Season 3

E1. The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation

Sep 21, 2009 · 22m

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.

E2. The Jiminy Conjecture

Sep 28, 2009 · 21m

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.

E3. The Gothowitz Deviation

Oct 5, 2009 · 20m

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

E4. The Pirate Solution

Oct 12, 2009 · 21m

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.

E5. The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary

Oct 19, 2009 · 21m

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.

E6. The Cornhusker Vortex

Nov 2, 2009 · 20m

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

E7. The Guitarist Amplification

Nov 9, 2009 · 19m

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

E8. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency

Nov 16, 2009 · 21m

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

E9. The Vengeance Formulation

Nov 23, 2009 · 19m

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

E10. The Gorilla Experiment

Dec 7, 2009 · 21m

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.

E11. The Maternal Congruence

Dec 14, 2009 · 20m

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.

E12. The Psychic Vortex

Jan 11, 2010 · 19m

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.

E13. The Bozeman Reaction

Jan 18, 2010 · 20m

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

E14. The Einstein Approximation

Feb 1, 2010 · 19m

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

E15. The Large Hadron Collision

Feb 8, 2010 · 21m

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.

E16. The Excelsior Acquisition

Mar 1, 2010 · 21m

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

E17. The Precious Fragmentation

Mar 8, 2010 · 20m

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

E18. The Pants Alternative

Mar 22, 2010 · 21m

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

E19. The Wheaton Recurrence

Apr 12, 2010 · 21m

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

E20. The Spaghetti Catalyst

May 3, 2010 · 20m

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

E21. The Plimpton Stimulation

May 10, 2010 · 21m

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

E22. The Staircase Implementation

May 17, 2010 · 20m

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

E23. The Lunar Excitation

May 24, 2010 · 20m

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