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by Lance Barber. George "Georgie" Cooper Jr. (Jerry O'Connell): Sheldon and Missy's brother, who lives in Texas and runs a car tire business. Often at odds while growing up, the Cooper brothers begin to reconcile their differences when Sheldon and Leonard visit George in season 11 before Sheldon's wedding. Known as Georgie in his younger days, he appears as a main character on "Young Sheldon" played by Montana Jordan. (Courtney Henggeler): Sheldon's attractive twin sister who appears in the episode
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and egotistical and Meemaw soon gives her blessings to Sheldon and Amy's relationship. In the prequel series "Young Sheldon", Meemaw is played by Annie Potts. In that series, it is revealed that she is Sheldon's maternal grandmother and has a compulsive gambling habit. The following list is sorted in alphabetic order of first names. Alex Jensen (Margo Harshman) is a Caltech graduate student who appears in season six. Sheldon hires her to review his kindergarten and elementary-school notebooks for any possible Nobel Prize-winning
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Young Sheldon (stylized as young Sheldon) is an American comedy television series on CBS created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro. The series is a spin-off prequel to "The Big Bang Theory" and begins with the character Sheldon Cooper at the age of nine, living with his family in East Texas and going to high school. Iain Armitage stars as young Sheldon, alongside Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan, Raegan Revord, and Annie Potts. Jim Parsons, who portrays the adult Sheldon Cooper on "
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played by Raegan Revord in the prequel series "Young Sheldon". Constance "MeeMaw" Tucker (June Squibb): Sheldon's grandmother from Texas. Sheldon is her favorite grandchild, whom she calls "Moonpie". Sheldon in turn is very affectionate and protective toward her; while he can be very critical of other family members, he will not allow anyone to criticize his grandmother. Meemaw is often mentioned by Sheldon, but did not appear on the series until Episode 14 of Season Nine, "The Meemaw Manifestation"
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Mary also tells Sheldon how proud she is of him and that her comment that sometimes its the imperfections in things that make things perfect gives Sheldon an epiphany about his string theory work. Mary has argued with Leonard's mother, Beverly, over the fact she never nurtured Leonard properly the way she has with Sheldon, while Beverly has criticized her for her narrow-minded beliefs. A younger version of Mary (played by Metcalf's real-life daughter Zoe Perry) is a main character in the prequel series "Young Sheldon
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reminiscent of stalking, Sheldon reacts positively to Ramona by appreciating the fact that he is getting a free dinner. During their date, the rest of the gang is sitting on the couch as spectators of this strange turn of events. She keeps "helping" Sheldon by arranging suitable working conditions for him, such as getting breakfast for him at the cafeteria and giving him foot rubs. Unfortunately for Sheldon, she overdoes her insistence that Sheldon dedicate his time solely for work, depriving him of his favorite hobbies such as playing games
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Pop Pop". Sheldon was also very close to his grandfather, stating once that his grandfather is the only relative he had who encouraged him to become involved in science. Sheldon has a maternal uncle, Edward, who is called "Stumpy" as the result of a time when he cleaned a wood chipper by hand. He also has a maternal aunt, Charlene, which was revealed in "Young Sheldon" when his mother told Meemaw that she made dinner for “Charlene and Edward” more times than her. Sheldon
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with Sheldon's encouragement. She becomes angry when she learns of Sheldon spending time with Ramona Nowitzki, who she suspects has romantic feelings for Sheldon (which she does). In the season finale, after Ramona kisses Sheldon, he visits Amy and proposes to her. The episode ends on a cliffhanger awaiting her answer. In the season 11 premiere episode "The Proposal Proposal", which picks up immediately after Sheldon's proposal, Amy's answer is further delayed by a phone call from Leonard and Penny, after which she
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, Sheldon decides to prove his devotion to Amy by finally having sex with her, as she has been hoping he will do for the past few years. Some time later, after Sheldon takes Amy to see "The Force Awakens", Jeffries returns to Sheldon to ask him about his first sexual experience with her, but Sheldon thinks Jeffries is talking about the film and tells him he enjoyed it. For his role as Jeffries, in 2013, Newhart won his first Primetime Emmy Award. Newhart plays the same character on
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, Penny called for Mary's help, who subsequently called and scolded Sheldon about his actions. Leonard wishes his mother were as loving as Sheldon's mother, although Sheldon himself appears at best ambivalent about her parenting. Sheldon once mentions that Mary once hit him with a Bible because he refused to eat his Brussels sprouts. She apparently thought something was wrong with her son while he was growing up, as Sheldon will often remark after someone calls him crazy, "I'm not crazy; my mother had me tested!"
