How Young Sheldon FIXED The Big Bang Theory 

Ive got the feeling like Young Sheldon and TBBT are not any longer completely connected

Young Sheldon is shockingly good, and it's not just the spectacular performance by Iain Armitage. The entire cast was terrific, especially Jordan Montana and Raegan Revord who play Sheldon's siblings. I am looking forward to what Iain Armitage does next in his career. He's a true talent

One of the better aspects of Young Sheldon was Georgie and Mandy's pregnancy. Seeing Georgie stepping up to be a father was one of the best plotlines of the show to the point that there are comments that fans were there more to see Georgie than the titular Sheldon

Fun fact. Zoe Perry who plays Mary on Young Sheldon is actually Laurie Metcalf (Mary on TBBT) real life daughter. So that explains how she is able to get Laurie's mannerisms so good.

I can't hardly wait until 'Old Sheldon.'

The siblings also had their talents. Missy had enormous social intelligence which left Sheldon way behind. Georgy was a natural entrepreneur.

What Young Sheldon ultimately shows us is that the man with the self-professed eidetic memory is actually an unreliable narrator.

As someone on the spectrum, Sheldon honestly represents one of my greatest fears, that people only keep me around because I don’t understand some things and act weirdly sometimes, which they find funny, and it was so refreshing to have Young Sheldon accurately depict how it feels being a kid with autism

When I first heard they were doing Young Sheldon, I hated the idea. I thought it was a blatant cash grab, and I honestly thought it would flop. Today, it’s now one of my favorite tv shows. Love it!

I love the parallel between Sheldon & pennys friendship and missy & sheldons sibling bond. Penny and sheldons odd bond on tbbt was always the heart of the show to me

I liked when Sheldon was Young, it really brought together the whole show. Fr though Young Sheldon actually has an interesting story, especially once the family starts falling apart.

Okay, I have to comment on the Whole Sheldon and Penny thing. It wasn't hard to figure out even before Young Sheldon came out. The Second Missy showed up and she was basically Penny as a brunette with a Texan accent, the parallel between the relationships wasn't hard to figure out. Sheldon was reminded of his sister and she was trying to be nice because of Leonard and the fact that they were neighbors, until she fell into the role of surrogate sister. TBBT didn't harp on it but it was there for anyone who to the time to see it.

"Sheldon found his chosen family. The one that didn't HAVE TO stick by him but CHOSE TO anyway" Love this

Now we know that the woman he seen having relations with his dad, was his mom dressed up in her German outfit. A brilliant way for the Young Sheldon show to save his dad’s reputation and a way to keep him as likable character.

The thing they got so right is that BBT caricaturized his family through the lens of someone who didn't observe or understand the nuances of what his family went through- only focused on how he was affected. YS focused less on Sheldon and more on the family and their real problems and feelings. Missy, George, and Georgie felt ignored, Mary didn't want people to think poor of her or her family, George was having real adult problems as the family breadwinner in a time that the middle class was starting to fall apart. Georgie wanted to be his own man and frankly showed a LOT of responsibility as he grew up, and George felt like many fathers do as their eldest children want more independence without the knowledge of how hard being an adult really is. And the introduction of Paige was genius because it showed another brilliant child physicist who was more emotionally intelligent than Sheldon but lacked the feeling of peer connection- she couldn't find her people the way Sheldon eventually did. I want more of her story and where she ends up. Its a shame she isn't at all a part of BBT because she would have finally found a place of acceptance among Bernadette and Amy.

I think Sheldon maybe saw Penny as a do-over bond with a sisterly figure. He and Missy were often at odds growing up and their relationship was often delicate but with Penny he tried more to be there for her as well as letting his guard down and letting her into his world. He wasn't afraid to be vulnerable around her and while he did flex his usual brand of superiority around her he also knew to sometimes just talk to Penny like a human. He genuinely values Penny and her role in his life and it was sweet to see.

