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- Previously on Young Sheldon...
- Hello.
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I'm here for tutoring with Sheldon.
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Oh, he's helping you? Isn't that nice?
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I'm tutoring him.
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Come on. I just gave you a hint.
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We solve for the geodesics.
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- Wrong.
- Ow!
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(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
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- What?
- Sorry,
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just a funny part of the Bible.
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MARY: Oh, Shelly,
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you got a package from
your little friend.
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Dr. Sturgis sent me something?
He's so cute.
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No, your tutor friend from Germany.
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Mei-Tung was not my tutor,
she just assisted me
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in learning things
I didn't understand yet.
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What'd you get?
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It's the latest issue
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of the International Physics Review.
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"Sheldon, check out page 58.
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"I never thought I'd be published
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in such a prestigious journal."
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Wow, good for her.
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Good for her? What kind
of monster sends mail
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across multiple time zones just
to rub their success in my face?
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Indulging the ramblings of a child.
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My respect for this esteemed
journal is plummeting.
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Oh, my.
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- MARY: What is it?
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It's the paper I wrote with Mei-Tung.
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I'm the coauthor of an article
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in a highly esteemed physics journal.
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- Well, that's neat, Sheldon.
- Neat is a robot
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that doesn't look like a truck
that turns into a truck.
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This treatise revolutionizes
the theory of manifolds.
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What word would you like me to use?
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How about... transformative?
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Sheldon, that's transformative.
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Thank you.
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- Hey.
- Hey, how was school?
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Good. I got an "A."
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- That's amazing!
- She gets an "amazing"?
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All-all she did was
color inside the lines.
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- She tell you?
- Yes, so great.
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Dad, I got published in
International Physics Review.
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- Nice, buddy.
- (PATS BACK)
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Ooh, new boat catalog.
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♪ Nobody else is stronger than I am ♪
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♪ Yesterday I moved a mountain ♪
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♪ I bet I could be your hero ♪
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♪ I am a mighty little man ♪
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♪ I am a mighty little man. ♪
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MEEMAW: An "A"?
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That's nice, sweetie.
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It's Medford from the year I was born.
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Aren't we going a little overboard
with this "A" thing?
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Hey, some of us never got an "A."
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Really? Not even one?
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If only they graded lunch.
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I'll have you know, I love my body.
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- (CHUCKLES)
- MARY: Shelly, tell your meemaw
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about your fancy article.
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Gladly. As an alternative
to the Calabi-Yau manifold,
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we've come up with a new shape
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to compactify the extra
dimensions in string theory.
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Well... hot dog.
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Hot dog?
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Maybe explain it a little more simply.
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She means dumb it down.
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Hey. But, yeah.
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You know how a Möbius strip
generalized to the third dimension
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- is a Klein bottle?
- Dumber.
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A Möbius strip is a
two-dimensional manifold
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- that's embedded in...
- Dumber.
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- Do you know what a square is?
- Yes.
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- Cube?
- Of course.
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Then you know what a C-8 octachoron is.
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And for your information,
I've lost a little weight.
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You got to eat them Cheerios,
they're good for you.
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You can tell 'cause there
ain't no cartoon on the box.
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Now, Cocoa Puffs got that bird on 'em,
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and he's cuckoo for 'em.
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Maybe she'd like some bananas
or some applesauce?
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- She don't like none of that.
- Any of that.
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- Any of what?
- She doesn't like any of that.
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That's what I said.
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No, you said, "She don't
like none of that."
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We're sayin' the same thang.
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No, we're saying the same thing.
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Exactly.
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- And we aren't.
- We ain't?
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I just think you may want to
try speaking more properly
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in front of your daughter.
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Ain't nothin' wrong with the way I talk.
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Lotta people talk like me.
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True, but maybe CeeCee will have
better opportunities in life
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if she's well-spoken.
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She don't even talk yet.
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No, she doesn't. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
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But she's listening and she's learning,
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and we don't want her
first word to be "dang it."
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Better that than whatever the
snooty version of "dang it" is.
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It's "darn it."
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Dang it, I knew that.
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Remarkable work. Well done, lad.
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Yes, first paper published at 14.
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Oh. You're officially a wunderkind.
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Did you catch my sly
in-joke about a tesseract?
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- Did I?
- I did.
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- Did you?
- (QUIETLY): I don't know.
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It's refreshing to talk to people
who appreciate my work.
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Appreciate it, understand it,
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- and are inspired by it.
