Laurie Metcalf credited as playing...
Mary Cooper
- Mary Cooper: Shelly, how do I put this? By your third birthday you had memorized over a thousand different kinds of trains... and I never imagined a woman getting aboard any of them.
- Sheldon Cooper: What's a... You thought I was going to be alone for the rest my life?
- Mary Cooper: No, just for the middle part. At the end I assumed there'd be nurses.
- Sheldon Cooper: This is highly insulting!
- Amy Farrah Fowler: Sheldon, don't over-react.
- Sheldon Cooper: I'm the child she was worried about! I have a brother and sister whose combined intellectual wattage couldn't power a potato clock! If I spotted them the potato!
- Amy Farrah Fowler: [Sheldon has stormed off to his room] He's been in there a long time. Should I go talk to him?
- Mary Cooper: He's upset with me; I should be the one who talks to him.
- [she continues knitting]
- Amy Farrah Fowler: Are you going to?
- Mary Cooper: Oh heck no.