Young Sheldon: What Are Common Tropes Occur?

Writers often rely on common tropes that their audience are intimately familiar with. These character tropes become particularly prevalent in comedy, where writers can rely on the audience to fill in the blanks, saving the time it would take to fully develop their characters and often providing a stock laugh. One of these common tropes is the awkward genius or “quasi-autistic”. This character is generally, though not always, white, male, and unconventionally attractive. This character is always the smartest person in the room, although their interests are often highly specialized—they may be able to rattle on about any number of highly academic topics but be unaware that earth rotates around the sun. Although their iq’s are off the charts,

Following a fight between his Father and Meemaw over her refusal to share her famous brisket recipe. Fearing the fight will lead to his parents’ divorce, Sheldon thinks back and finds that he is able to recall that Meemaw shared the recipe with him when he was only twenty-three months old and is able to able recall the ingredients with perfect accuracy (“A Brisket, Voodoo, and Cannonball Run”). Using this information, Sheldon is able to force a reconciliation between the two adults. Humorously, later in the episode his father muttering the words “hot damn” is enough to prompt Sheldon to recall witnessing his parents having coitus from his crib. Although Sheldon’s memory is canonly describes as eidetic, it is developmentally impossible to recall memories from that young, with or without an eidetic memory. That is not the only example of Sheldon’s inhuman intelligence in Young Sheldon. In the last moments of an episode featuring a cameo by Elon Musk, it is implied that the successful SpaceX CRS-8 mission relied on notes stolen from a nine-year-old Sheldon