I heard about the Big Bang Theory and I told my agent.
I was like, just please get me a meeting.
And I met the showrunner and I told him, you know, I love nerds, and I am so passionate about this.
This is Dave Goetz, and these days, he's a very successful TV writer.
But two decades ago, when he was essentially completely unknown, he was trying to get a job on a sitcom about a group of characters who were very, very awkward.
So it was helpful that he was a little awkward.
And then I told the story that when I was in college, I, at a costume party, dressed up as the Doppler effect.
And so I had.
I was like in all black and I had these white stripes that got of tape that got farther apart.
And they ran around the room going, wow.
And that they were like, okay, you're nerd.
Whether it was because of this deep nerdiness or because he was, you know, a good writer, Dave got the job and he became one of the first hires on a brand new sitcom named the Big Bang Theory.
And if you've heard of the Big Bang Theory, and it's almost certain you have, unless you haven't watched TV in the last two decades, then you know that it is one of the most popular sitcoms in history.
Our whole universe was in our.
Over its 12 year run, the Big Bang Theory earned 55 Emmy nominations.
It was one of the longest running TV shows in history, lasting longer than Cheers, Friends, or even MASH.
When the show finally went off the air in 2019, 25 million people tuned in to watch the last episode.
But back in the mid-2000s, when Goetz and the other writers were trying to figure out how to make the show, they confronted this very basic problem.
The show is about a group of physicists and engineers who are constantly befuddled by how to communicate with anyone who's not a scientist.
That's what the humor of the show is built on this basic conversational awkwardness.