The Big Bang Theory (2007– )

A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.

Creators:

Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady

Stars:

Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco

Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 57 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Johnny Galecki	...	Leonard Hofstadter (135 episodes, 2007-2013)
Jim Parsons	...	Sheldon Cooper (135 episodes, 2007-2013)
Kaley Cuoco	...	Penny (135 episodes, 2007-2013)
Simon Helberg	...	Howard Wolowitz (135 episodes, 2007-2013)
Kunal Nayyar	...	Raj Koothrappali (135 episodes, 2007-2013)
Melissa Rauch	...	Bernadette Rostenkowski (65 episodes, 2009-2013)
Mayim Bialik	...	Amy Farrah Fowler (61 episodes, 2010-2013)

Storyline

Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Caltech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Caltech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.

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Plot Keywords:

friend | physicist | apartment | pasadena california | nerd | 

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Taglines:

Smart Is The New Sexy.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

CBS [us] Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English Hindi Italian Russian German

Release Date:

24 September 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Teoria do Big Bang

Filming Locations:

Stage 25, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chuck Lorre Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

21 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sheldon verbally reveals his and Leonard's Pasadena apartment 4A's location as being 2311 Los Robles in "The Desperation Emanation." In the 100th episode, Sheldon also reveals that their apartment building is across the street from the Colorado Avenue Chevron gas station, making their building a corner location, on the corner of Los Robles and Colorado. There are two incidences of this intersection in southern California, both located in Los Angeles County, the first one is E Colorado Blvd & N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101, and the second one being Colorado Blvd & Los Robles St, Los Angeles, CA 90041. However, 2311 Los Robles is not an address by either one of those intersections. Leonard does reveal however that they live in Pasadena while declaring himself the "Darth Vader of Pasadena".

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Goofs

In one of the episodes when Sheldon moves in with Raj, Raj is watching an Indian movie. The actress of that movie is referred to as 'Aishvarya Rai', but it's actually 'Amisha Patel'.

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Quotes

[repeated line when Sheldon makes a joke]
Sheldon: Bazinga!

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Crazy Credits

One of the final cards to appear in the credit sequence is the vanity card for Chuck Lorre Productions. In keeping with his practice on "Dharma and Greg" and "Two and a Half Men", there is a different message on the card each week, written by Chuck Lorre himself.

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Connections

Referenced in Bum Reviews: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (2012)

User Reviews

Very funny show

I found the show to be very funny. The laugh track needs to go though. I was afraid that the girl would be portrayed as a really stereotypical dumb blonde. I was glad to see that she is not. Granted she isn't a nerd genius like the rest of the characters, but she is just your average person. There is a lot of subtle humor mixed in with the obvious jokes. Good show and I hope it lasts as there are very few comedies on Television now that can actually make me laugh.

Before 100 people insult my taste, humor is subjective. If you can identify with the subject matter, it is funny to you. If you can't, it isn't. Having worked in Information Technology for over 25 years, I can see a lot of myself and my friends in Sheldon and Leonard.

By the way, if you are my age, you may get the nod to one of the greats of TV comedy in the lead characters first names.