The Big Bang Theory: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

CBS | Season Premiere Date: September 24, 2007

Starring: Sara Gilbert, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco

Summary: Can physics be funny?

Creator: Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E17. The Tangerine Factor
Air Date: May 19, 2008
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S1:E16. The Peanut Reaction
Air Date: May 12, 2008
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S1:E15. The Pork Chop Indeterminacy
Air Date: May 5, 2008

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Tom Shales

Big Bang is the funniest new sitcom of the season. Read full review

Rob Owen

With so few traditional sitcoms on the air this year, the new ones had better be good. Happily for viewers, Fox's "Back to You" and CBS's Big Bang Theory qualify as generally welcome newcomers. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Half the fun in this outlandishly funny sitcom is that Penny is so spacey that she doesn't appear to recognize what hard-core nerds Leonard and Sheldon really are--even the presence in their bathroom of Luke Skywalker No-More-Tears Shampoo doesn't tip her off. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

"Chuck" has interests similar to those of the heroes of Big Bang, including a lack of interest in chasing women, but his comedy is more inventive--the better bet in a new era in which the nerd no longer loses, but the best nerd show wins. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

It's just the same joke endlessly repeated--the everyday translated into geek-speak, and the obscure and difficult treated as if it were common knowledge.... These are perilous times for sitcoms, and Lorre & Co. may want to think up another. Read full review

Robert Abele

While it's got that professional Burrows sheen of unerrant joke delivery--especially from the talented Galecki, who can do this in his sleep--you have to assume the pile of scripts on his desk in this hurting age for the three-camera studio-audience format isn’t what it once was. Read full review

Maureen Ryan

Even if the jokes on this show weren’t tired and mean-spirited, it would be hard to care about any comedy that hates its own lead characters so much. Read full review

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TrentF

Mar 31, 2009

I love this show. While, it could definitely function without some of the sexual innuendo, it is the kind of show that I miss from when I was growing up in the 90s. One that's fun but doesn't cause you to think too hard while watching. Just laugh with the audience.

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jono1701

Aug 27, 2012

As a self confessed geek, this show is just hilarious. The jokes are not mean or cruel, they just have an element of truth in them, situations or character traits are often taken to the extreme of course, which always makes for the best comedy.

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austinbond

Sep 23, 2010

Although it can sometimes feel like jokes are repeated, the show is a shining example of geek culture, full of funny comic, movie and video game references that young people, like me, will lap up.

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dilemma

Oct 1, 2013

A lot of people hate the show for its stereotypical wannabe nerd geek jokes, and I for one was of them those people; but the more I watched, the more I liked.

Of coarse I enjoy a lot of the same activities that the show is based around, including astronomy so I connected to it on aA lot of people hate the show for its stereotypical wannabe nerd geek jokes, and I for one was of them those people; but the more I watched, the more I liked.

Of coarse I enjoy a lot of the same activities that the show is based around, including astronomy so I connected to it on a personal level.

I expect people in their middle ages with no likes of ANY of those activities to be extremely bother by it.… Expand

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KenDefender

Jun 8, 2015

The cast of characters have become endearing over the seven series. Series five through seven have explored each character a little more deeply to good effect.
Comedic situations have varied in strength quite a bit, but the settling of relationships has levelled it all off somewhat.
TheThe cast of characters have become endearing over the seven series. Series five through seven have explored each character a little more deeply to good effect.
Comedic situations have varied in strength quite a bit, but the settling of relationships has levelled it all off somewhat.
The plea to Mr Lorre now is Please, PLEASE, don't let the show become a doddering train wreck in the same way as 2 1/2 Men! I feel it is just starting to get a little wobbly already.… Expand

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royben14

Apr 10, 2017

while i can appreciate the fun (cheesy but fun) concept and Simon Helberg's exquisite performance all the other actors are bad and the laugh track is distracting, but the writing isn't **** and i cant say that about the seasons that followed.

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ma10

May 27, 2016

BAZINGA BAZINGA BAZINGA. This taught me nothing about the evolution of mankind, I showed this too my students and I was appalled to see sex joke after sex joke. The youngsters shouldn't hear it. Expect a letter in your mailbox.

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