Also annoying is the implied error that if you had heads you are due a tails. I.e., the 4th down that failed got a do-over and then they ran it again and succeeded. It could happen but statistics just doesn’t work that way.
I think the writers very much understood the concept of showing how a nerdish child could gain respect from his high-school non-peers.
Objecting to mathematical inaccuracy in a TV show is a highly Sheldonish response. 
Perhaps this 538 analysis of punting on 4th and short is relevant?
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Go for two: Equals estimated 2-point success rate: 48.8 percent.
Send to overtime: Chances of making extra point multiplied by chances of winning in overtime. 95.9 percent * 42.6 percent = 40.9 percent.
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I’ve watched two episodes and liked neither.
I always said even though TBBT’s “lead” actor is Sheldon, the guy who makes it work is Leonard. We get the full “I’m a genius, everyone is dumb” Sheldon without someone grounding it. Since it’s a child, we’re not supposed to get angry at the stupidity.
Watched “The Grasshopper Experiment” episode of TBBT last night. Sheldon has a JLA membership card that he has carried in every wallet he’s had since he was 5. But young Sheldon doesn’t get into comics until age 9.
Lots of anomalies are piling up here. But there’s a solution. There’s a Sheldon Multiverse!
Earth-1 has the older Sheldon from TBBT. AKA “golden age Sheldon.”
Earth-2 has the young Sheldon from … Young Sheldon. AKA “silver age Sheldon.”
They’ll intersect when a guy about to be crushed yells “Sheldon, help me” and two Sheldons respond “I’m coming.”
And as we all know, multiverses multiply. So there’ll be one with a much older Sheldon, one with him in grad school, even the dreaded horrible prequel before he turned 9. All leading up to …
Crisis of Infinite Sheldons.
Well, there was that one episode of BBT with all the different Sheldons. You might be on to something! (I wish they’d do another of those, and this time include Young Sheldon.)
I’m liking this show a lot more than I expected. I didn’t have high hopes, of course, but it is both funnier and more fleshed out than I thought it would be. The kid is a pretty good actor for his age. I like that they keep the Jim Parson narration to a minimum. How friggin’ rich must that guy be by now, with this icing on the top?
I like it more every week. It’s like “Roseanne” and “The Wonder Years” had a baby. I like that they’re not focusing it completely on Sheldon, but fleshing out the other cast members as well.
Just found out the theme song, “Mighty Little Man,” is done by Steve from “Blue’s Clues.”
I hope the show lasts long enough that we find out what caused Sheldon to make such a radical change in wardrobe choice. I just can’t see Young Sheldon ever thinking he’d want to wear nothing but t-shirts.
I definitely had a Wonder Years vibe, but yes there is a lot of Roseanne in there too. Chuck Lorre worked on Roseanne so I guess that makes sense.
I like all the cast, they all do a great job.
It also helps that Dad reminds me of both Dan and the dad from Wonder Years, MeeMaw reminds me of Roseanne, and Mom (quite understandably, since she’s her daughter) reminds me of Jackie.
Young Sheldon is definitely coming into its own. And it is getting better.
All of the actors are doing a wonderful job portraying their characters. I love young Sheldon having memories of being a toddler. I have a very distinct memory of a house my family moved out of when I was 18 months old!
The episode “A Brisket, Voodoo, and Cannonball Run” is a departure from the previous ones. Sheldon takes a back seat to the rest of his family. His siblings in particular had been underutilized and had a chance to come out a bit in this one.
Very nice change of pace. It bodes well for the series.
And the key Sheldonism of the episode, remembering something from when he was quite young, was well played.
We don’t see the toddler, just a toddler’s eye view. So not an official formation of a new Sheldon Universe.
Getting blamed for something the little sister did? Been there, done that.
Yeah, and that’s the traditional thinking that Sheldon was challenging. Meet Kevin Kelly- the HS coach who never punts, always goes for two, always onside kicks and wins a lot.
The 50% chance of making the 1st down seems obviously wrong (and heavily dependent on yards to go), but the theory is that possession is valuable enough that the risk of giving up points is less than the chance of your offense scoring.
Thanks for the link - I always wondered about onside kicks and why they’re done more often.
I loved that while Sheldon could remember verbatim memories from the age of 23 months, they showed the sister’s memories and just a white blank screen. Hey, that’s all I remember from the age of 23 months (and a few years after that too).
That was a great road trip episode. It started off rather shaky and formulaic, but I liked the ending and that last line was rather poignant. Is dad going to die during this series? They referenced his heart attack again in this episode.
If the series lasts for more than a couple of seasons, it almost has to happen. We have a definite timeline for it from Sheldon dialogue in TBBT and we’re not THAT far out from it now in YS.
I guess the question is will the series last long enough to get to that point in the storyline. I’m guessing so. Gonna miss the big lunk, he has a good heart.
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.
While Annie Potts is okay as Memaw, I have one question: Why not Laurie Metcalf?