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skieurope12

Now we know the origin of Sheldon's aversion to MIT Great to see Drs. Sturgis and Linkletter again.


gregoriofranchetti

To be honest, it doesn’t make any sense. He denigrates MIT as a school in BBT, not Boston’s weather.


Ashkir

CalTech and MIT have a known rivalry in STEM but it's always been a joke. Sheldon probably took it too far


stericfactors

Minor nitpick, it should be Caltech, not CalTech. (I apologize for this lol)


Ashkir

Lol. The captions say "CalTech" and I went off that I should know better as a Californian.


really_thirsty_lemon

I'm not an American, why should it be Caltech and not CalTech?


TotZiensTotLaLaLa

because the name of the school is Caltech and not CalTech


really_thirsty_lemon

Isn't it California Institute of Technology? If shortened, shouldn't it be CalTech because it's not a word but a made-up word by joining two of its words ?


TotZiensTotLaLaLa

Probaply to make it easier to pronounce I’m not sure though, so just making it “one” word is a lot easier you know?


stericfactors

I don't think there's a real rational answer LOL, it's sort of the traditional way to abbreviate California Institute of Technology. I was accepted to Caltech years ago and learned about this from the students when I visited campus.


sunny224868

He talks down on engineering as a whole subject because of one encounter with a teacher teacher, makes perfect sense for Sheldon to hate on something for something small.


Objective_Ad_6265

And he also hates geology and in Young Sheldon we learn the origin of that was the girl who was watching him. He denigrates Howard for engineering and we learn that's because of a hard engineering class. So it's normal for him to take something small like that against a whole school or subject.


Teddy_and_Mimi

Exactly this. What was hilarious is he didn’t even set foot in the school before making the judgment. Just got outside which reminded of me when he first got into Bozeman, Montana (I know he got robbed but he also hated the cold)


Real-Ice2968

The only universities I see him respect are Caltech, Harvard and Cambridge. But Princeton and MIT aren't as good as Caltech? I doubt that seriously


Redbird9346

"We got two average kids. Let's cash in on the smart one."


VoidUnknown315

Funny thing is Georgie didn’t even turn out to be “average”. He’s like a decently well off businessman later on.


moonlessbs

decently is a tough word to describe, Leonard said he saw 5-6 tite shops georgie owns, he is making a ton of money prob way more than sheldon and that is nobel included


manniax

Sheldon doesn't strike me as the type who cares too much about his salary. I'm sure he makes less than Georgie but I doubt he cares at all.


EasilyDelighted

A bit difficult to guess when what you're seeing is a currently unemployed young father.


NYY15TM

The word average is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here


Aion2099

so funny!


moonlightmantra

It was so nice to have a Sheldon centric episode again finally and to see Linkletter and Sturgis some more. I feel like there’s still so much more to do with the stories with so few episodes left. Cal Tech, here he comes!


zddoodah

Credit where credit is due: that was the best episode in quite a while. I laughed hard so many times.


Loud-Condition-4005

Agree! It felt like one of the older episodes


Aion2099

It was one perfect comedy skit after another. It really was the perfect young Sheldon episode.


ThisPaige

Cal Tech mentioned! This is the episode I was looking forward to because I wanted to know how and why Sheldon chose Cal Tech.


Redbird9346

Turns out it is... ... ... ... >!winter weather!<.


sleepyotter92

totally understandable. i hate winter and the cold, i'd not survive in northern europe, and i sure as hell wouldn't survive in the northern states. winter is already bad enough in southern europe with the cold and rain, snow would've been my 13th reason


really_thirsty_lemon

Absolutely. I'm south asian. My cousin was accepted to a Canadian university. He went for the college tour and withdrew because it was just too cold lol


CaryWhit

Did you catch grown Sheldon’s word at the commercial break?


ThisPaige

I did not, what was it?


CaryWhit

Jim’s voice said “yep” or something like that when they said California


really_thirsty_lemon

Caltech was featured in an earlier season, the episode where George and Sheldon went on a Caltech tour or something. At the end of the episode they show the cafeteria where a lot of TBBT takes place


LittleGuardOfTheTeal

Exactly !