- Ditto, ditto and ditto.
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And I'm sure your family is very proud.
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Yes, but not just me.
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Childish maps, impregnating
a woman out of wedlock...
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they're proud of all their kids.
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The important thing is,
that kid belongs to us.
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He is our cash cow.
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Okay.
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Explain this to me so I sound like
I know what I'm talking about
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when I shake the donor tree.
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Well, young Mr. Cooper has
reimagined string theory.
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And compactified dimensions
like nobody's business.
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(BOTH CHUCKLE)
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You don't understand this, do you?
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- No.
- Not really.
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I mean, we get what he's trying to do.
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- Absolutely.
- No, we don't really understand it.
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- Not a bit.
- So two of the top minds
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at our school are flummoxed
by a 14-year-old.
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Well, "flummoxed" is a strong word.
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- But accurate.
- Accurate.
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Mm-hmm. Okay, maybe
I can sell this by saying
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that this is so advanced
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that even other brilliant scientists
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don't understand it.
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- Sexy.
- (GROWLS)
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Don't do that.
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(PHONE RINGING)
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Hello? This is she.
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- Oh, really?
- Who is it?
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If it's a guy about a boat, hang up.
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One moment, please. It's Princeton.
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They want to talk about
Sheldon going to grad school.
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Ooh, what are they offering?
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- I don't know.
- Full-ride?
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- I said I don't know.
- Well, ask 'em.
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I will if you'll shut up.
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Okay, but I wouldn't use that tone.
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(KNOCK AT DOOR)
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I'll get it. Remember, cash is king.
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Well, howdy.
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Is this the Cooper residence?
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- It is.
- Phil Lambert,
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Stanford University.
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I was just passing through Medford
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and I would love to talk to
you about your son's future.
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Come on in, Phil.
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Hey, Mare,
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tell Princeton,
Stanford's passing through.
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Well, thanks for stopping by.
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Well, I was kind of hoping
I could meet Sheldon.
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All in good time. We still got
to whip some of the lumps
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out of that offer of yours.
We'll be in touch.
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(STAMMERS) Okay.
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Whip some of the lumps?
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Point is, Sheldon's gobbledygook article
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got us a bidding war.
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George, what do you know
about grad school?
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Nothing, but I do know about
recruiting blue chip talent.
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These schools want him, and we got him.
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He's not a prize heifer to auction off.
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Mary, we got two average kids.
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Let's cash in on the smart one.
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Do you think I talk funny?
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What'd my mom say?
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Just that I should speak more proper.
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You're fine, and she should
mind her own business.
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Thanks, 'cause she's all worried
CeeCee's gonna sound like me.
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Oh.
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- What?
- Nothing.
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You know, when I was a weather girl,
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I took some speech classes,
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and they really seemed to help.
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Did you used to sound like me?
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Oh, sweetie, no. (LAUGHS)
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Incoming, nine o'clock.
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Well, I hope you two are happy.
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Sheldon is being recruited
by Princeton, by Stanford,
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MIT, Caltech.
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We are losing him, and
you two have done nothing.
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What can we do? Those are some
of the best schools in the world.
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We have a wonderful graduate
program for physics.
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Actually...
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You're the chair of the department.
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Yes, and the program
is far from wonderful.
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That said,
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our animal husbandry
department is first-rate.
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Fine. (SIGHS)
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We have other cards to play. Uh...
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we're near his family,
and he loves you two...
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God knows why...
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and most importantly, he hates change.
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I changed deodorants once.
He made me change it back.
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Apparently, I smelled too outdoorsy.
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All right, look, we-we've
been catering to Sheldon
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and his family for years,
so let's take advantage
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of what we know and use it to keep him
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at East Texas Tech.
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His mother is very religious.
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Someone might mention
Caltech was founded
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by a Satanist.
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Good, good. Wait-wait, is that true?
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Actually, I don't care. We're using it.
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- It is true.
- And again, I don't care.
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So, what else we got?
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Eh, with all the freeways
and traffic in California,
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- he's gonna need a car.
- George, he's 14.
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Right. He's gonna need
a car and a driver.
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We can arrange that.
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So, what do you say?
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Stephen Hawking and Sheldon
Cooper together at Caltech?
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It's very promising.
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And of course, some of our
alumni include John Kennedy,
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Franklin Roosevelt,
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newly appointed Supreme Court Justice
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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That's an awful lot of Democrats.
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Although Harvard did have
some impressive alumni.
