# "Young Sheldon"--anyone else creeped out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267 "2017-09-01T19:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/121 "2017-11-11T20:23:07Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > No. He died when Sheldon was four. Maybe in flashbacks? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/122 "2017-11-11T21:30:22Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Maybe in flashbacks? That’s going to be an interesting four-year-old actor actor they get to play Sheldon in the flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/123 "2017-11-14T18:39:13Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Did everyone see Vernee Watson as the nurse in the ER? I’d love to see her in flashback scenes with young Leonard in New Jersey, young Howard in California and young Raj in India. Nearly the only good thing in the episode. She’s credited as “Nurse Robinson” rather than as Althea (Davis) on _TBBT_. So not intended to be the same character in some form. Vernee is now the only actor to appear on the original _TBBT_ unaired pilot, _TBBT_ and _Young Sheldon_. Jim Parsons is a close 2nd having done voice here. Annie Potts was mostly wasted. The “jokes” were weak at best. The whole episode had the feel of a spec episode. The producers hand a writer a list of characters and some basic ideas and the writer fills it in. Often without any consideration to series continuity or anything. E.g., what happened to Sheldon’s new friend? All too often these spec episodes were originally for some other show and get re-purposed. This is how odd this one felt. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/124 "2017-11-17T03:46:24Z")
I thought tonight’s episode, where he discovers comic books, was great. Really enjoyed it. If they do do a flashback, I hope it’s the one where his mother had him tested. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/125 "2017-11-17T14:43:41Z")
The show is surprisingly working for me. I wasn’t expecting much of the series but so far, very watchable. I’ve always wondered a little how such a logical minded guy like Sheldon, who took Spock as a role model, got so into comics. I accept the X-Men hypothesis. It works well enough. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/126 "2017-11-17T15:01:37Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > The show is surprisingly working for me. I wasn’t expecting much of the series but so far, very watchable. > > I’ve always wondered a little how such a logical minded guy like Sheldon, who took Spock as a role model, got so into comics. I accept the X-Men hypothesis. It works well enough. I enjoyed the episode, as well. But there is no way the shop owner would have let a child that age peruse X-Men #137, which was quite valuable by the 1990s (the setting of the show). Maybe it was a cheap reprint edition… ---
**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:** [November 17, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/127 "2017-11-17T15:06:52Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > I enjoyed the episode, as well. But there is no way the shop owner would have let a child that age peruse X-Men #137, which was quite valuable by the 1990s (the setting of the show). Maybe it was a cheap reprint edition… Maybe Dale was working the register that day. Seriously, would a valuable book even be in the bins? wouldn’t it be behind the counter, or something, or at least in some special area near the cash register. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/128 "2017-11-17T15:25:32Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Maybe Dale was working the register that day. > > Seriously, would a valuable book even be in the bins? wouldn’t it be behind the counter, or something, or at least in some special area near the cash register. Yeah, they would definitely not keep it in the regular bins! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/129 "2017-11-17T15:36:32Z")
How many people would know that comic was valuable? I thought it was just a current issue. But I don’t know comics. Did Comic book stores ever let kids park themselves on the floor and read the merchandise? That seemed a little odd. What year does the show take place? I think they mentioned it. By the cars it looked more like the late 80’s to me but if Sheldon was 30 in 2007, it would place the show in 1986. I did some digging, it turns out Sheldon was born February 26, 1980. So 1989 is the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/130 "2017-11-17T21:57:20Z")
This latest episode was the first one I watched and was surprised to enjoy it. Zoe Perry doesn’t look a whole lot like Laurie Metcalf but she sure sounds exactly like her! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/131 "2017-11-17T22:59:27Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > This latest episode was the first one I watched and was surprised to enjoy it. Zoe Perry doesn’t look a whole lot like Laurie Metcalf but she sure sounds exactly like her! She looks a lot like her, actually. She’s very convincing as a younger Mary, but then, she IS Metcalf’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/132 "2017-11-17T23:10:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > How many people would know that comic was valuable? I thought it was just a current issue. … What year does the show take place? X-Men 137 was [from September 1980](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/the-x-men-137-the-fate-of-the-phoenix/4000-20681/). The show (which I haven’t actually watched) [starts in the fall of 1989](http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Young_Sheldon_%28Prequel%29). > [@What\_Exit](#): > > Did Comic book stores ever let kids park themselves on the floor and read the merchandise? My (non Harvey) comic collecting days were in the mid-1980s. By that time my comic shop already had every issue bagged with back boards (both the current issues and the back issues in the long boxes.) There would have been absolutely nobody removing the books from the bags. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/133 "2017-11-18T02:19:56Z")
