Last Updated on 30 June 2024

The Big Bang Theory was a sitcom TV show that ran for 12 seasons, from 2007 to 2019. Here is the definitive ranked list of all 279 episodes.

I found 20 different lists of the “best” or “favorite” or “funniest” episodes of The Big Bang Theory. Then I averaged them in Excel to create this master ranked list of all 279 episodes. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 20 lists that were averaged. Below is a viewing checklist you may print out, followed by the full ranked list. Links all go to the Big Bang Theory Fandom website.

  1. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis – S02 E11
  2. The Stockholm Syndrome – S12 E24
  3. The Staircase Implementation – S03 E22
  4. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency – S03 E08
  5. The Scavenger Vortex – S07 E03
  6. The Opening Night Excitation – S09 E11
  7. The Lunar Excitation – S03 E23
  8. The Change Constant – S12 E23
  9. The Justice League Recombination – S04 E11
  10. The Bow Tie Asymmetry – S11 E24
  11. The Barbarian Sublimation – S02 E03
  12. The Thanksgiving Decoupling – S07 E09
  13. The Tangerine Factor – S01 E17
  14. The Hawking Excitation – S05 E11
  15. The Roommate Transmogrification – S04 E24
  16. The Panty Piñata Polarization – S02 E07
  17. The Robotic Manipulation – S04 E01
  18. The Einstein Approximation – S03 E14
  19. The Countdown Reflection – S05 E24
  20. The Good Guy Fluctuation – S05 E07
  21. The Precious Fragmentation – S03 E17
  22. The Pants Alternative – S03 E18
  23. The Love Spell Potential – S06 E23
  24. The Love Car Displacement – S04 E13
  25. The Long Distance Dissonance – S10 E24
  26. The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification – S04 E02
  27. The Indecision Amalgamation – S07 E19
  28. The Maternal Capacitance – S02 E15
  29. The Vegas Renormalization – S02 E21
  30. Pilot – S01 E01
  31. The Middle Earth Paradigm – S01 E06
  32. The Prestidigitation Approximation – S04 E18
  33. The 43 Peculiarity – S06 E08
  34. The Boyfriend Complexity – S04 E09
  35. The Bakersfield Expedition – S06 E13
  36. The Romance Resonance – S07 E06
  37. The Egg Salad Equivalency – S06 E12
  38. The Gorilla Experiment – S03 E10
  39. The Euclid Alternative – S02 E05
  40. The Re-Entry Minimization – S06 E04
  41. The Agreement Dissection – S04 E21
  42. The Excelsior Acquisition – S03 E16
  43. The Earworm Reverberation – S09 E10
  44. The Parking Spot Escalation – S06 E09
  45. The Maternal Congruence – S03 E11
  46. The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition – S05 E10
  47. The Monopolar Expedition – S02 E23
  48. The Big Bran Hypothesis – S01 E02
  49. The Vengeance Formulation – S03 E09
  50. The Zarnecki Incursion – S04 E19
  51. The Cooper Extraction – S07 E11
  52. The Beta Test Initiation – S05 E14
  53. The Werewolf Transformation – S05 E18
  54. The Closure Alternative – S06 E21
  55. The Locomotive Manipulation – S07 E15
  56. The Closet Reconfiguration – S06 E19
  57. The Classified Materials Turbulence – S02 E22
  58. The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem – S02 E06
  59. The Fish Guts Displacement – S06 E10
  60. The Bat Jar Conjecture – S01 E13
  61. The Comic Book Store Regeneration – S08 E15
  62. The Proton Resurgence – S06 E22
  63. The Troll Manifestation – S08 E14
  64. The Pancake Batter Anomaly – S01 E11
  65. The Peanut Reaction – S01 E16
  66. The Higgs Boson Observation – S06 E03
  67. The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary – S03 E05
  68. The Zazzy Substitution – S04 E03
  69. The Herb Garden Germination – S04 E20
  70. The Ornithophobia Diffusion – S05 E09
  71. The Psychic Vortex – S03 E12
  72. The Spaghetti Catalyst – S03 E20
  73. The Plimpton Stimulation – S03 E21
  74. The Engagement Reaction – S04 E23
  75. The Prom Equivalency – S08 E08
  76. The Tenure Turbulence – S06 E20
  77. The Stag Convergence – S05 E22
  78. The Bad Fish Paradigm – S02 E01
  79. The Nerdvana Annihilation – S01 E14
  80. The Recombination Hypothesis – S05 E13
  81. The D&D Vortex – S12 E16
  82. The Alien Parasite Hypothesis – S04 E10
  83. The Focus Attenuation – S08 E05
  84. The Transporter Malfunction – S05 E20
  85. The Friendship Contraction – S05 E15
