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[adult Sheldon] Previously on
Young Sheldon...

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Which bow tie says mature enough
to be in college

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but whimsical enough
to discuss which came first,

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the Higgs field or the photon?

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They both say,
"Weird kid who eats alone."

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Hello, Dr. Sturgis, this is Mary Cooper.

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Did you know there's a super collider
being built in Waxahachie, Texas?

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No.

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I've taken a job there.

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Hold on.

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You're not going to be around
when Sheldon starts college?

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That's a great question.

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No.

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Since everyone is going back
to school tomorrow,

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let's finish up with
the back-to-school prayer.

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What?

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Does this prayer
just apply to middle school

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or is it appropriate
for the college-bound?

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It's for everyone.

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But thank you once again

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for reminding us
you're starting college.

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I don't mind.
You've got a lot on your plate.

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Just pray.

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- "Dear Heavenly Father...
- [students reciting along]

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As we return to school,
we look to your eternal..."

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Billy, it's not the pledge.

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It is clear that we cannot expect

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- their cooperation.
- [phone ringing]

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Normally, I don't like facial hair,
but Spock makes it work.

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- Hello?
- Sheldon.

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It's Dr. Linkletter.

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I'm watching
Star Trek: The Original Series.

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I'm sorry, I'm not up on my cartoons.

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It's not a cartoon.
It's a live-action science-fiction show,

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although there is one called
Star Trek: The Animated Series.

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I believe you.

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I was wondering if I can
speak with your mummy.

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Sure. Hold on...

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Mom, Dr. Linkletter's on the phone.

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While we wait, here's a fun fact.

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In the animated series,
Kukulkan was played by James Doohan.

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Hello?

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James Doohan played Scotty
on Star Trek: The Original Series.

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Sheldon, I've got it.

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He tried several accents
before settling on Scottish.

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- Sheldon, hang up.
- Okay.

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He felt the Scots
were excellent engineers. Bye.

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Dr. Linkletter, what can I do for you?

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Hello, Mrs. Cooper.

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I just want to let you know,
with Dr. Sturgis away,

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I'll be available
should Sheldon need anything.

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Oh, that is very comforting to know.

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Thank you so much.

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His well-being is important to me,
as was made abundantly clear by my boss.

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Okay, well, we are truly grateful.

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Now, I'm not terribly experienced
around children.

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If he needs to use the restroom,
I don't have to go in with him, do I?

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[theme song playing]

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Bless us, Lord,
for the food we're about to receive

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and bless the hands that prepared it.

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And with school starting tomorrow,
please watch over our children.

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Pastor Jeff already covered this.

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He did?

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Yeah, we're good. Amen.

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- Amen.
- Amen.

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Amen.

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Can I take your truck tomorrow?

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Well, I think you're riding with me.

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Sorry. I'm taking Missy to school
and Meemaw's taking Sheldon.

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Well, can I at least drive?

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Sure.

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While you hide in the back under a tarp?

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Stop praying for him
and focus on the other two?

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Sheldon, good news.

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Dr. Linkletter was calling to say
that while you're at school,

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if you need anything, you can go to him.

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Starting college
and you need a babysitter? That's funny.

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I don't need a babysitter.

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Dr. Linkletter is just around
in case there's a problem.

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- Like if he needs a new diaper?
- Ha.

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Enough.

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Can we please have a nice dinner?

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We could. You're the one
who wants to eat as a family.

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- Don't pray for any of them.
- [sighs]

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Dr. Linkletter.

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Sheldon, how wonderfully
early it is to see you.

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If you've come by for a snack,

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I picked you up some crackers
shaped like fish.

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I just wanted to let you know
that I don't need you to babysit me.

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I'm perfectly self-reliant.

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Excellent. I'm not
very comfortable around children,

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even with your level of maturity.

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How old are you, six? Seven?

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Eleven.

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I see.

