Sheldon considers this. Then he gets an idea. A terrible, wonderful, spectacularly petty idea. Meanwhile, in the B-plot, George Sr. and Mary are dealing with a crisis of their own: their teenage son, Georgie, has discovered girls. Specifically, he has discovered a girl named Veronica, a sweet, church-going sophomore with braces and a kind smile. Georgie wants to take her to the movies. Mary is thrilled—until Georgie asks for money to buy “snacks.” Mary gives him a suspicious look. “What kind of snacks?”
Paige starts by closing her eyes, then begins drawing spirals. Sheldon starts by writing fifty-seven equations. Halfway through, Paige leans over, looks at his work, and whispers, “You’re overcomplicating the Penrose tiles.” She then solves the problem in twelve lines. Sheldon’s answer is thirty-two lines and still incomplete.
George Sr., who remembers being a teenage boy, grunts. “You’re not taking her to the drive-in, are you?” young sheldon s02e07 720p
Sheldon blinks. “That’s… surprisingly non-literal.”
“So you met your intellectual equal,” Meemaw says, kicking off her heels. “And she’s a girl. So what?” Sheldon considers this
That night at dinner, Mary asks how it went. Sheldon takes a bite of his spaghetti (arranged in perfect concentric circles, no sauce touching the meat). “Acceptable,” he says. Missy kicks him under the table. He doesn’t flinch.
Connie takes a long sip of her Dr Pepper. “Honey, let me tell you something. Smart people come in two flavors: the ones who work hard and the ones who are just… leaky faucets of genius. You’re the first kind. She’s the second. You don’t beat her by being more her. You beat her by being more you .” Meanwhile, in the B-plot, George Sr
“Dad,” Sheldon says quietly. “I’m not the smartest person I know anymore.”