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Previously onYoung Sheldon...What the hell's going on?

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Mom thinks that I'm crazy.

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I thought we weren't supposed
to say stuff like that.

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Baby, there's something
I need to tell you.

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Dr. Sturgis

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is not in the kind of hospital
you think he is.

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What kind of
hospital is he in?

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The psychiatric kind.

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And you think since he
and I are both gifted,

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I'm going to
end up like him?

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Oh, baby.

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See how valuable
a little communication can be?

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You do not take credit for this.

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ADULT SHELDON: You never know where scientific inspiration will strike.

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For Newton,
it was under an apple tree.

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For Archimedes,
it was sitting in a bathtub.

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For me, on this particular day,

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it had a "sweaty people
eating meat" kind of vibe.

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Sheldon, do you really have to
do that here?

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If the management

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didn't want me to solve
unified field theory,

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why would they
give me a crayon?

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I told you to crack a window
and leave him in the car.

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It occurred to me

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that Maxwell's equations
would achieve full symmetry

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by adding a magnetic monopole.

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I drew a ladybug.

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All right, y'all.

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Oh...Is it okay to set this down?

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I'm a little busy.
Could you come back later?

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Sheldon, I'm hungry.

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Let's just sit
over there.

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No. We're gonna eat
together as a family.

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Instead of electricity,
we'll have magnetricity.

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It's getting heavy.

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We'll be right over
here if you need us.

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Let's go.

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Bye, ladybug.

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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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Baby, you need to eat something.

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But it looks like I can change
the definitions

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of electric and magnetic fields

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and rotate the magnetic charge
away mathematically to zero.

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Maybe some fried okra
would help.

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Richard Feynman didn't develop
quantum electrodynamics

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by filling up on fried okra.

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Well, maybe that's
because his mama didn't love him

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as much as I love you.

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ADULT SHELDON:
Richard Feynman was Jewish.

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His mother didn't give him
fried okra.

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Ugh. What am I missing?

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Wake me up one more time,

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and I will sneeze
in your mittens.

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A big, wet, snotty one.

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Baby, what are you doing?

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Working.

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Have you been out here
all night?

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No. Why, what time is it?

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7:30.

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Oh. Then yes.

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Son of a...

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Dad, you busy?

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Do I look like I'm busy?

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I can't see what you look like.
You're under the sink.

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What do you want?

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Would you teach me
how to throw a baseball?

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What's bringing this on?

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? Saying I love you

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? Is not the words

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? I want to hear from you

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? More than words

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? Is all...

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I don't know, just seems fun.

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Sure, why not?

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Great, I'll get the gloves.

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Not now!

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So, what's new?

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I'm worried about Sheldon.

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I said "new."

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He's not sleeping,
he's not eating.

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We went out
for barbecue last night,

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and he didn't
touch a thing.

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He also started
biting his nails.

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I've never seen him
do that before.

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Is he worried about something?

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He's fixated
on some science problem.

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Well, I'm sure he'll solve it

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and then everything
will go back to normal.

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I hope so.

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What's going on with John?

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Not much.

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We write letters back and forth.

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That's romantic.

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Romantic if he
were off to war,

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not in a mental hospital.

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Well, he's at war
with his inner demons.

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You're right-handed, yeah?You don't know?

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Okay, smartass, which one am I?

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I'm right-handed.

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Put this on your left hand.

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You ever thrown a ball before?

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Just rocks at Sheldon.

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Did you hit him?

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Every time.

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So, we got something
to work with.

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All right, since
you're right-handed,

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which I now know,

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you're gonna bring your arm up

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and follow through like this.

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Okay.

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Nice. You might be a natural.

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I'm not surprised.
This is the arm I color with.

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I wasn't even aware
I was chewing them.

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Baby, I think
this math problem

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you're working on
is stressing you out.

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It makes sense. Einstein
struggled with it for 30 years

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and never found a solution.

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Maybe if you stop thinking about
it, it'll just come to you.

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No. I can't stop.
Sheldon.

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If I stop, I'll lose momentum.

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I'll never solve it.
I'll be a failure.

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My life will be worthless.

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Okay, that's it. You're taking
a break from science.

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Give me one good reason
why I would do that.

