The Big Bang Theory / Season 3

Season 3 of The Big Bang Theory
Original title	The Big Bang Theory - Season 3
Episodes	23
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	September 21, 2009 - May 24, 2010 on CBS
German-language first broadcast	February 7, 2011 - February 22, 2011 on ProSieben
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The third season of the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory celebrated its premiere on 21 September 2009 at the transmitter CBS . The finale was broadcast on May 24, 2010. In Germany , the third season was broadcast on ProSieben from February 7, 2011 to February 22, 2011 .

actor

See also : Cast of The Big Bang Theory

Role name	actor
Dr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter	Johnny Galecki
Dr. Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper	Jim Parsons
penny	Kaley Cuoco
Howard Joel Wolowitz, M.Eng.	Simon Helberg
Dr. Rajesh "Raj" Ramayan Koothrappali	Kunal Nayyar

Episodes

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
41	1	The North Pole Plan	The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation	21 Sep 2009	Feb 7, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Steven Molaro
After returning from the North Pole, Sheldon learns that his friends have falsified the research results in order to have peace of mind. Unfortunately, Sheldon had already sent a circular to the university announcing his groundbreaking results. Offended and humiliated, he decides to leave university and goes to Texas, where he hides with his mother. Penny, overjoyed with Leonard's return, promises to wait for him and sends him and the others to get Sheldon back. Faced with his mother's religiosity, Sheldon finally decides that returning is the lesser evil.
42	2	The cricket bet	The Jiminy Conjecture	28 Sep 2009	Feb 7, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Jim Reynolds
Leonard and Penny's first night together turned out to be rather disappointing. Sheldon's lack of tact, as always, makes everything even more embarrassing for the two of them and they begin to doubt the relationship and get drunk out of frustration. Sheldon and Howard meanwhile catch a cricket in the house and bet on expensive comic books what kind of cricket they have in front of them. To clear the question, consult an entomologist who is frustrated with his marriage, life in general, and the recently cut research budget. Howard is right, and it is with a heavy heart that Sheldon has to part with a valuable part of his comic book collection.
43	3	Sex or chocolates	The Gothowitz Deviation	Oct 5, 2009	Feb 8, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari Idea: Lee Aronsohn & Richard Rosenstock
Penny spends more and more time in the flat because of her relationship with Leonard, which disturbs Sheldon's rigid daily routine. He secretly tries to change her habits by "feeding" her chocolates every time she does what he wants . Leonard sees through his plan and forbids Sheldon to experiment with his girlfriend, but Sheldon cannot understand this. Meanwhile, Howard and Rajesh try to meet women in a Goth-style club , dressed appropriately and with fake tattoos . They actually get to know two Goth girls, but a subsequent visit to a tattoo studio reveals them to be a boor.
44	4th	For him or with him	The Pirate Solution	Oct 12, 2009	Feb 8, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Steve Holland
Rajesh has reached a dead end with his research and there is a risk that his visa will be withdrawn and he will have to return to India. To avoid it, he needs a job in another work group. After his inability to speak to women without alcohol has blocked him an attractive job opportunity, he finally receives an offer from Sheldon who is looking for a colleague for a new research project. Rajesh is desperate enough to accept it and work for Sheldon from now on. Meanwhile, Howard, who is bored because Rajesh is very busy with his new job, becomes a “fifth wheel” for Leonard and Penny and feels increasingly like an outsider.
45	5	The man who loved his grandma	The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary	Oct 19, 2009	Feb 9, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Howard reminds Leonard of the agreement once made that as soon as one of the two finds a friend, she should set the other up with one of her friends. Penny then introduced him to her colleague Bernadette, a microbiology student, with little enthusiasm . After initial difficulties, she and Howard begin to get along well when they realize that they both have very stressful mothers. Meanwhile, Rajesh and Sheldon take part in a trading card game tournament and the showdown between Sheldon and Wil Wheaton takes place , with which Sheldon still has an account. But he lets himself be lulled by a made up story by Wil Wheaton and loses on purpose.
46	6th	Football for nerds	The Cornhusker Vortex	Nov 2, 2009	Feb 9, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari
Leonard suspects that Penny is ashamed of him in front of her friends, but they vehemently reject it. In order to make friends with her circle of friends, Penny then invites him to watch American football with her friends. Fortunately, Sheldon turns out to be an expert on American football, as his father often took him to a game as a child. Leonard lets Sheldon show him the rules and watches a game with Penny and her friends. Meanwhile, there is a dispute between Howard and Rajesh, because Howard was distracted by a woman running past during the dragon fight and Rajesh lost his precious dragon to Sheldon. As a result, Howard has to use all his charm to reconcile his best friend.
