Emily Sweeney


 * Not to be confused with the deaf Emily who also dated Raj in TBBT Season 5.

Emily Sweeney, M.D., is a who found Raj through his dating site and contacted him. Raj replied through Amy. Emily is a with a quirky sense of humor and likes  and other gory things. She has three including a Sally rag doll from the horror movie "The Nightmare before Christmas". As of Sept. 2015, Emily has been on more episodes than WIl Wheaton or Raj's parents, is tied with Priya and is behind Barry Kripke, Mrs. Wolowitz and Stuart.

Season 7
In "The Friendship Turbulence", after Amy has Raj check his, he finds a message from a woman named Emily who wants to meet him. The reluctant Raj has Amy contact her as his wing-man. Amy and Emily exchange emails and find they have a lot in common. They both went to Harvard University, are s, and like and. Unfortunately Emily doesn't like Raj's inability to correspond with her directly. Amy and Emily meet to have and Raj barges in to show that he is not a  guy. Emily calls him a weird guy with no boundaries and leaves. She also ditches Amy for their next get together. Raj ruined any chance for friendship for either of them.

In "The Indecision Amalgamation", Raj meets Emily again in the and apologizes. She gives him another chance and agrees to go out to with him. Then Raj finds out that Lucy wants to see him again and he finds himself dating two. Emily is fine with that. Raj and Emily seems to be getting along together. She also has a creepy sense of humor that Raj likes.

In "The Relationship Diremption", Raj and Emily have dinner with Howard and Bernadette. Howard figures they should do it quickly because Raj is bound to mess up his relationship very quickly. Upon meeting Emily, Howard recognizes her because he had a with Emily sometime near 2009 before he met Bernadette. He had a sick, had to use the and clogged the toilet. Since he was too embarrassed to tell her, he escaped through the bathroom window just like Lucy. They meet again at dinner where she is now dating Raj. Emily reveals she's okay with it and her friends love the story. They call him "Clogzilla".

In "The Anything Can Happen Recurrence", Raj and Howard watch the gore-fest "" because Emily wants to watch it with Raj. They are both turned off and wonder about someone who likes this type of movie. On their, Raj tells Emily how he feels about it and she also wonders about someone who likes this film. She also admits that it, so Raj immediately starts it so they can watch it.

In "The Gorilla Dissolution", Raj and Sheldon find Emily at the movies with another guy. Later she visits him to talk. The guy was her artist who had been asking her out for weeks and she did so just to end the obligation. She mentions one tattoo on her shoulder, one that is not on her shoulder and one that is REALLY not on her shoulder. It has been a long time since Raj has seen something REALLY not on some woman's shoulder. Emily suggests that if he'll show her his pierced, he can see all her tattoos. They start to and she then spends the night. In the next episode, "The Status Quo Combustion", the gang was happy about how serious his relationship with Emily has gotten, though she did not appear in the episode.

Season 8
In "The Hook-up Reverberation", Penny and Leonard meet Emily for the first time and she treats Penny rather coldly. At Bernadette's suggestion, Penny stops by Emily's office to do her pitch in front of a real doctor. Penny does her pitch enthusiastically; however, Emily ignores her. She doesn't like that Penny had crawled into with Raj. Though Penny is mad as Raj, he gets them together and they apologize to each other. After they part, both women say how much they hate the other one.

In "The Prom Equivalency", Emily is Raj's date to the -themed put together by Amy and Bernadette. She travels to the dance in the couple's limo. Bernadette likes her Sally (From "")  tattoo. She likes Sally because she has lots of and her s had to be sewn back on. She also tells Bernadette that in the original story, (Bernadette's favorite fairy tale) that the evil step-sisters cut off their  to fit in Cinderella's glass slipper. Also while Stuart and Howard are fighting, she tells Raj that she is having a great time. Emily has two other tattoos.

In "The Anxiety Optimization", Howard starts a game called "Emily or Cinnamon" where people have to guess whether statements Raj has made are for the woman he loves or the dog he loves. Emily thinks Raj's sensitive nature is very sexy.

In "The Intimacy Acceleration", Emily gets the gang to go to an where puzzles have to be solved to exit the room. The geniuses get out in six minutes.

In "The Colonization Application", Raj snoops around Emily's when he is alone and breaks her. Emily is not happy, but forgives him. She gets back when she tells him it's good that he didn't look in her closet causing Raj to wonder what was in it.

In "The Commitment Determination", Raj confides in Howard and Bernadette how different he is from Emily and that he is considering breakup with her though he has a fear of being alone. Howard doesn't believe that he will break up with a girl that has sex with him. At a grave yard picnic, Emily picks up on these vibes and tells Raj that he has to break them up and not make her do it. Instead, Raj tells her that he was just trying to say that he loves her and kisses her, not knowing what her reaction would be.

Trivia

 * Emily is the second woman named Emily that Raj has seriously dated. The first was the deaf woman that Penny fixed him up with in "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst".
 * She is a horror movie fan and is turned on by "". She seems to be a horror and gore fan, stating that she had a tattoo of Sally, the rag doll character from "", because of all her scars and sewn on limbs. She also prefers the horror version of, telling the original Cinderella story.
 * She has three tattoos and a serious thing for Raj.
 * Emily has something against Penny since she fooled around with Raj at the end of Season 4.
 * Laura Spencer is one of three actresses that have played love interests of Raj and been on multiple episodes of the TV drama "." Tania Raymonde (Yvette the vet) and Katie Leclerc (Deaf Emily and series regular) were the other two.
 * Her surname of Sweeney is revealed in "The Junior Professor Solution" (S8E2).
 * She exhibits sadistic tendencies due to the creepy comments she makes and the gory interests she has.
 * She likes being in cemeteries because it makes her feel alive.
 * Her chosen profession is a dermatologist because she like to cut people and as a doctor it is legal.
 * While the guys are into video games and the sci fi/fantasy genre, Emily adds the horror genre to TBBT universe.
 * First girlfriend that is a red-head.