With a new generation now bearing the immense cultural weight of being Sheldon, Jim Parsons is ready to say a solemn “bye-zinga.” According to Entertainment Weekly, Parsons has turned down a two-year extension on his near-million-dollar-an-episode contract on The Big Bang Theory; rather than try to imagine the series going on without him, his phantom bazingas forever felt silently echoing behind the prominent laugh track, CBS and Warner Bros. Television has decided to end it. It’s said next spring’s 12th season close will also be the show’s series finale, when we finally learn this was all just imagined in Young Sheldon’s snow globe.
