Episodes 23

1 The Bad Fish Paradigm

September 22, 2008

22m

Penny's first date with Leonard goes awry; Penny finds Sheldon to be an unwilling confidant.

2 The Codpiece Topology

September 29, 2008

21m

A jealous Leonard reacts to Penny's new guy by rebounding with Leslie.

3 The Barbarian Sublimation

October 6, 2008

21m

Sheldon creates a monster when he introduces Penny to online gaming.

4 The Griffin Equivalency

October 13, 2008

21m

Raj gets an inflated ego and makes a play for Penny after being referenced in a magazine article.

5 The Euclid Alternative

October 20, 2008

20m

Leonard and his friends stage an intervention to force Sheldon to face his fear of driving.

6 The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem

November 3, 2008

21m

Sheldon and the gang are confused when a young grad student is attracted to him.

7 The Panty Piñata Polarization

November 10, 2008

21m

When Sheldon bans Penny from the apartment for numerous minor infractions, she decides to retaliate.

8 The Lizard-Spock Expansion

November 17, 2008

20m

Leonard inadvertently steals away the new woman Wolowitz thinks is the love of his life.

9 The White Asparagus Triangulation

November 24, 2008

21m

Sheldon is thrilled when Leonard starts dating a woman who meets Sheldon's stringent standards.

10 The Vartabedian Conundrum

December 8, 2008

21m

Leonard asks Penny for advice when his new relationship starts moving too fast.

11 The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis

December 15, 2008

21m

Penny starts dating Leonard's handsome colleague; Leonard and his friends are tortured by Sheldon's obsession with gift-giving etiquette.

12 The Killer Robot Instability

January 12, 2009

21m

Penny's criticism of Wolowitz's romantic life pushes him into depression and AWOL for a fighting robot battle the rest of guys are depending on him for.

13 The Friendship Algorithm

January 19, 2009

21m

Sheldon creates a scientific procedure for making friends.

14 The Financial Permeability

February 2, 2009

21m

Sheldon's solution to Penny's financial difficulty leads to a confrontation between Leonard and Penny's ex-boyfriend.

15 The Maternal Capacitance

February 9, 2009

21m

Leonard and Penny are drawn together after a disastrous visit from Leonard's mother.

16 The Cushion Saturation

March 2, 2009

21m

A paintball game leads to a fight between Sheldon and Penny, and romance for Leslie and Wolowitz.

17 The Terminator Decoupling

March 9, 2009

21m

Leonard, Sheldon and Wolowitz are ecstatic to learn that a famous science-fiction actress (Summer Glau) is on board the train they are taking to San Francisco.

18 The Work Song Nanocluster

March 16, 2009

20m

Penny's home business turns into a complete nightmare when Sheldon takes over.

19 The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition

March 30, 2009

20m

Penny squares off with a new beautiful female neighbor who may become the building's "new Penny."

20 The Hofstadter Isotope

April 13, 2009

20m

A fellow comic book enthusiast's hitting on Penny leads to Leonard and Howard going to a bar's Ladies' Night.

21 The Vegas Renormalization

April 27, 2009

22m

Leonard and Koothrappali escort a heartbroken Wolowitz to Las Vegas, and Sheldon becomes locked out of his apartment and must stay with Penny.

22 The Classified Materials Turbulence

May 4, 2009

19m

Penny's second date with Stuart sees her making a comment that gives Leonard new hope for a relationship with her. Wolowitz realizes there's a crucial error in a NASA project he's working on.

23 The Monopolar Expedition

May 11, 2009

21m

The guys' plan to work over the summer at the North Pole makes Penny revaluate her feelings for Leonard.

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