# "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:** 4\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [December 16, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/161 "2017-12-16T15:12:05Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > While Annie Potts is okay as Memaw, I have one question: Why not Laurie Metcalf? She’s otherwise occupied. Besides, It was established in “The Memaw Materialization” ep. of TBBT that Memaw is short. What I grant that Annie Potts looks and sounds nothing like the actress who played Memaw of TBBT, she at least is more or less the same height (allowing for some age shrinkage). Laurie Metcalf is fairly tall. Not a giant, but something like 5’7. The “otherwise occupied” is really the deciding factor, though. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/162 "2017-12-16T15:21:09Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > OTOH it would be good riddance to Jimmy Speckerman. A really poor choice of an actor given the awfulness of his appearance on _TBBT_. > > Note that Missy’s appearance in S01E15 included having Sheldon sign some papers regarding their father’s estate. And in the early years of _TBBT_ it was clear that their father having any estate, let alone one not cleared up decades later, is puzzling. > > So consistency on the time of death of George Sr. is unlikely. In the first season, the show was very vague about Sheldon’s father’s death. There’s a point where he talks about his mother visiting him in Germany when he was 15, but having to leave to help his father put the house back up on the blocks. George Sr. conceivably could have something in probate for a long time, if, say, he owned a plot of land jointly with a sibling who decided to make an issue of it. Small estates can still get dragged out, and it can be the piddliest thing that does it. Or it could even be something like having two burial plots (it happens), and finally getting around to selling one. But yeah, exactly when Sheldon’s father died was a movable feast in the first season. Since then, though, it’s been pretty consistently when he was 14. I think they are going to have to kill George Sr. if the show lasts 5 years. Also, I don’t mind that the actor was also Jimmy Speckerman. I think he’s good enough to have a very distinct character established for the father, who is different from Jimmy Speckerman. Doesn’t bother me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/163 "2017-12-18T17:39:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. …plus the calendar in their kitchen says 1989. I loved Missy wearing her fairy wings to the party and getting on the dance floor. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267/164 "2017-12-18T18:25:32Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I loved Missy wearing her fairy wings to the party and getting on the dance floor. Missy is awesome, and so is Georgie. I like that the show isn’t always focused on Sheldon. I liked older Sheldon well enough in the seasons of BBT I watched, but a little goes a long way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-anyone-else-creeped-out/795267.md?page=8)