While Young Sheldon may only have one Thanksgiving special, the episode provided The Big Bang Theoryspinoff with one of its most interesting paradoxes. It’s not uncommon for sitcoms to unintentionally create internal paradoxes. An episode of how I Met Your Mother featured Jason Segel’s character Marshall in front of an advertisement for Bad teachera film starring the real-life Segel. Long before The Big Bang Theory’Sheldon’s ending left Sheldon with Mayim Bialik’s character, Amy Farrah Fowler, his friend Raj suggested that they should try to set Sheldon up with the girl from Flourishi.e. Bialik.
While Young SheldonThe ending of didn’t feature any obvious celebrity paradoxes, the show’s previous performances occasionally tripping over their own reality. On an issue that Young Sheldon’spin-off Georgie and Mandy’s first wedding actions, the nostalgic prequel to The Big Bang Theory takes place in the late ’80s and early ’90s, but was filmed during the 2010s and 2020s. As a result, characters occasionally reference movies and TV shows that some of the show’s cast members were in, as evidenced in the show’s only Thanksgiving special, season 2, episode 9, “Family Dynamics and a Red Fiero.”
Young Sheldon’s Missy referenced Ghostbusters in Season 2’s Thanksgiving episode
Missy said she was grateful there were “two Ghostbusters cartoons”
In the episode, Sheldon’s parents argue over Thanksgiving dinner while George Sr. considers a job offer in Tulsa and Mary vetoes the idea due to the pressures of moving. Thanks to Missy’s comments during dinner, Young Sheldon accidentally created a paradox by referencing the Ghostbusters franchise. In Young SheldonIn Sheldon’s only Thanksgiving special, Sheldon’s twin sister is asked what she is grateful for and she responds that she is grateful for both of them. Ghostbusters cartoons. The problem is that Missy’s grandmother Meemaw is played by actress Annie Potts, who played receptionist Janine Melnitz in both films. Ghostbusters films.
The paradox is a little less glaring, since Missy isn’t technically announcing that she’s seen two films apparently starring Meemaw.
Young Sheldon never mentions Potts’s uncanny resemblance to the supporting star of Ghostbustersbut the show could undoubtedly get away with it thanks to a convenient behind-the-scenes detail. To be fair to “Family Dynamics and a Red Fiero,” Potts did not reprise the role of Janine in any of the Ghostbusters cartoon spin-offs. As such, the paradox is a little less glaring, since Missy isn’t technically announcing that she’s seen two films that apparently star her grandmother. Furthermore, Young SheldonThe period setting means that Potts is older in the Thanksgiving episode than she would be in any Ghostbusters films.
Young Sheldon actor Meemaw starred in the Ghostbusters films
Meemaw played Ghostbusters receptionist Janine Melnitz
Even with these explanations taken into account, it’s still a little complicated to understand how Potts could exist as an actor in the film. Young Sheldon universe. Georgie and Mandy’s first weddingThe Thanksgiving episode avoided any similar paradoxes, but Young Sheldon presented another later in his run. The Season 5 finale, “A Clogged Pore, A Little Spanish, and the Future,” featured Penn and Teller playing an anthropomorphized pimple, but Teller previously played Amy’s father in The Big Bang Theory. That’s why, The Big Bang Theory complicated Young Sheldonis reality long before Missy mentioned her grandmother’s most famous real-life franchise.