The Big Bang Theory

The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition

Season 2, Episode 19, Aired 3/30/09

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Penny feels threatened when another sexy woman moves into the apartment building and angered when she senses the guys are being taken advantage of.

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Jim Parsons

Sheldon Cooper

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Kaley Cuoco

Penny

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Kunal Nayyar

Rajesh Koothrappali

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Penny's Jealous!!! and the guys are really really cheap !!!

9.5

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By altaleh, Sep 17, 2011 Report Abuse

we know that the guys are cheap with women , but not like this episode they really carried on with that, but the girl was hot !!! i don't blame them lol
but Penny really get Jealous from her !!! that was funny.
and Leonard when it comes to girls specially with neighbors he go wild !!
i like the scene when Penny buy them Chinese but the they go with the new one!!
and when Sheldon was talking about bees and Penny get angry that was funny too !!
what i most like about Sheldon's character that its cold!! very !!!like he can't feel anything except for those things that no one gets it !! and its played very good.moreless
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I feel like I have seen this before.

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By frostbite200, May 11, 2011 Report Abuse

Heres my problem,the plot.I mean haven't they done this,
A good looking girl shows up and the guys go gag gag over her (well Leonard,Wolowitz and Koothrappali anyway)
I mean in the last two seasons alone,I have seen a variation of this plot about 5 times.

Exhibit A,The Pilot (Penny)
Exhibit B,The Pork Chop Indeterminacy(Missy)
Exhibit C,The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem (Ramona)
Exhibit D,The Lizard-Spock Expansion(Stephanie)
Exhibit E,The Terminator Decoupling(Summer)

And you know what is wasn't that funny ether.

Penny joke about Star Trek was funny though.
It's an OK episode,but was slightly annoying plot.

Ashely didn't leave at the end so I think that we haven't seen the last of her yet.moreless
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huh again

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By efc91, Feb 13, 2011 Report Abuse

Penny feels threatened when another sexy woman moves into the apartment building and angered when she senses the guys are being taken advantage of. I reviewed these episode i am sure of it ok so second time reviewing is going to be difficult but I will try. There was a fight with Penny and new girl that was decent lol. it was fun seeing Penny jealous and I was rooting for her all the way through the episode. Sheldon was great so was everyone really they where really funny drooling over the new girl and being all nerdy as usual. 9.5moreless
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By Canogaparkcindy, Jan 03, 2011 Report Abuse

Guess what the best thing about this episode was? Nope, it wasn't Sheldon. It was Penny, much to my surprise. Seeing her act jealous was just wildly amusing, and it was hilarious seeing her try to one up the new neighbor. Most of the one liners were just perfect and they definitely hit a home run here, with most of Penny's lines.

Other than that, the plot wasn't really new. That was the writer's intention, to have the same sort of thing happen to the group, like when Penny walked in to their lives. The cat fight was just awesome, and it definitely made this episode somewhat memorable. And of course the Penny & Sheldon interactions were great too.

Raj wasn't that funny tonight, but Howard definitely was. The scene with Raj, Sheldon & Leonard waiting outside his door and listening to the conversation with Howard's mom was absolutely hysterical. Great episode overall.moreless
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New girl moves in upstairs, Sheldon doesn't like that. The other guys do. Penny is jealous.

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By kimierin, Oct 24, 2010 Report Abuse

So the people upstairs move out, Sheldon freaks out because they were quiet and he never met them. For a brief moment their friend Howard was going to move in. But since his loud Mother wouldn't be featured anymore and his need to live with her would be gone, that wouldn't be funny now would it? Penny meets the new girl and seems okay with her, she is also an actress. The difference is that the new girl has been in a few things, Penny hasn't. Is she ever going to give up on her dream? I think that she would have better luck making Penny Blossoms, than trying to become an actress. Fast forward through the episode, the new girl is using the boys to hook up everything, thus taking away Penny's time with them. Penny calls her on it and the new girl thinks its okay. I think that if they are smart enough to be physicists, then surely they can see that they are being used. But is it really like that? Maybe they are using her too. Its nice though, that Penny is a beautiful woman and can see past their weirdness to be friends with them. Or maybe they can see past her beauty and be friends with her? Who knows. It makes for some interesting storylines.moreless
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- Sheldon tells Penny that she got him the wrong mustard, but it's the exact same brand that Leonard gets him in "The Griffin Equivalency".
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- When Penny and Sheldon are eating Chinese food, Penny switches between holding chopsticks and a fork, and Sheldon switches between two sets of chopsticks broken in different ways.
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- This episode's end titles has Chuck Lorre's Vanity Card #247, which explains the physics joke told by Penny was provided by Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Dr. George Smoot, a recent guest star.
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- The German episode title is "Der Kampf der Bienenköniginnen", meaning "Battle of the Queen Bees". The French title is "La Juxtaposition de la prostituée morte", and the Spanish and Mexican title is "La yuxtaposición de la prostituta muerta", both exact translations. The Italian title is "La giustapposizione della nuova inquilina", meaning "The New Tenant Juxtaposition".
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- International Airdates: Latin America: Apil 28, 2009 on Warner Channel; Australia: September 21, 2009 on Channel 9; Germany: December 12, 2009 on ProSieben; Turkey: January 11, 2010 on CNBC-e; Finland: February 15, 2010 on Sub; Czech Republic: November 23, 2010 on Prima COOL; Slovakia: October 10, 2011 on Markiza
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- Raj: I like Green Lantern, I'm just saying it's pretty lame that he can be defeated by the color 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 #2 pencil?
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- Sheldon: 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?
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- Sheldon: Hold on, you honestly expect me to believe that social protocol dictates we break our backs helping Wolowitz move, and he only buys us a pizza? Leonard: I'm sorry, that really is how it works. Sheldon: You're tricking me. Tell me the truth, what do we get? Leonard: Raj, help me out here. Raj: You get to choose between a mountain bike or a PS3. Sheldon: I knew it! PS3, definitely PS3. Who would pick a mountain bike?
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- Sheldon's repetition of "The horror" is taken from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella, Heart of Darkness.
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- The quote, spoken with a sing-song lilt by Leonard, "they're here" is from Tobe Hooper's 1982 horror film, Poltergeist.
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