  86. The Bon Voyage Reaction – S06 E24
  87. The Spoiler Alert Segmentation – S06 E15
  88. The Shiny Trinket Maneuver – S05 E12
  89. The Work Song Nanocluster – S02 E18
  90. The Luminous Fish Effect – S01 E04
  91. The Infestation Hypothesis – S05 E02
  92. The Launch Acceleration – S05 E23
  93. The Deception Verification – S07 E02
  94. The 21-Second Excitation – S04 E08
  95. The Rothman Disintegration – S05 E17
  96. The Toast Derivation – S04 E17
  97. The Dumpling Paradox – S01 E07
  98. The Status Quo Combustion – S07 E24
  99. The Santa Simulation – S06 E11
  100. The Lizard-Spock Expansion – S02 E08
  101. The Weekend Vortex – S05 E19
  102. The Skank Reflex Analysis – S05 E01
  103. The Proton Displacement – S07 E07
  104. The Spock Resonance – S09 E07
  105. The Porkchop Indeterminacy – S01 E15
  106. The Relationship Diremption – S07 E20
  107. The Friendship Algorithm – S02 E13
  108. The Convention Conundrum – S07 E14
  109. The Holographic Excitation – S06 E05
  110. The Proton Transmogrification – S07 E22
  111. The Gorilla Dissolution – S07 E23
  112. The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation – S03 E01
  113. The Cooper/Kripke Inversion – S06 E14
  114. The Terminator Decoupling – S02 E17
  115. The Russian Rocket Reaction – S05 E05
  116. The Birthday Synchronicity – S10 E11
  117. The Killer Robot Instability – S02 E12
  118. The Large Hadron Collision – S03 E15
  119. The Wildebeest Implementation – S04 E22
  120. The 2003 Approximation – S09 E04
  121. The Cushion Saturation – S02 E16
  122. The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition – S02 E19
  123. The Contractual Obligation Implementation – S06 E18
  124. The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization – S01 E09
  125. The Celebration Experimentation – S09 E17
  126. The Gothowitz Deviation – S03 E03
  127. The Raiders Minimization – S07 E04
  128. The Cohabitation Experimentation – S10 E04
  129. The Hamburger Postulate – S01 E05
  130. The Bozeman Reaction – S03 E13
  131. The Decoupling Fluctuation – S06 E02
  132. The Brain Bowl Incubation – S10 E08
  133. The Convergence Convergence – S09 E24
  134. The Intimacy Acceleration – S08 E16
  135. The Itchy Brain Simulation – S07 E08
  136. The Collaboration Contamination – S11 E05
  137. The Hot Troll Deviation – S04 E04
  138. The White Asparagus Triangulation – S02 E09
  139. The Griffin Equivalency – S02 E04
  140. The Hofstadter Insufficiency – S07 E01
  141. The Imitation Perturbation – S12 E06
  142. The Wedding Gift Wormhole – S12 E02
  143. The Financial Permeability – S02 E14
  144. The Leftover Thermalization – S08 E18
  145. The Workplace Proximity – S07 E05
  146. The Loobenfeld Decay – S01 E10
  147. The Veracity Elasticity – S10 E07
  148. The Wiggly Finger Catalyst – S05 E04
  149. The Wheaton Recurrence – S03 E19
  150. The Monster Isolation – S06 E17
  151. The Platonic Permutation – S09 E09
  152. The Vartabedian Conundrum – S02 E10
  153. The Jiminy Conjecture – S03 E02
  154. The Mystery Date Observation – S09 E08
  155. The Grasshopper Experiment – S01 E08
  156. The Misinterpretation Agitation – S08 E07
  157. The Vacation Solution – S05 E16
  158. The Positive Negative Reaction – S09 E16
  159. The Rhinitis Revelation – S05 E06
  160. The Habitation Configuration – S06 E07
  161. The Commitment Determination – S08 E24
  162. The Conjugal Conjecture – S10 E01
  163. The Codpiece Topology – S02 E02
  164. The Cognition Regeneration – S10 E22
  165. The Bachelor Party Corrosion – S09 E03
  166. The Guitarist Amplification – S03 E07
  167. The Jerusalem Duality – S01 E12
  168. The Maternal Conclusion – S12 E22
  169. The Date Night Variable – S06 E01
  170. The Irish Pub Formulation – S04 E06
  171. The Proposal Proposal – S11 E01
  172. The Colonization Application – S08 E17
  173. The Septum Deviation – S08 E09
  174. The Pulled Groin Extrapolation – S05 E03
  175. The Discovery Dissipation – S07 E10
  176. The Application Deterioration – S09 E18
  177. The Clean Room Infiltration – S08 E11
  178. The Maternal Combustion – S08 E23
  179. The Graduation Transmission – S08 E22
  180. The Valentino Submergence – S09 E15
  181. The Cornhusker Vortex – S03 E06
  182. The Fuzzy Boots Corollary – S01 E03
