
The Big Bang Theory — Season 2
Smart is the new sexy.
About this season
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 (23)

1. The Bad Fish Paradigm
7.8Aired 22 September 2008 • 22 min
Penny's first date with Leonard goes awry; Penny finds Sheldon to be an unwilling confidant.

2. The Codpiece Topology
7.6Aired 29 September 2008 • 21 min
A jealous Leonard reacts to Penny's new guy by rebounding with Leslie.

3. The Barbarian Sublimation
7.9Aired 6 October 2008 • 21 min
Sheldon creates a monster when he introduces Penny to online gaming.

4. The Griffin Equivalency
7.6Aired 13 October 2008 • 21 min
Raj gets an inflated ego and makes a play for Penny after being referenced in a magazine article.

5. The Euclid Alternative
7.6Aired 20 October 2008 • 20 min
Leonard and his friends stage an intervention to force Sheldon to face his fear of driving.

6. The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem
7.8Aired 3 November 2008 • 21 min
Sheldon and the gang are confused when a young grad student is attracted to him.

7. The Panty Piñata Polarization
7.9Aired 10 November 2008 • 21 min
When Sheldon bans Penny from the apartment for numerous minor infractions, she decides to retaliate.

8. The Lizard-Spock Expansion
7.4Aired 17 November 2008 • 20 min
Leonard inadvertently steals away the new woman Wolowitz thinks is the love of his life.

9. The White Asparagus Triangulation
7.4Aired 24 November 2008 • 21 min
Sheldon is thrilled when Leonard starts dating a woman who meets Sheldon's stringent standards.

10. The Vartabedian Conundrum
7.0Aired 8 December 2008 • 21 min
Leonard asks Penny for advice when his new relationship starts moving too fast.

11. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis
8.2Aired 15 December 2008 • 21 min
Penny starts dating Leonard's handsome colleague; Leonard and his friends are tortured by Sheldon's obsession with gift-giving etiquette.

12. The Killer Robot Instability
7.5Aired 12 January 2009 • 21 min
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.

13. The Friendship Algorithm
7.5Aired 19 January 2009 • 21 min
Sheldon creates a scientific procedure for making friends.

14. The Financial Permeability
7.4Aired 2 February 2009 • 21 min
Sheldon's solution to Penny's financial difficulty leads to a confrontation between Leonard and Penny's ex-boyfriend.

15. The Maternal Capacitance
8.2Aired 9 February 2009 • 21 min
Leonard and Penny are drawn together after a disastrous visit from Leonard's mother.

16. The Cushion Saturation
7.5Aired 2 March 2009 • 21 min
A paintball game leads to a fight between Sheldon and Penny, and romance for Leslie and Wolowitz.

17. The Terminator Decoupling
7.6Aired 9 March 2009 • 21 min
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.

18. The Work Song Nanocluster
7.6Aired 16 March 2009 • 20 min
Penny's home business turns into a complete nightmare when Sheldon takes over.

19. The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition
7.6Aired 30 March 2009 • 20 min
Penny squares off with a new beautiful female neighbor who may become the building's "new Penny."

20. The Hofstadter Isotope
7.6Aired 13 April 2009 • 20 min
A fellow comic book enthusiast's hitting on Penny leads to Leonard and Howard going to a bar's Ladies' Night.

21. The Vegas Renormalization
7.5Aired 27 April 2009 • 22 min
Leonard and Koothrappali escort a heartbroken Wolowitz to Las Vegas, and Sheldon becomes locked out of his apartment and must stay with Penny.

22. The Classified Materials Turbulence
7.5Aired 4 May 2009 • 19 min
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.

23. The Monopolar Expedition
7.5Aired 11 May 2009 • 21 min
The guys' plan to work over the summer at the North Pole makes Penny revaluate her feelings for Leonard.