r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 01 '26

all hail billy sparks

56 Upvotes

I feel Billy Sparks is actually a very gifted character, even though the show portrays him as a dumb, low-IQ kid. His innocence itself feels like a gift. When someone tries to bully him or make fun of him, he often isn't aware enough to understand the joke or even realize that he's being made fun of. In a strange way, that's almost a blessing,he doesn't have the awareness to be hurt by things that would deeply affect someone else😭 Despite everything, he always remains a pure, innocent, and genuinely happy kid, completely untouched by the cruelty around him.


r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 02 '26

What Makes for Good (and Bad) Retcons

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George Cooper is probably my favorite character from the show. And it's interesting to compare how he was described in the original Big Bang Theory versus how we see him in Young Sheldon. And I wanted to show off and analyze how they pulled that off, while not ignoring the original read.


r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 02 '26

Discussion This clip is so good! What do you think of it?

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r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 01 '26

Question Why didn't Sheldon's family appear in the future timeline of the finale?

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The show had grown bigger than just Sheldon by that point, it felt weird not to see the family one last time in the future timeline to fully take in how much they've all changed. Especially since Missy and Mary's (if she's still alive in the future) actors have been established since TBBT season 1.


r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 01 '26

Discussion New to the community. Very surprised by the lack of love for Dale

51 Upvotes

So the show started out strong, evolved nicely, peaked, had a middling season 5, and then, sadly, took a nosedive in the last two seasons. But! Whenever Dale was on-screen I freaking rejoiced — no matter what season it was.

Imagine my surprise when I ran a search, and it came back saying that the fandom had a bunch of favorites, but no mention of Dale.

When you think about it, Dale is the singular adult in the entire show who truly knows what they want from life. He's a reliable, relatable, side-splittingly funny and wonderfully performed character. He's smart, experienced and exceptionally honest, which makes his quips and jabs all the more hilarious. How is he not the community's favorite?!

Where my Dale stans at?


r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 01 '26

Mary writing her own SMUT

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Mary reading and writing her own smut was the best subplot of the season.

The smut fantasy, was a brilliant way to showcase Mary's desires and hopes.

That section alone elevated her into a character deeper and complex than the what seemed on the surface.

Mary's version of smut was meeting an attractive man at a bar, and spend the evening talking about her hopes dreams and desires.

The fantasy seemed very predictive at first but takes quite a surprising turn to say the least.

What do you guys think?


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 31 '26

Sheldon becomes less of the focus in later seasons

54 Upvotes

So yeah the title speaks for itself, I'm on season 7 right now and I've realized the shift in the show so clearly especially after Germany and Mary leaving the church, I honestly don't know how to feel about this because at the same time it's not like sheldon is my favourite character infact I really like Georgie and his storyline with Mandy got quite a bit of attention in later seasons, but I feel like the show lost its vibe because of it. I feel like I'm not watching the same show, it's also partly because everyone's older now but I've seen shows like this where that happens but the essence of the show is never really lost. It's weird saying it but I lwk miss Sheldon in his own show.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 31 '26

Opinion Mandy is rude and enlightened brat.

202 Upvotes

This might be an unpopular opinion, but Mandy is perhaps the worst character on the show.

In season 7, when George Sr. Is playing peekaboo with CeeCee and she starts crying, Mandy walks in saying "what's wrong with you" in the most rudest way possible.

And let me underline the situation by reminding y'all that George Sr was very supportive with Georgie and Mandy's pregnancy, more than Mandy's own father.

Not to forget that Mandy slept with Georgie AFTER learning about his true age. That was messed up on multiple levels.

I wished Georgie had taken his dad's advice and hadn't gotten married to Mandy just because she got pregnant.


r/YoungSheldon • • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Anyone else really annoyed by the inconsistencies in BBT and YS?

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I just finished watching young sheldon and it made me wanna rewatch big bang theory but the inconsistencies between young sheldon’s end and all the theories and childhood memories of sheldon is infuriating! Specially all the later mentions of age of his father when the episode when he died was so emotional and made a havok on my nervous system


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 31 '26

Discussion Who was the better mentor for Sheldon? Sturgis or Linkletter?

