Daily Archives: July 29, 2014

The Bazinga Cast, Episode 35, The Comic-Con Excitement

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In this podcast:

MAIN TOPIC
COMIC-CON
MULTIPLE CAST
CAST APPERANCES
– VOTE FOR TEEN CHOICE
– Jim, Mayim, Kaley, & the Show
– JIM & MAYIM
– E!’s 2014 24 Most Notable nominees list
– SIMON & KUNAL
Chicago Comic-Con
Edmonton Comic-Con
CAST NEWS
JIM
Did not quit/get fired
Wish I Was Here released in North America
ESPY Awards
KALEY
– In New Mexico filming Burning Bohdi
SIMON
Salt Lake City Comic-Con
Throwback Thursday
KUNAL
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
MAYIM
Candid Camera
Gold Derby interview
Star Talk Radio
– Multiple lists for the Emmy Noms
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT SEASON 8 COURTESY OF THE PRESS
Penny gets a job at Bernadette’s company
Mrs. Davis returns
EPISODES SUBMITTED FOR THE EMMYS
– Jim
– “The Relationship Diremption”
– Mayim
– “The Indecision Amalgamation”
– Bob Newhart
– “The Proton Transmogrification”
– The Show
– DISC A
– “The Proton Transmogrification”
– “The Status Quo Combustion”
– DISC B
– “The Scavenger Vortex”
– “The Romance Resonance”
– DISC C
– “The Convention Conundrum”
– “The Locomotive Manipulation”
– Technical Direction
– Editing
WEBSITE
Traffic
– Please provide feedback
THROWBACK THURSDAY
– Provide us material
FINAL WORDS
– Production begins this week
– Send us BTS info and episode titles
Info on tickets and tapings

– Kayla & Melody

CBS: Six Things You Might Not Know About Melissa Rauch

Big Bang Theory fans know her best as Bernadette but here are six things you might not know about Bernadette’s portrayer, Melissa Rauch.

1. Bernadette may have served tables at The Cheesecake Factory but Rauch’s first waitressing job was at Johnny Rockets.

cbs.com

2. Bernadette’s voice is based on Melissa’s mom’s voice.

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Slate gives the Return of ‘Blossom’ a Review , starring Mayim Bialik: Full Bloom

The complicated, endearing maturity of Blossom. Yes, Blossom.

By Willa Paskin

Photo: NBC/Buena Vista Television

This month, for the first time in 15 years, Blossom began airing on television again, nightly on the Hub network. The sitcom about funky, precocious Blossom Russo (Mayim Bialik) and her family, which ran on NBC from 1990 to 1995, was in syndication for a few years immediately after its finale, but the third millennium has (give or take an Old Navy ad or SNL sketch) been a wasteland for Blossom and its signature whoas and zany hats. (Only the first two seasons have even been released on DVD.) But Blossom, despite its fairly time-specific ’90s stylings, is a show that, like its protagonist, was and remains mature beyond its years.

The series, created by Don Reo, who had worked on shows like Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and Rhoda (and currently writes for Two and a Half Men), was initially supposed to be about an emotionally astute teenage boy and his hip musician father. NBC asked that the boy become a girl. (“It meant that I could steal every story that The Wonder Years had ever done and no one would know it,” Reo joked.) NBC also worried that having such a child and a single, hip dad in one show was too much: In the series’ pilot, 14-year-old Blossom lived in Los Angeles with her nuclear family. By the second episode, in which Blossom gets her period and tries to buy tampons from a very young Giovanni Ribisi, Reo had prevailed on NBC: Her mother had moved to Paris to follow her own dreams (and Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative” had been replaced by “My Opinionation” as the show’s theme song). Blossom and her older brothers, recovering addict (a bold choice at the time) Anthony (Michael Stoyanov) and doltish Joey (Joey Lawrence, whom the show made a Tiger Beat pin up), lived with their relatively cool musician father Nick (Ted Wass). Blossom is an old-fashioned family values show, with some structural and emotional twists: a close-knit, slightly broken clan relying on dad, who often, but definitely not always, knows best.

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Billy Bob Thornton is a big fan of ‘The Big Bang Theory’

by Melody Star | July 29, 2014 1:58 PM PDT

The Television Academy of Arts and Sciences held their annual pre-Emmy Performer’s Peer soiree last evening and while none of the cast from The Big Bang Theory were present, it seems a big fan of theirs was, and that fan would be Billy Bob Thornton.

When interviewed, Thornton said that he loves The Big Bang Theory and would love to do a guest role on the show.  Hear what Thornton had to say in these two clips from the Television Academy:

Could we see Thornton on The Big Bang Theory in the future?  Only time will tell, but I am sure it made Steve Molaro, Bill Prady, and Chuck Lorre smile.

‘The Big Bang Theory’s Real Life Astronaut Leaving NASA for Columbia University

by Melody Star | July 29, 2014 12:40 PM PDT

Bill Prady, Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz), and Mike Massimino on set of The Big Bang Theory of the Soyuz Spacecraft Photo: cbs.com

During Seasons 5 and 6, Howard Wolowitz (played by Simon Helberg) befriends Mike Massimino, a true NASA astronaut, who joins Howard’s space journey to the International Space Station in the story on The Big Bang Theory.   Massimino returned in Season 7 when Howard was having a crisis after NASA calls him wanting him to return to the International Space Station to do some work in The Table Polarization episode.