47	7th	The guitarist on the couch	The Guitarist Amplification	Nov 9, 2009	Feb 10, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn
Leonard and Penny quarrel because Penny invites a musician friend to stay with her for a while and Leonard is jealous about it. Shortly thereafter, Rajesh and Howard argue about it, who have different views on the argument and soon strike each other for a sweeping blow. Sheldon, who cannot endure this condition because it reminds him of the constant arguments between his parents, desperately tries to mediate and bring about peace, but only makes things worse. During another argument, Sheldon goes to Rajesh, who is arguing with his parents over video chat. He then runs away and Leonard and Penny have to go looking for him. You can find him in the comic book store, where he sits on the floor and refuses to come along if Leonard and Penny don't finally make up again.
48	8th	The soup tattoo	The Adhesive Duck Deficiency	Nov 16, 2009	Feb 10, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Steven Molaro, Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari Idea: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady & David Goetsch
Leonard camps with Howard and Rajesh in the desert to watch the Leonid shower, while Sheldon stays home alone and becomes a hero against his will, as Penny slips in the bathtub and dislocates her shoulder. While Sheldon has to jump over his shadow and helps Penny to get dressed and then drives her to the hospital, the others involuntarily get into a drug intoxication due to their naivety and start to fantasize wildly in a boisterous mood, so that they completely understand the real reason for their stay forgotten in the desert.
49	9	The formula of vengeance	The Vengeance formulation	Nov 23, 2009	Feb 11, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Richard Rosenstock, Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland Idea: Chuck Lorre & Maria Ferrari
Barry Kripke plays a nasty prank on Sheldon when he appears on a conference call on a nationwide radio show: He secretly passes helium into Sheldon's office to make his voice sound ridiculous. While Sheldon plans an appropriate revenge, Howard has to decide whether to enter into a relationship with the "real" Bernadette or to pursue his fantasy image of a woman. A conversation with Penny and a daydream with actress Katee Sackhoff help him decide on the relationship with Bernadette. Sheldon's act of revenge ultimately backfires, because at the time Kripke is not alone in the laboratory, but has a visit from the university president.
50	10	The gorilla project	The Gorilla Experiment	Dec 7, 2009	Feb 11, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari Idea: Chuck Lorre, Richard Rosenstock & Steve Holland
Howard's friend Bernadette is visiting the flat for the first time and shows interest in Leonard's work and experiments during the course of the conversation. Howard becomes jealous and forbids Leonard to have contact with Bernadette, which annoys Bernadette and leads to an argument. Penny in turn becomes aware that she does not understand anything about physics and thus Leonard's work. She asks Sheldon to teach her the basics, and Sheldon agrees, since he considers it an interesting experiment to teach physics to what he sees as an uneducated person like Penny. However, his lessons are not very efficient and Penny is not a good student, and so he just manages to get Penny to comment on Leonard's work, with which she amazes the others the next time they eat together.
51	11	Girls at the bar	The Maternal Congruence	Dec 14, 2009	Feb 14, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady & David Goetsch Idea: Steven Molaro, Richard Rosenstock & Maria Ferrari
A visit from Leonard's mother Beverly at Christmas time is happy for Sheldon, but Leonard and Penny are anything but enthusiastic. Leonard did not tell his mother about his relationship with Penny, because he feared that she would not meet his mother's standards. In addition, it turns out that Sheldon has been in regular contact with Beverly since her last visit (season 2, episode 15) and is better informed about Leonard's family than he is himself. A joint visit to the bar brings Penny and Beverly closer to each other and sets Penny down informed them of the relationship with their son. Beverly and Penny return drunk to the apartment, where Beverly shows unusual emotions: She hugs her son and kisses Sheldon.
52	12	Howard's phases	The Psychic Vortex	Jan. 11, 2010	Feb 14, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds Idea: Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Penny is angry with Leonard after he makes fun of her visit to the fortune teller in the presence of Howard and Bernadette and that she believes this "nonsense". Howard convinces him that for a relationship with Penny he has to put his beliefs on the back burner and Leonard apologizes to her. Meanwhile, Sheldon is urged by Rajesh, who has been bored since Howard and Leonard had a girlfriend, to go to a party to meet women. After some persuasion and bribery in the form of a Green Lantern fan article, they actually visit the party together and get to know Abby and Martha, who want to meet with them again shortly afterwards. Rajesh has to sacrifice another fan article and Sheldon agrees to meet again. While Rajesh is enjoying his conquest of Abby, Sheldon doesn't understand what his admirer Martha is after.
