The Big Bang Theory: Unaired Pilot!

iluvjohnsargiluvjohnsarg Posts: 1,437
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Hello all,

I know someone posted this some time ago on a TBBT link, but I just can't find it right now, and I want to forward it to a friend who's a TBBT fanatic.

Does anyone have a link to the original TBBT unaired pilot? The one without Penny.

I did google it, but only found youtube snippets and not the whole episode.

Thank you all in advance.

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  • cld92cld92 Posts: 82
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    There is another pilot?
  • Joe_ZelJoe_Zel Posts: 20,832
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    http://www.vidxden.com/wc4gcfqf6c8c

    Surprising that it was 2006 when it was made. The music and everything, it could pass for the 90s. :D
  • iluvjohnsargiluvjohnsarg Posts: 1,437
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    cld92 wrote: »
    There is another pilot?

    Yes, there was a unaired pilot (also started in the hi IQ sperm bank), but the main female character wasn't Penny. She was more ... I suppose "butch" woman.

    I'm going to have to trawl throught pages of DS to find if nobody comes up trumps here.
  • OpEdOpEd Posts: 579
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    Take me to the pilot.

    (I would imagine there is not an audience of braying donkeys attending the pilot so that's a plus right there)
  • MeicYMeicY Posts: 2,585
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    See post #3
  • Joe_ZelJoe_Zel Posts: 20,832
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    Yes, there was a unaired pilot (also started in the hi IQ sperm bank), but the main female character wasn't Penny. She was more ... I suppose "butch" woman.

    I'm going to have to trawl throught pages of DS to find if nobody comes up trumps here.

    Is my post invisible or something? :D
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    Joe_Zel wrote: »
    http://www.vidxden.com/wc4gcfqf6c8c

    Surprising that it was 2006 when it was made. The music and everything, it could pass for the 90s. :D
    Oh, it's that Science song from the 80s. That'd be why. :)
  • iluvjohnsargiluvjohnsarg Posts: 1,437
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    Joe_Zel wrote: »
    Is my post invisible or something? :D

    LOL

    Thanks Joe_Zel - I got distracted whilst posting, so missed your link.
  • AmbassadorAmbassador Posts: 22,332
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    Was the pilot done with a student audience? If so, why are they laughing so much?!

    Galecki is hillariously wooden
  • Joe_ZelJoe_Zel Posts: 20,832
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    Oh, it's that Science song from the 80s. That'd be why. :)

    I know. It's not just that though, it looks like an early Friends episode.
  • LostFoolLostFool Posts: 90,623
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    Joe_Zel wrote: »
    http://www.vidxden.com/wc4gcfqf6c8c

    Surprising that it was 2006 when it was made. The music and everything, it could pass for the 90s. :D

    Thanks. I had seen clips from the original pilot before but that was the first time I had seen the whole thing. Recasting the female lead was the right move but it would have been interesting if they'd kept the geeky female friend - especially one with a sexual history with Sheldon - even if that would have changed his character a lot.
  • SuperAPJSuperAPJ Posts: 10,402
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    Oh, that pilot was not good.

    I initially thought that the actress playing Leonard and Sheldon's geeky friend was the same one who plays Amy...but no.
  • C14EC14E Posts: 32,165
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    Sheldon donating sperm, which remained in the final pilot, quickly became completely out of character for him. IIRC he also only knocked once on Penny's door in the pilot.

    How gutted must the "old Penny" have been when she read about Kaley Cuoco signing a 3 year $20m contract?! :o
  • ArcanaArcana Posts: 37,521
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    That Gilda character was annoying.
  • bgtensionbgtension Posts: 764
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    Just watching the commissioned version of the Pilot on E4 and noticed that the picture quality is a lot 'crisper', similar to the picture quality used when they show shots through the camcorder in later episodes. Anyone know why?
  • Joe_ZelJoe_Zel Posts: 20,832
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    bgtension wrote: »
    Also Penny claims to be from Omaha not Nebraska in this episode.

    Omaha is a city in Nebraska. :D
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