As a female nerd/geek/whatever, BBT always made me so uncomfortable when it was on. As an ADHD parent, Young Sheldon is SO GOOD as a family series.

Young Sheldon is literally the Better Call Saul of the Big Bang Theory universe. Genius filmmaking, bravo to everyone involved

i liked bbt when I was 14-17 but I kinda lost interest after a few seasons. But I LOVE young Sheldon. The acting was great and the situations were hilarious and believable for Sheldon. I really liked meemaw

Young Sheldon without Sheldon is just a good sitcom. I haven't gone back and watched TBBT since seeing the new one, but I can see it making specific episodes deeper.

I think it’s the fact that it had a different purpose, TBBT was created as a sitcom while Young Sheldon was meant to be a “documenter” about Sheldon’s life

Young sheldon is genuinely one of the best family sitcoms I've ever seen. For a long time, i didnt even know it was comnected to the big bang theory. The entire cast is amazing, the humor is amazing, and the show is still so consistently good over the course of 7 seasons.

I never questioned Sheldons and Pennys relationship and always saw it as some sort of sibling relationship. It just kinda made sense. Honestly, i found sheldon and penny being friends more believeble than Penny and Lennard. Not because she is „hot“ and he is „smart“, but there is just no depth to them. Like, what do they talk about? What do they like about each other? It is never explained. They are just together. They only talked about kids when they were already married. Like who does that?

I loved how the relationship between Sheldon & Penny developed over the years. I never for one second thought it would ever be a love triangle. I can see how Penny would remind him of his sister but I think she also reminds him of his meemaw (as portrayed by Annie Potts.) She loves & supports him but calls him on his stuff. The hardest thing for me about Young Sheldon is waiting for Sheldon's dad to die.

I'm so happy to see this finally. Young Sheldon is such a good story. It's story of a family, a whole community. And I'm so glad to see so many people here enjoyed YS without knowing its link with TBBT. YS can be a perfect standalone series, it's complete in its own.

When this show got onto Netflix, my grandparents (who are Asian and don't watch sitcoms as a genre) LOVED Young Sheldon, they even binged it at one point! It was absolutely a favorite for them.

I remember I used to watch the TBBT and then didn't like it after a while. But I was wondering why Young Sheldon was popular and heard positive things about it. This video explains a lot of it

One of the major issues I always had with TBBT was that the gang of Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj were always described and seen by others as nerdy guys who like niche things. However, they can't actually convey that in their characters, because they can't alienate the general audience. They have to reference popular things that most people would know about, so that an audience member can go "Hey, they referenced the Flash being fast. I know that character and that they're really fast" (Another example is that there was an episode where Penny was stumped that the gang would go watch an extended edition of the Lord of the Rings in theaters, as if the Lord of the Rings isn't one of the most popular film series in the world.) So when I picked up Young Sheldon, I was expecting that there'd just be more of the same. Oh boy was I pleasantly surprised by what I found.

A fun Easter Egg that could have been: Young Sheldon being told as a story from the perspective of Old Sheldon made sense because Sheldon has an eidetic memory. However, this was sadly no longer true as we also saw events which Sheldon wasn't around to witness.

Lasagna of character moments is an amazing term. And 6 seasons? Dang. Better Call Saul is my favorite show ever so I love it being mentioned!

The funny thing is I believe they tried so hard to make Leonard the main character in the beginning it definitely feels that way but ultimately the fan base loved Sheldon the most.

Came here after the "big reveal" in S7 E12. I never expected a show about a young Sheldon Cooper to make me cry so hard. What a punch in the gut... Even though we knew it was coming, I did not expect it to hit so close to home. The acting in that scene was absolutely visceral. Good on the writers for following through after all this time.

