Episode
The Big Bang Theory: The Cornhusker Vortex
Overview
Sheldon becomes Leonard's teacher in order to understand football, while an incident with flying a kite threatens Howard and Raj's friendship.
Details
- Series
- The Big Bang Theory
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2009-11-02
- Runtime
- 20 min
Episode context
The Cornhusker Vortex is Episode 6 in Season 3 of The Big Bang Theory. It aired on 2009-11-02. The runtime is 20 min.
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Episode 5: The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary
After overhearing that Wil Wheaton is entering a trading-card competition, Sheldon decides to enter it himself. Meanwhile, Penny sets up one of her friends on a date with Wolowitz.
Episode 7: The Guitarist Amplification
A squabble between Leonard and Penny sees Sheldon playing mediator, though out of his own incovenience from the sitiation rather than altruism.
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Episode 8: The Adhesive Duck Deficiency
With Leonard, Howard and Raj away camping in the desert, an injured Penny has only Sheldon to rely on.
Episode 3: The Gothowitz Deviation
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Episode 9: The Vengeance Formulation
After he's humiliated on National Public Radio, Sheldon vows to destroy Kripke, while Wolowitz tries not to destroy his new relationship with Bernadette.
Episode 2: The Jiminy Conjecture
Leonard and Penny struggle to recover from an awkward first hookup while Sheldon and Howard stake their best comic books on a bet to determine the species of a cricket.
Episode 10: The Gorilla Experiment
Penny gets help from Sheldon in order to understand what Leonard's work is, while Wolowitz develops a jealousy when Leonard starts hanging out with his new girlfriend.
Episode 1: The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation
When Sheldon learns the guys tampered with his expedition data he got from the arctic, he leaves to Texas in disgrace. This results in the guys following him, which threatens Leonard's hope for some romantic time with Penny and the guys' friendship with Sheldon.
Episode 11: The Maternal Congruence
A Christmas visit from his mother has Leonard discovering she's kept a lot of news from him that she shares with Sheldon and worrying if she'll approve of his romance with Penny.
Episode 12: The Psychic Vortex
Leonard is aghast to find out a secret of Penny's: she believes in psychics. Meanwhile, Sheldon tries to assist Koothrappali in picking up a girl at a university mixer.
Episode 13: The Bozeman Reaction
When their apartment is robbed, Leonard and Sheldon turn to their friends to create a state-of-the-art security system.