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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.
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When beauty meets the brains.
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Trivia
Both Melissa Rauch (Bernadette) and Wil Wheaton (himself) both made their first appearance in the same episode.
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Goofs
The dead bolt on Penny's apartment door is clearly in the lock position in one scene, yet she opens the door without unlocking it.
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Quotes
Sheldon:
Stop pawing at me like you're a Bear and I'm a Trash Can full of Swedes!
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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 & Greg (1997) and
Two and a Half Men (2003), there is a different message on the card each week, written by Chuck Lorre himself.
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Soundtracks
History of Everything (Instrumental)
Composed by
Barenaked Ladies
Performed by
Barenaked Ladies
Played during the end 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.