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had another uncle, named Carl Cooper, who was killed by a badger while cleaning a chimney and another uncle that may have done things to children that were legal in Oklahoma per "The Clean Room Infiltration". In "The Engagement Reaction", Sheldon mentions that his aunt Ruth died a week after being infected by a pathogen she contracted in the hospital where she visited Sheldon's uncle Roger, and that their ashes are now stored in a coffee can on Sheldon's mother’s mantle. In the "Young Sheldon"
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programs. He urges the guys to make an appearance to schmooze the donors so they will give to their projects. Seeing Sheldon's behavior toward the donors, he asks that he not appear again. In season five, Siebert forces Sheldon to use up his vacation days, and when Sheldon and Kripke battle for an office at the university, they interrupt Siebert at a urinal to get him to make a decision on who gets the office. In season eleven, the President returns and is very excited about Sheldon and Amy's
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was cast as the younger Sheldon, as well as Zoe Perry as his mother, Mary Cooper. Perry is the real-life daughter of Laurie Metcalf, who portrays Mary Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory". Lance Barber stars as George Cooper Sr., Sheldon's father; he had previously appeared in one episode of "The Big Bang Theory". Raegan Revord stars as Missy Cooper, Sheldon's twin sister; and Montana Jordan as George Cooper Jr., Sheldon's older brother. Jim Parsons reprises his role
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, Sheldon starred with Cara Williams and Frank Aletter on the CBS situation comedy, "The Cara Williams Show" in which Williams and Aletter played a married couple trying to keep their marriage a secret because their employer forbade husband and wife from working together. From 1966–1967, Sheldon starred in his own 16-episode CBS sitcom, "Run, Buddy, Run", as Buddy Overstreet, a young accountant taking a steam bath who, overhearing a mobster's plot to kill a colleague, then goes on the run to keep from being
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Norman Sheldon


Norman Sheldon was a Scottish soccer player and hall of famer who played in Canada in the early half of the 1900s. Sheldon was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada, more specifically Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1906 after a junior football career in Scotland. It was the community of Prince Albert where Sheldon continued to play until 1929. Throughout that time period, Sheldon was chosen three times to represent Canada, however, he was only able to play for them once. He was first elected in 1912
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as adult Sheldon Cooper, as narrator for the series. In July 2017, Annie Potts was cast as Meemaw, Sheldon's grandmother. "Young Sheldon" began airing weekly episodes on CBS from November 2, 2017, after "The Big Bang Theory". It premiered as a special preview on September 25, 2017. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 76% approval rating with an average rating of 6.61/10 based on 45 reviews. The website's consensus reads, ""Young Sheldon"s appealing cast and relatable themes
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occasionally mentioning such experiments as getting a capuchin monkey addicted to cigarettes or starfish addicted to cocaine. Raj and Howard found Amy through an online dating site after secretly establishing an account using Sheldon's name and information. The site matches her to Sheldon, and the two share many similar traits. Once she and Sheldon meet, she becomes, as Sheldon puts it, a girl who is his friend, but not his "girlfriend". The two initially communicate by computer, but at the encouragement of the group, she starts
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long line. This antagonizes Sheldon, who derides him as the "Jar Jar Binks of the Star Trek universe". Wheaton and his entourage effectively prevented Sheldon and his friends from attending the screening when the last seat in the theater went to the person directly in front of them in line. Ultimately, Sheldon steals the reels containing the prints of the film and Wheaton leads a mob of angry audience members after Sheldon. In season five, Wheaton invites the guys to a party at his house and appears to be genuinely sorry
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couple again, Amy once again tries dinner with Dave, who goes out of his way to refrain from mentioning Sheldon, knowing how uncomfortable that subject made her previously. Sheldon then suddenly arrives and professes his love to Amy, and the two mend their relationship, leaving Dave to awkwardly excuse himself and invite Sheldon to meet again on his way out. Denise (Lauren Lapkus) is an employee working at Stuart's comic book store with an amazing knowledge of comic books. At first, Sheldon doesn't like the change,
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and intended to air in the 2017–18 season alongside "The Big Bang Theory". The initial idea for the series came from Jim Parsons (who portrays the older Sheldon on "The Big Bang Theory"), who passed it along to "The Big Bang Theory" producers. On March 13, 2017, CBS ordered the spin-off "Young Sheldon" series, which was created by Lorre and Molaro. Jon Favreau directed and executive produced the pilot. Parsons, Lorre, Molaro and Todd Spiewak also serve as
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asks Sheldon to take his place at a party for a Korean family, which Sheldon agrees to do as "Professor Proton, Jr". While Sheldon idolizes him, Jeffries is constantly irritated by Sheldon's personality, and takes a shine to Penny. In "The Proton Displacement", Leonard, Sheldon, and Amy bump into Jeffries at a drugstore, and Sheldon becomes upset when Jeffries asks Leonard for help on a paper instead of him, and when he finds out that Jeffries thinks he is annoying, Sheldon works with
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Dyan Sheldon


Dyan Sheldon is an American novelist, who has written for adults, children and young adults. Originally from Brooklyn, she resides in London and has written a number of young adult novels as well as many picture books in a variety of genres. Her young adult science-fiction novel "Perfect" was published under the name "D. M. Quintano", as it was a departure from her usual style. Dyan Sheldon's novel "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen", a #1 New York Times bestseller, was
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Gareth Sheldon


Gareth Richard Sheldon (born 31 January 1980) is a professional footballer, who plays for Midland Football Combination Division Two side Polesworth, where he plays as a striker. On 22 May 2002, Sheldon signed a two-year deal with Third Division side Exeter City. Sheldon's career at Exeter had alerted the attentions of Kidderminster Harriers manager Stuart Watkiss following the club's relegation to the Conference, and on 13 July 2005 they moved to sign him on a free transfer. The move failed to bring out the best in Sheldon
