In the eighth season premiere, Leonard and Amy take an unexpected road trip to Arizona to pick up Sheldon. Meanwhile, Penny interviews for a job at Bernadette’s company, and Howard is “weirded out” by Stuart’s (series regular KEVIN SUSSMAN) close relationship with Mrs. Wolowitz.
Guest star STEPHEN ROOT guest stars as Bernadette’s boss, Dan.
Season 8, episode 1
“THE LOCOMOTION INTERRUPTION”
Leonard and Sheldon (series stars JOHNNY GALECKI and JIM PARSONS) are brilliant physicists – geniuses in the laboratory, but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street–smart neighbor, Penny (series star KALEY CUOCO-SWEETING), who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten engaged. Even Sheldon has found a female companion – entering into a “Relationship Agreement” with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler (series star MAYIM BIALIK). In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon enjoy fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Raj (series star KUNAL NAYYAR) and Howard (series star SIMON HELBERG), and Howard’s adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette (series star MELISSA RAUCH).
Written by: Steven Molaro – teleplay
Steve Holland – teleplay
Eric Kaplan – teleplay
Jim Reynolds – story
Maria Ferrari – story
Tara Hernandez – story
Directed by: Mark Cendrowski