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Outraged ‘Psycho’ Fans Call for a Return to Physical Media After AppleTV+ Ruins Final Scene With a Preview for ‘The Big Bang Theory’

Patton Oswalt and others object to Sheldon and Leonard ruining Norman and Norma’s iconic closing moment

Alfred Hitchcock fans will recall with photographic memory the iconic closing moments of his 1960 masterpiece Psycho when the camera slowly zooms in on Norman, captured in a police station and his personality permanently evacuated by the constructed alter ego of his mother, as Norma’s voice echoes in his head. In the penultimate shot of the movie, Norman slowly looks up and stares into the camera, grinning menacingly, before the film cuts to his final female victim’s car and her remains getting pulled out of the swamp. But just as Norman begins to break the fourth wall and sends a chill down the spines of generations of film lovers, the frame suddenly shrinks to barely 1/8th of the screen, and a promotional still for Chuck Lorre’s massive hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory jump-scares AppleTV+ watchers for one final shock.

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