We also learn the name of their first child: It’s Leonard!
(Sorry, Leonard Hofstadter, you don’t appear to be the inspiration).
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:So this is what you’ve been planning?
This is the year Sheldon goes to college?STEVE MOLARO: He will start college.
We knew he was graduating.
But we didn’t feel we were quite ready to tackle college yet.
It starts around episode 6.
He’s going to the same college where he has been taking classes the last couple of years.
So everything’s going a little slower for the sake of safety.
We were in the middle of shooting this as our finale.
So the episodebeforeit became the finale, which happened to work quite well.
I always wanted to pick up right where we left off.
Sheldon graduating is such a temporal moment.
Why would we not give viewers that?
Even CBS promoted it as the finale you didn’t get to see.
It seemed like a fun and nice way to check in with Sheldon and Amy.
I gave Mayim a call and she was happy to do it.
It turned out great.
He’s going to have his first philosophy class and ultimately new friends.
Does he get through college fast, as well?
Is that in Sheldon’s backstory?We’ve never said.
We always knew he graduated high school at 11 and, uh, it was always vague about college.
This episode was less jokey, more poignant.The show kind of rolls that way, in general.
It’s not the most jokey show.
Some episodes are more comedy-driven than others but [for this episode] it certainly turned out that way.
Young Sheldonairs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