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after she criticizes his performance. After Sheldon ditches Amy to spend time with Wheaton, Amy becomes angry with Sheldon, who later unknowingly becomes intoxicated and almost starts a fist fight with Wheaton, demanding an apology. In season seven, Amy calls Wheaton to cheer up Sheldon after Leonard disproves Sheldon's scientific discovery. Wheaton later gives Penny advice when she wrestles with whether to take a role in the sequel to a low-budget horror film in which she once starred. After taking the role, Penny finds that Wheaton is also
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Trek" convention because his grandmother had died. In sympathy, Sheldon deliberately messes up his next move to benefit Wheaton. Wheaton reveals that he lied about his grandmother and then wins the game by taking advantage of the opening Sheldon leaves him. Wheaton later plays in a bowling match against Sheldon, where he uses gamesmanship again, breaking up Leonard and Penny to win. In season four, Wheaton appears at a special screening of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and uses his celebrity status to go to the front of a
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and is ordered take a university-mandated online sexual-harassment course. Because Sheldon considers his own time as too valuable to waste on it, Sheldon asks Alex to take the course instead. For Valentine's Day, Sheldon sends Alex out to buy a present for Amy, which he likes so much, he keeps. Anu (Rati Gupta) is the woman who Raj's father sets him up with after asking him to arrange a marriage for him who first appears in season 12. She works in a hotel as
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Emily Sweeney (though the Emily character was introduced as a girlfriend for Raj and when those characters broke up Emily no longer appeared). The series also features numerous supporting characters, each of whom plays a prominent role in a story arc. Included among them are parents of the main characters, their dates and their coworkers. Celebrities such as Stephen Hawking appear in cameo roles as themselves. "Young Sheldon" initially centers on title character and child prodigy Sheldon Cooper at the age of nine, going to high school and living
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of the series, along with Leonard, Howard, and Raj. Sheldon was raised in Galveston, Texas along with his elder brother, George Jr., and fraternal twin sister, Missy, by his mother, Mary Cooper, an overtly devout Baptist; and George Cooper, a football coach. Sheldon once got his father fired when he told Mr. Hinckley, a store owner, that George was stealing from the cash register. In "Young Sheldon", this is retconned: his father is a football coach who was fired
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proposes to Amy and she accepts. The two get married in the eleventh season finale. In the show, the song "Soft Kitty" was described by Sheldon as a song sung by his mother when he was ill. Its repeated use in the series popularized the song. A scene depicting the origin of the song in Sheldon's childhood is depicted in an episode of "Young Sheldon", which aired on February 1, 2018. It shows Sheldon's mother Mary singing the song to her son, who is suffering
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" It is revealed in season 2 that Mary became a devout Christian after a difficult birth with Sheldon and Missy where Missy almost died. George Cooper, Sr. is the father of Georgie, Sheldon and Missy Cooper and the husband of Mary Tucker-Cooper. In "The Big Bang Theory", it is established that he died when Sheldon and Missy were fourteen years old, implying that he will die during or in between the events of the possible fifth or sixth seasons of "Young Sheldon". He is portrayed
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Sam Sheldon


Sam Sheldon (born 8 March 1989) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Sheldon is of Indigenous Australian heritage and his tribal ancestry can be traced to the Wemba-Wemba. He also grew up in Echuca, where he attended St Joseph's College from year 7 and 8. Sheldon was drafted to the Brisbane Lions in 2006. He could have opted to be drafted to the Carlton Football Club under the Father-Son Rule. His father is Ken Sheldon who
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Sheldon's apartment. Unlike Sheldon, Leonard, and Raj, Howard does not have a doctorate, and often gets disparaged as a result, especially by Sheldon. He defends this by pointing out that he has a master's degree in Engineering from MIT and that the equipment he designs is launched into space, unlike the theoretical work of his friends. In the fifth-season finale, Howard goes to the International Space Station on Expedition 31. Howard lives in Altadena with his domineering, belittling, and unseen mother, who
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John Sheldon (anatomist)


John Jeffries, Sheldon then tried to have the Royal Society support more balloon ascents, but without success. Sheldon spent time in studying the lymphatic system, an area on which William Cumberland Cruikshank also was working. He devoted attention to embalming, too. Both interests came from William Hunter's inspiration, and were lifelong. Sheldon had a celebrated body of a young woman embalmed: there are differing accounts. It was that of a patient who had died of phthisis in the Lock Hospital, and he embalmed it himself; it
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Romance (Sheldon play)


Romance is a play by the American dramatist Edward Sheldon. It was first produced in New York in 1913, and a London production followed in 1915, which ran for 1,049 performances. Both productions featured Doris Keane as an opera star who has an intense affair with a young clergyman. The play opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York, on February 10, 1913. It featured Doris Keane as Mme Margherita Cavallini, William Courtenay as Thomas Armstrong and A. E. Anson as Cornelius van Tuyl. It ran for 160 performances
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a part of Canada who were facing off against Australia and New Zealand, but he didn't make the trip. While playing every season in Saskatchewan, Sheldon played in Vancouver for two winters and each year he was selected as a member of the Vancouver All-Star Team. Sheldon had a distinguished playing career which spanned 23 years. This is a record which has yet to be equaled in Saskatchewan provincial soccer. On May 22, 1967, Sheldon was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. In 1989, he
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North Pole, Sheldon returns to his home in Texas after the other guys tampered with his research. Mary calls the guys and they come to fetch Sheldon. Sheldon initially refuses to leave, although after an argument with his mother about evolution, Sheldon decides to leave. Mary is again called to intervene in "The Zazzy Substitution" when Sheldon buys a clowder of cats after his "break-up" with Amy. Mary uses reverse psychology to get Sheldon to reconcile with Amy. She again comes to visit in "The