53	13	Terror in the city of roses	The Bozeman Reaction	Jan. 18, 2010	Feb 15, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland Idea: Bill Prady, Lee Aronsohn & Jim Reynolds
Leonard and Sheldon are broken into and all consoles including games, televisions and laptops are stolen. From then on, Sheldon no longer feels safe in the apartment and is constantly (even at night) looking for Leonard and Penny's closeness, who soon feel annoyed by it. So that Sheldon can sleep soundly again, Howard installs a complicated alarm and trap system in the shared apartment, which instead of a burglar accidentally catches Sheldon. As a result, he decides to look for a new home with high-speed internet and a low crime rate. After a negative experience immediately after arriving in his supposedly new place of residence, Bozeman in Montana , he returns immediately.
54	14th	Almost like Einstein	The Einstein Approximation	Feb. 1, 2010	Feb 15, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan Idea: Lee Aronsohn, Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
Sheldon has been desperately seeking the answer to a physical problem for days without making any progress. He no longer sleeps, can no longer think of anything else and uses everyday objects such as marbles or the peas from his friends' plates to give his imagination a boost. Finally, he has the idea of ​​following the historical example of Albert Einstein and taking on a monotonous job, because Einstein formulated his theory of relativity while he had a simple office job in the Bern patent office. After an unsuccessful appointment with the employment agency , he decides on his own to work with Penny in the Cheesecake Factory and there actually has the decisive flash of inspiration after dropping a tray and looking at the pattern of the broken pieces.
55	15th	Free flight to Geneva	The Large Hadron Collision	Feb 8, 2010	Feb 16, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Lee Aronsohn, Richard Rosenstock & Maria Ferrari Idea: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
Leonard is allowed to bring a guest to CERN in Switzerland on Valentine's Day . Of course he decides to take Penny with him, which annoys Sheldon, because he believes, as a physicist, he deserves to be taken. Since Leonard shows himself unimpressed by references to the flat share contract, he works on Penny until she agrees to talk to Leonard about it. Sheldon hugs Penny in thanks, unaware that she has caught the flu virus. On the day of departure, Penny and Sheldon are sick and Leonard has no choice but to go to Switzerland with Rajesh.
56	16	Sheldon per se	The Excelsior Acquisition	1st Mar 2010	Feb 16, 2011	Peter Chakos	Bill Prady, Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari Idea: Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Sheldon faces court after receiving a parking ticket through Penny's fault. He insults the judge, who has shown himself to be unimpressed by Sheldon's statements and does not want to lift the sentence. When Sheldon refuses to apologize, he is locked up and misses the opportunity to meet famous comic book author Stan Lee who is giving an autograph session in the comic book store. Penny, feeling guilty about it, gets Stan Lee's address to compensate and goes there with Sheldon. After Sheldon feels invited to enter Stan Lee's house due to a misunderstanding, the latter calls the police and also obtains an injunction that forbids Sheldon to approach Stan Lee in the future.
57	17th	The Lords of the Ring	The Precious Fragmentation	March 8 2010	Feb 17, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Richard Rosenstock Idea: Lee Aronsohn, Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
A "Lord of the Rings" ring that Leonard, Sheldon, Rajesh and Howard discovered by chance at a flea market threatens to put the friendship of the four to a severe test, as everyone claims the ring for themselves. Rajesh even turns his cousin on as a lawyer (unsuccessfully) and Sheldon repeatedly tries to take the ring. Eventually, the four agree that whoever lets go of the ring should get it. Leonard, who gave up early, takes the ring while the others sleep and claims he found it lying on the floor and sent it back to Peter Jackson . In reality he has hidden it in his room and wanted to keep it himself, but is seen through by Sheldon.
58	18th	The dark side of the moon	The Pants Alternative	22 Mar 2010	Feb 17, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Eric Kaplan, Richard Rosenstock & Jim Reynolds Idea: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady & Steve Holland
Sheldon is to receive an award, but his fear stands in the way of giving a speech in front of an audience. Fortunately, his friends know how to help him, each in his own way: Penny goes to buy a new outfit with Sheldon, which should also give him more self-confidence, Rajesh tries to teach Sheldon meditation techniques and Leonard wants to approach the problem through psychoanalysis. When none of this brings the desired result, the only last resort is the consumption of alcohol. This not only relieves Sheldon of fear, but also any inhibitions, and he delivers a memorable speech that, to the amusement of Leonard and Penny, even ends up on YouTube.
