document_title: List of The Big Bang Theory episodes

question_text: what season is it on big bang theory

question_tokens: what season is it on big bang theory

text: List of The Big Bang Theory episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
Nielsen ratings

First aired
Last aired
Viewers
(millions)
Viewers
rank
18–49
rating/share
18–49
rank

1
17
September 24, 2007 (2007-09-24)
May 19, 2008 (2008-05-19)
8.31
68[3]
3.3/8
46[4]

2
23
September 22, 2008 (2008-09-22)
May 11, 2009 (2009-05-11)
10.03
40[5]
N/A
N/A

3
23
September 21, 2009 (2009-09-21)
May 24, 2010 (2010-05-24)
14.22
12
5.3/13
5[6]

4
24
September 23, 2010 (2010-09-23)
May 19, 2011 (2011-05-19)
13.21
13
4.4/13
7[7]

5
24
September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)
May 10, 2012 (2012-05-10)
15.82
8
5.5/17
6[8]

6
24
September 27, 2012 (2012-09-27)
May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16)
18.68
3
6.2/19
2[9]

7
24
September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)
May 15, 2014 (2014-05-15)
19.96
2
6.2/20
2[10]

8
24
September 22, 2014 (2014-09-22)
May 7, 2015 (2015-05-07)
19.05
2
5.6/17
4[11]

9
24
September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21)
May 12, 2016 (2016-05-12)
20.36
2
5.8/19
3[12]

10
24
September 19, 2016 (2016-09-19)
May 11, 2017 (2017-05-11)
18.99
2
4.9/19
3[13]

11
TBA
September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Unaired pilot[edit]

text: The original pilot, which CBS passed on, featured Amanda Walsh as Katie instead of Kaley Cuoco as Penny and had a darker tone.

tag: p

text: Season 1 (2007–08)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Pilot"
James Burrows
Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
September 24, 2007 (2007-09-24)
276023
9.52[14]

2
2
"The Big Bran Hypothesis"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Robert Cohen & Dave Goetsch
October 1, 2007 (2007-10-01)
3T6601
8.58[15]

3
3
"The Fuzzy Boots Corollary"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
October 8, 2007 (2007-10-08)
3T6602
8.36[16]

4
4
"The Luminous Fish Effect"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Teleplay by : David Litt & Lee Aronsohn
October 15, 2007 (2007-10-15)
3T6603
8.15[17]

5
5
"The Hamburger Postulate"
Andrew D. Weyman
Story by : Jennifer Glickman
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
October 22, 2007 (2007-10-22)
3T6604
8.81[18]

6
6
"The Middle-Earth Paradigm"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : David Litt & Robert Cohen
October 29, 2007 (2007-10-29)
3T6605
8.92[19]

7
7
"The Dumpling Paradox"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Jennifer Glickman
November 5, 2007 (2007-11-05)
3T6606
9.68[20]

8
8
"The Grasshopper Experiment"
Ted Wass
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Robert Cohen
November 12, 2007 (2007-11-12)
3T6607
9.32[21]

9
9
"The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization"
Joel Murray
Story by : Bill Prady & Stephen Engel
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch
March 17, 2008 (2008-03-17)
3T6608
9.11[22]

10
10
"The Loobenfeld Decay"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
March 24, 2008 (2008-03-24)
3T6609
8.63[23]

11
11
"The Pancake Batter Anomaly"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Stephen Engel
March 31, 2008 (2008-03-31)
3T6610
8.68[24]

12
12
"The Jerusalem Duality"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jennifer Glickman & Stephen Engel
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
April 14, 2008 (2008-04-14)
3T6611
7.69[25]

13
13
"The Bat Jar Conjecture"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Stephen Engel & Jennifer Glickman
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Robert Cohen
April 21, 2008 (2008-04-21)
3T6612
7.51[26]

14
14
"The Nerdvana Annihilation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Stephen Engel & Steven Molaro
April 28, 2008 (2008-04-28)
3T6613
8.07[27]

15
15
"The Shiksa Indeterminacy"[28]
"The Pork Chop Indeterminacy"[29]
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Bill Prady
May 5, 2008 (2008-05-05)
3T6614
7.38[30]

16
16
"The Peanut Reaction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
May 12, 2008 (2008-05-12)
3T6615
7.79[31]

17
17
"The Tangerine Factor"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
May 19, 2008 (2008-05-19)
3T6616
7.34[32]

text: Season 2 (2008–09)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

18
1
"The Bad Fish Paradigm"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
September 22, 2008 (2008-09-22)
3T7351
9.36[33]

19
2
"The Codpiece Topology"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
September 29, 2008 (2008-09-29)
3T7352
8.76[34]

20
3
"The Barbarian Sublimation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Nicole Lorre
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
October 6, 2008 (2008-10-06)
3T7353
9.33[35]

21
4
"The Griffin Equivalency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Stephen Engel & Tim Doyle
October 13, 2008 (2008-10-13)
3T7354
9.36[36]

22
5
"The Euclid Alternative"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch
October 20, 2008 (2008-10-20)
3T7355
9.28[37]

23
6
"The Cooper–Nowitzki Theorem"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Stephen Engel & Daley Haggar
Teleplay by : Tim Doyle & Richard Rosenstock
November 3, 2008 (2008-11-03)
3T7356
9.67[38]

24
7
"The Panty Piñata Polarization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Tim Doyle
Teleplay by : Jennifer Glickman & Steven Molaro
November 10, 2008 (2008-11-10)
3T7357
10.01[39]

25
8
"The Lizard–Spock Expansion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Jennifer Glickman
November 17, 2008 (2008-11-17)
3T7358
9.76[40]

26
9
"The White Asparagus Triangulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Stephen Engel & Richard Rosenstock
November 24, 2008 (2008-11-24)
3T7359
10.19[41]

27
10
"The Vartabedian Conundrum"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Richard Rosenstock
December 8, 2008 (2008-12-08)
3T7360
10.80[42]

28
11
"The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Richard Rosenstock
Teleplay by : Stephen Engel & Eric Kaplan
December 15, 2008 (2008-12-15)
3T7361
11.42[43]

29
12
"The Killer Robot Instability"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Richard Rosenstock
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Daley Haggar
January 12, 2009 (2009-01-12)
3T7362
11.81[44]

30
13
"The Friendship Algorithm"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Richard Rosenstock
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro
January 19, 2009 (2009-01-19)
3T7363
11.10[45]

31
14
"The Financial Permeability"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Richard Rosenstock & Eric Kaplan
February 2, 2009 (2009-02-02)
3T7364
10.89[46]

32
15
"The Maternal Capacitance"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Richard Rosenstock & Steven Molaro
February 9, 2009 (2009-02-09)
3T7365
13.11[47]

33
16
"The Cushion Saturation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
March 2, 2009 (2009-03-02)
3T7366
10.94[48]

34
17
"The Terminator Decoupling"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Tim Doyle & Stephen Engel
March 9, 2009 (2009-03-09)
3T7367
9.46[49]

35
18
"The Work Song Nanocluster"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Richard Rosenstock
March 16, 2009 (2009-03-16)
3T7368
9.76[50]

36
19
"The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition"
Mark Cendrowski
Steven Molaro
March 30, 2009 (2009-03-30)
3T7369
9.77[51]

37
20
"The Hofstadter Isotope"
Mark Cendrowski
Dave Goetsch
April 13, 2009 (2009-04-13)
3T7370
10.13[52]

38
21
"The Vegas Renormalization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jessica Ambrosetti & Nicole Lorre & Andrew Roth
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro
April 27, 2009 (2009-04-27)
3T7371
9.31[53]

39
22
"The Classified Materials Turbulence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
May 4, 2009 (2009-05-04)
3T7373
9.25[54]

40
23
"The Monopolar Expedition"
Mark Cendrowski
Eric Kaplan & Richard Rosenstock
May 11, 2009 (2009-05-11)
3T7372
9.81[55]

text: Season 3 (2009–10)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

41
1
"The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation"
Mark Cendrowski
Steven Molaro
September 21, 2009 (2009-09-21)
3X5551
12.96[56]

42
2
"The Jiminy Conjecture"
Mark Cendrowski
Jim Reynolds
September 28, 2009 (2009-09-28)
3X5552
13.27[57]

43
3
"The Gothowitz Deviation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Richard Rosenstock
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari
October 5, 2009 (2009-10-05)
3X5553
12.52[58]

44
4
"The Pirate Solution"
Mark Cendrowski
Steve Holland
October 12, 2009 (2009-10-12)
3X5554
13.07[59]

45
5
"The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
October 19, 2009 (2009-10-19)
3X5556
13.47[60]

46
6
"The Cornhusker Vortex"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Richard Rosenstock
November 2, 2009 (2009-11-02)
3X5555
12.73[61]

47
7
"The Guitarist Amplification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Richard Rosenstock & Jim Reynolds
November 9, 2009 (2009-11-09)
3X5557
12.79[62]

48
8
"The Adhesive Duck Deficiency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
November 16, 2009 (2009-11-16)
3X5558
13.23[63]

49
9
"The Vengeance Formulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Richard Rosenstock & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
November 23, 2009 (2009-11-23)
3X5559
14.13[64]

