# Big Bang Theory -- Conclusion Airs Tonight, May 16, 2019! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053 "2019-05-16T13:53:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/41 "2019-05-17T16:30:01Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > Some people get a little nutty about spoilers. Thanks for the reply though. Yeah, those Game of Throners have everyone on edge. All of a sudden I’m feeling like Sheldon-- why all this change? Why do all the shows I watch have to end? ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/42 "2019-05-17T16:35:46Z")
Maybe I heard wrong but didn’t Sheldon say he got a congratulations message from his Me Maw (sp)? I thought she had passed away at this point. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/43 "2019-05-17T16:46:22Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Maybe I heard wrong but didn’t Sheldon say he got a congratulations message from his Me Maw (sp)? I thought she had passed away at this point. There was no explanation why she wasn’t at Sheldon & Amy’s wedding, but she certainly hasn’t died on the show. That would have been an event on the same scale as Howard’s mother’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/44 "2019-05-17T16:53:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I could have _killed_ Sheldon for shooting down her fabulous new look. Did anyone else notice in the “two months later” scene, Amy is still wearing more attractive clothing? > [@MrAtoz](#): > > I liked the slapping of Sheldon, but they totally stole that from _How I Met Your Mother_. As a fellow hack writer\* used to say, “If an idea’s good enough to use the first time, it’s good enough to steal.” My sig would say, if I could turn it back on, I’m not just a hack writer, I’m a hack author. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/45 "2019-05-17T17:05:24Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Did anyone else notice in the “two months later” scene, Amy is still wearing more attractive clothing? I noticed that, and it made sense. She’s more comfortable with herself so she feels OK wearing nicer stuff. And both she and Sheldon were wearing the Nobel Prize medals around their necks, which seems weird. But maybe that’s only for a while? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/46 "2019-05-17T17:06:08Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > There was no explanation why she wasn’t at Sheldon & Amy’s wedding, but she certainly hasn’t died on the show. That would have been an event on the same scale as Howard’s mother’s death. [The actress who played Mee-Maw](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820053/?ref_=tt_cl_t9) is nearly 90. Maybe she’s too frail to perform and they don’t want to recast her just for a cameo. As for everyone else, remember in _How I Met Your Mother_ that Barney and Robin’s wedding had everyone digitally inserted into the audience, and at least on this Board, the producers were soundly thumped for that decision. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/47 "2019-05-17T17:15:26Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > [The actress who played Mee-Maw](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820053/?ref_=tt_cl_t9) is nearly 90. Maybe she’s too frail to perform and they don’t want to recast her just for a cameo. They could have used Annie Potts, Meemaw from _Young Sheldon,_ though that could have caused continuity problems. Actually, those problems already exist, with two radically different actors playing the same character. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/48 "2019-05-17T17:21:43Z")
BTW, Amy’s PhD is in neurobiology but she won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Did anyone in real life win one of the science Nobel Prizes for a field other than the one in which they’re educated? And also, is it safe to assume that both Sheldon and Amy would have gotten fat raises from Caltech after winning the prize? Because I imagine that lots of other colleges would be trying to recruit them (as colleges seem to like to trumpet the number of Nobel Prize winners on the faculty). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/49 "2019-05-17T17:25:33Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > And both she and Sheldon were wearing the Nobel Prize medals around their necks, which seems weird. But maybe that’s only for a while? Are you familiar with the joke that ends “I’m telling _everyone_!”? Amy may eventually stop wearing hers. Sheldon will be on the replacement Nobel ribbon website twice a year for the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/50 "2019-05-17T17:27:14Z")
I get the joke, but I also assume that everyone in greater Pasadena now knows them and knows that they won. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/51 "2019-05-17T17:27:29Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > They could have used Annie Potts, Meemaw from _Young Sheldon,_ though that could have caused continuity problems. Actually, those problems already exist, with two radically different actors playing the same character. Amy’s mother was recast from her first appearance (when Sheldon told her he was having regular coitus with her daughter) and her attendance at the wedding. Though she was only seen on a laptop screen the first time. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/52 "2019-05-17T17:32:31Z")
