The Big Bang Theory / Season 1

Season 1 of The Big Bang Theory
Original title	The Big Bang Theory - Season 1
Episodes	17th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	September 24, 2007 - May 19, 2008 on CBS
German-language first broadcast	July 11, 2009 - September 26, 2009 on ProSieben
Season 2   ▶
► Episode list
occupation

The first broadcast of the first season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory was from September 24, 2007 to May 19, 2008 on the American television channel CBS . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German Free TV transmitter ProSieben from 11 July to 26 September, 2009.

actor

See also : Cast of The Big Bang Theory

Role name	actor
Dr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter	Johnny Galecki
Dr. Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper	Jim Parsons
penny	Kaley Cuoco
Howard Joel Wolowitz, M.Eng.	Simon Helberg
Dr. Rajesh "Raj" Ramayan Koothrappali	Kunal Nayyar
Dr. Leslie Winkle	Sara Gilbert

Episodes

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
1	1	Penny and the Physicists	pilot	Sep 24 2007	July 11, 2009	James Burrows	Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
The two highly gifted physicists Sheldon and Leonard, who share a shared flat, visit a sperm bank for donors with a high IQ in order to earn a little extra income. Since Sheldon has concerns about the possible consequences, they both leave early. When they return, they discover that a young woman, Penny, is moving into the apartment next door. She moved to California from Omaha , Nebraska , with the goal of becoming an actress and now works as a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory . Penny soon meets Sheldon's and Leonard's friends Rajesh (an Indian astrophysicist too neurotic to speak to women) and Howard (a Jewish engineer desperately trying to be a womanizer). She asks Sheldon and Leonard a favor right away: Their television is still in the apartment of her ex-boyfriend Kurt and she doesn't dare to fetch it herself. Leonard, who immediately liked the new neighbor, persuades Sheldon to take him to Kurt's apartment. However, he is unimpressed by the two of them and is clearly superior to them physically, and so they return to the flat share not only without a television, but also without their trousers.
2	2	Chaos theory	The Big Bran Hypothesis	Oct 1, 2007	July 18, 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Robert Cohen & Dave Goetsch Idea: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Because Penny has asked her two neighbors to accept a delivery of furniture for her, Sheldon sees her apartment and is shocked by the disorder there, which is in stark contrast to his own pedantry. He cannot stand to live in the immediate vicinity of such a mess and sneaks in the following night. There he doesn't let Leonard stop him from "reorganizing" the living room and kitchen while Penny sleeps next door. The next morning, Penny is furious about the violation of her privacy and breaks the friendship between the two physicists. Sheldon's awkward attempt to apologize fails and it takes all of Leonard's charm and a "conversation" from Penny and Rajesh to reconcile them.
3	3	Excitation factor: zero	The Fuzzy Boots Corollary	Oct 8, 2007	July 25, 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady & Steven Molaro Idea: Chuck Lorre
Leonard sinks into lovesickness when he sees Penny making out with someone else. He loses hope of ever being able to land with her and only wants to concentrate on women who supposedly play in his league. However, after his lab colleague Leslie Winkle dismisses his “experimental” kiss as unsatisfactory, he is even more depressed. Sheldon, rather unintentionally, leads him to the fact that he never asked Penny directly for a date, and so Leonard takes all his courage and invites her on a date (even if he doesn't bring it to his lips). As expected, the dinner in the restaurant is quite a disaster because of his nervousness, and so afterwards he denies to Penny without further ado that it was such a thing at all.
4th	4th	The light fish idea	The Luminous Fish Effect	Oct 15, 2007	Aug 1, 2009	Mark Cendrowski	David Litt & Lee Aronsohn Idea: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Sheldon insults Dr. Gablehauser, the new head of his physics faculty, and is then fired. He stubbornly refuses to apologize and instead, out of boredom, devotes himself to all sorts of absurd research topics (including the self-luminous fish from which it is named). At some point he won't leave the apartment at all. Finally Leonard gets too stupid and calls on Sheldon's mother to help. She manages to bring her stubborn son back to his senses and moves him to apologize to his boss in order to get his job back.
