CBS’ hit sitcom “The Huge Bang Concept” went by means of a number of adjustments earlier than it made it to screens. A notable instance is the creators’ choice to exchange the present’s authentic feminine lead with Kaley Cuoco’s Penny, who grew to become a stalwart of the sequence for 12 profitable seasons. Penny is an aspiring actress who strikes subsequent door to the nerdy physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), however the authentic plan was for her neighbors to have a distinct vocation.
Whereas talking to The Paley Heart for Media, “Huge Bang Concept” co-creator Chuck Lorre revealed that he and his colleagues initially deliberate on making the nerdy characters pc programmers as an alternative of physicists. In his personal phrases:
“I do not even know why, you [Bill Prady] have been telling me tales about pc programming in New York within the ’80s, and speaking concerning the guys that he labored with, and so they have been fascinating. They have been deeply troubled, however they have been fascinating. We have been additionally engaged on an concept a few younger lady who’s going off to the massive metropolis — it sounds unusually like Mary Tyler Moore — to begin her life. There was a second within the room the place we went, ‘What in the event that they met her?'”
In the long run, the creators opted to vary the sitcom’s nerdy characters to scientists and engineers. It is because Lorre did not like the concept of setting the story on the planet of pc programming for one particular purpose.
Pc programmers are too money-driven
Whereas “The Huge Bang Concept” options scenes that have not aged properly, nobody can accuse the characters of being grasping and obsessive about cash (heck, Sheldon Cooper does not even money most of his paychecks). In the course of the aforementioned interview, Invoice Prady revealed that they did not need Sheldon, Leonard Hofstadter, Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg), and Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) to be money-oriented, which is why they determined towards making them pc programmers from a commerce-driven trade.
“Chuck Lorre saved stressing that they need to be actually good, however one thing that was separate from the money-making world. In some unspecified time in the future, we began speaking about science. I keep in mind, as a result of we went out and picked up the Richard Feynman guide, ‘trigger I might learn it, and I mentioned, ‘We’ll examine this man, and I feel that is type of what we’re making an attempt to do.'”
In the end, the “Huge Bang Concept” creators made the fitting name. The CBS sitcom aired for 12 profitable seasons and even impressed Belarusian rip-offs like “The Theorists,” proving that there is a worldwide viewers for TV comedies about science. Moreover, whereas Lorre and Prady have been towards setting the sequence on the planet of commerce, the “Huge Bang Concept” forged nonetheless makes good cash by means of reruns, displaying that the sitcom did not need to be about cash with a view to make everybody concerned wealthy. Bazinga!
