Ahh, The Big Bang Theory .
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that it’s been one of the biggest shows on TV for the last 12 years.
“The Big Bang Theory”, the titan of comedy, is coming to an end.
Yes, the 12th and final season, which premiered on September 24, 2018. will have its final two-part hour-long finale on May 16, 2019.
Oh, dry your tears reader. It’s alright.
This decision to end the series was spurred by none other than Sheldon himself
They wanted to do more, but the loveable professor said “no”.
Yes, it seems the man who plays Sheldon in the show, Jim Parsons, didn’t want to do anymore Big Bang Theory after season 12.
In fact, he turned down a $50 million contract for seasons 13 and 14.
Which, you know, you could always give to me.
I can take a stab at Sheldon… Ah, who am I kidding? No one could do it better than Parsons.
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Speaking of Sheldon, let’s talk Sheldon and Amy
This is one of our favorite couples in a series that produces awesome parings like they were Fords in the 1920s.
As in, there are only a few, but they are pretty sweet.
These two have had a long history together.
The pair met in Season 3 through Raj and Howard, who set up an online dating account for him without his knowledge.
Luckily they found an Amy and not a… well, Dr. Ramona Nowitzki.
And then, in Season 10, after a long and rocky road, Sheldon proposed.
After a brief encounter with the aforementioned creepy doctor, Sheldon flies to see Amy, does his signature “Knock-knock-knock Amy; knock-knock-knock Amy, knock-knock-knock Amy” and when she opens the door, there’s Sheldon, on one knee, proposing.
Boom. Fade Out.
The couple was married at the end of Season 11.
After much fritting and fretting, the two geniuses finally tied the knot.
Oh, don’t they make such a beautiful… er…. such a beautifully smart couple?
Fast forward to this, the final season.
We’re treated to an episode called “The Inspiration Deprivation” where, amongst other things, Sheldon and Amy are put into a couple of sensory deprivation pods in order to alleviate Amy’s fears about possibly winning her upcoming Nobel prize.
Sounds pretty relaxing, right?
Well, it is, at least for Sheldon.
He floats around in his own mind, playing with equations, doing his whole “Sheldon thing”. It’s a pretty funny scene to watch…
Until we pan over to Amy’s pod, where her experience is not as fun.
She’s under more pressure than ever!
She’s berated by the faces of women who tell her, essentially, that if she doesn’t win the Nobel prize, she won’t be an inspiration to them, and they’ll become stupid.
The scene ends with Amy popping out of her pod, gasping for air and screaming “I’m a failure I can’t do this!”
All in all, not very fun for Amy Farrah Fowler.
Well, it also wasn’t very much fun for her actress.
As it turns out, the woman who plays Amy, Mayim Bialik, didn’t have a good time in the sensory deprivation pod either.
Apparently, she is claustrophobic, and being in that little enclosed space was not a treat for her.
She had a couple things to say about the experience on her blog.
“If you’ve never experienced claustrophobia, that’s what it can feel like: your throat closing in, water from some unknown source filling your chest and neck and head up as death greets you with her steely gaze inside of your mind. Needless to say, this wasn’t one of my favorite scenes to film.”
Luckily, there were some small things about filming that made it somewhat more bearable.
She said about the scene :
“When filming, we would wait until the very last second before cameras were rolling to shut me into my pod. The only blessed relief was that I was able to see some light coming in through the back of the pod where the lid met the unit, so that actually helped.”
What’s your take on the Mayim Bialik reaction?
It was valid, right?
If you’re claustrophobic, you wouldn’t want to be put in that situation, would you? I mean, I’m an Ablutophobic, and I couldn’t possibly imagine getting into a bath!
