On a Tuesday night in Burbank in 2019, the audience filed into Stage 25 expecting laughs. Instead, by the time the director called cut on the very last scene of The Big Bang Theory, there were as many tears as punchlines. After 12 years and 279 episodes, the cast weren’t just wrapping a job – they were walking away from characters who had grown up with them.
And on that final day, some of them sobbed openly, some tried to hide behind jokes, and a few – like Jim Parsons – were so quiet it worried everyone else.

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