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* TapedOverTurmoil: Sheldon finds to his dismay that his father had taped a football game over his video to himself... although he later admits that he remembered the whole speech anyway.

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* TapedOverTurmoil: Sheldon finds to his dismay that his father had taped a football game over his video to himself... although he later admits that he remembered the whole speech anyway. It later ends up helping him anyway when he finds that the new footage captured a RousingSpeech his father gave to his football team.
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Still upset over their super asymmetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child (Iain Armitage). When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.

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Still upset over their super asymmetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child (Iain Armitage).(Creator/IainArmitage). When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.
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* IdiotBall: The physicist Leonard thinks the curtain will be safe from the flames because they're in water, forgetting a pretty basic fact about physics: fire rises.
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* MetaphorGotten: When Sheldon is motivating himself to revisit the asymmetry theory, he calls the initial disappointment halftime with plenty of physics left to play. When Amy asks if Sheldon just used a sports metaphor, he responds yes and calls it a home run.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: After watching his father's RousingSpeech that George taped over Sheldon's childhood speech, adult Sheldong remarks that he always thought that their journeys were different but they both faced disappointments and setbacks.

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* NotSoDifferentRemark: After watching his father's RousingSpeech that George taped over Sheldon's childhood speech, adult Sheldong Sheldon remarks that he always thought that their journeys were different but they both faced disappointments and setbacks.
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* Metaphorgotten: When Sheldon is motivating himself to revisit the asymmetry theory, he calls the initial disappointment halftime with plenty of physics left to play. When Amy asks if Sheldon just used a sports metaphor, he responds yes and calls it a home run.

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* Metaphorgotten: MetaphorGotten: When Sheldon is motivating himself to revisit the asymmetry theory, he calls the initial disappointment halftime with plenty of physics left to play. When Amy asks if Sheldon just used a sports metaphor, he responds yes and calls it a home run.

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* Metaphorgotten: When Sheldon is motivating himself to revisit the asymmetry theory, he calls the initial disappointment or setback halftime with plenty of physics left to play. When Amy asks if Sheldon just used a sports metaphor, he responds yes and calls it a home run.

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* Metaphorgotten: When Sheldon is motivating himself to revisit the asymmetry theory, he calls the initial disappointment or setback halftime with plenty of physics left to play. When Amy asks if Sheldon just used a sports metaphor, he responds yes and calls it a home run.


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* NotSoDifferentRemark: After watching his father's RousingSpeech that George taped over Sheldon's childhood speech, adult Sheldong remarks that he always thought that their journeys were different but they both faced disappointments and setbacks.

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Still upset over their super assymetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child (Iain Armitage). When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.

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Still upset over their super assymetry asymmetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child (Iain Armitage). When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.


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* Metaphorgotten: When Sheldon is motivating himself to revisit the asymmetry theory, he calls the initial disappointment or setback halftime with plenty of physics left to play. When Amy asks if Sheldon just used a sports metaphor, he responds yes and calls it a home run.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Overlaps with TrustPassword. To prove to the young Sheldon on the VCR that the person watching is the adult Sheldon, the one on the tape asks the viewer what he is thinking now. They both respond "Robot Monkey Butler."
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Still upset over their super assymetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child. When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.

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Still upset over their super assymetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child.child (Iain Armitage). When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.
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* TapedOverTurmoil: Sheldon finds to his dismay that his father had taped a football game over his video to himself.

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* TapedOverTurmoil: Sheldon finds to his dismay that his father had taped a football game over his video to himself.himself... although he later admits that he remembered the whole speech anyway.
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* TemptingFate: PlayedForLaughs when Leonard, Penny, Sheldon, and Amy give a VikingFuneral. Amy expresses doubt about its safety, so Leonard assures her that it IS safe, since it's in a bathtub filled with water. Barely a second after Leonard's statement, the curtains are set on fire, prompting the "funeral attendants" to throw bathtub water at the curtains to put out the fire.
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* MourningAnObject: As a way of moving on, Sheldon and Amy hold a symbolic funeral for their theory.



* TheUnreveal: Sheldon takes out a tape he made for himself as a kid in case he ever needed motivation. Young Sheldon's advice to Older Sheldon was… taped over with a football game by his father at the most crucial moment.

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* TheUnreveal: Sheldon takes out a tape he made for himself as a kid in case he ever needed motivation. Young Sheldon's advice to Older Sheldon was… taped over with a football game by his father at the most crucial moment.moment.
* VikingFuneral: Sheldon and Amy have a symbolic one for their theory. Instead of a boat at sea, it's a Tupperware container in the bathtub, and instead of a flaming arrow, it's a lighter. All goes well until it sets the curtains on fire.
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* TapedOverTurmoil: Sheldon finds to his dismay that his father had taped a football game over his video to himself.
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* RedHerring: It's actually Sheldon's father that gives Sheldon the right advice and not his younger self.
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* AllForNothing: Subverted. After seemingly losing their Super Asymmetry theory in the previous episode, George Sr.'s speech is what convinces Sheldon to look at it from a different angle, reviving it.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''Series/YoungSheldon'', via a video taped by Sheldon when he was younger.
* RousingSpeech: Sheldon had taped one as a child for his older self. Unfortunately, his father taped over it. However, later in the tape there's a video of George Sr. giving his team a pep talk. It was this speech, not the one he made for himself, that ends up motivating Sheldon.
* ShaggyDogStory: Bernadette encourages Howard to audition for the Magic Castle. Howard does try out at the end of the episode, but he botches it when his attempt at magic trick ends with him accidentally breaking the Rolex he borrows from his audition judge for said magic trick.
* TheUnreveal: Sheldon takes out a tape he made for himself as a kid in case he ever needed motivation. Young Sheldon's advice to Older Sheldon was… taped over with a football game by his father at the most crucial moment.
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Still upset over their super assymetry theory being disproven, Sheldon tries to find hope from a tape made by him as a child. When Howard auditions for Magic Castle, Bernadette turns into a stage mom.

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