  183. The Fermentation Bifurcation – S09 E22
  184. The Comic-Con Conundrum – S10 E17
  185. The Fortification Implementation – S08 E20
  186. The Empathy Optimization – S09 E13
  187. The Geology Elevation – S10 E09
  188. The Locomotion Reverberation – S10 E15
  189. The Anxiety Optimization – S08 E13
  190. The Bus Pants Utilization – S04 E12
  191. The Meemaw Materialization – S09 E14
  192. The Tangible Affection Proof – S06 E16
  193. The Skywalker Incursion – S08 E19
  194. The Expedition Approximation – S08 E06
  195. The Solder Excursion Diversion – S09 E19
  196. The Cohabitation Formulation – S04 E16
  197. The Line Substitution Solution – S09 E23
  198. The Viewing Party Combustion – S09 E21
  199. The Big Bear Precipitation – S09 E20
  200. The Military Miniaturization – S10 E02
  201. The Plagiarism Schism – S12 E21
  202. The Fetal Kick Catalyst – S10 E06
  203. The Benefactor Factor – S04 E15
  204. The Separation Oscillation – S09 E02
  205. The Dependence Transcendence – S10 E03
  206. The Escape Hatch Identification – S10 E18
  207. The Holiday Summation – S10 E12
  208. The Hot Tub Contamination – S10 E05
  209. The Hook-up Reverberation – S08 E04
  210. The Allowance Evaporation – S10 E16
  211. The Sales Call Sublimation – S09 E12
  212. The Apology Insufficiency – S04 E07
  213. The Geology Methodology – S11 E07
  214. The Champagne Reflection – S08 E10
  215. The Helium Insufficiency – S09 E06
  216. The Property Division Collision – S10 E10
  217. The Emotion Detection Automation – S10 E14
  218. The Communication Deterioration – S08 E21
  219. The Recollection Dissipation – S10 E20
  220. The Space Probe Disintegration – S08 E12
  221. The Extract Obliteration – S06 E06
  222. The Romance Recalibration – S10 E13
  223. The Proton Regeneration – S11 E06
  224. The Matrimonial Momentum – S09 E01
  225. The Retraction Reaction – S11 E02
  226. The Speckerman Recurrence – S05 E11
  227. The Tesla Recoil – S11 E08
  228. The Anything Can Happen Recurrence – S07 E21
  229. The Collaboration Fluctuation – S10 E19
  230. The Gyroscopic Collapse – S10 E23
  231. The Relaxation Integration – S11 E03
  232. The Pirate Solution – S03 E04
  233. The Mommy Observation – S07 E18
  234. The Hesitation Ramification – S07 E12
  235. The Hofstadter Isotope – S02 E20
  236. The Friendship Turbulence – S07 E17
  237. The Table Polarization – S07 E16
  238. The Occupation Recalibration – S07 E13
  239. The Junior Professor Solution – S08 E02
  240. The Bitcoin Entanglement – S11 E09
  241. The Thespian Catalyst – S04 E14
  242. The Desperation Emanation – S04 E05
  243. The Sibling Realignment – S11 E23
  244. The VCR Illumination – S12 E10
  245. The Isolation Permutation – S05 E08
  246. The Novelization Correlation – S11 E15
  247. The Comet Polarization – S11 E21
  248. The Donation Oscillation – S12 E15
  249. The Perspiration Implementation – S09 E05
  250. The Consummation Deviation – S12 E08
  251. The Confidence Erosion – S11 E10
  252. The Paintball Scattering – S12 E11
  253. The Matrimonial Metric – S11 E12
  254. The Grant Allocation Derivation – S12 E07
  255. The Conjugal Configuration – S12 E01
  256. The Monetary Insufficiency – S11 E22
  257. The Locomotion Interruption – S08 E01
  258. The Tenant Disassociation – S11 E19
  259. The Separation Agitation – S10 E21
  260. The Procreation Calculation – S12 E03
  261. The Citation Negation – S12 E09
  262. The Separation Triangulation – S11 E14
  263. The Propagation Proposition – S12 E12
  264. The Reclusive Potential – S11 E20
  265. The Confirmation Polarization – S12 E13
  266. The Celebration Reverberation – S11 E11
  267. The First Pitch Insufficiency – S08 E03
  268. The Solo Oscillation – S11 E13
  269. The Conference Valuation – S12 E17
  270. The Gates Excitation – S11 E18
  271. The Explosion Implosion – S11 E04
  272. The Neonatal Nomenclature – S11 E16
  273. The Laureate Accumulation – S12 E18
  274. The Meteorite Manifestation – S12 E14
  275. The Decision Reverberation – S12 E20
  276. The Athenaeum Allocation – S11 E17
  277. The Tam Turbulence – S12 E04
  278. The Inspiration Deprivation – S12 E19
  279. The Planetarium Collision – S12 E05

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