

Sheldon gets caught in the security net and decides he needs to leave Pasadena. When their apartment is robbed and their TV, video games, and computers are stolen, Leonard and Sheldon turn to Howard to create a state-of-the-art security system. Leonard and Penny get into a fight over her belief in psychics. Sheldon and Koothrappali attend a university mixer and get dates with Abby ( Danica McKellar) and her friend Martha (Jen Drohan). Penny is upset because Leonard didn't mention his mother's visit to her. Beverly Hofstadter, delights Sheldon and horrifies Leonard. Penny then asks Sheldon to teach her a little physics so she can understand Leonard's work.Ī visit from Leonard's mother, Dr.

Sheldon plans revenge against his arch-nemesis Barry Kripke.īernadette shows an interest in physics and gets invited to watch Leonard's experiment which makes Wolowitz jealous. He avoids her for a week and gets some relationship advice from his own fantasy characters. Wolowitz's new girlfriend, Bernadette, asks him where their relationship is going after their third date. Sheldon comes to Penny's rescue after she dislocates her shoulder and Sheldon has to drive her to the hospital. Leonard is with Rajesh and Howard on a camping trip to watch the Leonid Meteor Shower, but all three succumb to 'magic' cookies they get from Deadhead campers nearby. Howard and Raj have a dispute during their kite fighting game.Īn argument between Leonard and Penny causes Sheldon to freak out with the couple treating him like they are his surrogate parents.
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Sheldon, who grew up in Texas where football was popular, teaches Leonard how to understand it so that he can try to fit in with Penny's friends. Howard gets Leonard to have Penny set him up with a blind date, a girl named Bernadette. Sheldon enters a trading-card competition upon learning that Wil Wheaton, who he hates for not coming to a sci-fi convention he went to, will also be attending. Howard is lonely and tries hanging out with Leonard and Penny. Sheldon has a solution, which is to allow Raj to work "for" him, rather than work "with" him. Raj must find a new job or be sent back to India. Raj and Howard and going to a Goth bar to meet girls. The guys discover Leonard is not as happy with the sex, while Sheldon, Howard and Raj are on a quest over a bet involving a cricket.Īfter an accident causing Penny's bed to break, Sheldon must deal with Penny staying in his apartment.

Penny is happier than most now that Leonard is back. (But you know she's thinking "within reason.Following his return from the Arctic, Sheldon is very excited over the prospects that his research in the Arctic has yielded until he learns that the guys fudged his data. “Of course I want you to be happy,” Penny says. "And this is something that would make me happy. “I’m not loving my job right now," he says. Penny says that's something he probably should run by her first, but Leonard counterargues that she's the one who said not to worry about her feelings. She can’t even get Leonard to go to the beach, but now he’s talking about going somewhere else? What gives? “I don’t want to, but if that’s what I have to do, ," Leonard says. Leonard explains that there are plenty of other universities in the world if Cal Tech says no, and Penny is shocked. She wants him to be more assertive in life and work, but not if it's at the expense of their current lifestyle and income (though she is making bank in pharmaceutical sales). “If they don’t want me to quit, is what it’s going to take." Penny freaks out that Leonard might quit his job at Cal Tech. This is where things get interesting: Leonard says he’s not going to let them say no. Penny interrupts and says Sheldon shouldn’t worry about what happens because if worse comes to worst, the university will just say no. Leonard reiterates it's because Sheldon doesn’t want him to succeed, but Sheldon says that’s not it. “I don’t think you should demand to be in charge of a plasma project,” he says. Sheldon comes by and tells him he’s been agonizing about saying something. Later, Leonard tells Penny he spent the entire day putting together his proposal so he can tell President Siebert this is what he wants to do.
