Recaps
Season 1: Episode 16: The Peanut Reaction
The gang finds out that Leonard's birthday is coming up. Penny wants to throw him a party, but she finds out that his family never celebrated his birthdays. Penny decides to throw him a surprise party ... More...
Season 1: Episode 15: The Pork Chop Indeterminacy
Sheldon's twin sister comes into town, and she is a complete knockout. Leonard, Wolowitz, and Koothrappali go crazy for her and compete for her attention. When Leonard devises a plan to eliminate his rivals, ... More...
Season 1: Episode 14: The Nerdvana Annihilation
When the guys buy the old time machine prop from the movie, Penny accuses them of acting like children and tells them to grow up. This prompts Leonard to get rid of all of his nerdmorabilia, as he realizes ... More...
Season 1: Episode 13: The Bat Jar Conjecture
The guys engage in the University Physics bowl. But Sheldon is so obnoxious, he is kicked off the team. So he forms his own team with the janitor and the cafeteria lady, and he goes up against his buddies. ... More...
Season 1: Episode 12: The Jerusalem Duality
In this episode a 14 year old wunderkind is introduced to the physics lab where Sheldon and Leonard work. Sheldon is threatened by this boy, because he can take Leonard's title of youngest genius away. ... More...
Season 1: Episode 11: The Pancake Batter Anomaly
When Sheldon comes down with the flu, all the guys escape knowing what he is like when he is sick. Sheldon then turns up at Penny's restaurant asking for soup. She ends up leaving work, and taking care of him. ... More...
Season 1: Episode 10: The Loobenfeld Decay
The guys are invited by Penny to see her in a performance of Rent, but they know how horribly she sings, so Leonard lies to get out of it. But Sheldon is so disturbed by the lie, that he makes up a very ... More...
Season 1: Episode 09: The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization
When Sheldon and Leonard are invited to present their joint findings at a physics conference, Sheldon refuses. But when Penny steps in to mediate, it only deepens the rift between the two best friends. ... More...
Season 1: Episode 08: The Grasshopper Experiment
Koothrappali is overwhelmed after his parents arrange a blind date, but he discovers he actually can talk to the opposite sex after a few drinks; however, complications set in when his beautiful date ... More...
Season 1: Episode 07: The Dumpling Paradox
Penny's promiscuous friend comes to town and Wolowitz hooks up with her. This leaves the guys without their fourth wheel. Sheldon goes a little crazy because his world has been thrown off, and Penny ... More...
Season 1: Episode 06: The Middle Earth Paradigm
The guys go to Penny's Halloween party. Leonard ends up getting humiliated by Penny's hunky ex-boyfriend while Sheldon, Wolowitz and Koothrappali try desperately to make a mark on the social scene but ... More...
Season 1: Episode 05: The Hamburger Postulate
While eating at the restaurant where Penny works, Leonard and Sheldon run into Leslie, a fellow scientist who works with Leonard. Leslie suggests Leonard play in her string quartet, but what she really ... More...
Season 1: Episode 04: The Luminous Fish Effect
Sheldon is fired from his job as a physicist at the university when he blows up at his boss who he thinks is not a smart as he is. His change of circumstance sends him into a downward spiral of depression ... More...
Season 1: Episode 03: The Fuzzy Boots Corollary
When Leonard sees Penny kissing a guy in front of her apartment door he is devastated. The guys convince him to ask someone out at work, but when he tries and is brutally turned down by a geeky girl, ... More...
Season 1: Episode 02: The Big Bran Hypothesis
Sheldon and Leonard go over to Penny's apartment to drop off a package that came for her. Sheldon is deeply disturbed when he sees how messy and disorganized her apartment appears. Later that night, when ... More...
Season 1: Episode 01: Pilot
Leonard and Sheldon are trying to make some extra cash by visiting a sperm bank for geniuses, but they chicken out and go back to their apartment. When they get home they notice that a very beautiful ... More...