The Big Bang Theory: 10 Things You Completely Missed From Season One

10. What Happened To Howard's Co-Workers?

For the majority of the series, Raj and Howard work as engineers in Caltech, which is renowned for being among the best research universities in the United States. Despite the fact Sheldon regards engineers as "semi-skilled labourers", he and the rest of the gang often hang out at the establishment.

Because Raj and Howard's research can be volatile or classified, they often work with no outside help. But that wasn't always the case. In the twelfth episode, The Jerusalem Duality, Sheldon visits Caltech to team up with Howard to devise a project to showboat a student who humiliated him earlier.

As we get our first glimpse of Howard's workstation, we can see other employees in the background, who Sheldon refers to as "Oompa Loompa's of science". It's not confirmed whether these people are Howard's co-workers or his assistants but it can be assumed they are working on the same project since they share his workspace. But like many elements in the beginning of the series, these enigmatic employees vanished after Season 1, never to be seen or mentioned again.