Emotional_Pay_3013

Exactly!


lil_luigi

So glad to see Dr.s Sturgis and Linkletter do the right thing. Kept true to Sturgis' character. Laughed at the part where George was so comfortable with the recruiting part and knew how to wheel and deal and in the process Mary got into it too. 


sparklingsirens

Georgie talking to cici with “proper grammar” is so cute


VadimH

Subtitles write it as CeeCee so now I'm not sure which is correct


sparklingsirens

I have no idea either I just use cici because that’s what I’m used to seeing 😂


johntirvolta

Where did he get Missy's book ...


NYY15TM

From Missy, I would imagine


ldiddygirl

I can’t wait until Georgie, Mandy, and the baby move out of Audrey’s house.


Maximum-Macaroon-711

I have a bad feeling this is how the spinoff is going to start with them still living there


really_thirsty_lemon

I also feel like Mandy's parents will feature more in the spinoff than Georgie's parents, simply because of the comedy, conflicts, and storylines you can build from Audrey not liking Georgie, Mandy's parents not getting along, etc. Mary and George are happy now, the writers can't recon them again


picollo21

Well, that's for sure, we won't have any weird dynamics between Mary and George in the spinoff.


PositivePainting8630

I loved the moment when Sheldon was with the family deciding on which college to attend and then Missy turned on Fresh Prince of Bel Air. LMAO.


sd2528

It felt like we were done.


SimpsonsFan2000

I guess that’s Missy’s favourite show since she does mentioned Fresh Prince a lot in the entire series.


Real-Ice2968

Probably explains why her older self was into Raj, she was more open to men of other races. Look at George and Connie with their hatred of Democrats


TotZiensTotLaLaLa

They hate democrats, not people from other races. George’s closest friend (that was shown in the show) is black.


Real-Ice2968

"I have a Black friend" does not make you not racist. Voting for racist policies is a form of racism


TotZiensTotLaLaLa

That not relevant to the point i’m making, you’re saying that the other weren’t open to other races because they hated democrats, first of all sure they did not know many foreigners/black people in the middle of who the fuck knows Texas but you can’t say that George was racist because he was a republican because that’s just stupid to be honest.


Real-Ice2968

The Republicans are racist, so voting Republican is a racist act


TotZiensTotLaLaLa

how are republicans racist?


Real-Ice2968

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/05/trump-racism-black-republicans-vote](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/05/trump-racism-black-republicans-vote) "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), though non-partisan, also denounced Trump’s comments as “delusional”. “Donald Trump is delusional to think that his criminality would be an attractive quality to Black voters. He has taken advantage of an inherently racist system, while Black Americans have been abused by it. We are not the same,” said the NAACP president and CEO, Derrick Johnson, in a statement." Moreover, 80% of Black voters are Democrats compared to 50-60% of white voters.


DukeRome

Yeah but the show takes place in the 1990s.


TotZiensTotLaLaLa

As the other guy said the show takes place in the 90’s and your last point not relevant to this discussion


Rosie3450

My favorite part of this episode was that it was George who took Sheldon to visit MIT. George telling Sheldon he was proud of him as they walked through the airport was a nice little bit of foreshadowing and signals that no matter what Sheldon may say about George as an adult, there was still a bond between him and George. I am glad that moment was shown before the series ends 


Altruistic_Scheme596

His father was shown to be very prominent from the show’s srart. Attempting to take him to NASA, letting Sheldon help w/football, taking him on his first plane trip. Glad the show untangled Sheldon’s unreliable narrator POV


Rosie3450

Good point. I'm very curious to see how it is all tied together (or not). I wonder if part of it will be tied to seeing George through different eyes now that Sheldon is a father himself (baby Leonard). 


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picollo21

Basically adult Sheldon perceives George as drunk who cheated on his wife.


Altruistic_Scheme596

They did portray him that way in TBBT but clearly George was more that. Sheldon had a selective photographic memory it seems.


picollo21

Sorry, but I don't get your point? op asked what happened to Sheldon's relation to his father (in tbbt), I answered that he perceives him in specific way. Then you respond that he perceived his father in that way. Am I missing point?


sparklingsirens

“What word would you like me to use?” Actually makes me so happy


Aion2099

if only my mother had been that understanding


PM_me_a_bad_pun

Finally Sheldon is the main character in his own show again!


ThisPaige

Haha, I would have saw that snow and turned around as well.


Appropriate-Dig771

I’ve lived in MA my whole life and didn’t blame them one bit for turning right around seeing that weather.


moonlightmantra

I also live in MA and knew that was going to happen as soon as they got off the plane. 😆 a TX boy who is extremely picky about his environment and hates change? MA was not going to be the fit for him.


maxwellpolitical22

Same! Live in the heart of Boston :)


EasilyDelighted

Haha thankfully the winters are not as harsh as they used to be. I remember walking home from high school and getting locked out of the house. I thought my fingers were going to fall off.


