The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom which airs on CBS and stars Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as room-mates.

ReferencesEdit

• In an Entertainment Weekly online exclusive video from September 23, 2011, Elmo and Cookie Monster "reenacted" a scene from the show.
• The schedule for CBS shown in the CDE offices in The Muppets spoofs the show with the show "Geeks and a Girl."

Muppet mentionsEdit

• In the season three episode "The Gothowitz Deviation", Howard Wolowitz and his friend Raj attempt to attract women at a Goth nightclub and end up at a tattoo parlor. Wolowitz flips through a catalog of designs, and can't decide on either a screaming devil, a "mean little skull", or Kermit the Frog. He tries to convince his date with an impression: "Hi ho, I'm on Howard's butt!"

• In the episode, "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary," Leonard asked Penny if she ever made a pact with someone. Penny replied in first grade she made a pact with her friend, Rosie, to marry Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street. They didn't speak till middle school when they find out they both wanted to marry Ernie.

• In the episode, "The Justice League Recombination," Penny refuses to go out with the guys to a costume party dressed as Wonder Woman to complete their group costume as the Justice League of America. After many failed attempts to get Penny to come out of her apartment, Sheldon decides they should switch to their Muppet Babies costumes.

Raj: I call Kermit.

Sheldon: I'm Kermit. You're Scooter.

Raj: Oh man! Scooter sucks! He is the Aquaman of the Muppet Babies.

• In the episode, "The Toast Derivation," Sheldon invites friends and LeVar Burton to his apartment for an evening. As he lists a bunch of classic video games, he mentions Cookie Monster Munch.

• In the episode "The Isolation Permutation," Amy is disappointed that Bernadette and Penny went shopping bridesmaids dresses without her. When Bernadette and Penny come by her lab to apologies Amy tells them "It's like Sesame Street says: one of these things is not like the others, one of these things should die alone."

• In the episode "The Launch Acceleration" Penny tells Leonard that since he saw her naked last she has gotten a Cookie Monster tattoo, and that acceptable reactions when he sees it would be awesome or nothing. Where to Leonard responds "COOKIES" after inhaling gas, that makes the voice deeper.

ConnectionsEdit

• LeVar Burton played himself in "The Toast Derivation"
• Tim Doyle is a writer for the series
• Johnny Galecki plays Leonard Hofstadter
• Stephen Hawking played himself in a season 5 episode
• Stan Lee played himself in "The Excelsior Acquisition"
• Leonard Nimoy played the voice of Spock in "The Transporter Malfunction"
• Jim Parsons plays Dr. Sheldon Cooper
• Bill Prady is executive producer, co-creator, and writer for the series.
• Yeardley Smith played an interviewer in "The Einstein Approximation"
• George Takei played himself in "The Hot Troll Deviation"
• Neil deGrasse Tyson played himself in "The Apology Insufficiency"
• Wil Wheaton has played himself on a semi-recurring basis beginning in season 3.