The Big Bang Theory Season 13

If Prady and Lorre were able to work recent real-world news into a potential reboot, they know exactly the direction they'd take — let Sheldon Cooper (Parsons) deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. "Sheldon would have loved the pandemic," Lorre told EW. "Being able to stay at home and not deal with the world? He would have thought it was perfect."

Prady agreed, saying, "And he would have loved it because people would have had to listen to him. He's a person who knows about germs... and all of the sudden, now the focus of the entire world is on people who know things like that. But, also, Bernadette [Rauch] is a microbiologist and works with people who probably know things, so I can imagine she and Sheldon would probably argue about that. I can already hear her scream, 'Don't tell me about my job!'"

The pair had some especially great thoughts about how Sheldon, who was never television's most stylish character, might dress during a pandemic... especially when you consider that the character is famously germaphobic. "We would have done two seasons with Sheldon in a hazmat suit," Lorre said. 

"Absolutely," Prady followed up. "Like the John Travolta Boy in the Bubble movie!"