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Bunch of presidents
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- and that gal on the court.
- Mm-hmm.
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I thought U.T. was burnt orange?
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Oh, no, that's the University of Texas.
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We're the University of Toronto.
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- Go, True Blue.
- Toronto?
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Yes, sir, we're the Harvard
of the North, eh.
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Well, you should probably get going.
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Got a long trip ahead of you.
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I like everything I'm hearing,
but, at the end of the day,
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this'll be Sheldon's choice.
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- Absolutely.
- Hang on a sec.
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I see an engineering department,
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a physics department, computer lab.
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What I don't see is a church.
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Don't worry, we have a beautiful
nondenominational chapel
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built in 1956.
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Nondenominational?
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Everyone's welcome.
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STURGIS: Hello, Sheldon.
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LINKLETTER: There's my guy.
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Oh, hello.
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- Is everything okay?
- Does something have to be wrong
255
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to hang out with a pal?
256
00:10:02,185 --> 00:10:03,360
Here at East Texas Tech,
257
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we're not just your faculty,
we're your friends.
258
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In the past, you made it very
clear that we're not friends.
259
00:10:07,983 --> 00:10:09,600
That's just me giving you the business
260
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the way buddies do, you little scamp.
261
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Sorry, that was a little hard.
262
00:10:14,130 --> 00:10:16,710
We know this recruiting
thing can be stressful,
263
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and we just wanted to see
how you're holding up.
264
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It's actually not stressful at all.
265
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My parents have been
handling most of it.
266
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That's great. That's why it's
good to have family close by.
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Friends and family just a hop,
skip and a jump away.
268
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I don't hop, skip or jump.
269
00:10:32,690 --> 00:10:33,849
See, that's that sense of humor
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that we get but strangers may not.
271
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Yes. (FORCED LAUGHTER)
272
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Son, I know you have a lot
of options for grad school,
273
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and I'm sure you'll make the
right choice for yourself
274
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and your sweet, aging grandma.
275
00:10:44,769 --> 00:10:47,300
Who will miss you so much if you leave.
276
00:10:47,355 --> 00:10:48,939
Moon Pie... isn't that
what she calls you?
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- Yes.
- Sweet.
278
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So sweet.
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_
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Hey, what you doing?
281
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Reading.
282
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English Grammar and Composition?
283
00:11:01,328 --> 00:11:02,730
It's Missy's.
284
00:11:02,787 --> 00:11:05,610
You know, you don't have to do this.
285
00:11:05,665 --> 00:11:07,450
Well, I want to do it for CeeCee.
286
00:11:08,420 --> 00:11:10,200
Well, maybe I can help.
287
00:11:10,253 --> 00:11:12,410
- Yeah?
- Yeah, you don't need a book.
288
00:11:12,464 --> 00:11:14,330
Let's just start simple.
289
00:11:14,380 --> 00:11:18,960
Um, instead of "ain't," try "isn't."
290
00:11:19,012 --> 00:11:20,920
That isn't gonna be a problem.
291
00:11:20,972 --> 00:11:22,100
There you go.
292
00:11:22,150 --> 00:11:24,710
Now, let's work on "wasn't."
293
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- Wadn't.
- Wasn't.
294
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Wadn't.
295
00:11:28,855 --> 00:11:30,510
See, I'm not hearing the "S."
296
00:11:30,565 --> 00:11:32,180
That's 'cause it wadn't there.
297
00:11:33,443 --> 00:11:35,589
GEORGE SR.: So, we've narrowed
it down to five schools.
298
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We got Caltech and
Stanford in California.
299
00:11:38,031 --> 00:11:39,670
- The left coast.
- Mom.
300
00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:41,690
- It is.
- Can I continue?
301
00:11:41,743 --> 00:11:44,520
Also known as the land of
fruits and nuts. Continue.
302
00:11:44,579 --> 00:11:46,590
And on the East Coast, we got MIT,
303
00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,070
- Harvard and Princeton.
- Damn Yankees.
304
00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:51,360
We can't move the schools, Connie.
305
00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:53,680
There's also East Texas Tech.
306
00:11:53,710 --> 00:11:55,540
Is that a school that
you're considering?
307
00:11:55,590 --> 00:11:57,660
I have friends there,
and it's close to all of you.
308
00:11:57,717 --> 00:11:58,919
Why would you want to be close to us?
