- On Thanksgiving, Sheldon and Amy try to spend time together as friends and go to an aquarium, Howard reluctantly agrees to volunteer at the soup kitchen with Bernadette, Raj and Emily, and Penny discovers that Leonard knows more about her than she thought.—ab1995
- Sheldon is looking for someone to take his second ticket to the aquarium's annual Thanksgiving buffet lunch, which he would have normally gone to with Amy. Leonard and Penny already have plans in that that are cooking all day for the group's Thanksgiving dinner. In the process of preparing the meal, Leonard and Penny learn that he knows almost everything about her but that she in return knows little about him, even the basics. Penny trying to become a better wife to match Leonard's care in knowledge about the other takes a turn when Penny learns how he gleaned some of that information. Bernadette and Raj can't go with Sheldon as they and Emily had long ago decided to volunteer for a six hour shift at the soup kitchen that day. Howard also volunteers to go with them just to get out of the lunch with Sheldon, although he kicks and screams all the way. As the three abandon Howard in the kitchen alone while they go work the "front of the house" line, Howard may come to a new appreciation about the meaning of Thanksgiving in how it affects his own life based on a chance encounter. With no one to go to the aquarium with him, Sheldon decides to give both tickets to Amy for her to take whomever she pleases. She proposes that they go together solely as friends. Their outing will show if they can be just friends, and not boyfriend/girlfriend.—Huggo
- Raj has a new app that allows him to use his Siri without pushing any buttons. While discussing Thanksgiving, Sheldon asks if anyone wants to go with him to the aquarium and have a Thanksgiving buffet since he is no longer with Amy. Silence. Leonard and Penny are having their first turkey day feast together and serving the rest of the gang. Bernie and Raj are going to serve food to the homeless at the soup kitchen. Howard lies that he is going too and then gets roped into going.
Sheldon contacts Amy to offer her the tickets for her and anyone she is dating while giving her some fishy Thanksgiving facts. Amy can tell that he wants to go, so if it's not too awkward for him, they could go together as friends. He agrees and tells her that he'll see her Thanksgiving morning.
Bernadette, Howard, Emily and Raj show up at the soup kitchen. Howard complains about their shift being six hours long. Raj wants to know if he ever does anything for others. He is a giving and generous lover. Emily asks Bernadette if they are close enough for her to call that creepy. Bernadette says that they are, but the word is "Yeech!" The shift supervisor comes to the door and explains that they have enough help and to come back some other time. Bernadette swipes at Howard to get that smug look off his face. The supervisor returns saying that due to a cancellation, they could use the help. As the guys enter, Howard tells Bernadette to get that smug look off her face.
Leonard and Penny are unloading the groceries for their first Thanksgiving together. Penny needs to look up the recipes on Leonard's IPad. The password is his birthday, but it doesn't work. Leonard tries it, gets in and realizes that Penny doesn't know his birthday. Leonard is enjoying himself as he runs off all these random facts about Penny. Birthday: December 2. Grew up on Perkins Street. Last four digits of her Social Security Number are 7-6-2-1. The odds of letting her forget this is zero.
Sheldon gets into Amy's car and they are both in good moods. Sheldon has a list of polite conversation topics so that their time together will not be awkward questions to catch up with her. Any pets? No. Any vacations? Amy did go to visit her aunt in Bakersfield.
At the soup kitchen, the guys are assigned to wash dishes. Howard wanted to be where the action is and serve food.
Sheldon rattles off the high temperature for the day for the last week. Amy wants to conduct a conversation without an Internet list. Sheldon wonders what they should discuss. Sheldon wonders if she has had coitus with any of the men she has gone out with.
While making dinner Leonard adds a teaspoon of pepper which is the name of Penny's childhood dog. A peeved Penny tells him that he thinks he knows so much about her. Who is her favorite Spice girl? Baby. Who is her favorite NSYNC band member? Justin? Backstreet Boys? Nice try. She preferred NSYNC. Leonard then claims to be the king of husbands. He adds that she didn't like the orange lingerie he got her for Valentine's Day. Also she doesn't like the word "moist" because.. Hold on. That was only written in her journal which Leonard obviously read. Penny knows he is lying because his voice goes up an octave.
Howard is washing dishes and claims that it's not so bad until he is told he has five hours and forty minutes to go. The supervisor asks for three volunteers to serve food. Everybody leaves Howard to go serve food leaving Howard with the dishes to do.
Leonard is apologizing to Penny for reading her journal because it was an accident. He just found it on the night table. Penny goes back to working on her meal, while Leonard still wants to make it up to her. He starts reading from his journal from the day they met. She wants to hear something recent. Leonard about how their love is growing and Penny knows that he is making it up. It's really about his excitement over the new Star Wars movie.
Sheldon thinks that things have gotten awkward, but Amy dismisses it saying that they are friends and should be able to discuss anything. How many dates has she been on? Who were they with? Where did they go? Where did she meet them? Did she sleep with them? How far is it to the aquarium? She has had six different dates with three different men and either went for coffee or to dinner. One she met at a bookstore and two she met online. She slept with none of them. And the aquarium is forty minutes away.
As Howard is washing dishes, Elon Musk brings in a tray of dirty dishes which surprises Howard. He was serving turkey, but served too much gravy and got demoted to dishes. Howard tells him that he is a big fan of the Tesla car and his SpaceX rocket project. Elon is just glad to help out the homeless that Howard agrees with saying that he had to drag Bernadette there. Howard wants to be adopted, tells him about being an astronaut and that he'd love to go to Mars, another of Elon's ventures. Elon plans on exchanging emails so they can stay in touch since he always needs engineers.
At the aquarium Sheldon is unhappy with the buffet because they ran out of pilgrim hats. Sheldon has them play an ocean-theme game; Food, Friend, Fight. They both play a round. Amy says that she misses this.
Penny pulls the turkey out of the oven and asks Leonard if he thinks it is done. Leonard comes out wearing Penny's carrot colored lingerie because he had read his wife's journal. He plans to put his picture on Facebook as punishment; however, Penny doesn't even want to see him in it. Leonard starts to dance around Penny and then gets caught by Howard, Bernadette, Raj and Emily.
Cleaning up after dinner, Penny is glad that Sheldon had a good time with Amy. Sheldon is glad that they can function together as friends. Amy calls Sheldon on the phone. She had a really nice time with him earlier. She says that maybe she is ready to be his girlfriend again. Sheldon says: "I excel at many things, but getting over you is not one of them. I think I need to just be your friend".
Title reference: Sheldon and Amy spend the day at the aquarium as friends and, afterwards, they switch roles in which of them wants to start dating again and the other just wants to remain friends.
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