Hobbitses, Physicses and a Ball With Zip

Young Sheldon 3×4

Adult Sheldon: You never know where scientific inspiration will strike. For Newton, it was under an apple tree. For Archimedes, it was sitting in a bathtub. For me, on this particular day, it had a "sweaty people eating meat" kind of vibe.

George: Sheldon, do you really have to do that here?
Sheldon: If the management didn't want me to solve unified field theory, why would they give me a crayon?

Missy: Wake me up one more time, and I will sneeze in your mittens. A big, wet, snotty one.

Mary: I think this math problem you're working on is stressing you out.
Sheldon: It makes sense. Einstein struggled with it for 30 years and never found a solution.

Sheldon: I'm so used to thinking about science, I'm not sure how to make myself stop. As soon as I think about not thinking about it, I'm thinking about it.

Sheldon: How do you think the spider that bit Peter Parker got radioactive? Science. How do you think Bruce Banner got exposed to gamma rays? Science. When the Green Goblin flies... Science.

Mary: I know you don't want to hear this, but I find prayer can bring incredible peace of mind.
Meemaw: Come on, Mary, I'm trying to help the kid.

Meemaw: You just need a new hobby.
Sheldon: Very well. What are yours?
Meemaw: Smoking, drinking and gambling. But we can find you something almost as fun.

Sheldon: Are you positive other people's fingers haven't been in this?

Sheldon: I'm still thinking about science.
Meemaw: That's okay. Just aim for the front pin.

Cheryl: Let's think about it. What's the opposite of science?
Sheldon: Science is based in facts, and the opposite of facts is fiction.
Cheryl: How about fantasy? Magic and dragons. We have a whole section here.
Sheldon: Ooh, that sounds intellectually bankrupt. I'll give it a shot.

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Sheldon: Good news. I found a way to take a break from science.
Mary: That's great. What is it?
Sheldon: A fantasy book series called "The Lord of the Rings".
Mary: Well, it's got "the Lord" in it... That's something.

Sheldon: Excellent. There's a character named Gollum who was corrupted by the Ring of Power. Now he runs around naked and bites the heads off fish.
Meemaw: That's called sushi. Which, by the way, I will die before I eat.
Georgie: Speaking of dying... when you do, can I have your car?

Sheldon: This can't be right... In the letter that Gandalf leaves for Frodo at The Prancing Pony, he says that it's Mid-year's Day, Shire year 1418. However, in Appendix B, it says that Gandalf met Radagast on June 29, which is impossible because...

Sheldon: Did you notice that in "Fellowship", Elrond says that the foundations of Barad-dûr were made with the One Ring?
Ms. MacElroy: Let's say sure...
Sheldon: However, in Appendix B, "The Tale of Years", it's clear that Sauron began building Barad-dûr in Second Age 1000, 600 years before the ring was forged.
Ms. MacElroy: Georgie.
Georgie: Imagine living with this.
Ms. MacElroy: An hour a day is enough.

Sheldon: The timeline doesn't make sense. I mean, it lists Samwise Gamgee's birth year as both 2963 and 2980.
Cheryl: Maybe he lied about his age.
Sheldon: Why?
Cheryl: I don't know. Maybe he thinks his neck makes him look older than he is...
Sheldon: But he's only in his 30s. That's young.
Cheryl: Thank you.
Sheldon: For a hobbit. For a human, that's mommy-age.
Cheryl: Thank you.

Sheldon: Having found no answers, I took it upon myself to rectify the inconsistent timeline in "Lord of the Rings". J.R.R. Tolkien had a brilliant mind, but let's be honest... He was no S.L. Cooper.

Sheldon: We're never going to figures it out. — We can, we're smarts. We're so smarts. — Our brains is precious. — If our brains is precious, we're wasting it on hobbitses. — We like sciences. — We took a break from sciences. It was making us crazy. And look at us now. Look at what those nasty hobbitses have done to us. — No, it was physicses. Physicses did this to us. — Hobbitses. — Physicses. — Hobbitses.

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