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** [[spoiler:While the way Dale treats John is unacceptable, his reasons for doing so are at least partialyl understandable, as John did spy on him after he found out Connie was dating Dale.]]

!Children

->'''Played by:''' Creator/RyanPhuong (''Young Sheldon''); Creator/RobertWu (''Series/TheBigBangTheory'')

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->'''Played by:''' London Cheshire

!Medford High School staff

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->'''Played by:''' Creator/DaniellePinnock

->'''Played by:''' Doc Farrow

->'''Played by:''' Sarah Baker

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! East Texas Tech University

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->'''Played by:''' Ivan Mok (Oscar), Caleb Emery (Darren)

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!Neighbors

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!First Baptist Church of Medford

->'''Played by:''' Matt Hobby

->'''Played by:''' Nancy Linehan Charles

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![=McAllister=] family

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!Others

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* {{Brainy Brunette}}: Possibly. While Jana doesn’t appear to be very academic, and couldn’t tell what Sheldon was saying in Spanish to her, it’s possible that she might be cleverer than people think, as she was much more knowledgeable about early pregnancy factors and Science than Georgie, even if this wasn’t a very difficult thing to accomplish.

* BadBadActing: He can be a good actor when he wants to be, but his feigned sadness towards Sheldon for saying he can't help Mr. Lundy sell the house next-door is so horrible that anyone other than Sheldon would be able to see right through it.

* CompositeCharacter: Seems to be an amalgamation of the friends of adult Sheldon. He is the best friend of Sheldon in Texas while Leonard is Sheldon's best friend in California and both serve as the straight man to Sheldon's funny man. Like Howard, Tam hits on every girl he meets. Additionally, Tam also has an overbearing mother (similar to Howard). Tam and Raj are both foreigners and Mary Cooper's racially insensitive comments to both are quite similar.

* DoomedByCanon: By the time of ''The Big Bang Theory'', Sheldon and Tam are no longer friends, and Tam wasn't mentioned for a long time. [[spoiler:It's finally revealed in season twelve that Tam had planned to go to college with Sheldon, but ended up staying in Texas with a girl he was dating. Sheldon felt so betrayed that he didn't contact or mention him for many years.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: He suffered through poverty in Vietnam and often having an abusive childhood from his parents after moving to the United States. [[spoiler:When he finally appears in ''The Big Bang Theory'' he is HappilyMarried, has one son and least one other child, and eventually repairs his friendship with Sheldon. He himself even describes his life has been great, a stark contrast to how his home life sounded in his childhood.]]

* ImmigrantPatriotism: He displays this to an even greater extant than his parents, which is saying something.

* LoserFriendPuzzlesOutsiders: When Tam appears in the TBBT, Howard asks him if there were no other boys in Texas when Tam describes his friendship with Sheldon.
* ObliviousToHatred: [[spoiler:It's revealed in TBBT that he didn't go to college in California with Sheldon, who felt betrayed and even put Tam in his enemies list. Tam thought they just naturally drifted apart and was never aware that Sheldon has been angry with him for 20 years.]]

* CelebrityParadox: Wallace Shawn 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''. In fact, on ''Toy Story'', he appeared on the first two movies with Annie Potts (Meemaw on ''Young Sheldon'') and on the first three with Creator/LaurieMetcalf (Mom on ''Theory''). More indirectly, he was Grand Nagus Zek on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', which is a SpinOff of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* ADegreeInUseless: Connor has an art school degree. According to Jim, he has no prospects of ever holding a real job.

* TactfulTranslation: It's obvious he actually knows Spanish, but he's purposely mistranslating Selena to the Cooper family due to Selena's pessimism. [[BilingualBackfire Unfortunately, Sheldon, who does know the language, is there]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint and thinks he doesn't know it.]]

* ExtravertedNerd: He tries so desperately to hang with the cool crowd and date hot chicks. And he fails miserably every time.

