Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Kevin Sussman bumped to regular cast?

Just got home from tonight's taping of 6x02 for The Big Bang Theory! While I won't have the full taping report up until sometime late tomorrow, I did have this bit of information I wanted to share:

In the programs that are passed out to audience members, Kevin Sussman, who plays Stuart, is now listed along with the other main cast members under the "Starring" heading - in the past, he has always been listed with the "Guest Stars" instead. Additionally, he also has a mini-bio on the right side of the program, along with the other seven stars. After talking with a friend who was also at the 6x01 taping, she said he was listed prominently last week as well.

Up until early season 4, it was only Jim, Johnny, Kaley, Kunal, and Simon who were listed under "Starring." Then Melissa was added, and very soon after Mayim, as they both officially joined as regular cast members. While I haven't seen any articles yet that confirms this, it seems like we'll be seeing a lot more of Stuart this season!

Remember, though, in season 2 Sarah Gilbert was bumped up to a full cast member, but then the writers couldn't come up with enough material for her. Do you think they'll find enough to keep Stuart around more often?

14 comments:

  1. Sara Gilbert left to do 'The Talk'. I think it is a rumor that they couldn't come up with new material for her. Bill Prady said at Comic Con when a fan asked why she's not coming back 'She's unavailable to use because she's doing The Talk'.

    I'm pretty sure they'll make Stuart Raj's love interest after having read last week's report. Also at Comic Con they said that Raj would fine romance this season but they avoided to use the term girlfriend so I guess that's where they're going.

    Looking forward to the report.

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  2. I can't imagine that Raj's love interest should be a man. When he's drunken he was even better in finding a girl than for example Howard or Leonard. I think he loves women. He's just a boy with a strong feminine side. His big problem is his shyness. If he would love boys he would have probably been talking about this with his friends. Why should he hide his sexual preferences? His friends are open-minded. It seems for me not logical that he is upset because of comic cons "Kimberly"being a man and now is supposed to be bisexual. He can't be gay because he had too much fun with the girls he got :)
    If he would be bisexual he shouldn't be so upset when someone thought he might be (his parents, sister, Leonard's mum).

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  3. Maybe Stuart and Raj become close friends on a platonical way. Bernie has Howie, Leonard and Penny are together again and even Shelly seems to be in a kind of relationship with Amy. All of them don't even have as many time as some years ago. He can't always be the fifth wheel on the car. He has to begin to live his own life. At least he searches friends that are one the same level then he is.

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  4. I heard the Mars Rover Landing Team was there last night!!!!??!?!?! SOOOOO JEALOUS

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  5. Yes, about a dozen or so of the Curious team were VIP guests, all wearing matching blue polo shirts. After the show they all took a photo with the cast and producers on the living room set.

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  6. Some people are so silly. Of course he can be gay. He kissed Howard. He had a threesome with Howard. Oh and in the first episode he will have some uhm interesting scenes with Stuart (I don't want to spoil it). He has shown just as much interest in men as in women. He could be bisexual. I wonder why people always have such huge problems with a character being gay.

    No, it won't be platonic, the producers said at Comic Con he would find romance and carefully avoided saying girlfriend. They can't afford to bring another character in, the cast is already too big, so they develop a character they already have.

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  7. are you kidding? many people who are gay can't admit it to themselves at first. many even marry a woman and have kids. it's not unrealistic at all.

    you can tell that they've been working towards this. in the last season there were episodes in which raj said 'i can see it now' (when people made references to him being gay). his parents constantly tell him to finally come out of the closet. the girl he dated thought he was gay. and he agreed to marry her anyway in order to get rid of the social pressure of getting married, not because he loved her or anything. he is obviously very influenced by what others think of him which is why he could have tried to hide it.

    i think it will happen, let's wait and see.

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  8. I just think it'll be a bromance, Stuart will take over Howard's role (now that he's married to Bernie). It'll be like Joey and Chandler from friends or JD and Turk from Scrubs, just a close guy friendship.

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  9. It was just announced via The Hollywood Reporter that he has been promoted a regular on the cast, but they also reported that doesn't mean he will appear in every episode this season, he will appear in at least 7-13.

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  10. Maybe Raj is gay/bisexual, but what's about Stuart? Although he said he'd done worse things I do not guess he meant gay experiences. Do you? And please don't be so outrages as some off the posters above.

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  11. Likely a story ARC. In for several episodes.........like Priya.

    Stuart, besides looking like he's Linguini from Ratatouille, has had more bandwidth with a wider range of the existing characters than any other recurring character. More than Leslie, Bawwie, Mary C. Beverly H, and even Althea the nurse. He has even mentioned meeting Howard's MOM! To date I can't recall him with lines with Bernadette.

    He may turn out to be Raj's "wingman".

    It's a STORY about CHARACTERS written by WRITERS.

    We enjoy it. Some don't.

    There's more reality in this show than most REALITY shows.

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  12. I feel like making a Raj/Stuart romance would be a nice curveball. Besides, it would be interesting to see how it affects everybody's friendships; and, perhaps most importantly, the jokes almost write themselves at that point Haha.

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  13. How can Raj be gay? He can't talk to women for a reason. A gay man would not be afraid of women, he'd be more comfortable around women. Drinking brings out what you usually are afraid to do instinctively. And it has been shown Raj is actually better at picking up women than the rest of the crew (Summer on the train. Stuart is just a lonely guy who needs friends and Raj is his in.

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  14. I've been picturing/relate my self to this show through Raj shoes. So, it would be great disappointment if he's turn out to be Gay

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