The Big Bang Theory: 10 Best Characters Who Appeared After Season 1

7. Lucy

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Another potential love interest for Raj, Lucy didn’t get as long a run on the show as Emily, but through a nuanced performance by the always-excellent Kate Micucci, she became far more than the archetype she could possibly have been, and made for some particularly sweet arcs with Raj, a character who can often be quite overbearing.

Lucy was a sweet but nervous woman whose social anxiety issues made the initial stages of her relationship with Raj a slow process. This was actually handled surprisingly deftly by the writers, who acknowledged similar issues in Raj that were generally played for laughs and allowed the connection between the two to develop naturally.

Ultimately the relationship isn’t to be, primarily down to Raj’s neediness, but in her tenure on the show Lucy is given plenty of good material to play with, most notably a running motif in whi

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