Can I just say how much I love Josh Malina. “quirky, not QUIRKY.” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/53 "2019-05-17T17:47:37Z")
Mayim Bialik got her hair cut for real. She had to be careful that as few people saw her as possible between the time the show was filmed and the time it was shown. She talks about this in her video blog on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/54 "2019-05-17T18:00:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > > [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > > > Minor spoilery question if I may > > > > Was that Jim Parsons singing the theme and playing guitar at the end? > > Not sure why this is in a spoiler box but I think it was a bare naked lady. FYI, the Bare Naked Ladies performed the theme song at the end of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. And it included at least one verse beyond the part that’s used in the show credits. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/55 "2019-05-17T18:06:51Z")
The Bare Naked Ladies wrote a long version of the theme song very early in the history of the show. This video is eight and a half years old. It has that long version: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x6H7k3XBlk4/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHUBoAC4AOKAgwIABABGDQgWyhlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAAWS7TC6h9cT0esIFChfUrmt3XNw "The Big Bang Theory Intro Full Version") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H7k3XBlk4) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/56 "2019-05-17T19:02:23Z")
[quote=“Wendell\_Wagner, post:55, topic:834053”] The Bare Naked Ladies wrote a long version of the theme song very early in the history of the show. This video is eight and a half years old. It has that long version: [/QUOTE] So it \*wasn't\* just my imagination-Thank you for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/57 "2019-05-17T21:31:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Sheldon’s evolution seems to have been two steps forward, 1.5 steps backward. What’s important is that he’s moving forward, at half-step intervals. > > Love that movie, and the original play. Big Terence Rattigan fan. [Here’s a link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6N1P-6tA2E) to the speech (although you really have to watch the whole movie to get the full effect of it, but it gives you some idea). It’s interesting to note that the speech was added for the movie, it isn’t in the original play. Also interesting that Michael Redgrave was only 42 or 43 when this was filmed. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/58 "2019-05-17T21:33:44Z")
It was ok. It wasn’t insultingly bad (Hi, Dexter series finale) or completely boring and forgettable, but it wasn’t anything that’ll make the Top 10 lists. I did like the elevator and the slap and the speech. And I do like I won’t feel I have to waste 22 minutes on new ones any more. I mean, I’d love new, GOOD ones, but that isn’t gonna happen so it’s better that it ends now than continues and makes me hate it so much that I can’t even stomach reruns (Hi, HIMYM.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/59 "2019-05-17T21:36:20Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > And I do like I won’t feel I have to waste 22 minutes on new ones any more. I don’t understand this bit; if you felt that you were wasting 22 minutes of your time watching new episodes of this show, why didn’t you _just stop watching it_? Was Chuck Lorre holding a gun to your head? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053/60 "2019-05-17T23:14:34Z")
Just watched it. I agree w/ **Sauron** (and others). Loved this show so much when it came out. Last couple of years wondered why I still watched it, but I still did. They did a better job w/ the finale than I expected. Couple of thoughts. My wife found the bit about the kid losing a tooth funny, because something pretty similar to that happened to us. But a part of me was thinking that a kid bouncing down the steps so hard that they knock a tooth out ain’t exactly hysterical. (Then we watched Young Sheldon. The Dr’s dementia - or whatever - also seemed pretty sad sitcom fodder. Tho I LOVED the image of young Penny.) And I was troubled by the mildly extended gag of them not being able to figure out how to go down the elevator in 2 shifts. For them all to be THAT stupid just seemed a tad out of character. But those are VERY minor points. I think my favorite line was Amy’s “Best day of my life!” 😃 Oh yeah - as a HUGE BTVS fan, I couldn’t have been happier w/ SMG’s cameo! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-conclusion-airs-tonight-may-16-2019/834053.md?page=4)