How "The Big Bang Theory" should end.

[Robot Arm]

Mrs. Wolowitz visits Amy Farrah Fowler's lab and is killed when her voice incites an attack by a group of enraged howler monkeys.

Howard and Bernadette realize that between the two of them they have all the skills and resources needed to be the villain in a James Bond film. Bernadette begins work on a superbacteria which Howard will release into the upper atmosphere from the toilet on the International Space Station. They move into a dormant volcano they found on craigslist.

Penny gets a job as a seat-filler at the Academy Awards and wins a part in a Martin Scorsese movie when she crashes the Vanity Fair after party and starts hustling chess. She's a hit in the Scorsese picture and achieves fame and fortune as an actress.

Amy Farrah Fowler wins the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work describing cooperative tool use in lower primates that took place in the tragic beating of Mrs. Wolowitz.

Raj marries a loud, obnoxious woman he meets in Las Vegas and finally overcomes his mutism just long enough to tell her "quiet!" The wife is played by Lisa Kudrow.

Leonard becomes an author after his first piece "Roommate Agreement" is published to great acclaim. The New York Times Review of Books calls it "a scathing, satirical deconstruction of pretty much everytihng."

Sheldon marries Amy so that by community property laws he will have half of her Nobel Prize, which may come in handy as a tiebreaker between him and Marie Curie.


In the final scene, Leonard and Sheldon are moving out; they are leaving for the last time and the apartment is bare, except for one thing hanging on the door.

LEONARD Aren't you going to take your dartboard?

SHELDON I don't play darts. That was here when I moved in.

(exit)

[Biggirl]

How How I Met Your Mother should end.

A slow pull out of the beginning narration shows that the guy talking to the two kids on the couch isn't Ted. It is some guy who killed Ted for being a passive/aggressive wimp who tried to steal his girlfriend, convinced she was 'the one'. Barney comes out. Robin gets deported and Marshall and Lilly get life in prison for shaking their crying baby to death.

[The Second Stone]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

How How I Met Your Mother should end.

A slow pull out of the beginning narration shows that the guy talking to the two kids on the couch isn't Ted. It is some guy who killed Ted for being a passive/aggressive wimp who tried to steal his girlfriend, convinced she was 'the one'. Barney comes out. Robin gets deported and Marshall and Lilly get life in prison for shaking their crying baby to death.

The mother is a surrogate of some sort Ted coincidentally met as one of his students. His wife and the mother of the children is Robin Schbotski, or however it is spelled. The children are adults when Ted finishes the story.

[kunilou]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Raj marries a loud, obnoxious woman he meets in Las Vegas and finally overcomes his mutism just long enough to tell her "quiet!" The wife is played by Lisa Kudrow.

I saw what you did there. Very clever.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by kunilou

I saw what you did there. Very clever.

Thank you.

[OtisCampbellWasRight]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Penny gets a job as a seat-filler at the Academy Awards and wins a part in a Martin Scorsese movie when she crashes the Vanity Fair after party and starts hustling chess. She's a hit in the Scorsese picture and achieves fame and fortune as an actress.

<snip>

Leonard becomes an author after his first piece "Roommate Agreement" is published to great acclaim. The New York Times Review of Books calls it "a scathing, satirical deconstruction of pretty much everytihng."


(exit)

BRAVO! Well done, and thank you for NOT having Leonard and Penny get married. Too cliche.

[Taomist]

I think the OP is perfect, and look forward to seeing it

Actually, after the wedding last finale, when they panned out...I thought THAT would have been a great ending. That's all, just that.

There is plenty of material to explore still, I'm sure, but I'd be alright with it just ending there anyway.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by OtisCampbellWasRight

BRAVO! Well done, and thank you for NOT having Leonard and Penny get married. Too cliche.

Thanks. That was the last one I wrote.

TBBT is kind of odd among American sticoms because it's one (relatively) normal character surrounded by eccentrics, rather than the other way around. Bob Newhart's shows were the same way. Makes it hard to find a good resolution for Leonard. In the first draft, he was just Penny's boy toy. Then I figured he could be her agent after abandoning particle physics for something more difficult, Hollywood accounting.

If there are any other suggestions, let's hear them. I couldn't have gotten all the characters right.

And really, why do they have a dart board?

[Simplicio]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

TBBT is kind of odd among American sticoms because it's one (relatively) normal character surrounded by eccentrics,

I think that's a pretty standard formula. Have one relatively normal, relatable character surrounded by goofballs, so the audience has someone to serve as a proxy. Jerry Seinfeld, Kermit the Frog, Michael Bluth, Joel Fleishman, Jim on the Office, etc.

[Loach]

I am not interested in any proposal that does not involve Melissa Rauch being naked.

[Lazlo Hapsburg]

Robot Arm,

I don't mean to detract from your proposed ending, but any way this show ends with the death of Mrs. Wolowitch will be super good with me.

Mrs. Wolowitch. What a witch!

Can anyone tell me if you are permitted to use the B-word in this forum?

