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Stuart Bloom has a problem in the first teaser trailer for HBO Max‘s comedy series Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. Or rather, a multiverse of problems.

The Big Bang Theory spinoff finds Stuart (Kevin Sussman) breaking the space-time continuum and trying to put it back together — not especially successfully. HBO Max has also announced a July 23 premiere date for the show, the third spinoff of The Big Bang Theory after Young Sheldon and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.

The single-camera series will showcase wormholes, multiple Stuarts, giant bugs and an all-around rough go for the title character. Watch it below.

The description for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe reads, “Comic book store owner Stuart Bloom is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus), geologist friend Bert (Brian Posehn), and quantum physicist/all-around pain in the ass Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie). Along the way, they meet alternate-universe versions of characters we’ve come to know and love from The Big Bang Theory. As the title implies, things don’t go well.” 

“The fun is watching him fail every week,” Posehn told attendees at the CCXP Mexico City convention in April. Sussman added that viewers will get to learn more about Stuart’s romance with Lapkus’ Denise: “When The Big Bang Theory ended, our relationship was just budding, and now you can see where it goes.”

Big Bang Theory co-creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady created the series with Zak Penn; all three are writers and executive producers. Lorre’s eponymous production company produces in association with Warner Bros. TV.

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