Studio immortalizes 'Big Bang Theory' as series nears finale

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https://www.apnews.com/4e3a1b2cff744634a154c49fc05de8d7

Champagne briefly replaced scripts Thursday for a ceremony renaming the nondescript Stage 25 on the sprawling Warner Bros. production lot after the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.” Still television’s most popular comedy, the show will exit the airwaves and the studio it has called home for 12 years this spring.

Actors Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Mayim Bialik and the rest of the comic ensemble ran through lines for an episode that will air in early March before studio brass joined them to unveil a plaque. “We’re going to be miserable when this is over,” series creator Chuck Lorre told the cast and assembled crew. “I’m so sad.” Lorre said it wasn’t his call to end the series, but now that it’s been made the time feels right.

The cast rehearsed an episode that hints at some upcoming transitions with barely a flub. It’s not an unfamiliar ritual: they will have made 279 episodes by the time it all ends in May. The episode they rehearsed will be filmed before a live audience later this week.

Only four other studios at Warner Bros. have a similar plaque for the series that filmed there, with others named for “Two and a Half Men,” ?ER,” ?Friends” and “Ellen.”

Given that he was also behind “Two and a Half Men,” it’s the second such honor that Lorre is responsible for. One of the most successful comedy producers of all time, Lorre also produces “Mom” and “Young Sheldon” for CBS.

[samnsara]

1. that is the one show i couldnt watch..I just couldnt relate to any of the characters.

[Aristus]

5. My problem is that I related to all of them.

I was shy, awkward, nerdy, and impossible around girls.

Now I have a successful career and a smoking-hot wife!

[mainer]

7. Um, is that you Leonard?

speaking as the smoking hot wife

[Aristus]

8. Sure.

Except I'm not short.

I am pretty bad at sports, though.

I was fortunate enough to inherit my father's broad shoulders and chest; but I didn't inherit his talent for sports. I'm the least-athletically gifted person in the world.

[donkeypoofed]

2. One of the best tv shows EVER !!

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I never tire of the episodes. Esp love the non-stop marathon of Big Bang over the Christmas holidays on Comedy Network.

[samnsara]

3. i really tried to watch it.. i wanted to like it but i just couldnt

[elfin]

4. Same here. it was the bad canned laugh track that irritated me to the max. nt

[eShirl]

6. The spinoff show "Young Sheldon" has no laugh track and is more well-written (IMHO).

I'm digging Annie Potts' and Wallace Shawn's acting