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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Chuck Lorre Admits They Mishandled Kaley Cuoco’s Story in Season 1 of Big Bang Theory · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody who loved the sitcom Big Bang Theory knows how
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  Speaker 2: important Kaylee Quoco's character Penny was to the show's recipe,
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  Speaker 2: but its series creator Chuck Laurie now admits that he
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  Speaker 2: and the other writer struggled in the early days of
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  Speaker 2: making the show to understand what her role was. On
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  Speaker 2: the debut episode of the Official Big Bang Theory podcast,
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  Speaker 2: he explained that the first few episodes portrayed her as
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  Speaker 2: a goofy blonde who says foolish things. Chuck says, it's
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  Speaker 2: such a cliched character, the dumb blonde, and we missed it.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't understand her right away. And what she brought
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  Speaker 2: to this series was an intelligence the kind that other
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  Speaker 2: characters didn't have a kind of intelligence it was alien
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  Speaker 2: to them, and intelligence about people and relationships and family.
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  Speaker 2: She brought a humanity and that took a while to
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  Speaker 2: figure out. In the beginning. She was sadly one dimensional.
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  Speaker 2: But the gift of a TV series it works is
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  Speaker 2: you get time to learn the words. To Chuck Lourie,
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  Speaker 2: The Official Big Bang Theory podcast is available wherever gets
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  Speaker 2: your podcast that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.