Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro Title reference: Sheldon's comment about Raj either emigrating to another country, returning to India, or "wandering the high seas as a stateless pirate." Howard tries to hang out with Leonard and Penny, but intrudes into their relationship. Eventually, Sheldon apologizes to Raj, conceding that his theory is correct but refusing to give up on his own. Sheldon offers Raj a chance to work for him. Raj's research on trans-Neptunian objects comes to a dead end and he faces deportation to India unless he gets a new job. Title reference: Howard and Raj go to a Goth club. Howard and Raj pretend to be goths to try to meet girls at a goth club, but chicken out when the girls persuade them to get tattoos. Sheldon tries to condition Penny, rewarding with chocolate what he considers to be "correct" behavior. Penny's bed in her apartment breaks, forcing her to sleep at Leonard and Sheldon's apartment for a few days. Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Richard Rosenstock Title reference: Sheldon tries to guess the species of a cricket he names after Jiminy Cricket. After she explains this to Leonard, the two agree to do so, but they find that neither wants to and have sex again. After Sheldon loses the bet, he meets Penny and after talking to her about Leonard, assures her that she and Leonard can always go back to being friends. Sheldon and Howard stake their most valuable comic books on a bet over the species of a cricket they hear, enlisting a depressed entomologist to settle the bet. In an attempt to feel comfortable and talk about a solution, they end up getting drunk in her apartment and throwing up all night. Leonard and Penny vacillate between friendship and a romantic relationship, struggling to resolve the awkwardness. Title reference: The electric can opener used by the men to fake the results of Sheldon's experiment while at the Magnetic North Pole. Leonard and Penny then finally have sex, but concede that things are now weird between them. When Leonard arrives in Texas, it is Mary who convinces Sheldon to forgive him by disagreeing with his views on evolution. Both are interrupted when Sheldon is humiliated on learning that Leonard, Howard and Raj tampered with one of his experiments, and retreats to his mother's home in Galveston, Texas. When the men return home from their expedition at the Magnetic North Pole, Penny reveals her feelings for Leonard and kisses him when he visits her.
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Howard begins to date Bernadette Rostenkowski. Wil Wheaton begins appearing as Sheldon's arch-enemy. Penny and Sheldon start a quirky friendship (though she can still annoy him). Penny throws herself at Leonard after he returns from three months at the North Pole, and they begin a relationship that lasts most of the season.
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Jim Parsons won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for the episode "The Pants Alternative". Amy Farrah Fowler in the season finale "The Lunar Excitation".Ĭhristine Baranski was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards for the episode, "The Maternal Congruence". The third season saw the first appearances of future main cast members Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski in "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" and Mayim Bialik as Dr. It received higher ratings than the previous two seasons with over 15 million viewers. The third season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory was originally aired on CBS from Septemto with 23 episodes.