I love that Sheldon doesn’t even get mad at them, he just innately accepts logic even if he doesn’t benefit from it.😂😂😂

i like that sheldon doesnt have any hard feelings for his friends because this was the only logical option. sheldon will agree anything as long as you can convince him that it is logical.

I like how Sheldon isn’t even angry that they just left. He just looks at accept it saying “yep that was the only option”

I had a friend who put our group through a similar wringer. He was a super fussy eater and it would take forever to settle on a place he would agree to go for lunch. One time, after a protracted fuss on his part, our group of friends went to the place he agreed to. We walk in and he says, "We can't eat here." I ask, "Why?" He says, "I know the manager. He hates me. He'll spit in our food." I responded, "Correction, he'll spit in YOUR food."

They could have went to the Multiplex and just snuck Red Vines in there. That’s a lot easier than trying to sneak Slurpies.

Sheldon just accepts the outcome, even if it means he's left behind 😂

This is my all-time favorite scene from this show. Beautifully executed.

I really liked it back in the earlier seasons, when they actually did fight back against Sheldon like this. Instead of just bending over backwards, and bowing to his everywhere, wim like they did in later seasons

Ironically enough as an introvert, I do kinda relate to this, I mean taking every possiblity into account for future social situations, I'm not this crazy but it does happen

The end line was magnificent, excellent writting

Why bother smuggling in slurpees when it is way easier to smuggle in a box of red vines, which solves the problem?

0:38 - Just bring your own red vines. Contrary to popular belief, a lot of cinemas let you bring in your own snacks and drinks. As long as it's not hot food and has no alcohol.

I like to believe they enjoy the intellectual challenge more than they cared to accommodate their extremely OC friend.

slurpees are icees. 7-11 just has an exclusive licencing deal with the icee company, allowing them to be renamed.

It's funny how this option is how i feel about my family at times 😂.

Why couldn't they just smuggle Red Vines into the Twizzler theatre? It'd be a lot easier than smuggling Slurpees under their coats.

The only solution they had, remove Sheldon from the equation.

I like how I seems shocked and hurt only to immediately agree with them.

Honestly, they could’ve solved quite a few of their problems this way.

Sheldon REALLY needs to learn how to adapt!😂

“They’re right it was the only option” 😂😂😂

A “Sheldon-approved” restaurant.

I love that after the effort to accomodate Sheldon, they left him behind like the dead weight he is.

Me and the boys figuring out how we'll do a Barbenheimer run on premiere day.

This is one of my favorites moments.

And they're going to have a better time anyway if Sheldon sits this one out.

If Vulcans lived amongst us, we will have many Sheldons as Spocks

1:30 Leonard, Howard and Raj quit solving the problem

This might be the best scene from the whole series

Sheldon ignoring that slurpee’s not being icee’s, which they are as it’s the exact same thing with a different name, isn’t a thing because he’s just that stubborn, like when he claims to be a comic book lover and ignored the update to wolverines past that Logan was born with bone claws losing a bet

Wouldn't it be easier to smuggle in Red Vines?

Sometimes I question how good a friend Sheldon is but then he shows awareness like this and accepts the solution 😂

Wait all this to figure out what time the movie starts 🤣🤣🤣

I love that Sheldon went 'yeah that's the only option we can do'

1:05 "hya, hya or hya"

Perfect example of how Sheldon was incapable of compromise earlier in the show.

Sheldon is so wrong in this instance when it comes to the difference between ICEE and Slurpee. Spoiler alert: there isn't one! 7-11 licensed the technology from the creator of ICEE and made up a new name to sell it under.

Even Sheldon said “they’re right, I’m the problem” in his own way

I have had to struggle to not be Sheldon at times in my life. I am a SUPER picky eater. And I have many times had to make scheduling and traveling decisions based off of that. But after years of practice, I have learned to work around it and not get excluded from hanging out with friends because of it. I can usually find one thing I can eat at any given restaurant and soda is easy for me.

"In life, there are no solutions. Only trade offs." CGP Grey

I relate to you by the end, Sheldon but you handled that superbly.