50
10
"The Gorilla Experiment"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Richard Rosenstock & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari
December 7, 2009 (2009-12-07)
3X5560
14.38[65]

51
11
"The Maternal Congruence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro & Richard Rosenstock & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch
December 14, 2009 (2009-12-14)
3X5562
15.58[66]

52
12
"The Psychic Vortex"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
January 11, 2010 (2010-01-11)
3X5561
15.82[67]

53
13
"The Bozeman Reaction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
January 18, 2010 (2010-01-18)
3X5563
14.99[68]

54
14
"The Einstein Approximation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
February 1, 2010 (2010-02-01)
3X5565
15.51[69]

55
15
"The Large Hadron Collision"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Richard Rosenstock & Maria Ferrari
February 8, 2010 (2010-02-08)
3X5564
16.26[70]

56
16
"The Excelsior Acquisition"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
March 1, 2010 (2010-03-01)
3X5566
15.73[71]

57
17
"The Precious Fragmentation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Richard Rosenstock
March 8, 2010 (2010-03-08)
3X5567
16.32[72]

58
18
"The Pants Alternative"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Richard Rosenstock & Jim Reynolds
March 22, 2010 (2010-03-22)
3X5568
13.42[73]

59
19
"The Wheaton Recurrence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Nicole Lorre & Jessica Ambrosetti
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12)
3X5569
13.39[74]

60
20
"The Spaghetti Catalyst"
Anthony Rich
Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
May 3, 2010 (2010-05-03)
3X5570
11.63[75]

61
21
"The Plimpton Stimulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
May 10, 2010 (2010-05-10)
3X5571
13.73[76]

62
22
"The Staircase Implementation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari
May 17, 2010 (2010-05-17)
3X5572
15.02[77]

63
23
"The Lunar Excitation"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
May 24, 2010 (2010-05-24)
3X5573
14.78[78]

text: Season 4 (2010–11)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

64
1
"The Robotic Manipulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
September 23, 2010 (2010-09-23)
3X6651
14.04[79]

65
2
"The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
September 30, 2010 (2010-09-30)
3X6652
13.05[80]

66
3
"The Zazzy Substitution"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari
October 7, 2010 (2010-10-07)
3X6653
12.59[81]

67
4
"The Hot Troll Deviation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn & Maria Ferrari
October 14, 2010 (2010-10-14)
3X6654
12.57[82]

68
5
"The Desperation Emanation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
October 21, 2010 (2010-10-21)
3X6655
13.05[83]

69
6
"The Irish Pub Formulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
October 28, 2010 (2010-10-28)
3X6656
13.04[84]

70
7
"The Apology Insufficiency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
November 4, 2010 (2010-11-04)
3X6657
14.00[85]

71
8
"The 21-Second Excitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
November 11, 2010 (2010-11-11)
3X6658
13.11[86]

72
9
"The Boyfriend Complexity"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch
November 18, 2010 (2010-11-18)
3X6659
13.02[87]

73
10
"The Alien Parasite Hypothesis"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
December 9, 2010 (2010-12-09)
3X6660
12.03[88]

74
11
"The Justice League Recombination"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16)
3X6661
13.24[89]

75
12
"The Bus Pants Utilization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
January 6, 2011 (2011-01-06)
3X6662
13.98[90]

76
13
"The Love Car Displacement"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
January 20, 2011 (2011-01-20)
3X6663
13.63[91]

77
14
"The Thespian Catalyst"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari
February 3, 2011 (2011-02-03)
3X6664
13.83[92]

78
15
"The Benefactor Factor"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
February 10, 2011 (2011-02-10)
3X6665
12.79[93]

79
16
"The Cohabitation Formulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
February 17, 2011 (2011-02-17)
3X6666
12.41[94]

80
17
"The Toast Derivation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
February 24, 2011 (2011-02-24)
3X6667
12.35[95]

81
18
"The Prestidigitation Approximation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Steve Holland & Eddie Gorodetsky
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
March 10, 2011 (2011-03-10)
3X6668
12.06[96]

82
19
"The Zarnecki Incursion"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch & Jim Reynolds
March 31, 2011 (2011-03-31)
3X6669
11.92[97]

83
20
"The Herb Garden Germination"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Eddie Gorodetsky
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
April 7, 2011 (2011-04-07)
3X6670
11.40[98]

84
21
"The Agreement Dissection"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch & Eddie Gorodetsky
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
April 28, 2011 (2011-04-28)
3X6671
10.71[99]

85
22
"The Wildebeest Implementation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Eddie Gorodetsky & Maria Ferrari
May 5, 2011 (2011-05-05)
3X6672
10.50[100]

86
23
"The Engagement Reaction"
Howard Murray
Story by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
May 12, 2011 (2011-05-12)
3X6673
10.78[101]

87
24
"The Roommate Transmogrification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eddie Gorodetsky
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
May 19, 2011 (2011-05-19)
3X6674
11.30[102]

text: Season 5 (2011–12)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

88
1
"The Skank Reflex Analysis"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)
3X6851
14.30[103]

89
2
"The Infestation Hypothesis"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)
3X6852
14.94[103]

90
3
"The Pulled Groin Extrapolation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch
September 29, 2011 (2011-09-29)
3X6853
14.74[104]

91
4
"The Wiggly Finger Catalyst"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
October 6, 2011 (2011-10-06)
3X6854
13.92[105]

92
5
"The Russian Rocket Reaction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
October 13, 2011 (2011-10-13)
3X6855
13.58[106]

93
6
"The Rhinitis Revelation"
Howard Murray
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
October 20, 2011 (2011-10-20)
3X6857
14.93[107]

94
7
"The Good Guy Fluctuation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
October 27, 2011 (2011-10-27)
3X6856
14.54[108]

95
8
"The Isolation Permutation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
November 3, 2011 (2011-11-03)
3X6858
15.98[109]

96
9
"The Ornithophobia Diffusion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
November 10, 2011 (2011-11-10)
3X6859
15.89[110]

97
10
"The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
November 17, 2011 (2011-11-17)
3X6860
15.05[111]

98
11
"The Speckerman Recurrence"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Anthony Del Broccolo
December 8, 2011 (2011-12-08)
3X6861
14.02[112]

99
12
"The Shiny Trinket Maneuver"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)
3X6862
16.13[113]

100
13
"The Recombination Hypothesis"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro
January 19, 2012 (2012-01-19)
3X6863
15.83[114]

101
14
"The Beta Test Initiation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari
January 26, 2012 (2012-01-26)
3X6864
16.13[115]

102
15
"The Friendship Contraction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
February 2, 2012 (2012-02-02)
3X6865
16.54[116]

103
16
"The Vacation Solution"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Anthony Del Broccolo & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari
February 9, 2012 (2012-02-09)
3X6866
16.21[117]

104
17
"The Rothman Disintegration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
February 16, 2012 (2012-02-16)
3X6867
15.65[118]

105
18
"The Werewolf Transformation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Todd Craig & Gary Torvinen
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
February 23, 2012 (2012-02-23)
3X6868
16.20[119]

106
19
"The Weekend Vortex"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
March 8, 2012 (2012-03-08)
3X6869
15.04[120]

107
20
"The Transporter Malfunction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
March 29, 2012 (2012-03-29)
3X6870
13.96[121]

108
21
"The Hawking Excitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
April 5, 2012 (2012-04-05)
3X6871
13.29[122]

109
22
"The Stag Convergence"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Billy Prady & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
April 26, 2012 (2012-04-26)
3X6872
12.65[123]

110
23
"The Launch Acceleration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Bill Prady & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
May 3, 2012 (2012-05-03)
3X6873
13.91[124]

111
24
"The Countdown Reflection"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds
May 10, 2012 (2012-05-10)
3X6874
13.72[125]

text: Season 6 (2012–13)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

112
1
"The Date Night Variable"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
September 27, 2012 (2012-09-27)
3X7601
15.66[126]

113
2
"The Decoupling Fluctuation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
October 4, 2012 (2012-10-04)
3X7602
15.18[127]

114
3
"The Higgs Boson Observation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
October 11, 2012 (2012-10-11)
3X7603
14.23[128]

115
4
"The Re-Entry Minimization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
October 18, 2012 (2012-10-18)
3X7604
15.73[129]

116
5
"The Holographic Excitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
October 25, 2012 (2012-10-25)
3X7605
15.82[130]

117
6
"The Extract Obliteration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Eric Kaplan
November 1, 2012 (2012-11-01)
3X7606
15.90[131]

118
7
"The Habitation Configuration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
November 8, 2012 (2012-11-08)
3X7607
16.68[132]

119
8
"The 43 Peculiarity"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
November 15, 2012 (2012-11-15)
3X7608
17.63[133]

120
9
"The Parking Spot Escalation"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
November 29, 2012 (2012-11-29)
3X7609
17.25[134]

121
10
"The Fish Guts Displacement"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
December 6, 2012 (2012-12-06)
3X7610
16.94[135]

122
11
"The Santa Simulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
December 13, 2012 (2012-12-13)
3X7611
16.77[136]