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" that while Sheldon shares traits with people with Asperger's, he was uncomfortable labeling Sheldon as having Asperger's. In an interview, Jim Parsons noted the writers' response, but added that, in his opinion, Sheldon "couldn't display "more" traits" of Asperger's. Parsons, who plays Sheldon, has read John Elder Robison's memoir "Look Me in the Eye" about his life with Asperger syndrome, and said that: "A majority of what I read in that book touched on aspects
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to the group of friends than a core member, most notably in a story where Stuart was part of a motley "test brunch" along with Burt the geologist and a neighbor who only spoke English she'd heard on TV, so Sheldon could work-out any hosting issues before trying an event with his "real" friends. Stuart actually got angry and told Sheldon it was clear they didn't even see him as a friend, leading Sheldon to sincerely apologize and try harder to be nice to Stuart for a period
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who is shown via a family tree to be three or four years older than Sheldon and Missy. Her husband, a rambunctious alcoholic, was also named George, but he died when Sheldon was still a boy. To Mary's relief, her other children do not share Sheldon's hyperintelligence, once commenting to Leonard, "I thank the good Lord my other kids are as dumb as soup". Mary herself is not intellectual, but is quite wise, though she is prone to making insensitive comments such as calling Japanese
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"Young Sheldon". Barry Kripke, PhD (John Ross Bowie) is a co-worker of the guys, who frequently clashes with Sheldon. He works in plasma physics. Kripke has a case of rhotacism in which he pronounces the letters and as in much the same way as Elmer Fudd from "Looney Tunes" and Gilda Radner in her "Baba Wawa" sketches. In season five, Kripke purchases an iPhone with voice-recognition technology, but, because of his rhotacism, the device is incapable of understanding
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Bill Nye the Science Guy, whom Jeffries accuses of stealing material from his TV show. After Nye abandons Sheldon and files for a restraining order against him, Jeffries arrives at Sheldon and Leonard's apartment and asks Sheldon for his advice on his paper (although Sheldon already hacked his email account and read it for himself). In "The Proton Transmogrification" on Star Wars Day, Leonard tells Sheldon that Jeffries has died. Sheldon immediately pretends like he does not care and refuses to go to the funeral. Jeffries appears to
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in a manner that Sheldon finds 'wrong' and leaves. In season five, Kripke and Sheldon battle over a retired professor's office; but, after a long sports contest, Kripke loses to Sheldon. He is later invited to Howard's bachelor party, where he uses his turn toasting to complain that no strippers are at the party. In season six, Kripke and Sheldon are forced to work together on a proposal involving fusion reactors, which involves an exchange of work. Sheldon is shocked to discover that Kripke's
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in "", a character that Sheldon idolized as a child. In 1995 Wheaton made Sheldon's "mortal enemy" list after Wheaton failed to show up at a fan convention. Sheldon took a 10-hour bus ride to attend the convention and was disappointed that Wheaton was a no-show. In season three, Sheldon enters a trading-card game tournament ("Mystic Warlords of Ka'a") to confront Wheaton. When Sheldon is about to defeat his hated rival, Wheaton tells him that he missed the 1995 "Dixie
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on May 11 and asked Sheldon to be best man. Sheldon then declined Frohman's offer. A 1936 lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for copyright infringement claimed that the script MGM used for the 1932 motion picture "Letty Lynton" plagiarized material from the play "Dishonored Lady" by Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes. The film is still unavailable today because of this lawsuit. His life is detailed in "The Man Who Lived Twice" by Eric Wollencott Barnes. In this biography Barnes states that Sheldon was in love all
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, Sheldon gets some intimate views of Amy when he cares for her while she has the flu, pushing him further toward a traditional relationship with her. She also provides Sheldon with consoling hugs, and receives a slap on the rear by an intoxicated Sheldon who tells everyone that she is a great gal. They eventually move into Penny's old apartment together, while Penny moves in with Leonard, and later make the arrangement permanent. Amy is later offered a three-month course at a science camp in New Jersey and leaves
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. In season nine, Kripke calls Sheldon and Amy's live show "Fun with Flags" along with Raj and directs the conversation to irrelevant questions to the show. He also uses the show to call out for potential romantic relationships and asked Amy questions about her love life when Sheldon and she broke up. He attends Sheldon's birthday party and constantly hits on Leonard's mother, Beverly. Professor Bertram Kibbler (Brian Posehn) is a geologist at Caltech, who met Amy while she was working there in her own lab
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, as Kripke has no control over the computer's usage time, and Sheldon consequently expels Kripke from the group. Kripke continues his antagonism towards Sheldon in "The Vengeance Formulation" by pulling a prank on Sheldon when he is a guest on NPR's "Science Friday "by putting a helium tank in his office, making Sheldon's voice more squeaky. In "The Toast Derivation", Sheldon tries to befriend Kripke and a few others when he is feeling excluded by his friends, but Kripke and the others all connect
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work is more advanced than his own, and he tearfully admits as much to Amy. Kripke assumes that Sheldon is in a sexual relationship with Amy and that has led to his work quality declining, and Sheldon does not deny it (although this appears to be just a convenient excuse since his work is inferior to Kripke's). Kripke also battles for tenure alongside Sheldon, Leonard, and Raj. In season seven, Kripke ridicules Sheldon when his discovery of a new element was false, nicknaming Sheldon "The Retractor"
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sees that Wheaton has brought Howard to be a guest on his show. Although Sheldon apologizes to Wheaton, mending their friendship, Wheaton refuses to bring Sheldon as a guest on his show and instead invites Amy to be a guest on the show. At the end of season eleven, Wil is Sheldon and Amy's first choice to officiate their wedding ceremony, but is replaced when Mark Hamill becomes available. In season twelve episode "The D&D Vortex", Wheaton as Professor Proton invites Sheldon to meet William Shatner, and Sheldon
