The season finale will reveal the origin of "Bazinga"
This word is what Sheldon is known for. There's no way a show about Sheldon as a kid wouldn't have it.- Partially: we find out the origin of the word (it's the brand name of various practical jokes that Sheldon buys, like fake gum and whoopee cushions, etc) but it isn't in the season finale.
Tam was the roommate that lived with Sheldon before Leonard.
- Jossed by Season 12, episode 4 of The Big Bang Theory. Tam chose not to move to California with Sheldon for college, and he and Sheldon hadn't spoken since
The show is basically a live-action version of FoxTrot
Let's see, we have:- Troublesome genius child with various geeky interests and a Token Minority best friend
- Shallow sister with stereotypical girly interests
- Not-so-bright jock older brother
- Bumbling Dad interested in sports
- Caring mother who can be overly moralistic at times
- Grandmother who is much cooler than her square of a daughter (the aforementioned mother)
- The show takes place in the late 1980s, the same period in which FoxTrot first debuted
The show is Sheldon's memoir
He is narrating so it's either this or a long winded speech at his noble prize ceremony.- Semi-confirmed by the finale of the first season as Sheldon mentions having had children, meaning that he's much further on in his life than shown in The Big Bang Theory and is looking back at his early life.
Sheldon will cross paths with Leonard (or other Big Bang Theory characters) at some point
Obviously Sheldon will never officially meet any of these characters until Big Bang Theory, but there's the possibility that Sheldon and Leonard (or Penny, Amy, etc.) will be in the same place at the same time and neither will ever realize it. Maybe they'll both take a trip to the same place, or one of the characters travels to Texas on vacation, etc.- We never actually see Sheldon's first meeting with Howard—that could still be on the table. And if they get off on the wrong foot, it could add an extra layer to their animosity in the parent show.
Sheldon's father will have an affair with Paige's Mother
We know that Sheldon's father will have an affair. We also know that Paige's parents are having marital problems. In the episode "Carbon Dating and a Stuffed Raccoon" that Paige's parents might be getting a divorce. In that episode, Paige's mother goes to Sheldon's father to vent. It's not to much of a stretch to think this might develop into a romantic relationship.- However, the Season 4 finale suggests George's first affair was with Brenda. On the other hand, even if this is right, it doesn't rule out another affair with another woman.
The Coopers were forced to move after George Sr. died
The main page points out how much different the Cooper house in Young Sheldon is compared to the one shown in The Big Bang Theory and that there's no mention of them moving afterwards. Then it hit me. When would be the perfect time for them to move? When they lose the main breadwinner, of course. After George Sr. dies, the family will be struggling with money for a long time, so they moved to a new house because they needed a cheaper place to live. Could be how they explain it in the future. As an alternative to the above, the Coopers moved due to the many hardships they faced starting in the fifth season.
Georgie getting Mandy pregnant resulted in the community largely turning against the Cooper family. George and Mary losing their jobs would put a damper on their finances as well. As a result, they moved away in order to both escape their reputations and because they need a less expensive house. The final episode of Young Sheldon will give us a Big Bang Theory Reunion
It's already semi-confirmed that the show is future Sheldon's memoirs, so, if they can get the cast to agree, it'd be nice if the last 5 to 10 minutes are adult Sheldon finishing his memoirs, and we get to see the gang and their kids, perhaps finally see if Raj finally ended up with someone. It'd be a nice way to cap off the franchise (in a few years of course, we don't want this show to end just yet).- It'd be even nicer if Raj ended up with Missy. With Raj still being single by the end of The Big Bang Theory and Missy having divorced her husband, plus some ship teasing before that, it'd be nice to see both of them finally catch a break. It is said by adult Sheldon in “A Baby Tooth and The Egyptian God of Knowledge” that Missy had four children in total, so she found someone else, assuming that A: she didn't reconcile with her husband, B: she wasn't carrying triplets in "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", and C: the theory about Missy undergoing a Teen Pregnancy (see below) is Jossed.
Mary became a lot more religious after George Sr. died
Although Mary is already religious during the show proper, her portrayal in The Big Bang Theory shows her to be a lot more insular - it seems obvious that she became The Fundamentalist after George Sr. died, since she had to lean on her faith. That also explains why Georgie became the head of the house so early - Mary took his dad's death very poorly. Sheldon's grandfather was none other than D.B. Cooper
If you look at D.B. Cooper's police sketches, they do kinda look alike. We know Sheldon's granddad was the only one who encouraged him to pursuit a career in science, and that he was quite the eccentric - sounds like the type of weird genius who could pull out a plane hijacking. D.B. Cooper looked around 40 in 1971, so he'd be old enough to be married to Sheldon's grandmother.- That was Sheldon's maternal grandfather, whose name is revealed to be Charlie Tucker in "Contracts, Rules and a Little Bit of Pig Brains". D.B. Cooper could still be George's father though.