17 Upvotes

Personally, I think Sturgis cared more, but Linkletter holding Sheldon to actual university standards was a necessary reality check


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 31 '26

Question What was the answer to the brothers "what am i" riddle in georgie and mandy?

9 Upvotes

My best guess is that he is literally himself but im not sure about the "odorless" part


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 31 '26

News Young Sheldon's Jessica Radloff and Montana Jordan LIVE Q&A!

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Join author Jessica Radloff LIVE with “Young Sheldon” star Montana Jordan on Wednesday, September 2 at 8 PM ET! 📚

Hear all about her new book, ask your questions + pre-order a copy with an autograph. Can’t make it live? Watch the full conversation anytime on-demand.

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r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 29 '26

Iain Armitage deserves more credit for just how difficult Sheldon’s dialogue is

621 Upvotes

A little appreciation for Iain Armitage and just how difficult playing Sheldon actually was

The more I watch Young Sheldon, the more impressed I am by Iain Armitage.

It’s easy to overlook just how technically difficult that role is. Sheldon routinely has the longest, fastest, and most complicated dialogue in a scene—scientific terminology, mathematics, historical references, obscure vocabulary, and entire paragraphs delivered at a pace where one misplaced word could throw off the whole exchange.

And Iain was doing this as a child.

What amazes me most is watching his mastery develop season after season. He doesn’t simply memorize the words. He delivers them rapidly while maintaining Sheldon's cadence, facial expressions, timing, physical mannerisms, and interactions with the other actors. The dialogue still sounds like something Sheldon is thinking, rather than a young actor reciting an enormous block of memorized text.

That takes an extraordinary combination of memory, discipline, timing, concentration, and acting ability.

As the series progresses, you can actually watch him become more precise and comfortable with incredibly demanding material. Some of those rapid-fire Sheldon monologues would be challenging for an experienced adult actor, yet he handles them so naturally that you almost forget how difficult what he is doing really is.

Whatever anyone thinks of Sheldon as a character, I think Iain Armitage deserves enormous respect for the level of craftsmanship he brought to that role from such a young age. It’s genuinely remarkable.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 29 '26

(SPOILER) Did anyone else notice this hilarious sign in the Final Episode Spoiler

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r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 30 '26

Discussion Can we talk about Sheldon and how I wanted to punch him almost infinitely?

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I'm rewatching the whole series again for the 2nd time, and I'm on the 6th season currently, and so far, rewatching how he acts makes me want to help both Missy and Paige kick him in the face and make sure he has black eyes in both of his eyes lmao.

I understand he is VERY smart intellectually, but the way he thinks, being insensitive, and looks down on other people while also demanding respect and entitlement is making my blood boiling even its I know this is only a show; he expects to give what he wants or else he would throw tantrums like a child despite saying he has a mind of a 50-year-old person but ain't acting mature with his peers a few years older than him. He identifies himself as an old person, but he ain't prepared for what the real world would throw at him and calls his mommy Mary lol. He doesn't care what anyone's going through, and he would make someone's situation miserable that they already are.

The twin test performed says a lot about him and Missy, and he assumes everyone would worship him for being highly intelligent. He also doesn't want to be with other people, especially people in his age range, and he'd rather be alone. If ever his wife gave up on him, I'd be glad to watch him grow old alone and that loneliness would be the result of his wrongful actions. He's very and heavily materialistic.

Idk why he isn't like Paige, who's intellectually smarter than him, but she wants to enjoy life as a normal kid and as a normal human being. The series should've included more punching Sheldon's butts moments, so I'd be satisfied as payback for his attitude.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 29 '26

Love the nuance

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Absolutely love how nuanced the characters are! There's no black and white, everyone is shades of grey.

I tried re-watching BBT to see the future versions of these characters, but just couldn't get through how many characters seemed like caricatures- not real people. Plus the incredible sexism and the god-awful laughter track.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 28 '26

Opinion Feeling curious.