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Sheldon Cooper


Sheldon Lee Cooper Ph.D., Sc.D., is a fictional character in the CBS television series "The Big Bang Theory" and its spinoff series "Young Sheldon", portrayed by actors Jim Parsons in "The Big Bang Theory" and Iain Armitage in "Young Sheldon" (with Parsons as the latter series' narrator). For his portrayal, Parsons has won four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Award, and two Critics' Choice Television Awards. The character's childhood is the focus
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Sheldon in a dream, where Sheldon compares him to Obi-Wan Kenobi, dressing him in Jedi robes and making him appear as a Force ghost. When Sheldon asks for his wisdom, Jeffries tells Sheldon to appreciate everything in life, including his friends, and never take it for granted. Jeffries returns in "The Opening Night Excitation" when his ghost convinces Sheldon to spend time with Amy on her birthday instead of going to see "" as he had planned to do for months. After hearing Professor Proton's words
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body parts for transplanting, among other things for money while Flack watches. "Hammer Down" is part of the CSI trilogy in which Dr. Raymond Langston (played by Laurence Fishburne), of the Las Vegas Crime Lab investigates the kidnapping of a young woman in Miami, who was later believed to have been taken from Las Vegas. On the episode "Food For Thought", the usually reliable and smart Sheldon calls in sick so he can go on a date with an old friend Camille Jordanson, who was involved in
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The American television sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", created and executive produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, while the American comedy spin-off prequel television series "Young Sheldon", created and executive produced by Lorre alongside Jim Parsons and Steven Molaro, premiered on CBS on September 25, 2017. "The Big Bang Theory" initially centers on five characters: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, two Caltech physicists; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who at
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Wheaton's party but gets a text that Brent Spiner will be at the party. He tells Sheldon, who pretends not to care but later attends. An excited Raj (Kunal Nayyar) brags that he has just met the gynaecologist of Alice Krige (who plays the Borg Queen in ""). Wheaton tells Sheldon that he wants to give him a Wesley Crusher action figure, remembering Sheldon's story of the convention where he didn't turn up. Sheldon is excited but Brent Spiner comes along and opens up the figure.
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Rhinitis Revelation" before going on a Christian cruise, and Sheldon becomes jealous when she would rather go sightseeing with the rest of the gang instead of cooking for him and attending physics lectures. In season seven, Sheldon returns to Texas to assist Mary in the birth of his twin sister's baby. Howard later takes Sheldon to see Mary after visiting NASA headquarters, but flees after Sheldon sees her having sex. Sheldon returns and gets into an argument, and is sent to his room. After Howard tells him about how he
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Jackie Sheldon


John "Jackie" Sheldon (born January 1887) was an English footballer who played for Liverpool during the early part of the 20th century. Sheldon was born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England, and played for Nuneaton and Manchester United before being signed by the Liverpool manager Tom Watson in November 1913. Sheldon made his Liverpool debut on 29 November 1913 in the 2–1 First Division win over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield. He scored his first goal the following month on 6 December at Villa Park in a 2–1 defeat to Aston Villa
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Matthew Sheldon


Matthew Sheldon (born August 23, 1992) is a professional soccer player who currently plays for Tulsa Roughnecks in the USL Championship. Sheldon played college soccer at UC Davis between 2011 and 2014. He spent time in the Premier Development League with San Jose Earthquakes U23 in 2014, Ventura County Fusion in 2015, and briefly with Orange County Blues U-23 in 2016, before moving to Germany with sixth-tier side SG Kinzenbach. Sheldon signed with United Soccer League club Orange County Blues in July 2016, making his professional debut on
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with his family in the fictional town of Medford, East Texas: Sheldon's mother Mary, his father and the head football coach at Medford High, George Sr., his twin sister Missy, his older brother George Jr., and his grandmother Constance "Connie" Tucker, also known as "MeeMaw". The series also features numerous supporting characters, each of whom plays a prominent role in a story arc. Included among them are Sheldon's present and former classmates, their dates and coworkers, and those of his
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permanent. At the end of that same season, admirer Ramona Nowitzki makes a romantic overture to Sheldon, prompting him to propose to Amy. In the finale of season eleven, Sheldon and Amy get married. In the series finale, Sheldon and Amy jointly share the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on Super Asymmetry. Penny (Kaley Cuoco), is Leonard and Sheldon's neighbor across the hallway. Originally from a small town outside Omaha, Nebraska, she was a waitress and occasional bartender at the local Cheesecake Factory
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kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur! Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr!" A scene depicting the origin of the song in Sheldon's childhood is depicted in an episode of "Young Sheldon", the prequel series to "The Big Bang Theory". This aired on February 1, 2018, and shows Sheldon's mother Mary singing the song to her son, who is suffering with the flu. Versions of the song have been released by Australian children's performer Patsy Biscoe, and by
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romantic relationship between Sheldon and Penny, Lorre stated his opposition to it by saying: "We've stumbled into creating a character who has chosen a lifestyle for himself that is unique. And I don't see any reason to modify it." It has been speculated that Sheldon may be asexual or aromantic. Series co-creator Chuck Lorre said: "Part of what's wonderful and unique about [Sheldon] is he has chosen not to play in the relationship game either way  – heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, any
