When one of the university professors retired, an office became available. Both Sheldon and rival scientist Barry Kripke wanted the office for their own, so they decided to battle it out. After sorting through board, card and video games, they found their skill levels significantly unmatched. So they decided to compete for the office in a sports contest, a field in which neither showed any talent. After a gruelling and embarrassing play, Sheldon won the office. However, it did not live up to his expectations. His friends found him stapling paper to the vent, to stop the ice cold breeze from the air conditioning entering his office. When they asked what he was doing, Sheldon went into rant mode complaining about a hole in the wall, the tonally unmatched wind chimes and mocking bird outside of the window and the noisy geology department upstairs. He starts off reasonably calm when explaining but builds to screaming at the different things that annoyed him.