History Series / YoungSheldon

Creator/IainArmitage stars as young Sheldon, alongside Creator/ZoePerry as Sheldon's mother Mary Cooper, Creator/LanceBarber as Sheldon's father George Cooper, Sr., Montana Jordan as Sheldon's older brother George "Georgie" Cooper, Jr., Raegan Revord as Sheldon's twin sister Missy Cooper and Creator/AnniePotts as Sheldon's maternal grandmother Connie Tucker. Creator/JimParsons, who portrayed an adult Sheldon Cooper on ''The Big Bang Theory'', narrates the series and serves as an executive producer.

Iain Armitage stars as young Sheldon, alongside Creator/ZoePerry as Sheldon's mother Mary Cooper, Creator/LanceBarber as Sheldon's father George Cooper, Sr., Montana Jordan as Sheldon's older brother George "Georgie" Cooper, Jr., Raegan Revord as Sheldon's twin sister Missy Cooper and Creator/AnniePotts as Sheldon's maternal grandmother Connie Tucker. Creator/JimParsons, who portrayed an adult Sheldon Cooper on ''The Big Bang Theory'', narrates the series and serves as an executive producer.

** Creator/WallaceShawn appears as Dr. John Sturgis. Shawn's most famous roles are in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and ''Franchise/ToyStory'', both of which have been mentioned many times on ''The Big Bang Theory''. Creator/AnniePotts also appears in the latter.

** Creator/WallaceShawn appears as Dr. John Sturgis. Shawn's most famous roles are in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and ''Franchise/ToyStory'', both of which have been mentioned many times on ''The Big Bang Theory''.

* NearAndDearBabyNaming: When Georgie and Mandy have a baby, Mandy names her Connie (Ceecee for short) after Georgie's grandmother, who gave her a place to stay when she became pregnant and her parents threw her out of the house.

''Young Sheldon'' is a sitcom created by Creator/ChuckLorre and Steven Molaro. The series is a spin-off prequel to ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and follows the character [[Characters/TheBigBangTheorySheldonCooper Sheldon Cooper]] at the age of 9, living with his family in East Texas and going to high school. Iain Armitage stars as young Sheldon, alongside Creator/ZoePerry as Sheldon's mother Mary Cooper, Creator/LanceBarber as Sheldon's father George Cooper, Sr., Montana Jordan as Sheldon's older brother George "Georgie" Cooper, Jr., Raegan Revord as Sheldon's twin sister Missy Cooper and Creator/AnniePotts as Sheldon's maternal grandmother Connie Tucker. Creator/JimParsons, who portrays an adult Sheldon Cooper on ''The Big Bang Theory'', narrates the series and serves as an executive producer.

* WritersCannotDoMath: According to Missy, George was around 25 and Mary was in high school when they got together. According to ''The Big Bang Theory'', George was 50 years old when he died, which would have happened in 1994 or early 1995 since Sheldon was said to be 14 at the time (Sheldon and Missy were born in February of 1980), placing George's date of birth in 1944. Georgie was 14 in season one, which is set in 1989, meaning that Georgie was born in 1975. George would have been 31 years old when Georgie was born. This doesn't add up unless either A)Mary and George were together for several years before Georgie was born (which makes no sense since it's established that Georgie was conceived shortly after Mary and George met and they were more or less forced to get married) or B) George's age has been changed (George's age was stated in an early episode of ''The Big Bang Theory'', and it was implied that George had only recently died then. It wasn't until much later that Sheldon mentioned that he was 14 when he lost his father.)

* WritersCannotDoMath: According to Missy, George was around 25 and Mary was in high school when they got together. According to ''The Big Bang Theory'', George was 50 years old when he died, which would have happened in 1994 or early 1995 since Sheldon was said to be 14 at the time (Sheldon and Missy were born in February of 1980), placing George's date of birth in 1944. Georgie was 14 in season one, which is set in 1989, meaning that Georgie was born in 1975. George would have been 31 years old when Georgie was born. This doesn't add up unless either A)Mary and George were together for several years before Georgie was born (which makes no sense since it's heavily suggested that Georgie was conceived shortly after Mary and George met) or B) George's age has been changed (George's age was stated in an early episode of ''The Big Bang Theory'', and it was implied that George had only recently died then. It wasn't until much later that Sheldon mentioned that he was 14 when he lost his father.)

