Why Mayim Bialik's The Big Bang Theory Casting Makes No Sense
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"The Big Bang Theory" may have broken its own reality by casting Mayim Bialik in its third season. That's because the show mentioned the actress back in season 1 -- a reference that made her later appearance a bit more meta and paradoxical than the show usually gets.
Bialik comes up in the show's thirteenth episode, "The Bat Jar Conjecture," when Sheldon (Jim Parsons) gets booted from the core group's physics bowl team. In search of a new fourth member, the guys start brainstorming, and Raj's first idea is a bit out there. "You know who's apparently very smart, is the girl who played TV's Blossom," Kunal Nayyar's character says. "She got a PhD in neuroscience or something!"
It's a great bit in the moment, since Raj clearly isn't thinking practically and is sincere in his hope that Bialik (by...
"The Big Bang Theory" may have broken its own reality by casting Mayim Bialik in its third season. That's because the show mentioned the actress back in season 1 -- a reference that made her later appearance a bit more meta and paradoxical than the show usually gets.
Bialik comes up in the show's thirteenth episode, "The Bat Jar Conjecture," when Sheldon (Jim Parsons) gets booted from the core group's physics bowl team. In search of a new fourth member, the guys start brainstorming, and Raj's first idea is a bit out there. "You know who's apparently very smart, is the girl who played TV's Blossom," Kunal Nayyar's character says. "She got a PhD in neuroscience or something!"
It's a great bit in the moment, since Raj clearly isn't thinking practically and is sincere in his hope that Bialik (by...
- 10/21/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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