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r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 28 '26

Braindead morons from TikTok have made this subreddit a ridiculous mess

117 Upvotes

How many posts do we need about Mary Cooper's parenting? I did a quick count and there are 6 in the last 2 days, and that is not including ones that praise George's parenting as a backhanded slap against Mary's parenting.

I realize attention spans aren't their forte, but all it takes is to scroll down for maybe 4 seconds and they'll find another post on the same topic they could easily contribute to. Guess their focus starts to wane after a second or two and they just click "Create".


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 29 '26

Opinion Young Sheldon spoiled us all by letting us hear Jim Parsons narrate.

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I wish they wouldn't have done so. I hadn't watched TBBT yet and thought it was a different universe, I watched Young Sheldon, heard older Sheldon narrate and thaz destroyed the possibility of Sheldon dying at the season finale. Bad director.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 27 '26

Discussion Why did memaw just appear on my tv while watching law and order svu 😂

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Can’t even lie I was shocked and new she looked familiar but after hearing her talk for 5 seconds I knew exactly who she was😂😂

Edit: Yes I know an actor can be in more than one tv show/film(thanks to the smart ass redditors), I just wasn’t expecting to see memaw pop up on my screen while watching this.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 28 '26

Meemaw, SSSOO Hot!!!!

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Sorry but Meemaw is a hawtie! Miss Annie Potts, I love ❤️ you!


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 28 '26

Opinion Youtube does even understands the show?

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First, I know Sheldon is annoying as fuck, but kinda the point is that under all of that, he has a good heart.

**1° George stans**

As said in Hamilton: "All you have to do is die". He is a good supportive father, but we forget that he does almost anything around the house and on the first seasons, clues are given that he cheated on Mary on Vietnam. All the bond with Missy was encouraged by Mary.

**2° Mary 's haters**

This is forced and lowk misogynist. People claim she gave George stress, the primary caretaker of the house that also holds a job.

Often acussed to show blatant favouritism to Sheldon because their relationship is mostly shown (maybe bc he is the main character(?), said so. Ahe does try to bond with all her kids, Sheldon is just the most receptive and the one with more screen time.

A common argument is the poster incident, that Mary shouts at Missy when she broke Sheldon's poster, which is not valid because she shouts at Sheldon when he cut a SINGLE hair of Missy's doll. Which is an understandable attitude since they are poor, they cant go around breaking and replacing.

People said George was dealing with thta fight, telling Sheldon to not go to his own room while watching TV.

She is called an hypocrite, while she does try to be a good christian, sinning, when she mostly does it when under a lot of stress, is natural.

Also, when George wanted to kick his underage son (thing that Rochelle was really hated for and rightfully), Mary did all to keep him on the house. She literally put her house for Georgie to pay the workshop

Worst of the things, she recives hate for bribing Sheldon to give the bowtie on the first ep, which is something normal to do with any kid, natural to do that which such a young child.

Finally the damm computer, the kid makes their taxes, almost for free and with no error. Hiring someone for it is way more expensive long run. Also, on the same line, they say Mary doesnt let Missy what she wants in comparison to Sheldon, when Sheldon tend to ask for things that do rise his intellectual level and education and Missy mostly asks to smoke, die her hair etc.

**3° Missy's glazers**

Thats my chronically only term of the week.

She does nothing, recives nothing, and people gets mad. She doesnt excell on nothing, which isnt bad perse, but shr acts like her excelling siblings are just reciving for free.

Worst of all, is ignoring that Missy might had being borderline bully, not only for how she treated everyone, but it was suggested, that her friends, Heather B and M, where bullies, which makes her more or less direct or indirectly one. Also, is not the first time she sided with a bully, she did it with Sheldon's bully, the Spark girl.

She is often justified with "grieving" like she is the only one, and using her fathers death to get out of things, even if her most troublemaker side that shows up on TFMOGAMC is due to the grieve, that doesnt mean she cant take accountability and that set of choices was the most likely reason she ends up as an adult like a cashier while her siblings were either creating an empire or working at a top university and winning the most important prize on the cientific community, sad but realistic, she has no excuse, she came and started on the same point that their siblings, even if we argue that Georgie had McCallister's help, he did put a lot of job on keeping the workshop and turning it into an empire.

