# So What Happens to Truman After the Truman Show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173 "2014-01-30T23:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/1 "2014-01-30T23:58:26Z")
So my biggest complaint is that _The Truman Show_ missed an opportunity to really explore what happened to Truman by ending the movie when it did. Do people think Truman just easily adapted to the real world? That’s doubtful. Of course he is a celebrity, but also a sudden realization that everyone was watching everything about you. Then of course the environment he lived in was pretty antiseptic, his naivete would be a huge problem. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/2 "2014-01-31T00:23:45Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > So my biggest complaint is that _The Truman Show_ missed an opportunity to really explore what happened to Truman by ending the movie when it did. Do people think Truman just easily adapted to the real world? That’s doubtful. Of course he is a celebrity, but also a sudden realization that everyone was watching everything about you. Then of course the environment he lived in was pretty antiseptic, his naivete would be a huge problem. Sylvia was running to meet him, and presumably would work to integrate him into the real world. I got the impression that they might eventually live in a small town. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/3 "2014-01-31T00:32:23Z")
Because there was nobody looking out for him when he left, he was struck and killed by a bus almost immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/4 "2014-01-31T00:48:42Z")
He was unable to adjust to the real world and his mega-fame. Within a year, he signed for a new contract to return to the dome and TV show, with some minor conditions. Ultimately, he raised children who were never told they were a TV show. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/5 "2014-01-31T01:11:47Z")
How hard would it be to have people with mini hidden cameras follow him around wherever he went? ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/6 "2014-01-31T09:16:37Z")
After failing to find a place in “real” society, hounded constantly by fans, stalkers, detractors, producers, and paparazzi, Truman runs out onto the freeway and gets hit by a cement mixer. Only in death does he find any peace. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/7 "2014-01-31T09:31:21Z")
Truman spends a few years doing the celebrity shtick, but his popularity eventually wanes and he is ultimately reduced to doing gay porn just to have a camera pointed at him. ETA: better yet, since vaccinations are unknown in Seahaven, Truman eventually dies of measles. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/8 "2014-01-31T10:08:36Z")
Suicide. Going from finding out you’re the most important person in your world to being just some guy breaks him. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/9 "2014-01-31T10:10:24Z")
Surely he’d go to Fiji. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/10 "2014-01-31T10:59:56Z")
Sylvia meets up with him and takes him in. He is then inundated with offers from employment lawyers offering to sue Christos and the production company for back wages owed - at Equity scale - for the entirety of Truman’s life up to the time he left. Truman ends up owning the studio dome, which gets turned into a theme park. He also writes a bestselling book about what it was like to be him from his perspective, and then another about life after the dome. And he and Sylvia travel. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/11 "2014-01-31T11:33:03Z")
Ran for Vice President. After the President died in office, became President himself. Nuked Japan (his Nielsens had never been high there.) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/12 "2014-01-31T11:44:32Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Surely he’d go to Fiji. Unfortunately, in the Megacorp dominated future world of the Truman Show, environmental catastrophes have left most of Fiji flooded under three feet of water. ☹ 3…2…1… ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/13 "2014-01-31T11:53:00Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > Suicide. Going from finding out you’re the most important person in your world to being just some guy breaks him. Rumors are that it wasn’t suicide. Although they found his body at the base of Coit Tower, police suspect that he may have been murdered by local San Francisco identity Ed ‘Eddie’ Pekurny. The case remains open I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/14 "2014-01-31T12:48:29Z")
He finally gets to exercise true “free will” and all that that brings. Rather than the illusory free will as granted by a guy in the sky. Doesn’t really matter what he actually did. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/15 "2014-01-31T16:36:24Z")
He and Sylvia meet and travel to Fiji where they spend some time together. He avoids the limelight and any traditional commitments such as a corporate job and marriage. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/16 "2014-01-31T16:54:15Z")
> [@sailboat](#): > > ran for vice president. After the president died in office, became president himself. Nuked japan (his nielsens had never been high there.) hahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/17 "2014-01-31T17:19:19Z")
Things not really working out with Sylvia, he settles down into a relatively lackluster job in a bank… then he finds a Mask… ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/18 "2014-01-31T17:19:29Z")
Actually, everything turned out pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/19 "2014-01-31T19:53:40Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > Because there was nobody looking out for him when he left, he was struck and killed by a bus almost immediately. Either that (or, IMO, the platform on the other side of the door collapsed and he plunged to his death), or, now that Truman knew there was an “out there”, the concept of the show changed to _The Truman Show World Tour_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173/20 "2014-01-31T20:04:39Z")
He never got out. He\* thought\* he did, but he just stepped out of a smaller bubble into a bigger one. We are all in it, and we are entertainment for the Rigelians. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-to-truman-after-the-truman-show/680173.md?page=2)