TV Quote of the Day (‘The Big Bang Theory,’ on ‘Anything-Can-Happen Thursday’)

[On “Anything-Can-Happen Thursday,” America’s favorite nerds crash a bar, in the hope of picking up women.]

Leonard Hofstadter [played by Johnny Galecki]: “Should we talk to some of these women?”

Howard Wolowitz [played by Simon Helberg]: “No, it's way too early in the night for that. See, first we let the lawyers and the jocks thin the herd, and then we go after the weak and the old and the lame.”

Leonard: “That's your system?”

Howard: “That's my system. Oh, and if you spot a chick with a Seeing Eye dog, she's mine.” — The Big Bang Theory, Season 2, Episode 20, “The Hofstadter Isotope,” original air date Apr.13, 2009, teleplay by David Goetsch, directed by Mark Cendrowski

Quote of the Day (Donna Abu-Nasr, on Pickup Moves By Saudi Arabian Men)

“Often, while I was stuck in traffic, young men would slam Post-its or papers with their mobile phone numbers scribbled on them on the window of my car. That was one way to pick up women. Another was to go to the mall and throw the little slips of paper at the feet of women covered head to toe in black.”— Donna Abu-Nasr, Bloomberg’s Saudi Arabia bureau chief, “An Orange Bra in Riyadh,” in Our Women on the Ground:Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, edited by Zahra Hankir (2019)