I have, of late, been using a forum in which there are no language restrictions and that has been very refreshing.

[ftg]

Leonard, to explain to Penny how the LHC works, builds a model of it in the apartment using parts donated by Howard. Leonard thinks the parts are dummies but they are in fact real. Sheldon gets a brilliant insight into how to generate Higgs Bosons using much simpler methods than the LHC and decides to demo it for them.

A black hole forms, sucking Penny, Leonard, Howard and Sheldon along with 2311 N. Los Robles into a wormhole in another dimension.

Raj was late getting to the apartment and is outside the building when it vanishes. He stands there looking awkward like he usually does when the others leave without him.

AFF, Bernadette and Howard's mom (finally shown) all live together surprisingly well in the Wolowitz house.

Meanwhile back in the apartment building in the wormhole, Twilight Zone/Star Trek based events ensue. Penny doesn't want to have sex with Leonard because she's afraid of getting pregnant and the nearest decent school is 4.3 billion light years away.

In the vanity card, Chuck Lorre admits he's dying of cancer and wants to confess his greatest sin. He uses a lot of canned laughter. A lot.

[TriPolar]

With a bang, obviously. A big one.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Simplicio

I think that's a pretty standard formula. Have one relatively normal, relatable character surrounded by goofballs, so the audience has someone to serve as a proxy. Jerry Seinfeld, Kermit the Frog, Michael Bluth, Joel Fleishman, Jim on the Office, etc.

There are a few, but there's also the I Love Lucy and Home Improvement style that center around the hijinks of of the main character.

Originally Posted by Loach

I am not interested in any proposal that does not involve Melissa Rauch being naked.

As a woman living out a James Bond scenario, I'm sure it can be arranged. Repeatedly.

[Johnny Q]

Originally Posted by TriPolar

With a bang, obviously. A big one.

It turns out that Sheldon didn't quite get Leonard's rocket fuel into the elevator in time. Which makes the entire series either a dying dream or taking place in a rapidly collapsing parallel dimension caused by the explosion.

[breezman]

Originally Posted by kunilou

I saw what you did there. Very clever.

Very clever indeed.

[jasg]

Originally Posted by TriPolar

With a bang, obviously. A big one.

Not heat death?

[Mr Shine]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Raj marries a loud, obnoxious woman he meets in Las Vegas and finally overcomes his mutism just long enough to tell her "quiet!" The wife is played by Lisa Kudrow.

OK, I'll give. What am I missing here?

[BobLibDem]

Bernadette and Howard divorce, leaving Howard free to marry Raj. Bernadette looks over Sheldon's work and corrects an error which leads to Sheldon receiving Nobel Prize. In gratitude, Sheldon agrees to bump off Bernadette's former mother-in-law. Once that murder is complete, Sheldon is forced to become Bernadette's sex slave as the price for her silence. Amy and Penny become lesbian lovers, but keep Leonard around as their boy toy.

[notfrommensa]

Originally Posted by Mr Shine

OK, I'll give. What am I missing here?

Just in case, I will put in spoiler box.

SPOILER:

In Newhart's finale, The only words Darryl and Darryl uttered during the series were to annoying girlfriends (wives?) that would not shut up,4

Lisa Kudrow was one of the annoying girls, which I didn't know until now.

[sciurophobic]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

How How I Met Your Mother should end.

A slow pull out of the beginning narration shows that the guy talking to the two kids on the couch isn't Ted. It is some guy who killed Ted for being a passive/aggressive wimp who tried to steal his girlfriend, convinced she was 'the one'. Barney comes out. Robin gets deported and Marshall and Lilly get life in prison for shaking their crying baby to death.

Ted (Saget voice over): And that's how I met your mother.

Mother (walking in): What story is your dad telling you?

Kids: How you met.

Mother: Oh. We met at a bar. (Walks off)

[yoyodyne]

Originally Posted by Lazlo Hapsburg

Mrs. Wolowitch. What a witch!

Can anyone tell me if you are permitted to use the B-word in this forum?

I have, of late, been using a forum in which there are no language restrictions and that has been very refreshing.

Fuck yeah! Although excessive/gratuitous swearing is considered bad manners.

[Justin_Bailey]

Originally Posted by sciurophobic

Mother: Oh. We met at a bar. (Walks off)

Shows what you know!

They met at Barney and Robin's wedding.

[YogSosoth]

Sheldon evolves into a higher lifeform and departs the earth in a pillar of light

[BigT]

Originally Posted by YogSosoth

Sheldon evolves into a higher lifeform and departs the earth in a pillar of light

What? No. Sheldon has been an alien the entire time. The show ends with him briefing Orson on how stupid humans are, thinking he fits in with them.

[ioioio]

Whatever happens with the characters, the final scene has to be the doors of the newly repaired elevator closing with the group inside.

[Face Intentionally Left Blank]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Amy Farrah Fowler wins the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work describing cooperative tool use in lower primates that took place in the tragic beating of Mrs. Wolowitz.

This tickled me quite a bit. Very nice.

