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Raj's sister Priya comes to visit. She and Leonard have a secret sexual relationship, which is discovered by Sheldon.

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'''"The Irish Pub Formulation"''' is an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' that first aired on October 28, 2010. Directed by Mark Cendrowski. Teleplay by Bill Prady, Eric Kaplan and Maria Ferrari, based on a story by Creator/ChuckLorre, Lee Aronsohn and Steven Molaro.


Raj's sister sister, Priya (Creator/AartiMann) comes to visit. She and Leonard have a secret sexual relationship, which is discovered by Sheldon.

Leonard wants Sheldon to keep the secret, because Raj is extremely protective of Priya and also because Leonard pinky swore with Howard that neither of them would pursue Priya.

Sheldon finds it very hard to keep a secret, so he concocts an elaborate story about Leonard going to an Irish pub and meeting a very loose Irish woman.

Note that Penny is absent from this episode and the previous one. Creator/KaleyCuoco had an accident in real life.

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* AbsenteeActor: The second of two "Penniless" episodes, due to Kaley Cuoco having suffered an injury while horseback riding.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Sheldon's extreme CannotTellALie behavior is not yet in evidence here; instead, he crafts an absurdly over-complicated and convoluted alibi for what Leonard was doing the previous night.
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* PetTheDog: Sheldon praises Howard for his admittedly clever "cobbler" play on words

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* PetTheDog: Sheldon praises Howard for his admittedly clever "cobbler" play on wordswords.
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* SpitTake: At the end of the episode, Leonard does this when he found out the flavor for Sheldon's snow cone is Mango Caterpillar.

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* SpitTake: At the end of the episode, Leonard does this when he found out [[IAteWhat the flavor for Sheldon's snow cone is Mango Caterpillar.Caterpillar]].
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* CuckoolanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.

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* CuckoolanderWasRight: TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.
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* CloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.

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* CloudcuckoolanderWasRight: CuckoolanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.
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* CloudcuckooLanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.

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* CloudcuckooLanderWasRight: CloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.
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* CloudcuckooLanderWasRight: Subverted. While Sheldon's belief of how they would comes to the conclusion Leonard slept with Priya was much more convoluted than how it actually went down, he did correctly guess that Leonard not preparing a lie in advance to what he actually did the previous night would come back to haunt him.
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* PetTheDog: Sheldon praises Howard for his admittedly clever "cobbler" play on words
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, the whole cast previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's a returning character. Technically, Penny hasn't met her yet, but Penny isn't in this episode.

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* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, the whole cast previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's a returning character. Technically, Penny hasn't met her yet, but Penny isn't in this episode.episode.
* SpitTake: At the end of the episode, Leonard does this when he found out the flavor for Sheldon's snow cone is Mango Caterpillar.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, all the guys previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's a returning character.

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* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, all the guys whole cast previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's a returning character.character. Technically, Penny hasn't met her yet, but Penny isn't in this episode.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, all the guys previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's already a recurring character.

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* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, all the guys previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's already a recurring returning character.
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!!! Plot

Raj's sister Priya comes to visit. She and Leonard have a secret sexual relationship, which is discovered by Sheldon.

!!! Tropes appearing in the episode

* AbsenteeActor: The second of two "Penniless" episodes, due to Kaley Cuoco having suffered an injury while horseback riding.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Raj's attitude about Leonard or Howard hooking up with Priya.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Although this is Priya's first appearance on the show, all the guys previously met her on an earlier visit that took place before the pilot and thus greet her as though she's already a recurring character.

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