IT REALLY IS OVER. After 12 seasons, 279 episodes and countless bazingas, The Big Bang Theory shot its series finale on April 30 at Warner Bros. Studio’s Stage 25 in Los Angeles. The last exploits of Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and their pals air May 16 (8/7c, CBS)—and we predict fans will need Kleenex. We say that because we were among those holding back waterworks at a nearly three-hour taping that was both joyous and sad. As for the sometimes weepy actors, they held nothing back as they performed in front of an audience of friends, family and diehard fans, some of whom waited more than 14 hours to get in. “I cannot cry another tear,” Cuoco told us the following day.
While Sheldon’s wrath…