In Season 1, Episode 6 of “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Middle Earth Paradigm,” Penny throws a big Halloween party in her apartment. Leonard shows up as a pointy-eared Hobbit, hoping to show cat-costumed Penny he can fit into her circle of friends. But things take a disappointing turn when Penny’s beefy ex-squeeze Kurt (Brian Patrick Wade) shows up, decked out in a skimpy, physique-baring fur loincloth. And when Leonard manages to insult Kurt’s marginal intelligence, the angered muscleman hoists Leonard off his hairy Hobbit feet.
As Johnny Galecki says in author Jessica Radloff’s “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series,” the scene took him back to his youth. “Him picking me up as Leonard really affected me to the point where I think I cried after we shot the episode. … it really dug up some old schoolyard stuff for me,” he admitted. However, Galecki walked away ultimately feeling good about it. “I had a way into Leonard and really began to understand him,” he shared. So while the evocation of childhood bullying in the scene may have been intense for the actor, it also opened a window into the character Galecki would play for over 270 more episodes of “The Big Bang Theory.”
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