And a season of Charmed.
Between 8SR and TBBT, she was a regular on the final season of Charmed.
So, what show will be taking TBBT’s place in CBS’s schedule?
Young Sheldon is taking the 8pm Thursdays slot.
Marie Curie won Nobel prizes for Physics (for radioactivity) and Chemistry (for discovering radium and polonium.) The second Nobel was especially impressive, given that earlier in the year it was discovered she’d had an affair with a married (although separated) man.
Annie-Xmas writes:
> I heard that the producers were auditioning people for the main characters of Lenny &
> Penny, and both Galecki and Parson came in to audition for the role. But Parsons
> insisted he’d be a better Sheldon. When he did his Sheldon audition, the producers
> made him come back the next day and do it again because they thought it was a
> fluke. “Nobody could be that good twice.” He did, got hired, and the rest is TV history.
That contradicts everything I’ve read. I’ve read that Galecki was well known to the show’s creators. They offered him the part of Sheldon. He read the script and told them that he would prefer the role of Leonard, so they gave him that part. They then auditioned people for the role of Sheldon. Parsons was very impressive in his audition, so they asked him to come back the next day. They were still impressed with him on that day, so they gave him the part of Sheldon.
Drat. Double posted!
There was also that [del]charlatan[/del] TCM doctor who won for medicine, Tu Youyou.
Well, that…how should I put this…sucked out loud.
I think the final casting decision turned out to be the right one. Maybe it was just the Katie character, but nah, Penny was a much better character.
There are a fair number of cases where a TV series changed from the way it was originally supposed to be to something quite different:
Note that Simon Hedberg and Kunal Nayyar were not cast anywhere around the same time as Galecki and Parsons. Originally there was one female scientist friend: Gilda played by Iris Bahr.
The only characters that appear in the first pilot that appear later are Leonard, Sheldon and Althea (Vernee Watson), the generic nurse. It was a major sin not to have her in the finale. Perhaps as the nurse who confirms Penny’s pregnancy.
Speaking of which, this definitely means that things will be changing significantly for at least two people within the show. So it’s not exactly a “life goes on as usual” ending.
Pretty good finale. Loved the appearance by Halley. First and only credit for the kid. Would be a nice starting point if she becomes a regular actor. Ditto the kid who plays the boy, but he doesn’t have a line.
For the final shot it would have been a nice touch if Sheldon wasn’t sitting in his spot.
The worst, as noted, was the stupidity of all trying to cram into one run of the elevator. This was* not this kind of show. But at least the were consistent with which side of the elevator the interior buttons was on, cf. The Staircase Implementation.
Notes on Nobels: Linus Pauling won in Chemistry and Peace. And I don’t think he has a degree in “Peace”. Also, the Peace Prize is handed out in Oslo, not Stockholm like the others.
- Past tense, oh well.
When you go without something for a long time, you tend to binge, like a drunk falling off the wagon.
Just watched it. Jesus, that was brutal.
Haven’t watched regularly in a few years. Watched the finale. It was cute and tied things up nicely.
Yes, it was Raj I skipped. I’ve been feeling bad about it for days.
The question was limited to science Nobels.
Random thoughts.
I was astounded at how good the finale was. It focused perfectly on the characters and their growth over the years. Amy’s transformation was a spectacularly good idea. Everybody in the audience knew that the elevator would get fixed, but they made it a plot point goosing Sheldon’s horror of change. How perfect is that?
They should strap D&D from Game of Thrones into chairs, tape their eyes open, and make them watch this finale over and over until it finally sinks in.
Kaley Cuoco has had a regular part of a sitcom every year since 2000. What do you think she’s doing next?
I wouldn’t bet on any of the others continuing their runs.
Chuck Lorre has created two separate shows so popular that the regulars wound up with million-dollar-an-episode paychecks. Has anyone else in television ever achieved that?
Do we really need to pile on the GoT hate-fest here in a thread that has nothing to do with it?
Sorry if I’m being pissy, but it’s become extremely tiresome here on the SDMB as well as everywhere else on the internet.
The two shows’ endings took place three days apart. I watched them two days apart. That’s a good enough association for me.
Besides, you know what *wouldn’t *have been tiresome? A good ending for GoT. If that had had as good an ending and I compared the two favorably, I bet you wouldn’t mind a bit. But they weren’t and I didn’t. Such is life.
So you didn’t like the GoT finale. Big deal. Go talk about that in the thread about it. You don’t see anybody in the GoT thread gloating about how great TBBT finale was. Sheesh!
I put in a number of comments about TBBT in my post. Feel free to talk about them. We could even have a conversation.