** George Coooper Sr. canonically passes away in 1994. If the series timeline remains constant at one year per season[[note]]Season one takes place in 1989, season two takes place in early-to-mid 1990, season three seems to begin in mid 1990 and end in mid 1991, season four covers the rest of 1991, possibly going into early 1992 and season five picks up where season four left off; covering the rest of 1992[[/note]], this will most likely occur sometime in season six or seven.

** Sheldon is a young child and he certainly has his moments of ticking people off through his failure to properly decode social and emotional situations, but in general he is thoughtful and obedient and pretty conscientious about following the rules ''as he understands them''. But he is frequently rude to his teachers, often puts down the rest of his family for not being as smart as he is, and can be just as bad as Missy and Georgie when it comes to tormenting his siblings. However some of his behaviour can be chalked up to his AmbiguousDisorder, he simply [[InnocentlyInsensitive doesn't understand that there are certain situations where it's impolite to state the truth]], such as when he comments loudly on his female teacher's moustache. Sheldon can be a sweet child when it comes to Mary and Connie, and ''occasionally'' George.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The shortwave radio station that broadcasts the "time in Ottawa" in "A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast" is a real station with the call letters [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHU_(radio_station) CHU]], which has been on the air since 1923 (it actually transmits time announcements in English and French).

** Creator/WallaceShawn appears as Dr. John Sturgis. Shawn's most famous roles are in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', both of which have been mentioned many times on ''The Big Bang Theory''.

''Young Sheldon'' is a sitcom created by Creator/ChuckLorre and Steven Molaro. The series is a spin-off prequel to ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and follows the character [[Characters/TheBigBangTheorySheldonCooper Sheldon Cooper]] at the age of 9, living with his family in East Texas and going to high school. Iain Armitage stars as young Sheldon, alongside Creator/ZoePerry as Sheldon's mother Mary Cooper, Lance Barber as Sheldon's father George Cooper, Sr., Montana Jordan as Sheldon's older brother George "Georgie" Cooper, Jr., Raegan Revord as Sheldon's twin sister Missy Cooper and Creator/AnniePotts as Sheldon's maternal grandmother Connie Tucker. Creator/JimParsons, who portrays an adult Sheldon Cooper on ''The Big Bang Theory'', narrates the series and serves as an executive producer.

* PutOnABus: After disappearing without explaination back in season two (due to Billy Gardell being too busy to continue portraying the character after being cast as the lead on ''Bob Hearts Abishola''), Herschel Sparks was officially written off the series in season 4's "A Box of Treasure and the Meemaw of Science", with Brenda telling Mary that he moved out.

** Tam, a Roman Catholic, claims Catholics don't believe Jesus is God and Sheldon mentions they are a different religion than Christians. Catholicism is the oldest form of Christianity and certainly believe Jesus is God.

* GuiltyPleasure: InUniverse. In "A Docent, a Little Lady, and a Bouncer Named Dalton", Georgie catches Mary watching ''Film/{{Roadhouse}}''. George then ruins it for Mary after he points out that Dalton (Patrick Swayze) looks just like Georgie.

* AgeGapRomance: In season five between Georgie and Mandy. Georgie is seventeen, Mandy is twenty-nine. Both of them lied about their ages (Mandy claimed to be twenty-five, Georgie claimed to be twenty-one) but Mandy confessed her true age long before Georgie did (after they'd slept together several times). And while she didn't commit statutory rape (the age of consent in Texas is seventeen) she's still horrified and breaks things off almost immediately. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she turns out to be pregnant]].

* ImprovisedWeapon: Sheldon and Missy use the fire extinguisher on an intruder in "Potato Salad, a Broomstick, and Dad's Whiskey"; unfortunately for them, the intruder was just Connie.
** In "David, Goliath, and a Yoo-Hoo from the Back" Sheldon uses saftey goggles as a slingshot.

* CharacterDevelopment: In this prequel series, Sheldon dismissed Maxwell's equations as an unnecessary longcut to finding the quantum chromodynamics value of a magnetic field. In the parent series TBBT, Sheldon idolizes Maxwell as one of the greatest physicists of our time.
** The adult Sheldon, narrating from some unspecified future date after the end of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is much more sympathetic and emotionally aware than either his childhood self or how he was during the parent series.