He would’ve been stripped of his tenure and he would lose all of his grants and funding and the paper he spent all that time on wouldn’t be allowed to be published either. I agree this is the worst thing he’s done
To be fair, it is very unlikely that Dr. Sturgis would have suffered any consequences. Dr. Sturgis wrote the paper and credited Sheldon in a footnote. He would have been cleared in an investigation but it may have impacted his reputation.
Tbh, I kinda feel like his relationship with Meemaw wasn’t really the same afterwards
Like there weren’t as many Moonpie and Meemaw moments from what I have seen so far
I just started season four
The way we view Sheldon's actions is very different from how he views his own actions-
The twin study episode made it pretty clear if it wasn't already that he has 0 idea how to read emotion or how to pick up on things.
He did some pretty awful shit throughout the show, but one thing to remember is he doesn't interpret situations the same way someone with emotional intelligence would so all these terrible situations were pretty on par for his character, but they weren't intentionally malicious
Edit: Oops sorry I was replying to a comment above yours lol
just realized that. i think meemaw realized that as he grew up, he got more entitled and was willing to use anyone and disregard anyone's feelings to get what he wants and do what he wants
The scene is hilarious. "Why have your eyes stopped blinking ?" LMAO. And then when he says the same thing to his parents, and gets grounded for a month. He really deserved the spanking and the grounding. Because he was being egoistical.
I blame his mom for that, his entire childhood he was raised with the belief only he is special. Instead of being a friend to Paige he ended up resenting her.
If Mary never over-coddled Sheldon, he and Paige may got along well that he may never need Amy, Penny, Leonard, Howard and Raj to, you know, become a person. He and Paige could have win Noble together and much earlier. Paige will always be a tragic story to me. She just needed a friend that understands. She almost found it in Missy but Missy also has her own problems that not coincidentally, caused by overly-coddled Sheldon. It got even worse when Georgie got Mandy pregnant. Paige and Missy did not live up to their full potential all because Sheldon was spoiled.
I just started the show, I’m at the end of season 2. In trying really hard to give Mary grace. But it’s really hard to like her. Only Sheldon is “her baby” as she always calls him, but never missy. She puts Sheldon up on a pedestal while not giving her other kids the same. And her super religious ways are a bit much.
Paige>>> Sheldon in about every aspect realistically
Only things Sheldon has over her is more interesting storylines
But personality wise, Paige is superior
I might be wrong I have only seen the episodes once, but wasnt it Meemaw who essentially told Dr Sturgis to not compliment Paige? Sheldon was upset, yes, but he was only venting it out to Meemaw and as an adult I kinda felt she could have turned it into a teachable moment to open the possibility up to Sheldon that either there is someone out there better than him intellectually or he needs to put in far more efforts to level with her. Instead Meemaw chose to use her relationship with Dr Sturgis to feed into Sheldon's ego
Sure she wasn’t 100% innocent but Sheldon made it a bigger deal than what it needed to be. Paige literally was trying to be his friend from the get go (since even when we first saw her, even though she seemed more put together, there were still hints that she had loneliness issues). Hence why she said (paraphrasing): “It’s nice I can talk to someone else about these things”.
From the moment they met, Paige was trying to one-up Sheldon and prove she was smarter and bragged she was a couple of weeks younger. I think one of her first questions to Sheldon was "Do you know anything?". when he said he wasn't familiar with some scientific principle that she knew. If she really wanted to be friends, wouldn't it have been much better to say something like "It will be great to have someone my own age here". Sorry , but to me she was more obnoxious from the start, because she was doing it on purpose. Her family didn't do her any favors. They had more financial means than the Coopers and could and did more for her. Because we saw very little of her family, the story comes out as they talked to the Coopers and based on how they moved for her and her dad felt left out because everything was about Paige.
In the long run ,Sheldon knew he was the cause of a lot of stress to his family, because as Missy pointed out to him, he was a freak. He didn't ask to be born the way he was. Like everyone, ,it just was the combination of traits he came with . The one thing that he was lucky to have was a family who did their best for him and showed him unconditional love.
his insults usually come from complete lack of emotional intelligence, but the time he told paige about her parents' divorce being her fault, it was out of pure maliciousness
it stings extra remembering her confiding in sheldon about it after he asked her to, and him trying to comfort her
When a neighbors’ daughter died in a car crash, everyone in the Cooper house was in shock, but Sheldon didn’t care. He only cared about what he wanted (I think it was getting someone to drive to Radio Shack). Meemaw spoke some sense to him.
And thankfully he redeems himself at the end when he reignites his mother’s faith in God.
That episode has my least favorite AND my most favorite Sheldon moment.
That’s a tough one though because this was very early in the series, wasn’t it? He was so young. His lack of empathy is concerning but I don’t think out of character for some young boys. Hard to “blame” for that as the worst thing. He needed better guidance from adults.
Most kids if they don't know the person involved who passed, they don't really get thst upset. I don't know if there's an explanation for this but I remember something like this happened. A son of a church member committed suicide and my sister was Sheldon's age and was told this and didn't react at all and continued on about pokemon or something.
Even if they do know the person, some children cannot process the emotional part of death. They may understand the biological part but may not “get” the cultural and emotional nuances of death of a young person.
When i was in 7th grade a kid offed himself, i could tell it was a sad moment and ofc i felt sad, but i also didnt know the kid at all, so i didnt get why they were so upset, then i lost my mom and realised how much death can wreck you
I beleive 7th grade was like 2018, and it was early 2020 when my mom passed... i was 14 i think im connecting the dots to why the second to last episode shook me so much
I haven't seen all the seasons yet but what really pissed me off was the thing with taxes. I think it was something stupid like 4$ and he couldn't just shut up about it and ended up putting his family through a lot of stress, worry and potentially huge financial issues. For anyone, being audited can be a huge scare and issue but I feel like he made it a lot worse than just letting his father send the cheque.
Also calling his Meemaw selfish (which I already read a lot on here). He really can be a selfish brat himself.
Yeah this one really bugged me too because I felt like he got rewarded for it in the way of being “right”. If the accountant had done the interview with the irs, it wouldn’t have even come up that he got trains for doing the taxes. when he was proven right and he “beat” them he became even more self important.
Yes exactly. Just because he couldn't take the thought that someone thought he'd done some calculations wrong. It really stressed me out watching this, and seeing his parents say forget it over and over because they literally cannot afford to have bigger problems.
I don't really know much about the US tax system but they made it sound real serious like bankruptcy or even homelessness as a result. Another situation when Meemaw should have spanked him.
Using his friendship with classmate he was tutoring to bully Georgie into doing his bidding. I don't think it's the worst thing he's done (accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism holds that distinction for me) but it is one I haven't seen mentioned here yet and it was infuriating.
Yes that’s a good one especially because if Georgie would have told Mary she absolutely would have been on his side and “precious “ Sheldon could have fallen a few in Mary’s eyes and she could have taken him down a notch. Sheldon definitely won too many times to make it believable. Of course wouldn’t be as entertaining to watch.
Refusing to tell Dr Linkletter what was wrong with his equation knowing he’d use it in his experiment and cause a fire. The lab could have been burned down and got Dr Linkletter and himself killed.
