Previously on Young Sheldon...
I love you.
- Veronica. - Hey, Georgie. What's up?
We're friends, right?
- What do you mean? - I've asked you out a bunch,
and you've made it pretty clear you weren't interested.
B-Before I asked out another girl,
- I just wanted to make sure that... - It's fine.
Guess I'll see you around.
Yep.
Of all my many skills,
one of the lesser known is my impressive ability
to wait for things.
I once stood perfectly still for 38 minutes
because a bee was on my shoulder.
I once waited four and a half hours
to be released from a locker.
Hello? Anyone there?
That's okay. I'll wait.
And one time, when Dr. Sturgis was late for a lecture,
I stayed longer than everyone.
Where are you all going?
Professor's not here.
I can teach the class.
I just need a box to stand on.
Dr. Sturgis?
Hello, Sheldon. What brings you here?
You never showed up to class.
Whoops.
Time flies when you're having fun.
What could be more fun than giving a physics lecture?
Finishing a physics paper.
Ooh, I like where this is headed.
I'm exploring the notion that time itself is quantized.
Interesting.
That sounds like a step towards a unified field theory.
Fingers crossed.
Although I can't cross my fingers... arthritis.
It's too dark back here. Do you have a flashlight?
In the glove box, I think.
Can you pass it back?
No. I'm driving.
All right. I'm coming up.
Don't crash while I'm unbuckled.
Really? You need to do this right now?
It's Dr. Sturgis's first paper in years.
It's worth risking head trauma.
Look at you climbing like a real boy.
Here we go.
"A Reconsideration of the Role of Time Operators
in Quantum Mechanics."
Grabby title.
Mm. I'll wait for the movie.
Ooh. He's opening with a critical examination
of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
I thought reading in the car made you nauseous.
That's in the back seat. Up here I'm fine.
- Oh, Sheldon. - Sorry.
Well, don't just keep reading!
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I am running over
to the Sparks's for a little while.
Why?
Team meeting with the other baseball moms.
You're all right until Dad gets home?
Oh, yeah. Charles is in charge.
Look at this. I'm talking to an egg.
I brought veggies and ranch.
That's nice. But when I said "snacks," I mean wine.
- Oh. - Don't worry.
I got plenty of emergency snacks.
All right, let's get to this.
We're coming up on the end of the season.
Who wants to handle the team cookout?
Got it.
Thank you, Meredith. Team picture day?
- That's me. - Carla, you're a gem.
Mary, that leaves you in charge of trophies. Any questions?
- Actually... - Snack time!
There's also, uh, veggies.
This is nice.
I like to think of Chi-Chi's as a more romantic Taco Bell.
So, uh, what do you like to get here?
What? Oh, uh, it-it doesn't matter.
It all tastes the same.
Hi. Welcome to...
Oh. Hey, Georgie.
Uh, hi.
I didn't know you worked here.
Well, haven't seen you in a while.
Oh, uh, you know Jana from school?
Yeah. Yeah, of course. Hi.
Hi.
So, can I get y'all started with some drinks?
I'm good with water.
Water sounds great. Refreshing.
I'm glad Dr. Sturgis let me read his paper
before he published.
Why is that?
He's getting numbers for the massive neutrinos
that are in excess of a hundred giga-electron volts.
Well, good for him.
No, it's embarrassing.
Had a 50-50 shot.
I guess I need to call and let him know
what a bonehead mistake he made.
There's probably a nicer way to say it.
Did you hear how massive his neutrinos were?
We're well into bonehead territory.
Sheldon, you don't need to be rude to him.
When am I rude?
Stay a child as long as you can.
Adulthood will not be kind to you.
Neat. The veins on your calf look like a road map of Texas.
Did you make this taste bad so Dad would lose weight?
Fine. I'll be polite.
But I still think
we could go to San Antonio using Meemaw's leg.
Hello?
Dr. Sturgis. It's Sheldon.
I hope you're well.
I am. I just had soup.
Anyway,
I was just calling to let you know I read your paper.
Wonderful. What did you think?
I thought your typing was very tidy.
Your sentence structure was impressive.
And your theory was...
not without succeeding in avoiding success.
Well, Sheldon, uh, you don't need to beat around the bush.
We're men of science. Uh, just give it to me straight.
The masses for your neutrinos are impossible.
Are you sure?
