
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 help Penny understand Leonard's work; Wolowitz gets jealous when Leonard starts hanging out with his new girlfriend.

Bernadette and Wolowitz leave their kids for the first time; Penny and Leonard try to keep a secret; Sheldon and Amy stick together; Koothrappali makes a new friend; the gang travels together into an uncharted future.

Cut off from his father's fortune, Koothrappali appoints Sheldon to help him get out of debt; Penny considers joining Leonard at Comic-Con.

Leonard and Penny offer Sheldon's old room to Raj after he moves out of his apartment.