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)
Fuck yeah! Although excessive/gratuitous swearing is considered bad manners.
Shows what you know!
They met at Barney and Robin’s wedding.
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.
Whatever happens with the characters, the final scene has to be the doors of the newly repaired elevator closing with the group inside.
This tickled me quite a bit. Very nice.
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.
Late in season three,the flashback episode in which Leonard moves in,the dartboard isn’t there.
An Occurrence at Pasadena Creek.
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.
Nah. With a whimper.
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.
Maybe they use the dartboard to repair the elevator. Or to fix another problem with the Mars rover.
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.
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.
But in this scenario, wouldn’t The Big Bang Theory still be running?
Charlie! How you doin’, man?
Perfect!
Seconded.