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"Leonard joining the Koothrappali family would affect a lot of relationships in an interesting way," Prady hints.
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Preview: Koothrappali parents want him to go with another …
Planet-x.com.au » The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 8 The Grasshopper Experiment … 2010
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I thought Wolowitz and Koothrappali were the funniest part of the show!
'Big Bang Theory': Sheldon makes Penny his lab rat | EW.com 2009
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Koothrappali gets recognized by People magazine in episode 4, and the fame goes to his head (featuring a Charlie Sheen cameo).
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“What American accent is that?” asks Koothrappali.
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Lorre says Bang remains balanced between the odd couple, who get support from their geek chorus, Howard (Simon Helberg) and Kunal (Rajesh Koothrappali), and beautiful neighbor Penny (Kaley Cuoco), who intellectually and socially seems to come from a different species.
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Says Prady: "Koothrappali, frankly, would rather be Wonder Woman."
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Koothrappali, normally the Green Lantern, is demoted to the ridiculous Aquaman.
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In fact, the young genius who works in the Physics department ofCal-techhas a mild case of selective mutism –- Koothrappali is so shy, he is unable to talk to women face-to-face unless he is intoxicated, and even then, he only speaks to them indirectly.
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If you still haven't yet gotten to know Sheldon, Penny, Leonard, Howard and Koothrappali, then what are you waiting for?
AcerbicallyUrs commented on the word Koothrappali
Koothrappali is something which is hard to define.
Although this is a fictional name, names like these are quite common for towns and villages of South-India. The most common one what we can find is Tiruchinapalli. And in South-India many families do have the names of towns and villages as their surnames (family-names or last-names) like Sarvepalli Radhakrishna the Second President of the Independent India.
So technically, the characterization of Dr.Rajesh.K from The Big Bang Theory isn't proper since he's shown as a Hindi guy. Technically he's supposed to be coming from South-India where Hindi is scarce and the region is dominated by languages like Telugu, Tamil or Kannada. And the fascination for Bollywood among South-Indians is relatively less.
But what I find is that the first part of the word *Koothra* is something I heard in North-Indian shows and movies. *Koothra* as I understand is a regional dialect form of the word *Kuttaa* which means *Dog* in Hindi.
June 20, 2015
Ailahunter commented on the word Koothrappali
Koothrappali is a place in the district Kottayam of state Kerala of india. It is quite common for people from Kerala( I'm also from there so I know) to add the name of your home town to your name. Especially if you are famous.
But it's kind of not proper because Raj is portrayed as a north Indian guy.. (Hindi speaking) whereas we from south don't speak Hindi.
Ooh and in our language (malayam ., of kerala.) Koothra means a culturless/ shameless/ stupid person / thing.. You know what I mean. . We call people Koothra like you say ' you jerk' or ' you dumbass '.
But I think it's the place name they mean.
October 21, 2015