Over 12 seasons, “The Huge Bang Concept” put all of its essential characters via the wringer at one level or one other. Many of those problems have been romance-related, a few of them heartbreakingly so, however a few of them have been nothing greater than straight-up sitcom shenanigans. Positive, we would’ve associated to Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and the gang on a human degree at occasions, however what stored viewers tuning in for over a decade was the prospect of sheer silliness.
It is arduous to say if anybody acquired it worse than the others, but it surely definitely looks like Penny (Kaley Cuoco) acquired a tad greater than her share of abuse. As a younger girl from Omaha, Nebraska looking for stardom within the wilds of Hollywood (who was virtually an android in an early iteration of the sequence), Penny has to take care of manipulative producers and gatekeeping casting administrators. It is arduous on the market for a Cornhusker within the Golden State. But it surely’s downright excruciating when you end up caught within the sequel to the terrible, unreleased horror film that you simply’d choose your pals not find out about.
And whereas this was tough for Penny, it proved to be a horrendous ordeal for Cuoco.
Serial Apeist was a furry scenario for Kaley Cuoco
Within the season 7 episode “The Friendship Turbulence,” Penny turns down a suggestion to look in “Serial Apeist 2: Monkey See, Monkey Kill,” the sequel to the godawful “Serial Apeist.” Costly automobile hassle in the end forces her to rethink, and she or he quickly finds herself in a cage, coated in hair and coping with the horror that’s Wil Wheaton.
Penny hates it within the episode, and Cuoco loathed the expertise in actual life. As she informed TV Line:
“The worst expertise was filming ‘Serial Apeist’ and getting lined in f***ing hair from head to toe. I used to be like, ‘Actually, you guys? That is what’s taking place?’ And Chuck simply thought it was so humorous. He beloved it. I by no means understood why.”
It is in all probability chilly consolation to Cuoco – really, it’d make the scenario worse — that Lorre admits to not caring for the “Serial Apeist” arc himself. So why did he put his star via such a attempting expertise? Per Lorre:
“We needed Penny to have some small success in her from of being a profitable actor, but it surely’s not my favourite episode. Doing a present inside a present — writing the ‘unhealthy’ scenes that she’s in an in any other case good present — was not our best second. The purpose was reputable, which was to place her in a foul film and see her struggling to make one thing work.”
That appears extremely not value it (particularly since, from title to idea, “Serial Apeist” simply is not humorous on any degree), but it surely’s arduous to argue with a person who’s produced a few of the most profitable sitcoms of the twenty first century. Nonetheless, Cuoco deserved a lot better from the producer who would not have had a long-running hit with out her good efficiency. At the very least we all know the expertise hasn’t put her off revisiting Penny someplace down the highway.
