THE BIG BANG THEORY: Executive Producers Bill Prady and Steve Holland on Reaching Episode 250

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THE BIG BANG THEORY reaches its 250th episode milestone on Thursday, April 5…but the producers didn’t realize they had reached that mark until they had already written the installment.

“We don’t have the numbers on the board, as we’re doing it,” executive producer Steve Holland explained in the video below before the show’s PaleyFest panel. “Every week, we honestly just try to tell the best episode that we can do. It was sort of after the fact [we realized], ‘Oh, that one was 250. Should we have done [something]? Should it have been something bigger.’ But [executive producer] Chuck [Lorre]’s attitude has always been just do the best episode you can; that’s all that matters.”

But reaching the number—a feat few shows accomplish—”was emotional,” executive producer Bill Prady admitted in the video below. “But at the same time, we have the work to do.”

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