The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007.


Set in Pasadena, California, the show is centered on five characters: two room-mate geniuses who work at the California Institute of Technology, experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter and theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper; their neighbor across the hall Penny, a blonde waitress and aspiring actress; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward co-workers and friends Howard Wolowitz, an aerospace engineer and a non-PhD from JPL, and Rajesh Koothrappali, an astrophysicist also working at Caltech. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense. Three other supporting characters have also been promoted to main cast status for a few episodes: Leslie Winkle, a Caltech colleague and, at different times, a lover of both Leonard and Howard; Bernadette Rostenkowski, a doctoral candidate (later doctor) in microbiology, part-time waitress alongside Penny, and Howard's love interest and fianceé; and Amy Farrah Fowler, a neurobiologist whose personality is very similar to Sheldon, and who later becomes close friends with Penny.
The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions.

In August 2009, the sitcom won the best comedy series TCA award and Jim Parsons won the award for individual achievement in comedy. In 2010, the show won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy, while Parsons won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. On January 16, 2011, Parsons was awarded a Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical, an award that was presented by co-star Kaley Cuoco. On September 18, 2011, Parsons was again awarded an Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

Season 1

Episode 1: Pilot
Episode 2: The Big Bran Hypothesis
Episode 3: The Fuzzy Boots Corollary
Episode 4: The Luminous Fish Effect
Episode 5: The Hamburger Postulate
Episode 6: The Middle Earth Paradigm
Episode 7: The Dumpling Paradox
Episode 8: The Grasshopper Experiment
Episode 9: The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization
Episode 10: The Loobenfeld Decay
Episode 11: The Pancake Batter Anomaly
Episode 12: The Jerusalem Duality
Episode 13: The Bat Jar Conjecture
Episode 14: The Nerdvana Annihilation
Episode 15: The Pork Chop Indeterminacy
Episode 16: The Peanut Reaction
Episode 17: The Tangerine Factor

Season 2

Episode 1: The Bad Fish Paradigm
Episode 2: The Codpiece Topology
Episode 3: The Barbarian Sublimation
Episode 4: The Griffin Equivalency
Episode 5: The Euclid Alternative
Episode 6: The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem
Episode 7: The Panty Piñata Polarization
Episode 8: The Lizard-Spock Expansion
Episode 9: The White Asparagus Triangulation
Episode 10: The Vartabedian Conundrum
Episode 11: The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis
Episode 12: The Killer Robot Instability
Episode 13: The Friendship Algorithm
Episode 14: The Financial Permeability
Episode 15: The Maternal Capacitance
Episode 16: The Cushion Saturation
Episode 17: The Terminator Decoupling
Episode 18: The Work Song Nanocluster
Episode 19: The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition
Episode 20: The Hofstadter Isotope
Episode 21: The Vegas Renormalization
Episode 22: The Classified Materials Turbulence
Episode 23: The Monopolar Expedition

Season 3

The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation
Season 3, Episode 2: "The Jiminy Conjecture
Episode 3: "The Gothowitz Deviation"
Episode 4: "The Pirate Solution"
Episode 5: "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary"
Episode 6: "The Cornhusker Vortex"
Episode 7: "The Guitarist Amplification"
Episode 8: The Adhesive Duck Deficiency"
Episode 9: "The Vengeance Formulation"
Episode 10: "The Gorilla Experiment"
Episode 11: "The Maternal Congruence"
Episode 12: "The Psychic Vortex"
Episode 13: "The Bozeman Reaction
Episode 14: "The Einstein Approximation
Episode 15: "The Large Hadron Collision"
Episode 16: "The Excelsior Acquisition"
Episode 17: "The Precious Fragmentation"
Episode 18: "The Pants Alternative"
Episode 19: "The Wheaton Recurrence"
Episode 20: "The Spaghetti Catalyst"
Episode 21: "The Plimpton Stimulation"
Episode 22: "The Staircase Implementation"
Episode 23: "The Lunar Excitation" 

Season 4

Episode 1: "The Robotic Manipulation"
Episode 2: "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification"
Episode 3: "The Zazzy Substitution"
Episode 4: "The Hot Troll Deviation"
Episode 5: "The Desperation Emanation"
Episode 6: "The Irish Pub Formulation"
Episode 7: "The Apology Insufficiency"
Episode 8: "The 21-Second Excitation"
Episode 9: "The Boyfriend Complexity"
Episode 10: "The Alien Parasite Hypothesis"
Episode 11: "The Justice League Recombination"
Episode 12: "The Bus Pants Utilization"
Episode 13: "The Love Car Displacement"
Episode 14: "The Thespian Catalyst"
Episode 15: "The Benefactor Factor"
Episode 16: "The Cohabitation Formulation"
Episode 17: "The Toast Derivation"
Episode 18: "The Prestidigitation Approximation"
Episode 19: "The Zarnecki Incursion"
Episode 20: "The Herb Garden Germination"
Episode 21: "The Agreement Dissection"
Episode 22: "The Wildebeest Implementation"
Episode 23: "The Engagement Reaction"
Episode 24: "The Roommate Transmogrification"


Season 5

Episode 1: "The Skank Reflex Analysis"
Episode 2: "The Infestation Hypothesis"
Episode 3: "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation"
Episode 4: "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst"
Episode 5: "The Russian Rocket Reaction"
Episode 6: "The Rhinitis Revelation"
Episode 7: "The Good Guy Fluctuation"
Episode 8: "The Isolation Permutation"
Episode 9: "The Ornithophobia Diffusion"
Episode 10: "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition"
Episode 11: "The Speckerman Recurrance"
Episode 12: "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver"
Episode 13: "The Recombination Hypothesis"