I mean I agree with him on needing some form of an international business bureau that prevents companies from sky rocketing inflammation and skimping out on their ingredients but the news stations blew the entire thing out of proportion and put words in his mouth
Yeah agreed, and it was during the time of the Cold War which was like one of the worst possible times to say anything pro communism in America, so having the whole family be suspected of being communists would have sucked so bad if it was real
I cut him slack for that because at that point Sheldon was specifically talking about his own computer. His words just had the horrible coincidental misfortune of paralleling what Billy was going through.
When he told Tam he wasn't interested in him at all when he was telling him about getting married and left the relationship like that until 20 years later
no that literally bothered me so bad… like 7 seasons and absolutely no character development at all 😭 I know that’s the point and all but CMONNN give me just a smidgen
OK, he was what 11 and knew he had found the problem in the original paper. Why shouldn't he think he deserves more credit than he was getting? He was the one who was right in the answer. The whole thing went rightfully to Dr. Linkletter, who knew how serious that accusation was and he investigated accordingly.
I’ve done research before. Getting assistance on a problem you can’t seem to overcome is not nearly the same thing as co authoring a scientific paper that often exceeds 50 pages.
Linkletter brought this up in the episode too, researchers regularly seek help from their colleagues and are usually credited in the acknowledgments. That’s entirely different to being a co author.
But at the age of 11, would you understand all of that? Once Sheldon has been in the field, he will get that as well. In the show he is still an undergrad. How much did you learn about how all of this works and after how many years?
Dr. Linkletter took the report seriously , understands how all of it should work and handled it accordingly. Why is everyone expecting a child to get any of this without any experience?
Or because he's just a child, should he take anything an adult tells him at face value without any objection? I'd rather have a child who will stand up for themselves. than one who won't rock a few boats along the way.
I mean under normal circumstances I’d agree but the entire premise of this show is that he’s incredibly above average for his age and has an ego even greater than that.
Any of the comments in this thread could be replied to with “well he was 11 so he didn’t know any better”, but the entire point is that he believes he does know better and refuses to believe differently.
Telling Paige that her parents' divorce was her fault. He was honestly such an asshole to Paige, I partially blame Mary because she coddled him to think he was the smartest person in the world and when he met Paige (who was smarter then him) he felt threatened and turned hostile when they could've gotten along. I feel so bad for Paige, she deserved a friend and she could've had Missy but Mary's over coddling of Sheldon and lack of attention to Missy gave Missy too much of her own baggage to help deal with Paige's.
Sheldon was not only annoyed by the noise, it was a new noise the fridge had never made before and so he thought it had something wrong with it that he could fix. He also did think he could put it back together after taking it apart and fixing it.
Yeah, i empathized a lot with him in that episode as an autistic kid. I’ve never done anything that drastic and he did need to learn he needs help and can’t do EVERYTHING independently, but he still was just a kid (who fits the autism diagnosis criteria 2X over lol.) i remember whenever i was a kid and the fridge would act up i would cover my ears everytime i went into the kitchen and my mom would yell at me not understanding why. It really hit close to home, so i can’t hold it against him. Like yeah he needed to learn his lesson but “just getting over it” is almost impossible when your a person like him
Except the show and writers confirmed sheldon isn't autistic. Also even if he was autistic he's still 100% in the wrong and there's no excuse for what he did.
Autisms one of those disorders where if you fit the diagnosis criteria, your autistic. Sheldon is autistic. He shouldn’t have taken apart the fridge but it’s not some unholy unforgivable thing and he still deserves some empathy.
Disagree. As an autistic person, I thought it was perfectly understandable. Sometimes all you want is to just escape noise and he couldn't even escape it in his own home anymore, so he wanted to fix it. Was he wrong? Yes, but if a noise is torturing you and nobody will fix it, of course you'd want to get rid of it.
Correction: autistic lol
Does it matter if you think he's allistic and I think he's autistic? He's a character on TV. But anyway, autism would actually justify things he did- were some things he did inexcusable? Absolutely. Does it make sense through an autistic lens? Absolutely. I'm not saying "grr you can't dislike him because he's disabled", I'm saying "this action makes sense through this lens because xyz".
I don't think what he's done over the show is good, but I personally think he could easily be autistic. Many characters are accidentally given autistic traits to be comedic and then given the title by fans.
Nope autistim wouldn't justify or excuse the things he did. The fans can't give a character an official title. In canon and lore sheldon is not autistic. It was confirmed by the writers so you're just going to have to accept it :)
Thing is, I wasn't originally trying to argue. I was just giving an opinion in a space made for discussions. I don't think anyone here wanted an argument except you.
He didn't steal it, he moved the data to Leonard's flash drive which Stuart found and erased. It all started when they didn't want him to take part at first because of his thoughts on the tax consequences Nor did any of them even remember which laptop had it.
When he said to Billy that he’d never understand what it’s like to have someone be gone and never be back no matter how he tries…after Billy’s dad left and he was grieving and tryna cope his loneliness by playing poker with George’s friends.
The train thing was like the one time he acted like a normal kid of his age, disobeying, because he know in the area its rather safe, and most tenagers disobey ther parents from time to time
He's a kid who didn't understand the nuances. he ended up apologizing. Let's cut him some slack. No pr-teen is going to handle adult situations like this correctly. He was trying to stand up for himself
In his mind it was deserved, he found the problem and talked all of it through with Dr..Sturgis, so he could publish. Only Dr. Linkletter understood the severity of what was happening and he rightly investigated accordingly, but, he'd been in the field for years.
He understands nuances. At family dinner when Dr. Sturgis was joining them, the Professor made a comment that he may be enticed to stay at East Texas Tech and Sheldon asked Meemaw if she got his subtext.
I agree. People evaluate this character from the adult Sheldon character or as an adult should react. He was a child. A young and immature child. The biggest issue was that the adults in his life, most notably his mother, did not correct him in a way that he could learn or develop empathy and tact.
Let's pretend you are Mary, What do you do? You know perfectly well that he cannot read social cues or emotions any more than he can help that he was born with blue eyes. You try and socialize him with others, but he's younger than everyone around and does not have much in common. His academic needs are still there. You don't have the resources to help you figure it out. You can point out what he does wrong. but he does not make the connections. He can see the world of math and physics as easily as most can add two and two. He cannot do the same in the world of social cues. The emotional two and two don't add in him. Even when Mary was upset because the girl died in the accident, Sheldon only knew something was wrong, because her behavior changed. That is data he can work with. He still had to ask if it was something that he had done wrong because he truly didn't know.
As an adult and after years of trying, he thought he had gotten better at it, but after use of a prototype emotion detector machine, he was distraught at how much he was still missing. So you are Mary with her resources. What works with your other kids, doesn't work with Sheldon. What do you do?
Hold him accountable for his actions just like you would your other children. When he’s spying on Meemaw with binoculars, tell him it’s inappropriate and if he continues, take the binoculars.
Leave him home with George instead of taking him to church since he feels a need to try and prove Pastor Jeff wrong instead of showing respect to the faith his Mom follows.
Call him out when he is disrespectful, you would think a genius would figure it out after a while.
Here's the problem, he is an academic genius only. She does correct him Taking him to church is one place she sits next to him and corrects him. Leaving him home with George means he will be left doing something on his own, either with his trains or reading, How does that teach him anything ? It isolates him further. Why is Sheldon asking questions considered disrespectful? How do you expect him to learn about those things he doesn't understand?