I think Sheldon's love of contracts was established well before the story arc with the data base. There was a much earlier episode where Sheldon and Missy were disputing about what to do that day. Sheldon challenged her to a series of competitions, each one involving a written agreement, to see who would get to pick what to do. She ultimately won the game but, as Jim Parson's adult Sheldon explained in the final narration, he had really won because they had wound up spending the day doing things he liked to do, staying indoors, playing intellectual games and, "Writing contracts." The business with the data base may have increased his need for contracts in life, but that was already something that was important to him.

As someone on the autism spectrum one of the difference between the Big Bang theory and young sheldon is how they portray his implied autism. In the Big Bang theory Jim Parsons decided to portray him as autistic from the sheldon’s quirky jokes which made it feel like a joke and a punchline whereas in young sheldon his autism is actually much more realistic, yes he has moments where he’s “odd” but he also has sensory issues, routine difficulties and hyperfixations which were all jokes in the Big Bang theory

Young Sheldon seems human and real. We all know these people, been these people.

I knew nothing about The Big Bang Theory before watching Young Sheldon (which may be surprising, but I am 17 and have always heard bad things about TBBT, thus making me oblivious to the fact that Sheldon Cooper is literally the name of the main character in it) So I was devastated to learn that Young Sheldon was the prequel to it mid-way through watching the show while I was googling about the cast of Young Sheldon. While digging deeper through it, I kept finding out things like George cheating and even passing away when Sheldon was 14. All I’m trying to say is, man am I dreading the inevitable 😭.

I'm not sure if that's the case but you very much seem unaware that Young Sheldon started before Georgie's appearance on The Big Bang Theory. It wasn't like "Oh so this is Sheldon's brother, I wonder what happened to them" and then there's YS, it was more like "Oh cool they brought this Young Sheldon character into TBBT! And acknowledged why he wasn't around until now!" It wasn't YS fixing TBBT, it was TBBT fixing itself.

I seem to recall an episode where Penny and Sheldon have an afternoon together where they really get to know each other. There Sheldon states that Penny in some ways reminds him of his meemaw (grandmother). I like the brother sister parallel you mentioned, it fits even better I guess, but there's some overlap between the sister and meemaw aspect in Penny.

The dad in Young Sheldon also played Leonards highschool bully. A true time traveler.

I find it funny when people say the Sound guy wanted to put the laugh track every time, because it was proven there were very few moments the laugh tracks were actually artificially added. TBBT had an audience. Sometimes, the laughs were so loud because the actors had done something wrong, even them would complain and make people laugh harder, sometimes they couldn't laugh a lot through certain jokes, and in these times there were laugh tracks. Still, saying the show had laugh tracks added into the scenes artificially all the time is not true and I wish more people saw that. EVEN IF the audience had a fucking screen saying: Silence/Laugh, it's hard for normal people force out a laugh. And there's only many times you can re-do a joke to catch that reaction out from people in a live show like that. So yeah. TBBT have a lot of problems, to me, most of them happens in the five first seasons since some of the jokes aged insanely bably. But overall, it's a good show, better than Friends for me. Young sheldon is a very diferent kind of show, and of course some people who enjoys comedy won't like it because they are there for the laughs, not for the feels. YS goes for feels, not for laughs. Even if there are some wholesome hilarious moments in it.

Pov when you watch sequel to a series without knowing its a sequel

Now that I’ve seen both TBBT and YS, it is really beautifully crafted in a humanly way. The dance between the forward and initiative dialogue of TBBT vs. Young Sheldon’s more reserved and receptive type dialogue that’s more about the feelings and unwritten nuances. It’s like yin and yang. Complimentary yet contrasting. Very unique and one of a kind. Won’t get another Tv show that can do quite this. Even if Friends or HIMYM or any other popular show made a prequel it wouldn’t really be interesting. YS even touches on spirituality which I love how they included it respectively.

I remember telling my friend that I like TBBT but just in short form, tiktok/reels/shorts videos. But I absolutely adore Young Sheldon. From how they ditch the laugh track, to how the Cooper family and their relationships becomes endearing. It isn’t focused on making Sheldon’s quirk the comedy, granted that it does make for good laugh here and there. But it never is the punchline.

