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The Big Bang Theory on CBS

2007, TV Show

Seasons:

1
- The Tangerine Factor (Original Airdate May 19, 2008)
- The Peanut Reaction (Original Airdate May 12, 2008)
- The Pork Chop Indeterminancy (Original Airdate May 5, 2008)
- The Nerdvana Annihilation (Original Airdate Apr 28, 2008)
- The Bat Jar Conjecture (Original Airdate Apr 21, 2008)
- The Jerusalem Duality (Original Airdate Apr 14, 2008)
- The Pancake Batter Anomaly (Original Airdate Mar 31, 2008)
- The Loobenfeld Decay (Original Airdate Mar 24, 2008)
- The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization (Original Airdate Nov 20, 2007)
- The Grasshopper Experiment (Original Airdate Nov 12, 2007)
- The Dumpling Paradox (Original Airdate Nov 5, 2007)
- The Middle Earth Paradigm (Original Airdate Oct 29, 2007)
- The Hamburger Postulate (Original Airdate Oct 22, 2007)
- The Luminous Fish Effect (Original Airdate Oct 15, 2007)
- The Fuzzy Boots Corollary (Original Airdate Oct 8, 2007)
- The Big Bran Hypothesis (Original Airdate Oct 1, 2007)
- Pilot (Original Airdate Sep 24, 2007)
2
- The Monopolar Expedition (Original Airdate May 11, 2009)
- The Classified Materials Turbulence (Original Airdate May 4, 2009)
- The Vegas Renormalization (Original Airdate Apr 27, 2009)
- The Hofstadter Isotope (Original Airdate Apr 13, 2009)
- The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition (Original Airdate Mar 30, 2009)
- The Work Song Nanocluster (Original Airdate Mar 16, 2009)
- The Terminator Decoupling (Original Airdate Mar 9, 2009)
- The Cushion Saturation (Original Airdate Mar 2, 2009)
- The Maternal Capacitance (Original Airdate Feb 9, 2009)
- The Financial Permeability (Original Airdate Feb 2, 2009)
- The Friendship Algorithm (Original Airdate Jan 19, 2009)
- The Killer Robot Instability (Original Airdate Jan 12, 2009)
- The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis (Original Airdate Dec 15, 2008)
- The Vartabedian Conundrum (Original Airdate Dec 8, 2008)
- The White Asparagus Triangulation (Original Airdate Nov 24, 2008)
- The Lizard-Spock Expansion (Original Airdate Nov 17, 2008)
- The Panty Piñata Polarization (Original Airdate Nov 10, 2008)
- The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem (Original Airdate Nov 3, 2008)
- The Euclid Alternative (Original Airdate Oct 20, 2008)
- The Griffin Equivalency (Original Airdate Oct 13, 2008)
- The Barbarian Sublimation (Original Airdate Oct 6, 2008)
- The Codpiece Topology (Original Airdate Sep 29, 2008)
- The Bad Fish Paradigm (Original Airdate Sep 22, 2008)
3
- The Maternal Congruence (Original Airdate Dec 14, 2009)
- The Vengeance Formulation (Original Airdate Nov 23, 2009)
- The Adhesive Duck Deficiency (Original Airdate Nov 16, 2009)
- The Guitarist Amplification (Original Airdate Nov 9, 2009)
- The Cornhusker Vortex (Original Airdate Nov 2, 2009)
- The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary (Original Airdate Oct 19, 2009)
- The Pirate Solution (Original Airdate Oct 12, 2009)
- The Gothowitz Deviation (Original Airdate Oct 5, 2009)
- The Jiminy Conjecture (Original Airdate Sep 28, 2009)
- The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation (Original Airdate Sep 21, 2009)

The Big Bang Theory Episode: "The Tangerine Factor"

Season 1, Episode 17

Episode Synopsis: In the first-season finale, Leonard asks Penny out on a date after she breaks up with her boyfriend. To prepare for the big night, Leonard practices the date the day before with the guys. Original Air Date: May 19, 2008

The Tangerine Factor

May 20, 2008 03:03 AM ET
by TV Guide News

Howard is teaching Sheldon Chinese (actually, Mandarin to be exact.) It seems Sheldon wants to confront the nearby Chinese place about secretly replacing Tangerine Chicken with Orange Chicken. Watching Jim Parsons deliver Mandarin lines is great comedy.In walks Leonard, whom Sheldon addresses with Mei du lui zi. Sadly, he's accidentally called his roommate a syphilitic donkey.Now a peeved Penny arrives, who's been wronged by the bozo she's been dating. The guy apparently posted details of "driving his point home" with her on his blog. She hurls his iPod at him.Cut to the best opening titles/animation in all of television. Even better than Angie.Leonard's got her right where he wants her. She's emotional, hurt and vulnerable. But he's loudly rebuffed.He's goin' in again. This time, he gets the Hi sign from Penny. She wants to talk. But while perusing bozo's stories on his blog, Leonard somehow convinces her that it's all just an odd yet endearing way that he's expressed his feelings ... read more

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Premiered: September 24, 2007, on CBS

Rating: None

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Premise: Two nerdy physicists share an apartment and an unlikely friendship with their beautiful neighbor with whom one of them is infatuated.

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