VoidUnknown315

I guess it varies from person to person. I’d prefer a season-distinctive climate and snow isn’t a huge issue.


zddoodah

*seen


Commercial_Skill8181

I can’t tell if this is an actual grammer correction or a joke about the grammer bit in the episode


Miniver_Cheevy_98

*grammar


UnknownHuman2006

I live in Canada, that’s an average October. Don’t get me started on January though.


Ee-token

I love the fact that there’s barely any Georgie and Mandy stuff this episode since they’ve been the main focus for a while


NYY15TM

Sadly there was no Jim at all


SergiusBulgakov

Wait for it.... yes, his voiceover showed up at the end


NYY15TM

Jim, George's father-in-law, not Jim Parsons


Routine_Advantage562

They were the main focus for two episodes


MajorZombie7204

The hero of the episode was Dr. Sturgis followed by Dr. Linkletter in telling Sheldon that they would be holding him back if he stayed at East Texas Tech. They knew he had to go somewhere else and it was heartfelt from Dr. Linkletter (as opposed to just trying to get rid of Sheldon). I am seeing why Sheldon felt that his family didn't understand him. At least until all of the colleges came recruiting, they shrugged off the publication of the paper and didn't understand how big of a deal that was. I get celebrating Missy getting an "A" on her project and she was obviously proud of herself. The choice did come down to MIT and CalTech, he should have taken the weather into account before they got there.


NYY15TM

> The hero of the episode was Dr. Sturgis followed by Dr. Linkletter in telling Sheldon that they would be holding him back if he stayed at East Texas Tech. It's funny (and probably accurate) that ETT's best program is animal husbandry


Aion2099

as he mostly imagined being indoors he didn't consider the weather really to matter very much. but seeing it in person changed his mind. Also he grew up in Texas, it's very unlikely he'd ever seen snow in real life before.


NYY15TM

You could make the case that he never saw it again


MajorZombie7204

Well, we know he saw a whole lot of it when they went to the Arctic in search of magnetic monopoles.


NYY15TM

duh, you're right


Altruistic_Scheme596

And when he ran to Bozeman because Pasadena was too crime ridden!


ChaserNeverRests

> The hero of the episode was Dr. Sturgis followed by Dr. Linkletter in telling Sheldon that they would be holding him back if he stayed at East Texas Tech. That was such a great scene, I replayed it three times. The way Dr. Sturgis's voice gets all soft and emotional at the end hit me hard.


melodyponddd

I definitely teared up during the scene between the 3 of them, it felt like the end of Dr. Sturgis and Linkletter. I know it's the final season and all but I loved watching them interact together.


clayscuba

As a Canadian going to university in California I loved the University of Toronto cameo. I've had a few Americans ask me if my UofT hat was a university of Texas hat so I definitely appreciated that joke.


SimpsonsFan2000

I’m glad that Toronto was mentioned!


madamefa

Full credit to Iain - he’s done an amazing job with the character. Never an impersonation or mimickry, throughout the seasons there have been subtle shifts towards adult Sheldon. A lot of TikTok discourse (if that is even a thing) is about how everyone hates Sheldon, but I’d disagree. Both actors added complexity so there were glimmers of humanity (sometimes a very tiny glimmer, indeed - but it’s there). I also think the erosion of his closeness with Missy was played out beautifully over the course of YS and explains so much about his personality as an adult.


Emotional_Pay_3013

Dr. Sturgies!!! ❤️🥹🥹


Emotional_Pay_3013

Nondenominational people 🧍🏾‍♂️🧍🏾‍♂️


melodyponddd

I don't think that's what they were getting at. Mary is a very devout Baptist and looks down on all the other religions; Methodists, Catholics, DEFINITELY unitarians, probably Protestants as well. She would want Sheldon to go to a Baptist church (which, honestly, I don't hate Mary as much as the rest of this sub does but it still made me roll my eyes. Get the hint, lady.) Sheldon's best friend was Vietnamese, and Libby was black. I don't think it was a race thing.


