Somehow, it has been 16 entire years since The Big Bang Theory premiered in September 2007. To have fun the anniversary, listed here are 16 details in regards to the present that’ll shock you, educate you, and actually simply make you wish to do one other rewatch:
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The character of Penny was initially going to be referred to as Katie and she or he wasn’t going to be the “bubbly” model of the character we all know now, however a way more cynical character. Kaley Cuoco auditioned for the position, however initially it went to actor Amanda Walsh who even filmed the unique unaired pilot in 2006.
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Marisa Tomei, Tara Reid, and Elizabeth Berkley additionally all learn for the position of “Katie” (aka Penny) earlier than she was finally immortalized by the one and solely Kaley.
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A protracted-discussed component of the present was that Penny by no means had a final title. The writers finally determined to by no means give Penny a maiden title as a result of they obtained “superstitious” about it. Ultimately her final title will all the time be her married title — Hofstadter.
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Penny wasn’t the one position that would have regarded tremendous completely different — the position of Howard Wolowitz was really initially written for Kevin Sussman (who finally performed Stuart) however ABC would not launch him from his Ugly Betty contract with a view to free him as much as play the position.
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The characters of Sheldon and Leonard have been named after producer Sheldon Leonard, who produced reveals like The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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And the character of Sheldon was impressed by a pc programmer that Prady as soon as labored with, noting that this programmer might “do amazing calculations in his head but couldn’t manage to tip the waiters in a restaurant.”
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The origin story of Sheldon’s well-known catchphrase “Bazinga!” is definitely revealed in a 2018 episode of Young Sheldon. As a boy, Sheldon was making an attempt to behave extra childlike and frivolous, which led him to a comic book e book retailer promoting humorous toys by a model referred to as Bazinga — and the remainder was historical past.
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Young Sheldon additionally reveals that Amy and Sheldon finally have a son collectively — they usually title him Leonard.
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Kunal Nayyar has naturally curly hair, so he straightened his hair for each episode to play Raj.
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Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones met for the primary time showing as visitor stars on the present, regardless of their historical past starring in Star Wars.
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Meanwhile, Mark Hamill was “a little nervous” at first to decide to showing within the Season 11 finale to officiate Sheldon and Amy’s marriage ceremony as a result of the producers approached him as their “dream guest” with out even having a script.
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Mayim Bialik really has a PHD in neuroscience in actual life, and she or he has shared the way it “came in handy” engaged on the present and that she would often give small corrections to the scientific jargon within the dialogue. In truth, the writers even made Amy work in neuroscience as effectively as a result of they figured it will make the character tremendous correct.
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Melissa Rauch revealed that the rationale why Bernadette’s talking voice was so excessive is as a result of it was really impressed by her mom in actual life.
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“Soft Kitty” is such an enormous a part of The Big Bang Theory, however CBS and Warner Brothers have been really sued over it. The go well with was finally dropped.
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As an act of solidarity, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Kunal Nayyar, and Simon Helberg every took a $100,000 pay lower from their notable $1,000,000 per episode paychecks simply earlier than Season 11 to assist elevate Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch’s salaries to over $425,000 per episode.
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Finally, the present wasn’t all the time going to be referred to as The Big Bang Theory — the unique working title was going to be Lenny, Penny, and Kenny.
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