# Anybody still watching Young Sheldon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 13, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355 "2018-04-13T17:50:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/21 "2018-04-16T15:44:45Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > I like it enough to continue watching. It’s nothing groundbreaking. Simple mass market entertainment. Bit condescending, no? :rolleyes: I don’t recall anyone saying it’s the second coming of \. All I said was that I enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/22 "2018-04-16T16:06:31Z")
I’m still enjoying it. And I don’t think Sheldon always comes off as the hero. He seems to get taken down a peg or two from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/23 "2018-04-16T17:51:59Z")
NM. wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/24 "2018-04-16T17:55:21Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > NM. wrong thread. I saw the original post in my email notifications and I was like, :eek:, I’m not sure which version of Young Sheldon _they’re_ watching, but it sounds way more fun than the one \*I’m \*watching! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/25 "2018-04-16T17:57:06Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I saw the original post in my email notifications and I was like, :eek:, I’m not sure which version of Young Sheldon _they’re_ watching, but it sounds way more fun than the one \*I’m \*watching! 😃 LOL. I know, if ever there was a time to not be in the right thread, this was it…😃 ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/26 "2018-04-16T18:19:45Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I like it too. I try to forget that this sweet little boy grew up to be Sheldon. Sweet little boy? Well…:eek: that’s a reach, but I love the show! Why do the twins sleep in the same room? The more YS shows I watch, the more the mother looks like her mother!! (Cant remember her name) I really like the theme! :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/27 "2018-04-16T18:35:55Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Why do the twins sleep in the same room? Probably because they only have three bedrooms, and the alternative (having Sheldon share with Georgie and give Missy her own room) probably wouldn’t end well for anybody. > [@](#): > > The more YS shows I watch, the more the mother looks like her mother!! (Cant remember her name) Laurie Metcalf. And yeah, she does. Sounds like her too! > [@](#): > > I really like the theme! :D:D Me too! Did you know the band that did it is fronted by the guy who used to play Steve on Blue’s Clues? I like the expression on Sheldon’s face as he carefully edges away from cows and tumbleweeds. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/28 "2018-04-16T19:38:21Z")
I agree with the others that think it’s just fine. I’ve been watching it all the way through. Actually, I do remember thinking it was going to suck so it has been a pleasant surprise for me I guess. And yeah I find myself thinking all the time that we need to see Georgie and Tam on TBBT. And also that the kid who plays Georgie is going to go far. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/29 "2018-04-16T19:42:48Z")
I just hope Montana Jordan came avoid the problems of young acting stardom. And I hope Chuck Lorre has future TV shows planned for him. Lorre’s ability to spot talent is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/30 "2018-04-16T23:43:54Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Laurie Metcalf. And yeah, she does. Sounds like her too! Laurie Metcalf is Zoe Perry’s mother. She had a head start. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/31 "2018-04-17T13:14:08Z")
Question: If (hopefully, when) Georgie shows up on TBBT, who should play him? Of course, Glenn Quinn would have been perfect, but he couldn’t avoid the problems of young stardom. So who would you put up for the part? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/32 "2018-04-17T13:17:09Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Question: If (hopefully, when) Georgie shows up on TBBT, who should play him? Of course, Glenn Quinn would have been perfect, but he couldn’t avoid the problems of young stardom. > > So who would you put up for the part? Of course he’s too big a star now to be practical, but I think Chris Pratt would do a good Georgie. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/33 "2018-04-18T01:03:21Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > Laurie Metcalf is Zoe Perry’s mother. She had a head start. 😃 :eek: Well, that explains how she looks and sounds and reminds me so much of Laurie Metcalf! As an aside, is this a first in television - a mother and daughter playing the same character on two different shows? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/34 "2018-04-18T17:20:15Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Question: If (hopefully, when) Georgie shows up on TBBT, who should play him? Looks like he will be showing up, played by [Jerry O’Connell](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/big-bang-theory-jerry-oconnell-sheldons-brother-1096519). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/35 "2018-04-18T19:49:13Z")
Jerry O’Connell and (I assume) Wil Wheaton together for the first time since Stand By Me? I am so looking forward to that wedding! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/36 "2018-04-24T15:40:49Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I am (surprisingly) really enjoying this show, and I usually abhor tv children. A bit of cognitive dissonance for me - a kid who looks like Young Sheldon grows up to look like Tom Cruise, not Jim Parsons, as lovely a human being as Jim Parsons seems to be. 🙂 I think Jim Parsons is hot. > [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > More than a “real” young Sheldon, it’s like the version of his childhood where his is always the hero and everyone else is stupid. > > > [@Folacin](#): > > > > I hadn’t actually thought about this until your comment - but in fact, with old Sheldon providing narration, this really is a story about how Sheldon remembers his childhood, so it’s not surprising he is the hero of his own story. This has been my understanding of it. > [@Infovore](#): > > Yeah, Meemaw kind of bugs me, because I love Annie Potts’s version, and I don’t really like the version in BBT. They look nothing like each other, and don’t really act much like each other either. I agree. I really didn’t like TBBT Meemaw. Someone suggested that Chloris Leachman should have played her. That would have been great, and would have worked out better with Annie Potts (height notwithstanding). I’m hoping we’ll see Georgie and Tam turn up in BBT at some point. [/QUOTE] Oh, I’d love to see Tam at the wedding! (Along with Frank and Alicia.) > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Question: If (hopefully, when) Georgie shows up on TBBT, who should play him? My choice would be Colin Egglesfield. He was the “bad” Rizzoli brother on _Rizzoli and Isles_. Now they’d have to curl his hair, though, after the actor on YS. Or I suppose they could cut it really short. > [@Infovore](#): > > Looks like he will be showing up, played by [Jerry O’Connell](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/big-bang-theory-jerry-oconnell-sheldons-brother-1096519). I like that choice too. I’m watching _Young Sheldon_. I thought I was going to hate it, and while I don’t think it’s as good as TBBT, it’s perfectly fine. Fills out the hour for me nicely. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/37 "2018-04-24T16:10:57Z")
I love the show! All the characters are highly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/38 "2024-05-17T04:37:24Z")
The series ended tonight. I thought it ended well, tied somethings together. Georgie and Mandy get a show of their own next year. Hopefully that will give a bit of look into what the family did while Sheldon was in California. The new show with pick up about a month after Sheldon leaves for California. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/39 "2024-05-17T12:00:29Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > The series ended tonight. What a gut punch. The finale was handled with warmth and humor, but wow did it hurt at times. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355/40 "2024-05-17T13:09:03Z")
i thought it did very well showing how families fracture after a death. each deep in their grief. add in having georgie moving out with a wife and child, sheldon moving out to california, and missy high school age at home. oof. i liked the update we saw with sheldon and amy. their daughter"s name was not mentioned, perhap they gave her penny’s last name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-watching-young-sheldon/812355.md?page=3)