This is the season when Wil Wheaton arrives, when Leonard and Penny get together the first time, when Sheldon starts his bazinga jokes, when Bernadette arrives and dates Howard, and when Amy was introduced.
1 - The electric can opener fluctuation
Three months later since the end of last season, the boys are back. Leinard goes to tell Penny they’re home and she welcomes him with a big kiss.
Sheldon tells Howard and Raj that he’ll remember their contribution when he’ll get the nobel prize, but won’t name them in his acceptance speech…
Sheldon thought he had made great discoveries, but actually the others were giving him false data to make him happy so they could tolerate his presence. Problem is, he had already sent out emails telling the whole university of his discoveries, so now he has to send retractions and he feels humiliated, so he resigns and goes back home in Texas. His mom calls Leonard and they go to talk to him. Since his mom can’t stand any talk of evolution, he doesnforgive them and goes back to California.
Leonard and Penny finally have sex, but it’s a bit weird afterwards.
2 - The jiminy conjecture
Leonard tells the boys that the sex with Penny was “just fine”, not bad but not great, and at dinner they mock him a bit, so Sheldon explains to Penny “you and Leonard had a disappointing sexual encounter” and she’s embarrassed. They have some wine to try again, but they drink so much they throw up so nothing happens. They decide to go back to being friends, and have sex as friends.
Sheldon loses a bet to Howard about identifying a cricket and has to give him a prized old comic book.
3 - The Gothowitz deviation
Penny’s bed broke so Penny slept at Leonard’s. Sheldon starts training her by giving her chocolates whenever she does something he approves of.
Howard wears black to go to a goth club (and it’s actually not a bad look on him. Weird, but not bad). Raj goes too. They pick up two girls there, but when the girls propose getting a tattoo and Howard freaks out it ends there.
4 - The pirate solution
Raj thinks he’s getting deported because he only has a visa for as long as he works at the university, but his work is going nowhere and he thinks they’ll cut him off. Howard finds him a place in an astronomy team, but there’s s woman there so he drinks and then he acts inappropriately, so he doesn’t get the job. Sheldon offers for him to apply for the chance to work for him. They have a rough start but Raj knows his stuff so Sheldon asks him again to work together, but this time “with him”.
5 - The creepy candy coating corollary
Howard insists Leonard should have Penny fix him up with a friend of hers. Penny brings Bernadette, who is working as a waitress for now to pay for her studies in microbiology. Howard and Bernadette seem to have nothing in common, until they discover they both have overbearing mothers.
Wil Wheaton will play in a card tournament at the comic book store. Sheldon wasn’t interested before, but now he is. Growing up he idolized him because Wesley had an idetic memory like him, but then when he was ten he made a long journey to meet him and he didn’t show up, so he “vowed eternal hatred for Wil Wheaton”. So he plays with Raj, and doing good. Wil is playing with Stuart, and can understand Sheldon’s exclamations in Klingon. Final round, Sheldon is about to win but then Wil tells him he didn’t show up because he ha to go to his grandmother’s funeral. Sheldon loves his grandma and understands the pain it would be, (Sheldon’s grandma is still alive and calling him Moon Pie) so Sheldon forfeits the game, only to discover that Wil’s grandmother is alive and well. wil wins the game and now Sheldon hates him even more. Understandably this time.
6 - The cornhusker vortex
Leonard goes out with the guys to play with kites and Penny has friends over to watch football, and he’s upset thinking Penny wants to hide him from her friends. When they talk about it she invites him to watch the next football match together. Leonard has to study the game. It turns out Sheldon knows a lot of it, all the rules, growing up in Texas. Leonard asks Sheldon to teach him, then he really tries to blend in with Penny’s friends… but he doesn’t, not at all, and when he discovers it’s only half time, not at all finished, he runs out to fly kites with Sheldon.
Howard and Raj are fighting because Howard always dumps him every time he sees a girl even if he doesn’t have a shot with them. They really act like a married couple.
