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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

Kinda funny how Georges "Love Affair" just ended up being Mary in a German costume

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

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.

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.

Mary's "hatred" of George Sr. is dealt with so beautifully in the YS finale. She hates him for dying on her, not for cheating (which he didn't do). The cheating plot point again was revealed (or I guess retconned) to be another case of Sheldon being an unreliable narrator who didn't full understand the relationships around him. That incident is also the origin of his knocking 3 times, yet another iconic quirk of Sheldon in TBBT. Definitely seems like this video deserves a remake now.

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

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.

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 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.

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?

this video came out just 3 months too early, they totally just retconned the whole Sheldon walking into Gorge cheating with another woman history in the latest episode. Turns out it was all a misunderstanding, it's sad Sheldon thought his dad cheated for all these years, although I'm happy to see this loving Geroge we learned to love didn't really cheat on Marry

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.

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 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.

Now thats season 7 has come out it revealed that the 'CHEATING' Sheldon caught his dad in was actually Mary dressed up as a german girl, and the anger is that he left her (as in died) just as their relationship was starting to be what it use to be. Like that the show implements what actually happened with the voice over of sheldon recalling what he thought happened

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.

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

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.

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.

I was one of those who hated the idea, wasn't until KZfaq started shoving Young Sheldon's shorts down my throat that I realized it was a good show and now just "Sheldon", watched the whole thing, the beginning is meh but the rest is really good

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!

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

There was no affair in the end. It was Mary Cooper in a costume.

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 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

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 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.

you probably should've waited for young sheldon to be finished before making this ngl

Except George didn’t cheat on Mary.

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

I actually cried when no one came to Sheldons invitation for noble peace prize announcement then they cut to show younger versions of his friends

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.

18:35 That aged badly

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.

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 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.

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"

I loved how Young Sheldon navigated difficult situations like Mary’s spirituality and Sheldon’s secular view of things. I especially loved the episode where Sheldon talked about gravity to Mary and how despite of him not being completely sold at the idea of a god, he said he believes in Mary.

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

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.

A certified Huzzah ✊🤓BAZINGAAAAA!!!!!☝️🤓 moment

Young Sheldon has more in common with Malcolm in the Middle than the Big Bang Theory.

George cheated on Mary with.....Mary

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.

Well George didn’t cheat on Mary. I think Mary is angry at George for dying at the turning point in their life. She said so at his funeral. They were at a better place and things started going well for the whole family. She is also angry for not trying enough to have a better relationship with George while he was alive since she never expected this. So maybe she’s just coping and has been coping her whole life afterwards.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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".

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

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

Since we now know that George DID NOT cheat on Mary, and in fact, Sheldon walked in on his parent role playing. (Although they both had a flirtation with someone else, neither acted on it). I think since, at the time of filming TBBT, Chuck didn't know there would be a Young Sheldon, it is safe to assume it was done for laughs. They could imply that Mary never got over the anger of George dying. It would fit with Georgie's statement that his mother was a mess after their father died. It would also fit with her comments at Sheldon's wedding that she wished George was there to see Sheldon get married and that he would be proud of him.

It turned out George Sr. never cheated on Mary. Mary was just dressed as another woman when Sheldon walked in. That explains Sheldon's behavior (sort of) in TBBT but not Mary's (if, indeed, she complained about George cheating).

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❤

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

Meemaw is the MVP of young sheldon

8:20 Yorokobe Sheldon-shonen

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

Btw spoiler alert, Sheldon’s mom hated his father because he died and left her and the kids

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

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

Young Sheldon latest episode, broke me a little. 😢 Also George S. never goes all the way with Brenda.

Really funny how we still thought how Brenda Sparks was gonna be the fling but they literally stopped that in season 6 and the fact George cheated on Mary with Mary was another funny misconception by Sheldon

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

George never really had a physical affair . Young Sheldon showed him meeting the neighbor in the shed to talk

I never thought I would live to see the day someone compare Young Sheldon to Better Call Saul

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 KZfaq videos about the inconsistencies between these shows, and I agree. As Sheldon grows, he learns to understand more about the world.

As a matter of fact, George has never physically betrayed Mary, till his demise. Even at the time Sheldon came home early from the University and found George sleeping with a woman that looked differently, It was Mary in disguise that she wore for intercourse purposes. Up to the very moment that George died, he and Mary were fixing a lot on their relationship. So the question why did Mary remained so angry about George on TBBT stays unresolved.

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

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

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

This video is a little premature considering george never cheated on mary

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.

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

George Sr. Did not cheat on Mary. Talking doesn't equate to cheating. You've lost me here.

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.

You probably won't see this, but in S7 E4 him cheating is debunked. He walks in on Mary roleplaying as a German women and Sheldon catches them without knowing it's his Mom