《生活大爆炸》（The Big Bang Theory）S08E16《The Intimacy Acceleration》

Sheldon和Penny抱着好玩的心态尝试了一个旨在让参与者「坠入情网」的实验。与此同时，Leonard、Amy、Raj和Emily整晚都在逃避房间里的一个「僵尸」……当然，他们是在玩一个游戏。Bernadette和Howard参加完Wolowitz夫人的葬礼后启程回家，但他们却在机场遇到了麻烦……Howard母亲的骨灰被遗失了！

本集的详细剧情如下

At dinner, Amy mentions that she read an article about how intimacy can be created between two people in an accelerated time frame. Sheldon considers dragging random people off the street to try it, but the others suggest he try the experiment on himself. Penny doesn’t believe that Sheldon would answer intimate questions about himself and begs to be involved, assures him that she won’t fall in love with him.

Heading into Penny’s apartment, Sheldon tells Penny that if they fall in love she must drive him to GaryCon (Dungeons and Dragons). Penny agrees and tells him she’ll even throw in a tee-shirt.

Amy and Leonard decide to get the experiment a go. Question 1: “If you could eat dinner with anyone in the world, who would it be?” Leonard says Penny. Amy replies that she’d pick the janitor because she’s about to throw up. Emily invites Amy and Leonard to join them for a night out. Howard and Bernadette are returning from his mother’s funeral.

However, at the airport, Howard is screaming at the woman behind the desk who has lost his mother’s ashes and demands the ashes back at any cost.

Starting the experiment, Penny asks Sheldon the dinner guest question. He chooses Euclid, the mathematics founder. Penny chooses Robert Downey, Junior. Sheldon then says he would like to join them for dessert.

Emily suggests the group visit an Escape Room where you have to solve puzzles to get out of a room which includes being locked in with a zombie.

Sheldon poses the next question to Penny which is, to describe her perfect day. Penny replies that it would be yoga, beach, drinks and dancing. What about Leonard? Sheldon asks, to which she replies that he brought a book. Sheldon’s perfect day would start with French toast and then he would travel to the future where his towering intellect is used to save the last remnants of human kind from a predatory alien race.

The guys are escorted into a room that is the remains of a mad scientist’s laboratory. They are locked in after which a zombie attacks them. Howard is getting more frustrated especially since the attendant suggests that someone could have accidently picked it up and gotten on an international flight. She then offers him 500 frequent flier miles, enough to get him to Sacramento.

Next question: If you could wake up with any quality or ability, what would it be? Penny mocks that she would like to turn water into wine to which Sheldon complains that she is not taking the experiment seriously. So she replies that she wishes she could be as smart as everyone else in their social group. Sheldon scoffs at this but then admits that while Penny is not academically inclined, she has intelligence that he envies. Penny is surprised and remarks that he seems so confident but he tells her that he never knows how people feel, if they are angry at him, or just in a bad mood. The ability that Sheldon then chooses is to be able to read minds. Penny has a wave of affection and Sheldon assures her it’s just the wine.

While zombie cries out that he wants some brains, Amy offers him Leonard’s and solves the cipher puzzle. Then they use the answer to open a safe where they find a black light. A riddle is hidden on the wall which Amy finds the key to open the door. Emily had hoped the puzzles would have been harder, but not for the geniuses. Amy and Leonard wonder what might happen between Sheldon and Penny.

At the airport, Howard is bothered that he didn’t drive his mother to the airport on her way to Florida since that would have been the last time he ever saw her. Bernadette is moved and informs the attendant, “You’d better find my husband’s mother because either way, we’re walking out of this airport with a dead woman.”, implying that if she doesn’t find the ashes, Bernadette will kill her.

Back at Penny’s apartment, Penny asks if Sheldon were to die today and couldn’t communicate with anyone, what would he most regret not having told someone? Sheldon says that he would want to die on his birthday and that there’s something satisfying about it. Penny is shocked that he has never told anyone this, not even Amy. He despises gift giving and surprise parties and he would avoid them. Penny promises not to tell anyone.

Finally the airport finds Howard’s bag and Howard proposes to never let her go again. Bernadette is worried that the urn will end up in their bedroom.

“For the final part of the experiment, Penny and Sheldon then stare into each other’s eyes. They are supposed to keep eye contact for a full four minutes and both struggle with this. Penny offers to stop and says Sheldon is like a kid brother, he says he feels the same way. Letting their minds wander, Sheldon can’t believe it’s been eight years and that she is still eating their food. Penny can’t remember her life before them. Finally, they are permitted to look away and Sheldon says they are not in love with each other, but do share a new level of intimacy. Now how are they going to get to Garycon? And who gets to be Gary?”

Penny escorts him home, where Sheldon finds the gang present and shouting “Surprise!” Sheldon lets out a scream heard throughout Pasadena.