"A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast" is an episode of Young Sheldon that first aired May 16, 2019, the same night as "The Stockholm Syndrome", the series finale of The Big Bang Theory.
Sheldon throws a party at 5:00 a.m. (local time) to hear the announcement of the year's Nobel Prize winners, he invites almost everyone he can think of. Predictably, only Mary, his mother, shows up.
Meanwhile, George Sr. and Georgie have a disagreement over cable TV.
Tropes
- Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: George starts charging Georgie a P.I.M.A. ("Pain In My Ass") tax after Georgie doesn't let George use the cable TV.
- Call-Forward: Child versions of Leonard, Penny, Raj, Howard, Bernadette and Amy (in that order) from The Big Bang Theory all appear at the very end. Leonard and Howard's mothers are also heard.
- Nerdy Inhaler: Before the reveal, one of the hints that the first young boy in the ending montage is a young Leonard is a close-up on the inhaler he has sitting on the desk in front of him.
- "Ray of Hope" Ending: No one comes to Sheldon's party, and the project he wanted to win the Nobel loses. The episode ends with him Trying Not to Cry as he sits alone in his garage, and adult Sheldon’s narration admits that in that moment, he thought he'd always be alone. But then we see a montage of six kids Sheldon doesn't know yet, who will grow up to be his best friends, and, in one case, his wife.Sheldon: Thankfully, I was wrong.
