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third season premiere wasted no time in reuniting Leonard and Penny. Rather than dragging on these two for yet another season, Penny immediately jumped Leonard upon his return from their three month arctic expedition. However, when Sheldon finds out the gang made up evidence to shut him up and that it was Leonard’s idea, he immediately goes to confront Leonard, interrupting his friend’s chance.
It turns out Sheldon already sent a University-wide email saying that their evidence support string theory and that he was going to win the nobel prize. After he finds out the evidence was faked, he has to send out a correction email and is incredibly humiliated at school the next day. He decides to run away and just as Leonard is about to get with Penny again, Wolowitz and Raj come over to inform him that Leonard has run away to Texas to his mom. Penny makes Leonard go with the boys to retrieve him.
The boys head to Texas and are unable to convince Sheldon to return, that is until his mother tries to argue him that evolution is just his opinion. Sheldon returns home with the boys and Leonard is finally able to get his moment alone with Penny. However, after the do it, things are definitely awkward amongst the friends.
The name of the episode, “The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation,” refers to the device the guys used on the expedition to fake the data.
When Sheldon finds out he’s getting an opportunity to go to the North Pole for three months on an NSF expedition, he struggles with the choice. It is a chance of a lifetime to help prove string theory… but it involves something he hates, going outside. The gang also seems extremely excited to have a Sheldon-less summer. That is until Sheldon decides to go and asks the guys to be the members of his team. The boys decide it’ll be worth putting up with Sheldon for three months to help make scientific history.
When Sheldon asks Penny to use the meat locker at the Cheesecake factory in order for them to practice, Penny is hurt to find out that Leonard didn’t tell her about the trip. Penny gives Leonard a goodbye gift (a snuggie) and an elongated hug (5 Mississippi count!). Leonard is convinced Penny still likes him and goes to say goodbye to her the morning before they leave and Penny won’t admit her feelings and how much she’ll miss him to his face.
The guys end up going to the North Pole and we see them eating reconstituted Thai food and watching movies. Sheldon still has his spot on the couch. Guess things aren’t so different there.
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Wolowitz has to come up with a solution when he realizes his spoace toilet is going to fail. He makes the guys pull an all nighter with him helping come up a solution using the extra parts on the space station. Basically the episode becomes a series of poop jokes and the group is unable to actually fix the problem. The best part of the episode? We actually saw Sheldon laughed! All it took was a little toilet humor.
Meanwhile, Penny is going on a second date with the guys’ nerdy friend, Stuart. Both Penny and Stuart go to Leonard for advice and he tries his best to sabotage it. In the end, after Penny and Stuart ended up making out, Penny called him Leonard instead. Stuart actually reveals this to Leonard as Penny is obviously way too embarassed. There’s hope for our favorite couple yet!
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Leonard meets his intellectual superior in award winning scientist David Underhill. Underhill is the total opposite of Leonard: handsome, charming, and cool. He’s the whole package of brains and looks which initially doesn’t sit well with Leonard. Although when Hill asks for Leornard’s help in research he is undertaking, he happily jumps at the offer. Leonard’s joy of working with Hill is hampered by jealousy when Underhill takes an interest in Penny and the feelings are reciprocated.
Sheldon, having always viewed the holidays as a pagan ritual that is rooted in obligations rather than holiday cheer, is taken for a loop when Penny brings him a Christmas gift. He now feels obligated to buy her a gift and enlists Wolowitz and Koothrappali to help him with this task which they reluctantly agree to. Sheldon believes he has come up with the most logical gift giving scenario until he opens Penny’s gift; he cannot believe what she got him.
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The Big Bang Theory TV Show is best television show, Klingon Boggle, and a 1974 Stephen Hawking lecture are all mentioned in The Big Bang Theory premiere. They have one other trait in common, too: They’re all more pleasurable ways of spending your time than this lamebrained sitcom.
Leonard (Roseanne’s Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) are nerdy physicists whose fingers seem to have left their noses just moments ago. Across the hall is Penny (8 Simple Rules’ Kaley Cuoco), a blond bimbo who doffs her clothes in the first 15 minutes of the pilot and works at the Cheesecake Factory — the mere mention of her career choice is apparently guffaw-worthy, according to the laugh track. Throw in Leonard’s Beauty and the Geek crush on Penny and you’ve pretty much got the premise. To call this a one-joke sitcom would be a stretch.
Even if you’re not sensitive to Cheesecake Factory barbs, there’s not much to like here. The dialogue — ”I can’t look at you or your avatar right now” — falls flat. A few episodes in, the writers are already performing acrobatics with the script in order to get Penny and the dorkasauruses to mouth-breathe the same air. As for the plotting (Sheldon insults his boss, Sheldon is fired, Sheldon is rehired), let’s just say you don’t need an advanced degree to follow it.
The cast is apt enough; Parsons, in particular, does a nice take on Frasier’s Niles. But overall, Leonard and Sheldon earn a grade they’ve probably never seen before.
As with “How I Met Your Mother,” “Big Bang” consciously populates its cast with younger characters, presumably the better to hit the lower half of the 18-49 demo, as CBS gradually tries to “youthify” its profile.
That sounds logical in theory (especially since “Dancing With the Stars” has tango-ed off with part of the older audience), but TV development traditionally adheres to a simpler equation — the one that states while elaborate formulas look good on paper, sitcom survival generally boils down to the basics of execution.
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