His inability to compromise on a tiny detail is scary. How does he get through a day.

FLAWED LOGIC! Sheldon could have gone to the movie theater that sells Twizzlers....by sneaking in Red Vines!!!!

Love Sheldon's T-shirt

The only reason the 7-11 idea might have worked is because it was right next to the theatre. With the information we have, we have to assume that there is not a place that sells Red Vines next to a Sheldon-approved theatre that is also in close proximity to a Sheldon-approved restaurant.

They can just sneak in Red Vines into the theater that has Twizzlers. My brother and I have done stuff like that once in a while when we were growing up whenever we would go to the movies. It was fun.

They forgot that they could bring their own Red Vines from a nearby gas station

How meticulous they were with it, haha.

I like how they try until the end to fix the situation for Sheldon. True friendship

Honestly, this was when their relationship was realistic as hell. They tried to accommodate Sheldon, Sheldon put up his typical resistance, and when they realised that Sheldon was unlikely to make any types of compromises this time around, they respected his boundaries but kept their convictions regardless, deciding to just go without him. Sheldon responded in a really healthy way, too - he recognised that he was the one creating the problem, and they solved it logically by excluding him.

Maybe it was running Oppenheimer

I knew a girl who had an "approved restaurants" list. Don't miss her one bit.

this scene perfectly represents what I love so much about this show!

In stead of Slurpies, can't the smuggle in Red Vines?

The nerdy nerd humor, love it :)

0:08 That is Engineer for "I don't want to do work." lol

Turns out there is actually no difference at all between Slurpees and Icees. They're both made by the Icee Company. Exact same drink. It's just that 7-Eleven has a licensing deal to call them “Slurpees”.

"How did we miss that?"

I've had a conversation just like this

Dang!

The fact that people hate Sheldon makes me like him even more

"no amount of lumbar can compensate for that" ok, I don't even watch the show, save for a lot of clips but I love you now, Sheldon. I totally prefer twizzlers over red vines.. (you already said it in your head), BAZINGA!

Me and a few friends tried smuggling in Taco Bell. We got caught, told to leave. Other times, we would have lunch together, while eating we would talk. But two of my friends always disagree . So by the time we got done eating, went to the car, full blown shouting match. It did not matter the content of the conversation. Every friggan time. Me and Eric one of the other friends just leaned against the car and talked Warhammer 40k, until the arguing finally ending. Nobody ever won those arguments.

As an engineer, I am offended by that diagram on the whiteboard. It has no measurement units. I am mad

And afterwards he coped a feel on Penny, I say it was a win all around!

Smuggling in a bag of redvines would have been a hell of a lot easier than Slurpee's.... plus they would have been the real thing and not fake...

I always loved how they would over analyze things. Like Penny’s stereo.

This scene has bothered me for years. While not an expert on the subtle differences between Slurpees and Icees that could result in an unchallengeable preference, It is an undeniable fact that both Red Vines and Twizzlers are substandard representation of licorice candies with Red Vines being absolute trash, with no redeeming value other than its use as decorative lashing on the fence of your annual gingerbread house.

Technically slurpees and icees are from the same company but for legal reasons have different names

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one....

Icy machines are an important factor

Raj is actually correct. Icee was the original, Slurpee licensed the technology. So they are essentially the same thing. The caveat being the flavors may differ. Icee Cherry might be a different kind of syrup than the Cherry Slurpee. Slurpee also tends to get more “extra” flavors, like Coke and Dr Pepper, or Fanta Orange. But they have the exact same texture, which is a point to them being the same. Though more recently (well after this episode aired) both Icee and Slurpee have started using flavor mixing machines that have one spout, and you can select a flavor, or even mix flavors. But a few places still have the old school Icee machine with red and blue flavors.

I'll give it to these guys. They tried. They tried very hard to include Sheldon.

