
She finds herself putting up with his closest and ever-present friends: his roommate, Sheldon, who appears borderline obsessive-compulsive and has a relentless need to assert his intellectual supremacy engineering whiz Howard Wolowitz, a desperately sex-crazed mama's boy who thinks that his 1960s-style clothing and hairstyle give him an air of cool hipness and Dr. Leonard begins to become hopelessly enamored of Penny, while she feels only platonic affection for him. Sheldon Cooper are shaken up when an attractive young aspiring actress from Omaha, Nebraska named Penny moves into the apartment across the hall from theirs. Jim Parsons selected the episode "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" as a Primetime Emmy Award submission for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, but ended up not receiving a nomination. Johnny Galecki and Sara Gilbert both selected the episode "The Hamburger Postulate" as a Primetime Emmy Award submission for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, but both ended up not receiving a nomination. Two of the main cast, Sheldon and Leonard, are named after actor, director, and producer Sheldon Leonard. The episodes on Blu-ray are all in remastered surround sound, whereas the DVD version had stereo. The reissued Blu-ray, was released July 10, 2012, and includes a gag reel that is exclusive to the set. The Season 1 DVD came without a gag reel and is, so far, the only Big Bang Theory DVD set not to have one. The first season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory was originally aired on CBS from September 24, 2007, to May 19, 2008, over 17 episodes.