309
00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,910
GEORGE SR.: Missy. This is your
decision, but best I understand,
310
00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,040
these other schools
are the major leagues,
311
00:12:04,070 --> 00:12:06,340
and East Texas Tech is T-ball.
312
00:12:06,393 --> 00:12:08,220
Please don't make sports analogies.
313
00:12:08,270 --> 00:12:10,310
Fine.
314
00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:12,970
These schools are like... Superman
315
00:12:12,990 --> 00:12:15,180
and East Texas Tech is like...
316
00:12:15,230 --> 00:12:16,770
regular man?
317
00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:18,520
Better, I think.
318
00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:20,569
If you're worried about being far away,
319
00:12:20,570 --> 00:12:23,240
they're all offering to
pay for travel expenses
320
00:12:23,290 --> 00:12:25,230
so you can come home for the holidays.
321
00:12:25,287 --> 00:12:27,570
But to be clear, you don't have to.
322
00:12:27,622 --> 00:12:29,690
And we can also come and visit you.
323
00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:31,860
Ooh, free trip. I like that.
324
00:12:31,918 --> 00:12:33,990
You were just complaining
about these places.
325
00:12:34,045 --> 00:12:36,370
I can complain on a beach.
326
00:12:37,350 --> 00:12:39,490
This is a difficult decision.
327
00:12:39,540 --> 00:12:42,490
Which is why we're all
here to help you make it.
328
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FRESH PRINCE (ON TV):
♪ Now, this is a story ♪
329
00:12:47,420 --> 00:12:48,870
♪ All about how my life got... ♪
330
00:12:48,890 --> 00:12:50,800
Are we not done?
331
00:12:50,854 --> 00:12:52,270
It-it felt done.
332
00:13:01,690 --> 00:13:02,900
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
333
00:13:02,930 --> 00:13:04,070
Come in.
334
00:13:05,510 --> 00:13:06,690
What are you doing?
335
00:13:07,410 --> 00:13:10,070
I can't sleep. This is the
biggest decision of my life.
336
00:13:10,730 --> 00:13:13,010
- What's all this?
- I'm employing an algorithm
337
00:13:13,060 --> 00:13:14,179
to assigns points to each school
338
00:13:14,180 --> 00:13:16,380
so I can statistically
decide which is the best.
339
00:13:16,430 --> 00:13:17,830
Hmm.
340
00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,140
How about "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"?
341
00:13:20,910 --> 00:13:21,960
I won't miss you.
342
00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:24,210
Same. What school's winning?
343
00:13:24,262 --> 00:13:26,080
I've narrowed it down
to Caltech and MIT.
344
00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:27,750
Geographically equidistant,
345
00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:29,683
so the travel time home
would be about the same.
346
00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:31,720
Caltech has Stephen Hawking,
which is exciting,
347
00:13:31,770 --> 00:13:32,979
but he hasn't won a Nobel Prize,
348
00:13:32,980 --> 00:13:35,800
unlike Henry Kendall at
MIT, who recently did.
349
00:13:35,857 --> 00:13:37,390
What's this little guy?
350
00:13:37,442 --> 00:13:39,210
Both schools' mascot is a beaver.
351
00:13:39,260 --> 00:13:40,380
Not pertinent to my needs,
352
00:13:40,430 --> 00:13:43,270
- but amusing nonetheless.
- Mm.
353
00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:44,620
Well, if you want my opinion,
354
00:13:44,670 --> 00:13:46,830
I say pick the one that's near
the beach and Hollywood.
355
00:13:46,868 --> 00:13:48,650
I hate those. Advantage MIT.
356
00:13:48,703 --> 00:13:50,350
- Where's that?
- Boston.
357
00:13:50,950 --> 00:13:52,480
So, what's your gut say?
358
00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,160
It doesn't say anything.
It's not a thinking organ.
359
00:13:55,210 --> 00:13:58,810
Fine, what's your...
Spidey-sense tell you?
360
00:13:58,860 --> 00:14:01,800
Spidey-sense warns Peter
Parker of imminent danger.
361
00:14:01,850 --> 00:14:03,720
It doesn't help him pick schools.
362
00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:08,620
Well, the important thing is,
no matter where you go,
363
00:14:08,670 --> 00:14:10,820
I'm gonna turn this room
into a dance studio.
364
00:14:12,450 --> 00:14:14,260
Mm-hmm.
365
00:14:18,610 --> 00:14:20,040
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
366
00:14:21,510 --> 00:14:24,310
- Howdy.
- Well, howdy yourself.