->'''Played by:''' Danielle Pinnock

* HateSink: She's a straight bitch without a single redeeming quality who likes to antagonize the Cooper family. This would change in the third season, as she and Mary realize that they aren't so different.

* MistakenForPedophile: In "A Crisis of Faith and Octopus Aliens", Mary's struggling to cope with the death of a neighbor girl. Jeff advises her to go help the needy, start a Bible study, or hug a stranger and tell them God loves them. As long as it's not a child, as that backfires.

* NiceGuy: Despite his flaws, he cares about everyone, is a kind and well-meaning person and tries to be the best Christian he can.

* UglyGuyHotWife: While not ugly, he's definitely a dorky-looking (and dorky-acting) guy married to a total knockout. Though she's a {{Gold Digg|er}}ing bitch who leaves him. But then he ran into a FairCop who had just moved to town and was very into him.

* EntitledToHaveYou: [[spoiler: Takes on this attitude with Connie in "A Baby Tooth and The Egyptian God of Knowledge", after she refuses to marry him. He reminds her of all the things he's done for her and her family and Connie rightfully informs him that this doesn't obligate her to marry him.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Sturgis. John is short, homely, slightly effeminate and socially awkward. Dale is tall, fairly handsome, a manly man and confident. Their differences are also examined when both of them [[spoiler:proposed to Connie. Connie rejected both proposals, but they reacted in different ways. John was heartbroken at first, but ultimately respects Connie's decision and the two remain on good terms while Dale is furious and acts like a whiny, entitled jerk, going so far as taking his anger out on Georgie.]]

** [[spoiler:While the way Dale treats John is unacceptable, his reasons for doing so are at least understandable, as John did spy on him after he found out Connie was dating Dale.]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She hasn't appeared nor been mentioned since season 3 episode "An Academic Crime and a More Romantic Taco Bell".

* DoomedByCanon: Given that Veronica isn't with adult Georgie in ''The Big Bang Theory'', any romance that may happen between the two will have ended before their adulthood. Adult Sheldon confirms that Georgie has at least two ex-wives, marrying the first when he was 19, so it's possible that Veronica might be his first wife.

* EasilyForgiven: She's rather quick to forgive Georgie for coming on to her during their baptism. Perhaps justified due to her newfound religious beliefs.

* TookALevelInKindness: In "A Solo Peanut, a Social Butterfly and the Truth", she's nice to Sheldon again, since she was lonely at college and figured that Sheldon could help her deal with it (unaware that Sheldon has made friends of his own in college.)

* OutOfFocus: He appeared in eleven episodes of season one and ten episodes of season two, and often had a role to play in the subplots. Starting in season three, he appears less often and is usually just a cameo at best. He was in only five episodes of the third season. In season four, he only appears in three episodes. He didn't appear at all in season five.

* FreudianExcuse: Boucher [[spoiler:A very strict professor that constantly rejected and tore up Sheldon's work for being wrong. Unlike other professors, would not help Sheldon by telling him what he was doing wrong. Then he closed the door on Sheldon when he was late, after Sheldon finally figured our what he was missing (the wind)]], is why Sheldon hates engineering.
* ScheduleFanatic: He uses military time in casual conversation, locks the classroom door at the start of class as a deterrent to late students, and points out to Sheldon that how his "fun fact" caused the class to fall one minute behind schedule.

* {{Friend to all Children}}: Jana seems to get on well with Missy and they had a nice conversation about Missy’s boyfriend. She does seem to also not harbor any negative feelings for Sheldon despite his rudeness to her when he asks her about how she thinks she did in her Spanish test, while speaking in Spanish.

* FreudianExcuse: Boucher [[spoiler:being a very strict professor that constantly rejected and tore up his work for being wrong who, unlike his other professors, would not help Sheldon by telling him what the latter was doing wrong, plus having closed the door on him when he got late due to finally found his problem (the wind)]], is why Sheldon hates engineering.

* ChildHater: Part of the reason he wants to be free of Sheldon is because he doesn't understand him and dislikes being around with children.