The Big Bang Theory

Season 3 2009 - 2010
TV-14

  • 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z on CBS
  • 22m
  • 7h 48m (23 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

23 episodes

Season Premiere

2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

3x01 The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation

Season Premiere

3x01 The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation

  • 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z22m

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.

2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

3x02 The Jiminy Conjecture

3x02 The Jiminy Conjecture

  • 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z21m

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.

2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

3x03 The Gothowitz Deviation

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

2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

3x04 The Pirate Solution

3x04 The Pirate Solution

  • 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z21m

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.

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.

2009-11-03T01:00:00Z

3x06 The Cornhusker Vortex

3x06 The Cornhusker Vortex

  • 2009-11-03T01:00:00Z20m

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

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

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

2009-11-24T01:00:00Z

3x09 The Vengeance Formulation

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

2009-12-08T01:00:00Z

3x10 The Gorilla Experiment

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.

Mid Season Finale

2009-12-15T01:00:00Z

3x11 The Maternal Congruence

Mid Season Finale

3x11 The Maternal Congruence

  • 2009-12-15T01:00:00Z20m

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.

2010-01-12T01:00:00Z

3x12 The Psychic Vortex

3x12 The Psychic Vortex

  • 2010-01-12T01:00:00Z19m

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.

2010-01-19T01:00:00Z

3x13 The Bozeman Reaction

3x13 The Bozeman Reaction

  • 2010-01-19T01:00:00Z20m

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

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

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.

2010-03-02T01:00:00Z

3x16 The Excelsior Acquisition

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

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

2010-03-23T00:00:00Z

3x18 The Pants Alternative

3x18 The Pants Alternative

  • 2010-03-23T00:00:00Z21m

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

2010-04-13T00:00:00Z

3x19 The Wheaton Recurrence

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

2010-05-04T00:00:00Z

3x20 The Spaghetti Catalyst

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

2010-05-11T00:00:00Z

3x21 The Plimpton Stimulation

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

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

Season Finale

2010-05-25T00:00:00Z

3x23 The Lunar Excitation

Season Finale

3x23 The Lunar Excitation

  • 2010-05-25T00:00:00Z20m

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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