TV Quote of the Day (‘The Big Bang Theory,’ on Coping With a Boy Genius)

Mary Cooper (played by Laurie Metcalf): “Leonard, the Lord never gives us more than we can handle. Luckily He blessed me with two other children who are as dumb as soup.”—Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s born-again mother, explaining to Sheldon’s friend Leonard Hofstadter how she manages to cope with her intellectually superior but socially maladjusted son, in The Big Bang Theory, Season 1, Episode 4, “The Luminous Fish Effect,” teleplay by David Litt and Lee Aronsohn, directed by Mark Cendrowski, original air date October 15, 2007