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Imagine sitting down to watch your favorite half-hour comedy that stars four "nerdy" guys adjusting to life with a new, cool girl who moves in down the hall ... and now, imagine the show in question is called "Lenny, Penny, and Kenny." Not so great, right?

"The Big Bang Theory," created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady — which enjoyed a massively successful run on CBS for twelve years and the same number of seasons between 2007 and 2019 — has an undeniably great sitcom title, but you probably didn't know that the show was originally called "Lenny, Penny, and Kenny." Fans can easily figure out that "Lenny" refers to Leonard Hofstadter, one of the series leads played by Johnny Galecki, and "Penny" is, well, Penny, the show's first real

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