Huh. I had no idea.
The Cheesecake Factory has restaurants across the country.
Also Leslie Winkle, and Dr. Stephanie, although both of them are more remembered for their relationships with Leonard.
As others have noted, Howard certainly did have a lot of sexual partners in the early years of the series; what he didn’t have before Bernadette was an actual ongoing relationship with a woman.
Well, Bernadette may or may not have been “brilliant,” in the way that the four guys were, but she was a gifted enough student to earn a PhD in microbiology. She wasn’t just a waitress; she was working at Cheesecake Factory to pay off her student loans.
As one critic wrote, they might as well have changed the theme song’s lyrics to “He’s just there / To take care of whoever’s there…”
Ah ok, my mistake, it was mostly a west coast thing about ten years ago when I looked…
Ah in which case I’ve long since forgotten any of his successes… The joke always was him being the horndog, him actually getting some was not remembered, but I’m no expert on the series, never rewatched it past it’s initial run and it sort of wore on me so never will (though one mention was of prostitutes up there which I’d not count).
Wasn’t she the money maker, she was successful enough to far out earn Howard? I think they retconned her into being a graduate paying off her loans afterwards when they needed that. At first I think she was just a waitress friend of Penny, but as above, I’m no expert on the series. The actress really did well from a bit part though.
Yes, as the series progressed, after she got her PhD, and got a high-paying job at a pharmaceutical company.
In the first episode that Bernadette appeared in, Penny told Howard that she was a graduate student who worked as a waitress to pay for her education.
Maybe they were too subtle for me, but I don’t remember a single episode that used the Rashomon structure. I do remember being disappointed they weren’t apparently going to follow through on that.
Of course, that’s how I remember it…
Their 5th restaurant opened in 1991 in Washington DC.
Tee hee!
Yes. Now there were other aspects of Bernadette that changed - initially, she seemed naive and with a very limited dating history, and with a mother almost as overbearing as Howard’s, but later on, she was revealed to have had several serious boyfriends before Howard, and a mother who was barely present.
No more about that show, please?
Apologies.
“Major Dad” had a significant swerve. In the first season, the Major is doing infantry training at one base (when he meets and falls in love with a journalist raising several children). In the second season, he’s moved to a different base with his family, and now he’s the staff secretary to the discombobulated base commander. Aside from the family, one other character (a 1st Lt.) transferred bases at the same time and continued working with the major.
Between its two seasons, CPO Sharkey changed the base commander from the level-headed Captain Elizabeth Quinlan to the irascible Captain “Buck” Buckner. The title character’s first name was also changed from “Seymour” to “Otto” for some reason.
It’s not quite in the same category as others in this thread, but the tone of Law & Order changed significantly when affable Lennie Briscoe was replaced by aggressive, bullying Joe Fontana. It wasn’t by choice, of course, since Jerry Orbach was terminally ill.
L&O had plenty of cast changes over the years, but none of them changed the tenor of the show as much as that one.
The tone of Mission: Impossible changed when Stephen Hill was replaced by Peter Graves.
Also, when Lennie started. It took a couple of seasons to complete the “not-so-sudden” revamp. There was Anita Van Buren and Jack McCoy to complete it.
The tone changed because Steven Hill was an Orthodox Jew who refused to work after sunset on Friday or during the weekend. M:I had a very tight schedule that often wasn’t met, and this precluded him from going on missions. He was basically restricted to planning them, while the other two leads (married couple Martin Landau and Barbara Bain) carried them out. Peter Graves had no such restrictions and thus could be an active participant.
If I’m not mistaken, there was talk of dismissing Hill even in the early part of his one season, and he did indeed play an increasingly smaller role as it went on.