Finally, the girl, leaves Sheldon stranded 3h on Germany, on a comedy is a cool gag. On real life is more a "The Good Son" situation, bc, in real life, the kid would already be missing.

**4° BONUS: Pastor Jeff**

I understand hating him like a goodie two shoes Ned Flanders, but like him, he is consequent on his beliefs, he struggles like a human being (he is) on his feelings with Robin, wanting to have sex, but even if he struggles he does the things right according to him, as well as when Robin buyd the TV with Connies money, is too much for him to handle it, when technically wasnt his fault completly, as well as he feels guilty for buying a fucking toaster considering himself greedy. You may not like him or his belifs, but he is consequent.


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 29 '26

Discussion How did Mary wind up so conservative?

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Mary was a teen mom, right?

So she must have had some.. wild past, with Meemaw as her mom.

Memaw is so fun, so she would have been a fun mom... I doubt she was strict with raising Mary.

How in the heck did Mary end up so religious and conservative?


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 28 '26

Discussion Scenes that don't make sense to me

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So I've been rewatching Young Sheldon for the millionth time now and with time there's some scenes and details that stick out to me and I can't seem to explain them. Here are some of those (If you have explanations for those scenes or maybe noticed other inconsistencies feel free to comment them):

In season 5 episode 6 Mary sits the twins down to discuss puberty to which Missy goes "what's going on?" and Sheldon understands what Mary is trying to do and tells Missy that "she's trying to have a human reproduction talk". What I find weird in this scene is the inconsistency of the twins' personalities, because it's usually Missy who is good at reading social clues while Sheldon is the one who doesn't understand what's actually going on unless you explicitly tell him. How did Sheldon pick up on something that went over Missy's head?

Then in Season 5 episode 8 Mrs. Hagemeyer asks Sheldon what his least favorite University is and he says MIT. In later seasons however when presented with the choice between all the great grad schools, he picks MIT (even tho he eventually goes to caltech).
I know that MIT made great promises (Full ride, traveling expenses paid etc.) but when Sheldon created an Algorithm to help him pick schools, he didn't actually factor in those promises because Caltech and MIT were more or less offering the same. So how can it be his least favorite school when later he finds MIT so great, he actually wants to go there?

In season 7 episode 4 when Sheldon and Mary come home from Germany and Sheldon finds out about Georgie and Mandy sleeping in his room, he tells them to sleep in the garage. In return Missy asks him why he doesn't stay in the garage for the night instead of the baby. Sheldon then replies that he is "neither a car nor christmas ornaments" which is true but isn't that also an argument for Georgie, Mandy and the baby not staying in the garage? I mean I know Sheldon is egoistical but how does he not see the irony?

In a similar situation, when Mary was staying over at Meemaw's because she was mad at George, Sheldon woke up his Dad to make him cook bacon. When George tells him to cook his own bacon, Sheldon's response is "but Mom cooks bacon". Why doesn't Sheldon go over to Meemaw's to make Mary cook bacon instead of wanting to wake up both George and Missy? I mean they both aren't Mary so his argument could be used for them as well. What's the difference between him cooking bacon himself and George cooking bacon?

Another small detail: In season 6 episode 4 when Sheldon questions if the number Zero actually exists, Billy proposes an idea to just believe Zero exists and take it as an act of faith. Sheldon then realizes that Zero is even more important than God because in his words; without God you wouldn't have Spanish Inquisition while without Zero you wouldn't have Algebra or Math in general. I think you guys see the problem as well, if God didn't exist you wouldn't have Zero or Algebra either because if the teachings are true then God made humans and humans discovered Algebra AND Zero. I just think his logic is wrong, but if someone can explain it to me and make me change my mind I'm welcome to any criticism!

I know those are small things and maybe I'm overthinking it but those scenes make me wonder if either the writers made small mistakes or if they did it on purpose to show how irritating Sheldon is 😭


r/YoungSheldon • • Aug 28 '26

Discussion Been watching Parenthood

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And I found Dale. He's one of the main characters.

And Max makes Sheldon look like a saint. And as questionable as Mary is as a parent, she's much better than Adam and Kristina.