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The shooting of a multi-caméras sitcom with a live studio audience is probably quite fun, and as regards the successful CBS series of Chuck Lorre, “The Big Bang Theory”, the casting has been quite clear over the years that a (very good) episode of season 7 has been particularly delicious to film.
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In Jessica Radloff’s book in 2022 “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series“The main members of the Jim Parsons distribution, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar and Mayim Bialik – who played Sheldon Cooper, Howard Wolowitz, Raj Koothrappali and Amy Farrah Fowler – looks with emotion the shooting of the Epère 7” The Scaveger Vortex, “The Scavers scavenge All. So how was the episode even born?
The co-producer and writer and writer Eric Kaplan explained that his brother had made a lot of group treasure hunts, and he felt inspired by the idea but needed a collaborator to really make the ground work. “In the world of Nerds, there is a lot of real competitive puzzle resolution, which has always intrigued me for any reason to determine,” Kaplan told Radloff. “So I still launched:” Why don’t they do a kind of treasure hunt? “I think it was [writer and executive producer Steve] Molero who cracked the case when he said that Raj should be the master of ceremonies for that, which I liked. Many things met in this episode, and I was very satisfied with the gain. “”
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Regarding Nayyar, “The Scavenger Vortex” was one of his favorite experiences working on the series because Raj can really do everything as “master of ceremonies”, so to speak. “It’s the most fun I have ever shot because they said:” Go crazy! Be increasingly crazy, “recalls Nayyar. “Everything I have to do with Raj showing – like when he starts playing music and using the pyrotechnic to launch the treasure hunt – was so fun.”
Parsons also told Radloff that he had found himself ravaged by the reaction in the universe of Sheldon at the idea because, for once, Sheldon was able to express childish joy. “The word” gift “is what comes to mind because I loved that writers allowed this character between crotch, stuck in the sense of having these little moments,” said off with emotion. “To make Sheldon who had the attitude of ‘Oh! It’s wonderful! […] It’s just the best type of artisanal work in writing and the characters you can have. “”
The Treasury Vortex gave the theory of Big Bang the opportunity to combine its characters from new ways
The way in which chords shake in “The Scavenger Vortex” is also a large part of the overall success of the episode. Raj, the brain behind the whole, does not argue itself, then Sheldon finds himself with Penny (Kaley Cuoco), and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) marries the wife of Howard, Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolows (Melissa Rauch). Howard and Amy complete the competition, and as Steve Molero said to Jessica Radloff, “Le Vortex de Trésor” opened new writing avenues for the show as a whole.
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“Because of this episode, we started to cross the rivers in a way that we never crossed them,” Molaro revealed. “It was the first time that Leonard and Bernadette were never alone in a scene; the same thing with Howard and Amy. We always felt that you could take two of these characters and put them in a scene and it would probably be good, so this episode is only the brilliant example.”
These new agreements are also fun. Bernadette’s competitive side really emerges for the first time and she ends up hitting Leonard in the arm when he does not do enough to help their team win (in Radloff’s book, Galecki remembers that in real life, “I kept telling Melissa to hit me stronger because you could not kill a fly with her blows”). Elsewhere, Howard and Amy pass a large part of the episode linking their unexpected shared love for the musician Neil Diamond, and he is sure to say that Mayim Bialik loved going out with Simon Helberg.
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“I am obsessed with Simon Helberg,” springs Bialik. “It is as if the teacher associated me with my favorite person in kindergarten with whom I could play all day. He takes his job so seriously, and he is so hilarious, as well as an incredibly intelligent actor.”
An actor loved the treasure vortex but feared that it was not a big episode
In the end, the search for the price – a golden piece – turns out to be hiding in everyone’s pockets because Raj was so excited by the whole business that he had not planned things well and just wanted everyone to succeed. (“I loved it at the end of the match when everyone was really pissed off!” Kunal Nayyar told Jessica Radloff in his book. “Raj was like” we are all winners! “”)
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As funny as everything is on the screen – and as apparently fun as everything was to be drawn – A The actor on “The Big Bang Theory” had reservations about this particular episode, partly because of the specific way of shooting. “It was also such a fragmented episode, and we did not shoot a lot in front of the public,” said Simon Helberg in the book. “I remember that I felt a little disjointed. At the table, I thought it was one of the best episodes of all time, but when we turned it, I never felt particularly satisfied or comfortable.”
In the end, Helberg received the comfort of a frame of Warner Bros. Who watched the episode before anyone. “I was more dissatisfied with myself, but I then remember Peter Roth – who saw a cup of the episode before doing it – saying:” Oh my God, this episode made me ride on the ground! “” Recalls Helberg happily. “People always talk about this episode. It is therefore funny because sometimes there is a little disconnection between your experience and the real result, which is another huge lesson that I learned in the series: do not trust your feelings.”
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