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Touching Young Sheldon finale to end with mass school shooting (chaser.com.au)
submitted 11 months ago by tree@lemmy.zip to c/theonion@midwest.social
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Facebook mums around the world have been devastated by the news that the next season of television show ‘Young Sheldon’ will be the last.

However, fans across the world are waiting in anticipation for the final episode, after the creators revealed their plan for the finale in which Sheldon commits a mass school shooting.

The creators of the show explained that they wanted to end the series with an emotional story that the average American can relate to.

“We want to end the show with a bang,” said the showrunner, “and we thought what better way to do that than with a traditional American school shooting.”

“It’s a storyline we’ve been setting up from the start, we have always made sure the character gives you that vibe. The same classic Sheldon we all know and love.”

The writers said they are excited to see the episode, including a little easter egg where Sheldon looks to the camera and says ‘Bazinga’ after brutally murdering all his classmates.

Some online were critical of the proposed finale saying that the ‘school shooting episode’ trope has been done to death at this point by American high school shows. However fans were quick to defend it saying that you can’t jump the shark in a show that’s very existence is jumping the shark.

link: https://chaser.com.au/entertainment/touching-young-sheldon-finale-to-end-with-mass-school-shooting/

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[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 87 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They really missed an opportunity to make an in joke.

“We want to end the show with a Big Bang,” said the showrunner,

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"The theory is that they wanted the end the show in a Big Bang, but that's just the Big Bang Theory"

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

I read that in the Game Theory guy's voice.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is big bang theory if it was good

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was good in the first season or at least until Penny became smarter than the boys and everyone got married.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No, it wasn't good, even before everyone and everything got Flanderised. It was always a shitty sitcom that only got a laugh because they played audio of people laughing.

[–] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

It's bully comedy.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, it wasn’t good.

In your opinion. Some people may enjoy it and that’s fine. I’m sure there are people that don’t like playing Factorio, but to me it’s awesome. Just like I don’t like FIFA but many do.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I’m sure there are people that don’t like playing Factorio, but to me it’s awesome. Just like I don’t like FIFA but many do.

Factario is indeed awesome (though I prefer Satisfactory and its lizard doggos) but I think the problem with FIFA is it's not Football Manager.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

You know it was taped in front of a live audience, right? That's their laugh. But I know, they were always instructed to laugh. And I think all my laughs were also all replayed audio after all. Yeah, you got me.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit lol, I can see the onion getting sued for this

[–] min0nim@aussie.zone 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s not the onion, it’s The Chaser who are based in Australia. And I guarantee they don’t give a shit.

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[–] rynzcycle@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Writers for The OA unavailable for comment.

[–] shiveyarbles 7 points 11 months ago

Guns don't kill people, Sheldon does

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Touching Young Sheldon is my favorite show

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

That would be a blast

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

a show that’s very existence is jumping the shark.

I love the progression here.

  1. idiots don't know 'who' from 'that' in objects
  2. idiots now need to use 'whose', but early stupidity precludes that
  3. idiots use 'that is' contracted in the hopes of using it like a possessive, even though there's no such thing; and finally
  4. when faced with this shit construction at press time, idiot hits the 'yolo' button.

What idiots.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bro are you having a stroke?

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

They are complaining about misdemeanors against grammar while commiting felonies against grammar.

[–] Scary_le_Poo 1 points 11 months ago

Bro ate the entire onion.