Hello.
We're playing REM's "It's
the End of the World
As We Know It."
I know.
It's really sad.
Very morbid.
Very morbid.
12 years.
Now, who's going to cry today?
Is someone going to cry today?
Kaley, you're going to cry?
100%.
Yeah.
Have you been--
who's been crying?
Because you have what?
Nine episodes left?
Yeah.
Nine left.
OK.
I didn't know we weren't
coming back until--
[LAUGHTER]
Oh no.
What a way to find out.
Bringing you here.
Yeah, thanks.
It's great to be here.
Yeah.
So is it like getting emotional,
like with every episode
that you shoot?
Sure.
Yes.
Yeah, I think so.
We've been getting
super emotional.
We were doing a scene
for the holiday,
and we were just blocking.
And we're the only two
in it, and just kind
of rehearsing the scene.
And out of nowhere I
just started bawling.
And the crew, all the camera
guys and everyone came out.
They're like, we're
so glad you cried.
Because we've been
waiting to cry.
And they all gave us
this huge group hug.
Big mass hug.
And like we just all
cried for like 10 minutes.
I haven't cried yet.
And I have a very deep fear--
seriously, that I'm going--
the most unexpected
thing's going to happen.
I'm going to absolutely
lose my [BLEEP]..
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm like--
We're all scared of that.
Because it really is
profound the amount
of time of your life.
And it's like more than I think
any of us can get a grip on,
and I'm worried
something's going
to trigger me, like
deep down inside, like,
oh, I didn't know
that was there.
Oh, that hurts, you know?
Yeah.
Should we just get it
out of the way right now?
Should we--
No.
--just do it right now.
Why don't you all just
do a fake cry right now?
We can all cry on cue.
Ready.
One, two--
You guys want to
give us a big hug,
and we'll just start crying?
Just start crying now.
If anyone hugs me about
it, I start crying.
So it just starts happening.
It still feels
very hypothetical.
I think come like the
end of this coming summer
when we would generally
be meant to come back--
That's true.
Yeah.
When we'll be unemployed
we'll really be--
Crying.
I think we'll notice.
Then we'll really be crying.
I'm not working.
Yeah.
In the unemployment line
is where we all break down.
I don't think
that's gonna happen.
But I mean 12 years is a
really long relationship.
Longest ever.
I mean, even though
you have breaks,
it's like you're spending
12 years with someone,
and you've grown
so much together.
Yeah.
I mean, you were-- how old
were you when you-- you
were the youngest.
I just turned 21
when we started.
Right
Yeah.
You couldn't drink,
right, during the pilot.
I couldn't drink
during the pilot.
She couldn't, but she did.
It wasn't allowed legally.
Not supposed to.
They taught me how.
Aren't you proud of them?
Yeah.
When we end, she will
still be a year younger
than I was when we started.
Mm.
Wow.
She could another
12-year sitcom.
Yeah.
I'm like really.
It is.
It's been a long, long road.
You have my whole
life ahead of you.
[LAUGHTER]
Unbelievable.
Now, are you-- I mean, Simon,
you still look you still
look exactly the same.
You have not changed at all.
But if you look at the
picture of the first season.
I wish-- see, I wish
I looked different.
No way.
You do look identical.
You look
Exactly the same.
It's all fake.
This is all plastic.
That's so irritating.
No.
You look exactly the same.
It is annoying that
I look the same.
Don't show any other pictures.
No.
We're jealous.
Don't show any other pictures?
I'm going l show all of you.
Because I mean, you
want to see all of you.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, someone went heavy with
the tanner that season.
Look at that.
Mayim, you didn't even
know-- when you joined,
you didn't know the show at all.
I had never seen
The Big Bang Theory.
I thought it was a game show.
You won!
Someone had told me that in some
season of The Big Bang Theory,
they mentioned the girl
from Blossom is a scientist.
So when someone told
me that, I thought,
oh, it must be a game
show, like a trivia thing.
I had no idea that it was a
very popular sitcom apparently.
Right.
So I mean, somebody must
have said it's not a game
show before you signed on.
Well, my manager said, they are
looking for a female Sheldon
Cooper.
And I said who is
Sheldon Cooper?
When she auditioned,
she kept buzzing in.
But they still gave it to her,
which was really generous.
No worries.
[BUZZ SOUND]
Kunal, so your first
impression when you were-- what
did you-- first of
all, did all of you
know or feel that
you had something
that was going to go this long?
And then, Kunal, what
did you feel the first--
what were impressions
of everyone?
Um.
Wow.
I've been waiting a long
time to say this, but--
Oh no.
No, no.
The only thing I
remember is seeing you
and think-- because on his
IMDB page he was-- they said,
a 6' 3".
And I remember seeing--
I was 6' 3" when IMDB came out.
And I remember Simon
and being like, wow,
you are not as tall as I
thought you were going to be.
And that's why we're still
such good friends to this day.
The cybersecurity on IMDB has
really gotten much more intense
since they began, but--
Yeah, I was-- I was such
a kid when I started, too.
I think when we started--
you don't ever think of
anything like this gonna happen.
No.
Yeah.
And I think what's
so kind of sweet
is, even after all these years,
and really up to recently,
we still talk
about-- we come in,
we're like, oh my
god, how well-- did
the show do well last night?
Really?
They watched?
That person-- and we
kept that for so long.
We never just kind of
said, we're all good now.
Melissa, you were
pregnant on the show.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I feel like I was pregnant
for like 900 years, which
might a real medical thing.
Because I was
pregnant on the show.
Then I was pregnant
in real life.
And then pregnant
on the show again.
So I was always wearing
some form of bump
to the point where I don't know
where to put my hands anymore,
because they were just resting
on a belly for so long.
So now I'm like [MUMBLING].
It was confusing to us too.
Yeah.
There was a lot of "is she?
Isn't she?"
We didn't know whether to say
congratulations or, ooh, lay
off the dessert.
There was a lot of times
where Kunal would be like,
are you wearing the bump?
Yes, I'm wearing the bump.