367
00:14:24,364 --> 00:14:28,110
- Is this a bad time?
- No, but Sheldon's not here,
368
00:14:28,130 --> 00:14:29,490
if you were hoping to talk to him.
369
00:14:29,494 --> 00:14:32,400
No, I was fixing to talk
to you and your hubby.
370
00:14:32,455 --> 00:14:33,920
Come on in.
371
00:14:34,850 --> 00:14:38,360
I brought you some pecan pie
and some beer to wash it down.
372
00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:41,200
- You didn't have to do that.
- Oh, it's no problem.
373
00:14:41,250 --> 00:14:42,820
It's my ding-dang pleasure.
374
00:14:42,870 --> 00:14:45,610
Okay. George?
375
00:14:46,730 --> 00:14:50,340
President Hagemeyer. This is a
real honor, having you visit.
376
00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:56,220
Oh, stop it with that President
nonsense. It's Linda... y'all.
377
00:14:56,271 --> 00:14:59,260
Okay, Linda, so how can we help you?
378
00:14:59,315 --> 00:15:01,470
No, no, no, how can I help you?
379
00:15:01,526 --> 00:15:03,860
Gee, I don't know. Rain
gutters could use cleaning.
380
00:15:03,910 --> 00:15:06,020
- George.
- Just a joke.
381
00:15:06,072 --> 00:15:07,930
Well, it doesn't have to be.
382
00:15:07,980 --> 00:15:10,860
You got a ladder and some gloves,
I'm your gal. (CHUCKLES)
383
00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,820
And I guess that's why I'm here.
384
00:15:12,871 --> 00:15:14,609
You know, everybody's
rolling out the red carpet
385
00:15:14,610 --> 00:15:16,170
for Sheldon, as they should.
386
00:15:16,220 --> 00:15:19,450
But, I mean, who's looking
after your needs?
387
00:15:19,502 --> 00:15:21,870
Our needs? I don't understand.
388
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:24,280
Wouldn't you like all your children
389
00:15:24,330 --> 00:15:25,660
to be college graduates?
390
00:15:25,717 --> 00:15:28,040
(LAUGHS)
391
00:15:28,860 --> 00:15:30,130
Wait, are you serious?
392
00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:32,500
I'm in a position to offer
393
00:15:32,550 --> 00:15:35,590
a full scholarship to
Sheldon's twin sister,
394
00:15:35,643 --> 00:15:36,980
his older brother,
395
00:15:37,030 --> 00:15:39,510
and I understand there's
a grandchild in the mix.
396
00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,240
Just imagine how
expensive tuition will be
397
00:15:42,290 --> 00:15:44,100
18 years from now.
398
00:15:44,152 --> 00:15:47,230
Wow, that is very generous.
399
00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,230
No, no, no, I don't... I don't think so.
400
00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:54,620
No, I think it's just giving
you good, hardworking folk
401
00:15:54,670 --> 00:15:56,430
what you deserve.
402
00:15:57,630 --> 00:15:58,730
I don't know what to say.
403
00:15:58,780 --> 00:16:01,870
Yeah, we... we'll have
to talk it over a little.
404
00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,990
At the end of the day,
it's still Sheldon's decision.
405
00:16:05,048 --> 00:16:07,820
Oh, of course, but-but it's
also a family decision,
406
00:16:07,870 --> 00:16:11,580
and that is what East
Texas Tech is all about.
407
00:16:11,630 --> 00:16:13,110
Family.
408
00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,380
Or, as I like to say, kin.
409
00:16:18,530 --> 00:16:23,050
(ENUNCIATING): Your mother
has been helping me,
410
00:16:23,107 --> 00:16:25,850
and it has not been easy.
411
00:16:25,902 --> 00:16:31,770
But I'm going to keep
working on it for you.
412
00:16:32,410 --> 00:16:34,400
Okay, let's get you cleaned up.
413
00:16:35,290 --> 00:16:37,230
See? He's tryin'.
414
00:16:37,288 --> 00:16:38,570
Try-ing.
415
00:16:39,180 --> 00:16:42,200
It's nice to see.
Who's ready for coffee?
416
00:16:42,590 --> 00:16:45,240
I believe you mean,
"Whom's ready for coffee?"
417
00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:47,620
Whom's?
418
00:16:47,674 --> 00:16:49,950
Oh, let him have this one.
419
00:16:53,096 --> 00:16:54,200
STURGIS: Sheldon?
420
00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,380
Which is better? One or two?
