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It is arduous to make a profitable community tv present. It is even tougher to make a profitable spin-off of a profitable sequence. Audiences have a sure expectation and, when it comes time to observe one other character or two elsewhere, it will probably get tough. However CBS hit it out of the park with “Younger Sheldon,” which centered on a younger Sheldon Cooper as he was rising up in Texas lengthy earlier than the occasions of “The Massive Bang Principle,” itself one of the profitable sitcoms of the 2000s.
As a result of “Younger Sheldon” takes place many years earlier than the occasions of the present that impressed it, it was troublesome to have characters from “The Massive Bang Principle” present up. Nevertheless, the present’s producers did handle to sneak Kaley Cuoco in throughout the sequence’ third season for a stealthy cameo. Cuoco, in fact, performed Penny on “The Massive Bang Principle” for the whole lot of its 12 season run, serving as an anchor of the ensemble.
When it got here time to sneak her into “Younger Sheldon,” although, it was all about Cuoco’s voice reasonably than truly having her seem on display screen. The second got here within the episode “Teenager Soup and a Little Ball of Fib,” which sees Sheldon (Iain Armitage) faking being sick to keep away from taking a swimming check in school. Cuoco wound up offering the voice of the pool water. In a 2020 interview with TVLine, sequence co-creator Steve Molaro defined the way it all got here collectively:
“That was completely the voice of Kaley as pool water. I wanted somebody to do the voice. I knew I needed it to be feminine and kinda horny, and I stated, ‘Properly, duh! Kaley is ideal for this.'”
So, how did Molaro promote this weird position to Cuoco? In spite of everything, Cuoco has stayed fairly busy since “Massive Bang Principle” went off the air, voicing the title character in “Harley Quinn” and “The Flight Attendant,” amongst different tasks. Even so, it was a straightforward sure from the actor:
“I stated, ‘Hey, I’ve a bizarre pitch for you: Sheldon has a nightmare, and he has to go to this pool, and he speaks to the pool water. Do you need to be the voice of pool water?’ She simply laughed and stated, ‘Completely, I do.'”
Kaley Cuoco’s Younger Sheldon cameo was stored a secret
Though the position was small and comparatively unusual, it was additionally an essential one. Cuoco turned the primary former “Massive Bang Principle” star to lend their skills to the spin-off after Jim Parsons, who operated as an government producer on the sequence along with serving because the narrator. To assist shut out “Younger Sheldon,” Parsons ended up reprising his position as Sheldon within the flesh alongside Mayim Bialik’s Amy within the closing season. Setting that apart, although, Cuoco’s voice position was a pleasant contact for followers.
What’s fascinating is that CBS did not promote Cuoco’s cameo forward of the episode’s premiere. Would not the community have needed to focus on the return of a “Massive Bang Principle” star to the universe? Possibly, however as Molaro defined in the identical interview, everybody concerned in making the present agreed the second was all of the extra impactful as a result of it’d been stored secret:
“Generally I really feel a little bit bizarre about issues being over-promoted, and as superior because it was, I do not know that that needs to be the form of factor that seems in promos. [Kaley] needed to carry it underneath wraps [as well], in order that in the event you figured it out, that was a little bit Easter egg for you, so we had been all on the identical web page about that.”
The sequence ended up working for seven seasons in complete, with “Younger Sheldon” season 7 concluding issues in 2024. Nonetheless, the bigger “Massive Bang Principle” universe lives on with one more spin-off within the type of “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.” Whether or not or not Cuoco or any of the opposite “Massive Bang Principle” stars make appearances on that present stays to be seen.
“Younger Sheldon” is streaming now on Netflix and Max, or you may seize the entire sequence on DVD from Amazon.
