Kaley Cuoco’s Dad Went To Every Big Bang Theory Taping

Alrighty, so you’re likely aware that Kaley Cuoco was there for all 279 episodes of The Big Bang Theory as Penny. But there was someone else there for the whole ride — Papa Cuoco, as, err, Kaley’s dad.

Yup, in an interview on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Kaley emotionally confirmed that her dad Gary was there for every single live taping that the sit-com did.

“We had a live studio audience, obviously, and he had a director’s chair with his name on it. It sat at the top of the audience and he never sat at in it, he always stood,” she began.

“Every night for curtain and bows and for intros — it’s going to make me cry — he would be at the top and he would give me a thumbs up.”

Her dad’s appearances became somewhat of an on-set tradition. “All the crew and cast knew my dad so well, it was a thing — when we would come out, they would all give my dad a thumbs up. The whole audience ended up doing it, it was a weekly thing! It was just very special for all of us,” she explained.

“My dad still misses our live tapings at Big Bang. I couldn’t do a show without him, at that point! It had been years! So I kept thinking, ‘You can’t miss one now, you’re part of the show!'”

“He was the one, when I was little, who had these videotapes of me,” she added. “He would ask me, ‘Make a smiley face, make a sad face, be angry,’ and trying to see what I had…That was my dad helping me out.”