# How "The Big Bang Theory" should end. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628 "2012-08-06T16:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/21 "2012-08-07T16:06:22Z")
> [@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) ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/22 "2012-08-07T16:09:28Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/23 "2012-08-07T17:21:06Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Mother: Oh. We met at a bar. (Walks off) Shows what you know! They met at Barney and Robin’s wedding. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/24 "2012-08-07T17:30:29Z")
Sheldon evolves into a higher lifeform and departs the earth in a pillar of light ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/25 "2012-08-08T00:46:25Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/26 "2012-08-08T04:45:04Z")
Whatever happens with the characters, the final scene has to be the doors of the newly repaired elevator closing with the group inside. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/27 "2012-08-08T05:24:01Z")
> [@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. > [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/28 "2012-08-08T05:42:48Z")
> [@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](http://www.torinfo.com/justforlaughs/coyote_v_acme.html). ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/29 "2012-08-09T03:45:31Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/30 "2012-08-09T09:07:22Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/31 "2012-08-09T10:52:57Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/32 "2012-08-09T12:33:59Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > With a bang, obviously. A big one. Nah. With a whimper. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/33 "2012-08-09T17:08:37Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/34 "2012-08-09T18:15:50Z")
Maybe they use the dartboard to repair the elevator. Or to fix another problem with the Mars rover. ---
**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/35 "2012-08-11T10:31:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/36 "2012-08-11T10:43:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/37 "2012-08-11T12:03:35Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/38 "2012-08-11T15:56:06Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/39 "2012-08-11T23:05:17Z")
> [@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! ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628/40 "2012-08-11T23:54:49Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I am not interested in any proposal that does not involve Melissa Rauch being naked. Seconded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-big-bang-theory-should-end/630628.md?page=3)