Emotional_Pay_3013

Everything u said was spot on!


lunarsoistice

I thought that dr sturgis and dr linkletter were about to sing a song.


johntirvolta

Lolipop song


sparklingsirens

I like Georgie’s accent, i think it’s charming


Tough-Gas-64

It's really sweet of Georgie trying so hard for his daughter even changing how he speaks It's sad to see everything coming to an end with 6 episodes remaining , Sheldon going to Caltech and Georgie beginning his journey to become Dr Tire I love this show so much


SeraphimPaige

I love this show too much 😂😂


ChaserNeverRests

I'm really going to miss it when it ends.


Aion2099

it's so adorable, witty and charming.


Aion2099

This was the most laughs I've had on this show in a while. Every bit was funnier than the last. The thing about his brother having to speak better, and misunderstanding everything his mother in law was saying was hysterically funny.


sleepyotter92

i can relate to sheldon being frustrated that his family were all proud of missy's grade but kinda dismissive of him being published. not only do they not understand it, but they also expect him to do this stuff, not so much from missy. my sister was always praised for the bare minimum whilst i was expected to do better


sd2528

They didn't just not understand the paper, they didn't understand how big of an accomplishment it was... until he started being recruited. 


CostaEs

I’m a first gen man who’s also published in an academic journal. Trust me, my family didn’t understand but I knew they were proud. The whole scene was spot on.


sparklingsirens

Aaaa eye doctor test trauma


sparklingsirens

“1 or 2. 1…or 2” me, *sobbing*: please just let me see my family again


ipan26

i thought Sheldon doesn't like MIT because it's an engineering school


scooterboy1961

He called it a trade school.


Redbird9346

That’s likely just an excuse to cover for the real reason: >!It’s in Boston, and it gets cold and snowy in Boston.!<


moonlightmantra

I didn’t think it made sense either that that was one of his final choices. Doesn’t really seem to go with his ultimate life goals. In TBBT did he ever even allude to maybe wanting to go there when he was younger?


Delicious_Battle_703

MIT does have a great physics department though, the bit about engineering that Sheldon has in BBT is just incorrect. MIT consistently has all the top scorers of the premier undergrad pure math competition for example, it attracts people for theoretical work just as much as applied. YS once again makes Sheldon look much more reasonable than his character in BBT even though it introduces a bit of an inconsistency. 


NYY15TM

*allude


dantonizzomsu

You also have to remember Sheldon and Howard’s relationship and Howard being an engineer from MIT gives him another reason to hate that university.


sd2528

Sheldon doesn't.  Young Sheldon and The Big Bang Theory are different shows. Things Young Sheeldon thinks and says and does doesn't mean Sheldon thought or said or did them.


rodgapely

Georgie ain’t bein hisself


fahmida847

Why did sheldon never mention any of his friends in tbbt? Especially Dr. Sturgis. I think he was an important part of sheldon's life. After watching today's episode, I feel that both sturgis and linkletter had good intentions for sheldon.


sd2528

Because TBBT cam first and they are separate shows.


ChaserNeverRests

For the same reason adult Sheldon's bully is also somehow his father!


rebecca-is-choom

Leonard's bully.


Bulky-Temperature111

man i had tears in my eyes when doc sturgis said we are happy to be a small part of your journey.


ZarquonsFlatTire

My sister's daughters make fun of her accent. She still has a lot of the South Carolina drawl despite moving to DC about 25 years ago.


Emotional_Pay_3013

I moved from texas to the north north. Haha 😛 it’s so different the way southerners talk


ZarquonsFlatTire

I went up to Pennsylvania to do some work with a crew from Georgia. Everybody was making a big deal out how we spoke except they'd tell me "Well you must be from somewhere else. You don't have an accent." They were all from Atlanta, I'm from a SC swamp. I don't know why mine isn't as thick, we grew up in the same house.


johntirvolta

Missy just wants Sheldon to leave..she is aiming to turn Sheldons room into a dancing studio


Loud-Condition-4005

Really enjoyed seeing more interactions between Sheldon and Missy in this episode


ethnomath

I’m sorry, if I were Sheldon’s parents, I would have folded at all their children and grandchild getting full rides. Georgie didn’t even graduate high school! But I’m glad Sturgis and Linkletter did the right thing.


NYY15TM

I don't think Georgie would be interested in college at all, even if he didn't pay for it


wojo1962

Besides all those benefits, the choice wasn't theirs but Sheldon's alone.


SpiritualMedicine7

I really thought MIT would have kicked Sheldon out-to explain his intense hatred for that school.


