
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?

Amy realizes she has feelings for Penny's ex; Koothrappali and Wolowitz try to prove who would be a better superhero.

The guys try to bond with Penny's new boyfriend through a costume contest.

Leonard's idea for a smartphone application causes friction in his friendship with Sheldon.

Bernadette runs into her ex-boyfriend (Rick Fox) while attending a science event with Wolowitz.