Kaley Cuoco Bitch Slaps Galecki, Gets Steamy for Maxim

Kaley Almost Kills Co-Star

Kaley Cuoco, who plays Penny on The Big Bang Theory, has had a busy week. Not only did Kaley "almost kill" Johnny Galecki (Leonard Hofstadter), she belittled him during her retelling of the incident during an interview for the March issue of Maxim magazine.

"I was driving a Vespa in the Dominican Republic with my cast-mate Johnny Galecki on the back like a little bitch. I ran us into a wall and he went flying. I almost killed Johnny Galecki," Cuoco said.

All along we thought Sheldon Cooper was the dangerous driver. Who knew?

What we'd like to know is, Vespa? Really? Then again, faster alternatives probably would've killed Galecki so kudos on that one, Kaley.

On another note, if you're a fan then chances are good that you've already seen the steamy web-shots of Kaley Cuoco's Maxim photo montage. If you haven't seen them, you'll probably want too. Just sayin'.

Roommates Square Off in The Large Hadron Collision (The Big Bang Theory, Season 3 | Episode 15)

Warning: Episode Spoilers Inside! Read at your own risk!

After Sheldon explains the scientific equivalent of "Neener-Neener," Leonard reveals that Caltech is sending him to the CERN Supercollider in Switzerland. More important, Leonard is allowed to bring a guest. Naturally, the revelation sends Sheldon into fits of ecstasy as he rushes off to begin packing.

Except Leonard isn't taking Sheldon but instead Penny for what he hopes to become a romantic Valentine's Day incursion amidst the Swiss Alps and, you know, visit the Large Hadron Collider.

Leonard arrives home to discover Sheldon enthusiastically packing for the voyage he won't be taking. Sheldon even invites him into his normally off-limits room with a cheerful, "Of course, my good friend. Come in!"

Leonard's revelation that Penny is his intended guest is at first met with disbelief, followed by typical derision. Suddenly, the most interesting collision is not among those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but between the Valentine's Day plans of Leonard and the childhood dreams of Sheldon.

"We're going to Switzerland to see the CERN Supercollider. And skiing, we'll also go skiing," Leonard reveals to Penny a short time later.

Her excitement (about the skiing, not the LHC) is quickly confronted by Sheldon. Fingering the pages of Leonard and Sheldon's binder-encased "Roommate Agreement," Sheldon reveals a clause dictating that Leonard is bound to invite him for the trip.

When Leonard still rejects, Sheldon ignores his part of the agreement by engaging in a surprising bit of Tuvan throat singing, at least as his first step in convincing Leonard to change his mind.

After Leonard and Sheldon later engage in a travel game of "Traitor" (in which Sheldon reveals his distaste for Rupert Murdoch because he owns FOX and they cancelled the show Firefly), Sheldon proffers 30 pieces of silverware to Leonard in the cafeteria--a sly reference equating Leonard to Judas Iscariot.

Failing to change Leonard's mind even still, Sheldon attempts a different strategy. Leonard is awoken to a meticulously prepared breakfast in bed, replete with Frodo pancakes and gentle flute playing.

Collapsing plans to kill Leonard with kindness leave Sheldon with only one alternative--bully, embarrass, or otherwise arouse pity in Penny. The ploy works and her mercy on Sheldon leads to an ever rare hug from the physicist.

The embrace turns out to be Sheldon's downfall, however. Leonard invites Sheldon to the LHC after Penny becomes ill with the flu only to discover that now, too, Sheldon has fallen sick due to Penny's hug imbued germs.

The episode finale is prompted with the entrance of Leonard and Rajesh, as they make themselves comfortable in a Swiss hotel room.

Leonard's demure is Rajesh's delight--the room is laden with romantic perks including roses and chocolate, all contributing to Rajeh's proclamation that he will never forget the best Valentine's Day he has ever had. 

Sheldon Struggles in The Einstein Approximation (The Big Bang Theory, Season 3 | Episode 14)

Warning: Episode Spoilers Inside! Read at your own risk!

This episode of The Big Bang Theory, The Einstein Approximation, finds Sheldon struggling with a heady problem that devolves into a row of sleepless nights and ongoing anguish for the Caltech genius.

Soon, no one can escape Sheldon's obsessive pursuit of the answer as to "why electrons behave as if they have no mass when traveling through a graphene sheet." We all know that a graphene sheet is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a flat, atomic-thick honeycomb lattice. Common knowledge, right?

For Sheldon's quest, however, the problem is transposed into peas and lima beans stolen from Leonard and Rajesh's cafeteria lunch, arranged as electrons and carbon atoms respectively. Howard can keep his useless corn.

When lunchroom side dishes fail him, Sheldon is forced into using marbles spread across his apartment living room floor. They prove to be a slip hazard to Leonard and Penny but not a resolution to the mass-less electron puzzle.

With Sheldon still absent an explanation for the quirky electrons, Leonard and Penny find themselves roused in the middle of the night by Leonard's spooky, Joker cackling cell phone ring tone. A security guard at a local children's fun stop telephoned after encountering a possessed Sheldon chest deep in the store's ball pit of fun.

Why, you might ask? The balls are bigger, and therefore better representations of carbon atoms. You didn't really think it was just a playful fit, did you?

Sheldon's hope of finding use in the plastic "carbon" balls is dashed when Leonard arrives intent on taking him back to the apartment. The task isn't quite so easy, however, and Sheldon manages several "Bazinga!" moments as he swims through the ball pit like a flighty mole under a summer garden, occasionally popping his head above the plastic earth to announce his most recent escape.

Leonard finally succeeds in returning Sheldon home, but not in avoiding more misery. He and Penny are once again stirred from sleep, this time by Sheldon's need to confer a revelation. No, not by laying bare the solution to his graphene nightmare but with a new idea that he believes will.

Menial labor is the answer. That is to say, some ongoing occupation meant to entangle his brain's basal ganglia with mundane trivialities found in routine. A bit like Einstein at the patent office, his model for the solution to finding the solution (and source for this episode's title, The Einstein Approximation).

The next morning, Sheldon races after his Einstein-born eureka by visiting a local job service, seeking work "building monuments" and generally stupefying the clerk assigned to help him. As you might suppose, the endeavor doesn't end well.  Failure at the job service isn't enough to halt the compulsive geis possessing Sheldon, however.

Sheldon next appears, wrapped in a kitchen apron and collecting dirty dishes, as the newest bus boy at Penny's Cheesecake Factory.

Penny, naturally surprised that Sheldon was able to get the job, discovers that he merely donned himself for the role and started to work--no need for the annoyance of actually being "hired". Occupational drudgery is what Sheldon is after, not a paycheck, after all.

Ultimately, Sheldon's plan succeeds through an accident involving shattered dishes. Insight from the broken dinnerware causes him to recognize his problem electrons to be moving through the sheet as a wave, not as particles, giving him final solace for his graphene perplexity.

Or maybe not. The show hilariously ends with Sheldon and Leonard once again engaged in a midnight game of "catch me if you can" amidst the colorful plastic ball pit. Bazinga!

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