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Then it's good I kept the receipt

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for this bottle of bubbles
shaped like a bear.

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I should get going.

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My philosophy class
starts in a few minutes.

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Ah, yes, the great thinkers.
Socrates, Plato...

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Speaking of which,
I got you some Play-Doh.

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I figure you don't want me
to walk you in?

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I've trained you well.

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Do you have everything you need?

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- Lunch money?
- Yep.

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- Locker combination.
- Right here.

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Why is it there?

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Writing on my hand is so fifth grade.

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Of course.

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Okay, I'm going to go in.

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I assume you don't want a hug?

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Make it quick.

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- That's enough.
- Okay.

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Wish me luck.

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Good luck.

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- Hey.
- Hey, Brenda.

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She didn't want you to walk her in?

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No. How about Billy?

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I walked him in.

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Found his homeroom,
explained that homeroom

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is different than his room at home.

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Still not sure he gets it.

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Tough day.

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Yeah.

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You want to get some coffee?

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Was thinking vodka, but coffee will do.

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[adult Sheldon] I've always considered
myself a collector of knowledge.

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My mind is like the warehouse
at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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But instead of artifacts,
it's just facts. [chuckles]

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And now that I was
a full-time college student,

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my collection was about
to grow exponentially.

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[Professor Ericson]
Welcome to the world of philosophy.

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Most college courses are about
teaching you things that you don't know.

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Here, I am going to teach you that you
don't even know what you think you know.

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Oh, boy.

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The Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu
believed it was possible

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he didn't really know anything
because he might just be a butterfly

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dreaming that he was a philosopher.

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- Yes.
- He wasn't a butterfly.

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Well, how do you know?

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The butterfly brain
doesn't contain enough neurons

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to generate a complex dream.

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Plus, you referred to him as
"Chinese philosopher" Chuang Tzu

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and not "Chinese butterfly" Chuang Tzu.

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You must be Sheldon Cooper.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Very well, Mr. Cooper.

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How do you know you're not
just dreaming butterflies can't dream?

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Because I'm awake.

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Or are you dreaming you're awake?

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You can see I'm awake
and you can hear me talking.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I saw some pretty trippy stuff
at a Grateful Dead concert.

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The drummer turned into
a tap-dancing walrus and floated away.

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So we can't really
trust our senses, can we?

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We can validate them
by comparing them with other observers.

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Hmm, but that would mean
we have to hear what they say,

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which requires trusting our senses.

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Do you see a problem
with your argument, Mr. Cooper?

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I could concentrate better
if you weren't flashing your toes at me.

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Billy's a sweet kid,

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but these middle schoolers
are going to eat him alive.

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You don't know that.

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Maybe they'll be nice.

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Boy, if we were
in middle school right now,

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I'd have your head in a toilet so fast.

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If you want, I can ask Missy
to hang out with him,

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make sure things go okay.

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Absolutely not.

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Why?

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That girl is cute and sassy
and has a real chance at being popular.

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Do not take that from her or me.

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Popularity isn't that important.

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It is the most important.

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I mean, look at us.

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I'm miserable.

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You're always worried about something.

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I'd like one girl around here to win.

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I'm not always worried.

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It's Sheldon's first day of college
and you're not freaking out?

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It's on my mind, but he's been looking
forward to this for a long time.

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I'm sure he's having a wonderful day.

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She displayed
complete contempt for science.

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She claimed that knowledge was a myth,

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and then she told the class
they could take their shoes off.

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Some of them did.

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Luckily, we've established
you're a mature young man

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capable of figuring this out on his own,
so, go get 'em, sport!

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But as a man of science,
aren't you offended by this?

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Sheldon, this is a college campus.

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You come across all sorts.
Anarchists, communists, vegans...

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There's a fella
in the religion department

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that believes God is two women,

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and their names are Wendy and Claire.

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But to say
nobody actually knows anything.

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How could she know that?
It's a contradiction.