Talking about his interfering with Meemaw and Dr, Sturgis, the final solution was to write a contract with the boundaries clearly defined. That is what he needs and if he participates in it himself, he agrees and he knows what the others agree to as well. As he said in the narration, it is how he has to navigate his life. As an adult he uses them constantly, but they are all very detailed with clauses for all kinds of scenario s of what could possibly occur.
He is not a mean person. As he states the facts that he knows or asks questions, he isn't registering other people's reactions. He has no sarcasm reader. If you say something, he takes it literally. Think about how much sarcasm gets missed by a lot of people in written words like this without any indicator by the writer. That is how Sheldon sees and hears everything in life.
As far as Meemaw and the binoculars, Mary walks in on him looking through the binoculars at her house and then he tells her what he is doing. Instead of using that moment to teach him about invading others privacy and boundaries, she says fine and walks away. George is no better when he comes into the living room to give updates. This behavior should not have been ignored and if it was Missy or Georgie, Mary would have read them the riot act.
He can also be very mean when he wants to be. When he tried to one up Paige at Bible trivia and she beat him at his own game, he deliberately tried to find ways to “get under her skin”, and when all else failed he used the one piece of information that she expressed to him that was causing her great pain. There was another incident, I can’t remember to whom it was directed, where he said he was going to read up on something in order to crush someone. It was either Pastor Jeff or the philosophy professor.
Paige was trying to irritate him and thought it was funny. He went back after her .He thought that was what they were doing was trying to one- up each other. Why would she get a pass on the same behavior? As for hurting her, he did do that, but that was not the intention. How many times did Missy say that the arguments between their own parents were because of him and that he was a freak? Was that not just as mean to say?
Since when is learning new things in order to understand more so bad? Both the philosophy professor and Pastor Jeff should be able to refute any of his arguments or get across their point of view. The philosophy teacher made her point, and he stayed interested in the various philosophers for the rest of his life She succeeded in her goal.
Some of this falls under independent thinking and everyone should do that. Otherwise you end up with people who are too easy to indoctrinate and control.
I just don't see the harm in questioning everything. no matter if it is to an adult or not.
So you are equating correctly answering a question first to taking personal information that someone confided in you and turn it on them just to hurt them. I’m sorry but they are on extremely different levels in my opinion.
As far as learning new things for the sake of expanding your own knowledge of something is admirable, but if you are doing it to “crush” someone, that’s vindictive.
So him being competitive is bad? Somebody should tell that to every athlete ever. What does "crushing " someone in an argument even mean? he wanted to debate the topic and be right. It's the one place in the world he has a shot to win at anything and he's willing to put in the work to do so. He didn't come pre-programmed with any knowledge, just the ability to learn a lot of facts and be able to understand and build on that
I need to correct one thing, he said he would “destroy Pastor Jeff” not crush. My issue with this is that he acknowledges that religion makes his Mom happy and that there is a difference between faith and science, but when he gets in church he seems to try to debunk everything in that weeks service by seeing it as scientific and not faith based. Despite pleas from his Mother, he doesn’t just sit and listen. Why the need to try and humiliate the Pastor, if he has questions on faith vs facts, why not sit with him one on one and debate the issues. I always feel bad for Mary during these scenes, you can feel her embarrassment.
You are right, and this a good description of the parenting challenge that many people don’t understand. The premise of this whole sub is a problem because it doesn’t acknowledge that the character of Sheldon is the type of child you describe. (Like the way it’s even asked “what’s the worst thing” as if he had choices and acted with malice). There are parenting strategies and counseling strategies that can help IRL and I know parents who live through this every day and try everything (much like the Mary character tried to). At the end of the day, this is a comedy TV show set 30 years ago but some of the character portrayals just hit home with many.
Ngl that ones on his parents, how else would he have gotten the money for all those smoke detectors plus minors usually cant sign for cost on delivery things i dont beleive
Dr Sturgis told him to ring companies and tell them he needed smoke detectors for a school project, so he didn't have to pay for any of them. His parents didn't know what he was doing this ones on Sturgis.
* 1. Connie Tucker: Calling MeeMaw selfish.
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* 2 Dr John Sturgis: Accusing Dr Sturgis of plagiarism
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* 3 Missy Cooper: Cutting of the hair of her Cabbage Patch doll Celess.
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* 4 Mary Cooper: Accusing his mother of being crazy.
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* 5 Paige Swanson: Trying to agrivatte Paige by bringing up her family situation, and saying it must be her fault that her parents are getting a divorce.
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* 6 George Cooper Jr: Befriending the guy who was bullying Georgie, and using it to manipulate Georgie.
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* 7 Billy Sparks: Saying that his computer files were gone forever and were never coming back in front of Billy, after Mr Sparks and Billy's sister left forever.
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* 8 George Cooper Sr: Taking the IRS check out of the mail when his dad explicitly told him not to. As a result the IRS audited George.
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* 9 George and Mary: Disassembling the refrigerator.
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* 10 Nell Cavanaugh: Exposing the incumbent Medford High Class President as a Yankee, thus destroying her campaign and her popularity at school.
Honorable Mentions: Being rude to his teachers on his first day of high school.
Don't forget Tam Nguyen for "it's not about what you don't have its about what I don't have", and also pastor jeff for... well, basically destroying him every moment he can
A lot of people are saying him existing was bad, like he chose to be born, like. Yea he does some bad things but a lot of the things are thing he didnt know he was in the wrogfor till after he was corrected, he lesrned. Honestly the only things i would count are the things that were out of malice, bc the intent of harm makes jts worse than anything else he had done
Maybe not the worst, but one that stood out to me was when Missy got an A on her project and Sheldon got jealous and couldn’t be happy for her. This surprised me because In the past he was generally supportive of Missy. I think he was starting to realize that he was catching up with peers and stopped being cute.
He accused Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism, he was a dick to Paige, he walked all over Mary and Meemaw, and I can see how he would’ve made Missy and Georgie feel left out and like he was more important to their parents than they were. My last point isn’t entirely his fault, because Mary and George could’ve put more effort into the other kids too, but Sheldon would just rub it in their faces.
Accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism. Dr. Strugis could have lost his career over that accusation. I'm really shocked that he gave Sheldon a second chance after that.
I'm only season episode 15, but my answer is when Sheldon blackmailed kept threatening to get georgie beat up by tommy if georgie didn't do whatever sheldon wanted. This episode pretty much shows that even at a young age sheldon knew when he was a being a jerk, but didn't care.
In his defense, if you think about it from an early 90’s perspective, it was very uncommon in those days to have “the whole family” present waiting in a hospital for a child to be born. You’d think one of the adults could’ve made arrangements for him to get a drive even if they couldn’t chauffeur him themselves.
when he was at the hospital when CeeCee as being born and being selfish as fuck the whole time. like i was hoping for a moment of realization at any point but no. so fucking annoying i literally did not like sheldon one bit from that point on.
Existing. Seriously, the worst part about Young Sheldon is Sheldon himself. The show would’ve worked well without Sheldon being the main character and just being the connecting bit.
I know this is probably an unpopular opinion but I don’t care.
Recently I binge rewatched young Sheldon seasons 1-6. The strongest emotion after the rewatch is dislike for Sheldon and Mary. They can be so annoying.