Veronica will be Georgie's first wife, and George Sr.'s death will be what causes them to split up
Lots have speculated that Veronica will be Georgie's first ex-wife that he marries at age 19, as alluded to by Sheldon's narration. But their marriage will be a short one, though not through any fault of their own. According to the timeline, Georgie will be around 19 when his father dies. And as we know from "The Sibling Realignment", Georgie had to financially, and likely emotionally, support his grieving family. Obviously, being able to take care of both his new wife and his mother and sister will be too much for Georgie and he and Veronica's relationship will crumble. Though Veronica, being the kindhearted person she is, would understand the situation even though she's not thrilled and the two will amicably part ways.- Likely jossed as Veronica hasn't appeared since season three and Georgie gets Mandy pregnant in season five (though he's only 17-18 at the time).
Missy will get pregnant near the end of the show's run
In S3 E20 "A Baby Tooth and the Egyptian God of Knowledge", adult Sheldon states that Missy ended up giving birth to four children in total. In S7 of the parent series, Sheldon travels to Texas to help Missy with the birth of what is supposedly her first child, and she is pregnant with her second child in TBBT S11. At this point, she is in her late thirties, so it seems unlikely for her to have two more children after that. It is unlikely that her second pregnancy was a multiple birth, as no mention of that is made at any point in the episode, and Courtney Henggeler was only pregnant with one child in real life. Also, consider that her "first" child was born at home; home births for the mother's first child are extremely rare and irresponsible in real life, and there is no clear reason that she couldn't give birth at the hospital. Therefore, this theory postulates that the child born in TBBT S7 was her first in-wedlock child, but the second or third child that she gave birth to. Her actual first child was born before TBBT S7, possibly when she was only a teenager, and Mary obviously wouldn't let her get an abortion. This is definitely plausible, as in Young Sheldon S5, she has already been through one (somewhat) serious relationship, and watches R-rated sex comedy movies when Mary and George aren't around, and so if Mary and George separate, then Missy will have far less oversight from her family. One more piece of evidence to consider is that in TBBT S11, when Sheldon and Georgie are talking to each other, Georgie says that Missy was a "dumb teenager", in a way that suggests that Sheldon knew what Georgie was talking about, and that it was a significant burden on Georgie (who already had to provide for Mary, Sheldon, and presumably his own child). This conversation also establishes that Sheldon was blissfully unaware of everything going on in the family, while the Young Sheldon S5 finale shows that Sheldon was fully aware of his family's financial problems, and of the fact that everyone was constantly miserable; therefore, there may have been something else significant (that hasn't yet happened in Young Sheldon) that Sheldon was unaware of.- What would be even better is if Missy's pregnancy is what causes George Sr.'s fatal heart attack. Throughout the series (as of S5 E21), we have seen George deal with a lot of difficult things in his life, such as losing his job, Georgie and Mandy's pregnancy, and his impending breakup with Mary, and he got through all of those. It would also tie in perfectly to "One Bad Night and Chaos of Selfish Desires", where Missy is worried that she gave George a heart attack.
- Further implied at the end of "A Stolen Truck And Going On The Lam" where Sheldon mentions the beginning of Missy's "difficult phase". A teenage pregnancy could be part of that.
We will eventually see the argument between George and Mary that Sheldon reenacted in "The Guitarist Amplification".
Given that the parent show established that Sheldon hates to be around people who argue (to the point of it being a legitimate trigger for him) thanks to Mary and George, it seems inevitable that their fights will get nastier. Perhaps one of them will be a Call-Forward to Sheldon flipping out when Leonard and Penny bicker. However, unlike in the parent show where it was Played for Laughs (albeit, somewhat dark laughs), here, it won't be funny at all.
Mandy will miscarry.
Given that Good Girls Avoid Abortion and Georgie's said to be childless in Big Bang, Mandy might miscarry. Or maybe Georgie's not actually the father.- The miscarriage part is jossed by "A Launch Party and a Whole Human Being".
Sheldon's database will eventually be a success.
In "A Launch Party and a Whole Human Being", Sheldon's disappointed that the database got no subscribers during the launch party. But maybe he just hasn't done a good job of advertising it. The season finale will have Narrator Sheldon reveal the fate of Dr. John Sturgis.
Crunching the numbers, he'd be well into his eighties at the start of TBBT, and 96 or 97 when Sheldon marries Amy—if he were still alive. John may have been battling early-onset dementia even then, and may have spent his last years in a senior care facility (making his jests in 'The Geezer Bus' quite sad indeed). Narrator Sheldon will speak in a tearful voice of the day he heard of his old mentor's passing, perhaps saying if he did believe in Heaven, then it woukd comfort hum to know the three greatest men in his life—his grandfather, father, and Dr. Sturgis—keep company there now. Paige will end up either dying — be it by suicide or an alcohol/drug related accident — or going to prison.
Judging by how much further and further off the rails she goes in each of her appearances, it seems inevitable that she won't get a happy ending. It would also help explain why she never appears nor is mentioned in the The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon wouldn't want to bring that up to his friends. The series will end with...
Sheldon having been shown telling his memoirs of his childhood either to his own children or to his friends. The series is in an Alternate Continuity from the parent series
There are a lot of inconsistencies between the series, such as:- Sheldon's character un-development. By S5 of this series, he had stopped having meltdowns/tantrums as a reaction to not getting his way with something, even though he does this constantly in the parent series. Also, his reaction to Mandy giving birth "A Launch Party and a Whole Human Being" was far more mature than his reaction to Missy giving birth in "The Cooper Extraction".
