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00:00The Big Bang Theory. It's a funny show.
00:03Who's Adam West?
00:04Who's Adam West?
00:06What do the two of you talk about after the coitus?
00:09We're going to relive some of the show's most memorable moments.
00:13What's going on?
00:15It's not what it looks like.
00:17Oh, it's a tiara!
00:22I love you so much!
00:23I love you too!
00:24Hello.
00:25How are you?
00:26And I'm here on set with the cast to get them to tell us their favourites.
00:29I'm kind of a fangirl about this show.
00:32And let us in on a few secrets.
00:34I'm not a big Star Trek fan, so...
00:37Are you excited?
00:38I'm really excited. I'm a fan of the show.
00:40Welcome to The Big Bang Theory. It all started with a big bang.
00:43Boom!
00:44SCREAMING
00:46MUSIC AND SINGING
00:49MUSIC AND SINGING
01:05This is the opportunity of a lifetime for a Big Bang Theory fan.
01:09Full access behind the scenes.
01:14And a chance to talk to the cast and crew
01:16and ask them the questions that we fans, by which I mean me,
01:19are dying to know the answers to.
01:21All right, here we go. And background action!
01:24Leonard promised me that when our new waitress comes over,
01:27you will not start a complicated on-again, off-again relationship with her
01:30because I'm very, very hungry.
01:37It's such a simple idea.
01:39Two geeky guys get a hot neighbour.
01:42Guess I'm your new neighbour. Penny.
01:44Leonard. Sheldon. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.
01:47And yet that simple idea has created a comedy supernova
01:51on one of the biggest shows in the world.
01:54Wow, you really are a genius.
01:58Not really. I Googled how to do that.
02:03The show has some truly legendary characters.
02:06In our ragtag band of scientists with nothing to lose,
02:09I'm the smart one, Wallowitz is the funny one
02:12and Cthulhu Pali is the lovable foreigner
02:14who struggles to understand our ways and fails.
02:19Now, we all know these geeks and girls so well after five years
02:22that they hardly need any introduction,
02:24but what do the cast think of them?
02:26All aboard!
02:28How would you describe Leonard as a character?
02:32Struggling.
02:34One tequila sunrise. Thank you.
02:36You know, this drink is a wonderful example
02:38of how liquids with different specific gravities
02:40interact in a cylindrical container.
02:44Thank you.
02:46And that's what's fun about playing him.
02:49He's struggling to evolve.
02:52You have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots.
02:54Now come with me.
02:56Where are we going? We're going to have sex!
02:58Why? I mean, okay.
03:01Sheldon's first and foremost a genius.
03:04Are you familiar with meme theory?
03:06I'm familiar with everything, but go on.
03:09He's doing his best to stick to his guns of what he wants
03:13while having small moments of learning how to be
03:17a more normal human being, for lack of a better word.
03:21And what kind of doctor removes shoes from asses?
03:25Depending on the depth.
03:27That's either a proctologist or a general surgeon.
03:35How would you describe Penny?
03:38Adorable.
03:40Look, guys, for the future, I don't mind killing the big spiders,
03:43but you have to at least try with the little ones.
03:46I love that she has become so sarcastic and funny.
03:51The last morsel is called the grangeye piece,
03:54and it is reserved for the most important
03:57and valued member of the group.
04:04Thank you all for this high honor.
04:07How would you describe Howard?
04:09I would say a bit of a delusional Casanova.
04:14May I say, Penny, not a lot of women could look as hot
04:17as you do with such greasy hair.
04:24More confidence than is good for him, probably.
04:28Or maybe ignorance is bliss, I don't know.
04:30We just got back from that exhibit of those plasticised human cadavers.
04:34Those skinless chicks were...
04:37Raj is like the Tom Cruise of the sitcom world.
04:41He is, he is. It's the looks.
04:44No, you know, Raj is the foreigner on the show.
04:49He comes from India, New Delhi, India.
04:52What? Just because I'm Indian, I can't be a Norse god?
04:55No, no, no, Raj has to be an Indian god.
04:58He's obviously pathologically shy.
05:00He can't talk to women without drinking alcohol.
