Sep 10, 2026 · 24 min · 16 segments
In this new occasional series within Home Theater Geeks, Scott Wilkinson talks about content he is particularly enjoying. This week, he is really digging *Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,* the…
I'm calling it What I'm Watching, and I'm going to be talking about content that I'm enjoying and would like to share with you and hope you'll enjoy it too.
In this episode, I'm going to talk about Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which was created by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, and Zach Penn, and it's streaming on HBO Max.
It's a spinoff from The Big Bang Theory, the fourth spinoff, in fact, from The Big Bang Theory, which is one of my all-time favorite sitcoms.
As my wife will tell you, I laughed more loudly watching The Big Bang Theory than any other program when it originally aired from 2007 to 2019.
Now, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is not a sitcom per se, although it is very funny.
The basic premise is that the three of the main characters from the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard, have invented a device, a quantum device that breaks the boundaries or the barriers between the universes in the multiverse and allows passage between them.
Now, the Stuart in the title of this show is Stuart Bloom, played by Kevin Sussman, who was a secondary character in The Big Bang Theory.
And as the backstory for this new show goes, he accidentally knocks over the device that Sheldon Leonard and Howard built and breaks it.
He actually enters into another universe and meets up with alternate Stuart from that universe and warns him of the problem and implores him to try and fix it before he disappears, the original Stuart.
So alternate Stuart has to try to repair this device and prevent all of reality from collapsing.
And so there's not much hope of him actually doing this, of succeeding in fixing the device.
Now, joining him in the quest are three other secondary characters from the Big Bang Theory.
One of them is Stewart's girlfriend, Denise, played by Lauren Lapkus, seen here second from the left.
Geologist Bert Kibler, played by Brian Posen, seen here in the far right of this image.
And the physicist Barry Kripke, played by John Ross Bowie, who is there on the left.
I'm calling it What I'm Watching, and I'm going to be talking about content that I'm enjoying and would like to share with you and hope you'll enjoy it too.
In this episode, I'm going to talk about Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which was created by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, and Zach Penn, and it's streaming on HBO Max.
It's a spinoff from The Big Bang Theory, the fourth spinoff, in fact, from The Big Bang Theory, which is one of my all-time favorite sitcoms.
As my wife will tell you, I laughed more loudly watching The Big Bang Theory than any other program when it originally aired from 2007 to 2019.
Now, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is not a sitcom per se, although it is very funny.
The basic premise is that the three of the main characters from the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard, have invented a device, a quantum device that breaks the boundaries or the barriers between the universes in the multiverse and allows passage between them.
Now, the Stuart in the title of this show is Stuart Bloom, played by Kevin Sussman, who was a secondary character in The Big Bang Theory.
And as the backstory for this new show goes, he accidentally knocks over the device that Sheldon Leonard and Howard built and breaks it.
He actually enters into another universe and meets up with alternate Stuart from that universe and warns him of the problem and implores him to try and fix it before he disappears, the original Stuart.
So alternate Stuart has to try to repair this device and prevent all of reality from collapsing.
And so there's not much hope of him actually doing this, of succeeding in fixing the device.
Now, joining him in the quest are three other secondary characters from the Big Bang Theory.
One of them is Stewart's girlfriend, Denise, played by Lauren Lapkus, seen here second from the left.
Geologist Bert Kibler, played by Brian Posen, seen here in the far right of this image.
And the physicist Barry Kripke, played by John Ross Bowie, who is there on the left.
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