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Where is Dr. Sturgis right now?

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That's a good reason.

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All right, remember,
you need to look

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right where you want
the ball to go.

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Where else would I look?

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Well, in the last five minutes,

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I saw you watch a butterfly,

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a squirrel
and the ice cream truck.

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You looked
at the ice cream truck, too.

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Which team has a big red "T"
on their hat?

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Texas Rangers.

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Is that a team we like?Uh, yeah.

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Yeah, that's who most people
around here root for.

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Okay. And what's something
I could say about the Rangers?

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You know, to sound cool.

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Is this about a boy?
No.

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All right, sorry.

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If you want, you could say,
"Even though Nolan Ryan is old,

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the Rangers were
still smart to get him."

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That's a real thing?

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That's a real thing.

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How old is Nolan Ryan?

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My age.

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Ew.

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I'm so used to thinking
about science,

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I'm not sure
how to make myself stop.

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As soon as I
think about

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not thinking about it,
I'm thinking about it.

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Well, why don't you just think
about something else?

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Like what?
I don't know.

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Read a comic book?

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How do you think the spider
that bit Peter Parker

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got radioactive? Science.

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How do you think Bruce Banner
got exposed to gamma rays?

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Science.
All right.

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When the Green Goblin flies...

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I said all right.
Science.

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I know you don't
want to hear this,

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but I find prayer can bring
incredible peace of mind.

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Come on, Mary,
I'm trying to help the kid.

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You just need a new hobby.

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Very well. What are yours?

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Smoking, drinking and gambling.

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But we can find you
something almost as fun.

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Let's sweat again!

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Come on, everybody!

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MEEMAW:
Come on, Sheldon.

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Let's get that blood pumping.

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I'd rather not.

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Do it.
A little exercise will help

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get your head
out of your butt.

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RICHARD SIMMONS:
Get those hands going.

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Back to the front.

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What do you think?

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I think I hate this.

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Well, you're not thinking
about science now, am I right?

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I'm thinking about
how miserable I am.

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SIMMONS:
Let's get on that train. Can we?

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Back to the front. Come on.

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Three.

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Yes. Four.
Count them out for me!

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Five. Uh-huh.

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B-14.

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B-14.

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What else you got?

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Are you positive other people's
fingers haven't been in this?

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I made sure
to get you a new one.

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It doesn't look new.It's new.

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Let her rip.

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I'm still thinking
about science.

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That's okay.

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Just aim for the front pin.

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You and Missy looked like
you were having fun today.

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Uh, yeah, we were.

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A little father-daughter
bonding.

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Yeah. It was nice.

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Hmm. You guys were
out there for a while.

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What were you talking about?

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Oh, you know, just... life.

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Sure.

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Everything okay?

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Everything's fine.

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Nothing to worry about.

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You're really not
gonna tell me?

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No.

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Hey there, Sheldon.
What can I do for ya?

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I'm wondering
if you have any books

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on stopping bad habits.

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A few. What habit are
you trying to stop?

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Science.Yowza.

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It's not permanent.

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I'm just looking
to take a break.

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I've heard that one before.

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What did you
take a break from?

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Happiness.

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Okay.

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I've tried
a few different activities,

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but whatever I do
just leads me back to science.

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Well, let's think about it.
What's the opposite of science?

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Science is based in facts,

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and the opposite
of facts is fiction.

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How about fantasy?

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Magic and dragons.

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We have a whole section here.

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Ooh, that sounds
intellectually bankrupt.

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I'll give it a shot.

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Good news.

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I found a way to take a break
from science.

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That's great. What is it?

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A fantasy book series
called The Lord of the Rings.

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Well, it's got "the Lord" in it.

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That's something.

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That one had some zip on it.

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Zip's a good thing, right?

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Yes.

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So it looks like
I know what I'm doing?

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Just like a pro.

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But like a lady pro?

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Oh, yes. Very much.

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Is there anything else good
I could say about the Rangers?

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Uh, let's see.

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Tell whoever's interested

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that no one's ever gonna touch
Nolan Ryan's strikeout record.

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'Cause he strikes out
all the time.

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No.

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Because he throws
strikeouts all the time.

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Oh. Big difference.

