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"The Big Bang Theory" Pilot (2007)


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Overview

User Rating:
8.5/10   373 votes
Director:
Writers:
Chuck Lorre (creator) &
Bill Prady (creator) ...
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Original Air Date:
24 September 2007 (Season 1, Episode 1)
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Plot:
A pair of brilliant theoretical physicists meet a woman who shows them how little they know about the real world. | full synopsis
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Pilot for "The Big Bang Theory" should be the start of another hit for Chuck Lorre more (1 total)

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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: When Leonard and Sheldon sit in the waiting area at the sperm bank, Sheldon's bag strap keeps alternating from being twisted to flat. more
Quotes:
Sheldon: Do you want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?
Leonard: Not really.
Sheldon: [going on anyway] If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimeters, most people will trip.
Leonard: I don't care.
[thinks about it]
Leonard: Two milli - that doesn't seem right.
Sheldon: It's true - I did a series of experiments when I was twelve. My father broke his clavicle.
Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?
Sheldon: No - that was the result of my work with lasers.
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Movie Connections:
References Forbidden Planet (1956) more
Soundtrack:
Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me more

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12 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
Pilot for "The Big Bang Theory" should be the start of another hit for Chuck Lorre, 25 September 2007
7/10
Author: tavm from Baton Rouge, La.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

A couple of geniuses, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) return to their apartment after leaving a fertility clinic (they had changed their minds about donating sperm) and meet a new next-door-neighbor named Penny (Kaley Cuoco). Leonard, smitten with her, invites her for lunch at his place to the consternation of roommate Sheldon. I'll stop there and mention how funny many of the lines provided by Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre (of "Two and a Half Men" fame) are, especially those written for Sheldon who's hilarious whether analyzing his roommate's more-than-friendly interest in Penny or putting his intellectually superior attitude in overdrive. Should be another hit for CBS Monday Nights!

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