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Touching Young Sheldon finale to end with mass school shooting (chaser.com.au)

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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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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Touching Young Sheldon is a good name for a spin off series

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

That's the catholic spin-off

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Prequel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

This is why he shoots up the school.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“traditional American school shooting”, it’s like apple pie and baseball.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If the tiny, blood-soaked shoe fits...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is big bang theory if it was good

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So many people find it just hilariously funny that it's kind of freaky. It looks like the dumbest show but for years I've heard people just gush about how good it is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

bbt was made for the masses. not for the skewed subset of the population that frequents reddit or lemmy or (insert social site name here). and the masses liked the show enough for it and its prequel spin-off to go a combined 19 seasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I hate this. I have a physics degree and have been of Reddit/Lemmy for ages and I loved the first seasons of the BBT. Such blatant generalisation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I watched about ten minutes of an episode once. Didn't see the appeal and thought maybe something was wrong with my sense of humour.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I watched a clip once where the main dude said he was going to go play a game on his N64 emulator. Then the studio audience LAUGHED at that very basic statement. The fuck?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Like what?? Lol. I can't even comprehend that, and I'm trying very hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Bazinga

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had people say I would like that show, that made me angry. I hadn't even articulated in my head why I didn't like it at that point, but I knew it was terrible anyway.

I also had people tell me I'd like Pearl Jam, because I like Soundgarden. No, Pearl Jam don't do it for me. Soundgarden do, in spite of being published by Sony and relying on dubbing in their singles which couldn't be performed live.

Young Sheldon is actually kind of alright. The writers have clearly heard the criticisms against Big Bang. It's not a stellar show, but it deserves its standing while Big Bang is just all wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Thank you for disliking Pearl Jam, there are some of us out there!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's the voice, it's very polarising imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Pearl Jam came on the radio a couple months back. My daughter looked at me, with shock and disgust in her eyes. We had been listening to Soundgarden, and Spotify started playing songs its algorithm decided was similar. After a moment, she said "What is wrong with Spotify? This is horrible. What happened to Chris Cornell?"

I have never been so proud.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's depressing that this needs to be said. Let people enjoy what they want to enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's bully comedy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed it not gonna lie.

Probably thank to the fact that I'm Deaf and can't hear the laugh track.

But I remember when it was on the cable tv, they actually showed it in the closed captioned suddenly out of nowhere. And it was so annoying to read (audience laughter) every other sentence. I stopped watching after seeing that episode.

Picked it up again recently (on one of streaming service) only cuz I just wanted to have some show I can just pick up and watch. I like binging shows.

It was decent for the most parts, but one part I didn't enjoy was when they got baby.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Well I ate that onion.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Lol i made it all the way down to Bazinga before I realized this probably isn’t factual

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What makes you think this isn't factual

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I was going to say the website itself, but since satire has an annoying habit of being prophetic, you make good a point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Nothing personal kid, Bazinga!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. They'd definitely have some fancy lawyers. Probably gets sued every few months