"The Jiminy Conjecture" is the second episode of the third season of the American television sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Sheldon, Raj and Howard are at the comic book store and are surprised to see Leonard arrive, expecting him to be having sex with Penny.
After thoroughly searching the apartment, Sheldon climbs down the elevator shaft in the hallway and his flashlight's battery runs out.
Howard and Raj hear the cricket and check the stairwell, leaving Sheldon in a darkened elevator shaft.
They settle the bet by taking the cricket to Professor Crawley, Caltech's depressed entomologist, who has just lost funding for his lab.
Club complimented Sheldon's carefully chosen vocabulary and the cricket storyline, she criticized the plot between Leonard and Penny.