CBS’s Young Sheldon is currently at season 5 and was renewed for season 6, and considering the success it had, one may wonder what’s the best Young Sheldon episode and when it happened in the TV show’s run. The Big Bang Theory’s prequel audience kept increasing in Young Sheldon season 1 to 3, while it slightly decreased with the last two seasons. Although that doesn’t necessarily mean Young Sheldon's best episodes are far in its past rather than in its more recent past, the audience scores of Young Sheldon seasons 4 and 5 are considerably lower than its previous seasons.
Many Young Sheldon episodes manage to capture the show’s essence, focusing mainly on Sheldon (Iain Armitage) but without losing sight of Young Sheldon’s other shining stars and Cooper family members, such as Sheldon’s sister Missy (Raegan Revord) or his mother Mary (Zoe Perry). Indeed, Sheldon must be at the front and center, being the titular character and the only link between Young Sheldon and its parent series, and when episodes concentrate on the young East Texas genius, they still work, resulting in funny and heartwarming installments. Still, Young Sheldon's best episodes based on audience scores are those that, albeit never forgetting Sheldon, have special consideration also for his family, especially when they struggle with Sheldon’s exceptionality.
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Although exploring different themes from The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon's best episode served as the perfect meeting point between the spinoff and its parent series. Young Sheldon season 2 episode 22, “A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast,” not only did an outstanding job on focusing both on Sheldon and
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