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.