59	19th	The L-word	The Wheaton Recurrence	Apr 12, 2010	Feb. 18, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady, David Goetsch, Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari Idea: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro, Nichole Lorre & Jessica Ambrosetto
Penny feels overwhelmed by Leonard's sudden confession of love, as she is not sure that she feels the same for him as he does for her. During a bowling game against the team of comic book seller Stuart and Sheldon's archenemy Wil Wheaton, an argument breaks out and Penny goes, causing Sheldon's team to lose. He bets Stuart that his team will win a rematch match, but Wil Wheaton takes advantage of the relationship crisis by making Penny break up and run away through a made-up story, despite Sheldon warning her that Wil Wheaton is other people manipulated with lies. Sheldon's team loses again and to redeem the bet, Sheldon, Leonard, Rajesh and Howard have to appear publicly disguised as cartoon characters.
60	20th	Spaghetti with sausages	The Spaghetti Catalyst	May 3, 2010	Feb. 18, 2011	Anthony Rich	Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Leonard and Penny no longer speak to each other. Sheldon doesn't know how to act, especially after Howard persuades him that his unreserved solidarity should be with his friend and roommate Leonard. Sheldon would like to continue to be friends with Penny and his unsuccessful attempts to secretly maintain his friendship with Penny ultimately lead to Penny and Leonard talking to each other again. As a result, the three behave like a divorced couple and their child, and after Penny and Sheldon visited Disneyland together, Leonard and Penny decided to consider each other as friends again in the future.
61	21st	Foursome without Sheldon	The Plimpton stimulation	May 10, 2010	Feb 21, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Steven Molaro, Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari Idea: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton, a famous physicist and friend of Sheldon's, is in town and since she doesn't like hotels, she stays in Sheldon's room while Sheldon sleeps on the couch. Leonard has been fascinated by her from the first moment and is on cloud nine after Elizabeth makes him very clear advances. However, it quickly turns out that she has nymphomaniac traits, because the next day she tries to have a threesome with Howard and Rajesh. As expected, Sheldon has difficulty understanding Leonard's and Elizabeth's behavior, and Penny is not thrilled that Leonard had sex with another woman so soon after their breakup. But she assures Leonard, who is finally plagued by a guilty conscience, that it is okay since they are now separated.
62	22nd	The truth about the elevator	The Staircase Implementation	May 17, 2010	Feb 21, 2011	Mark Cendrowski	Chuck Lorre, Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari Idea: Lee Aronsohn, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
After an argument with Sheldon, Leonard fled to Penny's apartment and told her there how he became Sheldon's roommate and how the flat share contract was negotiated. You not only get to see Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Rajesh and (in a short fade-in) Penny seven years ago, also the transvestite Louis / Louise, Sheldon's and Leonard's former neighbors, and the North Korean spy Joyce Kim, in front of which Sheldon his roommate preserved rather by chance, are shown. Eventually it is learned that Leonard made a mistake while trying to produce fuel for Howard's model rocket in his apartment and inadvertently created a highly explosive mixture that could explode at any time. Sheldon's courageous intervention enabled the container to explode in the closed elevator in good time, which, however, was irreparably damaged.
63	23	No more stupid guys	The Lunar Excitation	May 24, 2010	Feb 22, 2011	Peter Chakos	Lee Aronsohn, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland Idea: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari
Penny gets to know Zack, but after a short time is horrified to find that her brief relationship with Leonard has changed her so much that she can no longer stand such a "stupid guy". Frustrated, she gets drunk and seduces Leonard, who a few days later tries unsuccessfully to do the same. Howard and Rajesh, meanwhile, log Sheldon into an online dating site for fun and without his knowledge, and answer any questions the way Sheldon would. In fact, there is a matching wife for Sheldon, Amy Farrah Fowler, in the database. Howard and Rajesh use a trick to persuade Sheldon to meet her, but when they meet Amy, who is very similar to Sheldon in her behavior, they regret their decision.

DVD release

In the United States , the third season DVD was released on September 14, 2010. In the United Kingdom and Germany , the DVD for the third season has been available since September 27, 2010 and October 7, 2011, respectively.

Web links

• Episode list of the third season of The Big Bang Theory at fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

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