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Take one.
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'The Big Bang Theory is one of the
most popular shows on television,
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'loved by millions of people
all over the world.
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'I've access to everything you don't
normally see that brings the show
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'to life every week.'
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As soon as I got onto the set,
I was very excited
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and walked down the stairs...
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'From the secrets of the wardrobe
room...'
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I'll know. If this is missing
when you leave, you're in trouble.
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'To watching the cast
record the show.'
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Isn't it fun to learn things?
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This is great.
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Welcome to The Big Bang Theory,
Access All Areas.
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Within reason. I can just go
waltzing into the ladies' loos
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or ladies' rest rooms,
whatever they call them.
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'Luckily for you, I am a long
allowed to waltz onto the set
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'to meet the cast and I'll be
starting with the tough questions.'
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Which character do you most enjoy
shooting scenes with?
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Goodness!
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That is Sophie's Choice.
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Who makes you laugh the most
when you're doing scenes with them?
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Who makes me laugh the most?
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Favourite people to work with?
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How can I answer that?
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Are you trying to start
World War III?
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I'm not going to answer that.
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Kunal, diva...
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Kunal, I don't like working
with at all.
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Sure. Sure.
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He, to be fair, said the same.
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I'm sure he did.
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Johnny Galecki, just outrageous.
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Who makes me laugh the most?
Erm...
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You can say none of them.
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I'm racking my brain. I can't even
remember their names.
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Simon. Another diva.
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I'm going to be diplomatic
and say... the cast.
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Or none is probably better.
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Or myself.
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You should hear the things I say.
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Boy, you were not liked
at high school, were you?
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Not really. Is that my yearbook?
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Mm-hm. "Dear Leonard,
You're really good at science.
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"Maybe one day you'll come up
with a cure for being a dork."
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OK, jokes aside,
what I really want to know
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is how they go about making
the show each week.
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We start on Wednesday mornings.
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We do the table read, which is all
the actors, producers and writers.
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We read the script and we laugh.
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Hopefully!
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Hopefully.
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And that's usually when we find out
what's going to be happening,
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so it's as much a surprise to us
as everyone else.
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The writers take notes of what
seems to work well,
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what didn't work, and they go off
to start rewriting.
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Thursdays and Fridays we rehearse
more, get it on its feet
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and we do run-throughs
for producers
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and network and studio.
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That's when rewrites come through,
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so sometimes the script will change
by as much as a third,
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and then we have a weekend
in between to learn our lines.
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Monday we rehearse with cameras.
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I prefer 20 minutes of rehearsal,
but these guys need hours.
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But you are a consummate
professional.
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It's what a lot of people
have been saying.
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Tuesday night is live
audience taping.
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Take a bow and they immediately hand
us a warm envelope
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with the next morning's
script in it.
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So, that's the actors' week
from start to finish,
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but before they can do any
rehearsing or recording,
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they're going to need a script.
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But there is an original finals draft
Ghostbusters script
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with actual slime stains.
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Oh, you're right.
It's Ghostbusters II. Never mind.
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Each and every episode of The Big
Bang Theory starts in this building
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in the writers' room.
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Led by creators Bill Prady
and Chuck Laurie,
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the team have to conjure up new and
exciting ways of making us laugh.
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Ooh, dark matter...
we'd better bring a flashlight.
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'And if anyone knows the pressure
of writing a hit show,
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'it is Chuck Lorre, who also created
Two And A Half Men.'
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How do you keep coming up
with ideas that feel fresh
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and interesting when you've
made 100 episodes of a show?
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Desperation and fear
is a good motivator.
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It's like riding through a tunnel
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with a train behind you.
For nine months, you can't stop.
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All aboard! Whoo-whoo!
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And how much does the script change
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from when you do
your first table read?
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About 30% to 40%.
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Yeah? Is that quite typical?
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Gosh, I've been on shows
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where it changed 100%
from table to shoot night.
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120%, you know?
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I've never seen a show
consistently
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where what we read
at the table is so funny
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that the rewriting
becomes a minimal amount.
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I can't seem to get in touch
with Amy.
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I tried email, video chat, tweeting
her, posting on her Facebook wall,
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texting her... nothing.
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Did you call her on the telephone?
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The telephone!
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'It's common on many shows where
what we read on the first day,
Monday,'
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there's not one word from
that script that's there on Friday.
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OK.
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'We hear all the time,'
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the condition our scripts come in,
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the good condition
they come in, it's a anomaly.