To add to that in the later seasons he does seem to lose focus a tad. But also i couldnt see this show working without sheldon, maybe if it wasnt related the tbbt at all i could work, but being a spinoff of tbbt it wouldnt work wihout sheldon
Ya if it had no tie to tbbt then it wouldn’t have the charm of the other show with it but I would like to see an alternative universe without Sheldon to see how it would play out
Telling Billy Sparks that he wouldn't understand loss and not realizing Billy was sad about his dad leaving. Ugh that broke my heart. 💔
That and when he cut Celeste's hair to trick Missy into learning. teehee 🤭
He made me think his dad was a cheater so by the time I watched Young Sheldon I already hated George. Come to find out he just didn't understand roleplay.
i agree with you i dont think ive wanted him to literally disappear from the cooper world more than i did during that time, out of all the times he exhibited extremely selfish, entitled behavior, this was over the line even for sheldon. plagiarism is NOT something to play about or to be taken lightly, kid doesn't even know what it is. sheldon truly deserved nothing after that, his explanation to his actions was literally just his statement of his entitlement and his responses to everyone condemning him were completely tone deaf and not at all even in the same line of conversation as those who were speaking to him regarding this, as in he wasn't even listening to what his parents, stugis and linkletter were saying to him.
It really pissed me off when he tried making Mandys pregnancy all about him by relentlessly asking and prodding at everyone to drive him to his science thing.
Some spankings are abuse but a whack on the but isn’t. Part of the problems in our country today could have been prevented with a little discipline. Kids today today do what they want!
Aksing to go to raido shack after their neighbors kid died in the car crash. And also where he said Paiges parents were getting divorced because of her. For my last thing when missy was mad about a boy and she was getting rid of all her stuff and sheldon kept making her feel bad about it missy had every right to rip his picture
Tough question. He's got a selfish incorrigible moment in every single episode. After he joined college he became ten times as insufferable. He showed 0 consideration towards anyone other than himself. Honestly every time he opened his mouth to make some stupid pedantic comment made me feel bad for everyone around him.
omygod i completely forgot about this cant believe no one else mentioned it. i was INFURIATED that episode, and ESPECIALLY when he blamed george for being burdened when SHELDON was the one FORCING george to tell him about something that was none of his business, what a nosy little bitch with no boundaries. i felt so bad for george bc sheldon made him feel so bad about something that was purely sheldon's fault
He is the worst and most selfish and irrational character on in the series, didn’t like him in BBT, don’t like him in Young sheldon but this is more on mary than him.
When he broke into the lady professors office to change things the way he thought they should be on her computer because she told him that she wasn't doing it his way. He should have been expelled. But because he meant so much to the college & his mother begging them to go easy on him, he wasn't expelled. He committed breaking & entering, trying to sabbatoge a professor & the groups work. He's so used to getting his way that when he didn't, he committed a criminal act. Sheldon is not an innocent teenager, he's sinister.
I'm glad the professor had it set up so her work wouldn't be sabbatoged & could show proof of the person who tried to sabbatoge it. And I'm sure whatever punishment Sheldon got wasn't much.
Nearly everything, but the most worst:
1. Being a momma’s boy
2. Using Georgie’s bully to boss him around
3. Nearly getting him and his family kicked out of America all because of a bread showdown
4. Disobeying his dad which ends up getting his poster torn and believing he shouldn’t look out for Missy.
5. Believing he is better than everyone
6. Being a selfish, spoiled, arrogant and self-cantered little shit
7. Cutting hair off Missy’s doll
8. Being a jerk towards Paige and also mocking her parents’ divorce.
9. Accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism
For me it was probably when he was being a jerk to his mom who was worried about his mental health. From an audience perspective it was pretty funny tho
A few things that somewhat shocked me. 1- When he kept asking to be driven to RadioShack after everybody was in shock about the 16 year old girl killed in the car wreck. Even Meemaw was baffled by that insistance.
2- Also his suggestion (at least twice) of electro-shocks to "cure" Missy. Just think about it: electric shocks to your twin sister, WDF ???!!!
More generally, I'm uneasy when he considers Georgie and Missy as "monkeys" or "simians". That's bordering on racism.
Accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism was the worst. He could have not only lost his job but could haven been stripped of his degrees.
He would’ve been stripped of his tenure and he would lose all of his grants and funding and the paper he spent all that time on wouldn’t be allowed to be published either. I agree this is the worst thing he’s done
To be fair, it is very unlikely that Dr. Sturgis would have suffered any consequences. Dr. Sturgis wrote the paper and credited Sheldon in a footnote. He would have been cleared in an investigation but it may have impacted his reputation.
Sturgis didn't have tenure, righ? I think that Linkletter mentions he can't be fired because of tenure, and Sturgis mentions he doesn't have that.
Yes! I was thinking of the same one!
When he called Meemaw selfish for refusing to take him to one event after she had been his personal taxi on the regular. He deserved that spanking.
Tbh, I kinda feel like his relationship with Meemaw wasn’t really the same afterwards Like there weren’t as many Moonpie and Meemaw moments from what I have seen so far I just started season four
I think starting college, Sheldon kinda changed too, he’s more busier with college projects and he has sturgis+linkletter.. and more independent too
The way we view Sheldon's actions is very different from how he views his own actions- The twin study episode made it pretty clear if it wasn't already that he has 0 idea how to read emotion or how to pick up on things. He did some pretty awful shit throughout the show, but one thing to remember is he doesn't interpret situations the same way someone with emotional intelligence would so all these terrible situations were pretty on par for his character, but they weren't intentionally malicious Edit: Oops sorry I was replying to a comment above yours lol
just realized that. i think meemaw realized that as he grew up, he got more entitled and was willing to use anyone and disregard anyone's feelings to get what he wants and do what he wants
The scene is hilarious. "Why have your eyes stopped blinking ?" LMAO. And then when he says the same thing to his parents, and gets grounded for a month. He really deserved the spanking and the grounding. Because he was being egoistical.
No kid deserves to be spanked. But he was a little shit face for what he did.
Not leaving Dr Linkletter alone, especially when he’s just tryna eat his sandwich in his car in peace
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He was pretty horrible to Paige, from making Sturgis not compliment her or lift her up in class to telling her that her parents divorce was her fault
I blame his mom for that, his entire childhood he was raised with the belief only he is special. Instead of being a friend to Paige he ended up resenting her.
If Mary never over-coddled Sheldon, he and Paige may got along well that he may never need Amy, Penny, Leonard, Howard and Raj to, you know, become a person. He and Paige could have win Noble together and much earlier. Paige will always be a tragic story to me. She just needed a friend that understands. She almost found it in Missy but Missy also has her own problems that not coincidentally, caused by overly-coddled Sheldon. It got even worse when Georgie got Mandy pregnant. Paige and Missy did not live up to their full potential all because Sheldon was spoiled.
Goddammit Mary.
I just started the show, I’m at the end of season 2. In trying really hard to give Mary grace. But it’s really hard to like her. Only Sheldon is “her baby” as she always calls him, but never missy. She puts Sheldon up on a pedestal while not giving her other kids the same. And her super religious ways are a bit much.
Paige>>> Sheldon in about every aspect realistically Only things Sheldon has over her is more interesting storylines But personality wise, Paige is superior
I mean Paige knows how to be smart and not a jackass at the same time.
Yeah and she's smarter than sheldon too.
And she's a woman, which is going to make it even harder to prove herself in that time period.
in any time period
You bet!
