[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Big Bang Theory Finale: EP on Surprise Officiant, Cut Meemaw Scene and... 'Shamy' Honeymoon in Season 12?
Big Bang Theory Finale: EP on Surprise Officiant, Cut Meemaw Scene and... 'Shamy' Honeymoon in Season 12?
The trickiest part was juggling this big cast of characters. We had so many great people coming in and we had so many little story threads [to service]. We really wanted to make sure everyone had something good to do and had a great moment. And in the middle of all of that, we wanted to make sure we didn't lose Sheldon and Amy. Because this is their day. So trying to find that balance was the trickiest part.
Usually our scripts come in at about 40, 45 pages. This one was about 65 pages.. [Laughs] We spent the week [of production] paring it back. There were some jokes here and there that we lost, but I think the episode is stronger for it. We knew we weren't going to skimp on the vows. We knew we weren't going to skimp on the wedding. Some of those cuts were painful, but anything that wasn't servicing [the central story] fell by the wayside.
Probably the Meemaw phone call. It was a lovely moment. That was a hard one. But it was 35 seconds in a script that was [already] five or six minutes long.
When we first started talking about the wedding, it had come up that maybe one of Sheldon's friends could get him a surprise officiant. And Mark was the first name on the list, so we reached out to him to see if he'd be interested. We didn't have a script at the time, so [he] really had to take a leap of faith and trusted that we were going to do right by him… He was the nicest human being you could ever imagine.
I don't know. We have some overall conceptual thoughts about next season, but we haven't nailed down any of the specifics. But it's certainly possible. It's something we have talked about as an option.
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