My comic book shop had bins of non-bagged comics, but these were things like 70s and 80s lame (but kinda campy sometimes) horror comics, Archies, and a few superheros that weren’t in great shape, for 50 cents apiece. This was the 1990s, when I did most of my comic collecting as an adult. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/134 "2017-11-18T14:39:37Z")
I absolutely loved this episode. I watched it with a friend who had never seen it and didn’t like Big Bang. He liked this show. I really enjoy that it is an ensemble show, concentrating on the whole family and not just “Young Sheldon.” Chuck Lorre really knows how to do an ensemble show~ ---
**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:** [November 18, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/135 "2017-11-18T15:05:57Z")
I really like Sheldon’s friend-adjacent. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/136 "2017-11-25T20:06:11Z")
So, I was actually looking forward to the episode this week, about football stats. I was a little disappointed. It seemed badly edited, or something. Not enough build-up, too much denouement, or something. Also, can someone explain to me why everyone thinks you should punt on the 4th down in the first place? I don’t know anything about football. ---
**Author:** ![Lickety\_Split\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lickety\_Split\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lickety_Split_1)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/137 "2017-11-25T20:10:08Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > By the commercials? IMHO, they don’t have the feel of “child genius” (think of _Little Man Tate_) but of mocking an autistic child. TBBT is almost all “laughing at, not with”, and it looks _much_ more harsh when aimed at a child. I’ve always despised TBBT anyway. For one…I cannot tolerate that obnoxious laugh track. It’s insulting; telling us when yo laugh. And hey, try this sometime: go to youtube and watch a BBT clip sans laugh track. See how creepy and unfunny the entire show is. In the real world, Sheldon would have been punched-out a long time ago. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/138 "2017-11-25T20:36:44Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > So, I was actually looking forward to the episode this week, about football stats. I was a little disappointed. It seemed badly edited, or something. Not enough build-up, too much denouement, or something. > > Also, can someone explain to me why everyone thinks you should punt on the 4th down in the first place? I don’t know anything about football. If you try for a first down on your fourth down and don’t make it, the opposing team gets to take over exactly where you were on the fourth down. Since the other two options on fourth down is to try and kick a field goal and score points or kick the ball in the other direction further away from your opponents goal, it’s usually better to try one of those options-- unless you are inches away from making a first down. Maybe someone with better explaining skills will come along and make this clearer. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/139 "2017-11-26T14:30:23Z")
What was the team that started the 4th down discussion, Texas A&M??? Anywho, Sheldon said that they had a 50% chance of converting, which is way too high unless they are usually in 4th and inches situations. So that ruined the whole premise for me. Throw in applying such a stat to a George Sr. led high school team and it’s out the window and over the cliff numerically. Annie Potts was used better here. Ray Liotta as a mobster. Hmmm … I was thinking that Sheldon was going to try and purchase from the comic book guy\* a copy of _X-Men_ #1 so he could start reading from the beginning. A missed joke opportunity. All in all, it is a sometimes bemusing show. Which is not a bad thing and not having a laugh track helps such a show immensely. - Lower case. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/140 "2017-11-26T17:15:25Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > What was the team that started the 4th down discussion, Texas A&M??? > > Anywho, Sheldon said that they had a 50% chance of converting, which is way too high unless they are usually in 4th and inches situations. So that ruined the whole premise for me. I think Sheldon (or the writers) miss the concept of expected value. Giving the opposing team the ball on downs is a worse consequence than the reward of getting the first down – even if the odds were 50%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267.md?page=8)