Young Sheldon – David, Goliath, and a Yoo-Hoo from the Back

By starrymag | February 6, 2019

By: Ujjyani Banerjee

 

 

The episode begins with Sheldon (Iain Armitage) and Tam (Ryan Phuong) hammering fossil rocks in Science class while adult Sheldon (Jim Parsons) pines about how mighty fossils end up on a lab table. As the bell rings and people start dispersing, Sheldon notices a bully pushing Georgie (Montana Jordan) against lockers warning him to watch himself. Sheldon goes over to inquire about it, but Georgie asks him to drop it. However, Sheldon goes over to the urinal to talk to the bully (Ryan Cargill) and learns about how Georgie hit on his girlfriend causing the altercation. Sheldon adds that he too ends up imitating people with intelligence. Just then, his classmate walks in and scurries out fast upon spotting Sheldon. He and the bully share a smirk.

 

Missy (Raegan Revord) is having her yearbook photo taken at school and she’s put tons of makeup. The teacher asks if her parents know. Missy says that her mom knows. The teacher says he’ll call her mom. Missy rolls her eyes.

 

Sheldon comes back to Georgie telling him about his word with the bully, Tommy Clarkson, and how he’s not that bad. He adds that it was wrong of him to have hit on Tommy’s girlfriend. Georgie is infuriated and is about to give Sheldon an earful, but Tommy steps in forcing Georgie to apologize.

 

Mary (Zoe Perry) drives Missy home scolding her on the makeup and gets even more annoyed upon learning that Meemaw (Annie Potts) nudged Missy about it and says she’ll speak to her. Missy rolls her eyes again.

 

At home Georgie is watching TV and Sheldon comes in to watch “Professor Proton,” but his brother who’s super mad ain’t changing the channel. Sheldon starts threatening him saying he’ll call up Tommy who’s shared his phone number with him. It works and “Professor Proton” is on in no time.

 

Mary and Missy go to Connie’s as Mary wants to discuss why Connie gave makeup to her daughter. Connie denies and Missy eventually comes clean on stealing makeup out of Meemaw’s bag. Mary’s raging mad at her and asks her to sleep at Meemaw’s.

 

The next day Sheldon asks Georgie to get him a Yoo Hoo from the fridge. When Georgie asks him to self serve, Sheldon asks him to mind his tone. George (Lance Barber) comes in and Georgie starts complaining, but Sheldon just says he asked for a Yoo Hoo. Georgie is forced to abide as his brother signals to call up Tommy again. It works this time too as Georgie ends up taking out one of the colder Yoo Hoo’s from the back of the refrigerator for Tommy’s new BFF.

 

Meemaw cleans up Missy’s makeup asking when did she manage to steal it. It turns out she half-inched when Meemaw went bowling. She asks how Missy managed to get in to her house to which she said she won’t disclose as she might have to sneak in again in the future. Meemaw also asks Missy to go easy on makeup henceforth or else she’d resemble Raggedy Andy. Missy asks how old was mom when she was allowed to do makeup. Meemaw says she never had such rules, but Mary was a wild teenager who’d sneak out at nights to hang out with friends and sneak back in before morning. Missy’s attention is piqued.

 

Mary is chopping angrily in her kitchen and George comes in asking if all’s okay. She says she’s hating her new bad guy persona that’s making people resent her. George says he’s in it too as he recently handled a Georgie-Sheldon fight situation and comforts her saying that he’s got her back; it makes Mary smile.

 

Missy and Meemaw check out photo albums and Missy’s shocked to see her mom smoking cigarettes. Meemaw tells it was uncool making Missy wonders when exactly her mom stopped becoming cool. It seems Missy’s birth was the turning point when a complicated delivery that risked Missy’s chances of survival made Mary vow that if all went smoothly she’d turn her life to religion and faith, which she did. Meemaw asks Missy to think about how much she means to Mary the next time she inevitably hurts her. Missy feels bad and ponders into deep thought.

 

At school Sheldon gets the much deserved respect from his classmates now that he’s friends with Tommy. He relates himself to Carl Sagan from PBS. At gym period Sheldon notices some bullying and goes up to the bully trying to put his friendship with Tommy to good use. It doesn’t work as he soon finds himself informing Tommy about a 3pm fight that Jason Davies has scheduled with him. It freaks Tommy out, but he agrees to handle it.

 

The next day Mary tells Connie how good Missy’s been behaving. She hugged her while being dropped off at school in front of her friends, especially Heather which apparently is a big deal. Mary asks what did Connie do. Without delving in too much, Connie says she gave life lessons, same old grandma stuff. Mary feels left alone as she’s the only bad guy around now. Connie reassures her saying that she’s doing a great job raising the kids and motherhood has always been a thankless job.

 

At lunch, as Tam keeps murmuring about family issues, Sheldon’s disturbed thinking about Tommy’s 3pm fight and plans on ways to stop it. As the clock strikes three and everybody is cheering Jason (Forrest Deal) on, Sheldon tries to work his brain in order to stop the brawl. He reaches just in time ordering Jason to fight him instead. Taking the offer, he says he’d love to kick both of their asses. Sheldon in turn threatens to slingshot a rock at him like David and Goliath from The Bible. Davies agrees, saying it’d be his turn to fight next. Sheldon slings the rock right on his forehead but soon senses impending danger and takes a sprint in the opposite direction. Adult Sheldon recollects that though most anti-parties appreciate their enemy’s courage after backing down post-fight, it wasn’t the case with him. As it turns out, Jason locks Sheldon in his unpleasantly smelling locker for one whole night and adult Sheldon remembers that fateful night to this day!