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 66 wins & 225 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Johnny Galecki	...	Leonard Hofstadter 256 episodes, 2006-2018
Jim Parsons	...	Sheldon Cooper 256 episodes, 2006-2018
Kaley Cuoco	...	Penny / ... 255 episodes, 2007-2018
Simon Helberg	...	Howard Wolowitz 255 episodes, 2007-2018
Kunal Nayyar	...	Raj Koothrappali 255 episodes, 2007-2018
Melissa Rauch	...	Bernadette Rostenkowski 185 episodes, 2009-2018
Mayim Bialik	...	Amy Farrah Fowler 179 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:

Smart Is The New Sexy.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

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

The UK's Channel Four and E4 appear to have slightly edited dialogue from certain episodes as the audience laughter abruptly starts, stops, or jumps, suggesting bad "cut and shunt" editing, not consistent with the professional editing standards Warner Brothers Television usually releases. This is result of UK Broadcast Standards compliance edits made, as the two channels show the program multiple times across daytime, afternoon, evening, and nighttime slots.

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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 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, but it's actually Amisha Patel.

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Quotes

[repeated line when Sheldon tells a sarcastic 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 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Keanu Reeves/Judd Apatow/The Lumineers (2017)

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Soundtracks

History of Everything (The Big Bang Theory Theme)
Music & lyrics by Barenaked Ladies
Performed by Barenaked Ladies
Played during the opening titles

User Reviews

Started good and lost steam fast

This show was pure gold at first when it was just penny and the boys: when Sheldon was never open to the possibility of a relationship because of his social awkwardness and inability to understand people, when Raj couldn't speak with a girl around, and a hot girl moves in. It was genius and hilarious. The introduction of Bernadette and Amy ruined this show. Their characters are awful and intensely annoying and unfunny. Their introduction also ruined other character's story lines. Sheldon never would've ended up dating a girl the way they wrote him in with Amy. Howard was perfect when he was the overly horny nerd, and him marrying and settling down with Bernadette ruined his character. They couldn't figure out how to keep Raj the silent character so they made him talk to girls and even date as well. Which was pathetic writing. Making Penny fit in with all of them ended up removing the hot, dumb blonde girl around nerds effect that made the show great to begin with. Now, Penny doesn't stand out as the hot girl against the nerds because they stopped writing her like that and just made it more like Friends instead of the clashing personalities dynamic that made this show good.