7 - The guitarist amplification
Penny’s friend Justin comes to town to find work as a musician and she told him he could sleep on her couch… is it really surprising Leonard’s jealous??? Of course he is, come on. They have a fight about it. Howard and Raj are also fighting, for their usual reasons, and Sheldon can’t stand it. He hates it when people fight, as his parents always did.
8 - The adhesive duck deficiency
Leonard, Raj and Howard are out camping, while Sheldon stayed home to work. Howard found two middle-aged school teachers who gave them homemade cookies, so they eat them and… there arr some weird effects…
Penny yells for help, she slipped in the shower and is hurt. She needs Sheldon to help her put some clothes on and also to drive her to the hospital. Sheldon takes her safely there, and back home. He helps her into bed and they sing Soft Kitty together.
9 - The vengeance formulation
Howard goes out again with Bernadette who finds him really funny. It’s their third date and she wants to know if he means to have a real relationship with her or simply a one night stand. Howard doesn’t call Bernadette for over a week, saying he always thought he’d settle down with a girl like Megan Fox…. … I mean, really??? Katee of Battlestar Galactica guest stars as a fantasy girl in his bathtub. He thinks about it and decides to have a relationship with Bernadette so he goes where she works and… asks her to marry him, how embarrassing, he’s insane. Howard then sings her a creepy love rock song, and it’s a horrible moment but she likes it.
Sheldon will be live on radio, interviewed from his office on the phone. Krypke plays a prank on him, using helium to make him do the interview with a high pitched voice. Sheldon’s revenge comes when Krypke is with the president of the university and other people, they all get drenched in foam and he even left a message.
10 - The gorilla experiment
Howard has his friends meet his girlfriend Bernadette, and she starts an intellectual conversation with Leonard, interested in his work, so Penny asks Sheldon to teach her rudimentary phisics so she can talk to her boyfriend about his work. Howard is jealous and tells Leonard to leave her alone. She's upset when she learns about this, but they make peace. Bernadette is really interested in Leonard's work. Sheldon is not really a good teacher, no surprise there, so Penny doesn't learn much, she can only memorise a long phrase to repeat to him and no more.
11 - The maternal congruence
Penny and Leonard decorate the Christmas tree; he never had a tree as a child, he and his siblings had essays to do. His mom's coming and he never told her he was dating Penny. Sheldon has kept in touch with the woman the whole time, so he knows all about her and her life, much more than Leonard. Beverly even decided to get a divorce and told him but not her son. Penny takes Beverly drinking and gets her drunk.
Beverly is still convinced Howard and Raj have secret gay feelings for each other but are afraid to acknowledge their relationship.
12 - The psychic vortex
Leonard and Howard go on a double date. Leonard makes fun of Penny for believing in psychics and they have a fight. He later complains about that, "what am I supposed to do? Pretend I believe something I don't when I'm with Penny?" --- once again people have no common sense, no middle ground, in movies as in real life, he either believes what she believes or he mocks her and calls it an idiocy. No other possible thing to do for him... like for example, don't be rude, don't mock her or treat her like an idiot, do not be an extremist by wanting others to believe what you believe without concessions... and that's it, keep believing what you want, just be civil about it. "Give up his intellectual integrity"? Such nonsense, just be polite if it's not too hard for you.
Raj convinces Sheldon to go out, hoping to find a girl, by giving him his 'Green Lantern' lantern, and they do meet two girls and have fun together, to the point they ask for another date so Raj gives him his Hulk's hands signed by Stan Lee... and he does enjoy talking to this Marta, but at the end, when they see Raj and Abby are kissing, Sheldon goes to bed alone living her there, not even understanding what she wanted...
13 - The bozeman reaction
Leonard and Sheldon get home to find they've been robbed, all their consoles and many games and the tv are gone, and now Sheldon is scared to be alone in the apartment. He has Howard install a super power alarm system, but then he gets caught in it himself (electrified net). Sheldon now wants to leave Pasadena and move to Montana, but as soon as he gets there, he's robbed of all his bags so he goes back home immediately.
p.s. Leonard, Raj and Penny are his friends mentioned in his goodbye video, Howard is the treasured acquaintance.
