One of my favourite TBBT episodes is 7.03 "The Scavenger Vortex" when Raj organises a Scavenger Hunt around Pasadena for his friends. What makes this episode even more fun when the TBBT characters are in teams of two without their usual significant others. Chuck Lorre and friends had the intriguing teams of Sheldon-Penny, Leonard-Bernadette and Howard-Amy. What if the teams had been picked differently?

Everything belongs to Lorre, Prady and friends.

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10.00am on Saturday morning

In apartment 4A Raj has just announced the Scavenger Hunt.

Raj: Okay, go ahead and divide yourselves into teams of two.

Bernadette: We could just do couples.

Leonard: Couples sounds great or we could mix things up maybe pick teams out of a hat. Whatever.

Penny: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Why don't you just admit you don't want to be on a team with me?

Leonard: I just said couples sound great.

Penny: Hm-mm. Yeah. You don't think I'm smart enough. You just think I'm going to be a liability. Even though I totally just used liability correctly in a sentence.

Raj: No fighting my friends, this is going to be fun. I have put the names of all of the men in a hat. If you ladies would like to come and pick one at random.

The three ladies each pick a name from the hat.

Bernadette: I have got Sheldon.

Penny: I have got Howard.

Amy: So logically I have got Leonard.

Raj: Good, there are 10 puzzles around Pasadena. Each puzzle gives a clue to the location of the next puzzle and so on. Here is a bag for each team, if you all want to go into separate rooms and then you can open the bags.

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Leonard and Amy are in Leonard's bedroom.

Amy: Oh good, it's a puzzle. Give it to me Leonard.

Amy immediately started to put the puzzle together.

Leonard: Wow, you're really good at puzzles.

Amy: I did them all the time as a kid. As my mom used to say when you're doing a puzzle, it's like having a thousand friends. She was full of fun lies like that.

Leonard: It's the Comic Book store.

Amy: Let's go!

Leonard and Amy left 4A and ran down to the car park.

Leonard: Come on, we can go in my car.

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Sheldon and Bernadette are in the living area of apartment 4A working on the puzzle.

Bernadette: OK it's the Comic Book store. All right, come on, that's where we have to go NOW.

Sheldon: But we haven't finished the puzzle.

Bernadette: We know the answer, come on NOW.

Sheldon: You think you know the answer. But it could be a trick. What if when the puzzle's complete, there's a sign in the window that says go to the train store?

Bernadette: Let's go to the Comic Book store and find out NOW!

Bernadette pulls Sheldon by the arm out of 4A and down the stairs to the car park.

Bernadette: Hurry up Sheldon.

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Penny and Howard are in Penny's apartment.

Penny: Oh, it's a jigsaw puzzle.

Howard: So let's solve the puzzle.

Penny: You aren't sorry to have the liability on your team Howard?

Howard: No, I am glad I didn't get Bernie.

Penny: You didn't want your own wife?

Howard: My beloved wife Bernadette can get a bit competitive with these little games, I hope Sheldon survives.

Penny: OK, what have we got here.

Howard: It looks like the Comic Book store.

Penny: You are right, OK let's go.

Penny and Howard leave 4B and run down stairs to the car park.

Penny: OK Howard, we are going in my car.

Howard: Onward to the Comic Book store.