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How about I blow some bubbles out of
a bear's head and we call it a day?

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I don't know
how I'm going to last all semester

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with this free-willing hippie.

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Sheldon, I don't know what to tell you.

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If you're that unhappy,
just drop the class.

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Of course. Drop the class.

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This is college.

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I can do that.

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There you go.

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- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

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From now on, I'm coming to you
with all my problems.

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"The statement on the other side
of this sign is true."

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[grunts]

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Professor Ericson.

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Come in.

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Mr. Cooper, welcome. How can I help you?

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I would like to drop your class.

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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

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I enjoyed our discussion
about skepticism and butterflies.

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I'm a scientist, and I don't find
those types of questions worth my time,

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and butterflies are just worms
that can chase you.

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[chuckles]

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The questions of philosophy
are extremely challenging.

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People have spent 2,000-plus years
trying to solve them without success.

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So if you feel like giving up,
I don't blame you.

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I'm not giving up.
I'm saying they're not important.

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Okay, so what is important?

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The acquisition of factual knowledge.

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And how do you know
if something is factual?

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You test it and see if it holds true.

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And how do you know that that's factual?

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You're doing it again.

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Maybe you're dreaming I'm doing it.

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How was your first day?

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Infuriating.

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How was your first day?

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So good.

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How was your first day?

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...and then she said,
"Maybe you're just dreaming."

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- You gonna drop the class?
- Yes.

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But only after I systematically destroy
her half-baked arguments

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in front of everybody else.

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It's good to have goals.

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...and at lunch,
an eighth-grade boy said, and I quote.

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"I like Funyuns, too."

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- Wow.
- I know.

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I stopped at the library today
and picked up books

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on epistemology,
Descartes' dream argument,

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and the foundations of scientific logic.

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Do you know what she's going to do?

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Rue the day?

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The day, the night.
If it's rue-able, she's going to rue it.

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And in math class, I sit right between
Heather M. and Heather B.

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That's nice. You're with your friends.

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00:11:14,592 --> 00:11:16,802
It's more than nice.
All notes go through me.

252
00:11:16,886 --> 00:11:18,053
That's power.

253
00:11:18,846 --> 00:11:21,432
[singing]
She's my cherry pie

254
00:11:21,682 --> 00:11:24,518
Cool drink of water,
such a sweet surprise

255
00:11:24,602 --> 00:11:27,188
Tastes so good, makes a grown man cry

256
00:11:27,313 --> 00:11:31,984
Sweet Cherry Pie, yeah

257
00:11:33,894 --> 00:11:40,575
[adult Sheldon] The good name
of Lady Science had been besmirched,

258
00:11:40,576 --> 00:11:43,162
and it was up to me
to defend her honor.

259
00:11:43,245 --> 00:11:45,539
I had a lot of ground to cover
in one night.

260
00:11:45,623 --> 00:11:48,834
Thankfully, 11 years
of my family's incessant yammering

261
00:11:48,918 --> 00:11:51,629
had given me
an extraordinary ability to focus.

262
00:11:51,712 --> 00:11:53,589
And I want to watch Fresh Prince.

263
00:11:53,672 --> 00:11:55,007
Too bad, the game is on.

264
00:11:55,090 --> 00:11:57,051
There's always a game on. Dad.

265
00:11:57,134 --> 00:11:58,802
Sorry, kiddies. Cowboys.

266
00:11:58,803 --> 00:12:00,094
But it's the season premiere.

267
00:12:00,095 --> 00:12:03,348
Fresh Prince's family gets tickets
to the People's Choice Awards.

268
00:12:03,349 --> 00:12:04,399
I'm not missing...

269
00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,769
"...pressing investigations aimed
to establish a constructional system.

270
00:12:07,770 --> 00:12:10,564
That is an epistemic,
logical system of..."

271
00:12:10,648 --> 00:12:14,151
My show's only 30 minutes.
Yours is three hours.