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And it makes a difference.
You know, I mean,
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they're not perfect.
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We've certainly had scripts
we've had to work on.
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Some have had more changes
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during the week than others,
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and those are rough weeks.
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Guys, we are going to do
a different line there.
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'If life was always like that here,'
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it'd be a tear-your-hair-out
experience, I think.
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On the flip side,
now I'm a little spoiled.
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Why do you even want this here?!
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Its size is completely
disproportionate to its purpose.
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Seeing as its purpose was to piss
you off, I'd say it's spot-on.
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Now, the writing's one thing.
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Sure it's very good,
but then every show has writers.
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But a show that features
a theoretical physicist,
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an astrophysicist, an experimental
physicist, a neurobiologist,
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a microbiologist and a...
well, a Howard Wolowitz,
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obviously needs to use a lot
of sciencey language
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that us at home
can barely understand.
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Now, luckily, the actors and writers
have someone to help them
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to ensure that they don't embarrass
themselves
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by saying "loop quantum gravity"
when they mean string theory.
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And, trust me, thatisfunny...
I checked.
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I will graciously overlook the fact
that she is an arrogant,
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sub-par scientist, who actually
believes loop quantum gravity
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better unites quantum mechanics
with general relativity
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than does string theory.
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How do you deal with all the kind
of scientific content of the show?
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Do you leave blanks...
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Sub-contract it.
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And then go...?
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We have a brilliant astrophysicist
named David Saltzberg,
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who's a professor at UCLA.
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I basically get every script
in advance and I look it over,
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and, er, the writers actually
know a lot of science
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and fill out what they want.
And maybe it'll just need
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a little tiny tweak here and there,
a change of word.
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Other times,
they'll say, "Science to come."
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What is physics?
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We're designing
an experiment to look
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for the annihilation spectrum
resulting from dark matter collisions
in space.
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My tests of the bomb
quantum interference in fact
have reached an interesting point.
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Force of gravity equals mass
times 9.8m per second per second.
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Now we're testing phase
shift due to an electric potential.
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Our 9.8m per second
squared as a, can...
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Thematic theory,
algebraic gossip and epidemiology.
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Time dependent backgrounds
and string theory.
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You work on fundamental tests
of quantum mechanics?
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It's specifically
quantum field theory
and D-dimensional de Sitter space.
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I preserved it in a 1% solution
of polyvinyl acetal resin.
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Oh, my God!
That's the most romantic thing
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anyone's ever said to me
that I didn't understand.
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And now we have Mayim Bialik,
who is a, you know...
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A neuroscientist... neuroscientist.
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So she tells us
when we're wrong in that area.
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When it comes to neuroscience
and neurobiology,
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I guess
I'm the unofficial authority.
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Come on, tumour.
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Mama needs an aggressive
little glioblastoma.
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Did you ever think that you would
start using your neuroscience again?
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In this way?
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No.
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'Since getting my PhD,'
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I never thought I would be acting
as a neuroscientist, no.
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Amy's at the dry-cleaner's
and she's made a very amusing pun.
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"I don't care for p-chloro-ethylene
and I don't like glycol,ether."
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Personally, I like that physics is
out there and incomprehensible,
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but I really like it when it's
what we call freshman physics.
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We don't need strength...
we're physicists.
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We are the intellectual descendants
of Archimedes.
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Give me a fulcrum and a lever, I can
move the earth. It's a matter...
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I don't have this.
I don't have this!
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It's something that people
have been exposed to in some way
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and so there's
a chance of knowing what's going on.
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Ah, gravity,
thou art a heartless bitch.
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And, frankly,
if people disagree with the science,
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they can send a letter
to Dr Saltzberg or Dr Bialik.
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There's nothing wrong
with the science.
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Perhaps you mean a different thing
than I do when you say, "Science."
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Fashion's probably not
the first thing that springs to mind
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when you think of
The Big Bang Theory,
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but for a show that's about
pretty unfashionable guys,
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they do all have
their own distinctive style,
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from Sheldon's T-shirts
to Howard's...
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eye-wateringly tight trousers.
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They do stand out in a crowd.
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So I assume this is all divided up
into different characters?
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Yes, we call them character closets.
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Sheldon, staring with
the plaid pants, of course.
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Yes.
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And then all of his T-shirts
back here.
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He's got his Green Lantern
and Flash shirts.
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He has a lot of T-shirts. They all
have a lot of clothes, to be fair.
