Young Sheldon | Total Seasons

"Total seasons, Mother. And a funeral. We'll need a really good funeral for Dad."

And Old Sheldon whispers, not to the camera, but to the past: "I turned out okay." young sheldon total seasons

His mother, Mary, poked her head in. "Sheldon, dinner's in five. And wash your hands. You’ve been erasing again." "Total seasons, Mother

Mary blinked. "Honey, The Andy Griffith Show had eight. That felt right." "Sheldon, dinner's in five

He turned back to his board and began a new equation: N = (C + G + M) / R , where C was character development, G was the gestation period of a spin-off ( Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage would need its own variable), M was the audience’s emotional tolerance for watching his father, George Sr., knowing his future, and R was the risk of Iain Armitage looking thirty-five while still playing a fourteen-year-old.

He tapped the dry-erase marker against his chin. For precisely 127 seconds, he had been contemplating the meta-mathematics of his own existence. Or rather, the existence of the documentary about his existence that, according to a crack in the space-time continuum he’d just calculated, would one day be narrated by an older version of his future self.

Sheldon Cooper, age ten, stood before his whiteboard, which was filled with a complex equation for cold fusion. But his mind wasn't on quantum tunneling. It was on a number.