Maybe in flashbacks?
That’s going to be an interesting four-year-old actor actor they get to play Sheldon in the flashbacks.
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.
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.
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…
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!
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.
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.
X-Men 137 was from September 1980. The show (which I haven’t actually watched) starts in the fall of 1989.
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.
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.
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~
I really like Sheldon’s friend-adjacent.
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.
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
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.
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.
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%.