123
12
"The Egg Salad Equivalency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Bill Prady & Steve Holland
January 3, 2013 (2013-01-03)
3X7612
19.25[137]

124
13
"The Bakersfield Expedition"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
January 10, 2013 (2013-01-10)
3X7613
20.00[138]

125
14
"The Cooper/Kripke Inversion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
January 31, 2013 (2013-01-31)
3X7614
17.76[139]

126
15
"The Spoiler Alert Segmentation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Adam Faberman
February 7, 2013 (2013-02-07)
3X7615
18.98[140]

127
16
"The Tangible Affection Proof"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady and Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
February 14, 2013 (2013-02-14)
3X7616
17.89[141]

128
17
"The Monster Isolation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch and Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland
February 21, 2013 (2013-02-21)
3X7617
17.62[142]

129
18
"The Contractual Obligation Implementation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds and Maria Ferrari
March 7, 2013 (2013-03-07)
3X7618
17.63[143]

130
19
"The Closet Reconfiguration"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds and Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland and Eric Kaplan
March 14, 2013 (2013-03-14)
3X7619
15.90[144]

131
20
"The Tenure Turbulence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan and Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland and Jim Reynolds
April 4, 2013 (2013-04-04)
3X7620
17.24[145]

132
21
"The Closure Alternative"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady and Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds and Steve Holland
April 25, 2013 (2013-04-25)
3X7621
15.05[146]

133
22
"The Proton Resurgence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds and Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan and Maria Ferrari
May 2, 2013 (2013-05-02)
3X7622
16.29[147]

134
23
"The Love Spell Potential"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds and Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland
May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09)
3X7623
16.30[148]

135
24
"The Bon Voyage Reaction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland and Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds and Maria Ferrari
May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16)
3X7624
15.48[149]

text: Season 7 (2013–14)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

136
1
"The Hofstadter Insufficiency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)
4X5301
18.99[150]

137
2
"The Deception Verification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)
4X5302
20.44[150]

138
3
"The Scavenger Vortex"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
October 3, 2013 (2013-10-03)
4X5303
18.22[151]

139
4
"The Raiders Minimization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
October 10, 2013 (2013-10-10)
4X5304
17.64[152]

140
5
"The Workplace Proximity"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
October 17, 2013 (2013-10-17)
4X5305
17.80[153]

141
6
"The Romance Resonance"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
October 24, 2013 (2013-10-24)
4X5306
16.98[154]

142
7
"The Proton Displacement"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Maria Ferrari & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
November 7, 2013 (2013-11-07)
4X5307
16.89[155]

143
8
"The Itchy Brain Simulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
November 14, 2013 (2013-11-14)
4X5308
18.30[156]

144
9
"The Thanksgiving Decoupling"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe
November 21, 2013 (2013-11-21)
4X5309
18.94[157]

145
10
"The Discovery Dissipation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Adam Faberman
December 5, 2013 (2013-12-05)
4X5310
15.63[158]

146
11
"The Cooper Extraction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
December 12, 2013 (2013-12-12)
4X5311
17.68[159]

147
12
"The Hesitation Ramification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
January 2, 2014 (2014-01-02)
4X5312
19.20[160]

148
13
"The Occupation Recalibration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
January 9, 2014 (2014-01-09)
4X5313
20.35[161]

149
14
"The Convention Conundrum"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
January 30, 2014 (2014-01-30)
4X5315
19.05[162]

150
15
"The Locomotive Manipulation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
February 6, 2014 (2014-02-06)
4X5314
17.53[163]

151
16
"The Table Polarization"
Gay Linvill
Story by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland
February 27, 2014 (2014-02-27)
4x5316
17.73[164]

152
17
"The Friendship Turbulence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
March 6, 2014 (2014-03-06)
4X5318
18.09[165]

153
18
"The Mommy Observation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Anthony Del Broccolo
March 13, 2014 (2014-03-13)
4x5319
17.34[166]

154
19
"The Indecision Amalgamation"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland
April 3, 2014 (2014-04-03)
4x5320
17.73[167]

155
20
"The Relationship Diremption"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Bill Prady & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
April 10, 2014 (2014-04-10)
4X5321
16.49[168]

156
21
"The Anything Can Happen Recurrence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
April 24, 2014 (2014-04-24)
4x5322
16.44[169]

157
22
"The Proton Transmogrification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
May 1, 2014 (2014-05-01)
4X5317[170]
16.07[171]

158
23
"The Gorilla Dissolution"
Peter Chakos
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
May 8, 2014 (2014-05-08)
4x5323
14.42[172]

159
24
"The Status Quo Combustion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
May 15, 2014 (2014-05-15)
4X5324
16.73[173]

text: Season 8 (2014–15)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

160
1
"The Locomotion Interruption"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
September 22, 2014 (2014-09-22)
4X6751
18.08[174]

161
2
"The Junior Professor Solution"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
September 22, 2014 (2014-09-22)
4X6752
18.30[174]

162
3
"The First Pitch Insufficiency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
September 29, 2014 (2014-09-29)
4X6753
16.44[175]

163
4
"The Hook-Up Reverberation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
October 6, 2014 (2014-10-06)
4X6754
15.94[176]

164
5
"The Focus Attenuation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland
October 13, 2014 (2014-10-13)
4X6755
15.63[177]

165
6
"The Expedition Approximation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Dave Goetsch & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
October 20, 2014 (2014-10-20)
4X6756
16.02[178]

166
7
"The Misinterpretation Agitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
October 30, 2014 (2014-10-30)
4X6758
16.25[179]

167
8
"The Prom Equivalency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
November 6, 2014 (2014-11-06)
4X6757
16.56[180]

168
9
"The Septum Deviation"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Steven Molaro & Bill Prady and Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Steve Holland and Tara Hernandez
November 13, 2014 (2014-11-13)
4X6759
16.90[181]

169
10
"The Champagne Reflection"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Tara Hernandez and David Saltzberg & Ph.D
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland and Dave Goetsch
November 20, 2014 (2014-11-20)
4X6760
14.61[182]

170
11
"The Clean Room Infiltration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez & & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & & Steve Holland
December 11, 2014 (2014-12-11)
4X6761
15.49[183]

171
12
"The Space Probe Disintegration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & & Maria Ferrari
January 8, 2015 (2015-01-08)
4X6762
18.11[184]

172
13
"The Anxiety Optimization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
January 29, 2015 (2015-01-29)
4X6763
17.25[185]

173
14
"The Troll Manifestation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Jim Reynolds & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
February 5, 2015 (2015-02-05)
4X6765
17.09[186]

174
15
"The Comic Book Store Regeneration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari and Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland
February 19, 2015 (2015-02-19)
4X6764
17.49[187]

175
16
"The Intimacy Acceleration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Eric Kaplan and Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Jim Reynolds & and Steve Holland
February 26, 2015 (2015-02-26)
4X6766
16.67[188]

176
17
"The Colonization Application"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Jim Reynolds and Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Eric Kaplan and Maria Ferrari
March 5, 2015 (2015-03-05)
4X6767
18.17[189]

177
18
"The Leftover Thermalization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari and Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds and Steve Holland
March 12, 2015 (2015-03-12)
4X6768
16.13[190]

178
19
"The Skywalker Incursion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
April 2, 2015 (2015-04-02)
4X6769
13.89[191]

179
20
"The Fortification Implementation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Saladin Patterson & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
April 9, 2015 (2015-04-09)
4X6770
14.78[192]

180
21
"The Communication Deterioration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Steve Holland & Jeremy Howe & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
April 16, 2015 (2015-04-16)
4X6771
14.82[193]

181
22
"The Graduation Transmission"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
April 23, 2015 (2015-04-23)
4X6772
14.63[194]

182
23
"The Maternal Combustion"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Steven Molaro & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
April 30, 2015 (2015-04-30)
4X6773
13.85[195]

183
24
"The Commitment Determination"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
May 7, 2015 (2015-05-07)
4X6774
14.64[196]

text: Season 9 (2015–16)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

184
1
"The Matrimonial Momentum"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21)
4X7201
18.20[197]

185
2
"The Separation Oscillation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
4X7202
15.23[198]

186
3
"The Bachelor Party Corrosion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Dave Goetsch & Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
October 5, 2015 (2015-10-05)
4X7203
15.40[199]

187
4
"The 2003 Approximation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
October 12, 2015 (2015-10-12)
4X7204
14.96[200]

188
5
"The Perspiration Implementation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Saladin Patterson
October 19, 2015 (2015-10-19)
4X7205
14.68[201]

189
6
"The Helium Insufficiency"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
October 26, 2015 (2015-10-26)
4X7207
16.32[202]

190
7
"The Spock Resonance"
Nikki Lorre
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Jeremy Howe
November 5, 2015 (2015-11-05)
4X7206
14.81[203]

191
8
"The Mystery Date Observation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
November 12, 2015 (2015-11-12)
4X7208
14.92[204]

192
9
"The Platonic Permutation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Adam Faberman
November 19, 2015 (2015-11-19)
4X7209
15.19[205]

193
10
"The Earworm Reverberation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Saladin Patterson
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Jeremy Howe
December 10, 2015 (2015-12-10)
4X7210
15.27[206]

