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The Jerusalem Duality ()

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  • Season 1
  • Episode 12
Sheldon decides to give up his work and focus on other tasks when a 15-year-old prodigy joins the university, so the other guys come up with a plan to get rid of him.
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Leonard Hofstadter
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Sheldon Cooper
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Penny
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Howard Wolowitz
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Raj Koothrappali
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Dr. Eric Gablehauser
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Dennis Kim
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Emma
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Professor Goldfarb (uncredited)
Alex Strahle ...
Kid Playing Guitar (uncredited)

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Mark Cendrowski

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Chuck Lorre ... (created by) (creator) &
Bill Prady ... (created by) (creator)
 
David Goetsch ... (teleplay) (as Dave Goetsch) &
Steven Molaro ... (teleplay)
 
Jennifer Glickman ... (story) &
Stephen Engel ... (story)

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Lee Aronsohn ... executive producer
Kristy Cecil ... associate producer
Peter Chakos ... co-producer
Robert Cohen ... co-executive producer
Stephen Engel ... consulting producer
Jennifer Glickman ... consulting producer
David Goetsch ... co-executive producer (as Dave Goetsch)
Chuck Lorre ... executive producer (showrunner)
Steven Molaro ... producer
Faye Oshima Belyeu ... producer
Bill Prady ... executive producer
Mary T. Quigley ... co-producer

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Steven V. Silver ... director of photography

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Peter Chakos

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Ryan Berdan ... post-production coordinator (uncredited)
Tony D'Amore ... final colorist (uncredited)
Todd Morris ... assistant editor (uncredited)

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Ken Miller
Nikki Valko

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John Shaffner

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Ann Shea

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Mary T. Quigley

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Peggy Nichols ... makeup artist
Faye Woods ... hair stylist

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Kelly Lee ... unit production manager (as Kelly-Anne Lee)

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Chris Klausen ... second assistant director
Howard Murray ... associate director
Anthony Rich ... first assistant director

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Scott L. London ... property master
Francoise Cherry-Cohen ... set designer (uncredited)
Justin D. Hetzel ... art department production assistant (uncredited)
Bryan Rogers ... set dresser (uncredited)

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Bob La Masney ... re-recording mixer
Charlie McDaniel ... re-recording mixer
Bruce Peters ... production sound mixer
Ron Arnold ... sound recordist (uncredited)
Michael Kreple ... foley mixer (uncredited)
Eric Raber ... audio sweetening mixer (uncredited)

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Roland Monty Reese ... dimmer board op
Robert Zeigler ... digital imaging technician (uncredited)

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Nikki Hoffman ... extras casting
Peter Pappas ... casting associate
Adam Hochfeld ... extras casting (uncredited)

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Julie Heath ... key costumer (uncredited)

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Barenaked Ladies ... composer: theme music / performer: theme music
Leo Tee ... music clearance manager (uncredited)

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Julie Fleischer ... script supervisor

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Don Foster ... executive consultant
Brian George ... production coordinator
Eddie Gorodetsky ... executive consultant
Mark Roberts ... executive consultant
David Saltzberg ... science consultant (as David Saltzberg Ph.D.)
Mona Garcea ... executive assistant (uncredited)
Maile Gerken ... production assistant (uncredited)
Lisa Maniker ... product placement (uncredited)
Anthony Robinson ... production assistant (uncredited)
Jason T. Welden ... computer/video playback (uncredited)
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Fifteen year old genius Dennis Kim is a physics doctoral candidate who Gablehauser wants at the college at any cost. Dennis is much like Sheldon was at that age, with the ego and arrogance to match. As such, Sheldon doesn't like Dennis, especially after Dennis criticizes Sheldon's work on string theory, which is his primary research. But Sheldon realizes that one of the comments Dennis makes about his research is indeed true. For Sheldon, this realization means the end of his life as he knows it. Much to his genius friends' chagrin, Sheldon needs to find something academic to do, and who better to do it with than other geniuses (albeit less so than him). So Leonard, Howard and Raj decide that to get Sheldon back to the top of the heap status they need to take Dennis down a few notches by refocusing his fifteen year old mind on more pubescent pursuits. Written by Huggo

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  • The Jerusalem Duality (United States)
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Trivia The "shelf" Howard (Simon Helberg) is building is actually an inverted Kodiak Sidewinder motorized step (painted silver), used for entering/exiting lifted trucks. See more »
Goofs When talking to Dennis Kim about the Stevenson Award (and Sheldon not being the youngest to ever win it), on Sheldon's certificate can be seen with the name "Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D." Sheldon won the award at age 14-1/2; in the Cooper-Hofstader Polarization, Leonard states than Sheldon received his Ph.D at age 16 - so the Stevenson Award could not refer to Sheldon as doctor. See more »
Movie Connections References Alice in Wonderland (1951). See more »
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Crazy Credits CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #202 Tonight's story about Sheldon's ego being crushed following his encounter with a young prodigy has its roots in my own life. Around 1974 I was playing guitar for a living in Miami Beach. I was twenty-two years old and thought I was really something. In the parlance of musicians, I felt I had some "serious chops." Nights I played clubs, hotels, and private parties. For a few months I worked in a lounge band on a cruise ship. I even landed a day gig playing acoustic solo stuff at a coffee house in South Beach. That was where a professor from the University of Miami saw me play, dug what I was doing, and invited me to audit his jazz guitar class at the university. I happily accepted, thinking I might be able to teach the kids a thing or two. I still remember the first class, me sitting in the back proudly holding my beat-up '64 Fender Strat, while the college students all cradled expensive Gibsons. Of course, this only made me feel more smug. I was a working musician. These were rich kids in a rich school with instruments that daddy bought 'em. But then something happened that would change my life forever. A painfully shy, sixteen year old boy walked into the room. He could barely speak nor make eye contact with anyone, seemed dwarfed by his big jazz guitar, and was ludicrously introduced as a visiting professor to the university. His name was Pat Metheny. I'll never forget how I felt when he began to play. It was an imploding feeling, like the kind you get when your ego is being demolished like an old Vegas casino. Thankfully, the feeling was accompanied by a soft, reassuring voice in my head that whispered, "Find work in television, nobody's a prodigy there." Thirteen years later I listened to that voice (I may have been deluded, but I was no quitter). Oh, and Pat, if you happen to read this... thank you. See more »
Quotes Sheldon: So! This is engineering, huh?
Howard Wolowitz: [on phone] I'll talk to you later.
Sheldon: Engineering, where the noble semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, Oompa Loompas of science!
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