Season 1 - Episode 1 - Pilot
Air Date: Sep 24, 2007
Description: Sheldon and Leonard are two brilliant, but socially inept theoretical physicists who share an apartment. In the series premier, they meet their new neighbor, Penny, a stereotypical beautiful dumb blond. In spite of the obvious hopelessness of the situation, Leonard is utterly smitten.
Season 1 - Episode 2 - The Big Bran Hypothesis
Air Date: Oct 1, 2007
Description: Leonard agrees to sign for a package for Penny, but when it turns out to be a massive unassembled entertainment unit, he and Sheldon must muscle the box up several flights of stairs - a task for which they are ill-equipped. Once in Penny’s apartment, Sheldon is appalled at Penny’s housekeeping practices and takes it upon himself to clean up somewhat un ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 3 - The Fuzzy Boots Corollary
Air Date: Oct 8, 2007
Description: Leonard is crushed when he sees Penny kissing another man in the hallway. Faced with the bleak reality of his chances with Penny, he turns his affections toward Leslie, a fellow scientist at the university. His advances, while partially successful, are less than satisfying. While Sheldon sees no possible future for Leonard and Penny, he feels sympathy for Leonard ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 4 - The Luminous Fish Effect
Air Date: Oct 15, 2007
Description: When Sheldon is fired, he tries to explore life outside the university. He goes food shopping with Penny, who is less than enthusiastic, and then conducts several scientific experiements in his apartment. When Leonard goes as far as buying a loom and weaving ponchos, Leonard decides to call Sheldon’s mother for help.
Season 1 - Episode 5 - The Hamburger Postulate
Air Date: Oct 22, 2007
Description: Leslie invites Leonard to play cello in a musical ensemble, but they have to practice at the guys’ apartment. Once practice is over, Leslie quickly seduces Leonard for a sexual encounter. Having absolutely no experience around anyone who has actually had sex, Sheldon seeks wisdom from Penny. In spite of initial trepidation, Sheldon decides that Penny&rsqu ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 6 - The Middle Earth Paradigm
Air Date: Oct 29, 2007
Description: When the guys are invited to Penny’s Halloween party, Leonard sees it as an opportunity to get to know her friends and thereby get closer to her, but when her ex-boyfriend arrives, those plans take a turn for the worse. However, the evening isn’t without its positive aspects for Leonard. Or for Rajesh.
Season 1 - Episode 7 - The Dumpling Paradox
Air Date: Nov 5, 2007
Description: Wolowitz seduces a friend of Penny’s. As they have taken over Penny’s apartment, Penny is forced to sleep on Leonard and Sheldon’s couch. The guys are also short one member on their HALO team, and they ask Penny to join them.
Season 1 - Episode 8 - The Grasshopper Experiment
Air Date: Nov 12, 2007
Description: 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 is more interested in Sheldon.
Season 1 - Episode 9 - The Cooper-hofstadter Polarization
Air Date: Mar 17, 2008
Description: Sheldon and Leonard are asked to present their work at a physics conference together, but a fight ensues when Sheldon refuses to share the honor. When Penny steps in to mediate, things only get worse.
Season 1 - Episode 10 - The Loobenfeld Decay
Air Date: Mar 24, 2008
Description: Leonard tells Penny a lie so that he doesn’t have to hear her sing again, while Sheldon widens the lie, which makes Leonard in need to produce a phony cousin.
Season 1 - Episode 11 - The Pancake Batter Anomaly
Air Date: Mar 31, 2008
Description: Penny nurses a sick Sheldon back to health, unaware that the guys refuse to do so because he makes such a lousy patient.
Season 1 - Episode 12 - The Jerusalem Duality
Air Date: Apr 14, 2008
Description: Leonard and Sheldon meet a 15-year-old physics prodigy and Sheldon is thrown off that the boy is younger and smarter than himself. This leads the boys to try to come up with a way to restore Sheldon’s sense of self and ultimately decide to try to throw Dennis’ research.
Season 1 - Episode 13 - The Bat Jar Conjecture
Air Date: Apr 21, 2008
Description: Sheldon finds himself out of the gang’s Physics Bowl team and replaced with Leslie. Not taking this sitting down, Sheldon decides to start a team of his own to prove that he’s the best out of the gang.
Season 1 - Episode 14 - The Nerdvana Annihilation
Air Date: Apr 28, 2008
Description: Leonard and the gang buy a time machine prop that was used in a classic 1960s movie. However, their thrill over having a replica time machine is shot down when Penny tells them that their obsession with comics and toys is pathetic.
Season 1 - Episode 15 - The Pork Chop Indeterminacy
Air Date: May 5, 2008
Description: The guys fight for Sheldon’s twin sister when she arrives for a visit, but Leonard has a plan to get rid his rivals. Sheldon becomes her protector and decides he will pick out who she will go out with, despite her disapproval.
Season 1 - Episode 16 - The Peanut Reaction
Air Date: May 12, 2008
Description: Penny throws Leonard a surprise party after discovering that he doesn’t celebrate birthday’s, but becomes sidetracked by Sheldon, who, while at an electronics store, gets to live out one of his greatest fantasies.
Season 1 - Episode 17 - The Tangerine Factor
Air Date: May 19, 2008
Description: Leonard and Penny each seek a reluctant adviser, Sheldon, for a bit of wisdom concerning their date with each other.