194
11
"The Opening Night Excitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
December 17, 2015 (2015-12-17)
4X7211
17.23[207]

195
12
"The Sales Call Sublimation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Saladin K. Patterson
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Anthony Del Broccolo
January 7, 2016 (2016-01-07)
4X7212
15.85[208]

196
13
"The Empathy Optimization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Dave Geotsch
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Saladin K. Patterson
January 14, 2016 (2016-01-14)
4X7213
15.75[209]

197
14
"The Meemaw Materialization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
February 4, 2016 (2016-02-04)
4X7214
15.29[210]

198
15
"The Valentino Submergence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe
February 11, 2016 (2016-02-11)
4X7215
16.25[211]

199
16
"The Positive Negative Reaction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds & Saladin Patterson
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
February 18, 2016 (2016-02-18)
4X7216
15.24[212]

200
17
"The Celebration Experimentation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
February 25, 2016 (2016-02-25)
4X7217
15.94[213]

201
18
"The Application Deterioration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
March 10, 2016 (2016-03-10)
4X7218
14.68[214]

202
19
"The Solder Excursion Diversion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Saladin K. Patterson
March 31, 2016 (2016-03-31)
4X7219
14.24[215]

203
20
"The Big Bear Precipitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds
April 7, 2016 (2016-04-07)
4X7220
13.50[216]

204
21
"The Viewing Party Combustion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
April 21, 2016 (2016-04-21)
4X7221
14.16[217]

205
22
"The Fermentation Bifurcation"
Nikki Lorre
Story by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
April 28, 2016 (2016-04-28)
4X7222
14.13[218]

206
23
"The Line Substitution Solution"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Steve Holland & Saladin K. Patterson & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
May 5, 2016 (2016-05-05)
4X7223
13.22[219]

207
24
"The Convergence Convergence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Tara Hernandez & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Jeremy Howe
May 12, 2016 (2016-05-12)
4X7224
14.73[220]

text: Season 10 (2016–17)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

208
1
"The Conjugal Conjecture"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
September 19, 2016 (2016-09-19)
T12.15303
15.82[221]

209
2
"The Military Miniaturization"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
September 26, 2016 (2016-09-26)
T12.15301
14.24[222]

210
3
"The Dependence Transcendence"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Saladin K. Patterson & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
October 3, 2016 (2016-10-03)
T12.15302
14.32[223]

211
4
"The Cohabitation Experimentation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
October 10, 2016 (2016-10-10)
T12.15304
14.41[224]

212
5
"The Hot Tub Contamination"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
October 17, 2016 (2016-10-17)
T12.15305
14.20[225]

213
6
"The Fetal Kick Catalyst"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Saladin K. Patterson & Anthony Del Broccolo
October 27, 2016 (2016-10-27)
T12.15306
14.31[226]

214
7
"The Veracity Elasticity"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Adam Faberman
November 3, 2016 (2016-11-03)
T12.15307
14.18[227]

215
8
"The Brain Bowl Incubation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Saladin K. Patterson
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
November 10, 2016 (2016-11-10)
T12.15308
14.47[228]

216
9
"The Geology Elevation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Erik Kaplan & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Jeremy Howe
November 17, 2016 (2016-11-17)
T12.15309
14.34[229]

217
10
"The Property Division Collision"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Holland & Bill Prady & Steve Goetsch
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
December 1, 2016 (2016-12-01)
T12.15310
14.54[230]

218
11
"The Birthday Synchronicity"
Nikki Lorre
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
December 15, 2016 (2016-12-15)
T12.15311
15.96[231]

219
12
"The Holiday Summation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
January 5, 2017 (2017-01-05)
T12.15312
16.80[232]

220
13
"The Romance Recalibration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Dave Goetsch & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Saladin K. Patterson
January 19, 2017 (2017-01-19)
T12.15313
15.15[233]

221
14
"The Emotion Detection Automation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Saladin K. Patterson
February 2, 2017 (2017-02-02)
T12.15314
14.66[234]

222
15
"The Locomotion Reverberation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
February 9, 2017 (2017-02-09)
T12.15315
14.15[235]

223
16
"The Allowance Evaporation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds
February 16, 2017 (2017-02-16)
T12.15316
13.51[236]

224
17
"The Comic-Con Conundrum"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Saladin K. Patterson & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
February 23, 2017 (2017-02-23)
T12.15317
13.38[237]

225
18
"The Escape Hatch Identification"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Anthony Del Broccolo
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez
March 9, 2017 (2017-03-09)
T12.15318
13.08[238]

226
19
"The Collaboration Fluctuation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Tara Hernandez & Giuseppe Graziano
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Dave Goetsch
March 30, 2017 (2017-03-30)
T12.15319
12.78[239]

227
20
"The Recollection Dissipation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
April 6, 2017 (2017-04-06)
T12.15320
12.59[240]

228
21
"The Separation Agitation"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe
April 13, 2017 (2017-04-13)
T12.15321
11.89[241]

229
22
"The Cognition Regeneration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
April 27, 2017 (2017-04-27)
T12.15322
12.52[242]

230
23
"The Gyroscopic Collapse"
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Alex Ayers
Teleplay by : Steven Molaro & Jim Reynolds & Saladin K. Patterson
May 4, 2017 (2017-05-04)
T12.15323
12.39[243]

231
24
"The Long Distance Dissonance"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds
Teleplay by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Tara Hernandez
May 11, 2017 (2017-05-11)
T12.15324
12.99[244]

text: Season 11 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

232
1
"The Proposal Proposal"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)
T12.15601
17.65[245]

233
2
"The Retraction Reaction"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Eric Kaplan & Anthony Del Broccolo
October 2, 2017 (2017-10-02)
T12.15602
14.06[246]

234
3
"The Relaxation Integration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Steve Holland & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Maria Ferrari & Andy Gordon & Tara Hernandez
October 9, 2017 (2017-10-09)
T12.15603
13.13[247]

235
4
"The Explosion Implosion"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Bill Prady & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan & Jeremy Howe
October 16, 2017 (2017-10-16)
T12.15604
13.07[248]

236
5
"The Collaboration Contamination"
Nikki Lorre
Story by : Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Eric Kaplan
Teleplay by : Dave Goetsch & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
October 23, 2017 (2017-10-23)
T12.15605
13.20[249]

237
6
"The Proton Regeneration"
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Molaro, Dave Goetsch, Alex Yonks
Teleplay by : Dave Steve Holland, Andy Gordon, Jeremy Howe
November 2, 2017 (2017-11-02)
T12.15606
TBD

238
7
"The Geology Methodology"[250]
Mark Cendrowski
Story by : Steven Holland & Anthony Del Broccolo & Adam Faberman
Teleplay by : Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari & Tara Hernandez
November 9, 2017 (2017-11-09)
T12.15607
TBD

239
8
"The Tesla Recoil"[251]
Anthony Rich
Story by : Chuck Lorre & Eric Kaplan & Tara Hernandez
Teleplay by : Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari & Jeremy Howe
November 16, 2017 (2017-11-16)
T12.15608
TBD


document_title: Wand'rin' Star

question_text: who wrote i was born under a wandering star

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text: Wand'rin' Star

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text:
"Wand'rin' Star"
Single by Lee MarvinA-side
"Wand'rin' Star"B-side
"I Talk to the Trees"(Clint Eastwood)Released
1970 (1970)Format
7"Genre
Rock[1]Label
ParamountSongwriter(s)

Alan J. Lerner (lyrics)
Frederick Loewe (music)
Producer(s)
Tom Mack

text: "Wand'rin' Star" was a number one single in the UK and Ireland for Lee Marvin for three weeks in March 1970.[2]

text: It was originally written by Alan J. Lerner (lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) for the stage musical Paint Your Wagon in 1951. When the film of the musical was made in 1969, Lee Marvin took the role of prospector Ben Rumson. Not a natural singer, Marvin nevertheless sang all of his songs in the film, rejecting the idea of miming to another singer's voice. Despite the film being a box office flop, the soundtrack became a success. Orchestrated and arranged by Nelson Riddle, Marvin's version of the song "Wand'rin Star" became a number-one single in Ireland and the UK, keeping The Beatles at number two in the UK with their single "Let It Be".  Marvin never released a follow-up single, so he is considered a one-hit wonder.

text: A sound-alike cover appeared on the 1970 album Top of the Pops, Volume 10, with one reviewer using terms like "laryngitic croak" and "gargling gargoyles" to describe how he felt about the cover. [3]

text: "Wand'rin' Star" was covered by English comedian and novelist Julian Clary; his version was released as a single in the United Kingdom in 1990, backed with the self-penned track "Uncanny and Unnatural".

text: The song was covered by Shane MacGowan and The Popes on their 1997 album The Crock of Gold.

text: The song was mentioned in the words of "Build A Fire" by The KLF.  The last lines are, "We'll stop for lunch, in some taco bar./Lee Marvin on the jukebox, 'Wand'rin' Star.'"