Yes. If they were that heavy, atoms could not beta decay.
I don't know how I missed that.
I'm such an idiot.
You're not an idiot. You're just a bonehead.
So you're saying you have no feelings for her at all?
I wasn't at the restaurant with her, I was there with you.
That doesn't answer my question!
I was hoping you wouldn't pick up on that.
Did you take me there on purpose?
Hold on a second.
Is this one of those fights
where we end up making out in the back seat?
No.
That's too bad.
Howdy.
Morning. I need to order some baseball trophies.
Baseball's over there.
So many choices.
Mm-hmm.
You should win a trophy for the most trophies.
Mm.
Maybe not the trophy for customer service.
Is this everything you have?
Impressive, isn't it?
I noticed that there are no baseball trophies
with girls on them.
Girls don't play baseball.
Actually, my daughter does.
Oh. Good for her.
And some of the girls might like a trophy with a girl on it.
Well, then they'll be very disappointed.
You know what?
I'm gonna take my business elsewhere.
Oh, no.
And you should win a trophy for being such a sourpuss!
Ta-ta!
- Hello? - Dr. Sturgis.
It's Sheldon. I hope I'm not interrupting anything.
Nah, just wondering what became of my career.
Oh.
Should I call you back later?
Oh, no. I can be downtrodden and chat at the same time.
- What's up? - I was thinking about
the mass problem of your neutrinos,
and I realized we might be able to solve it
if some of the particles have more spin.
Interesting.
That would certainly
get our neutrino mass to zero.
Although it does open up a problem
with double beta decay.
Hmm. That is true.
Unless what it's actually predicting
is a magnetic monopole.
Might be difficult to control the infinities.
Although,
if you consider adding faster-than-light particles
like tachyons, then I suppose you could...
- Quantize time. - Yes!
Hang on! If we're gonna be thinking at this level,
I should put on pants!
Can you believe this?
Boy trophy, boy trophy...
boy trophy.
Hmm, all I see is my trophy wife.
Nope? Okay.
Look, the only girl trophies
are for cheerleading, soccer and golf.
So buy Missy a golf trophy and tell her it's a skinny bat.
George.
That poor girl has been watching her brother win awards
since he was three years old.
I'd like for her first one to be special.
'Cause you think it may also be her last one?
I didn't say that.
But you thought it.
Yeah.
Mm.
Hey.
Here you go.
- What's this? - It's your tip from the other night.
I wanted to give it to you then,
but I also wanted to get out of there alive.
Don't worry about it.
You sure?
I'm sure.
So how long you been working there?
Couple weeks. Trying to save money for college.
Well, now you have to take this.
I insist.
Thank you.
How are things with Jana?
Honestly, I have no idea.
Should you even be talking to me right now?
Probably not.
But I'm glad I am.
Me, too.
Bye.
I'd like to end today's lecture with a hilarious physics joke.
Why didn't the photon pack a suitcase?
He was traveling light.
- Sheldon. - Ha, ha.
Thank you.
Class dismissed.
Well, our conversation about my paper
resulted in a very productive couple of days.
I completely rewrote the whole thing from scratch.
Exciting. I know credits are usually listed alphabetically,
but I'm completely fine with my name going second.
Sheldon, I've worked on this paper for years.
I'm not putting your name on it at all.
But I helped you.
You did, but you didn't cowrite the paper with me.
Is that so?
Yes, it is.
Well, this is an outrage.
After all the help I've given you,
and I don't even get credit?
Well, of course you are.
You're getting a special thanks in the footnotes.
No one reads the footnotes.
- I do. - Well, I do, too,
but that doesn't mean I want to be in them.
Sheldon, that's where people get recognition for helping.
Oh, you mean the help of using my math
to convert your hazy series of meanderings
into a well-formed scientific thesis?
I think you're overstating your contribution.
Well, I think you should be wearing a black ski mask
because you're trying to rob me blind.
Well, if anyone should be wearing an odd piece of apparel,
it should be you wearing a baby bonnet,
because that's how you're behaving.
- Ready to go? - Very!
It's a good thing she showed up,
because I do not have a comeback.
Darn it. When he called me a baby, I should've said,
"Then I guess you needed a baby's help to fix your paper."
Very clever.
Turn the car around.
We're halfway home.
It's not that clever.