5	5	The other side of the tie	The Hamburg postulates	Oct 22, 2007	Aug 8, 2009	Andrew D. Weyman	Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro Idea: Jennifer Glickman
Leslie Winkle, Leonard's colleague at the institute, seduces him after rehearsing the quartet together. He then assumes that they have a relationship, but Leslie quickly makes it clear to him that she has only used him for sexual satisfaction and will not have anything to do with him anytime soon. When Penny hears about this, Leonard believes her reaction is to see joy at the fact that he is not with Leslie. For Sheldon, this situation is primarily confusing.
6th	6th	The Middle-earth paradigm	The Middle Earth Paradigm	Oct 29, 2007	Aug 15, 2009	Mark Cendrowski	David Litt & Robert Cohen Idea: Dave Goetsch
Penny throws a Halloween party and invites the four friends to it. During the costume check they find out that everyone has dressed up as The Flash and everyone changes their costumes: Leonard goes as Frodo , Sheldon as Doppler Effect , Howard as Robin Hood (but everyone thinks he is Peter Pan ) and Rajesh as Thor . Leonard takes on Penny's ex-boyfriend and has to be saved by Penny - Leonard and Sheldon leave the party. Shortly afterwards, Penny comes to Leonard drunk and cries for him because of her ex-boyfriend, with the two kissing.
7th	7th	The starter dilemma	The dumpling paradox	Nov 5, 2007	22 Aug 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Lee Aronsohn & Jennifer Glickman Idea: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
An old friend of Penny, Christy, comes to visit while the four friends are having a Halo night. When Howard learns that Christy is open to sex with anyone, he invites her to move in with him. From now on, Christy claims him around the clock. Sheldon is less than enthusiastic about this, as all of her activities are designed for four people and Penny is not always available. The problem soon resolves itself, however, as Howard's mother and Christy hate each other.
8th	8th	The Lalita problem	The Grasshopper Experiment	Nov 12, 2007	29 Aug 2009	Ted Wass	Lee Aronsohn & Robert Cohen Idea: Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
Rajesh's parents have chosen a bride for him and arranged a date for them. Not thrilled with the idea due to his inability to talk to women, Rajesh decides to take refuge in the alcohol. He discovers that he can talk to women under the influence of alcohol, which suddenly makes him very confident. His date ends in disaster, however, because Sheldon is far more charming than Rajesh and teases the lady from India for him.
9	9	The Cooper-Hofstadter antagonism	The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization	17th Mar 2008	29 Aug 2009	Joel Murray	Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch Idea: Bill Prady & Stephen Engel
Sheldon and Leonard are invited to present a joint discovery at a conference on experimental physics . Leonard feels honored and would very much like to go there, but Sheldon refuses, because he considers the conference participants to be unworthy and a waste of time. Leonard defies Sheldon's veto and introduces the discovery anyway. However, Sheldon has mingled with the audience in disguise and a scandal ensues, which leads to a physical confrontation between Sheldon and Leonard, which is filmed by Howard, who is sitting in the audience, and uploaded to YouTube .
10	10	Loobenfeld's network of lies	The Loobenfeld Decay	24 Mar 2008	5th Sep 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn Idea: Chuck Lorre
Penny invites Sheldon and Leonard to a musical in which she is allowed to appear as a temporary singer. Knowing about Penny's bad singing skills, the two invent an excuse not to have to go. However, Sheldon feels uncomfortable with the excuse and is afraid that it will be exposed. So he keeps expanding the lie to avoid logic errors, which eventually ends with hiring an actor to play his fictional, drug-addicted cousin Leo. Ultimately, the lies were all in vain, as Penny asks Leonard to watch a recording of her performance, which the latter cannot say no to.
11	11	Everything flows	The Pancake Batter Anomaly	31 Mar 2008	5th Sep 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady & Stephen Engel Idea: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn
Sheldon caught the flu. Since his friends know from years of experience that a sick Sheldon is absolutely unbearable, they avoid him. Only Penny has not been warned and is hired by Sheldon as an unwilling nurse. But finally Leonard's glasses are damaged, so that he is forced to get his replacement glasses from the shared apartment. He tries to do this unnoticed with the help of his friends and modern technology, but is discovered by Penny.
12	12	The Jerusalem Project	The Jerusalem Duality	Apr 14, 2008	Sep 12 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro Idea: Jennifer Glickman & Stephen Engel
