- Sheldon seeks help from the rest of the gang in overcoming his fear of public speaking when he receives an award.
- Sheldon is this year's recipient of the college's Chancellor's Award for Science. He is surprised at being named the winner, but he believes he has been the deserving recipient every year he's been there. He changes his mind about accepting the award when he learns he has to make a speech at the awards dinner. Unbeknown to the others, Sheldon has stage fright. His four friends vow to help him overcome this fear, each playing a different but what they see as an integral part, so that he can accept the award. But Sheldon instead stumbles across a more old fashioned technique at the awards dinner to be able to make the speech.—Huggo
- Raj is going on about the ponytails found on the aliens in the James Cameron film, Avatar. Leonard comes in and tells everyone that he knows who has won the Chancellor's Award for Science. Sheldon wonders which self-important preening fraud the committee is honoring this year, to which Leonard replies that he was so glad you asked it like that. "You." Sheldon gets excited and plans to tell his mother first, but then comes up with the idea of conducting an interview with himself and posting it online.
While watching Avatar in 3-D (2-D for Raj since he didn't want to spring for the Slurpee to get 3-D glasses) Sheldon gets a call from Chancellor Morton, who expects him to make a speech at the banquet. Sheldon has spoken in front of small groups before, but any group large enough to trample Sheldon to death scares him. 36 adults or 70 kids is his limit. Penny was once very scared; however, the world looks a lot different on a haystack in the back of a Ford F-150 as a part of the Corn Queen's Court. Leonard thinks Sheldon is being ridiculous, Sheldon tells them that as the valedictorian of his college at 14, his heart started pounding in his chest, his vision became blurry, and he fainted.
Later, the gang decides to team up and help Sheldon. They'll be his X-Men to Sheldon's Professor Xavier. Penny will help him a nice new suit to give him confidence. Leonard will try and analyze his fears him thanks to his mother's psychiatry training and his long time in therapy. Raj whispers to Howard some "Indian meditation crap." Howard has the ability to pretend to give a damn about his piddly, tiny problems. Sheldon agrees, but since he is Sheldon Cooper, they'll be his C-Men (semen).
In Sheldon's living room Raj conducts a meditation exercises to help him overcome his fears. Sheldon has to find a place of peace. Sim City's Sheldonopolis. He goes to Shel-Mart in Sheldon Square to get a 15% discount on a sweater. Then Godzilla attacks Sheldonopolis and he starts helping his citizens escape, whilst Raj makes a quick getaway.
Penny is next helping Sheldon. She buys clothes whenever she is stressed out. Sheldon has several outlandish choices including prom and county singer outfits and he finally buys the first suit that Penny picked out for him. Sheldon wonders how a new suit will prevent him from passing out. He thinks he looks like a clown in that nice suit.
Next up is Leonard, who has the notepad out and is asking questions. He at least tries to interpret Sheldon's dreams, discusses the standard inkblot test and the Adler Inferiority Complex. Leonard thinks Sheldon might subconsciously think he doesn't deserve the award. When he was young he had to give back a ribbon he won for an experiment seeing if Lima beans grew better with classical music. His mother pointed out his younger brother did a Lima beans growing worse with rock 'n' roll music experiment already. The session dissolves into Sheldon discussing how Leonard is still angry at his mother reducing Leonard to tears. Sheldon feels cured because if someone like Leonard can crawl out of bed every morning, he ought to be able to face a room full of people.
At the banquet, Leonard gets to introduce Sheldon, but first reads a letter that his mother sent him. Sheldon is getting nervous so Penny hands him her glass of wine. Sheldon claims that the alcohol Penny gave her is defective. She then proceeds to give her Howard's glass of wine. Sheldon is now ready and feeling no pain. Sheldon starts with calling Leonard "Shorty" and starts telling jokes. Then he gets serious and questions why the scientists are gathered; in his words, "to study the universe". He breaks into "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer.
In the morning, while suffering a hangover, Sheldon comes out of his room, without his trousers, as Penny and Leonard have their morning coffee. His answer to where his pants went is already on YouTube under "Physicist Melts Down." He starts talking about higher dimensions where he could take off his pants over his head. And just when Sheldon thinks it can't be any more humiliating, he continues: "And now for the astronomers in the audience, get ready to see the dark side of the moon. And HERE'S URANUS!" - implying that he has mooned the audience. Sheldon is in shock as Penny and Leonard laugh.
Title reference: Sheldon takes off his pants during his acceptance speech for the award whilst drunk.
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