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Oh, yes.
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'Do you have a favourite
Sheldon piece?'
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I like this.
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Yes, that's nice...
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the evolution
of an into a robot is nice.
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It screams Sheldon to me.
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Wow!
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Wow!
I really like Raj's outfits.
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I like the fact that I think
he looks quite cool.
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They all bridge cool,
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except I throw something else
that just ruins it all.
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I thinkhethinks it's cool.
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'When Raj first came to America,'
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he was dressed head-to-toe
in Miami Vice clothes,
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because that was a big popular
show in India at that time.
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What about arguably
my favourite character,
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dress-wise and otherwise, Howard?
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Where's his stuff?
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He's got a room to himself.
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Of course he has.
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Hey, qu'est-ce que s'up?
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Look at that!
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Very eclectic. I know.
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Look at that.
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If this is missing when you leave...
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I've got my eye on it.
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You're in trouble.
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There is one outfit he wore with
an eye patch and leather pants...
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The guy's a hero.
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'And a flowy blouse.
He pulled it off.'
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Hello, boys.
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I would say he's a clothes... horse.
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Whore or horse? I don't know.
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I think horse.
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I think for him, let's say whore.
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I want to blend in.
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To what?
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Toy Story?!
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This is Leonard.
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I recognise these cords.
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Yes.
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A muted rainbow.
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Yes, muted. He's got a bit of
a bucket of water thrown on him
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compared to some
of the other characters.
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Is this all stuff you want me
to try on?
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No, this is stuff
I want you to throw out.
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When I had to dress up as Supergirl,
that was especially liberating.
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I don't know about you,
but I feel empowered.
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Come on, I made that look good.
Come on.
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Yeah.
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I'm Batman!
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Don't go anywhere, please,
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cos we've got more of the
Bing Bang Theory: Access All Areas...
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within reason...
for you after the break.
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Coming up...
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'I learn
the secrets of the stairway...'
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Once you've got down, you just sort
of stand against the wall here.
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'And take my place in the audience
to watch the cast record the show.'
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Give it up for Jim Parsons!
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I have no idea what that line is.
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I messed up mine too a bit.
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Pace yourself. Go!
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Welcome back to the
Big Bang Theory: Access All Areas.
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Camera... Action!
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Does anyone have any wood?
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Oh, come on! I just want wood!
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Why are you making it so hard?
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OK, we've got the writing,
the science,
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the wardrobe and the actors.
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But the world of the Big Bang Theory
wouldn't be complete without
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the incredibly detailed sets.
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Designed by legendary
production designer John Shaffner,
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who designed the famous Friends
set amongst others,
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the sets each have their
own special charm.
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Actually, my favourite set is the
hallway between the two apartments.
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The producers wanted this walk
and talk in the stairwell.
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Well, we built the set and Chuck
and Bill came down and they looked
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at it and said, "We really need
to see the stairway go down."
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So I was like, "Oh, dear,
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I'm not authorised by the studio
to cut a hole in the floor.
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So then we went to the studio
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and said we need to cut
a hole in the floor.
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So that's how we came about
building the staircase that actually
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goes down about six feet.
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If you get to the bottom of the stair
and make a corner,
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there's dirt and there's a wall
full of gum on it from the actors
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who wait to go on
and put their gum on the wall!
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So it's sort of starting
to look like the underside
of a table in a cheap diner.
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Obviously as soon as I got
onto the set
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and walked downwards I was amazed
at how little the gap is to fit in.
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Once you've got down you just
sort of stand there against a wall.
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Um, and the other thing about it
was trying to give them enough
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space between the two apartments so
there'd be working space for a scene.
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Um, I put this elevator in the middle
and I showed it to Chuck
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and Bill and they said,
"We don't want the elevator
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"because why would they walk up
and down the stairs?"
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And I said,
"Because it's always broken.
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The landlord has never fixed it."
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Give me that.
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What did you do that for,
I had plenty of time?!
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So, this is it, I've chatted to
the cast and crew, I've poked around
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behind the scenes, I know exactly
how the Big Bang Theory gets made.
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All I've got to do now is
take my place in the audience
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and watch them
actually record the show.
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This is about as exciting as
it gets for a Big Bang fan.
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In a way, I wish you could be here.
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In another way
I don't cos you'll be in my seat.
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What I can promise is that I'll
really enjoy it for you.
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Excuse me. Sorry.
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OK, hold the over, Richard.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
round of applause,
are you ready to meet our cast?