05:03Okay, look, this never happened. Do you understand me?
05:10Really? Still can't talk to me?
05:13I think on the surface, Bernadette is your typical microbiologist.
05:21Kind of nerdy.
05:22In microbiology, the most exciting thing I get to work with is yeast.
05:26But what I love about her is the fact that we've discovered
05:29these layers to her.
05:31She's kind of got a dark side.
05:33She's got a temper.
05:35What the hell is wrong with you?
05:37You were always so nice to me. I thought maybe you liked me.
05:40I'm nice to everyone!
05:43So what you see necessarily isn't what you get with her.
05:46If you and Leonard get back together,
05:48Sheldon and I will finally have someone to go on double dates with.
05:51What about me and Howard?
05:53Fine, we can double with you two.
05:55So insecure.
05:58How would you describe your character Amy?
06:01She's straightforward.
06:03She's dedicated and she also knows how to have a good time.
06:07Oh, I know. We'll go to a Native American sweat lodge,
06:10we'll take peyote, roll around in the mud
06:12and paint fertility symbols on Bernadette's naked body.
06:14So that's happening.
06:15So I think she's a pretty well-rounded person, considering.
06:18Yes, all things being.
06:20The only person who signed my yearbook was my mother.
06:24Dear Amy, self-respect and a hymen are better than friends and fun.
06:27Love, Mum.
06:32The Big Bang Theory has just hit an important milestone.
06:35100 episodes.
06:37That's impressive for any show.
06:39The fans loved it from day one,
06:41but did the people who are actually making the show
06:43have any inkling that it would go on to be such a huge success?
06:47Chuck Lorre is the man who, along with co-creator Bill Prady,
06:50is responsible for the show.
06:52Over the past 20 years, he's brought us some of the biggest shows on TV,
06:55including Roseanne and Two and a Half Men.
06:59What gave you the idea for the show in the first place?
07:02It started with Bill Prady, the co-creator of the show,
07:05telling me about his life in the 80s in New York as a computer programmer.
07:09And the guys he was hanging out with and working with
07:12were all brilliant guys, but they were entirely incompetent
07:16in all other aspects of life.
07:18Oh, hey, guys.
07:20We're late.
07:21Late? It's 7.05.
07:23And you said the party starts at 7.
07:25Yeah, I mean, when you start a party at 7,
07:27no one shows up at, you know, 7.
07:31It's 7.05.
07:34And that struck us both as really funny
07:37and as a good starting place for a group of characters
07:39who are extraordinary, but were struggling
07:42to get on with the mundane task of living.
07:46Why on earth are you telling me all this?
07:49I don't know.
07:51Sometimes your movements are so lifelike,
07:53I forget you're not a real boy.
07:56When you first wrote the pilot,
07:59did you have any kind of sense that it could go on
08:03to be as successful as it has been?
08:05None. None whatsoever.
08:07When Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons first read together,
08:11that was when we started to have hope.
08:14Put this in the bathroom. What for?
08:16I need to measure my fluid intake and output
08:18to make sure my kidneys aren't shutting down.
08:22I mixed pancake batter in this!
08:25I auditioned twice and didn't get hired both times,
08:30and they did a pilot and it didn't work.
08:33We did the pilot twice.
08:35We had two chances to get this right.
08:37And they revamped the script and made it different,
08:39and I came back in, and I guess it was all about timing.
08:43And I just knocked it out of the ballpark.
08:46It was like, oh God, something's happening here.
08:49You could feel something special was happening.
08:52It was very apparent that it was better than we'd hoped for.
08:57I knew it was a true ensemble,
09:00that everyone was just fantastic.
09:03You could sort of sense where it was going to go,
09:06that it was going to kind of not be making fun of nerdy people,
09:10but sort of give them the voice
09:13and make everybody else sort of the laughingstock.
09:16Who's Adam West?
09:18Who's Adam West?
09:20What do the two of you talk about after the coitus?
09:24The first night shooting, I think, is really,
09:27in front of an audience is what cemented it for me,
09:31was because they knew the characters immediately
09:34and they pulled for them.
09:36I'm sorry, do you speak English?
