# Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [April 16, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864 "2002-04-16T02:03:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1034 "2022-03-14T00:02:31Z")

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The year is 3217. What parts of the Earth are not flooded with shallow seas are plains of radioactive dust, both devoid of all life. Suddenly, somewhere in some improbably still-powered bunker deep underground, a new post appears in this thread…

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