- 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.
- 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.—Huggo
- Sheldon becomes envious when he meets 15-year-old child prodigy Dennis Kim (Austin Lee), who was accepted for doctoral studies at the university, and soon realizes that not only is Kim similar to himself (an obnoxious and arrogant child prodigy) (he calls Sheldon's work on string theory a "Dead end"), but is even smarter than he. Kim is also the youngest winner of a prestigious scholarship, breaking an age record which was previously held by Sheldon. Howard and Leonard enjoy this turn of events as they can see that Sheldon has finally met his own match
Sheldon loses faith in his own research and annoys his friends by criticizing their work more than ever and forcing his own contributions on them (He calls Howard the Oompah Loompah of science as he is an engineer). He wants to collaborate with Howard who is working on building a space shelf for the space station (by telling him to use carbon Nano-tubes instead of titanium), who tells him to go away. He then tells his friends to abandon all their work and collaborate with him to solve the nuclear fusion problem in the next 10 years (12 years tops)
Finding his physics work useless, he aims for the Nobel Peace Prize by attempting to solve all Middle East conflicts, but he annoys everyone, including a Jewish professor, with his proposal that an exact duplicate of Jerusalem be built in the Mexican desert. He also asks Howard if an exact replica of the wailing wall in the middle of the Mexican desert would be acceptable to him.
The others, tired of Sheldon's behavior, decide to distract Kim with girls of the same age. They figure that they can restore Sheldon's confidence if they distract Kim with adolescent pleasures. Their plan unexpectedly works at Kim's welcome party (where Howard and Raj send out a memo that its bring your teenage daughter to work day.. the email had gone to all faculty members who had daughters between the ages of 14 and 16), and Kim leaves with a blonde 15-year-old. The gang is left perplexed as the entire while they were trying to figure out how to fix up Kim with a girl, while he managed to do that all on his own. Howard has memories of how a girl who preferred jocks, lured him into the back seat of his mother's car and then exposed him as the entire football team made fun of him with his pants down. Leonard has memories of how a girl made him do her homework the entire yr and made him hold her head up in the toilet, while she considered him a "friend" and had feelings for the other guys at school who never cared for her.
Sheldon resumes his research while the others are perplexed at how easily Kim was able to get a girl. In a park, the guys spot him drinking heavily and making out. They feel sorry at his demise, but the victorious Sheldon mocks him that he was not focused enough.
Title reference: Sheldon's proposed duplication of Jerusalem.
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