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Leonard becomes an author after his first piece "Roommate Agreement" is published to great acclaim. The New York Times Review of Books calls it "a scathing, satirical deconstruction of pretty much everytihng."

I like it. Perhaps he goes back to the well once or twice, mining all the material he's accumulated and couldn't fit in his first book. A movie is made, is a hit, and a TV series follows. The last scene they are watching themselves being portrayed on the TV. Contradicts the dartboard scene though: Maybe it's a flash-forward get-together two years later at Sheldon's new digs, after the dartboard scene.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Face Intentionally Left Blank

I like it. Perhaps he goes back to the well once or twice, mining all the material he's accumulated and couldn't fit in his first book. A movie is made, is a hit, and a TV series follows. The last scene they are watching themselves being portrayed on the TV. Contradicts the dartboard scene though: Maybe it's a flash-forward get-together two years later at Sheldon's new digs, after the dartboard scene.

I thought of something like that, but it seemed too Seinfeldian to me. And I figured "Roommate Agreement" wouldn't really be a book; it's just the roommate agreement he has with Sheldon, but published as a humorous essay like Coyote v. Acme.

[MadTheSwine]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

In the final scene, Leonard and Sheldon are moving out; they are leaving for the last time and the apartment is bare, except for one thing hanging on the door.

LEONARD Aren't you going to take your dartboard?

SHELDON I don't play darts. That was here when I moved in.

(exit)

Late in season three,the flashback episode in which Leonard moves in,the dartboard isn't there.

[Bricker]

Originally Posted by Johnny Q

It turns out that Sheldon didn't quite get Leonard's rocket fuel into the elevator in time. Which makes the entire series either a dying dream or taking place in a rapidly collapsing parallel dimension caused by the explosion.

An Occurrence at Pasadena Creek.

[Tapiotar]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Mrs. Wolowitz visits Amy Farrah Fowler's lab and is killed when her voice incites an attack by a group of enraged howler monkeys.

As much as I like this, I also think that Mrs. Wolowitz and Leonard's mother meet and compare child-rearing notes. The disagreement over the methodology of belittling and stunting the development of a son becomes so heated, they eventually claw each other to death.

Or Mrs. Cooper walks in the brawl and knocks their heads together and tosses them into the trash.

[Quercus alba]

Originally Posted by TriPolar

With a bang, obviously. A big one.

Nah. With a whimper.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by MadTheSwine

Late in season three,the flashback episode in which Leonard moves in,the dartboard isn't there.

I thought I'd seen that one and it was there. I'll check next time it shows up in the reruns.

In any case, it does seem like it's hanging there just waiting to be explained in the last episode.

[ioioio]

Maybe they use the dartboard to repair the elevator. Or to fix another problem with the Mars rover.

[JLRogers]

People stop collapsing onto the sofa with a beer and start thinking critically about their entertainment. Viewership drops. The networks realize that in order to keep eyeballs on ads they have to adapt to this new, discerning audience. Clever, challenging pilots are picked up and not cancelled well before their time. Years later, Chuck "Schlock & Awful" Lorre bemoans the loss of his wasteland playground from a lawn chair in front of his run-down double wide.

[Odesio]

The final scene ends with Sheldon in some sort of clinical setting staring into a snow globe with a little model of a Cheesecake Factory.

[Justin_Bailey]

Originally Posted by JLRogers

People stop collapsing onto the sofa with a beer and start thinking critically about their entertainment. Viewership drops. The networks realize that in order to keep eyeballs on ads they have to adapt to this new, discerning audience. Clever, challenging pilots are picked up and not cancelled well before their time. Years later, Chuck "Schlock & Awful" Lorre bemoans the loss of his wasteland playground from a lawn chair in front of his run-down double wide.

But in this scenario, wouldn't The Big Bang Theory still be running?

[silenus]

Originally Posted by JLRogers

People stop collapsing onto the sofa with a beer and start thinking critically about their entertainment. Viewership drops. The networks realize that in order to keep eyeballs on ads they have to adapt to this new, discerning audience. Clever, challenging pilots are picked up and not cancelled well before their time. Years later, Chuck "Schlock & Awful" Lorre bemoans the loss of his wasteland playground from a lawn chair in front of his run-down double wide.

Charlie! How you doin', man?

[K364]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

How How I Met Your Mother should end.

A slow pull out of the beginning narration shows that the guy talking to the two kids on the couch isn't Ted. It is some guy who killed Ted for being a passive/aggressive wimp who tried to steal his girlfriend, convinced she was 'the one'. Barney comes out. Robin gets deported and Marshall and Lilly get life in prison for shaking their crying baby to death.

Perfect!

[ducati]

Originally Posted by Loach

I am not interested in any proposal that does not involve Melissa Rauch being naked.

Seconded.

[Lust4Life]

Penny AND Bernadette become infatuated with a middle aged Englishman, who they then run off witt and bang his brains out .

The Englishman being me of course.

[panache45]

Leonard wakes up as a guy named David Healy, in bed with his wife, Darlene. It was all a dream.