The Psychic Vortex
🎞️ S3 E12 🤔 Gray area

The Big Bang Theory

Is The Big Bang Theory S3 E12 OK for kids?

The Psychic Vortex

While Sheldon and Koothrappali attend a university mixer, Leonard is upset to discover that Penny believes in psychics.

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Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Preview first — about 10+

The Big Bang Theory S3 E12, “The Psychic Vortex”, scores 1/5 for violence, 3/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 10+. While Sheldon and Koothrappali attend a university mixer, Leonard is upset to discover that Penny believes in psychics.

Across the episode we counted 5 flagged moments in 1 themes: Sex & hookups (5). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 5 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in The Big Bang Theory S3 E12:

  • Leonard Don’t worry. We’re planning to have sex right on the salad bar.
  • Howard These are the ones you want to sleep with.
  • Sheldon Well, you’re in luck, there’s a mixer here in Flatland. Oh, look, there’s a sexually attractive line segment, you should chat her up.
  • Howard Why don’t you kids go ahead and chat? We’re gonna make out back here.
  • Leonard What’s your point? In order to keep having a sexual relationship with Penny, I have to give up everything I believe in, my intellectual integrity, the very nature of who I am? I can’t do that, Howard.

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.