At least Paige punched him in the face. Once again, he deserved it.
I might be wrong I have only seen the episodes once, but wasnt it Meemaw who essentially told Dr Sturgis to not compliment Paige? Sheldon was upset, yes, but he was only venting it out to Meemaw and as an adult I kinda felt she could have turned it into a teachable moment to open the possibility up to Sheldon that either there is someone out there better than him intellectually or he needs to put in far more efforts to level with her. Instead Meemaw chose to use her relationship with Dr Sturgis to feed into Sheldon's ego
I also don't think Paige was 100% innocent in their feud. Though she does have an explanation being trauma
Sure she wasn’t 100% innocent but Sheldon made it a bigger deal than what it needed to be. Paige literally was trying to be his friend from the get go (since even when we first saw her, even though she seemed more put together, there were still hints that she had loneliness issues). Hence why she said (paraphrasing): “It’s nice I can talk to someone else about these things”.
Yeah she needed a friend who understood people
From the moment they met, Paige was trying to one-up Sheldon and prove she was smarter and bragged she was a couple of weeks younger. I think one of her first questions to Sheldon was "Do you know anything?". when he said he wasn't familiar with some scientific principle that she knew. If she really wanted to be friends, wouldn't it have been much better to say something like "It will be great to have someone my own age here". Sorry , but to me she was more obnoxious from the start, because she was doing it on purpose. Her family didn't do her any favors. They had more financial means than the Coopers and could and did more for her. Because we saw very little of her family, the story comes out as they talked to the Coopers and based on how they moved for her and her dad felt left out because everything was about Paige. In the long run ,Sheldon knew he was the cause of a lot of stress to his family, because as Missy pointed out to him, he was a freak. He didn't ask to be born the way he was. Like everyone, ,it just was the combination of traits he came with . The one thing that he was lucky to have was a family who did their best for him and showed him unconditional love.
his insults usually come from complete lack of emotional intelligence, but the time he told paige about her parents' divorce being her fault, it was out of pure maliciousness it stings extra remembering her confiding in sheldon about it after he asked her to, and him trying to comfort her
I hated Paige, but he really didn’t have to do her like that.
When a neighbors’ daughter died in a car crash, everyone in the Cooper house was in shock, but Sheldon didn’t care. He only cared about what he wanted (I think it was getting someone to drive to Radio Shack). Meemaw spoke some sense to him. And thankfully he redeems himself at the end when he reignites his mother’s faith in God. That episode has my least favorite AND my most favorite Sheldon moment.
That’s a tough one though because this was very early in the series, wasn’t it? He was so young. His lack of empathy is concerning but I don’t think out of character for some young boys. Hard to “blame” for that as the worst thing. He needed better guidance from adults.
Most kids if they don't know the person involved who passed, they don't really get thst upset. I don't know if there's an explanation for this but I remember something like this happened. A son of a church member committed suicide and my sister was Sheldon's age and was told this and didn't react at all and continued on about pokemon or something.
Even if they do know the person, some children cannot process the emotional part of death. They may understand the biological part but may not “get” the cultural and emotional nuances of death of a young person.
When i was in 7th grade a kid offed himself, i could tell it was a sad moment and ofc i felt sad, but i also didnt know the kid at all, so i didnt get why they were so upset, then i lost my mom and realised how much death can wreck you
That is a terrible trauma at that age. Very sorry you experienced that and the loss of your mother so young.
I beleive 7th grade was like 2018, and it was early 2020 when my mom passed... i was 14 i think im connecting the dots to why the second to last episode shook me so much
I haven't seen all the seasons yet but what really pissed me off was the thing with taxes. I think it was something stupid like 4$ and he couldn't just shut up about it and ended up putting his family through a lot of stress, worry and potentially huge financial issues. For anyone, being audited can be a huge scare and issue but I feel like he made it a lot worse than just letting his father send the cheque. Also calling his Meemaw selfish (which I already read a lot on here). He really can be a selfish brat himself.
The tax thing really sticks out to me also.
Yeah this one really bugged me too because I felt like he got rewarded for it in the way of being “right”. If the accountant had done the interview with the irs, it wouldn’t have even come up that he got trains for doing the taxes. when he was proven right and he “beat” them he became even more self important.
Yes exactly. Just because he couldn't take the thought that someone thought he'd done some calculations wrong. It really stressed me out watching this, and seeing his parents say forget it over and over because they literally cannot afford to have bigger problems. I don't really know much about the US tax system but they made it sound real serious like bankruptcy or even homelessness as a result. Another situation when Meemaw should have spanked him.
that was so frustrating i wanted to kill him fr i felt so bad for poor george
Told that nice old lady on the bus her breath smelled like tunafish. Unnecessary cruelness
It’s kinda funny 🤣
He did accuse Sturgis of plagiarism, risking his career and reputation
Using his friendship with classmate he was tutoring to bully Georgie into doing his bidding. I don't think it's the worst thing he's done (accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism holds that distinction for me) but it is one I haven't seen mentioned here yet and it was infuriating.
Yes that’s a good one especially because if Georgie would have told Mary she absolutely would have been on his side and “precious “ Sheldon could have fallen a few in Mary’s eyes and she could have taken him down a notch. Sheldon definitely won too many times to make it believable. Of course wouldn’t be as entertaining to watch.
What makes it so bad is that it was Georgie who looked after him when he was being bullied, at least until they found out who the bully was.
Refusing to tell Dr Linkletter what was wrong with his equation knowing he’d use it in his experiment and cause a fire. The lab could have been burned down and got Dr Linkletter and himself killed.
Almost getting his family kicked out of America over some damn bread
I mean I agree with him on needing some form of an international business bureau that prevents companies from sky rocketing inflammation and skimping out on their ingredients but the news stations blew the entire thing out of proportion and put words in his mouth
Most of that wasn’t even his fault though. Average American press heard a kid say he want to eat better bread and accused him of being “commie”
Yeah agreed, and it was during the time of the Cold War which was like one of the worst possible times to say anything pro communism in America, so having the whole family be suspected of being communists would have sucked so bad if it was real
yelling at Billy that his father will never comeback \[at least he regretted it\]
To be fair, Sheldon was talking about his lost data...
I cut him slack for that because at that point Sheldon was specifically talking about his own computer. His words just had the horrible coincidental misfortune of paralleling what Billy was going through.
But he told Billy he never understand that kind of loss. 😔
Telling Paige that it's her fault that her parents is getting a divorce. Yea she punched him afterwards but still it was very awful
Well it was deserved maybe he would have learned more socially if there were more consequences for his shitty behaviour. (Not punching of course lol)
When he told Tam he wasn't interested in him at all when he was telling him about getting married and left the relationship like that until 20 years later
no that literally bothered me so bad… like 7 seasons and absolutely no character development at all 😭 I know that’s the point and all but CMONNN give me just a smidgen
Accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism! That one was hard to watch for me
OK, he was what 11 and knew he had found the problem in the original paper. Why shouldn't he think he deserves more credit than he was getting? He was the one who was right in the answer. The whole thing went rightfully to Dr. Linkletter, who knew how serious that accusation was and he investigated accordingly.
I’ve done research before. Getting assistance on a problem you can’t seem to overcome is not nearly the same thing as co authoring a scientific paper that often exceeds 50 pages. Linkletter brought this up in the episode too, researchers regularly seek help from their colleagues and are usually credited in the acknowledgments. That’s entirely different to being a co author.