Well it seems that @astro-Mike is hanging up his helmet and space suit and putting on his teaching cap.  Leaving NASA, after being with them nearly two decades, Mike Massimino will be moving to Columbia University, his undergraduate degree Alma Mater, and taking on a full-time teaching position with the University.

Joining NASA in 1996, Massimino has been on two shuttle missions to service the Hubble Telescope and during his final servicing mission in 2009 (STS-125), he was the first astronaut to tweet from space, opening the doors for social media from space to follow.  He logged more than 570 hours in space, including 30 hours of spacewalks.  Amusingly, his first space shuttle mission was on a ship named Columbia.

“Mike has played a significant role within the astronaut office in his time here,” said Bob Behnken, Chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “His technical expertise was extremely helpful in the many roles he fulfilled, not the least of which was his part in the successful Hubble servicing missions.”

“Mike embraced the opportunity to engage with the public in new ways and set the stage for more space explorers to be able to share their mission experience directly with people around the globe. We wish him well in his new role fostering the dreams and innovations of students just beginning their career paths,” Behnken said.

Graduating with his  undergraduate degree from Columbia University, Massimino completed four additional degrees form Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); two Master’s degrees – one in Mechanical Engineering and the second in Technology and Policy and he has a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering.

It is ironic that his character on The Big Bang Theory would be dependent on Howard Wolowitz’s Mechanical Engineering skills in the scripts.  Sharing another common interest with the character Howard, Massimino served in the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch and the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity (EVA, or Spacewalk) Branch.   Howard shared common interest in robotics and EVA.

We do hope that with his new position, Massimino will still be able to return from time to time to The Big Bang Theory to give Howard Wolowitz more ribbing.  We wish Mike Massimino well in his new position at Columbia University.

More Biographical Information on Mike Massimino

 

Daily Instagrams & Tweets – July 29, 2014

This is a running account for the day of cast related Instagrams and Tweets so it continually gets updated through the day. Please check back often for updates. The main cast is listed in order of how they are credited on the show.

Taping Dates and Info

List of Emmy Nominees

Full Panel from Comic-Con clips included

BILL PRADY

 

STEVE MOLARO

 

JOHNNY GALECKI (no IG or Twitter)

 

JIM PARSONS (IG, but no Twitter)

http://instagram.com/p/rCJ3ahGI-P/?modal=true
 Tuesday the 29th.  #goodmorning #yawning #notyelling

JIM PARSONS & MAYIM BIALIK

KALEY CUOCO-SWEETING & RYAN SWEETING

Home sweet home sweet home sweet home!!! ❤️❤️
http://instagram.com/p/rBADwxuWau/?modal=true
Oh I missed this nose 😊 #norman #bestie
http://instagram.com/p/rDMkJSuWV4/?modal=true
#rubytuesday

BRIANA CUOCO

SIMON HELBERG & JOCELYN TOWNE

KUNAL NAYYAR & NEHA KAPUR

http://instagram.com/p/rBSqdTx1dG/?modal=true
#home

MAYIM BIALIK

Hosting Candid Camera is more fun than even I realized it would be. Here’s me after Day 1 heading home.
http://instagram.com/p/rBctvIonZa/?modal=true
@lexiterese was taking a selfie and me @robertramosprod & @missmayim photo bombed her today at work! Lol #candidcamera #hair #setlife #friends #fun
https://twitter.com/missmayim/status/494118058751836161

Only for Candid Camera do I wear white high heels. This is a first!

MELISSA RAUCH

WIL WHEATON & ANNE WHEATON

https://twitter.com/wilw/status/493960677779075072

https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494179694573400067
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494181555648995328
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494242507807797248
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494244382405844992
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494244438995398656
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494279195912974336
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494280345269719041
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494283749316890624
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494285644265709568
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494285648174809089
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494307569964310528
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494308362285113344
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494309609738211328
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494310954520174592
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494311089597718528
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494312492021972993
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494313646940372993
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/494317626886070273

JOHN ROSS BOWIE

http://instagram.com/p/rCTBAGBnSa/?modal=true
Unexpected vinyl at my in-laws house. #DavesNotHome

Canobie Lake Park

LAURA SPENCER

 

 KEVIN SUSSMAN

 

BOB NEWHART

KATE MICUCCI/Garfunkel & Oates

 Our show premieres August 7 on IFC. Let’s eat cake! 🎂
http://instagram.com/p/rDzO_wMdK8/?modal=true
Good job, LA.

Cute poll on Buzz Feed about Which TV Couple are you Most Like

by Melody Star | July 29, 2014 12:28 AM PDT

Buzz Feed put out a poll that viewers can take to find out which TV Couple you are most like.  If you play the game well, you too can be Sheldon and Amy (Shamy).  Which couple are you most like with your significant other?

CouplelikeShamy

Take Poll and Find out Here