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Dinner's ready.

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Five more minutes?

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She wants five more minutes

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with her ole dad.

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What are they
doing out there?

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They're bonding. It's great.
Sheldon, how's your book?

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Nice pivot.

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SHELDON:
Excellent. There's a character

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named Gollum who was corrupted
by the Ring of Power.

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Now he runs around naked and
bites the heads off fish.

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MEEMAW:
That's called sushi.

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Which, by the way, I
will die before I eat.

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Speaking of dying,
when you do,

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can I have your car?

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This can't be right.

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What now?

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In the letter
that Gandalf leaves for Frodo

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at The Prancing Pony, he says
that it's Mid-year's Day,

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Shire year 1418.
However,

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in Appendix B, it says
that Gandalf met Radagast

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on June 29,
which is impossible because...

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Hey!

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Next time, it's my shoe.

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And I will put zip on it.

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"The man who lived in the town
was tall."

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Which word
is the relative pronoun?

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Sheldon.

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Have you read
The Lord of the Rings?

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Um, I have,

285
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but that's not what
we're really doing right now.

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The relative pronoun is "who."

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Now, did you notice
that in Fellowship,

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Elrond says that the
foundations of Barad-dûr

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were made with the One Ring?

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Let's say sure.

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However, in Appendix B,
"The Tale of Years," it's clear

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that Sauron began building
Barad-dûr in Second Age 1000,

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600 years
before the ring was forged.

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Georgie.

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Imagine living with this.

296
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An hour a day is enough.

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The timeline doesn't make sense.
I mean, it lists

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Samwise Gamgee's
birth year as both

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2963 and 2980.

300
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Maybe he lied about his age.

301
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Why?I don't know. Maybe he thinks

302
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his neck makes him
look older than he is.

303
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But he's only in his 30s.

304
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That's young.

305
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Thank you.

306
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For a hobbit.
For a human, that's mommy-age.

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Thank you.

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When Frodo and Sam

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are riding through the Shire,
the book says

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the moon went westward,

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but according to the calendar
Tolkien created,

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there should have been
no moon visible.

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But in the appendix,
Tolkien covers himself

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by saying there may
be mistranslations

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from the Red Book.

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Fictional Tolkien says that,

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but I can't help wondering
if real Tolkien,

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who wrote the book,
made the mistake

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or if it was
an intentional mistake

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made by the fictional Tolkien,

321
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who translated
these real-world events

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from an original source.

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Oh, no.

324
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Is that how I sound to people?

325
00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:07,281
Hey! You want to throw
the ball around?

326
00:14:08,586 --> 00:14:10,284
No, go away.

327
00:14:11,589 --> 00:14:13,548
Did something happen at school?

328
00:14:13,591 --> 00:14:16,072
I don't want to talk about it.

329
00:14:16,116 --> 00:14:19,119
Okay. Well...

330
00:14:21,164 --> 00:14:24,124
You change your mind,
you know I'm here for you.

331
00:14:28,389 --> 00:14:31,392
He likes someone else.

332
00:14:47,495 --> 00:14:49,453
I'm sorry, sweetheart.

333
00:14:49,497 --> 00:14:52,848
She doesn't even know
who Nolan Ryan is.

334
00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:55,459
This guy sounds like an idiot.

335
00:14:55,503 --> 00:14:57,374
He's not. He's perfect.

336
00:14:57,418 --> 00:14:58,985
All right.

337
00:15:01,074 --> 00:15:02,640
Want me to get your mom?

338
00:15:02,684 --> 00:15:04,338
No.

339
00:15:04,381 --> 00:15:06,557
You want me to beat this guy up?

340
00:15:06,601 --> 00:15:09,125
No.

341
00:15:10,170 --> 00:15:11,693
What can I do?

342
00:15:16,785 --> 00:15:18,787
Nice.

343
00:15:20,789 --> 00:15:22,834
How do you make it curve?

344
00:15:22,878 --> 00:15:24,532
Well, that's a little tricky.

345
00:15:24,575 --> 00:15:27,622
You... you put two fingers
on the seam.

346
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Right?
And then you flick your wrist.

347
00:15:30,668 --> 00:15:32,279
Okay.Yeah? Here, try it.

