Young Sheldon Justified An Unlikely TBBT Character Quirk
While The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon doesn’t seem like a character who would engage in gossip, Young Sheldon justified this quirk in a season 5 episode. Young Sheldon has offered context for a lot of Sheldon’s seemingly inconsistent character traits on The Big Bang Theory. While Young Sheldon's storylines often create contradictions and plot holes of their own that don’t align with the story told inThe Big Bang Theory, the sitcom spinoff also clarifies character details about Sheldon that otherwise could seem like inconsistencies.
For example, Sheldon’s distrust of Penny in The Big Bang Theory always seemed strange, since the character was so certain that he could outsmart her and therefore didn’t need to worry about her tricking him. However, a Young Sheldon season 5 episode saw Sheldon roundly outwitted by a female colleague he assumed he was smarter than, thus justifying his certainty that Penny might pull the wool over his eyes. Similarly, another Young Sheldon season 5 episode made sense of the character’s seemingly out-of-character gossiping.
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As proven by The Big Bang Theory’s “The Herb Garden Germination,” (season 4, episode 20), Sheldon is a bit of gossip despite how much this character detail would appear to go against his well-established blunt, no-nonsense persona. However, like Georgie’s obsession with other people’s opinions on The Big Bang Theory found its roots inYoung Sheldon season 5, the spinoff also managed to justify Sheldon’s odd habit of gossiping. By revealing that Sheldon tried — and failed — to keep Mandy’s pregnancy a secret in his adolescence, only to then discover that the rest of his family also shared the supposed secret,
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