Can you explain the parts [(number) ... ]?

[The cafeteria]
Howard: So who'd he get to be on his team.(それで、彼は誰をチームに入れるんだ？)
Leonard: He won't say. He just smiles, and eats macaroons out of his bat jar.
Raj: He's using psychological warfare. We must reply in kind. I say we wait until he looks at us, then laugh like, yes, you are a smart and strong competitor, but we are also smart and strong and we have a reasonable chance of defeating you.
Leonard: How exactly would that laugh go?
Raj: Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!
Howard: [(1) That sounds more like, we are a tall thin woman who wants to make a coat out of your Dalmatians.]
Leonard: Guys, let's remember that Sheldon is still our friend and my room mate.
Howard: So?
Leonard: So nothing, let's destroy him.
Sheldon: (walking past) Gentlemen.
Raj: Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!
Howard: Okay, we're going to need a strong fourth for our team.
Raj: You know who's apparently very smart, is the girl who played TV's Blossom. She got a PhD in neuroscience or something.
Leonard: Raj, we're not getting TV's Blossom to join our physics bowl team.
Raj: How about the girl from the Wonder Years.
Howard: Gentlemen, I believe I've found the solution to all our problems.
Leonard: We can't ask Leslie Winkle.
Raj: Why? Because you slept together and when she was done with you she discarded you like last night's chutney?
Leonard: Yes.
Howard: Sometimes you've got to [(2) take one] for the team.
Raj: Yeah. [(3) Sack up, ]dude.
Leonard: Fine. Here I go, taking one for the team. [(4) In the sack. ]Hey Leslie.

Question

Can you explain the parts [(number) ... ]?

[The cafeteria]
Howard: So who'd he get to be on his team.(それで、彼は誰をチームに入れるんだ？) 
Leonard: He won't say. He just smiles, and eats macaroons out of his bat jar.
Raj: He's using psychological warfare. We must reply in kind. I say we wait until he looks at us, then laugh like, yes, you are a smart and strong competitor, but we are also smart and strong and we have a reasonable chance of defeating you.
Leonard: How exactly would that laugh go?
Raj: Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!
Howard: [(1) That sounds more like, we are a tall thin woman who wants to make a coat out of your Dalmatians.]
Leonard: Guys, let's remember that Sheldon is still our friend and my room mate.
Howard: So?
Leonard: So nothing, let's destroy him.
Sheldon: (walking past) Gentlemen.
Raj: Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!
Howard: Okay, we're going to need a strong fourth for our team.
Raj: You know who's apparently very smart, is the girl who played TV's Blossom. She got a PhD in neuroscience or something.
Leonard: Raj, we're not getting TV's Blossom to join our physics bowl team.
Raj: How about the girl from the Wonder Years.
Howard: Gentlemen, I believe I've found the solution to all our problems.
Leonard: We can't ask Leslie Winkle.
Raj: Why? Because you slept together and when she was done with you she discarded you like last night's chutney?
Leonard: Yes.
Howard: Sometimes you've got to [(2) take one] for the team.
Raj: Yeah. [(3) Sack up, ]dude.
Leonard: Fine. Here I go, taking one for the team. [(4) In the sack. ]Hey Leslie.

sparklyglitz · Answer

1. He's saying Raj's laugh sounds like that of Cruella de Vil. She's a Disney character in 101 Dalmatians who's very evil

2. "Take one for the team" is like you have to do this (even if you don't want to) because your team needs you

3. "Sack up". Referencing ball sack (testicles). Testicles belong on men, and me  are supposed to be courageous. He's saying "be a man!"
(Other similar phrases: "grow a pair", "grow some balls", etc)

4. Not sure how to explain this. He's just repeating what Howard told him

michael62511 · Answer

1: This is a reference to the main villain in the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians. 
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2: "take one for the team" means to get injured/hurt in some way for the benefit of the group or team. This situation will be awkward for Leonard since he used to have a sexual relationship with Leslie, but Howard wants Leonard to "take one for the team" and ask Leslie to join anyway.  

Origin: This term comes from baseball. If the batter gets hit by the ball that the pitcher throws, then he automatically goes to first place. If the batter "takes one for the team", he gets hit by the ball and gets hurt, but in the process moves to first and advances the other basemen forward.
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3&4: Honestly I don't really get these. "sack" can mean "bed", so it might be a sexual joke. "sack" can also mean "testicles", so taking it "in the sack" might be saying "getting hit in the testicles", implying that's the amount of pain he'll receive? Or maybe it is saying that he is taking the hit in his pride as a man? ... I really don't know.

fisher · Answer

(1) Howard is talking about the way Raj was laughing (in the line above: Raj: Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!). He is telling Raj that his laugh sounds like someone who would say "we are a tall thin woman who wants to make a coat out of your Dalmatians". He is making fun of Raj. Raj wanted to make his laugh sound like someone tough, but Howard is saying that Raj's laugh sounds more like an evil woman. To further understand the joke, you have to be familiar with a children's story character, Cruella DeVille, who made a coat out of Dalmatians. She is an evil character in the story. Howard is telling Raj that his laugh sounds like Cruella DeVille's, instead of like a tough guy.

(2) "Take one for the team" is an expression that is often used lightly in English. It is often a joking way of saying that you will make some sort of sacrifice (otherwise known as "taking one") for your friends (otherwise known as "the team"). Howard is telling Leonard to "take one for the team", and make the sacrifice of talking to Leslie Winkle so that she will join the boys's trivia group.

(3) "Sack up" means to basically find the courage to do something you don't want to do. In this case, Leonard has to "sack up" and find the courage to talk to Leslie Winkle.

I hope this all makes sense!

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