09:38Oh, he speaks English, he just can't speak to women.
09:42Really, why?
09:44He's kind of a nerd.
09:48Juice box?
09:50The show ultimately is an underdog story,
09:54and people like to root for underdogs
09:56because everyone in their life has felt like an underdog.
09:59What did I ever do to Jimmy Mullins in the 3rd grade?
10:02He still punched me in the face with my own fist.
10:05That transcends cultures, religions, language,
10:08that's why it's such an international show,
10:11it's popular all over the world.
10:13Whether you're watching the show and saying, that's me,
10:16or you're watching it going, what's up with these guys?
10:19There's always something, everyone can relate
10:21to being an underdog at some point in their lives.
10:24Hi Amy, can I talk to Penny?
10:26A guest in my trundle bed and a boy at my door?
10:29I wish I could tell 13-year-old me it does get better.
10:32These characters are very lovable,
10:34and I'm not talking about Penny, even though she's the most.
10:37But the guys, truthfully, from day one,
10:39you just fall in love with them.
10:41I feel like they've made nerdy and goofy kind of sexy.
10:53I don't think it's the specific geekiness or science
10:56or Star Trek-y stuff,
10:58because none of us are really into that stuff in real life,
11:01and I know a lot of people that aren't that love the show.
11:05So I think there's a human connection
11:07between feeling like an outsider
11:09or trying to figure out sort of the rules,
11:13the handbook of life.
11:15I love that it's a show about smart people,
11:18I love that it's a show about the quirks of smart people
11:21and sort of the social dynamics of people
11:24other than the Beverly Hills 90210 friends,
11:26attractive people hooking up
11:28in different permutations kind of show.
11:30Last night I was strong-armed into an evening of heart music
11:33and spooning with an emotional Amy Farrah Fowler.
11:36It was a night that I had originally designated
11:38for solving the space-time geometry in higher-spin gravity
11:41and building my Lego Death Star.
11:45Don't go anywhere,
11:47cos we've got more Big Bang action after the break.
11:50I thought he would be killed off or something.
11:52Everybody on the set's kind of crying.
11:54I don't want to have to work with a child every week on this set,
11:57so no, I don't.
11:59It all started with a big bang!
12:01It all started with a big bang!
12:06Welcome back to The Big Bang Theory.
12:08It all started with a big bang.
12:11There's no denying that the gang on The Big Bang Theory
12:14get themselves into some peculiar pickles.
12:17Over 100 episodes, we've seen some outrageous behaviour.
12:21But what keeps us watching isn't the wacky antics,
12:24it's the relationships.
12:27The friendships and romances on the show
12:29have grown and developed over the years.
12:32The guys have actually made friends with some girls.
12:35Howard grew out of his bromance with Raj and fell in love with Bernadette.
12:39Sheldon has a girlfriend.
12:42And Leonard and Penny, well, they're just...
12:45Leonard and Penny.
12:47It's been an interesting ride for these two.
12:49From their first kiss in episode 6 to their breakup in episode 59
12:53to whatever it is they have now,
12:55it's been an on-off, on-off delight to watch.
12:58Forgotten the details? Here are the highlights.
13:01New neighbour? Evidently.
13:07What about if you went out with me?
13:09Yes, I will go out with you.
13:11Leonard has no business being involved with a waitress-slash-actress
13:14who felt so insecure that she lied to him about finishing community college.
13:18What about that really long hug? What did that mean?
13:21It means I wish you were coming.
13:23Leonard, you're back.
13:25Yeah, I just stopped by to say...
13:27Let's slide over to Sheldon's spot and make out.
13:30You are a dirty girl.
13:34I love you, Penny.
13:35Thank you.
13:37So we're in two different places emotionally, so what? That's fine.
13:41In fact, it makes sense, because let's face it,
13:43I've been in this relationship two years longer than you.
13:46That isn't fair to you, Leonard. I'm sorry.
13:49I screwed up. Leonard's a great guy.
13:51I never should have broken up with him.
13:53What's going on?
13:55Oh...
13:57It's not what it looks like.
13:59Penny, do you have plans for dinner?
14:01Why, are you guys going somewhere?
