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Season 2

Season 2

2008
23 Episodes

This season, Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch. Raj woos a terminator. Gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan. And super-smart, ueberconfident Leslie Winkler reduces mere men to spineless jellyfish.

Episodes

The Bad Fish Paradigm
1

1. The Bad Fish Paradigm

Sep 22, 2008
22 min
7.8

Penny's first date with Leonard goes awry; Penny finds Sheldon to be an unwilling confidant.

The Codpiece Topology
2

2. The Codpiece Topology

Sep 29, 2008
21 min
7.5

A jealous Leonard reacts to Penny's new guy by rebounding with Leslie.

The Barbarian Sublimation
3

3. The Barbarian Sublimation

Oct 6, 2008
21 min
7.8

Sheldon creates a monster when he introduces Penny to online gaming.

The Griffin Equivalency
4

4. The Griffin Equivalency

Oct 13, 2008
21 min
7.5

Raj gets an inflated ego and makes a play for Penny after being referenced in a magazine article.

The Euclid Alternative
5

5. The Euclid Alternative

Oct 20, 2008
20 min
7.5

Leonard and his friends stage an intervention to force Sheldon to face his fear of driving.

The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem
6

6. The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem

Nov 3, 2008
21 min
7.8

Sheldon and the gang are confused when a young grad student is attracted to him.

The Panty Piñata Polarization
7

7. The Panty Piñata Polarization

Nov 10, 2008
21 min
7.9

When Sheldon bans Penny from the apartment for numerous minor infractions, she decides to retaliate.

The Lizard-Spock Expansion
8

8. The Lizard-Spock Expansion

Nov 17, 2008
20 min
7.4

Leonard inadvertently steals away the new woman Wolowitz thinks is the love of his life.

The White Asparagus Triangulation
9

9. The White Asparagus Triangulation

Nov 24, 2008
21 min
7.3

Sheldon is thrilled when Leonard starts dating a woman who meets Sheldon's stringent standards.

The Vartabedian Conundrum
10

10. The Vartabedian Conundrum

Dec 8, 2008
21 min
6.9

Leonard asks Penny for advice when his new relationship starts moving too fast.

The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis
11

11. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis

Dec 15, 2008
21 min
8.2

Penny starts dating Leonard's handsome colleague; Leonard and his friends are tortured by Sheldon's obsession with gift-giving etiquette.

The Killer Robot Instability
12

12. The Killer Robot Instability

Jan 12, 2009
21 min
7.5

Penny's criticism of Wolowitz's romantic life pushes him into depression and AWOL for a fighting robot battle the rest of guys are depending on him for.

The Friendship Algorithm
13

13. The Friendship Algorithm

Jan 19, 2009
21 min
7.5

Sheldon creates a scientific procedure for making friends.

The Financial Permeability
14

14. The Financial Permeability

Feb 2, 2009
21 min
7.4

Sheldon's solution to Penny's financial difficulty leads to a confrontation between Leonard and Penny's ex-boyfriend.

The Maternal Capacitance
15

15. The Maternal Capacitance

Feb 9, 2009
21 min
8.2

Leonard and Penny are drawn together after a disastrous visit from Leonard's mother.

The Cushion Saturation
16

16. The Cushion Saturation

Mar 2, 2009
21 min
7.5

A paintball game leads to a fight between Sheldon and Penny, and romance for Leslie and Wolowitz.

The Terminator Decoupling
17

17. The Terminator Decoupling

Mar 9, 2009
21 min
7.5

Leonard, Sheldon and Wolowitz are ecstatic to learn that a famous science-fiction actress (Summer Glau) is on board the train they are taking to San Francisco.

The Work Song Nanocluster
18

18. The Work Song Nanocluster

Mar 16, 2009
20 min
7.6

Penny's home business turns into a complete nightmare when Sheldon takes over.

The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition
19

19. The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition

Mar 30, 2009
20 min
7.6

Penny squares off with a new beautiful female neighbor who may become the building's "new Penny."

The Hofstadter Isotope
20

20. The Hofstadter Isotope

Apr 13, 2009
20 min
7.6

A fellow comic book enthusiast's hitting on Penny leads to Leonard and Howard going to a bar's Ladies' Night.

The Vegas Renormalization
21

21. The Vegas Renormalization

Apr 27, 2009
22 min
7.4

Leonard and Koothrappali escort a heartbroken Wolowitz to Las Vegas, and Sheldon becomes locked out of his apartment and must stay with Penny.

The Classified Materials Turbulence
22

22. The Classified Materials Turbulence

May 4, 2009
19 min
7.4

Penny's second date with Stuart sees her making a comment that gives Leonard new hope for a relationship with her. Wolowitz realizes there's a crucial error in a NASA project he's working on.

The Monopolar Expedition
23

23. The Monopolar Expedition

May 11, 2009
21 min
7.4

The guys' plan to work over the summer at the North Pole makes Penny revaluate her feelings for Leonard.