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| Series cast summary: | |||
| Kaley Cuoco | ... | Penny / ... 279 episodes, 2007-2019 | |
| Johnny Galecki | ... | Leonard Hofstadter / ... 277 episodes, 2006-2019 | |
| Jim Parsons | ... | Sheldon Cooper / ... 277 episodes, 2006-2019 | |
| Simon Helberg | ... | Howard Wolowitz / ... 276 episodes, 2007-2019 | |
| Kunal Nayyar | ... | Raj Koothrappali / ... 276 episodes, 2007-2019 | |
| Melissa Rauch | ... | Bernadette Rostenkowski / ... 206 episodes, 2009-2019 | |
| Mayim Bialik | ... | Amy Farrah Fowler / ... 200 episodes, 2010-2019 | |
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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. Written by Huggo
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Composed by Barenaked Ladies
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Howard Wolowitz drives a Mini Cooper. See more »Goofs
In numerous episodes, Sheldon is heard to use the phrase "off of". Example - You get OFF a bus, not OFF OF. This is grammatically incorrect, and as such, would never be used by Sheldon Lee Cooper and his eidetic memory. See more »Crazy Credits
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What this review might have sounded like had I written it 7 years ago.
The first few seasons are, for the most part, extremely fantastic, focused, funny, fresh, intelligent and even at times, brilliant...Must see TV!
What this review sounds like now nearing the end of the shows run.
A once great show which slowly starts to diminish around season 4, unfortunately. By the 9th season it seems as though the pen and paper have been handed over to teenage fans of the show...Decent background noise.
To conclude.
This show was once incredible, and something fresh, even at times brilliant. I couldn't wait for each new episode. Now, I watch it when it becomes available on a streaming service, and, on rare occasion you get a great episode, but it's not worth devoting a weekly schedule and sitting through all the fan-fiction episodes and story lines to get to the good stuff. The show can still be enjoyable, without question, though I find it better suited as background noise while doing work instead of must see TV that you're excited to tune in as it airs each week.