History TheBigBangTheory / TropesPToS

* PantyShot: Implied. In "The Skank Reflex Analysis," as a little girl at school, Penny told how she'd hang upside down on the monkey bars and let everyone see her panties.

* StupidSexyFlanders: Penny's ex-boyfriend Zac has this effect on Amy Farrah-Fowler. It's played with because she's usually {{Asexual}}.

* During the first season, it was heavilly implied (though not outright stated) that Sheldon's father had only recently passed away. Missy brings over some papers from George's estate and when Mary tells Dr. Gabelhauser that George has been dead "long enough" in a tone that suggested that he hadn't been dead for long. Later episodes established that George died when Sheldon was 14.

* RealityEnsues: [[RealityEnsues/TheBigBangTheory Has its own page]].

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: A Russian sitcom called ''The Theorists'' turned out to be an undisguised and unlicenced local copy. Lawyers were brandished.

** In the fourth season New Year's episode, the gang (plus Penny's current boyfriend, Zack) dressed up as members of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica for a party at the comic book store. Others were dressed as [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]], [[Literature/HarryPotter a Hogwarts student]], and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, among others.

** Shenny shippers were given another in Season 9, as "The Separation Oscillation" begins with Sheldon suggesting that Penny get even with Leonard by kissing someone else, then offering himself. The two lock lips in a kiss. But as it turns out, [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]].

* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Poor Leonard, pining after Penny while listening to her complain about her jerkass boyfriends.

** Shenny shippers were given another in Season 9, as "The Separation Oscillation" begins with Sheldon suggesting that Penny get even with Leonard by kissing someone else, then offering himself. The two lock lips in a '''HUGE''' kiss. But as it turns out, [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]].

* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe, they have Shamy for Sheldon and Amy. Raj tried to use Koothrapenny for him and Penny when they had a drunken tryst. Even though they actually didn't sleep together and just fell asleep.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe, they have Shamy for Sheldon and Amy and Koothrapenny for Raj and Penny when they ''briefly'' had a drunken tryst.[[Spoiler: They actually didn't sleep together and just fell asleep.]]

* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe, they have Shamy for Sheldon and Amy and Kuthrapenny for Raj and Penny when they ''briefly'' had a drunken tryst.

** In ''The Holographic Excitation'', there is a blatant shout-out to Sir Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. Specifically, the ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series, co-authored with prominent British scientists, in which Pratchett's fantasy world is used to mirror and illustrate developing scientific thought. In the books, the wizards of Unseen University (among them a rather nerdy type with glasses who affects a big baggy parka) accidentally create a bizarre pocket universe centered on a spherical world which orbits its sun. Stuck for what to do with it, it ends up gathering dust inside a protective glass sphere on somebody's desk. Meanwhile a geeky glasses-wearing scientist in a parka fires up holograms of Earth, planets and solar system to please his girlfriend. Leonard speculates that everything might just be one giant information-gathering hologram, being read by intelligences an unguessable distance away... The creation of the pocket universe in the Discworld -- including Planet Earth -- was done with the specific intention of ''averting'' a seriously Big Bang (at least in ''their'' universe), by diverting a lot of dangerously destructive energy down a harmless path... the secret of the Big Bang is down to a bunch of semi-sane Wizards who are, within their own University, every bit as asocial and strange as those at Caltech.
** One of the authors of ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', Professor Jack Cohen, is well-known in US academic circles. In one of the books he explains the torrid time he had trying to convince a hostile audience of the truth of evolutionary theory. He was in East Texas at the time getting heckled by Creationists. ''The Science of Discworld'' books -- especially the second -- are peppered with "common ground" references to people, science, and events in science also covered in ''TBBT''. These shared references occur beyond all reasonable expectation of coincidence.

** In ''The Holographic Excitation'', there is a blatant shout-out to Sir Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. Specifically, the ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series, co-authored with prominent British scientists, in which Pratchett's fantasy world is used to mirror and illustrate developing scientific thought. In the books, the wizards of Unseen University (among them a rather nerdy type with glasses who affects a big baggy parka) accidentally create a bizarre pocket universe centered on a spherical world which orbits its sun. Stuck for what to do with it, it ends up gathering dust inside a protective glass sphere on somebody's desk. Meanwhile a geeky glasses-wearing scientist in a parka fires up holograms of Earth, planets and solar system to please his girlfriend. Leonard speculates that everything might just be one giant information-gathering hologram, being read by intelligences an unguessable distance away... The creation of the pocket universe in the Discworld -- including Planet Earth -- was done with the specific intention of ''averting'' a seriously Big Bang, by diverting a lot of dangerously destructive energy down a harmless path...
** One of the authors of ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', Professor Jack Cohen, is well-known in US academic circles. In one of the books he explains the torrid time he had trying to convince a hostile audience of the truth of evolutionary theory. He was in East Texas at the time getting heckled by Creationists. ''The Science of Discworld'' books -- especially the second -- are peppered with "common ground" references to people, science and events in science also covered in ''TBBT''. These occur so often that beyond all reasonable expectation of coincidence.

** Sheldon's mom seems to be a fan of the Leonard and Penny pairing, calling them a cute couple as early as season one before Penny was even fully aware of the crush Leonard had on her. ** She's also accepting of Amy as her son's girlfriend and is happy about them being a couple.

* RealityEnsues: Penny snapping at Howard over his lecherous behavior towards her. Few women, especially ones as outgoing as Penny, would tolerate it week-in, week-out for years without doing something about it (either what she actually did or simply refusing to even spend time in his company). It could be viewed as a commentary on how some {{Running Gag}}s get run into the ground.

* RearrangeTheSong: As ''Theory'' entered 5 night a week syndication in 2011, Music/BarenakedLadies' wrote and preformed a number of different versions of the lyrics to the RealSongThemeTune "The History of Everything" mentioning the cast by name, which aired in short ads shown after the first commercial break.