The Big Bang Theory 

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 67 wins & 227 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Johnny Galecki	...	Leonard Hofstadter 265 episodes, 2006-2018
Jim Parsons	...	Sheldon Cooper 265 episodes, 2006-2018
Kaley Cuoco	...	Penny / ... 264 episodes, 2007-2018
Simon Helberg	...	Howard Wolowitz 264 episodes, 2007-2018
Kunal Nayyar	...	Raj Koothrappali 264 episodes, 2007-2018
Melissa Rauch	...	Bernadette Rostenkowski 194 episodes, 2009-2018
Mayim Bialik	...	Amy Farrah Fowler 188 episodes, 2010-2018

Storyline

Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech 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 Cal Tech 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 women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress 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 | best friend | neighbor | nerd | sitcom | 

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Taglines:

When beauty meets the brains.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

CBS [United States] Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English Hindi Italian Russian Mandarin Klingon

Release Date:

1 May 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

TBBT

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:

22 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the same scene that Raj (Kunal Nayyar) says that "Blossom" (Blossom (1990)) would be a great addition to the Physics Bowl team, he also mentions that the "girl from The Wonder Years" was also smart. In a later episode, Danica McKellar (who played Winnie on The Wonder Years (1988)) plays a character who makes out with Raj.

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Goofs

In one of the episodes Sheldon mentions the Male Indian Peafowl as the "Male Peacock". That is a common mistake people make. The correct name for the bird is Indian Peafowl. The male is the Peacock and the female is the Peahen.

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Quotes

Raj Koothrappali: [to a random person] I'm gonna be in People magazine!
Charlie Sheen: [turns around to him] Call me when you're on the cover.

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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 Chelsea Lately: Episode #8.17 (2014)

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Soundtracks

History of Everything (Instrumental)
Composed by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
Played during the end credits

User Reviews

Used to be great....until they decided to add relationship drama to the mix

From about season 1-3 of this show, I genuinely loved it! I got a lot of good laughs, and it is definitely pleasing for the geeks and nerds out there of all kinds! And then the show did something it really shouldn't... add more relationships, and focus on them.

From Howard and Bernadette to Sheldon and Amy and so on and so forth, the show just started to become more irritating and less tolerable. Yes Leonard and Penny had relationship problems in the early seasons, but I never liked that anyway. Now it's like they have tripled that problem with adding more couples we don't care about and constantly groan about... Well, at least I do anyway.

Sure the new seasons still have those rare gems every once in a while, but for the most part, it's just seeing episodes with at least ONE of the characters having girlfriend problems while their girlfriends are mostly bitches. That is not what made Big Bang theory great! Now it feels like every other sitcom out there, only with a bunch of nerds.

So, I highly recommend the old seasons and even some of the newer ones, but overall, it's just losing it's edge.

5.5/10