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for his past actions, giving Sheldon a signed Wesley Crusher action figure as a way of thanking Sheldon for being a fan. His gesture is met with a renunciation of his "mortal enemy" status and a hug from Sheldon. Wheaton is invited to Howard's bachelor party, where he films the toasts and uploads them to the Internet, getting Howard and Raj in trouble with Bernadette. In season six, Wheaton appears in a "Star Trek"-themed episode of Sheldon's web-series "Fun with Flags" and insults Amy
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Jeffries in the role of Professor Proton, following Jeffries' death, and asks Wheaton to be his acting coach for the part. However, when Wheaton somehow gets the part instead, Sheldon is dismayed and after many unsuccessful attempts to get his friends to boycott the franchise, he demands that Wheaton turn down the role. Wheaton refuses, claiming he wants to inspire young scientists and Sheldon begins to consider him an enemy again. However, after watching the show Sheldon likes Wheaton's portrayal of Prof. Proton and gets jealous when he
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Leonard is irritated by the robot when driving to work; although Sheldon attempts to relax him by playing music and suggesting games, when Leonard switches him off, he turns back on again shouting "Bazinga!" Leonard, taken by surprise, nearly crashes and is furious that he "almost died", while Sheldon is home "...safe and sound in bed". Sheldon asks Leonard "Who's crazy now?". At the Cheesecake Factory, the gang spot Steve Wozniak and Sheldon converses with him through the robot
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slap on the rear by an intoxicated Sheldon who tells everyone that she is a great gal. Amy tries to move into Sheldon's apartment when Leonard temporarily vacates it, but is unsuccessful in her attempt. Sheldon, after being prodded by Barry Kripke about his girlfriend, lies that he is having sex with Amy, though he admits to Penny that he and Amy may actually engage in sex. Sheldon later makes the same admission to Amy, while engaging in "Dungeons and Dragons" intercourse game play. In the season-
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is the head of the Physics Department, the group's boss at the university. When he first starts working at the university, he fires Sheldon after Sheldon insults his intelligence. Eventually, Gablehauser rehires Sheldon after he and Sheldon's mother display a mutual romantic interest. Gablehauser later hosts the Physics Bowl, and gives Raj attention when he is featured in a "People" article for discovering a planet. V. M. Koothrappali (Brian George) is Raj's father in India. His wife and he communicate with their son via
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money. In the ninth-season episode, "The Valentino Submergence", Bernadette reveals that she is pregnant, informing Howard in the next episode. She comically reveals that the baby was conceived in Sheldon's bed, much to Sheldon's chagrin. Raj learns about the baby's gender and inadvertently reveals that the child is a girl. In "The Birthday Synchronicity" Bernadette gives birth to a girl named Halley who screams like the baby's late grandmother, Debbie Wolowitz. In season 11, Bernadette learns that she is
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that there was more than one woman interested in Sheldon, otherwise she might've prayed a little too hard. After hanging up, Mary thanks the Lord for making the engagement happen, and that even though he (the Lord) can do anything, that was mighty impressive. She reappeared in the "The Solo Oscillation," where she called Sheldon, who was annoyed by it, since he was trying to find something to work on. In "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", Mary and her daughter Missy are picked
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. Finally aware of her advances, Sheldon makes an excuse to leave the office, and promptly flies to New Jersey where he proposes to Amy. In the first episode of season 11, Amy shocks Ramona by hugging her, as it was Ramona's advances that prompted Sheldon to propose. Ruchi (Swati Kapila); is a new co-worker of Bernadette's at Zangen who first appears in season 11. Ruchi used to live in India, and was in an arranged engagement, until she broke off the engagement and
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Skype. Leonard later informs his mother of his engagement to Penny, but she reveals that Sheldon already told her. She decides to accept his engagement with Penny because Sheldon likes her. In season eight, Beverly comes to visit to see Leonard receive an award, where she meets Sheldon's mother, Mary. The mothers get into an argument after Beverly describes Mary's religious beliefs as a superstition, and Mary, in turn, berates Beverly for her cold and distant attitude towards Leonard. Beverly later reflects with Sheldon that perhaps
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Scott Sheldon


Scott Patrick Sheldon (born November 20, 1968) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman/shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the Oakland Athletics (1997) and Texas Rangers (1998–2001). He also played in Japan for the Orix BlueWave (2002–03). On September 6, 2000, while playing for the Rangers, Sheldon became the third player in MLB history to play all nine positions in a single game, joining Bert Campaneris (Kansas City Athletics, September 8, ), and César Tovar
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Margherita Cavallini in Edward Sheldon's "Romance". Her leading man in this long-running play was William Courtenay, who played the part of a priest. Sheldon originally had offered the male lead to his friend John Barrymore, but Barrymore turned it down, preferring to still do comedies. Sheldon reportedly fell in love with her and yearned for her all his life. She played this part in the United States and Europe for the next five years and returned in revivals regularly during the 1920s. In 1920, she made
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is implied in "The Tam Turbulence" (Season 12, Episode 4) that Sheldon is indeed a Caltech alumnus. From then, he worked on his doctorate, was a visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, was the youngest person at the time to receive the Stevenson Award, and has appeared on the cover of "Journal of Physical Chemistry A". Sheldon is now a theoretical physicist doing research at Caltech, although he stated in "Young Sheldon" that he couldn't see himself living in California
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as his mother, Mary Cooper. Perry is the real-life daughter of Laurie Metcalf, who portrays Mary Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory". On March 13, 2017, CBS ordered the spin-off "Young Sheldon" series. Jon Favreau directed and executive produced the pilot. Created by Lorre and Molaro, the series follows 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper as he attends high school in East Texas. Alongside Armitage as 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper and Perry as Mary Cooper, Lance Barber stars as George Cooper
