke.


 * Alicia: Hi. Guess what? I got the part on CSI.
 * Penny: Oh boy.
 * Alicia: Something wrong?
 * Penny: Uh, no. No, no, no, you know, congratulations, I think you’ll make a great hooker.
 * Alicia: Thank you. Hey, I got to ask you something, how much do physicists make?
 * Penny: Um, I don’t know, I don’t think a lot.
 * Alicia: Yeah, that’s what I figured. Well, got to run, the guys promised to set up my satellite dish and paint my bedroom. Yay!
 * Penny: Um, hey, hey, can I talk to you about that for a second?
 * Alicia: About what?
 * Penny: Well, you know, it’s just that Leonard and Howard and Raj, they aren’t like other guys. They’re special.
 * Alicia: Okay, they're special and..?
 * Penny: Well let's see how can I explain this. Um. They don't know how to use their shields.
 * Alicia: Shields?
 * Penny: Yeah, You know like in Star Trek and you're in battle, and you raise the shields. (Realizing what she said) Where the hell did that come from? Anyways, um, you know how guys like this are, so, please don’t take advantage of them.
 * Alicia: Who says I’m taking advantage of them?
 * Penny: Come on, they’re doing everything for you, because you’re leading them on.
 * Alicia: So I let them do stuff for me. They’re happy. I get stuff. Who cares? And how’s it any different from what you do?
 * Penny: Excuse me?
 * Alicia: I’ve seen you around them. Are you pretending like you don’t do the exact same thing?
 * Penny: Okay, lady, you are way out of line.
 * Alicia: Oh, I’m out of line?
 * Penny: Yeah, you’re out of line.
 * Alicia: Well, what are you going to do about it, bitch?


 * Raj: I like green lantern, I’m just saying it’s pretty lame that He can be defeated by the colour yellow.
 * Sheldon: Only the modern green lantern is vulnerable to yellow.
 * Leonard: Golden age green lantern was vulnerable to wood.
 * Raj: Great, so I can take them both out with a number-two pencil?
 * Howard: Oh my god! Girl fight! (Grabs Leonard's arms)
 * Leonard: What are you doing?!
 * Howard: I know you. You're stupid enough to break it up!


 * Howard: May I say you look very comely tonight?
 * Penny: Thank you.
 * Howard: You’re right, this filly’s been broken.
 * 'Sheldon (as music comes down through ceiling): You set it on DTS, didn’t you?
 * Leonard: I had to, she called me cutie.
 * Howard: According to Alicia’s facebook page, she’s hooking up with one of the producers on CSI.
 * Penny: Well, dead whore on TV, live one in real life.
 * Sheldon: Oh, great now she’s jumping up and down on the bed.