Mayim Bialik Was in TBBT Even Before She Was Part of the Cast
We can't imagine The Big Bang Theory without the one and only Amy Farrah Fowler. Apparently, the writers thought so too from the very beginning.
Mayim Bialik makes her grand entrance in the season 3 finale as Amy, Sheldon's perfect match from a dating website. She and Sheldon instantly hit it off, and the rest is history.
What many people don't know is that the actress has actually been part of TBBT since season 1. Confused? Let us explain.
In the season 1 episode, The Bat Jar Conjecture, Leonard, Raj, and Howard vote Sheldon out of their Physics Bowl team and need to find someone else to join.
While Leslie Winkle eventually gets the fourth spot, another smart woman is among the contenders.
One of the guys jokingly suggests inviting the actress from Blossom because she has a doctorate in neuroscience, meaning that she is really smart. As you might've guessed, that actress is none other than Mayim Bialik herself.
It's pretty common knowledge that she is an actual Ph.D. holder, but she was also relatively well-known for her '90s acting gig on the NBC sitcom Blossom at the time.
Bialik played the title character for five years. No wonder even the TBBT guys knew her!
There you have it. Mayim may not have been mentioned by name in that episode, but she has been an integral part of the show literally from the beginning.
It was her destiny to be cast as Amy Farrah Fowler two seasons later, and you can't convince us otherwise!
Bialik was no stranger to Hollywood before The Big Bang Theory. She used to be a child actress, and her first TV appearance was in an episode of Beauty and the Beast in 1987.
Since then, she has had plenty of roles on television. Most recently, she starred in and executive produced Call Me Kat, which was unfortunately canceled after three seasons.
We will certainly be seeing a lot more of Mayim Bialik in the nearest future, and all that is thanks to that freaky joke in season 1. Life is funny sometimes, isn't it?