The Panty Piñata Polarization

The Panty Piñata Polarization is the seventh episode of the second season of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. It aired on November 10th, 2008.

Plot Summary
Penny and Sheldon go to war with each other. Meanwhile, Howard and Raj decide to track down the house where the models from America's Next Top Model are staying.

Extended Plot
The boys were playing Klingon Boggle when Penny barges in to watch America's Next Top Model because she didn't pay her cable bill, Sheldon continues to play while everyone else watches the show, but she ended up returning to her apartment announcing she will be paying her cable bill as she couldn't stand Howard's remarks about the women on the show.

Leonard comes back with everyone's food to watch America's Next Top Model, while Howard and Raj mark the star positions and landmarks to track down the house of the models. Despite her earlier announcement, Penny come over to watch TV as well. Penny, in a feat of hunger, attempted to eat one of Sheldon's onion rings, but she conforms with the other's desperate advice to put back the onion ring. Sheldon sees right through it and the guys rat Penny out. Sheldon then announces that she has two strikes. After she took a stand metaphorically against Sheldon by sitting in his spot, she got her third strike and was banished from the apartment.

The following day, the boys are at the Cheesecake Factory and Penny comes to take everyone's order excluding Sheldon. When inquired, Penny explained he was banished from the Cheesecake Factory. But after Sheldon discussed with Penny's manager, Sheldon got his order. Penny dared Sheldon to eat it, implying she has done something to it.

Howard and Raj announce they have succeded in locating the house that host the models for the tv show America's Next Top Model. Penny, who can't piggy back Leonard and Sheldon's wi-fi, shows the boys a message of Sheldon that tells Penny "she can either set up her own wifi or apologize to him". Howard tries to help her but was intercepted by another message from Sheldon and the boys are awarded an additional strike.

Next, Sheldon goes out of the house and bumps into Penny who is waiting for him, she then hints that he may be unable to do his laundry today even though it's Laundry Day for him. When Sheldon got the Laundry room, every washing machine is occupied and he feels troubled. Soon, Penny comes knocking aggresively and asks where is her laundry, Sheldon then ask if she has left her laundry unattended despite the sign warning her against it. Sheldon then shows Penny out the window, where her laundry are on the telephone wire.

Leonard, who witnessed the whole incident, decides to put an end to this war by giving Penny what he describes as Sheldon's Kryptonite: his mom. Howard and Raj has confirmed that they are in possesion of the address of the model's house. Sheldon's mother suddenly called him and reprimanded him about his behaviour with Penny, she also asked him to apologize to Penny. Finally, Sheldon appologized to Penny, returned her laundry, resent her strikes and remove his banishment upon her from his apartment. In the final scene, Howard and Raj made their way to the house of the models and managed to cheat their way in.

Critics
"Episodes like this speak to you as a viewer. They tell you that the premise of the episode was to have Penny and Sheldon argue. It wasn’t about their respective characters or their relationship, the writers just thought it would be funny. That’s fine on occasion but much of this season has felt like that. “What can we make Sheldon do this week?” It’s frustrating because episodes like this have no real purpose and when they aren’t very funny they irritate." - The TV Critic's Review

QuotesEdit
Penny: What was my first strike?

Sheldon Cooper: March 18. You violated my rule about e-mailing me internet humor.

Penny: What?

Sheldon Cooper: That picture of a cat who wants to "haz cheezburger"?

Penny: But everyone loves LOLcats. They're cute, and they can't spell, because they're cats.

Sheldon Cooper: You can't do that. Not only is it in violation of California State law, it also flies in the face of Cheesecake Factory policy.

Penny: Well, there's a new policy: No shoes, no shirt, no Sheldon.

Howard Wolowitz: I bet we can sell that sign all over Pasadena.

Penny: [to Sheldon] Oh, honey, the buses don't go where you live, do they?

Sheldon Cooper: Woman, you are playing with forces beyond your ken.

Penny: Yeah, well your "ken" can kiss my Barbie.

Penny: [Referring to her underwear] How the hell did you get them up on that telephone wire?

Sheldon Cooper: When you understand the laws of physics, Penny, anything is possible. And may I add, "Mwah, ha, ha."

Penny: Get them down.

Sheldon Cooper: Apologize.

Penny: Never!

Sheldon Cooper: Well then may I suggest you get a very long stick and play panty piñata (Title Reference).

Sheldon Cooper: [in a computer message] Hello, puny insects. As a consequence of your efforts to circumvent my will, Everyone is awarded one additional strike.

Leonard Hofstadter: Thanks a lot, Howard.

Howard Wolowitz: What are you complaining about? I'm the one who has to take the class again.

Penny: [after Leonard gives her Sheldon's "kryptonite", which makes even her uneasy] I know I said I wanted to hurt him, but this?

Leonard Hofstadter: It'll shorten the war by five years and save millions of lives.

Leonard Hofstadter: Penny, you don't want to get into it with Sheldon. The guy is one lab accident away from being a supervillain.

Penny: I don't care. I was in Junior Rodeo. I can hogtie and castrate him in sixty seconds.

Howard Wolowitz: No need to neuter the nerd, I can get you back online.

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Trivia

 * This episode shows the four guys playing Klingon Boggle, a game that's only been referred to in the past, but never seen.
 * Klingon words used in this episode, and their English translations:
 * poH - period of time
 * potlh - something important
 * puchpa' - washroom (Note: mispronounced as puHpa')
 * chor - belly
 * neHmaH - neutral zone
 * bIlughbe' - You are wrong.
 * Qochbe' - to agree
 * loH - administration
 * maH - ten
 * chergh - to tolerate
 * The group gets introduced to the television show America's Next Top Model this episode, though based on the fact that people mention both "Anaïs" and "Giselle" as models on the show. Cycle 4 of America's Next Top Model had a guest star of Anaïs Lombard, and Cycle 1 had a model named Giselle Samson, but no season of that show seems to have both together, meaning The Big Bang Theory was not actually referencing a particular season of that show.