# Pitch your idea for a "Big Bang Theory" spinoff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181 "2019-02-25T16:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/1 "2019-02-25T16:46:11Z")
Because “Young Sheldon” sucks grendel balls. My pitch: Stuart and Denise and the comic book store. Follow the growing relationship between these two. Have Stuart grow a pair (thanks to Denise) and start drawing his own book. Plenty of opportunities for drop-in cameos, and they can use some of the secondary BBT characters as well, like Bert and Wil Wheaton. Once a season or so have one of the girls drop by to pick up a present for her guy. That gives the writers two different areas to explore (relationship, business/artistic) and it can be a geeky/nerdy as they desire. What’s your idea? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/2 "2019-02-25T16:51:54Z")
Not my idea, but in the thread for “The D&D Vortex,” someone suggested that an actual Professor Proton show, starring Wil Wheaton, could be fun. That’s the one I like. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/3 "2019-02-25T16:52:54Z")
young Penny. Specially, Penny in high school. BTW, young “sucks grendel balls” Sheldon has been renewed for two more years. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/4 "2019-02-25T17:03:32Z")
I could get behind any of those ideas, but I like the Prof. Proton one best. Or maybe Raj and Anu once they’re married, starting a family and dealing with their funny but demanding in-laws? About time we had a sitcom with Indian-Americans in the leads. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/5 "2019-02-25T17:22:15Z")
First there must be a backdoor pilot where Will Wheaton and James Earl Jones meet through Sheldon. Then, a buddy comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/6 "2019-02-25T17:26:06Z")
Let’s do an animated version…Raj can own a convenience mart, Stewart can continue with his comic book store, Penny & Leonard and their three children live next to Amy & Sheldon, who have become fundamentalist Christians and have two sons, Mary Cooper moves to town when her wimpy son George becomes a school principal, Wil Wheaton is a clown host of a children’s show, and Howard & Bernadette are extremely wealthy, as he owns the town’s nuclear power plant. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/7 "2019-02-25T17:33:42Z")
My first instinct is “Oh please don’t” but in the interest of avoiding threadshittage: I’d rather see a show where female scientists are front and center (and I don’t mean Amy and Bernadette - it’d have to be new people) than the BBT version of “Joey”. Maybe set it in a research center in rural Kansas for some hee-larious comical conflicts with the locals. Yes, it’s more or less a gender-reversed BBT but it’s still better than an all-Stuart show IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/8 "2019-02-25T17:37:41Z")
A grown up Halley Wolowitz and her group of nerdy friends. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/9 "2019-02-25T18:31:58Z")
The two appearances of George Copper, Jr. on Big Bang make me wish Jerry O’Connell would get his own show. And Montana Jordan is destined for stardom in any role he gets. I hope Chuck Lorre recognizes tis and casts him in a show. His portray of young Georgie Cooper is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/10 "2019-02-25T19:02:26Z")
Regina King stars in “HR”, this fall on CBS. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/11 "2019-02-25T19:35:10Z")
The story of Howard’s father’s new family, with flashbacks to life with Mrs Wolowitz and young Howard, centered around Howard’s half brother. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/12 "2019-02-25T19:47:46Z")
**The Martian Coopers** From the episode where Sheldon applies to be a Mars colonist, and Amy consents to going with him if it ever happens. By this time, DNA modification is a thing, but can only be done using a donor’s pattern. Sheldon decides his and Amy’s children are going to need their offspring to be better suited for life on Mars, so they manage to convince their friends to donate their DNA patterns. Leonard, because of his ability to play second fiddle to Sheldon in his chosen Physics disciplines. Therefore, Sheldon’s child would be his lifelong assistant to abuse. Howard, because of his engineering skills. Mars needs ditch diggers too. Raj, because of his astrophysics background, and Anu, because they come from a culture of arranged marriages. Sheldon would want to choose his offsprings’ mates, and it would help if they were already genetically engineered to the idea. Penny, for her farming toughness, therefore to maintain their hydrophonics farms. He would also attempt to isolate her from young Martian males. Bernadette, for her pharmaceutical skills, to treat Sheldon’s numerous health issues. Stewart, for his artistic abilities, to paint Sheldon’s portrait as the Founding Father of Mars. Wil Wheaton, to continue the Professor Proton legacy through naturally-inclined disciples. So, Sheldon and Amy have 8 children, all of whom bear a resemblance to their DNA donor. Sheldon would expect them all to obey him without question, but they turn out to be nothing like what he wanted. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/13 "2019-02-25T19:48:11Z")
I read _someplace_ in the past week or so that the network is thinking about a spin-off centered on Howard. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/14 "2019-02-25T20:32:54Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > young Penny. Specially, Penny in high school. For higher ratings, “Triple-X Penny”, covering her early acting career (including dreadful soft porn horror films). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/15 "2019-02-25T20:54:25Z")
Exactly. I just want to see _Serial Apeist_. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/16 "2019-02-25T21:57:35Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I read _someplace_ in the past week or so that the network is thinking about a spin-off centered on Howard. Howard’s a good secondary character; I would not have high hopes for a show with him as the central character. Simon Helberg, on the other hand, is an extremely talented actor who could definitely carry his own show… Just not as Howard Wolowitz. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/17 "2019-02-25T22:19:23Z")
Old Sheldon - 30 years in the future, Sheldon and Amy have a son in his early 20s. Even more obnoxiously smart than his parents, but has absolutely no inclination toward academics, choosing instead to work with his uncle George. Meanwhile, Haley Wolowitz is co-author of a paper which earned a Nobel Prize in chemistry, and Neil is the university’s new wunderkind. Leonard and Penny, for their part, have attractive and intelligent teenaged twins who are successful both in school and amateur dramatics. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/18 "2019-02-25T22:48:28Z")
Vernee Watson stars as a nurse who rotates through every department in the hospital (and several stand-alone clinics) and encounters every weird patient and problem imaginable. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/19 "2019-02-25T23:04:39Z")
I’ve mentioned before the idea of a “next-generation” show. Howard and Bernadette’s 11 kids, plus all the others, with occasional drop-ins by their parents. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181/20 "2019-02-25T23:43:43Z")
11 kids? Bernie would never stand for that. Howard would be gelded after #3, willingly or unwillingly. **DG** , I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-your-idea-for-a-big-bang-theory-spinoff/830181.md?page=2)