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 DATE CHANGE: The Big Bang Theory airs Mondays at 8/7c on CBS. Ratings for TBBT continue to be VERY strong, to the point where it's usually the highest or second highest rated comedy every week. It's also been pre-renewed for another season or two already. The Big Bang Theory is filmed before a live studio audience. There is no laugh track used. The laughter you hear is real people laughing at the actual show. So let's not have the laugh track argument in the thread ever again, thank you! All the images below were taken from Big Bang Sheldon or somewhere else on tumblr and I didn't make any of them.  THE GUYS  Johnny Galecki plays Leonard Hofstadler, who is probably the most "Normal" of the nerds. Leonard is a physicist and usually the voice of reason of the guys. In the first two seasons, Leonard was in love with the hot new neighbor across the hall, Penny. In season 3, Leonard and Penny were in a real relationship, but near the end of season 3 they were then broken up by Evil Wil Wheaton (played by Wil Wheaton) so Wil could win a bowling match. Leonard wanted to get back together with Penny, but after he accepted that it wasn't going to happen, near the beginning of season 4 started dating Raj's sister, Priya. Priya moved back to India, cheated on Leonard, and they broke up. Late in season 5, Penny and Leonard decided to try a "Beta" relationship and reported all bugs in the relationship. Eventually, they were officially dating again. Last season, Penny finally said yes, and Leonard and Penny were engaged.  Jim Parsons plays Sheldon Cooper. Sheldon is Leonard's roommate, a brilliant physicist and the smartest of them all. He's also the most socially inept, and many episodes revolve around Sheldon's quirks, social fallacies, and learning how to function in normal society. At the end of season 3, Raj and Howard signed Sheldon up for a dating service as a joke, but amazingly, they found the actual perfect girl for Sheldon, Amy Farrah-Fowler. Season four had Sheldon and Amy exploring their non-relationship. In season 5, Amy and Sheldon signed a relationship contract and he officially asked Amy to be his girlfriend. At the end of last season, after quitting his job and becoming upset at the ideat that Leonard would want to live with Penny without him, Sheldon decided to run off and travel on his own for awhile. So, presumably he's been off doing that all summer.  Simon Helburg plays Howard Wolowitz. Howard is an Engineer and "only" has a Masters degree, a fact which often gets him razzed on by the other geniuses, even though he designs parts for NASA that are used on space shuttles. Wolowitz lives with his controlling, loud mother, who is never seen but often heard. Howard previously had a relationship with Leslie Winkle, but at the end of season three was dating, then broke up with one of Penny's Co-workers, Bernadette. At the end of season 5, Howard both married Bernadette, and got selected by NASA to go into space. Howard spent the first several episodes of season 6 in space, and then took a few more episodes to readjust to life on Earth. His mother was injured near the end of last year and he and Bernadette temporarily moved in with her, until Stuart became her caregiver.  Kunal Nayyar plays Rajesh Koothrapalli. Raj is an astrophysicist who has used to have a crippling fear of speaking to women, he'd literally freezes up and any communication has to be done by whispering in a male friend's ear. Penny is particularly kind to Raj, trying to help him overcome his phobia. Raj has his own apartment, as his parents live in India and he often is seen speaking to them over webcam. Raj and Penny once had a drunken liason which almost ended in sex, but not quite. Raj is also possibly bisexual but won't admit it to himself. Raj has FINALLY overcame his inability to speak to women unless drunk, so, at least he's got that going for him. Raj found a girlfriend named Emily at the end of last season.  THE GIRLS  Kaley Cuoco plays Penny. We don't know Penny's last name. Penny lives across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon. Penny is an aspiring actress, though she spends most of her days working at the Cheesecake Factory. Penny is of average intelligence, but she's able to hold her own around the four guys, and they all like and respect her. Penny is by far the most normal person in the group, though their nerdiness has started to rub off on her, just as she's trying to get them to be a little less socially inept. In season 5, Penny and Leonard started dating again, and Penny rejected Leonard's proposal but they stayed together in the end. Besides getting engaged to Leonard, Penny also quit her job at the Cheesecake factory last season to pursue acting full time.  Mayim Bialik plays Amy Farrah-Fowler. Amy is Sheldon's girlfriend, and a brilliant neurobiologist. They met on a dating site when Raj and Howard signed him up as a joke, and agreed to pretend to date to get other people off their backs. Amy is as socially stinted as Sheldon, but is trying hard to learn to be less socially awkward. She considers Penny to be her "bestie" (BFF) and is also close with Bernadette. In season 5, Amy finally got Sheldon to agree to be her actual boyfriend, and started on a campaign to get Sheldon to want to actually sleep with her, now that they're official. That didn't happen in season 6, although they did share one actually passionate kiss.  Melissa Rauch plays Bernadette Wolowitz (previously Rostenkowski). Bernadette is Penny's friend from when she worked at the Cheesecake Factory, but now is a microbiologist. Bernadette isn't very geeky, though she is both very smart and sometimes ditzy. Bernadette and Howard were dating in season 3, then broke up offscreen, and got back together early in season 4, and near the end of season 4 got engaged. She and Howard got married at the end of season 5. Nowadays, Howard and Bernadette's storylines usually center around being newlyweds. Amy and Bernadette are considered to be "regulars" but are not full cast members. They'll be in the majority of episodes in the season, but their names are only in the credits when they'll be in the episode. Other important characters: Galecki's former Roseanne castmate Laurie Metcalf will occasionally pop up as Sheldon's Bible-thumping but usually kind and well meaning mother. Christine Baranski has shown up a few times as Leonard's mother. She's much closer with Sheldon than Leonard. Leslie Winkle, played by fellow Rosanne alumn Sara Gilbert, was a recurring character in the first few seasons but hasn't shown up in like 4 or 5 seasons so, she might never be heard from again. Wil Wheaton plays an assholeish version of himself, usually referred to as Evil Wil Wheaton, outside the show, though in the last couple of seasons he's on much friendlier terms with the guys, to the point of even giving Sheldon advice. He and Penny starred in a D-list slasher flick together last season. Stuart is the owner of the comic/gaming shop the guys hang out at. He briefly dated Penny in season 2 and is friends with Wil Wheaton, though the group also likes him. He now lives with and takes care of Howard's mother after the comic book shop burned down at the end of last season. 
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spronk posted:The season starting tomorrow is season 8, not 7. They all just blend together at this point. (Fixed, thank you.) Also, I have no idea, guess we'll find out in January.
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Sub Rosa posted:Did this show's night move? Whoops. Thread title fixed. I liked this episode.
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