For one thing, forget scriptwriting. Imagine they were real people, not characters in a sitcom. All Leonard and Penny have in common is they like making snarky comments at Sheldon’s expense and they’re both the leaders of their gender groups. She’s completely uninterested in Leonard’s career as long as he makes enough to feed her. And buy her a used car.
Do you want to be married to someone who thinks of you as a Fix-It Project?
Men marry when they think they can’t do any better.
Women marry when they find something they can work with.
Leonard and Penny are made for each other.
NM. Sorry.
some comic com notes.
Although Mrs Wolowitz (Howard’s mother) hasn’t really been seen on the series, the actress who plays her has. In season 5 episode 24 (The Countdown Reflection), the gang go to City Hall so Howard and Bernadette can get a quick civil wedding before he goes to space. A clerk comes out to tell everyone waiting that they’ll only have time for 3 more weddings that day. The clerk was the actress who is the voice of Howard’s Mom.
I’m not confusing this show with real life. I’d rather watch something different that has than a normal boring everyday relationship. If I wanted realism, I’d be watching documentaries. For me this is one half-hour a week for 23 weeks that’s moderately entertaining, doesn’t insult my intelligence, and even provides more than a few laughs.
No it wasn’t. Howard’s mom (in voice only) is played by Carol Ann Susi, it even says so in the credits. The clerk was played by Amy Tolsky.
hardball
‘Big Bang Theory’ Delays Production as Cast Still Without Contracts
While the Big Three will make close to a million, Malim Bialik and Melissa Rauch got their salaries doubled - to $60,000 a week.
That’s wonderful money by most standards, but it still means getting 6% as much as the person standing next to you doing almost exactly the same job for the same amount of time. Commonplace in entertainment, true, but it has to rankle deep down.
That likely puts them in the top 5% of all sitcom stars in terms of money earned. I’m sure that soothes the sting a bit.
Cite? Not that I don’t believe you, I just haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere
Brian
Seems ton be missing a 0.
It’s noted at the end of this Business Insider article.
Penny Sheldon and Leonard stand to make a quarter of a billion dollars combined over the next three years. Wow. The biggest surprise to me was reading that Raj only makes $75,000 an episode. That is a lot of money for you and me (well me at least) but P S & L were making $300,000 and Wolowitz was making six figures. The article I read this afternoon said that everyone expected Wolowiz and Raj to have new contracts very soon.
Sorry for using character names. Just being lazy.
PS&L each making $250M over 3 seasons with 24 episodes per season …
250/(9*24)= $1.16 M per episode
According to my calculations: That is $1.16 million per episode if all 3 make the same amount and, that is about 15 times as much as Raj makes.
I’m guessing my math must be flawed. Can each of those 3 really make 15 times more money than Raj? I would have to guess they deserve that much. But if my math is correct, I wonder how Raj feels about it? If I worked on a project together with someone and we both seemed to do a similar amount of work, I could never look them in the face if I earned 15 times more money than they did.
And if they earned 15 times more than I did, I don’t know how I would react to that. But it wouldn’t be good. That’s for sure. No wonder Hollywood actors who all work on the same show don’t usually get along very well.
And now that the quality has sunk so low, oh yuck!
Well, since there are a number of episodes where Raj only appears once, I’d say on a per scene basis he’s getting paid appropriately.
Very deeply wrankle.
The difference is that after doing just one episode at the money paid to P,S or L Raj could retire in style and live in comfort forever.
As it is, he can’t do that but his co-stars will never have to worry about money ever again. It must seriously hurt him deep down.