Young Sheldon: S04e14 Hevc !!top!!

Sheldon Cooper discovers the HEVC video codec and decides to optimize the family’s movie night—with predictably complicated results. The trouble began, as it often did in the Cooper household, with Sheldon’s inability to tolerate inefficiency.

“I was calculating pi to the 10,000th digit. The HEVC project was a side quest.” The family settled onto the couch—except Sheldon, who insisted on sitting two feet closer to the screen to “evaluate block artifacts.” The movie began. Babe , the talking pig, trotted across the screen in crisp, allegedly superior 10-bit color.

“Seventy-three minutes, actually,” Sheldon said. “And it’s already finished. I began the encode at 4:17 AM.”

Sheldon, however, had a different priority: video compression.

“The pig is not dead,” Sheldon said. “The pig is trapped in a buffer overflow loop. It will remain frozen mid-squeal until we upgrade the firmware or, more logically, purchase a new television.”

Meemaw, passing by his door, mutters, “That boy’s gonna grow up and invent something that puts Blockbuster out of business.”