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Johnny Galecki | ... |
Leonard Hofstadter
(203 episodes, 2006-2016)
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Jim Parsons | ... |
Sheldon Cooper
(203 episodes, 2006-2016)
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Kaley Cuoco | ... |
Penny
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(202 episodes, 2007-2016)
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Simon Helberg | ... |
Howard Wolowitz
(202 episodes, 2007-2016)
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Kunal Nayyar | ... |
Raj Koothrappali
(202 episodes, 2007-2016)
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Melissa Rauch | ... |
Bernadette Rostenkowski
(132 episodes, 2009-2016)
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Mayim Bialik | ... |
Amy Farrah Fowler
(126 episodes, 2010-2016)
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Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Cal Tech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend. Written by Huggo
This show is definitely one of my guilty pleasures! Tuesdays are spent anxiously awaiting its posting on iTunes so I can download it, as I live in Canada & don't have cable. TBBT is a trip down memory lane for me, as it IS my high school experience (20+ years ago, I was a smarter Penny). I love the characters, especially Leonard who is adorable, and the smarmy yet surprisingly charming Wolowitz. It has the feel of "Frasier Goes To College". I do agree though that they should lose the laugh track - annoying, but not enough to make me stop watching. BTW, very smart of CBS to originally have offered the pilot as a free download or I would never have given it a look. Now I'm an addict!