Jim Parsons has been quoted as crediting former The Big Bang Theory writer Stephen Engel as the one who came up with the word Bazinga for Sheldon's catchphrase. Though not a true Bazinga, it was mentioned once in Season 9. Penny used it after Sheldon mentioned that he planned to have sex with Amy. She waited a few moments for the Bazinga, but was wrong. 2 The Big Bang Theory episodes using the term 'Bazinga'.On January 4th, 2011, Warner Bros, the company behind the making of The Big Bang Theory, filed for a registered trademark for the catchphrase, becoming effective on April 24th, 2012. The Big Bang Theory episodes using the term 'Bazinga' The phrase originated in the Young Sheldon episode ' A Stunted Childhood and a Can of Fancy Mixed Nuts'.

Sheldon: You actually had it right in the first place. Once again, you've fallen for one of my classic pranks. It appears that Penny secretly wants you in her life in a very intimate and carnal fashion. Sheldon: Did you bring the dehydrated low-sodium soy sauce? Even in my sleep-deprived state, I’ve managed to pull off another one of my classic pranks. Sheldon: Flash-frozen brown rice, not white? Sheldon: Bazinga! None of you ever see my practical jokes coming, do you? Sheldon: You know, I’ve always wanted to go to a goth nightclub. Sheldon: There's just no pleasing you, is there, Leonard? You weren't happy with my previous approach to dealing with her, so I decided to employ operant conditioning techniques, building on the work of Thorndike and B.F.

By this time next week, I believe I can have her jumping out of a pool, balancing a beach ball on her nose. Leonard: What could she possibly be talking about for so long? Sheldon: I'm not suggesting we really make her jump out of a pool. Sheldon: So, that's what you wear to an interview? Sheldon: Obviously, waitressing at the Cheesecake Factory is a complex socioeconomic activity, that requires a great deal of analysis and planning. Raj: Come on, dude, we’ve been friends for years. Raj: Sheldon, for God's sakes, don't make me beg. Sheldon: (Bobs head out of ball pit) Bazinga! (Bobs head out of ball pit) Bazinga! (Bobs head out of ball pit) Bazinga! (Bobs head out of ball pit) Bazinga! (Bobs head out of ball pit) Bazinga! Leonard: (trying to retrieve Sheldon out of the ball pit.) Sheldon, come here! Sheldon: Bazinga! You've fallen victim to another one of my classic practical jokes. Leonard: (trying to retrieve Sheldon out of the ball pit.) Sheldon, come here. Sheldon: All right, you people ready to have some fun? You have a basic understanding of differential calculus and at least one year of algebraic topology? Well, then here come the jokes. Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side. All right, a neutron walks into a bar and asks, how much for a drink? The bartender says, for you, no charge. Penny: You're just coitusing with me, aren't you? Sheldon: Well, my existence is a continuum, so I’ve been what I am at each point in the implied time period. The ball pits are disappearing, “Because it’s a sanitary issue,right?” Galecki asks.Howard: Yeah, um, I have a two-part question. At one point they said wehave a truck coming down from San Francisco, butwe don’t know if it will be here in time.” “They said this is all the balls inSouthern California. And we’relooking at the set, and we kept saying ‘More balls!’ “ “Ball pits are kind of on the way out,” says executive producer Bill Prady.”They don’t really make them anymore. They could have caught the giant plaything at the end of an era, though.

Cheese’s in Los Angeles,” creator Chuck Lorre says. “I think we emptied every bin atevery Chuck E. “And we had disinfectant spray forone another,” Galecki says.įor the producers, the problem was to fill the ball pit. “It was good for my hair, though,” Parsons says. Then I wiped my clean hands on atowel, and it would be damp, and I brushed it overmy face, and there would be this swath of pink andgray. I washed my hands, and the sink wasblack water. “He’s looking at me and I’m like, ‘Have you showered today?’ It was like a film of black across his face.”

Kaley Cuoco says she remembers Parsons coming in for the next scene. “That was the dirtiest thing I’ve ever done as an actor,” Parsons says. “Once they cleaned the balls, it was fun.” Because, he explained “they were filthy.” His co-star Johnny Galecki corrected him. The cast of “The Big Bang Theory” was asked Wednesday on one of their most famous scenes – cavorting in a big ball pit last season in an episode called “The Einstein Approximation.”

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