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Mayim Bialik, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Brian Thomas Smith, and Kunal Nayyar in The Big Bang Theory (2007)

Simon Helberg: Howard Wolowitz

The Fermentation Bifurcation

The Big Bang Theory

Simon Helberg credited as playing...

Howard Wolowitz

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  • [first lines]
  • Penny Hofstadter: Oh, hey, if you guys are free this weekend, I won a night of wine-tasting from work.
  • Leonard Hofstadter: That sounds fun.
  • Penny Hofstadter: Mm-hm.
  • Leonard Hofstadter: How come scientists don't win free stuff like sales people do?
  • Howard Wolowitz: 'Cause we're not in it for the stuff; we're in it for the groupies.
  • Sheldon Cooper: Personally, I find the notion of external rewards demeaning; I pursue science for the intrinsic joy of discovery.
  • Amy Farrah Fowler: But you always say that you want to win a Nobel prize.
  • Sheldon Cooper: I also say don't contradict me in front of my friends, and that you don't remember.
  • Zack Johnson: I love science. Einstein, Steven Hawking, Mike deGrasse Tyson.
  • Amy Farrah Fowler: Mike deGrasse Tyson?
  • Howard Wolowitz: Yeah, you know. the boxer who grew a moustache and became a scientist.
  • Amy Farrah Fowler: I'm getting an earthy note.
  • Penny Hofstadter: There's definitely some oak.
  • Raj Koothrappali: Also, cherries?
  • Leonard Hofstadter: I smell nothing.
  • Howard Wolowitz: Really? Nothing?
  • Leonard Hofstadter: Just a whole lot of Afrin.
  • Howard Wolowitz: We absolutely know our invention will not be used to destroy the world.
  • Leonard Hofstadter: How?
  • Howard Wolowitz: Because no one from the future has come back to kill us.

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