text: Sample[edit]

text:
sample of "Wand'rin' Star" by Lee Marvin

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document_title: Great Plague of London

question_text: whose diary describes the great plague of london

text: Great Plague of London

text: London in 1665[edit]

text: As in other European cities of the period, the plague was endemic in 17th century London.[8] The disease periodically erupted into massive epidemics. There were 30,000 deaths due to the plague in 1603, 35,000 in 1625, and 10,000 in 1636, as well as smaller numbers in other years.[9][10]

text: During the winter of 1664, a bright comet was to be seen in the sky[11] and the people of London were fearful, wondering what evil event it portended. London at that time consisted of a city of about 448 acres surrounded by a city wall, which had originally been built to keep out raiding bands. There were gates at Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate and Bishopsgate and to the south lay the River Thames and London Bridge.[12] In the poorer parts of the city, hygiene was impossible to maintain in the overcrowded tenements and garrets. There was no sanitation, and open drains flowed along the centre of winding streets. The cobbles were slippery with animal dung, rubbish and the slops thrown out of the houses, muddy and buzzing with flies in summer and awash with sewage in winter. The City Corporation employed "rakers" to remove the worst of the filth and it was transported to mounds outside the walls where it accumulated and continued to decompose. The stench was overwhelming and people walked around with handkerchiefs or nosegays pressed against their nostrils.[13]

text: Some of the city's necessities such as coal arrived by barge, but most came by road. Carts, carriages, horses and pedestrians were crowded together and the gateways in the wall formed bottlenecks through which it was difficult to progress. The nineteen-arch London Bridge was even more congested. The better-off used hackney carriages and sedan chairs to get to their destinations without getting filthy. The poor walked, and might be splashed by the wheeled vehicles and drenched by slops being thrown out and water falling from the overhanging roofs. Another hazard was the choking black smoke belching forth from factories which made soap, from breweries and iron smelters and from about 15,000 houses burning coal.[14]

text: Outside the city walls, suburbs had sprung up providing homes for the craftsmen and tradespeople who flocked to the already overcrowded city. These were shanty towns with wooden shacks and no sanitation. The government had tried to control this development but had failed and over a quarter of a million people lived here.[15] Other immigrants had taken over fine town houses, vacated by Royalists who had fled the country during the Commonwealth, converting them into tenements with different families in every room. These properties were soon vandalised and became rat-infested slums.[15]

text: Administration of the City of London was organised by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and common councillors, but not all of the inhabited area generally comprising London was legally part of the City. Both inside the City and outside its boundaries there were also Liberties, which were areas of varying sizes which historically had been granted rights to self-government. Many had been associated with religious institutions, and when these were abolished in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, their historic rights were transferred along with their property to new owners. The walled City was surrounded by a ring of Liberties which had come under its authority, contemporarily called 'the City and Liberties', but these were surrounded by further suburbs with varying administrations. Westminster was an independent town with its own liberties, although it was joined to London by urban development. The Tower of London was an independent liberty, as were others. Areas north of the river not part of one of these administrations came under the authority of the county of Middlesex, and south of the river under Surrey.[16]

text: At that time, bubonic plague was a much feared disease but its cause was not understood. The credulous blamed emanations from the earth, "pestilential effluviums", unusual weather, sickness in livestock, abnormal behaviour of animals or an increase in the numbers of moles, frogs, mice or flies.[17] It was not until 1894 that the identification by Alexandre Yersin of its causal agent Yersinia pestis was made and the transmission of the bacterium by rat fleas became known.[18] Although the Great Plague in London had long been believed to be bubonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis, this was only definitively confirmed by DNA analysis in 2016.[19]

text: The recording of deaths[edit]

text: In order to judge the severity of an epidemic, it is first necessary to know how big the population was in which it occurred. There was no official census of the population to provide this figure, and the best contemporary count comes from the work of John Graunt (1620–1674), who was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society and one of the first demographers, bringing a scientific approach to the collection of statistics. In 1662, he estimated that 384,000 people lived in the City of London, the Liberties, Westminster and the out-parishes, based on figures in the bills of mortality published each week in the capital. These different districts with different administrations constituted the officially recognised extent of London as a whole. In 1665, he revised his estimate to 'not above 460,000'. Other contemporaries put the figure higher, (the French Ambassador, for example, suggested 600,000) but with no mathematical basis to support their estimates. The next largest city in the kingdom was Norwich, with a population of 30,000.[15][20]

text: There was no duty to report a death to anyone in authority. Instead, each parish appointed two or more 'searchers of the dead', whose duty was to inspect a corpse and determine the cause of death. A searcher was entitled to charge a small fee from relatives for each death they reported, and so habitually the parish would appoint someone to the post who would otherwise be destitute and would be receiving support from the parish poor rate. Typically, this meant searchers would be old women who were illiterate, might know little about identifying diseases and who would be open to dishonesty.[21] Searchers would typically learn about a death either from the local sexton who had been asked to dig a grave, or from the tolling of a church bell. Anyone who did not report a death to their local church, such as Quakers, Anabaptists, other non-Anglican Christians or Jews, frequently did not get included in the official records. Searchers during times of plague were required to live apart from the community and stay indoors except when performing their duties, for fear of spreading the diseases. Outside they should avoid other people and always carry a white stick to warn of their occupation. Searchers reported to the Parish Clerk, who made a return each week to the Company of Parish Clerks in Brode Lane. Figures were then passed to the Lord Mayor and then to the Minister of State once plague became a matter of national concern.[22] The reported figures were used to compile the Bills of Mortality, which listed total deaths in each parish and whether by plague. The system of Searchers to report the cause of death continued until 1836.[23]

text: Graunt recorded the incompetence of the Searchers at identifying true causes of death, remarking on the frequent recording of 'consumption' rather than other diseases which were recognised then by physicians. He suggested a cup of ale and a doubling of their fee to two groats rather than one was sufficient for Searchers to change the cause of death to one more convenient for the householders. No one wished to be known as having had a death by plague in their household, and Parish Clerks, too, connived in covering up cases of plague in their official returns. Analysis of the Bills of Mortality during the months plague took hold shows a rise in deaths other than by plague well above the average death rate, which has been attributed to misrepresentation of the true cause of death.[23] As plague spread, a system of quarantine was introduced, whereby any house where someone had died from plague would be locked up and no one allowed to enter or leave for 40 days. This frequently led to the deaths of the other inhabitants, by neglect if not from plague, and provided ample incentive not to report the disease. The official returns record 68,596 cases of plague, but a reasonable estimate suggests this figure is 30,000 short of the true total.[24] A plague house was marked with a red cross on the door with the words "Lord have mercy upon us", and a watchman stood guard outside.[15]

text: Preventative measures[edit]

text: Reports of plague around Europe began to reach England in the 1660s, causing the Privy Council to consider what steps might be taken to prevent it crossing to England. Quarantining of ships had been used during previous outbreaks and was again introduced for ships coming to London in November 1663, following outbreaks in Amsterdam and Hamburg. Two naval ships were assigned to intercept any vessels entering the Thames estuary. Ships from infected ports were required to moor at Hole Haven on Canvey Island for a period of 30 days before being allowed to travel upriver. Ships from ports free of plague or completing their quarantine were given a certificate of health and allowed to travel on. A second inspection line was established between the forts on opposite banks of the Thames at Tilbury and Gravesend with instructions only to pass ships with a certificate.[25]

text: The duration of quarantine was increased to forty days in May 1664 as the continental plague worsened, and the areas subject to quarantine changed with the news of the spread of plague to include all of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland (all regions of the Dutch Republic), although restrictions on Hamburg were removed in November. Quarantine measures against ships coming from the Dutch Republic were put in place in 29 other ports from May, commencing with Great Yarmouth. The Dutch ambassador objected at the constraint of trade with his country, but England responded that it had been one of the last countries introducing such restrictions. Regulations were enforced quite strictly, so that people or houses where voyagers had come ashore without serving their quarantine were also subjected to 40 days quarantine.[26]

text: Outbreak[edit]

text: Plague was one of the hazards of life in Britain from its dramatic appearance in 1347 with the Black Death. The Bills of Mortality began to be published regularly in 1603, in which year 33,347 deaths were recorded from plague. Between then and 1665, only four years had no recorded cases. In 1563, a thousand people were reportedly dying in London each week. In 1593, there were 15,003 deaths, 1625 saw 41,313 dead, between 1640 and 1646 came 11,000 deaths, culminating in 3,597 for 1647. The 1625 outbreak was recorded at the time as the 'Great Plague', until 1665 surpassed it. These official figures are likely to under-report actual numbers.[27]

text: Early days[edit]

text: Although plague was known, it was still sufficiently uncommon that medical practitioners might have had no personal experience of seeing the disease; medical training varied from those who had attended the college of physicians, to apothecaries who also acted as modern doctors, to simple charlatans. Other diseases abounded, such as an outbreak of smallpox the year before, and these uncertainties all added to difficulties identifying the true start of the epidemic.[28] Contemporary accounts suggest cases of plague occurred through the winter of 1664/5, some of which were fatal but a number of which did not display the virulence of the later epidemic. The winter was cold, the ground frozen from December to March, river traffic on the Thames twice blocked by ice, and it may be that the cold weather held back its spread.[29]

