![]() Sheldon: Bazinga! None of you ever see my practical jokes coming, do you? Sheldon: You know, I’ve always wanted to go to a goth nightclub. Sheldon: Flash-frozen brown rice, not white? Sheldon: Did you bring the dehydrated low-sodium soy sauce? Even in my sleep-deprived state, I’ve managed to pull off another one of my classic pranks. ![]() It appears that Penny secretly wants you in her life in a very intimate and carnal fashion. Once again, you've fallen for one of my classic pranks. Sheldon: You actually had it right in the first place. The Big Bang Theory episodes using the term "Bazinga" The phrase originated in the Young Sheldon episode " A Stunted Childhood and a Can of Fancy Mixed Nuts". 2 The Big Bang Theory episodes using the term "Bazinga".On January 4th, 2011, Warner Bros, the company behind the making of The Big Bang Theory, filed for a registered trademark for the catchphrase, becoming effective on April 24th, 2012. She waited a few moments for the Bazinga, but was wrong. Penny used it after Sheldon mentioned that he planned to have sex with Amy. Though not a true Bazinga, it was mentioned once in Season 9. Jim Parsons has been quoted as crediting former The Big Bang Theory writer Stephen Engel as the one who came up with the word Bazinga for Sheldon's catchphrase. Now we're even.") and S03E14 " The Einstein Approximation" (Leonard unsuccessfully tries to pull Sheldon out of a ball pit, Sheldon keeps bobbing his head up to taunt Leonard with "Bazinga!" before hiding back down in the ball pit). Notable episodes with Bazinga! include S05E07 " The Good Guy Fluctuation" ( Leonard, who had just broken up with Priya via laptop camera/microphone, then gets frightened by Sheldon rising from his hiding spot under the cushions "Bazinga, punk. (Seasons 6 and 7 are devoid of it.) By this time Sheldon has developed a mediocre sense of humor and instead uses a peculiar form of laughter instead – both literally and sarcastically. The word "Bazinga" was first used in the season 2 season finale, " The Monopolar Expedition" and last in Season 12 episode 4, " The Tam Turbulence". In later seasons, it becomes something of a catchphrase. Sources:, ,, , bbc.com,, , bbc.com, mimics Bernadette and Penny's conversation by asking Howard about his shoes.īazinga (spelled " Buzzinga" in the subtitles of DVD releases) is a word used by Sheldon Cooper to signal that what he said immediately before this utterance was to be taken as a joke. Now that’s a good reason to name a spider after someone. If that isn’t enough, there’s also a spider named Pachygnatha zappa from Cameroon that bears Zappa’s name, due to the fact that the spider’s markings bear resemblance to Frank’s moustache. Then there is a jellyfish, named Phialella zappai by biologist Ferdinando Boero just so that he could meet the famed musician, while another scientist named a genus of goby fish ( Zappa) after Zappa in honour of music and general awesomeness. The first is a fossil snail named Amaurotoma zappa. Not counting the asteroid or the urinary tract named after Zappa (we will get into those another day), there are over four species whose names have been inspired by the composer. ![]() There’s just something about Frank Zappa’s face the taxonomists love. Here is a list of discoveries that have been honoured with a namesake via our latest/greatest: How awkward is that for his ancestors?Īll we have to say is that if naming bugs and bacteria after celebrities/icons makes everyone pay more attention to the natural world around them, then we’re all for it. ![]() In 1936 collector Oscar Scheibel discovered a blind cave beetle that he named in honour of Germany’s present chancellor-Adolf Hitler. (Creature: usually a caterpillar, to give you a visual.). Considering that scientists just named a wasp after Shakira because it injects its prey with venom that makes the dying creature wiggle. Either way, the names that they are coming up with are, while still laced with Latin, notably entertaining. Rowling’s villainous dementors (which were, let’s be honest, way too terrifying for a children’s movie) to honouring the sitcom Big Bang Theory with a bee aptly named Euglossa bazinga (physicist Sheldon Cooper’s favourite word), taxonomists are getting creative. From naming a life-sucking wasp after J.K. Even taxonomists, those chaps responsible for naming and defining new groups of species, have since turned to celebrities and media icons to name newly discovered species (which range upwards of 15,000 new discoveries per year, according to the New York Times, with 8.7 million left to be discovered in 2011, give or take 1.3 million). ![]()
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