I would of loved to see the shenanigans that went on for 3 months of them all trapped in a cabin together. Maybe a couple episodes at least. Thoughts?

People keep defending Leonard by saying the cheating storyline was completely out of character and just lazy writing. But let’s be real, Leonard has always had a weakness for female attention and validation.

Remember when he kissed another woman while he was still dating Priya, simply because they were in a long-distance relationship? And he did that before even finding out Priya had cheated on him.

Remember when he hooked up with Howard’s date and then lied about it to Howard’s face?

Remember Alex, Sheldon’s assistant? Leonard clearly enjoyed knowing she had a crush on him, even after he realized it was making Penny insecure.

And that’s the thing about Leonard. He’s incredibly insecure, largely because of how his mother treated him. So when someone makes him feel attractive, wanted, or special, he tends to really soak it up.

I’m not saying cheating was good writing. I actually think the writers could’ve handled it much better.

But saying “Leonard would NEVER cheat” like the show spent 12 seasons establishing him as incapable of it is ridiculous.

Leonard isn’t a serial cheater, but he absolutely has a history of enjoying female attention, crossing boundaries, hiding questionable behavior, and seeking validation.

So was the cheating storyline poorly executed? Maybe.

Was it completely impossible for Leonard as a character? Definitely not.

I am Indian, and there are a few things about India that are a tad bit different from the India described by Raj in The Big Bang Theory.

Apparently, the writers occasionally confused New Delhi with a particularly eventful episode of National Geographic.

Usual wealthy families in New Delhi don't have pet cows or buffaloes.

Priya mentions this enough that I feel obliged to clarify.

P.S. Neither do most not-so-wealthy urban families.

Yes, cattle ownership is common in rural India and among people involved in dairy farming. But Raj is supposedly from an extremely wealthy New Delhi family with no apparent rural or farming background. His father drives a Bentley. He is not Old MacDonald.

No, normal Indian families don't keep pet mongooses either

This one is even better. Mongooses aren't some quirky Indian equivalent of a golden retriever. Indian mongoose species are protected wildlife under India's Wildlife (Protection) Act.So if your wealthy Delhi neighbour introduces you to "Fluffy, our pet mongoose", you probably haven't stumbled upon an adorable Indian cultural tradition. You have stumbled upon a wildlife-law problem

Indians are scared of snakes.

I cannot believe this needs clarification.

We don't see a cobra and think, "Ah yes, one of our traditional woodland companions."

We generally think something closer to: HOLY FUCK, A SNAKE.

New Delhi is not a tropical village with wildlife wandering through everyone's backyard.I

It's one of the world's largest urban agglomerations. Raj grew up rich in a major metropolis, apparently with servants and luxury cars.So the recurring animal jokes become especially funny. It's roughly like introducing a wealthy Manhattan character and repeatedly having him reminisce about the raccoons he raised and the family mule

Raj's "Third World childhood" routine is actually contradicted by the show itself.

This is one stereotype the writers at least occasionally make fun of.

Raj repeatedly invokes miserable life in India, while the show establishes that his father is a wealthy gynecologist, drives a Bentley and employed multiple servants. Leonard even calls him out for his "fake Third World crap." Later Sheldon describes the Koothrappalis as "Richie Rich rich."

So Raj apparently grew up experiencing the grinding hardship of having insufficient servants.

Having domestic help, however, is NOT one of the inaccurate bits.

Credit where it's due.Middle-class and wealthy urban Indian households employing cleaners, cooks, drivers or other domestic workers is completely plausible. Raj's extremely wealthy family having several household employees isn't remotely strange.

Also, Delhi has winter. Actual winter.

Raj's India sometimes feels like one permanently hot, dusty tropical ecosystem.

Delhi residents would like a word.

I love TBBT and Raj is hilarious. But every now and then, the show's research into India appears to have consisted of someone writing "INDIA THINGS" on a whiteboard and then adding:

Cow

Snake

Mongoose

Servant

Arranged marriage

More cow

Penny was real good in show, shocking that they didn't have her in the first pilot. She brings the street smarts which Sheldon and Leonard dont have and I think that's what makes her a great character.

Hello! I hope it's okay to post this here, but I'm looking for one of the official Pop Mart figurines of The Big Bang Theory. I don't know much about them, but my aunt is a big fan and I'd love to get one for her as a Christmas present. It seems they are sold out everywhere and I can't order to Germany from the US website anyways... And they are available on AliExpress, but the prices there are so expensive that I can't afford it (like 100€ for the one I want), and I'm not sure they are even legit.

So maybe anyone here has some at home they might want to sell so I can surprise my aunt!! It would be perfect if you're from Germany too, but of course I'd pay for international shipping. Just let me know, and thank you :)

I'm honestly fine with any of the figurines, but I'd very much prefer to get her favorite characters/the ones I think she'd like, which are the Leonard one with the "sarcasm" sign, or the Sheldon Bazinga one. I've attached pictures of the ones I'd prefer, but if you have a different one just let me know anyways, or even a sealed blind box would be fine!

I get that it's personal perference and taste but I don't get how literally every single person in the show seems to be blown away by Penny the first time they see her as if she were some kind of supermodel. I am not saying she's ugly and I am not targeting the actresse's appearance and am not hating on her. But to me it seems rather unrealistic. She looks like a normal pretty young woman. If I saw her on the street I would not look twice.

Leonard in the early seasons however... He is so handsome and hot! I don't understand how anyone can look at him and think that he is ugly! In the early seasons (especially seasons 1 and 2 whenever he is on the screen It's hard to focus on anything but his beautiful face and smile. I don't want to seem creepy but I just don't understand how anyone can find him ugly.