text: This outbreak of bubonic plague in England is thought to have spread from the Netherlands, where the disease had been occurring intermittently since 1599. It is unclear exactly where the disease first struck but the initial contagion may have arrived with Dutch trading ships carrying bales of cotton from Amsterdam, which was ravaged by the disease in 1663–1664, with a mortality given of 50,000.[30] The first areas to be struck are believed to be the dock areas just outside London, and the parish of St Giles in the Fields. In both of these localities, poor workers were crowded into ill-kept structures. Two suspicious deaths were recorded in St. Giles parish in December 1664 and another in February 1665. These did not appear as plague deaths on the Bills of Mortality, so no control measures were taken by the authorities, but the total number of people dying in London during the first four months of 1665 showed a marked increase. By the end of April, only four plague deaths had been recorded, two in the parish of St. Giles, but total deaths per week had risen from around 290 to 398.[31]

text: Although there had been only three official cases in April, which level of plague in earlier years had not induced any official response, the Privy Council now acted to introduce household quarantine. Justices of the Peace in Middlesex were instructed to investigate any suspected cases and to shut up the house if it was confirmed. Shortly after, a similar order was issued by the King's Bench to the City and Liberties. A riot broke out in St. Giles when the first house was sealed up; the crowd broke down the door and released the inhabitants. Rioters caught were punished severely. Instructions were given to build pest-houses, which were essentially isolation hospitals built away from other people where the sick could be cared for (or stay until they died). This official activity suggests that despite the few recorded cases, the government was already aware that this was a serious outbreak of plague.[32]

text: With the arrival of warmer weather, the disease began to take a firmer hold. In the week 2–9 May, there were three recorded deaths in the parish of St Giles, four in neighbouring St Clement Danes and one each in St Andrew, Holborn and St Mary Woolchurch Haw.[24] Only the last was actually inside the city walls. A Privy Council committee was formed to investigate methods to best prevent the spread of plague, and measures were introduced to close some of the ale houses in affected areas and limit the number of lodgers allowed in a household. In the city, the Lord Mayor issued a proclamation that all householders must diligently clean the streets outside their property, which was a householder's responsibility, not a state one (the city employed scavengers and rakers to remove the worst of the mess). Matters just became worse, and Aldermen were instructed to find and punish those failing their duty.[33] As cases in St. Giles began to rise, an attempt was made to quarantine the area and constables were instructed to inspect everyone wishing to travel and contain inside vagrants or suspect persons.[34]

text: People began to be alarmed. Samuel Pepys, who had an important position at the Admiralty, stayed in London and provided a contemporary account of the plague through his diary.[35] On 30 April he wrote: "Great fears of the sickness here in the City it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve us all!"[36] Another source of information on the time is a fictional account, A Journal of the Plague Year, which was written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. He had been only six when the plague struck but made use of his family's recollections (his uncle was a saddler in East London and his father a butcher in Cripplegate), interviews with survivors and sight of such official records as were available.[37]

text: Exodus from the city[edit]

text: By July 1665, plague was rampant in the City of London. King Charles II of England, his family and his court left the city for Salisbury, moving on to Oxford in September when some cases of plague occurred in Salisbury.[38] The aldermen and most of the other city authorities opted to stay at their posts. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Lawrence, also decided to stay in the city. Businesses were closed when merchants and professionals fled. Defoe wrote "Nothing was to be seen but wagons and carts, with goods, women, servants, children, coaches filled with people of the better sort, and horsemen attending them, and all hurrying away".[35] As the plague raged throughout the summer, only a small number of clergymen, physicians and apothecaries remained to cope with an increasingly large number of victims. Edward Cotes, author of London's Dreadful Visitation, expressed the hope that "Neither the Physicians of our Souls or Bodies may hereafter in such great numbers forsake us".[35]

text: The poorer people were also alarmed by the contagion and some left the city, but it was not easy for them to abandon their accommodation and livelihoods for an uncertain future elsewhere. Before exiting through the city gates, they were required to possess a certificate of good health signed by the Lord Mayor and these became increasingly difficult to obtain. As time went by and the numbers of plague victims rose, people living in the villages outside London began to resent this exodus and were no longer prepared to accept townsfolk from London, with or without a certificate. The refugees were turned back, were not allowed to pass through towns and had to travel across country, and were forced to live rough on what they could steal or scavenge from the fields. Many died in wretched circumstances of starvation and thirst in the hot summer that was to follow.[39]

text: Height of the epidemic[edit]

text: In the last week of July, the London Bill of Mortality showed 3,014 deaths, of which 2,020 had died from the plague. The number of deaths as a result of plague may have been underestimated, as deaths in other years in the same period were much lower, at around 300. As the number of victims affected mounted up, burial grounds became overfull, and pits were dug to accommodate the dead. Drivers of dead-carts travelled the streets calling "Bring out your dead" and carted away piles of bodies. The authorities became concerned that the number of deaths might cause public alarm and ordered that body removal and interment should take place only at night.[40] As time went on, there were too many victims, and too few drivers, to remove the bodies which began to be stacked up against the walls of houses. Daytime collection was resumed and the plague pits became mounds of decomposing corpses. In the parish of Aldgate, a great hole was dug near the churchyard, fifty feet long and twenty feet wide. Digging was continued by labourers at one end while the dead-carts tipped in corpses at the other. When there was no room for further extension it was dug deeper until ground water was reached at twenty feet. When finally covered with earth it housed 1,114 corpses.[41]

text: Plague doctors traversed the streets diagnosing victims, although many of them had no formal medical training. Several public health efforts were attempted. Physicians were hired by city officials and burial details were carefully organized, but panic spread through the city and, out of the fear of contagion, people were hastily buried in overcrowded pits. The means of transmission of the disease were not known but thinking they might be linked to the animals, the City Corporation ordered a cull of dogs and cats.[42] This decision may have affected the length of the epidemic since those animals could have helped keep in check the rat population carrying the fleas which transmitted the disease. Thinking bad air was involved in transmission, the authorities ordered giant bonfires to be burned in the streets and house fires to be kept burning night and day, in hopes that the air would be cleansed.[43] Tobacco was thought to be a prophylactic and it was later said that no London tobacconist had died from the plague during the epidemic.[44]

text: Trade and business had completely dried up, and the streets were empty of people except for the dead-carts and the desperate dying victims, as witnessed and recorded by Samuel Pepys in his diary: " Lord! How empty the streets are and how melancholy, so many poor sick people in the streets full of sores… in Westminster, there is never a physician and but one apothecary left, all being dead." [45] That people did not starve was down to the foresight of Sir John Lawrence and the Corporation of London who arranged for a commission of one farthing to be paid above the normal price for every quarter of corn landed in the Port of London.[46] Another food source was the villages around London which, denied of their usual sales in the capital, left vegetables in specified market areas, negotiated their sale by shouting, and collected their payment after the money had been left submerged in a bucket of water to "disinfect" the coins.[46]

text: Records state that plague deaths in London and the suburbs crept up over the summer from 2,000 people per week to over 7,000 per week in September. These figures are likely to be a considerable underestimate. Many of the sextons and parish clerks who kept the records themselves died. Quakers refused to co-operate and many of the poor were just dumped into mass graves unrecorded. It is not clear how many people caught the disease and made a recovery because only deaths were recorded and many records were destroyed in the Great Fire of London the following year. In the few districts where intact records remain, plague deaths varied between 30% and over 50% of the total population.[47]

text: Though concentrated in London, the outbreak affected other areas of the country as well. Perhaps the most famous example was the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. The plague allegedly arrived with a merchant carrying a parcel of cloth sent from London, although this is a disputed point. The villagers imposed a quarantine on themselves to stop the further spread of the disease. This prevented the disease from moving into surrounding areas but the cost to the village was the death of around 80% of its inhabitants over a period of fourteen months.[48]

text: Aftermath[edit]

text: By late autumn, the death toll in London and the suburbs began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to come back to the city. With the return of the monarch, others began to return: The gentry returned in their carriages accompanied by carts piled high with their belongings. The judges moved back from Windsor to sit in Westminster Hall, although Parliament, which had been prorogued in April 1665, did not reconvene until September 1666. Trade recommenced and businesses and workshops opened up. London was the goal of a new wave of people who flocked to the city in expectation of making their fortunes. Writing at the end of March 1666, Lord Clarendon, the Lord Chancellor, stated "... the streets were as full, the Exchange as much crowded, the people in all places as numerous as they had ever been seen ...".[49]

text: Plague cases continued to occur sporadically at a modest rate until the summer of 1666. On the second and third of September that year, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. However, it is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place. In fact, most of the later cases of plague were found in the suburbs,[49] and it was the City of London itself that was destroyed by the Fire.[50]

text: According to the Bills of Mortality, there were in total 68,596 deaths in London from the plague in 1665. Lord Clarendon estimated that the true number of mortalities was probably twice that figure. The next year, 1666, saw further deaths in other cities but on a lesser scale. Dr Thomas Gumble, chaplain to the Duke of Albermarle, both of whom had stayed in London for the whole of the epidemic, estimated that the total death count for the country from plague during 1665 and 1666 was about 200,000.[49]