At the university, a 15-year-old North Korean is introduced who surpasses Sheldon's achievements. Therefore, Sheldon feels superfluous and gives up his dreams of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics . The attempt to switch to the disciplines of his friends instead ends with the fact that they send him away after several insults on his part. When Sheldon finally goes for the Nobel Peace Prize by building a copy of Jerusalem in Mexico, his three friends decide to distract his young competitor with a girl.
13	13	Superbowl for physicists	The Bat Jar Conjecture	Apr 21, 2008	Sep 12 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Bill Prady & Robert Cohen Idea: Stephen Engel & Jennifer Glickman
The four friends want to take part in a university physics quiz. During the rehearsals it turns out that Sheldon is unable to play as part of the team, but prefers to answer all questions on his own. Then Leonard, Howard and Rajesh decide to exclude Sheldon from the team. With Leslie Winkle as the fourth team member, they compete against Sheldon's colorful troop, to which u. a. the caretaker belongs to. You win because Sheldon arrogantly rejects the caretaker's (who turns out to be a Russian physicist) answer to the crucial question, but cannot give the correct answer himself.
14th	14th	The time machine	The Nerdvana Annihilation	Apr 28, 2008	19 Sep 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Stephen Engel & Steven Molaro Idea: Bill Prady
Leonard buys the time machine from the set of the " Time Machine " shoot. The four friends decide to share the costs and let the machine roam among themselves on a regular basis. Penny, who cannot go to work because the time machine is blocking the stairwell, has no understanding and gives the boys a lecture about children's toys and immature men. Then, to the horror of his friends, Leonard decides to sell his entire collection of fantasy toys. But Penny makes it clear to him that this would be exaggerated and that she said things in her anger that she did not mean, and thereby dissuades him from the plan.
15th	15th	Sheldon 2.0	The Pork Chop Indeterminacy	May 5, 2008	19 Sep 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Lee Aronsohn & Bill Prady Idea: Chuck Lorre
Sheldon's twin sister Missy, an exceptionally attractive young lady, is visiting. Sheldon's friends are all enthusiastic about her and immediately start the frontal attack - Rajesh supported by an experimental drug that allows him to talk to women, but has various unpleasant side effects. But Sheldon is concerned about his genes, with which he hopes to create Sheldon 2.0, and intervenes. Again, Missy does not agree.
16	16	The peanut reaction	The Peanut Reaction	May 12, 2008	26 Sep 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro Idea: Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
It's Leonard's birthday and at Penny's instigation, his friends organize a surprise party for him. Leonard is hard to get out of the house, and while Sheldon and Penny are looking for a suitable gift in the electronics store (and Sheldon quickly slips into the role of a salesman and advises customers), Howard gives everything to distract Leonard. Since all attempts to lure Leonard out of the house fail, he has no choice but to eat a peanut-containing granola bar to trigger an allergic reaction. Leonard accompanies him to the hospital, but the examinations take a long time and Leonard misses his own birthday party.
17th	17th	Schrödinger's Cat	The Tangerine Factor	May 19, 2008	26 Sep 2009	Mark Cendrowski	Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro Idea: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
After a big disappointment with her current lover, Penny swears off the "normal" men and decides to give Leonard a chance. Although both are pretty unsure about the chances of success this evening, they go on a date. In the meantime, Sheldon fights a private feud with the owner of the Chinese restaurant over the ingredients of an ordered dish, and for this he lets Howard teach him Mandarin .

DVD release

In the United States , the DVD for the first season was released on September 2, 2008. In the United Kingdom and Germany , the DVD for the first season has been available since January 12, 2009 and April 16, 2010, respectively.

Web links

• Episode list of the first season of The Big Bang Theory at fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Big Bang Theory: Season 1 . In: Zap2it.com . Archived from the original on January 2, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 26, 2015. 
2. ↑ The-Big-Bang-Theory: Broadcast dates of the television series (season 1) . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved July 31, 2010.