Honestly watching Young Sheldon long before I sat and watched the episodes of BBT.. It made me enjoy the personality of Sheldon more and explains why hes the way he is a lot more instead of it being a random char on screen that is a bit looney lol. Then you realize "Oh, hes literally been this way since 6/7yrs old"

Young sheldon is no longer about comedy and is not longer about sheldon, Young sheldon is a drama show. George provides simple romance , is a will they, wont they with the girl (I dont remember her name). Meemaw provides conflict, joke conflict with George and real conflict with the gambling room. Missy provides some sadness with her feeling sad because of Sheldon taking all of the attention and some fun and danger when she goes away. Sheldon provided comedy and plot but now everything else is more exciting so now there is no reason to make him important.

Ive never watched TBBT - i have heard so much about it, and have sven seen some clips from time to time, but BOY do I gobble up YS. I go back and watch it over and over and OVER again

I love Young Sheldon. It is so good and has a lot of heart. Gives a certain gravitas to TBBT

I’m gonna be honest when I think of Young Sheldon my mind does NOT go to the Big Bang Theory

Some people I know watch Young Sheldon and don’t even know the parent series TBBT; they still like YS which shows how good it is

Honestly I love TBBT for a decent laugh and the interesting story and character arcs some people went through. Yes the laugh track can be irritating at times but I try to not let it take away from the actors, the writers and the people that poured their hearts into the show. Meanwhile Young Sheldon is everything I liked about TBBT and cranks it up to 11. The actors are amazing and you really get the sense of what it was like for Sheldon and his family growing up in Texas, having character arcs and becoming very fleshed out characters. It deserves a lot more credit than it has now.

It's so nice that Chuck took the criticism of the BBT to heart in his next works and improved his craft as a writer on many levels- it makes for a nice change honestly.

You didnt even have to watch TBBT to enjoy Young Sheldon. Young Sheldon is a great show.

In BBT, Georgie said he had a lot of mommas. Young Georgie is a gentleman and a great husband/father, hope that doesn't mean Mindy dies but just Old Georgie joking he said mommas hope that is true because I don't want to see a tragic character de-development of Georgie.

I love how honest and heartfelt Young Sheldon is. It also seems to correct a lot of the plot holes about his childhood, from The Big Bang Theory. For example, George, Sr. wasn't the horrible person that Sheldon or his mother had described on The Big Bang Theory. On Young Sheldon, he very rarely drinks, except for an occasional beer during a football game, or at the local bar. He's not physically abusive, and families do argue occasionally. George and Mary's marriage is improving. Sheldon's relationship with his siblings starts out as sibling rivalry, but eventually, they do start to care for each other more. Missy has learned responsibility. Meemaw is strong and loving. And because of Mandy, Georgie has become a family man. Mary isn't the old school racist we saw on The Big Bang Theory; in fact, she's the one who had encouraged him to friends with Tam, in the first place. I've often read online articles and seen RU-vid videos about the inconsistencies between these shows, and I agree. As Sheldon grows, he learns to understand more about the world.

seeing Leonard's bully after watching the 6 seasons of young Sheldon made me hella confused hahahaha it felt so weird yet so funny at the same time (SPOILER ALERT: for those who don't know, somewhere in s5 of tbbt leonard meets his high school bully, and the bully was the same actor who plays George in young Sheldon)

Sheldon is less annoying in young Sheldon than the Big Bang Theory

First time I’ve watched one of your videos- very good and THANK YOU for not filling it with profanity like most of RU-vid.

One of the many things I like about prequel shows, when they're done right, is how they handle with the fact that they've created characters and storylines that obviously weren't a thing when the original show was around. Sure, The Big Band Theory was still airing during Young Sheldon's first two seasons, so they did manage to include some things on the sitcom (like Sheldon's childhood friend Tam, or how Meemaw is a cowgirl), but, once it ended, they were left with the issue of "how are we going to deal with these elements, knowing full well that TBBT's canon is now set in stone?". Young Sheldon has chosen to fix it by making sure that, even if the characters and the events involved won't even get mentioned on The Big Band Theory, you still get the feeling that they have shaped some aspect of the adult Sheldon we've known for 12 years. It even gives you a rewatch bonus, because you can think "after Young Sheldon, this scene from The Big Bang Theory has a new meaning".