text: The Great Plague of 1665/1666 was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Great Britain. The last recorded death from plague came in 1679, and it was removed as a specific category in the Bills of Mortality after 1703. It spread to other towns in East Anglia and the southeast of England but fewer than ten percent of parishes outside London had a higher than average death rate during those years. Urban areas were more affected than rural ones; Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Southampton and Winchester were badly affected, while the West of England and areas of the Midlands escaped altogether.[51]

text: The population of England in 1650 was approximately 5.25 million, which declined to about 4.9 million by 1680, recovering to just over 5 million by 1700. Other diseases, such as smallpox, took a high toll on the population even without the contribution by plague. The higher death rate in cities, both generally and specifically from the plague, was made up by continuous immigration, from small towns to larger ones and from the countryside to the town.[52]

text: There were no contemporary censuses of London's population, but available records suggest that the population returned to its previous level within a couple of years. Burials in 1667 had returned to 1663 levels, Hearth Tax returns had recovered, John Graunt contemporarily analysed baptism records and concluded they represented a recovered population. Part of this could be accounted for by the return of wealthy households, merchants and manufacturing industries, all of which needed to replace losses amongst their staff and took steps to bring in necessary people. Colchester had suffered more severe depopulation, but manufacturing records for cloth suggested that production had recovered or even increased by 1669, and the total population had nearly returned to pre-plague levels by 1674. Other towns did less well: Ipswich was affected less than Colchester, but in 1674, its population had dropped by 18%, more than could be accounted for by the plague deaths alone.[53]

text: As a proportion of the population who died, the London death toll was less severe than in a number of other towns. The total of deaths in London was greater than in any previous outbreak for 100 years, though as a proportion of the population, the epidemics in 1563, 1603 and 1625 were comparable or greater. Perhaps around 2.5% of the English population died.[54]

text: Impact[edit]

text: The plague in London largely affected the poor, as the rich were able to leave the city by either retiring to their country estates or residing with kin in other parts of the country. The subsequent Great Fire of London, however, ruined many city merchants and property owners.[49] As a result of these events, London was largely rebuilt and Parliament enacted the Rebuilding of London Act 1666.[55] Although the street plan of the capital remained relatively unchanged, some improvements were made: streets were widened, pavements were created, open sewers abolished, wooden buildings and overhanging gables forbidden, and the design and construction of buildings controlled. The use of brick or stone was mandatory and many gracious buildings were constructed. Not only was the capital rejuvenated, but it became a healthier environment in which to live. Londoners had a greater sense of community after they had overcome the great adversities of 1665 and 1666.[56]

text: Rebuilding took over ten years and was supervised by Robert Hooke as Surveyor of London.[57] The architect Sir Christopher Wren was involved in the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and more than fifty London churches.[58] King Charles ll did much to foster the rebuilding work. He was a patron of the arts and sciences and founded the Royal Observatory and supported the Royal Society, a scientific group whose early members included Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton. In fact, out of the fire and pestilence flowed a renaissance in the arts and sciences in England.[56]

text: Plague pits have been archaeologically excavated during underground construction work. Between 2011 and 2015, some 3,500 burials from the 'New Churchyard' or 'Bethlam burial ground' were discovered during the construction of the Crossrail railway at Liverpool Street.[19] Yersinia pestis DNA was found in the teeth of individuals found buried in pits at the site, confirming they had died of bubonic plague.[3]


document_title: This Is Us (TV series)

question_text: where does rebecca live in this is us

question_tokens: where does rebecca live in this is us

text: This Is Us (TV series)

text: Premise[edit]

text: The series follows the lives of siblings Kevin, Kate, and Randall (known as the "Big Three"), and their parents Jack and Rebecca Pearson. It takes place in the present and using flashbacks, at various times in the past. Kevin and Kate are the two surviving members of a triplet pregnancy, born six weeks premature on Jack's 36th birthday in 1980; their brother is stillborn. Believing they were meant to have three children, Jack and Rebecca, who are white, decide to adopt Randall, a black child born the same day and brought to the same hospital after his biological father abandoned him at a fire station. Jack dies when his children are 17.

text: Most episodes feature a storyline taking place in the present (2016–2018, contemporaneous with airing) and a storyline taking place at a set time in the past; but some episodes are set in one time period or use multiple flashback time periods. Flashbacks often focus on Jack and Rebecca c.1980 both before and after their babies' birth, or on the family when the Big Three are children (at least ages 8–10) or adolescents; these scenes usually take place in Pittsburgh, where the Big Three are born and raised. Various other time periods and locations have also served a settings. As adults, Kate lives in Los Angeles, Randall and his family are in New Jersey, and Kevin relocates from Los Angeles to New York City.

text: Cast and characters[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Milo Ventimiglia as Jack Pearson: Rebecca's husband, and Kate, Kevin, and Randall's father.
Mandy Moore as Rebecca Pearson (née Malone): Jack's wife, and Kate, Kevin, and Randall's mother.
Sterling K. Brown as Randall Pearson: Jack and Rebecca's adopted son, and Kate and Kevin's brother. Also played by Niles Fitch (ages 15–17) and Lonnie Chavis (ages 8–10).
Chrissy Metz as Kate Pearson: Jack and Rebecca's daughter, and Kevin and Randall's sister. Also played by Hannah Zeile (ages 15–17) and Mackenzie Hancsicsak (ages 8–10).
Justin Hartley as Kevin Pearson: Jack and Rebecca's son, and Kate and Randall's brother. Also played by Logan Shroyer (ages 15–17) and Parker Bates (ages 8–10).
Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth Pearson: Randall's wife, and mother of Tess and Annie.
Chris Sullivan as Toby Damon: Kate's husband.
Ron Cephas Jones as William H. "Shakespeare" Hill: Randall's biological father. Also played by Jermel Nakia as a young adult.
Jon Huertas as Miguel Rivas: Jack's best friend and Rebecca's second husband. (recurring season 1; main season 2–present)[5]
Alexandra Breckenridge as Sophie: Kate's childhood best friend as well as Kevin's childhood love and ex-wife. Also played by Amanda Leighton (ages 15–17) and Sophia Coto (age 10). (recurring season 1; main season 2–present)[5]
Eris Baker as Tess Pearson: Randall and Beth's older daughter. (recurring season 1; main season 2–present)
Faithe Herman as Annie Pearson: Randall and Beth's younger daughter. (recurring season 1; main season 2–present)

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text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Gerald McRaney as Dr. Nathan Katowski (aka Dr. K): An elderly widower, who delivers Kate and Kevin.
Janet Montgomery as Olivia Maine: Kevin's former stage partner and ex-girlfriend.
Milana Vayntrub as Sloane Sandburg: Kevin's stage partner and ex-girlfriend.
Ryan Michelle Bathe as Yvette: A family friend of the Pearsons.
Denis O'Hare as Jesse: William's friend and former romantic partner.
Adam Bartley as Duke: The stable worker at the weight-loss camp Kate attends.
Jill Johnson as Laurie: A member of Toby and Kate's weight-loss support group.
Jermel Nakia as young adult William H. "Shakespeare" Hill
Lyric Ross as Deja: Randall and Beth's foster child.
Debra Jo Rupp as Linda: A social worker who works with Randall and Beth when they foster Deja.
Caitlin Thompson as Madison: Kate's group's resident thin member.
Joy Brunson as Shauna: Deja's mother, who first works against Beth and Randall having Deja, then abruptly leaves her with them.

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Series overview[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
Nielsen ratings

First aired
Last aired
Rank
Avg. viewership (inc. DVR)
(in millions)

1
18
September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20)
March 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)
6
14.70[6]

2
18
September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
March 13, 2018 (2018-03-13)
TBA
TBA

text: Season 1 (2016–17)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Pilot"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Dan Fogelman
September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20)
1AZC01
10.07[7]

2
2
"The Big Three"
Ken Olin
Dan Fogelman
September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27)
1AZC02
8.75[8]

3
3
"Kyle"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Dan Fogelman
October 11, 2016 (2016-10-11)
1AZC03
9.87[9]

4
4
"The Pool"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Dan Fogelman & Donald Todd
October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18)
1AZC04
9.71[10]

5
5
"The Game Plan"
George Tillman
Joe Lawson
October 25, 2016 (2016-10-25)
1AZC05
8.68[11]

6
6
"Career Days"
Craig Zisk
Bekah Brunstetter
November 1, 2016 (2016-11-01)
1AZC06
8.48[12]

7
7
"The Best Washing Machine in the World"
Silas Howard
K.J. Steinberg
November 15, 2016 (2016-11-15)
1AZC07
9.50[13]

8
8
"Pilgrim Rick"
Sarah Pia Anderson
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
November 22, 2016 (2016-11-22)
1AZC08
9.00[14]

9
9
"The Trip"
Uta Briesewitz
Vera Herbert
November 29, 2016 (2016-11-29)
1AZC09
10.53[15]

10
10
"Last Christmas"
Helen Hunt
Donald Todd
December 6, 2016 (2016-12-06)
1AZC10
10.95[16]

11
11
"The Right Thing to Do"
Timothy Busfield
Aurin Squire
January 10, 2017 (2017-01-10)
1AZC11
10.48[17]

12
12
"The Big Day"
Ken Olin
Dan Fogelman & Laura Kenar
January 17, 2017 (2017-01-17)
1AZC12
9.59[18]