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July 10, 2016 in a 3–3 draw with Sacramento Republic. In November 2016, Sheldon announced that he would play for Saint Louis FC for the 2017 USL season. In March 2018, it was announced Sheldon would play for amateur club side Waterside Karori in Wellington, New Zealand. On January 14, 2019, the Tulsa Roughnecks FC announced that they had signed Sheldon for their 2019 season. Sheldon also operates two notable YouTube channels called "Become Elite" as well as the "Against All Odds Podcast" which combined currently
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printing, boatbuilding, and construction. This institution was a parallel to Sheldon Jackson's Sitka Industrial Training School, which became Sheldon Jackson College. Young's school was the nucleus of the later Wrangell Institute, a boarding school for Alaska Natives through the mid-20th century. S. Hall Young was a friend and companion of the naturalist John Muir, who lived in Wrangell in 1879-1880. Muir and Young traveled up the Stikine River, as well as to Kake, Glacier Bay, and elsewhere in Southeast Alaska. Young and Muir
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sketch, Ray Romano plays Sheldon's geeky father in a dead end job. In another, Jennifer Garner plays a geeky teen with a massive crush on Sheldon. They proceed to kiss, then Sheldon has to go because of a cello lesson. Elijah Wood also appears as the trumpet player for Jazz X 10 and one of Sheldon's best friends. Also, Senator John McCain appears as a guy in an aloha shirt named Pete Van Bleet. Sheldon always signs off with his trademark salute (similar to Doc Severinsen's on
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of "Young Sheldon": the series' first season is set in 1989 when nine-year-old prodigy Sheldon has skipped ahead five grades, to start high school alongside his elder brother. The adult Sheldon is a senior theoretical physicist at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and for the first ten seasons of "The Big Bang Theory" shares an apartment with his colleague and best friend, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki); they are also friends and coworkers with Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) and
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to her apartment, their run-in with Sheldon devolves into an endless argument between Stuart and Sheldon over the minutiae of "Batman" comics that puts Penny to sleep. In "The Classified Materials Turbulence", their second date unravels when in the throes of a romantic embrace, Penny calls him "Leonard", ending any future prospects for them as a couple. In season five, Stuart goes on a date with Amy, but Sheldon interrupts the date to solidify his relationship with her. Stuart was the partner of
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family. Celebrities such as Elon Musk appear in cameo roles as themselves. Jim Parsons, who portrays the adult Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory", narrates the series and serves as an executive producer. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) is an experimental physicist with an IQ of 173. Originally from New Jersey, he received his PhD at age 24, spending at least some of his time at Princeton University. He shared an apartment in Pasadena with colleague and friend Dr. Sheldon Cooper until season 9. Unlike
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six Koothrappali children, only Raj is still single, indicating that Priya has married since her last appearance. Ramona Nowitzki, Ph.D., (Riki Lindhome) first appears in the season 2 episode, "The Cooper–Nowitzki Theorem", when she is a graduate student at Caltech who is a huge fan of Sheldon's work and develops a near-obsessive crush on him. She meets Sheldon personally in the cafeteria and arranges to have dinner with him in his apartment. Where other people might be worried about such behavior being
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Toby Tyler" as Sam Treat, a clown and animal trainer who is one of Toby's mentors and protectors. Toby's other protector, gruff wagon driver Ben Cotter, was played by Henry Calvin, who co-starred on "Zorro" as Sergeant Garcia. Sheldon starred in Disney's 1961 Christmas film "Babes in Toyland" as Barnaby's mute henchman, Roderigo. He was teamed with Calvin once more as a kind of ersatz Laurel and Hardy. Sheldon's role was Bernardo, Diego's mute (but not
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and joins the gang as Howard's replacement while he is in space. When Howard returns, Sheldon wants to dismiss Stuart from the group, but Raj objects. Leonard tie-breaks on the basis that they are receiving a 20% discount in Stuart's store, and Sheldon relents after Stuart offers to go as high as 30%, thereby becoming a bigger and more prominent part of the core group. Sheldon has tried to hide his clear (and factually based) belief that Stuart is more of a hanger-on
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President Siebert (Joshua Malina) is the president of the California Institute of Technology. He is married and has a daughter. Siebert is often mentioned by Sheldon. A recurring gag is that Sheldon often calls or visits Siebert in the middle of the night to get information, and usually gets a bitter response. Siebert sends Sheldon on the expedition to the North Pole at the end of season two. In his first appearance, Siebert organizes a get-together with wealthy donors and faculty members to garner funds for the university's
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Meanwhile, young Phil Sheldon, an aspiring photographer, and young J. Jonah Jameson, are shocked by these "Marvels". Sheldon is more confused than Jameson by the spectacle and, worried, seeks the support of his fiancée, Doris Jacquet. More unusual beings begin to appear, notably Namor the Sub-Mariner, and fights erupt between him and the Human Torch. Sheldon, feeling it would be irresponsible for him to raise children in a world where these Marvels run rampant, breaks off his engagement with Doris. It
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up from the airport by Raj. She mentions that they had also been driven to the airport by an Indian fellow. Missy object to her comment. Mary also is in denial that her daughter is also separated from her husband. Later at the wedding, when Mrs. Fowler wants to take her daughter way because she thinks that Sheldon has left her at the altar, Penny tells her to stop and that Sheldon would never hurt the woman he loves. Mary stands up and applauds Penny who tells her to sit down too.
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new way to get what she wants. Dave Gibbs (Stephen Merchant) is a tall British man who dates Amy after she breaks up with Sheldon. Dave is recently divorced because his wife left him for a French chef. When her friends try to find Amy a date on a dating mobile app, they see a text message from Dave, and Amy reveals they have already gone out together for coffee. Sheldon is about to propose to Amy for closure when he sees Amy and Dave share a kiss after their date.
