Now that I have some wood, I'm going
to begin the erection of my settlements.
PENNY: What are you, some kind of nerd?
LEONARD: I am the king of nerds.
[LAUGHING]
I go to my hairdresser, I'm like,
"I want knots in my hair."
And she just went to town.
I don't know, 100th episode,
something special.
It's amazing. Exciting. I am speechless.
Words difficult to find, I am having.
I don't know, it's very honoring...
...and humbling
and all the H and I-N-G words.
It was a little emotional, I have to admit,
yeah. A hundred episodes...
...that means we've spent over 500 days
in the same room together.
I remember being here the first season
and Two and a Half Men hit their 100th...
...and it seemed like,
"Oh, my God, that's an eternity."
Uh, and here we are.
MAN:
And camera.
So, what do you want to do now?
Well, I want to go get my asthma inhaler,
but it might ruin the moment.
I think it was only when
we started getting into the 90$...
...that I started realizing,
"Oh, 100 is on the horizon."
NAYYAR:
I'm an actor, I'm horribly pessimistic.
Of course I didn't think it was going to be
100 episodes.
I was lucky to be working
so I could pay off my bills.
RAUCH:
Obviously, I wasn't here for all 100...
...but I was a fan of the show before...
...so I would reenact episodes
in my house.
So I actually am at 100
because I basically did the episodes...
...in my bathroom.
Actually, I'm at 105...
...because I did some re-runs
in my living room.
ROTH: Tonight, on behalf of all of us
at Warner Bros. Television...
...it is my pleasure
to welcome all of you...
to this wonderfully well-deserved
and joyful celebration...
100 episodes and still going strong.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
It is such an honor for all of us to be able
to honor and recognize all of you.
I really hope that many years from now,
you will look back on this experience...
...and you will realize that you were part
of something extraordinarily special.
The best of what television is all about.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
MAN: And finally,
the spectacular Johnny Galecki.
For me, it started off emotionally
as they were introducing the cast...
...and saying it was the 100th episode.
I'm still trying to process it.
Uh, and then we got down to work
and that faded away.
We had to make
the best episode we could.
Cold open, take one.
Camera mark. Happy 100th episode.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
HELBERG: It was a really special night.
It had a special feeling...
...kind of the way the pilot did and, uh,
it felt like we'd been doing it forever...
...and it still felt fresh,
so it was pretty great.
It was a really great night. The energy
in the room was absolutely off the charts.
Everyone was so excited
knowing it was the 100th episode.
They had "100th episode" banners
everywhere.
And the audience was just really excited
to be a part of it...
...as much as we were excited
to be a part of doing it for them.
There was extra special energy.
I don't know, it was like they were bouncing
out of their seats...
...and it felt really emotional
and really special.
MAN:
Stand by, here we go.
NAYYAR: What I feel most proud about
is that we still are as excited...
...five years later, 100 episodes later,
to come to work every single day.
There's become such a nice
comfortableness, you could say...
...with one another and the actors,
that's been a great growth.
Even with, uh, Mayim and Melissa,
now they fit right in.
- Sure.
- It hasn't changed all that much.
There's more of us now
with Melissa and Mayim...
...and everyone drives nicer cars, but other
than that, it's pretty much the same, heh.
Everyone has gotten a little older,
looks maybe a little, uh, older themselves.
I know we laugh when we look back
at, uh, re-runs now of that first year.
When we shot the 100th episode,
we showed the audience the pilot...
...99 episodes ago.
It was amazing to see the change.
How we've changed as writers,
and how the actors have grown, it was fun.
PARSONS: When we first started this show,
Kaley was-- She's still very young.
But she was very young.
If I'm making it sound like
I'm that much older, it's because I am.
I am 13 years older than her.
Um, I'm sure you'd never know it, but, um,
Jesus, it makes a big difference.
On behalf of an extremely,
extremely proud network...
...thank you for 100 episodes.
Thank you to this cast.
Thank you for making
our network extremely proud.
This is a joy and this is a true celebration.
Without further ado...
...I am thrilled beyond thrilled
to introduce to you...
...Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, thank you.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
PRADY:
This is a remarkable night. Um...
The press kept asking, "So did you ever
think you'd be at 100 episodes?"...
...as we went through the line, and
we didn't ever think we'd make it to one.
It's 100 episodes,
but it was 100 miracles to get here...
...and, uh, I'm very grateful. This has been
the greatest experience of my career.
I love you dearly. I love being part
of this thing and see how it's grown.
PRADY:
We work with the best crew ever...
...and I want to use this opportunity
to say thank you for that.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Okay. How do I look?
Ugh, more to the point,
why are you doing this?
- What are you talking about?
- Did you forget what Penny did to you?
It took you two years and defiling
my sister to turn that frown upside down.
There's a lot of pressure
on whether you do the 100th...
...as, like, a very sort of special episode
and pack all these goodies...
-...and shiny objects into one thing.
- Oh, no, they sent the wrong Spock.
HELBERG:
Or whether you continue with the storyline.
Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto.
HELBERG:
I think it's somewhere between.
I've had a lot of fun this week
because there's layers to this episode...
...that we've never dealt with before.
It's the kind of episode where
the Leonard-Penny theme is very central...
...and everybody is sort of rotating
around them.
Please, before you say something
you both regret, I'd like to place my order.
I was doing the George Lopez Show and
Samuel Jackson was one of the guests...
...and he said to me, "When's Leonard
and Penny getting back together?"
And it's just so funny, like,
people love these storylines.
Penny, do you have plans
for dinner tonight?
- Why, are you guys going somewhere?
- No, I mean just you and me.
- You mean like a date?
- Not "like a date," a date.
AMY & BERNADETTE:
Ooh.
The stuff with Leonard and Penny,
it's tough to predict...
...because there are two very, uh,
passionate camps...
...about whether or not
they should be together.
So this kind of dangles it for them a little,
to see if that is really what they want...
...and we'll go from there.
At the restaurant when you said
you wanted us to be together again...
...it got very real very fast,
and I panicked.
Why? What are you afraid of?
Well, what if we do go out and I do
something stupid and dump you again?
What if I dump you?
[PENNY scol=I=s]
Come on, be serious.
We're gonna bring out the cast.
Okay, we're gonna out the cake.
One, two, three!
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
It was a great celebration
and it was fun and it was exciting.
It was just like a fancy,
fun day at school.
It was just a really good vibe all over.
The whole is greater than the parts,
is the old thing, you know.
In this case, it's true. You know, these
guys did create a family on the set...
...over these five years.
Uh, can we have the rest of the cast
up on stage for a second?
Jim and Kaley and Simon
and Melissa and Mayim.
- Is the band ready?
- The band is ready.
No? One minute? Should we keep stalling?
Oh, you are ready, okay.
Because I have lots of jokes.
- Ladies and Gentlemen...
- Please, uh, welcome the Barenaked Ladies!
GALECKI:
Barenaked Ladies!
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
[SINGING] Our whole universe
Was in a hot dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago
Expansion started
Wait, the Earth began to cool
The autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall
We built the pyramids
Math, science, history
Unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang, bang
Since the dawn of man
It could have been my imagination,
but it felt like a longer night...
...not in a bad way, but, um,
I guess we savored that whole night.
All you can ever do is you come in
and you do the best show you can.
You know,
you finish episode 98...
...and you say,
"What's the best episode 99 we can do?"
And then you keep repeating that.
It's very nice when people say,
"We really enjoyed that too."
There is a real sense of
still loving coming to work.
It was there on episode one
and it's been here this week.
You know, the work does continue.
It's not the death of us at 100, I hope.
It still feels like we have a lot of stories
to tell with these characters.
MOLARO: We were writing all day
and thinking about what happens next...
...with Leonard, Penny,
Sheldon and Amy.
We were in the office today
and we'll be in the office tomorrow.
So we're writing.
CUOCO: We're just so proud of everybody
and this amazing experience...
...and I hope we do 100 more.
Here's to, yeah, hopefully
at least one more after 100, heh.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
A hundred.
