History Series / YoungSheldon

''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.

The show will end after seven seasons, with the series finale airing on May 16th 2024. A spinoff focused on Georgie and Mandy called ''Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage'' will premiere in Fall 2024.

** 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, who plays Meemaw, also appears in the latter.

* 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 ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon idolizes Maxwell as one of the greatest physicists of our time.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Early in Season One, Sheldon claims that Missy cannot kick him into the testicles since they have not descended yet, with Adult Sheldon later informing the viewers they did eventually descend when he was fifteen. This is extremely unlikely to happen in real life, since unless an infant boy's testicles descend spontaneously until he is six months old (in most cases they do so still ''in utero''), they need to be surgically moved to the scrotum, which usually happens when the boy is around one year of age.

** 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 one of oldest forms of Christianity and certainly believes Jesus is God.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion:

** 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 seven.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that [[spoiler:the narrator Sheldon is speaking from a time after ''The Big Bang Theory'' is set]] is foreshadowed several times, especially since Sheldon [[spoiler: seems a lot more understanding of his father's personality and actions than he did in the parent show. Most notably he outright states in one episode that he realises now that his father would often play dumb to make him feel better, something The Big Bang Theory era Sheldon is unlikely to have understood or appreciated.]]
** In the fifth season, when the high school principal confronts Georgie about why he is ditching classes, he brings out a pamphlet on teen pregnancy and asks if he is dealing with that. [[spoiler: Later on, Georgie gets an older woman pregnant.]]

* ForWantOfANail: In the season 3 finale, Sheldon is cutting a hotdog to make Spaghetti with Little Hotdog Slices like his mom makes, and one piece rolls under the fridge. This starts a series of events that almost tears his family apart, but ultimately ends with him finally getting into college.

* InsufferableGenius: Even at the age of nine, Sheldon already lectures people, even his own teachers.

--> '''Tam:''' Firebeak, what do you do? [[{{Beat}} (beat)]] Billy!
--> '''Billy:''' What?

** Yet another pregnancy arc kicks off in "A Solo Peanut, a Social Butterfly and the Truth", this time involving [[spoiler:Georgie and Mandy. Mandy tells Georgie that she's pregnant, but again, Georgie doesn't seem to have any children in ''The Big Bang Theory''. So either it's a {{retcon}}, a false positive, someone else is the father (jossed in the following episode), she takes sole custody or the child is miscarried/aborted/put up for adoption (abortion and adoption are also jossed, as Mandy wants to keep the child).]]

** There are two Sheldons, who work together to solve physics equations twice as fast, but think of each other as dumb and end up fighting each other.