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Sheldon Souray


Sheldon Souray (born July 13, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, and Anaheim Ducks. He was best known for his heavy slapshot, once setting a previous unofficial NHL record for the hardest recorded shot at the Oilers' 2009 Skills Competition. Before playing in the NHL, Sheldon was a member of the Fort Saskatchewan Traders in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL
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socializing with the gang in person. Early on, Amy is essentially a female counterpart to Sheldon. She is coldly rational, displays little emotion, and is awkward in social situations ranging from endearing to embarrassing. In season five, after Amy goes out on a date with comic-book store owner Stuart, Sheldon decides to solidify their relationship as boyfriend/girlfriend with a 31-page "Relationship Agreement". Later in the season, Amy begins a campaign to increase Sheldon's feelings for her by becoming more involved in his interests
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"fractional" starring role; the upgraded status ensured her availability on an as-needed basis, without requiring her in every episode. She returned as a guest in season 10; the character was written out of the series, and did not appear after season 10. Mary ("née" Tucker) Cooper (Laurie Metcalf) is Sheldon's loving, caring and religious mother and a devout Christian from Texas. She has two other children besides Sheldon; Sheldon's twin sister, Missy, and his brother George,
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words "kung fu letters" at a sushi restaurant, or calling Native Americans "our" Indians. Despite her extreme religious views, she is tolerant of other faiths, as evidenced by her serving Raj a dish of chicken after making sure it was not something Indians considered "magical". She also struggles to follow her beliefs sometimes. She is a loving mother and has been able to control Sheldon, with Leonard describing her as Sheldon's "Kryptonite" to Penny. When Penny and Sheldon engaged in a fierce dispute
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is cool only because he is dating Amy. As the girls are leaving, he tells them that he is in love with both of them. He reappears in "The Fetal Kick Catalyst" as a guest at Sheldon and Amy's brunch in their apartment. He mentions that a girlfriend he was living with once moved out and took all his best rocks. In "The Geology Elevation", Bert wins the MacArthur Fellowship grant, which makes Sheldon jealous. When Sheldon finally confronts him over this, Bert points out that
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a busboy, she and Penny both go to Del Taco and then return to Leonard and Sheldon's apartment where she confronts Leonard on not telling him about Penny, and then is confronted by him for not being a loving and caring mother for him. After Beverly tries to show motherly affection by hugging Leonard, she kisses a shocked Sheldon and leaves. The next morning, a hungover Beverly gives her blessing to Leonard and Penny's relationship and vows not to reveal her drunken kiss with Sheldon, wanting to work instead on her
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. In a later episode, Wheaton fills in for Sheldon when he joins Leonard, Howard, and Raj for the midnight premiere of "". When he arrives at the theater, the audience immediately jeers him for dressing as Spock, but Wheaton explains that he did so intentionally because he believes the audience should not take whether the film succeeds or fails so seriously. He appears again to celebrate Sheldon's birthday in the show's 200th episode, "The Celebration Experimentation". In season eleven, Sheldon wants to replace Arthur
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episode "Vanilla Ice Cream, Gentleman Callers, and a Dinette Set", it is revealed that Sheldon has children in the future. Sheldon's closest friends are Leonard Hofstadter, Howard Wolowitz, and Raj Koothrappali. Of the three, Sheldon is openly dismissive of Howard and constantly opines that a master's degree in engineering demonstrates a lesser intellect than that of the others, who all possess science doctorates. Despite that, Sheldon has referred to Howard as a "treasured acquaintance" and later his friend at various points. Sheldon
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's post office, and the next year, Rachel Sheldon purchased an additional adjacent to this property. The hamlet eventually boasted a log schoolhouse, two general stores, two churches, a cemetery, a cobbler and three blacksmiths. The Sheldons added a one-story wing to the house in the 1830s for an unmarried sister. Timothy Sheldon served as a state legislator in 1839 and Director of the Poor in 1841 and 1845. The ownership of the Sheldon Inn eventually passed to Charles Sines, Timothy Sheldon's nephew, who sold
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Jr. beat up Sheldon during their childhoods, and their mother describes them to be "dumb as soup". In the pilot episode of "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon tells Leonard that DNA is not a guarantee of an intelligent offspring as he himself is a theoretical physicist and his twin sister is a hostess at Fuddruckers. Sheldon is very fond of his maternal grandmother, whom he calls "Meemaw" and who calls him "Moon Pie". He called his grandfather, who died when Sheldon was five, "
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A. W. Sheldon


Alvanus Warner "A. W." Sheldon (c. 1842 – January 31, 1884) was an American jurist who served as Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1883 till his death in 1884. Sheldon was born in Granville, Ohio, to Paul Warner Sheldon Jr. and his second wife, Eliza (Howell) Sheldon, in either 1842 or early 1843. He was educated in local public schools and attended Denison University. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Sheldon enlisted as a private for three months in
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finally says yes. She and Sheldon marry in the season 11 finale. Amy objects to Sheldon wanting to provide sperm for Zack Johnson's baby, but does try and get him excited about having their own child. In the final season, Sheldon and Amy publish their work on super-asymmetric string theory and win the Nobel Prize in Physics together. Stuart David Bloom (Kevin Sussman) runs the Comic Center in Pasadena, the comic book store that the men visit. Stuart is characterized by his low self-esteem and
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Though Mary confirms this, she wishes that she had taken him to Houston for further testing. In her first visit, Leonard calls Mary to intervene when Sheldon is fired for being disrespectful to his new boss, Dr. Gablehauser. She manages to convince Sheldon to apologize and he gets his job back, and she becomes romantically interested in Dr. Gablehauser. When Sheldon asks, "Is Dr. Gablehauser going to be my new daddy?", Mary replies, "We'll see". In season three, after returning from the
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