14:02No, I mean just you and me.
14:03Have you thought this through?
14:05Yes, and I think we should go anyway.
14:09I think if I could choose,
14:11I would love them to end up together at the end of the day.
14:14Not anytime soon, but you know how relationships are.
14:17They go on and off.
14:19You date someone, you break up, you become friends,
14:21your friends deal with it.
14:23Because they're so close, too,
14:25so it's always going to affect everyone.
14:27So I like the ride that the writers are taking them on.
14:29I think it's really fun, and I think it's real.
14:31I have a real soft spot in my heart for those two,
14:35and I think they are the loves of one another's lives.
14:38They just don't have it together in other areas of their life.
14:43There's a real visceral thing between the two of them,
14:46and they both just have a whole lot to learn.
14:49Our babies will be smart and beautiful.
14:54Not to mention imaginary.
14:58One couple who, despite all odds, do seem to have it together
15:02are Sheldon and Amy.
15:04Personally, I love the Amy and Sheldon relationship
15:06because I think it's a very different kind of sweet,
15:08and it's a very different kind of tender.
15:10Possible explanations for your symptoms are,
15:12in descending order of likelihood,
15:14hyperthyroidism, premature menopause,
15:17hosting an alien parasite,
15:19or, and I only include it for the sake of covering
15:22absolutely all bases, sexual arousal.
15:28Where would I have picked up an alien parasite?
15:31Amy and Sheldon are in the relationship agreement phase.
15:36A binding covenant that in its 31 pages
15:39enumerates, iterates, and codifies
15:41the rights and responsibilities of Sheldon Lee Cooper,
15:43here and after known as the boyfriend,
15:46and Amy Farrah Fowler, here and after known as the girlfriend.
15:52So romantic.
15:55It's just this beautifully odd situation
15:57of he really seems to enjoy her company,
16:00and there's obviously a slight attraction
16:05slash attachment there
16:07that has just sort of come upon him.
16:10You're a vixen, Amy Farrah Fowler.
16:14There was a lot of pressure from fans
16:18that he be in a romantic relationship,
16:21but I didn't want to miss out on an opportunity
16:25to have a character living life on his own terms.
16:28And that's what's wonderful about these characters,
16:31and particularly Jim's character,
16:33he's living life on his own terms.
16:35Proposal, one wild night of torrid lovemaking
16:38that soothes my soul and inflames my loins.
16:42Whether you agree with it or not,
16:44whether you agree with how he's having a relationship
16:47with Amy Farrah Fowler, that's the relationship.
16:49They've established a relationship that works for them,
16:52and I think that's admirable.
16:55Counter-proposal.
16:58I will gently stroke your head
17:01and repeat, aw, who's a good Amy?
17:04Rounding out the trio of couples on the show
17:07are the pint-sized Howard and Bernadette.
17:10When the show started, did you ever think
17:13that Howard would get engaged?
17:15No, I, you know, I thought he would be killed off or something.
17:19Yeah, he's certainly not the first to kind of find love.
17:24Yes, I will marry you.
17:26You will? I will!
17:28Oh, I love you so much! Oh, I love you too!
17:31It was just the perfect storm of, for whatever reason,
17:35these two people balance each other out.
17:37Don't take him too seriously.
17:39A lot of what he says is intended as humor.
17:42Yeah, well, I don't think it's very funny.
17:45Me neither, but he just lights up when I laugh.
17:49I think that these characters, there's so much love between them,
17:53so whether they actually marry or whether they don't,
17:56I think it'll be, it'll be great.
17:58What is that behind your ear? Oh, look, it's a condom.
18:02laughter
18:05Well, ladies, we killed the battle.
18:08The Big Bang Theory is about more than romance, of course.
18:11It's really about friendships, and those can be
18:13the most entertaining relationships on the show.
18:16My favourite? Come on, easy. Howard and Raj.
18:19Do friendship.
18:21How would you describe Raj's friendship with Howard?
18:25It's a bromance, it's a classic bromance.
18:28All right, honey, if we're going to make the movie, we should go.
18:33clears throat
18:35This may be hard for you to hear,
18:38but when I say honey, I mean my fiancee.