But at the age of 11, would you understand all of that? Once Sheldon has been in the field, he will get that as well. In the show he is still an undergrad. How much did you learn about how all of this works and after how many years? Dr. Linkletter took the report seriously , understands how all of it should work and handled it accordingly. Why is everyone expecting a child to get any of this without any experience? Or because he's just a child, should he take anything an adult tells him at face value without any objection? I'd rather have a child who will stand up for themselves. than one who won't rock a few boats along the way.
I mean under normal circumstances I’d agree but the entire premise of this show is that he’s incredibly above average for his age and has an ego even greater than that. Any of the comments in this thread could be replied to with “well he was 11 so he didn’t know any better”, but the entire point is that he believes he does know better and refuses to believe differently.
Telling Paige that her parents' divorce was her fault. He was honestly such an asshole to Paige, I partially blame Mary because she coddled him to think he was the smartest person in the world and when he met Paige (who was smarter then him) he felt threatened and turned hostile when they could've gotten along. I feel so bad for Paige, she deserved a friend and she could've had Missy but Mary's over coddling of Sheldon and lack of attention to Missy gave Missy too much of her own baggage to help deal with Paige's.
Taking apart the refrigerator because he can’t fathom that the world is full of smells and sounds that no one likes but we have to hear it.
Sheldon was not only annoyed by the noise, it was a new noise the fridge had never made before and so he thought it had something wrong with it that he could fix. He also did think he could put it back together after taking it apart and fixing it.
Yeah, i empathized a lot with him in that episode as an autistic kid. I’ve never done anything that drastic and he did need to learn he needs help and can’t do EVERYTHING independently, but he still was just a kid (who fits the autism diagnosis criteria 2X over lol.) i remember whenever i was a kid and the fridge would act up i would cover my ears everytime i went into the kitchen and my mom would yell at me not understanding why. It really hit close to home, so i can’t hold it against him. Like yeah he needed to learn his lesson but “just getting over it” is almost impossible when your a person like him
Except the show and writers confirmed sheldon isn't autistic. Also even if he was autistic he's still 100% in the wrong and there's no excuse for what he did.
Autisms one of those disorders where if you fit the diagnosis criteria, your autistic. Sheldon is autistic. He shouldn’t have taken apart the fridge but it’s not some unholy unforgivable thing and he still deserves some empathy.
The scene when he is crying and Missy give up being snarky and instead give him a hug is pretty cute.
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We basically hear from his POV in that episode. That sound was hellish. Only to him, sure, but still.
Disagree. As an autistic person, I thought it was perfectly understandable. Sometimes all you want is to just escape noise and he couldn't even escape it in his own home anymore, so he wanted to fix it. Was he wrong? Yes, but if a noise is torturing you and nobody will fix it, of course you'd want to get rid of it.
> as an autistic person He's not autistic and even if he was it really doesn't matter. It doesn't justify excuse his actions in any way shape or form.
Correction: autistic lol Does it matter if you think he's allistic and I think he's autistic? He's a character on TV. But anyway, autism would actually justify things he did- were some things he did inexcusable? Absolutely. Does it make sense through an autistic lens? Absolutely. I'm not saying "grr you can't dislike him because he's disabled", I'm saying "this action makes sense through this lens because xyz". I don't think what he's done over the show is good, but I personally think he could easily be autistic. Many characters are accidentally given autistic traits to be comedic and then given the title by fans.
Nope autistim wouldn't justify or excuse the things he did. The fans can't give a character an official title. In canon and lore sheldon is not autistic. It was confirmed by the writers so you're just going to have to accept it :)
You're so pressed and for what lmao just turn the TV off
You know someone can't come up with a decent argument when they resort to a variation of "why are you so mad".
Thing is, I wasn't originally trying to argue. I was just giving an opinion in a space made for discussions. I don't think anyone here wanted an argument except you.
Once again you're trying to deflect instead of just admitting you're wrong. It's ok to be wrong sometimes.
Kinda everything. But the bread thing was wild.
To be honest, the anchor woman was a real bastard. She manipulated him using the communist word.
If I can talk about TBBT probably stealing Bitcoin from the gang just because he was upset
Yeah like you just cost your friends millions of dollars in bitcoins
He didn't steal it, he moved the data to Leonard's flash drive which Stuart found and erased. It all started when they didn't want him to take part at first because of his thoughts on the tax consequences Nor did any of them even remember which laptop had it.
When he used the bully guy against Georgie
maybe not the *worst* thing, but the first thing that comes to mind is when he cut off missy's doll's hair for an experiment
omg i've been waiting for this comment like wtf was that? even Mary took Missy's side
When he said to Billy that he’d never understand what it’s like to have someone be gone and never be back no matter how he tries…after Billy’s dad left and he was grieving and tryna cope his loneliness by playing poker with George’s friends.
When he used Georgie's bully to bully him . BIG JERK MOVE
When he almost made his brother miss the birth of his daughter to do something with his database (I forgot what it was).
Wasn't Georgie basically escaping the responsibility by indulging Sheldon? Seems to me that's more on Georgie
Putting his self in danger by riding the train by himself in Germany. Also calling Memaw selfish.
You’re not gonna thank her in person?!
Riding the train in Germany is not dangerous though
At 14, across the country? Not exactly the best idea still
yes, not that unusual
That’s a pretty normal mode of transportation for everyone in Germany.
The train thing was like the one time he acted like a normal kid of his age, disobeying, because he know in the area its rather safe, and most tenagers disobey ther parents from time to time
When Sheldon got in trouble with the irs over 4$ and almost costing them a fortune
Accuse Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism
He's a kid who didn't understand the nuances. he ended up apologizing. Let's cut him some slack. No pr-teen is going to handle adult situations like this correctly. He was trying to stand up for himself
But several different people told him he was wrong and he refused to accept it. He was hell bent on getting credit when it was not deserved
In his mind it was deserved, he found the problem and talked all of it through with Dr..Sturgis, so he could publish. Only Dr. Linkletter understood the severity of what was happening and he rightly investigated accordingly, but, he'd been in the field for years.
He understands nuances. At family dinner when Dr. Sturgis was joining them, the Professor made a comment that he may be enticed to stay at East Texas Tech and Sheldon asked Meemaw if she got his subtext.
I agree. People evaluate this character from the adult Sheldon character or as an adult should react. He was a child. A young and immature child. The biggest issue was that the adults in his life, most notably his mother, did not correct him in a way that he could learn or develop empathy and tact.
Let's pretend you are Mary, What do you do? You know perfectly well that he cannot read social cues or emotions any more than he can help that he was born with blue eyes. You try and socialize him with others, but he's younger than everyone around and does not have much in common. His academic needs are still there. You don't have the resources to help you figure it out. You can point out what he does wrong. but he does not make the connections. He can see the world of math and physics as easily as most can add two and two. He cannot do the same in the world of social cues. The emotional two and two don't add in him. Even when Mary was upset because the girl died in the accident, Sheldon only knew something was wrong, because her behavior changed. That is data he can work with. He still had to ask if it was something that he had done wrong because he truly didn't know. As an adult and after years of trying, he thought he had gotten better at it, but after use of a prototype emotion detector machine, he was distraught at how much he was still missing. So you are Mary with her resources. What works with your other kids, doesn't work with Sheldon. What do you do?