348
00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,760
Two... Oh, so there.

349
00:15:35,804 --> 00:15:37,414
There you go, right
on the stitch there.

350
00:15:37,458 --> 00:15:39,155
Two fingers on it.

351
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Then at the end, you
flick your wrist.Like that?

352
00:15:41,636 --> 00:15:44,247
There you go.
Give her a shot.

353
00:15:44,291 --> 00:15:46,728
Hey! How about that?

354
00:15:46,771 --> 00:15:50,123
Right? Just like a
pro, I'm telling you.

355
00:15:50,166 --> 00:15:52,299
Well, we'll work
on that, shall we?

356
00:15:52,342 --> 00:15:54,388
Definitely.

357
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Nice.

358
00:15:57,739 --> 00:15:59,219
? Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah

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ADULT SHELDON:
Having found no answers,

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I took it upon myself
to rectify

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the inconsistent timeline
inLord of the Rings.

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00:16:06,269 --> 00:16:09,011
J.R.R. Tolkien
had a brilliant mind,

363
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but let's be honest.

364
00:16:10,447 --> 00:16:12,058
He was no S.L. Cooper.

365
00:16:12,101 --> 00:16:13,842
? In a deep, dark hole

366
00:16:13,885 --> 00:16:16,018
? And then I followed it in

367
00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:21,763
? I watched myself
crawlin' out... ?

368
00:16:21,806 --> 00:16:23,765
You okay out here?

369
00:16:23,808 --> 00:16:25,680
I will be once I finish this.

370
00:16:25,723 --> 00:16:28,596
? I got up so tight...

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ADULT SHELDON:
As hard as I tried

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to work out
a consistent chronology,

373
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I kept running into roadblocks.

374
00:16:34,341 --> 00:16:35,733
? I just dropped in

375
00:16:35,777 --> 00:16:37,822
? To see what condition

376
00:16:37,866 --> 00:16:39,911
? My condition was in...

377
00:16:39,955 --> 00:16:42,001
What am I missing?

378
00:16:48,964 --> 00:16:50,835
We're never going

379
00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:52,228
to figures it out.

380
00:16:54,404 --> 00:16:57,842
: We can,
we're smarts. We're so smarts.

381
00:16:57,886 --> 00:16:59,844
Our brains is precious.

382
00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:03,065
If our brains is precious,

383
00:17:03,109 --> 00:17:05,198
we're wasting it on hobbitses.

384
00:17:05,241 --> 00:17:06,851
We like sciences.

385
00:17:06,895 --> 00:17:08,766
We took a break from sciences.

386
00:17:08,810 --> 00:17:10,899
It was making us crazy.

387
00:17:10,942 --> 00:17:12,292
And look at us now.

388
00:17:12,335 --> 00:17:15,469
Look at what those nasty
hobbitses have done to us.

389
00:17:17,471 --> 00:17:19,777
No, it was physicses.

390
00:17:19,821 --> 00:17:22,258
Physicses did this to us.

391
00:17:22,302 --> 00:17:23,390
Hobbitses.

392
00:17:23,433 --> 00:17:24,391
Physicses.

393
00:17:24,434 --> 00:17:25,653
Hobbitses.

394
00:17:28,699 --> 00:17:30,005
Ow.

395
00:17:30,049 --> 00:17:31,659
I warned you.

396
00:17:32,921 --> 00:17:35,793
Mom. Mom.

397
00:17:35,837 --> 00:17:37,491
What's wrong?

398
00:17:37,534 --> 00:17:39,449
I was Gollum and Sméagol
and I was in a cave

399
00:17:39,493 --> 00:17:41,930
fighting with myself
over physics and hobbits.

400
00:17:41,973 --> 00:17:44,411
And then I realized that even
though physics is frustrating,

401
00:17:44,454 --> 00:17:46,413
it won't turn me
into a tormented creature

402
00:17:46,456 --> 00:17:48,415
who bites the heads off fish.

403
00:17:48,458 --> 00:17:50,460
Okay, good night.

404
00:17:53,028 --> 00:17:54,769
I've been doing a great job
with Missy.

405
00:17:54,812 --> 00:17:56,162
This one's on you.

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MARCUS: Ow!

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