Can I get credit for writing this in the other thread? There I said how at first I felt sympathy then kudos for Wil Wheaton in that episode. I could see the show with occasional cameos by the BBT cast, but not focusing on them. Instead it could be how Professor Proton deals with “gifted” children - and their parents. He could also provide some scientific training so badly needed in this country.
I like the “next generation” ideas, but near-future settings can be tricky; look at how poorly films from the 1980’s predicted technology a mere twenty years in the future.
I also love the “Young Penny” idea. If we can get a non-California and non-New York show, like Young Sheldon being set in Texas, then maybe they can depict what it was like to grow up in Nebraska. It’d be a hoot if they could get Amy Davidson as a sister or perhaps a cousin. They already had Katy Sagal as her mother.
I had an almost exactly similar idea. I would only add it should be a single-camera sitcom without a laugh track, and be absolutely less of a laugh-at-the-nerd jokes and just be a decent character-based relationship storyline. Something more like New Girl. Also I would call it Drawn Together.
So many possibilities: Professor Proton visits schools for gifted children (whose science experiments outshine anything he does on his show), he could hold contests for kids to be co-host, he hears from Sheldon occasionally as to how “you’re doing the Professor Proton role wrong,” and so on. Great idea!
You know, if Zach hasn’t lost his looks, he might be a great way to do reverse gender spin-off, with him as the hunk living next door to two nerdy female characters. Sheldon could stop by as guest and observe how similar whatever it is they are doing at the time was to Leonard’s behavior with Penny five or ten years ago.
I’m of the firm and unyielding belief that if Anu is ever the star of a network television show, the Earth will be destroyed by God or aliens (you pick).
There’s something about her that, to me, is like nails on a chalkboard. As the chalkboard, the edges of which have been sharpened, is being forcibly shoved into my left nostril. While it (the chalkboard) is on fire. And being shot by a bazooka.
I just thought of one: Comic book store owner Stuart Bloom is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise, geologist friend Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around pain in the ass Barry Kripke. Along the way, they meet alternate-universe versions of characters we’ve come to know and love from ‘The Big Bang Theory.’
I know this is a zombie, but just for reference Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones met for the first time on the set of Big Bang Theory in 2014. They had never met before, nearly 40 years after the first Star Wars.
I’m interested to see the new show, which will be on HBO, I believe. A couple of promo photos here:
I listen to Penn Jillette’s podcast, and he’s talked about Penn & Teller being on this show. Apparently in a future dystopia they are reduced to performing magic for cans of food and dirty containers of water.
There are a couple of scenes in The Big Bang Theory where it’s implied that Missy Cooper and Rajesh Koothrappali are attracted to each other, although nothing ever comes of it. In Young Sheldon, Sheldon’s narrative voice says that, although she says that she now says that she never wants to have children, she eventually has four of them. Toward the end of The Big Bang Theory, she has a second child, but it’s also mentioned that she’s just separated from her husband.
So there will be a show on regular television that’s the fourth one after The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. Incidentally, I think that Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage is the worst of them. The new show has a vague title that doesn’t make it clear which characters this is about. The plot of the first episode is kept secret before its premiere. It starts with a scene where Missy and Raj wake up in a bed together. They look at each other and say something like “What did we do last night?”. Missy says “I was never that drunk before.” Raj says something like “I know that I used to have to get really drunk to even talk to a woman.” Missy says something like “Well, at least I know that I’m too old to get pregnant anymore.” (Missy is now 46 years old, since she and Sheldon were born on February 26, 1980.)
They both get dressed and walk away from each other. In the next scene, Missy confronts Raj. She says something like, “I’ve been feeling sick for weeks. I went to a doctor. He says that I’m pregnant. In fact, he says that I’m pregnant with two children.” They talk about it and eventually decide to get married..
Stuart keeps the date to meet exactly 20 years in the future (as was shown at the end of the relevant episode) and embarks hell-bent on a quest to track down his so-called “friends” one-by-one and wreak vengeance on them for standing him up.