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Let's hear it!
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It's just so electric in here
on our take nights.
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It's very exciting to have
that energy from the audience.
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Give it up!
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Oh, it's amazing, I love it.
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It's great, it's sort of like a short
play every week.
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I wouldn't be half
as happy as I am here
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if we didn't have that
live audience.
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Here's Sheldon,
the incredible Jim Parsons!
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It does add that element of
surprise and adrenaline.
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Cameras A, B, C, X.
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On the mark.
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Here we go, and action!
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I don't think I could ever get
a massage from a guy.
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Really? What was I doing
to your neck last night
while you were playing Xbox?
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Not much, it's still killing me.
333
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We always get comments like,
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"OH, my God that laugh-track
is driving me crazy,"
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but it's not a laugh-track,
it's real people!
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Where's Howard?
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No, "Hi, Raj, how are you, Raj?"
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Straight to,
"Where's the other white guy?"
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When I watch scenes on
every show when you know
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there's not a live audience,
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it's just slightly
soulless. Something's missing,
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they are a tangible presence in the
room, almost like another character.
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Some of my favourite scenes,
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which also seem to be fans'
favourite scenes,
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between Amy and Sheldon,
do not play that way all week.
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The way you see them on TV is
the way that the studio audience
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determines that they get played.
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There's nothing like people
seeing Sheldon
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and Amy kiss for the first time.
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You can't gauge that.
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Fascinating.
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Um, and for me, that's really
where a scene gets life that it
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doesn't have for the
previous five days.
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It's like I'm
living in a dictatorship.
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"You must take a vacation, you must
have fun, you must enjoy life."
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00:17:26,145 --> 00:17:29,224
I don't think you have a good
handle on dictatorships.
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There are moments
when you can't help
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but get carried away like
I guess you would in theatre.
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You try to keep your pants on.
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It's not always possible!
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No, but we do our best.
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The audience is amazing cos
they give you instant reaction.
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And they don't lie.
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They'll tell you immediately
if something is working or not.
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I am the king of nerds.
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What does that mean?
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That means if anyone displeases me
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I can arrange to have their email
inbox spammed.
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We do quite a bit of re-writing
here on the fly with them.
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00:18:11,985 --> 00:18:15,024
Well, it means
if anyone displeases me
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I don't help them
set up their printer.
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You have to listen to the audience
to get the rhythm of it and then
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we wait for the laugh and sometimes
it never comes and then we cry...
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Um, guys? Guys?
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00:18:30,465 --> 00:18:31,704
No, it's gonna come.
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I know it's been ten minutes,
just trust me.
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00:18:33,465 --> 00:18:36,504
I've been doing this for a really
long time and it's humbling
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how often the studio audience
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will tell you that what you thought
was hilarious is not hilarious.
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And what you thought was,
meh, is fabulous.
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00:18:46,265 --> 00:18:49,464
I just don't know how I'm going
to break it to him.
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00:18:49,465 --> 00:18:51,384
How about topless?
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00:18:51,385 --> 00:18:53,344
Well, you waggle those puppies
in his face I bet you'd get him
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to join the marines.
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00:18:57,545 --> 00:19:00,504
I think this is good,
I dunno, I hope it is,
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if it's not the audience will
tell us and we'll fix it.
387
00:19:04,145 --> 00:19:06,224
I just don't know how I'm going
to break it to him.
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00:19:06,225 --> 00:19:08,824
Hey, you know, I'm a big believer
in breaking bad news to a guy
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when you're in bed with him.
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00:19:09,825 --> 00:19:12,384
That's how I told my high school
boyfriend I slept with his brother.
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00:19:14,785 --> 00:19:18,144
That's how I told his brother
the same thing!
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00:19:18,145 --> 00:19:20,944
You can't anticipate what other
people are going to respond to
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and if you think you can,
you're crazy.
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Time and again we've
run into situations,
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with Sheldon especially, where
it's like, just coming off too mean.
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They're not laughing they're going,
"Ohh..." You know?
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And that's not the intent.
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00:19:36,625 --> 00:19:40,624
Sheldon's not cruel, he's honest.
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When instead of a laugh
there's an "Ohhh."
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00:19:43,065 --> 00:19:44,544
Yeah.
401
00:19:44,545 --> 00:19:47,224
Richard Feynman was a famous
American physicist.
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Part of the Manhattan project.
403
00:19:49,065 --> 00:19:53,064
Everyone in the world of science
knows who Richard Feynman was.
