Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki’s reunion created an enormous bang on-line.
The actors seem in an advert for the online game Royal Kingdom collectively, six years after the finale of their CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”
The sequence adopted finest associates, roommates and physicists Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), Leonard Hofstadter (Galecki) and Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg).
Galecki’s Leonard married Cuoco’s Penny, with the on-screen couple tying the knot twice on the present.
First, the couple exchanged vows in a Las Vegas elopement through the Season 9 premiere earlier than having a second wedding ceremony ceremony with family and friends in Season 10.
Cuoco and Galecki additionally dated in actual life from 2008 to 2010 after assembly on set.
Cuoco, 39, shared the business to her social media platform, captioning the Instagram video: “This was so fun to shoot! Back together with my buddy JG.”
The clip begins by exhibiting the “Based on a True Story” star sorting by way of board video games to play as she says, “Okay ready for game night!”
However the “Roseanne” alum, 49, shortly cuts her off, having an thought of his personal to share.
He then comes into the room holding up his cellphone to showcase the app.
“Royal Kingdom is a brand new puzzle game that just launched,” he says. “So we don’t need these.”
“Wait, what?” Cuoco asks as Galecki takes the video games off the desk and tosses them out the window.
“Hey! Those are my games,” shouts “The Flight Attendant” actress earlier than Galecki explains, “I told you, all we need is Royal Kingdom. You can build kingdoms by solving puzzles.”
As soon as Galecki arms Cuoco his cellphone, she’s hooked. The digicam pans to a close-up of her cellphone as she exclaims, “Oh wow! That is fun.”
The “8 Simple Rules” vet then tosses extra video games out the window, earlier than Galecki tells her the app is free.
So, naturally, she chucks her bank cards out the window, as effectively.
“Don’t even need wifi,” he provides, as Cuoco hilariously rips out the machine and screams: “See you later router!”
For the reason that sport additionally comes ad-free, the pair takes her tv off the wall and out the window it goes.
“Was that an overreaction?” she ponders to her former co-star. “Maybe,” Galecki merely states.
The 2 stare out the window because the actor justifies, “But this game is awesome.”
“Can we play the game now?” Cuoco says as she and Galecki pull out their telephones and begin taking part in.
Followers flocked to the feedback part to share their pleasure over the mini reunion.
“We need a Penny & Leonard spinoff IMMEDIATELY!!” one follower wrote, as a second consumer chimed in, “We need more of these interactions!! Miss these two together!!”
Kevin Sussman, who performed comedian guide retailer proprietor Stuart Bloom on “The Big Bang Theory,” commented: “Miss you guys!”
Sussman, 54, is ready to have his personal TV reunion alongside Brian Posehn and Lauren Lapkus within the sitcom spin-off “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.”
Galecki, in the meantime, posted the clip on his web page as effectively, giving a candy shoutout to Cuoco.
“Though I’ve done my best to assure @kaleycuoco that comparing the amount of Likes we have each received from our exciting new @royalkingdom ad is irrelevant, knowing her as long as I have I understand that this perfect and inescapable example of the vast and glaring disproportion in our likabilities must have Kaley in her doldrums,” he wrote.
He urged followers: “If you only do one good deed today, please add to Kaley’s likes on her ad. Deep down, she’s a terrific person. If for no other reason, do it for me, who you actually do like. Thank you from the bottom of my overflowing-with-likes-heart. #likesforkaley.”
“The Big Bang Theory” ran for 12 seasons from 2007 to 2019.
A couple of years earlier than the present ended, “Young Sheldon” was created, which adopted Cooper as a child.
The “Big Bang” universe unveiled its third spin-off in 2024: “Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage.”
This time, the sitcom tells the story of younger dad and mom Georgie Cooper — Sheldon’s older brother — and Mandy McAllister.
In March, “The Big Bang Theory” co-creator, Chuck Lorre, bought candid on his greatest remorse when it got here to Cuoco’s Penny.
“We had so many episodes to go before we started to understand that there was a brilliance to Penny’s character that we had not explored,” the visionary, 72, stated whereas on “The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast.”
“We did the very cliché in the beginning, you know, goofy blond who says foolish things. It’s a clichéd character, right? And we missed it,” Lorre defined to host Jessica Radloff. “We didn’t have that right away that what she brought to this series, to these other characters, was an intelligence that was alien to them, you know, intelligence about people and relationships and family.”
Regardless of showing in all 12 seasons, Penny was by no means given a final title till she married Leonard.
“It was built in that the scientists of the show didn’t understand how to be with people,” he defined. “She did. She brought a humanity to them that they were lacking and that took a while to figure out. Certainly in the beginning, she was sadly one-dimensional.”
Earlier than Penny, actress Amanda Walsh was initially forged as Katie, “a street-hardened tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior,” within the 2006 pilot.
The pilot by no means aired after the take a look at viewers “hated” Katie and her “toxic presence.”
It was then reshot in 2007 with a brand new forged, together with Penny, Howard and Rajesh Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar).
“The magic of Kaley was, Kaley’s character — as we figured this thing out on the fly — was amused by them, was not critical,” Lorre acknowledged. “If she got angry, it wasn’t harsh. The audience really responded to that.”
