# Big Bang Theory to End After This Season **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066 "2018-08-22T19:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/61 "2018-08-24T01:08:07Z")
They’ll have to have Penny make it as an actress, surely? She and Leonard move to Hollywood? ---
**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:** [August 24, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/62 "2018-08-24T01:17:48Z")
> [@blob](#): > > They’ll have to have Penny make it as an actress, surely? She and Leonard move to Hollywood? What, 15 miles? They’re already in Pasadena. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/63 "2018-08-24T01:34:35Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > What, 15 miles? They’re already in Pasadena. Isn’t it a long long way to Pasadena? (Australian joke, John Paul Young hit song “Pasadena”) I don’t know where Pasadena is… (obviously):o ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/64 "2018-08-24T10:35:01Z")
There IS a Pasadena in Texas, but the one with CalTech and JPL is about a sixteen-mile drive to Tinseltown. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/65 "2018-08-24T11:02:27Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > There IS a Pasadena in Texas, but the one with CalTech and JPL is about a sixteen-mile drive to Tinseltown. oh, I knew it is in California, but not exactly where. I thought it was a separate town. Is it a suburb of Los Angeles then if it’s only 16 miles to Hollywood? Isn’t Hollywood up in the hills? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/66 "2018-08-24T11:55:39Z")
> [@blob](#): > > I saw an interview on TV with Christine Baranski (about the Mamma Mia movie, I think). She said she would get “recognised” as Leonard’s mum. Prior to the show, she could move about pretty much left alone. Even though she’s only been in a few episodes, she’s been identified as the character. Every time I see her, I tend to think of Frasier’s nemesis. And something more regular from when I (and she) was younger… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/67 "2018-08-24T11:59:51Z")
[Jim Parsons responds to reports that he’s the reason the show is ending.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jim-parsons-speaks-following-reports-184231245.html) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/68 "2018-08-24T12:05:56Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > [Jim Parsons responds to reports that he’s the reason the show is ending.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jim-parsons-speaks-following-reports-184231245.html) “ET has reached out to CBS, Warner Bros. and Parsons’ rep regarding the report that the show is ending because he wanted it to. **Parsons’ rep had no comment**.” ---
**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:** [August 24, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/69 "2018-08-24T13:19:22Z")
Directions from Pasadena to Hollywood: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1101374,-118.3060991&z=12&output=embed&dg=ntvb ---
**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:** [August 24, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/70 "2018-08-24T14:58:27Z")
> [@blob](#): > > oh, I knew it is in California, but not exactly where. I thought it was a separate town. Is it a suburb of Los Angeles then if it’s only 16 miles to Hollywood? Isn’t Hollywood up in the hills? Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles county. Los Angeles is also a city in Los Angeles county. Hollywood is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. There’s no reason an actor, aspiring or otherwise, needs to live in Hollywood. In fact, Hollywood seems to mostly survive on the tourist trade these days, if my recent visit there was accurate. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/71 "2018-08-24T17:17:56Z")
I think Simon Helberg is going to surprise everybody by having the best post TBBT career of them all. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/72 "2018-08-24T17:32:32Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I think Simon Helberg is going to surprise everybody by having the best post TBBT career of them all. My money’s on Rauch. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/73 "2018-08-24T17:35:27Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > Every time I see her, I tend to think of Frasier’s nemesis. And something more regular from when I (and she) was younger… Cybill ……the one where Cybill Shepard played a fictionalized comedy version of her self ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/74 "2018-08-24T18:48:56Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > Every time I see her, I tend to think of Frasier’s nemesis. And something more regular from when I (and she) was younger… Are you thinking of Nanny G? She was played by Emma Thompson on _ **Cheers!** _ and by Laurie Metcalf on _ **Frasier** _. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/75 "2018-08-24T19:59:42Z")
TBBT geography is different from real world geography. (Their apartment building is both north-far and south-near Colorado Blvd.) Early on, Sheldon mentions walking to the comic book store. In the first episode with Wil Wheaton there’s a zoom out at the end from the comic book store. It’s centered around Hollywood Blvd near the Chinese Theater. (Ground Zero for tourists.) So Penny could walk to work in “Hollywood” from their apartment in Pasadena. (Why she would have an acting job in Hollywood is beyond me. More likely to get one on the same side of the hills as Pasadena.) I blame Kripke and his wormhole experiments. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/76 "2018-08-24T20:07:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Are you thinking of Nanny G? She was played by Emma Thompson on _ **Cheers!** _ and by Laurie Metcalf on _ **Frasier** _. Christine Baranski was “Dr. Nora” in an episode of _Frasier_, where her tough love approach clashed with Frasier’s “I’m listening” style, until it turned out she had mother issues. Kind of a shame that someone with [as long a list of credits](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004724/?ref_=nv_sr_1) as her, including an Emmy award for her work on\* Cybill\*, will be remembered for a dozen appearances as a female Sheldon. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/77 "2018-08-24T20:48:26Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Christine Baranski was “Dr. Nora” in an episode of _Frasier_, where her tough love approach clashed with Frasier’s “I’m listening” style, until it turned out she had mother issues. Kind of a shame that someone with [as long a list of credits](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004724/?ref_=nv_sr_1) as her, including an Emmy award for her work on\* Cybill\*, will be remembered for a dozen appearances as a female Sheldon. Jeez, didn’t anybody watch “The Good Wife”? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/78 "2018-08-24T20:58:21Z")
She was also in _Chicago_ and _Mamma Mia_. I think she does just fine. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/79 "2018-08-24T21:28:57Z")
She did a crapload of stage work before even doing TV. It’s just that appearing on a popular sitcom can get you more eyeballs than almost anything else. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066/80 "2018-08-24T21:44:19Z")
Shoeless: > [@](#): > > will be remembered for a dozen appearances as a female Sheldon. Beverly Hofstadter is not at all a “female Sheldon.” She and Sheldon are very friendly (in a way that eats at Leonard, who never experienced anything but disapproval from her), but her character/personality is nothing like his. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-to-end-after-this-season/820066.md?page=5)