Script: Scene: The apartment. The guys are studying a complex chart on the whiteboard. Leonard: Hmmm. Sheldon: The problem appears to be unsolvable. Raj: Maybe you could run some computer simulations. Howard: There are too many variables. It would take forever. Leonard: We’ve got to be missing something. Let’s start again. The movie is playing here at 7:20, here at 7:40, here at 8:10, and at 8:45. Sheldon: Right, these theatres have to be eliminated. Leonard: Why? They’re state-of-the-art digital projection 20-channel surround sound. Sheldon: Yes, but they have no Icee machines. Despite my aggressive letter-writing campaign, I might add. Raj: What about the multiplex here? The seats are terrific. Sheldon: They have Twizzlers instead of Red Vines. No amount of lumbar support can compensate for that. Leonard: Well, it’s gonna take at least an hour to eat, and I don’t see a Sheldon-approved restaurant proximate to a Sheldon-approved theatre. Raj: We could eat after the movie. Sheldon: Unacceptable, the delay would result in tomorrow morning’s bowel movement occurring at work. Raj: Hang on, hang on. There’s a 7-Eleven here. We smuggle Slurpies, which are essentially Icees, in under our coats, after having a pleasant meal either here, here or here. Howard: Wow. I don’t see how we missed that. Sheldon: Excuse me, in what universe are Slurpies Icees? Raj: That’s how we missed it. Leonard: Sheldon, would you be prepared, on a non-precedential basis, to create an emergency ad-hoc Slurpie-Icee equivalency? Sheldon: Oh, Leonard, you know I can’t do that. Howard: Okay, I guess we only have one option. Raj: Yep, I don’t see any way around it. Leonard: Bye, Sheldon. Howard: See ya. Raj: Later, dude. Sheldon: They’re right, it was the only option.

You have to wonder why they don't do this more often.

Another logical option would’ve been to buy Twizzlers in advance, which are far easier to sneak into a movie theater than Slurpees.

as Yoda says in Star Gate "its only logical."

I like how slurpies and icees are literally the same drink,being made by the same equipment from the same company.its just that 7 eleven wanted to call them slurpies to appeal to a younger audience

They could have bought the red vines from another theater and sneak them into the one they wanted to go to

Slurpee and icee are exactly the same thing. They are made by the same company, it's just that 7/11 have a licence to call them slurpees

Sadly they did not hear the "they are right" from sheldon

google says: Turns out there is actually no difference at all between Slurpees and Icees. They're both made by the Icee Company. Exact same drink. It's just that 7-Eleven has a licensing deal to call them “Slurpees”.

I would excercise that option much more

He's not even mad, the math says no and you can't argue with math

They could've just smuggled in red vines.

For once, a debate with Sheldon did NOT become contentious. Fascinating!

0:44 why would it take ten hours to eat?

Actually, what if they just snuck in some red vines for Sheldon wouldn’t that solve the problem?

How about they not eat before the film? That way they'll be hungry enough for popcorn.

This is one of the more egregious laugh tracks. There is one punch-line at the end of the scene, but the rest is just dialogue. Yet the "audience" is laughing every four seconds.

I would’ve loved to see some computer simulations

Sheldons actually got some really solid points i mean twizzlers instead of red vines wtf is that

Couldve just bought some twizzlers at the store and snuck them in.

The answer was to buy red vines at the store

It seems hes okay sneaking drinks, why not sneak in red vines

They could have smuggled red vines from the 7-Eleven after eating their meal, simple.

*I WANT EVERYONE TO TAKE SOMETHING INTO ACCOUNT!* This is not just in relation to the scene but in relation to the real world Cinemas. Usually the trailers and/or advertisements that appear before the movie play takes around 10 - 15 minutes. If a cinema states a film is playing at half past any hour. The film itself will play a quarter to the following hour. But these nerds I’m sure took that into account. And regardless as to what you may think it is NOT worth watching the trailers on the big screen. You’re paying to see a movie not paying to see a trailer you’re going to see in the same theatre at a later date. Plus.. there’s no comment section in those cinemas.

I would of liked to have heard his excuses about a different restaurant, not just theater.

He could have just snuck in Twizzlers himself...

Slurpees are the exact same as Icee's. The only difference is that 7-11 has the original namst