14 - The Einstein approximation
Sheldon is stuck on his research, hasn't slept for three days and is driving them insane. He tries to find a 'menial job' to distract him so his mind can work better, and goes to 'work' (he's not paid) at the place where Penny works... and after his tray falls down he has a big intuition and goes home.
15 - The large hadron collision
It's almost Valentine's day. Leonard has the chance to go to Switzerland to witness something at Cern and he can bring a guest with him. Sheldon thinks it'll be him. When Leonard tells him he'll take Penny, he reminds him of their roommate contract, which has a situation just like this in it. Leonard still wants to take Penny. Sheldon tries treating him like Judas, then tries making him breakfast in bed talking about being friends, then makes Penny feel guilty because that trip is something he's always dreamed of. Leonard still won't take him, so they can't be friends anymore. Both Penny and Sheldon get sick and can't go, so Leonard takes Raj.
16 - The Excelsior acquisition
Stan Lee will come for a signing at Stuart's comic book store the same day Sheldon has a court summons for the night he took Penny to the hospital and ran a red light. Sheldon insults the judge and ends up in jail. To make it up to him, Penny takes him to Stan Lee's house, but then Stan Lee calls the police. Still, Sheldon is happy to have a restraining order with his signature, and will proudly put it next to the one from Leonard Nimoy.
Raj has a shirts that makes sounds and loves it. He's the only one.
17 - The precious fragmentation
The boys find a sale after following Adam West and bought a box without knowing what's in it, and they find the Ring from LOTR, apparently the one actually used in the movie. They fight over it and Leonard gives it to Penny for safekeeping. Sheldon tries to take it at night and she punches him. The end, they're still fighting over it.
18 - The pants alternative
Sheldon gets an award but has to give a speech. He has troubles speaking in front of large crowds. They try to help, in their own ways, and in the end he accepts "this year's Chancellor's Award for Science" in a great black suit; he starts drinking the alcohol Penny gives him, and instead of a speech he keeps making lame jokes and then he sings. The next morning he's without pants and can't remember anything, but can see it all on youtube.
19 - The Wheaton recurrence
Leonard tells Penny he loves her and she says thank you. They play bowling and in Stuart's team there's Wil Wheaton. Leonard starts talking about it during the game so Penny leaves and they lose the game. There's a rematch, but Wheaton gets in her head and she leaves again.
20 - The spaghetti catalyst
Penny and Leonard have broken things off. Penny tells Sheldon they're still friends, but Howard tells him that he has to choose Team Leonard. Sheldon is conflicted until Leonard tells him it's fine if he's friends with both. Penny takes Sheldon to Disneyland and so they kind of share custody of him...
21 - The Plimpton stimulation
Dr Elizabeth Plimpton will stay two nights at Sheldon's place. Leonard is a fan.
Sheldon sleeps on the couch to leave her the bed, but he shouldn't have bothered, since she goes to Leonard's room to seduce him. After having sex with Leonard, Dr Plimpton wants to hook up with Raj and Howard (he broke up weeks ago apparently) but Raj sends Howard away.
22 - The staircase implementation
It was seven years ago that Leonard went to live with Sheldon. The lift worked back then.
Leonard tells Penny how he came to live there. It was then that he met and became friends with Raj and Howard, and while he was showing them an experiment with rocket fuel ignoring Sheldon saying he was doing it wrong, the "experiment" started to react badly. Leonard wanted to bring it outside, but Sheldon intervened, leaving it inside the lift and urging Leonard out, basically saving his life when it exploded two seconds later.
23 - The lunar excitation
The four boys are doing an experiment on the roof, looking at the moon. Leonard goes to invite Penny, but it's her friend Zack that wants to see it. He's quite... ignorant, even Penny looks embarrassed. She complains to Leonard that "you have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots" and then they have sex.
Howard and Raj think it'd be fun to sign up Sheldon for online dating. The dating site actually found a match for him. They convince Sheldon to meet this Amy Farrah Fowler with blackmail. Sheldon is sure it will be a complete failure but she actually intrigues him and he buys her a drink (tepid water).
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