The Big Bang Theory Gets a Girls' Night Out

Amy Farrah Fowler has more than one date a year with The Big Bang Theory: Mayim Bialik's she-Sheldon will be continue to make return appearances, the actress tells TV Guide Magazine.

"We just filmed the first episode where I'm having interactions with people other than the Sheldon and Leonard plot — I'm with the girls," says Bialik, whose Amy embarks on a girls' night out with Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Howard's on-again/off-again girlfriend Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) on Thursday's episode.

"It's kind of a girl's plot, which is really hysterical," Bialik explains. "It's a girls' night. You can imagine how it goes for her. Exactly the worst part of what you'd imagine about Amy trying to interact with other females is what you see. And worse."

The actress, best known for her teenage stint on the long-running sitcom Blossom, said the bizarro chemistry between Amy and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) — or "Shamy," as Penny unwisely attempted to dub them — has proven irresistible for both the audience and the show's writers.

"We see me again in a couple weeks, and then a couple of weeks after that. I'm sort of interspersed throughout, as it were, now," she said, but she's in the dark about any overall game plan for her character. "We start our next episode Wednesday. I have no clue. I will find out late Tuesday night what the script looks like and then it can change. So I don't know what the arc of the season is like. I'm as much waiting to see as everybody else."

"She's really weird, and what I like about her is she's so sincere in her weirdness," Bialik said of her alter ego. "And there's no social conflict about it. And I think that's what people love about Jim Parsons' character, too. It's really unabashedly perfect. That's just the way they are. And I know people like that in real life. So why can't we show them on TV?"

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