Great TV shows: The Big Bang Theory.

The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The show first appeared on CBS on September, 2007.

The show is about the life of five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny, a waitress who wants to be an actress and later becomes a pharmaceutical representative. She lives across the hall and spends a lot of time with them.

The other two characters are aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. They are very intelligent but they lack social skills. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense.

The main character is Sheldon Cooper. He was born in Galveston, Texas. He was a child prodigy with a photographic memory. He started university at the age of 11 and graduated at 14. He is a theoretical physicist with two doctoral degrees. He studies quantum mechanics and string theory.

Despite his IQ of 187, he finds many routine aspects of social situations and life in general difficult to understand. Sheldon has a poor grasp of other people feel and little comprehension of nuances, often questioning others if a comment is intended as sarcasm.

He wants to be right all the time, boasts of his superior intelligence, and he usually pays little attention to other people’s achievements. Sheldon always sits in the same spot on the sofa, or knocks on a door three times, and has a compulsion to complete things. He is also very worried about germs and dislikes physical contact.

Condensed from Wikipedia.