Why aren't you being more supportive of me?
Sheldon, John is a lot of things, but he's not a thief.
So you're on his side.
I'm not.
So you're on my side.
For the sake of this car ride, sure.
Okay, here's the plan.
End your relationship with Coach Ballard,
date Dr. Sturgis again, get him to love you
more than ever, then when he least expects it,
break his heart and say, "That's for Sheldon."
Great plan.
You think so?
For the sake of this car ride, sure.
So shiny, aren't you, now?
Hello. Remember me?
Ah, I thought you were gonna take your business elsewhere.
Well, lucky for you, I believe in second chances.
Now, I know that you don't have girl baseball trophies in stock,
but could you have one made special?
Sure.
- Great. - A custom mold
is 50 bucks, and it takes six weeks.
I'm not paying you $50 for a trophy.
And I don't have six weeks.
Well, does your daughter look like a horse?
Maybe she'd like this.
I knew all that God talk was covering something really evil.
I am trying to make a special trophy for Missy.
So I'm gonna take this head and put it on that body.
Whatever you say, Dr. Frankenstein.
My daughter deserves to have a trophy
that looks something like her.
So this is kind of a feminist gesture on your part.
I prefer to think of it as a maternal gesture.
Let's just split the difference
and call it the stuff of nightmares.
It'll look better when I paint it.
I don't think so.
Grant Linkletter.
Dr. Linkletter, Sheldon Cooper.
I need your help reporting an academic crime.
- Sounds serious. - It is.
That's why I'm using my serious voice.
Then I'll use mine as well.
What's going on?
Dr. Sturgis has stolen my work
and is using it in his own paper.
Well, that's quite the allegation.
It's not an allegation; it's a fact.
He was getting enormous masses for his neutrinos,
and I showed him how to fix it,
but now he's refusing to list me as a coauthor.
Well, I think he has a point.
Is the "he" in that sentence me?
Because that is a strange way to phrase it.
No, the "he" is him.
I don't play games with sentence structure.
Look, I haven't done a forensic examination of this paper,
but it's not uncommon to show your work to a colleague
to get their feedback.
But I fixed his paper.
This kind of accusation could have real consequences.
I'd consider my next steps very carefully.
You're no help. Put me through to your supervisor.
Please let me speak to John
before you take this any further.
All right, but if he calls me a baby, feel free to say,
"Then I guess you needed a baby to fix your paper."
That's a good one, but I'm not gonna say it.
I bet the guy who invented the spork is a millionaire.
I guess.
I wonder if his last name is Spork.
It comes from "spoon" and "fork." Spork.
Oh, my God. Mind is blown.
You know what you should do? Cut your hair.
What?
I think it'd look better.
Ooh, maybe a little beard like George Michael.
I wonder how tall he is. I bet he's tall.
Hey. I have something to show you.
What's up?
I was gonna give this to you
at the end of the season party,
but I was so excited that I wanted you to see it now.
Mm.
What the hell is that?
I couldn't find any girl baseball trophies,
so I made you one.
Why is her head so big?
It's a Barbie head. I had to improvise.
You chopped the head off one of my Barbies?
Don't be silly. I bought a new one.
I could've had a new Barbie?
The point is you deserve to be recognized appropriately
for everything you've accomplished.
You can't give that to me in front of all the boys.
- Why? - It's embarrassing.
Well, we have plenty of time.
I can make the head smaller or the body bigger
or a little bit of both.
I just want the same trophy everyone else gets.
But I want you to feel special.
And I just want to feel regular.
Okay.
Well...
I'll make sure you get a regular one at the party.
Thank you.
Mom, wait.
I get what you were trying to do.
It's nice.
Thanks.
Can I keep that one, too?
You really want it?
I do.
Despite her many flaws,
my sister did have a soft spot in her heart.
And a fondness for blowing things up.
What was that?!
Hello?
How dare you accuse me of plagiarism?
And to my colleague, no less.
This is my reputation you're jeopardizing.
Well, give me the credit I deserve and I'll stop.
We've been over this.
You made a helpful suggestion and then you arrogantly assumed
that it entitled you to a coauthor credit,
which it doesn't.
But I was the one who...
I've been your friend
and mentor.
The idea that I would steal from you
is both personally and professionally insulting.
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, but...
Sheldon, I don't want to see you in my class anymore.
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