404
00:19:53,625 --> 00:19:55,584
Now you do too.
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00:19:58,385 --> 00:20:01,824
In front of the audience
most of us can stay pretty focused
406
00:20:01,825 --> 00:20:04,304
but it's some of the
playfulness that Jim
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and I have that really kind
of brings out some of the giggles.
408
00:20:13,745 --> 00:20:16,824
She broke that, it was fine!
409
00:20:16,825 --> 00:20:20,824
Control yourself!
410
00:20:21,705 --> 00:20:24,304
Are there times when you do just
totally lose it
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even when the audience are there?
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00:20:26,185 --> 00:20:28,264
Oh, in as far as getting the giggles?
413
00:20:28,265 --> 00:20:30,584
Yeah.
414
00:20:30,585 --> 00:20:34,024
Kunal is the worst for that,
he cracks himself up constantly.
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00:20:34,025 --> 00:20:36,504
Follow your heart.
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00:20:54,825 --> 00:20:55,984
I'm the worst at that.
417
00:20:55,985 --> 00:20:57,824
Yeah, I heard that.
418
00:20:57,825 --> 00:20:59,704
That's why you asked me
this question?
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00:20:59,705 --> 00:21:02,584
Yeah, it's leading. It's leading.
420
00:21:02,585 --> 00:21:06,584
No, it's so bad, like,
it's cos I'm having the most fun.
421
00:21:06,625 --> 00:21:08,784
No, it's probably cos I'm
the most unprofessional.
422
00:21:08,785 --> 00:21:11,544
He can't stop
laughing at his own jokes.
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00:21:11,545 --> 00:21:15,384
And so I'll come over and whisper
to him "Sometimes babies die."
424
00:21:15,385 --> 00:21:16,504
And that steels him up.
425
00:21:16,505 --> 00:21:19,024
When I first got here the...
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00:21:19,025 --> 00:21:22,584
Can I take it from there?
427
00:21:22,585 --> 00:21:26,184
English is tough!
428
00:21:26,185 --> 00:21:28,984
I'm going to be doing some
brain-stem estology
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00:21:28,985 --> 00:21:30,384
while you get yourself on the.
430
00:21:30,385 --> 00:21:34,384
I have no idea what that line is.
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00:21:34,785 --> 00:21:35,904
With a live audience,
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when they're enjoying it
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00:21:38,185 --> 00:21:42,184
and their laughter is
sincere and loud, it's...
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00:21:42,625 --> 00:21:46,544
That's a great,
great sense of gratification.
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00:21:46,545 --> 00:21:48,504
Too much?
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00:21:48,505 --> 00:21:50,064
Ooooh!
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00:21:50,065 --> 00:21:52,904
Yeah. No.
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00:21:52,905 --> 00:21:56,904
And that's a cut!
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00:22:00,625 --> 00:22:02,944
We have a wonderfully loyal audience
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00:22:02,945 --> 00:22:05,624
and there's a bond there
over five years.
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00:22:05,625 --> 00:22:07,704
You have given us
your half hour to watch the show,
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00:22:07,705 --> 00:22:11,704
I want you to come away thinking it
was a half hour well spent.
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00:22:14,145 --> 00:22:17,304
What an experience, I genuinely feel
quite lucky to have gained
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00:22:17,305 --> 00:22:19,304
this insight into the making
of the show.
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Turns out it's both complicated
and fun in equal measure.
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00:22:23,185 --> 00:22:25,304
But I think I'll leave
the final word
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on the last hundred episodes
to the cast.
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What are you
tuning in for every week?
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It's not the story and the sense
of what will happen this week
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as much as it is, whatever happens
I want to see what these people do.
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00:22:39,905 --> 00:22:41,824
Here we are five years later...
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Really close and a hundred episodes
that's over 500 days
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00:22:45,945 --> 00:22:48,864
here in the same room
with the same people.
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00:22:48,865 --> 00:22:51,224
Part of the reason we're still
here is it's a great cast.
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These are really talented actors
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00:22:52,905 --> 00:22:55,144
and they can do anything
we ask them to do.
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00:22:55,145 --> 00:22:59,144
They couldn't be a nicer group
of people, they were so welcoming.
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00:22:59,865 --> 00:23:03,864
And the fact that nobody's
killed another person yet...
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Is a real achievement!
460
00:23:05,985 --> 00:23:07,994
Yeah, is a real achievement!
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