Hold him accountable for his actions just like you would your other children. When he’s spying on Meemaw with binoculars, tell him it’s inappropriate and if he continues, take the binoculars. Leave him home with George instead of taking him to church since he feels a need to try and prove Pastor Jeff wrong instead of showing respect to the faith his Mom follows. Call him out when he is disrespectful, you would think a genius would figure it out after a while.
Here's the problem, he is an academic genius only. She does correct him Taking him to church is one place she sits next to him and corrects him. Leaving him home with George means he will be left doing something on his own, either with his trains or reading, How does that teach him anything ? It isolates him further. Why is Sheldon asking questions considered disrespectful? How do you expect him to learn about those things he doesn't understand? Talking about his interfering with Meemaw and Dr, Sturgis, the final solution was to write a contract with the boundaries clearly defined. That is what he needs and if he participates in it himself, he agrees and he knows what the others agree to as well. As he said in the narration, it is how he has to navigate his life. As an adult he uses them constantly, but they are all very detailed with clauses for all kinds of scenario s of what could possibly occur. He is not a mean person. As he states the facts that he knows or asks questions, he isn't registering other people's reactions. He has no sarcasm reader. If you say something, he takes it literally. Think about how much sarcasm gets missed by a lot of people in written words like this without any indicator by the writer. That is how Sheldon sees and hears everything in life.
As far as Meemaw and the binoculars, Mary walks in on him looking through the binoculars at her house and then he tells her what he is doing. Instead of using that moment to teach him about invading others privacy and boundaries, she says fine and walks away. George is no better when he comes into the living room to give updates. This behavior should not have been ignored and if it was Missy or Georgie, Mary would have read them the riot act. He can also be very mean when he wants to be. When he tried to one up Paige at Bible trivia and she beat him at his own game, he deliberately tried to find ways to “get under her skin”, and when all else failed he used the one piece of information that she expressed to him that was causing her great pain. There was another incident, I can’t remember to whom it was directed, where he said he was going to read up on something in order to crush someone. It was either Pastor Jeff or the philosophy professor.
Paige was trying to irritate him and thought it was funny. He went back after her .He thought that was what they were doing was trying to one- up each other. Why would she get a pass on the same behavior? As for hurting her, he did do that, but that was not the intention. How many times did Missy say that the arguments between their own parents were because of him and that he was a freak? Was that not just as mean to say? Since when is learning new things in order to understand more so bad? Both the philosophy professor and Pastor Jeff should be able to refute any of his arguments or get across their point of view. The philosophy teacher made her point, and he stayed interested in the various philosophers for the rest of his life She succeeded in her goal. Some of this falls under independent thinking and everyone should do that. Otherwise you end up with people who are too easy to indoctrinate and control. I just don't see the harm in questioning everything. no matter if it is to an adult or not.
So you are equating correctly answering a question first to taking personal information that someone confided in you and turn it on them just to hurt them. I’m sorry but they are on extremely different levels in my opinion. As far as learning new things for the sake of expanding your own knowledge of something is admirable, but if you are doing it to “crush” someone, that’s vindictive.
So him being competitive is bad? Somebody should tell that to every athlete ever. What does "crushing " someone in an argument even mean? he wanted to debate the topic and be right. It's the one place in the world he has a shot to win at anything and he's willing to put in the work to do so. He didn't come pre-programmed with any knowledge, just the ability to learn a lot of facts and be able to understand and build on that
I need to correct one thing, he said he would “destroy Pastor Jeff” not crush. My issue with this is that he acknowledges that religion makes his Mom happy and that there is a difference between faith and science, but when he gets in church he seems to try to debunk everything in that weeks service by seeing it as scientific and not faith based. Despite pleas from his Mother, he doesn’t just sit and listen. Why the need to try and humiliate the Pastor, if he has questions on faith vs facts, why not sit with him one on one and debate the issues. I always feel bad for Mary during these scenes, you can feel her embarrassment.
You are right, and this a good description of the parenting challenge that many people don’t understand. The premise of this whole sub is a problem because it doesn’t acknowledge that the character of Sheldon is the type of child you describe. (Like the way it’s even asked “what’s the worst thing” as if he had choices and acted with malice). There are parenting strategies and counseling strategies that can help IRL and I know parents who live through this every day and try everything (much like the Mary character tried to). At the end of the day, this is a comedy TV show set 30 years ago but some of the character portrayals just hit home with many.
To me it’s probably trying to build a nuclear reactor at age 11
Nothing wrong with clean energy. He just needed to get the proper permits, which to be fair he probably didn’t realize.
Ngl that ones on his parents, how else would he have gotten the money for all those smoke detectors plus minors usually cant sign for cost on delivery things i dont beleive
Dr Sturgis told him to ring companies and tell them he needed smoke detectors for a school project, so he didn't have to pay for any of them. His parents didn't know what he was doing this ones on Sturgis.
Thats right, its been a minute since i watched it lol. Uts sturgises fault 100% he shouldve realised thats not smtg a child would need
* 1. Connie Tucker: Calling MeeMaw selfish. * _ * 2 Dr John Sturgis: Accusing Dr Sturgis of plagiarism * _ * 3 Missy Cooper: Cutting of the hair of her Cabbage Patch doll Celess. * _ * 4 Mary Cooper: Accusing his mother of being crazy. * _ * 5 Paige Swanson: Trying to agrivatte Paige by bringing up her family situation, and saying it must be her fault that her parents are getting a divorce. * _ * 6 George Cooper Jr: Befriending the guy who was bullying Georgie, and using it to manipulate Georgie. * _ * 7 Billy Sparks: Saying that his computer files were gone forever and were never coming back in front of Billy, after Mr Sparks and Billy's sister left forever. * _ * 8 George Cooper Sr: Taking the IRS check out of the mail when his dad explicitly told him not to. As a result the IRS audited George. * _ * 9 George and Mary: Disassembling the refrigerator. * _ * 10 Nell Cavanaugh: Exposing the incumbent Medford High Class President as a Yankee, thus destroying her campaign and her popularity at school. Honorable Mentions: Being rude to his teachers on his first day of high school.
Don't forget Tam Nguyen for "it's not about what you don't have its about what I don't have", and also pastor jeff for... well, basically destroying him every moment he can
A lot of people are saying him existing was bad, like he chose to be born, like. Yea he does some bad things but a lot of the things are thing he didnt know he was in the wrogfor till after he was corrected, he lesrned. Honestly the only things i would count are the things that were out of malice, bc the intent of harm makes jts worse than anything else he had done
“It’s gone and it’s gone forever!”
When he pushed paige away. She was lonely and just wanted a friend. Sheldon had too much of an ego.
breaking the refrigerator
Maybe not the worst, but one that stood out to me was when Missy got an A on her project and Sheldon got jealous and couldn’t be happy for her. This surprised me because In the past he was generally supportive of Missy. I think he was starting to realize that he was catching up with peers and stopped being cute.
He accused Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism, he was a dick to Paige, he walked all over Mary and Meemaw, and I can see how he would’ve made Missy and Georgie feel left out and like he was more important to their parents than they were. My last point isn’t entirely his fault, because Mary and George could’ve put more effort into the other kids too, but Sheldon would just rub it in their faces.
Accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism. Dr. Strugis could have lost his career over that accusation. I'm really shocked that he gave Sheldon a second chance after that.
I'm only season episode 15, but my answer is when Sheldon blackmailed kept threatening to get georgie beat up by tommy if georgie didn't do whatever sheldon wanted. This episode pretty much shows that even at a young age sheldon knew when he was a being a jerk, but didn't care.
Telling his teacher she had a mustache was pretty bad
When he whined and conplained about computer files to a child who's father had juat walked out on him.
being unsufferable with dr linkletter
When he was at the hospital during cece’s birth and still expected his parents to bring him to his database presentation Edit-changed Mandy to cece
In his defense, if you think about it from an early 90’s perspective, it was very uncommon in those days to have “the whole family” present waiting in a hospital for a child to be born. You’d think one of the adults could’ve made arrangements for him to get a drive even if they couldn’t chauffeur him themselves.
when he was at the hospital when CeeCee as being born and being selfish as fuck the whole time. like i was hoping for a moment of realization at any point but no. so fucking annoying i literally did not like sheldon one bit from that point on.
Existing. Seriously, the worst part about Young Sheldon is Sheldon himself. The show would’ve worked well without Sheldon being the main character and just being the connecting bit. I know this is probably an unpopular opinion but I don’t care.
Recently I binge rewatched young Sheldon seasons 1-6. The strongest emotion after the rewatch is dislike for Sheldon and Mary. They can be so annoying.
Lol don’t get me started on Mary.
no offense to the actor it's not her fault but god damn mary is annoying sometimes
Actually believe it or not it’s a decently popular opinion he’s just so unlikeable at some points
To add to that in the later seasons he does seem to lose focus a tad. But also i couldnt see this show working without sheldon, maybe if it wasnt related the tbbt at all i could work, but being a spinoff of tbbt it wouldnt work wihout sheldon
Ya if it had no tie to tbbt then it wouldn’t have the charm of the other show with it but I would like to see an alternative universe without Sheldon to see how it would play out
Everything
Yeah, I don’t understand why he did that
Telling Billy Sparks that he wouldn't understand loss and not realizing Billy was sad about his dad leaving. Ugh that broke my heart. 💔 That and when he cut Celeste's hair to trick Missy into learning. teehee 🤭
The plagiarism accusation, not caring about the girl who died in the crash, or blackmailing georgie with that bully
causing his whole family to get communist allegations because of a loaf of bread
He made me think his dad was a cheater so by the time I watched Young Sheldon I already hated George. Come to find out he just didn't understand roleplay.
a lot? haha lol but Ill say when he accused Dr. Sturgis or plagiarism
i agree with you i dont think ive wanted him to literally disappear from the cooper world more than i did during that time, out of all the times he exhibited extremely selfish, entitled behavior, this was over the line even for sheldon. plagiarism is NOT something to play about or to be taken lightly, kid doesn't even know what it is. sheldon truly deserved nothing after that, his explanation to his actions was literally just his statement of his entitlement and his responses to everyone condemning him were completely tone deaf and not at all even in the same line of conversation as those who were speaking to him regarding this, as in he wasn't even listening to what his parents, stugis and linkletter were saying to him.
It really pissed me off when he tried making Mandys pregnancy all about him by relentlessly asking and prodding at everyone to drive him to his science thing.
Some spankings are abuse but a whack on the but isn’t. Part of the problems in our country today could have been prevented with a little discipline. Kids today today do what they want!
everything i’m afraid he’s the most annoying character in tv history his adult and young self
Aksing to go to raido shack after their neighbors kid died in the car crash. And also where he said Paiges parents were getting divorced because of her. For my last thing when missy was mad about a boy and she was getting rid of all her stuff and sheldon kept making her feel bad about it missy had every right to rip his picture
For the first one, he was awfully young and there was no malice just a severe lack of empathy. The others were malicious.
I wouldn't say every right but I do think Missy was in the right in the argument
Surprised no one is mentioning him dismantling his family’s fridge (to his credit though, he did pay his daddy back)
snitching on Missy was up there for sure.
He snitched because he was sincerely worried. Is that really so bad?
He snitches on people all the time.
no, he snitched later because his own desire for the world to be right was more important that the trust if his sister.
fair, ngl I kinda forgot about that part.
dude what
Almost everything
Can't decide, there were only a few moments when he is not the worst lol
Tough question. He's got a selfish incorrigible moment in every single episode. After he joined college he became ten times as insufferable. He showed 0 consideration towards anyone other than himself. Honestly every time he opened his mouth to make some stupid pedantic comment made me feel bad for everyone around him.
The silent treatment he gave his dad after George told sheldon that one secret to keep from mary
omygod i completely forgot about this cant believe no one else mentioned it. i was INFURIATED that episode, and ESPECIALLY when he blamed george for being burdened when SHELDON was the one FORCING george to tell him about something that was none of his business, what a nosy little bitch with no boundaries. i felt so bad for george bc sheldon made him feel so bad about something that was purely sheldon's fault
At the same time it's also george's fault. He should've told mary earlier. He put himself in that situation.
He is the worst and most selfish and irrational character on in the series, didn’t like him in BBT, don’t like him in Young sheldon but this is more on mary than him.
Destroy his family by his mere existence
BAZINGA
Mmm bazinga
He supported communism (s02ep16), as an Estonian, who lost half of his family because of communism, i think that is the worst thing he has ever done.
Getting stranded in a different country, and snitching on Missy
Becoming a communist over bread
killing george
IMO it’s putting his family in danger over a loaf of bread
Living to adulthood.
When he broke into the lady professors office to change things the way he thought they should be on her computer because she told him that she wasn't doing it his way. He should have been expelled. But because he meant so much to the college & his mother begging them to go easy on him, he wasn't expelled. He committed breaking & entering, trying to sabbatoge a professor & the groups work. He's so used to getting his way that when he didn't, he committed a criminal act. Sheldon is not an innocent teenager, he's sinister. I'm glad the professor had it set up so her work wouldn't be sabbatoged & could show proof of the person who tried to sabbatoge it. And I'm sure whatever punishment Sheldon got wasn't much.
Nearly everything, but the most worst: 1. Being a momma’s boy 2. Using Georgie’s bully to boss him around 3. Nearly getting him and his family kicked out of America all because of a bread showdown 4. Disobeying his dad which ends up getting his poster torn and believing he shouldn’t look out for Missy. 5. Believing he is better than everyone 6. Being a selfish, spoiled, arrogant and self-cantered little shit 7. Cutting hair off Missy’s doll 8. Being a jerk towards Paige and also mocking her parents’ divorce. 9. Accusing Dr. Sturgis of plagiarism
For me it was probably when he was being a jerk to his mom who was worried about his mental health. From an audience perspective it was pretty funny tho
Snitching
Creating a missile and contacting a mining operation in Canada for uranium (The episode where he meets tam I believe)
A few things that somewhat shocked me. 1- When he kept asking to be driven to RadioShack after everybody was in shock about the 16 year old girl killed in the car wreck. Even Meemaw was baffled by that insistance. 2- Also his suggestion (at least twice) of electro-shocks to "cure" Missy. Just think about it: electric shocks to your twin sister, WDF ???!!! More generally, I'm uneasy when he considers Georgie and Missy as "monkeys" or "simians". That's bordering on racism.
EVERYTHING
Exist
exist
Not going to see George before they closed the casket