
Mensa-fied best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon, physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology, may be able to tell everybody more than they want to know about quantum physics, but getting through most basic social situations, especially ones involving women, totally baffles them. How lucky, then, that babe-alicious waitress/aspiring actress Penny moves in next door. Frequently seen hanging out with Leonard and Sheldon are friends and fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. Will worlds collide? Does Einstein theorize in the woods?

Sheldon tries to figure out the answer to a physics problem by working with Penny.

Getting fired gives Sheldon the opportunity to explore life beyond physics, but when he spends his time weaving ponchos and acting like a shut-in, Leonard calls Sheldon's mother for assistance.

A magazine article only credits Sheldon in an article about a paper he co-wrote with Leonard; a blackout at Mrs. Wolowitz's results in a final dinner in her honor.

When Sheldon and Leonard are asked to speak at UC Berkeley, they take a detour in hope of meeting an idol; Raj and Amy try to settle a dispute between Howard and Bernadette with a game of ping pong.