"the sounds was just itching to press the laught track button" no not really afaik bbt is done with a live studio audience so the audience was just itching to laugh

I rewatched tbbt all 12 seasons in a few weeks and I literally love it, it’s my favorite show of all time, I have nothing to complain abt it and would watch way more than 12 seasons lol. It was kinda weird for me starting to watch young Sheldon bc of these differences. I literally just started, I’m on season 2 😂. Sheldon was always my favorite character and I was really curious to watch how his childhood would be and how they’d fill the plot holes about his life left in tbbt I was really curious abt. The format is different but I’m getting used to it and enjoying a lot lol

excellent! you just earned yourself a new subscriber! thanks

Thanks for posting. 😊

The writers did a fantastic job and didn't treat YS as a cash grab flashback of sheldon for the fans of TBBT by focusing on the family which made the show it's own thing which is very enjoyable for everyone even if they didn't see TBBT while still giving the origins of sheldon weirdness for hardcore fans and the family having their own journey while dealing with sheldon is way better and more interesting than revolving around sheldon and lastly the cast is amazing and while the children were phenomenal but the parents gave the best performance

Great video! _Young Sheldon_ just keeps surprising me. I'm very excited to see what the final season has to offer and how they'll tie up all the lose ends between the two shows.

wow, I used to have this irrational hate toward this show only seeing clips, but this video was really good at highlighting how good this show really might be. awesome video dude!

No laugh track,that's how they fixed it

I think it would have been nice to see Sheldon’s family in the finale. Regardless of the falling out with the family a moment of winning the Nobel peace prize should have been a way to establish some communication. Yes the main cast of the Big Bang theory is the chosen family, but you can really never forget your own family. I mean it just make it seems that Sheldon doesn’t love them at all. Again regardless of what the circumstances surrounding their falling out was.

I don’t get the hate for when the women showed up. As a woman married to a neurodivergent man, I related (sometimes a bit too much) to the relationship the women had with them men. My youngest (on the spectrum) ADORES Young Sheldon. He has thoroughly enjoyed watching the Big Bang Theory with me.

Great video! I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Young Sheldon.

Actually 🤓☝️ the contract thing sheldon does comes from him interfering in meemaw and dr sturgis's relationship when they first started dating (he even mentions by the end of the episode how he would end up using it in all future relationships). Correct me if I'm wrong though. Great video by the way❤

8:20 Yorokobe Sheldon-shonen

i went into young sheldon not having watched the big bang theory and i am enjoying it so so much im on season 4 or 5 i believe and it is so much more than just sheldon, i personally love missy, meemaw and the mom but everyone is really likable and has good character development throughout the show.

I wish they wouldn't go the route of George cheating. Of course, Sheldon says that he saw it, but it really seems out of character for this George. They could easily avoid it, with Sheldon going to Germany (and thus not being able to witness anything), disconnecting it from TBBT.

lol as i was thinking "its like better call saul, we are anticipating what happens since we know what goes wrong" you said it haha

i started watching young sheldon as a joke because of all the youtube shorts clips of it, but i ended up really liking it lmao, its genuinely a good show

I like young Sheldon, cause it actually revolves around his family not the Sheldon alone And the writing is great as well

I love Georgie's story so much in Young Sheldon, that I pretty much only watch it to see how Georgie's going.

i looove young sheldon. missy is the absolute best, i also love meemaw! i love mary as well, and dr sturgis is wonderful. so many great characters. and about a family that many can relate to, in different ways.

