While many shows are exclusively streaming these days, a lot of the best sitcoms around started on network TV, and The Big Bang Theory is no different. The bingeable science-based comedy, which centers around awkward physicist best friends Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstadter and co., ran for 12 seasons on CBS. What fans might not remember is that the sitcom actually went on an extended hiatus early on in Season 1. Now, series alum Jim Parsons is recalling how it changed the course of the whole show.

Though Parsons has built up quite a resume outside of the long-running sitcom , Sheldon Cooper remains his most well known (and awarded) role. With that, Parsons is often still asked about his Big Bang stint as well as his experience narrating the wildly popular spinoff, Young Sheld

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