For 12 seasons, she lived across the hall, dated the nerd, married the nerd… but somehow never got a last name.
In a show obsessed with equations, continuity and callbacks, The Big Bang Theory did something almost unthinkable: it kept one of its lead characters permanently unfinished on paper.
So why did her maiden name turn into a kind of “forbidden question” in the writers’ room? And what exactly did the producers mean when they admitted that they once had clues… and chose to delete or ignore them?
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