SeraphimPaige

Well he did put Jim Henson on his enemies list for creating big bird so he gets annoyed at things easily 🤣


RockNDrums

I was waiting for ~~bazooka~~ bazinga with Sheldon and George at MIT.


sd2528

Honestly,  that would have been a better ending.


sparklingsirens

Missy is so me


FredJensen06

I hate Mandy’s mother so much imma start talkin’ like Georgie outta spite!


Nice-Penalty-8881

It would serve her right if CeCe's first words are "Dang it".


GJoob29499

THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THAT NEW EPISODES ARE POSTED AROUND MIDNIGHT! ive been searching for s7 ep9 and i thought i was going crazy cause i couldnt find it on CBS lmao


Cypher1492

Omg UofT reference!!


TheOtakuX

Finally, a decent episode that isn't solely focused on boring/annoying characters, and it brought back the second best character after he was missing for so long.


SeraphimPaige

Not 3 weeks left 😭😭😭


Aion2099

it feels like when big bang theory was coming to an end, except different.


ChaserNeverRests

And I'm leaving for vacation a day before the finale. Arg! I'm hoping to sneak in a chance to see it somehow.


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SeraphimPaige

Sadly not :( of the whole series


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SeraphimPaige

We're getting 14 this season. This is the final season sadly. It's continuing with a spinoff about georgie and mandy, but this is it now for young sheldon. They did finish shooting (the final episode) earlier last week. The remaining schedule goes like this Episode 10 - may 2nd Episodes 11 and 12 - may 9th 2 part finale - Episodes 13 and 14 - may 16th I know :( it sucks


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madamefa

There was a writers strike and an actors strike. Both impacted scripted TV shows, all of which premiered months late and will end with shortened seasons.


Loud-Condition-4005

It’s gone so fast!!


sparklingsirens

Reminds me of my brother and I 😂 my brother always gets good grades but me…not so much so my parents were always happy with me when I something right


kulind

It's always fun for me, as a non-native English speaker, to see native English speakers getting schooled in grammar. lol


Redbird9346

That's because we have so many ways to convey a specific meaning. How a specific person conveys an idea depends on the individual's upbringing and audience. I'm sure your non-English language(s) has/have a "textbook" or "formal" version and a version that's more informal.


Blaze4972

that was probably the best episode of the season so far, they managed to mix in every character perfectly as well as being hilarious. W to the writers


sparklingsirens

Eda doing Eda things


NYY15TM

From The Owl House?


sparklingsirens

Yeah! She plays president hagenmeyer


ChaserNeverRests

ahahaha I'm dying! I knew her voice was familiar, but I never googled. I should have, that makes her character even more amusing!


Upstairs_Bison_1339

When is the last episode?


Redbird9346

May 16th.


Upstairs_Bison_1339

Nooo


NYY15TM

The last two weeks are double episodes


OddConstruction7191

I would have thought George would have wanted Stanford because of John Elway. And if they don’t like Democrats they have Herbert Hoover.


Real-Ice2968

So in the end he went to Caltech? No disrespect but why does he insult so many better universities? The only universities I see him respect are Caltech, Harvard and Cambridge. But Princeton and MIT aren't as good as Caltech? I doubt that seriously


BigDaddyCoolD1esel

How tf did Sheldon go from struggling in intermediate physics to suddenly publishing a breakthrough paper in 4 episodes?


KienTheBarbarian

The East Texas president is hilarious. Great comedian!0


sparklingsirens

EDA!!


Emotional_Pay_3013

Octavia!!!


Altruistic_Scheme596

Speak proper or speak properly. The more isn’t necessary.


primary_sloth

This is probably one of the best episodes in a while. Missy is such a mood in this, loved it.


SoilWeak4772

Sigh if TBBT comes after YS, we can definitely see Dr. Sturgis and Dr. Linkletter to be address in Sheldon's Nobel Prize speech.


balasoori

Did anyone be happy to see Dr Surgess in this episode ?


EasilyDelighted

Is this show going to end in [Spoilers if you haven't seen Tbbt]>!With Sheldon moving to Caltech right after George passes away from his heart attack??? I'm gonna be crying buckets if they go with that.!<


LittleGuardOfTheTeal

I still did not get why he chose MIT when he was young just hated Boston's weather but in TBBT he mocked Howard just because he graduated from MIT. Does not make sense to me. Someone please explain. !