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The Big Bang Theory - unaired pilot!

  • 09-06-2010 5:05pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭


    Synopsis:

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    Two unaired pilots were shot, the second being basically the aired pilot with a very primative opening....but the first unaired pilot is a real gem that shows that the studio executives and production team did some very needed recasting and retooling that made the incredible series we know today as "The Big Bang Theory"
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    The show's initial pilot, developed for the 2006–07 television season, was substantially different from its current form. Only Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons were in the cast, and the female lead, Katie, was envisioned as "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior".
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    Lorre bluntly admitted "It sucked...but there were two remarkable things that worked perfectly, and that was Johnny and Jim. We rewrote the thing entirely, and then we were blessed with Kaley and Simon and Kunal."
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    First Kaley Cuoco does not appear!....the female lead is played by Andrea Walsh and was named "Katie". She is met by Sheldon & Leonard crying on a curb about her boyfriend and soon is asked to stay with them. The character of "Katie" is much more sexually looser than our beloved "Penny". In fact in the pilot she totally exposes herself to the boys, of course her backside is covered by a towel to the camera! The characters of Howard & Rajesh are not included and sorely needed. Basically it was originally a sort of geeky "Three's Company" with two guys and a girl living together. Sheldon also isn't as disliking of "Katie" as he is with Penny. The theme song used throughout is "She Blinded Me With Science". Much of the dialogue and jokes from the pilot were re-used throughout episodes from the first season.



    Anyone see it yet? :D - should be interesting to see how different the characters are! :)


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I seen it alright, Sheldon wasn't as em... as Sheldon as he is in the current series and the rest was a fairly formulaic. Some good jokes but don't think it would have done to well like it was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭RobTheLad


    watched it last night, was ok, much better with penny in it had a real 90's feel about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Elmo told me he adored the unaired pilot.. and he's ready to give the show a second chance..





















    .. me balls he did!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    I thought it all started with a big bang...


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    K4t wrote: »
    I thought it all started with a big bang...
    Nope, Our whole universe was in a hot dense state. Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    And we enjoy Kaley Cuoco's tits..


    .. yeah, enough already!


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    basquille wrote: »
    And we enjoy Kaley Cuoco's tits..


    .. yeah, enough already!

    bazinga.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    It's... weird.

    I don't think I like the show without Wollowitz.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Propane Nightmare


    Anyone got a link?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    basquille wrote: »
    Elmo told me he adored the unaired pilot.. and he's ready to give the show a second chance..

    It's a pity they aired a pilot :D Don't get me started!

    [edit] To think they had 2 pilots before the one they broadcast and yet ......[/edit]


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    It's very very 90's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    It's very very 90's.

    No offence but take alook at Darmha and Greg (another wonderful Lorre sitcom) from the 1990s look at the colour scheme and the apartment and tell me that they are not very similar.

    Oh! Boys that live across from Girls (a girl in this case) in an Apartment block, wonder if that has ever been done before. :rolleyes:

    Look now you have go me started :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Elmo, I think for your own sanity you should avoid BBT threads :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    phasers wrote: »
    Elmo, I think for your own sanity you should avoid BBT threads :pac:

    I do but then people mention me and I can resist.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I might start a new poll.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I might start a new poll.

    Why would you want to do something that has been done so many times before :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I like to retest public opinion, and to annoy you once more :-)


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