The Hofstadter Isotope


 * Howard: Yeah, that one. You can modify it to calculate our chances of having sex by changing the formula to use the number of single women in Los Angeles, the number of those who might find us attractive, and what I call the Wolowitz Coefficient.
 * Raj: The Wolowitz Coefficient?
 * Howard: Neediness times dress size squared. Crunching the numbers, I come up with a conservative 5,812 potential sex partners within a 40-mile radius.


 * Sheldon: Well, I’ve spent the last three hours in an online debate in the DC Comics Batman chat room, and I need your help.
 * Stuart: Oh yeah. Those guys can be very stubborn. What’s the topic?
 * Sheldon: I am asserting, in the event that Batman’s death proves permanent, that original Robin, Dick Grayson, is the logical successor to the Bat Cowl.
 * Stuart: Ooh, Sheldon, I’m afraid you couldn’t be more wrong.
 * Sheldon: More wrong? Wrong is an absolute state and not subject to gradation.
 * Stuart: Of course it is. It’s a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable, it’s very wrong to say it’s a suspension bridge. But returning to the original issue, Dick Grayson became Nightwing, a superhero in his own right. Batman 2 has to be the second Robin, Jason Todd.
 * Sheldon: Has to be? Has to be? I hope you’re being deliberately provocative


 * Penny: Hi. What would you recommend as a present for a 13-year-old boy?
 * Stuart: A 13-year-old girl. But if you’re dead set on a comic book, try this.
 * Penny: Oh, Hellblazer. What’s this about?
 * Stuart: A morally ambiguous confidence man who smokes, has lung cancer and is tormented by the spirits of the undead.
 * Penny: Well, if that doesn’t make me the favorite aunt, I don’t know what will. (sees Stuart's drawing) Is this me?
 * Stuart: Depends. Do you like it?
 * Penny: It's really good.
 * Stuart: Yes, that's you.
 * Penny: That's so sweet. But what if I didn't like it?
 * Stuart: It'd still be you, but I'd feel like an idiot.