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Q: My family and I have been enjoying the old "Big Bang Theory "series. At the end of each episode there is a "writing" about someone’s day or something someone is writing about. What is that?
A: You have been noticing the so-called “vanity cards” displaying logos of production companies at the end of shows. While some became famous for their images (the MTM cat, for example), writer-producer Chuck Lorre has used them for observations, thank-you's, social commentary, tidbits about making his shows and other items. One sample, from a 2014 “Big Bang” card: Howard’s starting to throw a baseball was “an outright steal from classic scenes performed by Gleason and Carney (who probably stole it from Laurel and Hardy, who probably stole it from Euripides).” Lorre has done the cards for about 25 years, including on “The Big Bang Theory,” “Young Sheldon,” “Mom,” “Mike & Molly,” “Dharma & Greg” and “The Kominsky Method.”
