Fill in the blanks with the words you hear. It is the first scene
after the initial credits of
THIS
EPISODE:
Scene: The apartment.
Penny: I just
love __
decorating___________ the
Christmas tree. It makes me feel like a little girl again.
Leonard:
We didn’t have a tree when I was _______
growing
up______________.
Penny: Really? Why not?
Leonard:
Mmm, in my family, holidays weren’t so much
___
celebrated_________________
as studied for their anthropological and psychological implications
on ________
human __________
society.
Penny: Oh, sounds festive. Did you at least give
________
present____________?
Leonard:
Mmm, in a way. We presented papers, and then broke off into focus
groups and critiqued each other.
Penny: Sheldon, what about
you? Did you _______
have_________a
Christmas tree?
Sheldon: Oh, yes. We had a tree, we had a
manger, we had an inflatable ____
santa
clous__________ with plastic reindeer
on the front lawn. And to make things even more jolly, there were so
many blinking ____
lihgths_____________
on the house they induced neighbourhood-wide seizures.
Penny:
So I take it you don’t want to _______
help_________
us trim the tree.
Sheldon: I do not. But if you insist on
_____
decorated________________a
spider-infested fire hazard in my home I would request that you add
this.
Penny: What is it?
Sheldon: You’re kidding,
right? It’s a bust of Sir ______
Neewton_______________.
Penny:
Oh, sure, sure, yeah. Very Christmassy.
Sheldon: Wait, excuse
me, but it’s much more Christmassy than anything you’ve put on
the tree.
Leonard: Here we go.
Sheldon: December 25,
1642, Julian calendar, Sir Isaac Newton is ______
born___________
Jesus, on the other hand, was actually born in the
_______
_summer___________.
His birthday was moved to coincide with a traditional pagan holiday
that celebrated the ______
Winter___________
solstice with lit fires and slaughtered goats. Which, frankly,
sounds like more _____
fun________________
than 12 hours of church with my mother followed by a
fruitcake.
Leonard: Merry Newton-mas, everyone.
Sheldon:
I sense that’s not sincere, although I have no idea why.
Penny:
No, it’s fine. Look, Sir Isaac can go right next to this little
candy cane.
Sheldon: No. Isaac goes at the
________
__top__________of
the tree.
Leonard: No, he _____________
doesn't______________.
