After five years of waiting, Amy Farrah Fowler and Sheldon Cooper finally did the deed in a monumental moment in The Big Bang Theory’s history.
The couple’s first time coincided with the rest of the gang seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens on opening night while Sheldon planned a special night for Amy’s birthday on the E4 comedy.
After presenting his possible birthday plans to Penny and Bernadette: a private harp concert by the LA Philharmonic, a sheep festival, and sex, he decided there was only one real choice. “Amy’s birthday present shall be my genitals,” Sheldon declared.
Speaking at a celebration of the show at TV festival Paleyfest in Los Angeles, Jim told Mayim he enjoyed the chance to get between the sheets: “It felt right. Everyone else has done bedroom scenes but I had never done pillow talk in nine years and then all of a sudden I was in bed with you, I can’t wait to be back in bed again!”
Mayim said: “We were joining the club of all of humanity.”
She added: “Neither Jim nor I thought it was happening. We get the scripts the night before a table reading and I couldn’t believe it.”
Johnny Galecki, who plays Leonard on the show, also dropped some major casting news at the event.
He said: “We were all honoured to be invited to this James Burrows tribute and we had the opportunity to meet the casts of the shows he directed and I met Judd Hirsch.
“I ran up to him and bombarded him with what a fan I am. I should preface this story with the fact they were serving wine at this event, it was free wine.
“I went off for a bit but this is true, when we were shooting the pilot I watched the first two season of Taxi, not because I was basing the character on him but the idea that he was the anchor but was just as confused as everyone else.
“I said: ‘Hey, would have you any interest in playing my dad on the show?’ It may have been a little presumptuous but it went from there. I can’t wait.”
The Big Bang Theory airs on E4 on Thursdays.
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