EPISODE
SEASON
The Big Bang Theory - Season 3
A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory. After returning from the North Pole, a conflict among the guys sends Sheldon back to Texas and interferes with Leonard';s reunion with Penny.
18 September 1989, Laguna Beach, California, USA
29 November 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 March 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA
29 August 1964, Dallas, Texas, USA
19 August 1962, Oceanside, New York, USA
September 27, 2013
The Big Bang Theory, which is a very good show and not quite yet a great show, finds most of its predictability and inevitability inside of the legitimately great performance from Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper.
September 27, 2013
The Penny/Sheldon interaction was gold, as always.
September 27, 2013
Metcalf and the other actors have a relatively easy job in the premiere because the joke writing is so well done.
September 27, 2013
The early laughter is just proof that Big Bang Theory, which is in its third season, is doing many things very right.
September 27, 2013
Let's face it, what lifts The Big Bang Theory into frequent excellence is its one constant from the start: the brilliantly nuanced performance of Jim Parsons.
September 27, 2013
Somewhere during the run of a good character-driven sitcom like, say, Friends it reaches a point where the characters are so familiar that the jokes come easy but not so familiar that they breed contempt. The Big Bang Theory is right in that sweet spot.

