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Season 3

2009 · 23 episodes

Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big, wide, wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was, thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy, clueless Sheldon and practical, grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse.

Episodes

Episode 1
The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation
8.1September 21, 200922m

When Sheldon learns the guys tampered with his expedition data he got from the arctic, he leaves to Texas in disgrace. This results in the guys following him, which threatens Leonard's hope for some romantic time with Penny and the guys' friendship with Sheldon.

Episode 2
The Jiminy Conjecture
7.5September 28, 200921m

Leonard and Penny struggle to recover from an awkward first hookup while Sheldon and Howard stake their best comic books on a bet to determine the species of a cricket.

Episode 3
The Gothowitz Deviation
7.7October 5, 200920m

Howard and Raj visit a Goth nightclub to pick up women while Sheldon attempts to build a better Penny using chocolate-based behavior modification.

Episode 4
The Pirate Solution
7.7October 12, 200921m

Raj must find a new job or be sent back to India, but Sheldon has a solution, which leaves Leonard and Penny dealing with Howard as a third wheel.

Episode 5
The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary
7.9October 19, 200921m

After overhearing that Wil Wheaton is entering a trading-card competition, Sheldon decides to enter it himself. Meanwhile, Penny sets up one of her friends on a date with Wolowitz.

Episode 6
The Cornhusker Vortex
7.1November 2, 200920m

Sheldon becomes Leonard's teacher in order to understand football, while an incident with flying a kite threatens Howard and Raj's friendship.

Episode 7
The Guitarist Amplification
7.4November 9, 200919m

A squabble between Leonard and Penny sees Sheldon playing mediator, though out of his own incovenience from the sitiation rather than altruism.

Episode 8
The Adhesive Duck Deficiency
8.5November 16, 200921m

With Leonard, Howard and Raj away camping in the desert, an injured Penny has only Sheldon to rely on.

Episode 9
The Vengeance Formulation
8.0November 23, 200919m

After he's humiliated on National Public Radio, Sheldon vows to destroy Kripke, while Wolowitz tries not to destroy his new relationship with Bernadette.

Episode 10
The Gorilla Experiment
8.1December 7, 200921m

Penny gets help from Sheldon in order to understand what Leonard's work is, while Wolowitz develops a jealousy when Leonard starts hanging out with his new girlfriend.

Episode 11
The Maternal Congruence
7.8December 14, 200920m

A Christmas visit from his mother has Leonard discovering she's kept a lot of news from him that she shares with Sheldon and worrying if she'll approve of his romance with Penny.

Episode 12
The Psychic Vortex
8.0January 11, 201019m

Leonard is aghast to find out a secret of Penny's: she believes in psychics. Meanwhile, Sheldon tries to assist Koothrappali in picking up a girl at a university mixer.

Episode 13
The Bozeman Reaction
7.9January 18, 201020m

When their apartment is robbed, Leonard and Sheldon turn to their friends to create a state-of-the-art security system.

Episode 14
The Einstein Approximation
8.1February 1, 201019m

Sheldon's search for the answer to a physics problem leads him to work at the Cheesecake Factory with Penny.

Episode 15
The Large Hadron Collision
7.9February 8, 201021m

Leonard can only bring one guest on a trip to see CERN's Large Hadron Collider (the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator) in Switzerland on Valentine's Day.

Episode 16
The Excelsior Acquisition
8.0March 1, 201021m

Sheldon winds up in traffic court when he gets a ticket because of Penny.

Episode 17
The Precious Fragmentation
8.1March 8, 201020m

When the guys find a ring from "The Lord of the Rings" at a garage sale, it threatens to tear them apart.

Episode 18
The Pants Alternative
8.1March 22, 201021m

Sheldon's friends come to his aid when his fear of public speaking stands between him and a coveted award.

Episode 19
The Wheaton Recurrence
7.6April 12, 201021m

A fight between Leonard and Penny threatens their relationship, while Sheldon battles Wil Wheaton in bowling.

Episode 20
The Spaghetti Catalyst
8.0May 3, 201020m

When Leonard and Penny aren't speaking, Sheldon goes to extremes to keep them both happy.

Episode 21
The Plimpton Stimulation
7.5May 10, 201021m

Leonard and Sheldon compete for the attention of a famous female physicist.

Episode 22
The Staircase Implementation
8.6May 17, 201020m

Leonard tells Penny about how he met Sheldon for the first time...and what happened to the elevator.

Episode 23
The Lunar Excitation
8.0May 24, 201020m

While Penny worries that dating Leonard has ruined her for normal guys, Wolowitz and Koothrappali search for Sheldon's perfect match online.

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