Idk why Mary’s emotional cheating with pastor rob in young Sheldon isn’t talked about more

I can wait until they make a series following some of the relationships that didn’t make sense, or what they were like going through college, I’d like to see pennys view because as you said “Shes the pretty blond neighbor-“ so I wonder if people have taken advantage of her for her looks.

Subbed, great video sir, as someone who hasn't gotten to watch either show, but has always wanted to watch them, I'm gonna start with young Sheldon, by the time i get to the end of season 6, hopefully season 7 will have dropped, or be dropping shortly, then i can finish the series, and eatch TBBT afterwards, with all context filled in on Sheldon's life, kid to where the show begins. 💯😃

My grandma literally called BBT The Sheldon Show and couldnt remember the actual name She never missed an episode 😂

I think we all know that the show is probably gonna end with George's death

apparently Missy is the youngest of the three Cooper kids and Shelden is the older twin so Sheldon is technically the middle child

The Penny/Sheldon relationship was funny and endearing at first because it was an opposites-attract, odd couple kind of relationship/trope. Kaley and Jim also managed to play off each other perfectly. It became obvious when Missy came to visit that she was very much like Penny and Young Sheldon has done a good job expanding on all of that.

2:26 i feel obligated to point out that it wasn't a laugh track. TBBT was recorded in front of a live studio audience

I didn’t know that sequence of words could be put together in a sentence before. And i know many sentences. (I had honestly written the show off after only watching five seasons of BBT. I might watch the rest after watching this video)

Meemaw is the MVP of young sheldon

I actaully really like how they explained the affair as a misunderstanding that sheldon never got the full story about. Also i still remember i avpided this show like the plague for years because i thought it was gonna be another trash fire spinoff we've seen a hundered times from other shows. I watched one episode and was genuinely surprised how much i enjoyed how it, it felt like iwas genuinely made with love

Big bang theory would have been Big if Laugh tracks wasnt a thing cause omfg they keep doing it

I finally watched the first 5 seasons of young Sheldon and I’m ver surprised how good it is!!!

I always found Sheldon to be the best and most relatable character on Big Bang Theory. Well I mean I wasn't a genius or anything like that but stuff like him having only one seat he will sit in was one example of something that I found to be relatable about Sheldon as back in highschool when I was watching the show I would have preferred places to sit in every classroom. At least in the ones that didn't have assigned seats. And even at age 31, I still have preferred places to sit in just about every place I go with seats. And there is of course more that I could mention that I found relatable but this comment is already long enough.

I just binged all 5 seasons that are on Netflix. Such a good show

Just one point I want to address, Sheldon's relationship with his mom changed when all that drama happened with the half wit Pastor Jeff and Mary stepping back from the church. Sheldon's family is just like any other family during the 90s and I feel for Sheldon because we are both middle children, Sheldon was born 2 minutes before Missy. The continuity issues stem from a revolving door of writers most show encounter, the new writers don't care what the previous writers establish and even the most established show writer will contradict themselves like they will have Sheldon say in season 2 he has always done the 3 knock thing but that didn't start until season 2. 👍

I loved loved loved Sheldon and Amy!!! It’s what turned it around for me. Loved seeing this wholesome pure relationship that’s so lacking in Hollywood. Finally a relationship- that builds up over time and didn’t focus on sexual pursuits. But yes watched TBBT after Young Sheldon. So much more rich that way.

yep, he didint cheat, sheldon as always got it wrong XD

Is it possible for you to rank the season 16 episodes of it's always sunny?

According to Adult Georgie in tbbt, when George died, Mary was deeply affected and became a mess and he handled most of the families problems esp Missy. Let's see how they will play that out in the upcoming spin-off since he is now a starting young family man.

Started watching Young Sheldon and I just cant stop thinking about where the characters end up in BBT. Its really killing my enjoyment for the show.

I really like young Sheldon and would absolutely LOVE a prequel show about any of the other 6 main characters and you know what fuck it 7 I’ll count Stewart in there as well