421
00:16:58,434 --> 00:17:00,186
One, two?
422
00:17:00,890 --> 00:17:02,930
Hat I'll never wear one,
hat I'll never wear two.
423
00:17:02,981 --> 00:17:04,220
Are you okay?
424
00:17:04,274 --> 00:17:06,050
No, I didn't sleep at all last night.
425
00:17:06,109 --> 00:17:08,810
For the life of me, I can't decide
between Caltech and MIT.
426
00:17:08,861 --> 00:17:10,420
No matter how I analyze it,
427
00:17:10,450 --> 00:17:13,140
how I break it down,
they're basically equal.
428
00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,230
Great, then just pick the one you want.
429
00:17:15,285 --> 00:17:17,320
What I want is to not have
to make this decision.
430
00:17:17,370 --> 00:17:20,740
Well, you could always stay here.
431
00:17:21,490 --> 00:17:23,670
Maybe you're right.
Maybe deciding not to decide
432
00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,490
- is the best decision I can decide.
- Possibly.
433
00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:28,310
After all, an object
at rest stays at rest.
434
00:17:28,340 --> 00:17:29,490
That's just physics.
435
00:17:29,549 --> 00:17:31,790
The kind of physics we understand.
436
00:17:32,490 --> 00:17:34,010
Very well, I'll stay here,
437
00:17:34,060 --> 00:17:35,637
I'll work with you two,
and everything will be...
438
00:17:35,638 --> 00:17:37,710
Stop.
439
00:17:38,330 --> 00:17:39,500
I can't do this.
440
00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:42,170
I'm glad you said that.
I'm also having qualms.
441
00:17:42,228 --> 00:17:43,970
- What are you talking about?
- You.
442
00:17:44,022 --> 00:17:46,010
We have to do the right thing for him.
443
00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:48,760
- And for science.
- So, we're in agreement?
444
00:17:48,818 --> 00:17:50,350
Consequences be damned.
445
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:52,520
Will someone please
tell me what's going on?
446
00:17:52,572 --> 00:17:55,600
Sheldon, you can't stay here.
447
00:17:55,658 --> 00:17:57,680
- Why?
- You've outgrown us.
448
00:17:57,730 --> 00:17:59,900
Me, literally.
449
00:17:59,954 --> 00:18:02,070
You deserve the best education possible.
450
00:18:02,123 --> 00:18:04,310
You're going to do
great things, Sheldon.
451
00:18:05,150 --> 00:18:10,160
And we're proud to have been
a small part of your journey.
452
00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:12,660
So, where should I go?
453
00:18:12,717 --> 00:18:13,960
- Caltech.
- MIT.
454
00:18:16,638 --> 00:18:18,790
(SPORTSCASTER SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY ON TV)
455
00:18:18,848 --> 00:18:21,840
Mom, Dad, I've made a decision.
456
00:18:23,686 --> 00:18:25,050
All right.
457
00:18:26,064 --> 00:18:28,040
I'm going to MIT.
458
00:18:28,650 --> 00:18:30,249
ADULT SHELDON:
I know what you're thinking.
459
00:18:30,250 --> 00:18:31,930
Wait for it.
460
00:18:32,660 --> 00:18:34,310
I'm so excited to visit MIT.
461
00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:36,290
Me, too.
462
00:18:37,330 --> 00:18:39,150
Proud of you, son.
463
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,460
Thank you, Dad.
464
00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:43,690
_
465
00:18:45,750 --> 00:18:48,530
- Caltech?
- Caltech.
466
00:18:49,950 --> 00:18:51,200
ADULT SHELDON: Told you.
467
00:18:53,510 --> 00:18:55,050
I don't know what to tell you, Linda.
468
00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:56,910
We begged him to stay.
469
00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,200
I got down on my knees,
470
00:18:58,250 --> 00:19:00,250
and, well, John was already there.
471
00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:03,630
We did everything we could to keep him.
472
00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,170
I wore a cowboy hat and offered
a scholarship to a baby.
473
00:19:07,220 --> 00:19:10,270
- Ooh. You win.
- Damn straight.
474
00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:12,220
I'd like to propose a toast.
475
00:19:12,270 --> 00:19:16,150
To our complete and utter
476
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,000
- lack of integrity.
- (CHUCKLES)
477
00:19:18,050 --> 00:19:19,270
- Hear, hear.
- Hear, hear.
478
00:19:19,325 --> 00:19:23,360
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