18:42Yeah, well, now it means her.
18:45I think that it can be misconstrued
18:48into a physical sort of relationship,
18:51that they have the physical hots for each other,
18:54you know, that's not happening.
18:56There are a lot of girls out there who want to kiss you.
18:59Where?
19:01You just have to look.
19:17Well, this was fun.
19:21There have been so many memorable Big Bang Theory moments.
19:24Some of my personal favourites are Sheldon dressed as a Doppler effect.
19:28I don't care if anybody gets it, I'm going as the Doppler effect.
19:32Howard's robot arm incident.
19:35You slipped and fell into a robot hand.
19:41Yes.
19:43Penis first.
19:46That's not important, though.
19:48Which moments stick in the minds of the cast and the creators?
19:51There was an episode where they wanted Sheldon to learn how to drive.
19:57It was a simulation exercise that he had on the TV with the video game
20:01to practice driving.
20:03Hit the brakes, hit the brakes!
20:08The commitment of everybody as one group to get it done,
20:11it was sheer joy.
20:13I like the one where Howard cries to Penny
20:17and then tries to kiss her and gets punched.
20:28LAUGHTER
20:32Obviously, the tiara scene.
20:34Sheldon, you are the most shallow, self-centred person I have ever met.
20:37Do you really think that another transparently manip...
20:39Oh, it's a tiara!
20:41A tiara! I have a tiara!
20:43Put it on me, put it on me, put it on me, put it on me!
20:50Do you have a favourite scene or episode?
20:53Oh, goodness.
20:55I'm kind of a fangirl about this show.
20:57The scene where Penny gave Sheldon the Leonard Nimoy autograph,
21:02I think, was one of my most favourite moments.
21:04To Sheldon.
21:06Live long and prosper...
21:09Leonard Nimoy.
21:11LAUGHTER
21:14He came into the restaurant, sorry, the napkin's dirty,
21:17he wiped his mouth with it.
21:19The gift was a wonderful gesture,
21:22but the moment that everybody was struck by was,
21:27you know, we had this character who was so disaffected
21:30and so, you know, alienated from people hugging her in that moment
21:34because he was so overcome with joy.
21:36LAUGHTER
21:41We're making a situation comedy here,
21:43and we have to make one every week,
21:45but everybody on the set's kind of crying.
21:47It got very emotional.
21:49Leonard, look, Sheldon's hugging me!
21:54Now, just because there are so many great moments in the past
21:57doesn't mean there won't be lots of great moments in the future.
22:00On the contrary, there will be.
22:02What they'll come up with is anybody's guess.
22:04Here we go into the future.
22:07Do you have kind of thoughts and hopes for Sheldon in the future?
22:12What would I want for him? That he wins a Nobel, finally?
22:15I mean, you know, that's like getting a couple together
22:18at the end of an episode. Where's his fight, then?
22:21You know, do I want him and Amy to have a test-tube baby?
22:24I don't want to have to work with a child every week on this set, so no.
22:27Yeah, that's important, yeah.
22:29So do you have hopes and aspirations for Howard's future?
22:34For the better of his own being, I would say.
22:37I hope he can manage to get out from under his mother's fat thumb.
22:43I don't know if they'll actually make it down the aisle,
22:47I want them to get married, because I think if we see that scene,
22:50then presumably Howard's mother will have to be there.
22:53At the actual wedding, she could surface, I guess.
22:56I hope Penny gets another job than working at the Cheesecake Factory.
23:01She's good, though.
23:03She is really good at the Cheesecake Factory,
23:05but I'm kind of sick of the uniform, so I'd love to maybe work at Sushi.
23:11Do you feel like Raj will eventually be able to talk to girls without the aid of a drink?
23:17I don't know. If it's not a drink, it'll be something else.
23:20Hard to believe that we've already had 100 episodes of The Big Bang Theory,
23:24but we have. Here's to 100 more.
23:26We're not writing last. We have no idea where this is going.
23:29How big deal? Not knowing is part of the fun.
23:33Catch the latest Big Bang episode over on E4 tomorrow night at 8.
23:37Totally random. Next here on 4, the animation is electrifying.