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Garin Pirnia and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/b> present 15 Smart Facts About The Big Bang Theory<\/a>.<\/b> Here are three of my favorites… [Beware of Spoilers!]<\/p>\n 2. IT TOOK TWO PILOTS FOR THE SHOW TO GET PICKED UP TO SERIES.<\/strong> 5. SHELDON PROBABLY DOESN\u2019T HAVE ASPERGER\u2019S. Parsons himself isn\u2019t totally sure, though. \u201cAsperger\u2019s came up as a question within the first few episodes. I got asked about it by a reporter, and I had heard of it, but I didn\u2019t know what it was, specifically,\u201d he told Adweek in 2014. \u201cSo I asked the writers\u2014I said, \u2018They\u2019re asking me if Sheldon has Asperger\u2019s\u2019 and they were like, \u2018No.\u2019 And I said, \u2018OK.\u2019 And I went back and I said, \u2018No.\u2019 And then I read some about it and I went, OK, well, if the writers say he doesn\u2019t, then he doesn\u2019t, but he certainly shares some qualities with those who do. I like the way it\u2019s handled … This is who this person is; he\u2019s just another human.\u201d<\/p>\n 10. WIL WHEATON GOT THE \u201cEVIL WIL WHEATON\u201d GIG THROUGH TWITTER.<\/strong> When Wheaton realized that the email was legit he phoned up Prady, who explained they wanted a nemesis for Sheldon. \u201cIt\u2019s always more fun to be the villain,\u201d Wheaton said. Even though the character has evolved into Sheldon\u2019s ally, Wheaton said, \u201cI still call him Evil Wil Wheaton.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garin Pirnia and Mental_Floss present 15 Smart Facts About The Big Bang Theory. Here are three of my favorites… [Beware of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe show filmed two different pilots, because CBS didn’t like the first one but felt the show had potential. The first pilot began with a different theme song and featured Sheldon, Leonard, and two female characters, including a different actress playing what would become the Penny role. Chuck Lorre thought the initial pilot \u201csucked\u201d but is open to having the unaired pilot included as part of a DVD.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Because of Sheldon\u2019s anti-social nature, viewers have often assumed that Sheldon has Asperger’s syndrome<\/span>. But Prady has stated that “<\/b><\/b>We write the character as the character. A lot of people see various things in him and make the connections. Our feeling is that Sheldon’s mother never got a diagnosis, so we don’t have one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWheaton, who plays a \u201cdelightfully evil version\u201d of himself on the show, tweeted about The Big Bang Theory<\/em>. Wheaton told Larry King, \u201cI was talking on Twitter about how much I loved the show and how I thought it was really funny.\u201d One of the show\u2019s executive producers, Steven Molaro, saw the tweet and told Wheaton to let him know if he wanted to come to a taping. A few days later Wheaton received an email from Bill Prady\u2019s assistant about appearing on the show. \u201cI just thought the email was a joke from one of my friends, so I just ignored it,\u201d Wheaton said.<\/p>\n