- George Sr. Both Sheldon and Mary describe him in the parent series as uncaring and abusive, which is very different from this series.
- Timeline inconsistencies. Adult Sheldon's narration mentions his children (who had not yet been born in the parent series as of 2019), at least one of whom has graduated high school, and so Adult Sheldon's narration would have to take place in the 2030s. However, in "A Frat Party, a Sleepover and the Mother of All Blisters", Sheldon says "Thirty years later...", and 30 years later from 1993 is 2023 (the episode's release date).
- As mentioned on the Fridge page, it seems like Sheldon regressed due to a combination of grief for his father and being alone between going away to college and meeting Leonard. George Sr's alternate characterization can be described as them being simple unreliable narrators (Mary understandably is hurt/upset about her husband screwing around, while Sheldon never understood his father until towards the end of the show). As for the narration, there's nothing that says it all has to be at the same time (he could easily be looking back on his childhood at different points in his own adulthood).
Connie was lying to Missy in "David, Goliath, and a Yoo-hoo from the Back"
In this episode, Connie tells Missy about how Missy nearly died at birth, and because of that, Mary became a lot more religious. This theory states that Connie was lying in order to get Missy to behave. In actuality, it was Sheldon who nearly died, which explains not only Mary's parental favoritism, but also Sheldon's ambiguous mental disorder. This video
by Vsauce explains more about how brain damage causes savant syndrome. The Indian college student whose room Sheldon took was actually Raj
President Hagemeyer mentions that an Indian exchange student had the dorm before Sheldon, but developed a taste for barbecue, leading their parents to bring them home. Later on, we'll learn (perhaps through a voiceover from adult Raj) that he was actually that student. It would be a nice additional way to tie this show into the parent show. The tornado in "A Tornado, A 10-Hour Flight and a Darn Fine Ring" destroys the Cooper household causing them to have to move.
It would explain why Mary lives in a different house in The Big Bang Theory. The next season premiere could possibly deal with the aftermath of this.- Jossed: the Cooper house survives the tornado (but Connie's house is destroyed).
If Paige gets the rumored spinoff, Missy will costar
Young Sheldon will likely end soon with Sheldon leaving for Cal-Tech at fourteen, leaving many of the family’s storylines unresolved. Giving Missy a staring role in the spin-off as Paige’s best friend would allow the family’s story to continue in the new series. Young Sheldon (both the series and the character) doesn’t have the emotional depth to handle storylines such as: George’s affair, the parents divorce or George’s death, but a series focused on Paige and Missy as troubled teenagers could.- Considering that Missy has been banned from seeing Paige, this is likely Jossed.
- All reports say that the rumored spinoff is a spinoff of The Big Bang Theory, not Young Sheldon, so it will likely have no connection to Young Sheldon.
George's affair will be retconned somehow
Either the show will just skip over it, or some details will be changed, likely in some way that makes George more sympathetic. The following possibilities:- It will actually be Mary, not George who has an affair (she's clearly interested in Pastor Rob and an episode of The Big Bang Theory has Sheldon catch her having sex with a guy she met in church. Plus, the story with George and Brenda seems too obvious to the point of a Red Herring, so maybe there's a twist.). As for Sheldon's story about having caught his dad in the act, it was a Self-Serving Memory: he actually walked in on his mom, but he'd be traumatized by the event and unable to accept that his mother would do such a thing, so he'd spend years convincing himself that it was George he saw instead. Of course, that would create problems regarding how Sheldon acts when he sees her screwing the guy from church in Big Bang, but this show is clearly willing to put continuity aside for the sake of the storytelling.
- George and Mary both have extramarital affairs, but only George is caught by Sheldon.
- Seems like a retcon. The incident described in The Big Bang Theory when Sheldon walked in on his father with a blond woman is shown in "Ants on a Log and a Cheating Winker". It was Mary wearing a wig and speaking in a German accent, suggesting that George never cheated on Mary after all.
Missy will go to prison
Throughout the series, Missy's delinquent behavior has become greater in magnitude. In S6, she stole George Sr.'s truck, drank alcohol at age 13, and smoked cigarettes at age 13 – and that was only the start of her "difficult period".This would also be a perfect opportunity for a Cerebus Retcon of the scene from "Graduation" where Principal Petersen is impressed with Sheldon's early graduation, and says that when students leave after two years, it is usually due to prison or pregnancy.
George Sr.: Between Georgie and Missy, we might hit the trifecta!
Mandy and Georgie broke up/got divorced sometime between the events of the series and Big Bang Theory
When Georgie reappears in Big Bang, he's said to have had several ex-wives, and Cee Cee isn't mentioned at all probably meaning Mandy kept custody of her. The last few episodes of the series will either deal with this fallout or it will be skipped over and implied to have happened between the end of the series and Big Bang.- This isn't WMG, Georgie was said to have been divorced twice, so he an Mandy will divorce at some point.