13
13
"Three Sentences"
Chris Koch
Joe Lawson & Bekah Brunstetter
January 24, 2017 (2017-01-24)
1AZC13
9.63[19]

14
14
"I Call Marriage"
George Tillman Jr.
Kay Oyegun
February 7, 2017 (2017-02-07)
1AZC14
9.57[20]

15
15
"Jack Pearson's Son"
Ken Olin
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
February 14, 2017 (2017-02-14)
1AZC15
9.03[21]

16
16
"Memphis"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Dan Fogelman
February 21, 2017 (2017-02-21)
1AZC16
9.35[22]

17
17
"What Now?"
Wendey Stanzler
K.J. Steinberg & Vera Herbert
March 7, 2017 (2017-03-07)
1AZC17
11.15[23]

18
18
"Moonshadow"
Ken Olin
Dan Fogelman & Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
March 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)
1AZC18
12.84[24]

text: Season 2 (2017–18)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

19
1
"A Father's Advice"
Ken Olin
Dan Fogelman
September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
2AZC01
12.94[25]

20
2
"A Manny-Splendored Thing"
John Fortenberry
Dan Fogelman & Bekah Brunstetter
October 3, 2017 (2017-10-03)
2AZC02
11.06[26]

21
3
"Déjà Vu"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
October 10, 2017 (2017-10-10)
2AZC03
11.02[27]

22
4
"Still There"
Ken Olin
Vera Herbert
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)
2AZC04
10.65[28]

23
5
"Brothers"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Tyler Bensinger
October 24, 2017 (2017-10-24)
2AZC05
10.60[29]

24
6
"The 20's"
Regina King
Don Roos
October 31, 2017 (2017-10-31)
2AZC06
8.43[30]

25
7
"The Most Disappointed Man"
Chris Koch
Kay Oyegun
November 7, 2017 (2017-11-07)
2AZC07
9.89[31]

26
8
"Number One"
Ken Olin
K.J. Steinberg
November 14, 2017 (2017-11-14)
2AZC08
10.05[32]

27
9
"Number Two"
Ken Olin
K.J. Steinberg & Shukree Hassan Tilghman
November 21, 2017 (2017-11-21)
2AZC09
9.34[33]

28
10
"Number Three"
Ken Olin
Shukree Hassan Tilghman
November 28, 2017 (2017-11-28)
2AZC10
10.94[34]

29
11
"The Fifth Wheel"
Chris Koch
Vera Herbert
January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09)
2AZC11
9.65[35]

30
12
"Clooney"
Zetna Fuentes
Bekah Brunstetter
January 16, 2018 (2018-01-16)
2AZC12
9.82[36]

31
13
"That'll Be the Day"
Uta Briesewitz
Kay Oyegun & Don Roos
January 23, 2018 (2018-01-23)
2AZC13
9.37[37]

32
14
"Super Bowl Sunday"
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
Dan Fogelman
February 4, 2018 (2018-02-04)
2AZC14
26.97[38]

33
15
"The Car"
Ken Olin
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
February 6, 2018 (2018-02-06)
2AZC15
10.13[39]

34
16
"Vegas, Baby"
Joanna Kerns
Laura Kenar
February 27, 2018 (2018-02-27)
2AZC16
9.74[40]

35
17
"This Big, Amazing, Beautiful Life"
Rebecca Asher
Kay Oyegun
March 6, 2018 (2018-03-06)
2AZC17
8.90[41]

36
18
"The Wedding"
Ken Olin
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger
March 13, 2018 (2018-03-13)
2AZC18
10.94[42]

text: Release[edit]

text: Home media[edit]

text: In May 2017, Hulu acquired the SVOD rights to new and past episodes of the series to air exclusively on Hulu, in addition to NBC.com and the NBC app.[43]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 89% approval rating for the first season with an average rating of 7.72/10 based on 63 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Featuring full-tilt heartstring-tugging family drama, This Is Us will provide a suitable surrogate for those who have felt a void in their lives since Parenthood went off the air."[44] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the season a score of 76 out of 100 based on 34 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[45] Season 2 received a 94% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews.[46]

text: Entertainment Weekly gave the first few episodes of This Is Us a rating of B, calling it "a refreshing respite from the relational violence and pessimism that marks the other buzz soaps that have bubbled forth from a culture of divisiveness". Moreover, they praised all the actors, specifically Sterling K. Brown, for being able to navigate "his scenes with such intelligence, authenticity, and charisma".[47]

text: Ratings[edit]

text:
Season
Timeslot (ET)
Episodes
First aired
Last aired
TV season
Rank
Avg. viewers
(millions)
18–49 rating
(average)

Date
Viewers
(millions)
Date
Viewers
(millions)

1
Tuesday 10:00 pm (1–2, 11)
Tuesday 9:00 pm (3–10, 12–18)
18
September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20)
10.07[7]
March 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)
12.84[48]
2016–17
6
14.70
4.6/16[6]

2
Tuesday 9:00 pm (1–13, 15–18)
Sunday 10:30 pm (14)
18[4]
September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
12.94[25]
March 13, 2018
10.94[49]
2017–18
TBD
TBD
TBD

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Nominee(s)
Result
Ref.

2016
African-American Critics Association Awards
Top Ten TV Show
This Is Us
Won

American Film Institute Awards
TV Program of the Year
This Is Us
Won
[50]

Critics' Choice Television Awards
Best Drama Series
This Is Us
Nominated
[51]

Most Exciting New Series
This Is Us
Won
[51]

2017
ACE Eddie Awards
Best Edited One Hour Series for Commercial Television
David L. Bertman (for "Pilot")
Won
[52]

Creative Arts Emmy Awards[a]
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield
Nominated
[54]

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Brian Tyree Henry
Nominated

Gerald McRaney
Won

Denis O'Hare
Nominated

Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
Zoe Hay, Heather Plott, Elizabeth Hoel-Chang, Judith Lynn Staats, John Damiani
Nominated

Emmy Awards
Outstanding Drama Series
This Is Us
Nominated

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown
Won

Milo Ventimiglia
Nominated

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Ron Cephas Jones
Nominated

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Chrissy Metz
Nominated

Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Chrissy Metz
Nominated
[55]

Mandy Moore
Nominated

Best Television Series – Drama
This Is Us
Nominated

Hollywood Music in Media Awards
Outstanding Music Supervision – Television
Jennifer Pyken
Nominated
[56]

MTV Movie & TV Awards
Best Actor in a Show
Mandy Moore
Nominated
[57]

Show of the Year
This Is Us
Nominated

Tearjerker
Milo Ventimiglia and Lonnie Chavis (Jack and Randall at Karate)
Won

NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown
Won
[58]

Outstanding Drama Series
This Is Us
Nominated

Outstanding Performance by a Youth
Lonnie Chavis
Nominated

Peabody Awards
Entertainment and Children's programs
This Is Us
Nominated
[59]

People's Choice Awards
Favorite Actor in a New TV Series
Milo Ventimiglia
Nominated
[60]

Favorite Actress in a New TV Series
Mandy Moore
Nominated

Favorite New TV Drama
This Is Us
Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown
Nominated
[61]

Seoul International Drama Awards
Best Director
Dan Fogelman
Nominated
[62]

Grand Prize
This Is Us
Won

Teen Choice Awards
Choice TV: Breakout Star
Chrissy Metz
Nominated

Choice TV Actor: Drama
Sterling K. Brown
Nominated

Milo Ventimiglia
Nominated

Choice TV Show: Drama
This Is Us
Nominated

Television Critics Association Awards
Individual Achievement in Drama
Sterling K. Brown
Nominated
[63]

Outstanding Achievement in Drama
This Is Us
Nominated

Outstanding New Program
This Is Us
Won

Program of the Year
This Is Us
Nominated

Writers Guild of America Awards
Episodic Drama
Vera Herbert (for "The Trip")
Won
[64]
[65]

New Series
This Is Us
Nominated

2018
Critics' Choice Television Awards
Best Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown
Won
[66]

Best Drama Series
This Is Us
Nominated

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Chrissy Metz
Nominated

Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor – Television Series Drama
Sterling K. Brown
Won
[67]

Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Chrissy Metz
Nominated

Best Television Series – Drama
This Is Us
Nominated

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Best Music Supervision in a Television Drama
Jennifer Pyken
Nominated
[68]

Best Song/Recording Created for Television
"We Can Always Come Back To This"
Nominated

NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown
Nominated
[69]

Outstanding Drama Series
This Is Us
Nominated

Outstanding Performance by a Youth
Lonnie Chavis
Nominated

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Susan Kelechi Watson
Nominated

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
Vera Herbert (for "Still Here")
Nominated

Satellite Awards
Best Musical Or Comedy Series
This Is Us
Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown
Won
[70]

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
This Is Us
Won

text: Notes[edit]

text: Jump up ^ In 2017, Hala Bahmet, Marina Ray and Elinor Bardach were nominated for Outstanding Costumes for a Contemporary Series, Limited Series, or Movie. The nomination was rescinded after it was determined that the submitted episode "Moonshadow" was primarily set in the 1970s, violating the TV Academy's rule that "more than 50 percent" of the episode must be contemporary (within 25 years of the air date).[53]

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