Big Bang Theory S01 -

| Episode | Title | Brief Plot | |---------|-------|-------------| | 1 | "Pilot" | Penny moves in. Leonard and Sheldon try to retrieve her TV from her ex-boyfriend. Leonard asks her to lunch. | | 2 | "The Big Bran Hypothesis" | Sheldon sneaks into Penny’s apartment to organize it. Leonard tries to apologize. | | 3 | "The Fuzzy Boots Corollary" | Leonard gets jealous seeing Penny date a jerk. Sheldon advises him to ask her out; she says no. | | 4 | "The Luminous Fish Effect" | Sheldon gets fired for insulting his boss. Leonard tries to get him out of the apartment. | | 5 | "The Hamburger Postulate" | Leonard hooks up with Leslie Winkle (Sara Gilbert); Sheldon tries to prove he has friends. | | 6 | "The Middle Earth Paradigm" | Penny hosts a party at her apartment; Leonard, Howard, and Raj attend. Leonard sees Penny kiss another guy. | | 7 | "The Dumpling Paradox" | Howard seduces Penny’s friend; Raj and Sheldon play Halo at Penny’s. | | 8 | "The Grasshopper Experiment" | Raj’s parents set him up on a blind date; he drinks and talks to a woman (Penny’s friend). | | 9 | "The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization" | Sheldon and Leonard are asked to speak at a physics conference; Sheldon refuses unless he’s sole author. | | 10 | "The Loobenfeld Decay" | Leonard and Sheldon lie to avoid seeing Penny’s terrible one-woman show; Sheldon’s lie spirals. | | 11 | "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" | Sheldon gets sick; Leonard, Penny, Howard, and Raj try to take care of him (very badly). | | 12 | "The Jerusalem Duality" | A 15-year-old prodigy visits the university; Sheldon feels obsolete. Howard tries to sabotage him. | | 13 | "The Bat Jar Conjecture" | The gang enters a physics bowl; Sheldon is kicked off their team, so he joins another. | | 14 | "The Nerdvana Annihilation" | Leonard buys a time machine prop; Penny calls them nerds; Leonard gets upset. | | 15 | "The Pork Chop Indeterminacy" | Sheldon’s twin sister Missy (Courtney Ford) visits; Leonard, Howard, and Raj all try to date her. | | 16 | "The Peanut Reaction" | Howard and Raj try to throw Leonard a birthday party; Penny distracts Sheldon with a trip to a electronics store. | | 17 | "The Tangerine Factor" | Leonard asks Penny out again; they agree to a date. The season ends with them about to go out. |

The episode opens with Leonard and Sheldon at a high-concept sperm bank. Leonard wants to donate to prove his genetic worth; Sheldon wants to donate only if he can see the periodic table of elements on the wall. They return home to find that Penny has moved in next door. The central joke—Leonard's immediate, hopeless crush—is established in the first three minutes. The episode ends with the iconic line: "So... we're going to get Thai food. Want to come?" big bang theory s01

Searching for Big Bang Theory S01 isn't just about nostalgia. This season is a time capsule of late-2000s geek culture. | Episode | Title | Brief Plot |