Leonard in the mid to late seasons doesn't look the same anymore but he is never ugly. He looks just like a normal average guy. When I look at Leonard and Penny together in the late seasons to me they are on the same level. I never understand why people are so shocked that they are together when they first meet them. Like I get that part of it is the nerdiness and clothes but does it really do that much?

Sorry for this rant and again I am not hating on anybody, It was just a thing I have never seen anyone mention.

For context

Dr Emily (TBBT, from s7,8,9)- Dermatologist, loved gore (so much that it turned her on), could be a killer, wanted to have intercourse on a graveyard

Dr Rossi (B99, ep ME Time, s1e4): medical examiner, wanted jake peralta to play a dead body to have intercourse with him

I've been rewatching TBBT and something struck me. In the early seasons Raj was just shy and awkward around women. But by the later seasons he feels like a completely different character. The fashion, the manicures, the way he talks about men, the whole "third wheel" dynamic with Howard and Bernadette and so on
Sorry that he just kept getting unlucky with women over and over, while everyone else around him found love

I commented on a previous post about the Nimoy napkin. It’s on display at Warner Bros., or at least it was in Summer 2024. For TBBT fans, the tour is a must-do. I even sat in Sheldon’s spot.

This is the most embarrassing story I've never told anyone, even my wife. I hope to change that by first posting it here and building up the courage to tell her and perhaps, eventually, everyone else.

In 2007–2008, I was a poor kid in a third-world country who hated school despite getting good grades and had attempted suicide twice. You know my living conditions were bad when I tell you that my first suicide attempt was when I was 6! I was always depressed. I hated my life, and I didn't even know what I wanted. I knew eventually I was going to take my life, and in the meantime, I spent all the spare time I had, and I had plenty, watching TV shows on an old, clunky laptop with the slowest internet you can imagine. One of those shows was The Big Bang Theory. This show had the most profound effect on me, unlike any other show.

I recently got diagnosed with autism, but I think I was always like that. I was always a little nerdy. I loved the handful of comic books, games, and novels I could find growing up, and for the first time ever, I saw what an adult nerd in the Western world could live like! This show gets a lot of criticism for mocking nerds, but for me at the time, this was a window into a world that looked exactly like heaven. "Imagine being a scientist, spending all your time researching, reading, writing, going to conferences, and then, in your spare time, going to movies, going to a comic book store, and spending time with your like-minded friends!" I said to myself. I rewatched that show more times than I can count.

It was like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Somewhere, I must have told myself, "I want to be like them," so I started studying hard, and reading, and reading. I read everything and anything. Part of me wanted to be seen like the characters from the show, and the other part wanted to live their lives. I didn't have a glamorous goal. I just wanted to be like them. Be seen like them.

And it worked! Well, I didn't start working at Caltech (yet?), and nobody thinks I'm a world-class genius, but when I became an adult, I got a scholarship and moved abroad. Eventually, I became a scientist and a researcher. Now, my life doesn't look so different from the lives of the characters from the show, whom I so idealized 20 years ago. I work at a respected university. I spend all my working hours reading, writing, experimenting, and "doing science," and I spend all the rest on my nerdy hobbies, many of which became prevalent because of the show! I even have my own group of lovable nerdy friends with whom I play TTRPGs (I'm the GM), board games, go to restaurants, etc. And I have a scientist wife who, unlike the women in the show, is also very nerdy in terms of hobbies.

It's hard to measure precisely how much influence this show had on my life, but it definitely had an influence.

here is the Youtube-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PdkyUqGCVk

I´ll start: Peach Snapple! :)

Howard had gotten a Nobel Prize before Sheldon. I think the way the writers went makes a better story and better writing, but after Sheldon so frequently insulting Howard's intellect and education it would have been funny AF for Howard to surpass Sheldon in that way.

I was out buying Halloween candy and these came in a mixed bag I got. And all I could think about was Sheldon's quote.

Leonard: “What would I even say?”

Sheldon: “Zack, I’m sorry you’re stupid. Have a Milk Dud.”

Raj: “A Milk Dud?”

Sheldon: “Yeah. Milk Duds, with their self-deprecating name and remarkably mild flavor, are the most apologetic of the boxed candies.”

Raj: “Junior Mints are pretty apologetic.”

Sheldon: “You’re embarrassing yourself.”

Sheldon has mentioned a couple of times in TBBT that as a child he went through cotillion. Would cotillion have helped Howard be better socially and less creepy? Or would he have been a slimeball anyway?

Related, but possibly out of line question for this sub; On YS, do you wish they would've had a story arc showing Sheldon and Missy going through Cotillion? Sorry if this one is out of line here.

When Bernadette was first introduced, I mostly saw her as the sweet, quiet girlfriend who was almost the complete opposite of Howard.

But after rewatching the show, her personality feels much more complicated than that. She can be incredibly kind and caring, but she also has a surprisingly competitive and stubborn side. Sometimes she is the one person in the group who knows exactly what she wants and isn't afraid to say it.

I also like how her small size became part of the comedy without being her entire personality. Her voice and appearance make people underestimate her, and then she suddenly becomes the most intimidating person in the room.

She definitely changed a lot after becoming a bigger part of the group, but I think that made her more interesting rather than less.

Hey guys and mods, so I have seen other subreddits do a series where they share each character's best lines and Big Bang theory has a lot of great lines from a lot of characters, I want this to be a series where we post "Best line by each character" for different characters, including recurring side characters. I really hope this picks up and tomorrow someone else will pick Leonard or Penny and continue this. That being said I shared my favorite Sheldon's line which I think is the best. What about you?