
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 ends up in traffic court after getting a ticket because of Penny.

When the guys buy a ring from "The Lord of the Rings" at a garage sale, the item threatens to tear them apart.

Sheldon's stage fright stands between him and a coveted award.

Penny and Leonard have a fight that threatens their relationship; Sheldon and Wil Wheaton face off once again.