‘Big Bang Theory’ 11 Spoilers: Bernadette’s Pregnancy Teased In Episode 2 Teaser

“Big Bang Theory” Season 11 just dropped a teaser for its upcoming second episode. Even though the installment won’t premiere until November, fans already got a first look at what’s in store for the characters.

In the 35-second clip, Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Amy (Mayim Bialik) and the rest of the group are all gathered at Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny’s (Kaley Cuoco) living room. Sheldon is sitting on his usual spot on the couch. There’s only one piece of dumpling left, and he’s asking if anyone wants to take it.

Amy suggests that they give the last piece to Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) since she’s pregnant, but Sheldon awkwardly asks who really is pregnant. He explains that he once assumed that a woman was pregnant when she wasn’t, and that woman got upset.

In the teaser, Bernadette’s growing bump is shown for the first time in the hit CBS TV series. In last week’s premiere, titled “The Proposal,” Bernadette just found out that she’s expecting another baby and wasn’t really thrilled. When she told her husband, Howard (Simon Helberg), about it, he panicked. But the couple eventually decided that they will just raise their two kids the best way they know how.

Rauch also happens to be expecting her first child with her husband, Winston Beigel. The actress announced her pregnancy in July after suffering from a miscarriage a few months earlier.

While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, new showrunner Steve Holland explained why they decided to write Rauch’s real-life pregnancy into the series.

“It was like their pregnancy, it was never the plan. But when Melissa told us that she and her husband were expecting, we started talking about what we wanted to do in the show. Our first thought was that Howard and Bernadette just had a baby, and we can do the regular sitcom thing of having her sitting down a lot and putting things on her lap to hide her belly. Then we started talking about it and realized that it’s really interesting that they wouldn’t be expecting to get pregnant again so quickly, and nobody in the audience would be expecting them to do so, either,” he said.

“Big Bang Theory” Season 11 will return to CBS on Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. EDT.