Episode List: |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
Pilot | 1 | 1 | James Burrows | Chuck Lorre Bill Prady | A pair of socially awkward theoretical physicists meet their new neighbor Penny, who is their polar opposite. | 8.4 |
The Big Bran Hypothesis | 1 | 2 | Mark Cendrowski | Robert Cohen David Goetsch | Penny is furious with Leonard and Sheldon when they sneak into her apartment and clean it while she is sleeping. | 8.5 |
The Fuzzy Boots Corollary | 1 | 3 | Mark Cendrowski | Bill Prady Steven Molaro | Leonard gets upset when he discovers that Penny is seeing a new guy, so he tries to trick her into going on a date with him. | 7.9 |
The Luminous Fish Effect | 1 | 4 | Mark Cendrowski | David Litt Lee Aronsohn | Sheldon's mother is called to intervene when he delves into numerous obsessions after being fired for being disrespectful to his new boss. | 8.3 |
The Hamburger Postulate | 1 | 5 | Andrew D. Weyman | David Goetsch Steven Molaro | Leslie seduces Leonard, but afterwards tells him that she is only interested in a one-night stand. | 8.1 |
The Middle Earth Paradigm | 1 | 6 | Mark Cendrowski | David Litt Robert Cohen | The guys are invited to Penny's Halloween party, where Leonard has yet another run-in with Penny's ex-boyfriend Kurt. | 8.6 |
The Dumpling Paradox | 2 | 1 | Mark Cendrowski | Lee Aronsohn Jennifer Glickman | When Howard hooks up with Penny's old friend, his absence in the gang causes problems for the rest of the guys. | 8.3 |
The Grasshopper Experiment | 2 | 2 | Ted Wass | Lee Aronsohn Robert Cohen | When Raj's parents set him up on a blind date, he finds he can talk to women with the aid of alcohol. | 8.4 |
The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization | 2 | 3 | Joel Murray | Chuck Lorre Lee Aronsohn David Goetsch | Leonard and Sheldon's friendship is put to the test when Leonard wants to present a paper they co-authored at a physics convention, but Sheldon doesn't. | 8.2 |
The Loobenfeld Decay | 2 | 4 | Mark Cendrowski | Bill Prady Lee Aronsohn | Leonard lies to Penny so that he and Sheldon can get out of watching her perform. However, Sheldon believes that the lie has too many loose ends, so he comes up with a new, unnecessarily complex one to replace it. | 3.2 |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
The Pancake Batter Anomaly | 2 | 5 | Mark Cendrowski | Bill Prady Stephen Engel | When Sheldon gets sick, Leonard, Howard and Raj go AWOL, leaving a reluctant Penny to deal with him. | 8.3 |
The Jerusalem Duality | 2 | 6 | Mark Cendrowski | David Goetsch Steven Molaro | Sheldon decides to give up his work and focus on other tasks when a 15-year-old prodigy joins the university, so the other guys come up with a plan to get rid of him. | 8.1 |
The Bat Jar Conjecture | 3 | 1 | Mark Cendrowski | Bill Prady Robert Cohen | Sheldon becomes so intent on demonstrating his intellectual superiority over the other guys that they kick him off the Physics Bowl team and replace him with his nemesis, Leslie. | 8.5 |
The Nerdvana Annihilation | 3 | 2 | Mark Cendrowski | Stephen Engel Steven Molaro | Penny gets mad at the guys when their full scale model of a time machine causes her to miss work, which prompts Leonard to give up all of his nerd memorabilia. | 8.3 |
The Pork Chop Indeterminacy | 3 | 3 | Mark Cendrowski | Lee Aronsohn Bill Prady | Leonard, Howard and Raj fight over Sheldon's twin sister when she arrives in town. Raj takes part in a drug trial to suppress his selective mutism. | 8.4 |
The Peanut Reaction | 3 | 4 | Mark Cendrowski | David Goetsch Steven Molaro | When Penny learns that Leonard has never had a birthday party, she and the rest of the guys plan a surprise party for him. | 8.5 |
The Tangerine Factor | 3 | 5 | Mark Cendrowski | Lee Aronsohn Steven Molaro | After a bad breakup, Penny finally agrees to go out on a date with Leonard, however they both develop doubts and turn to Sheldon for advice. | 8.7 |