#legend of drizzt symptom where the diamond in the rough fascinates me far more than the kay jewelers

[dicaeopolis]

the episode went as follows: it is from a later season where Sheldon is engaged to a woman named Amy. she is clearly supposed to be seen as the frumpy geek girl who's matching Sheldon's nerd energy but in fact just looks like a normal woman who doesn't have TV face but I digress. the episode is about their bachelor/ette parties. for Amy's she's saying to the other girls "now I don't want anything CRAZY" so they throw her a quiet quilting bee with tea and sobriety and eventually she's like... AUGH! I WANTED TO GET DRAGGED TO THE CLUB!! and they say "but you love quilting and you hate clubs!" and she's like yeah but I wanted to TRY IT!! and they say OKAY and go to a club and she wakes up hungover looking like hell no memories and they say yeah you river danced on the bar and ground on firefighter themed strippers and she says Oh my god. (It is later revealed that in fact she took 2 shots and passed out at 9pm but she doesn't know this)

Sheldon's "bachelor party" is a roadtrip to visit a temporality scientist of some sort who he idolized. the boys come along because this scientist is kind of a crackpot who lives alone in a cabin in the mountains. Sheldon and the guy are getting along really well but he at one point mentions he has a wife but she lives in Munich and the extent of their relationship is most years they send each other a birthday card and an update on their research and when he leaves the room at one point Sheldon is kind of quietly like... I want to go home.

last scene is Sheldon and Amy lying in bed together and he says "would you still love me if it turns out I'm not the single-minded, science-obsessed recluse who puts his work above everything and everybody else that you fell in love with" and she says "would you still love me if I were a river dancing wild woman" and I have been thinking about this. ever since. Would you still love me if my love for you changed me. I am better because of you and that change makes me uncertain can I still be certain of you. If we change together will you still love me then. The cold open of this episode is one of the boys saying "if Bruce Banner rents a car would the Hulk be covered by his car insurance" and another boy says "you really need a girlfriend" and this is presented as funny

My gym keeps putting on The Big Bang Theory on the TVs for inscrutable reasons (can't imagine why anyone would want to watch The Big Bang Theory while they lift) (all the stairs machines are pointed at the same three TVs so I can't really get away but also they have it on multiple other TVs too) (I asked them to change it from SVU when I first started there because good god I don't want to watch a prolonged and painful csa story while I lift either and they put it on Nat Geo briefly and then changed it to The Big Bang Theory and if I ask them to change it they do but by the next time I'm there it's back on The Big Bang Theory) which means I did recently watch a full episode of The Big Bang Theory that was so shockingly good I'm still thinking about it