Young Sheldon S01e12 Ddc ((link)) File

What follows is the most uncomfortable dinner scene in the show’s history.

Sheldon sits at the table, clipboard in hand, observing his father like a lab rat. He notes the slurred speech, the loosened inhibitions, the laughter. And then, with the cold precision of a scalpel, he deduces: “Alcohol is a depressant. If you were happy, you wouldn’t need it.” young sheldon s01e12 ddc

Sheldon doesn’t buy the beer to be bad. He buys it because he is a scientist. He presents the beer to his father as a control group for a psychology project. George Sr., exhausted and humiliated by his dead-end coaching job, drinks the beer not because he’s an alcoholic, but because he is sad. What follows is the most uncomfortable dinner scene

Ouch.