272
00:12:14,152 --> 00:12:16,361
But yours don't have them cheerleaders
jumping up and down.

273
00:12:16,362 --> 00:12:17,403
Mom?

274
00:12:17,404 --> 00:12:20,783
What if we don't turn the TV on at all
and we play a board game?

275
00:12:20,784 --> 00:12:21,950
- Seriously?
- Come on!

276
00:12:21,951 --> 00:12:23,993
"...so that a genealogy
of concept results

277
00:12:23,994 --> 00:12:25,870
in which each one
has its definite place."

278
00:12:25,871 --> 00:12:27,371
[Mary] Shelly, it's your turn.

279
00:12:27,706 --> 00:12:28,756
Shelly?

280
00:12:29,375 --> 00:12:30,425
What's happening?

281
00:12:31,043 --> 00:12:32,363
We're playing a board game.

282
00:12:32,419 --> 00:12:33,469
Before dinner?

283
00:12:34,171 --> 00:12:35,221
You ate dinner.

284
00:12:35,222 --> 00:12:36,589
[doorbell rings]

285
00:12:36,590 --> 00:12:37,716
Did I like it?

286
00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,301
You said the meatloaf was dry.

287
00:12:39,885 --> 00:12:40,935
That sounds right.

288
00:12:44,265 --> 00:12:45,315
Hi, Brenda.

289
00:12:45,683 --> 00:12:47,363
I just wanted to see how today went.

290
00:12:47,434 --> 00:12:48,484
Oh...

291
00:12:48,978 --> 00:12:50,028
[clears throat]

292
00:12:50,805 --> 00:12:52,814
Ugh.

293
00:12:52,815 --> 00:12:53,899
Not great.

294
00:12:53,983 --> 00:12:57,593
Sheldon is already in some sort of fight
with his philosophy professor.

295
00:12:57,594 --> 00:12:58,529
About what?

296
00:12:58,530 --> 00:13:02,366
Currently, he's plotting
"the destruction" of her worldview,

297
00:13:02,449 --> 00:13:03,659
whatever that means.

298
00:13:03,742 --> 00:13:04,868
Sounds exciting.

299
00:13:04,952 --> 00:13:07,746
It's mostly him reading a book
and giggling to himself.

300
00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:09,130
How about Billy?

301
00:13:09,748 --> 00:13:11,375
- Not much better.
- Oh...

302
00:13:11,376 --> 00:13:13,668
In Spanish class,
every time the teacher said si,

303
00:13:13,669 --> 00:13:15,087
Billy said, "See what?"

304
00:13:15,170 --> 00:13:16,630
Oh, Billy.

305
00:13:16,714 --> 00:13:19,550
I know,
but if I don't laugh about it, I'll cry.

306
00:13:20,009 --> 00:13:21,093
I'm sorry.

307
00:13:21,427 --> 00:13:22,477
How did Missy do?

308
00:13:22,761 --> 00:13:24,888
I think Missy had the best day
of her life.

309
00:13:24,972 --> 00:13:27,141
Thank God. Tell me everything.

310
00:13:27,224 --> 00:13:31,562
Well, in one class,
she sits between her friends,

311
00:13:31,563 --> 00:13:33,438
so the note passing goes through her.

312
00:13:33,439 --> 00:13:36,275
She's going to get the dirt firsthand.
That's huge.

313
00:13:36,276 --> 00:13:38,860
And then an eighth-grade boy
talked to her at lunch.

314
00:13:38,861 --> 00:13:40,571
- On the first day?
- Uh-huh.

315
00:13:40,654 --> 00:13:43,282
She's gonna be prom queen.
I'm calling it.

316
00:13:43,365 --> 00:13:46,702
That's fun,
but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

317
00:13:46,785 --> 00:13:47,835
Mary.

318
00:13:48,203 --> 00:13:51,165
It'll be a miracle
if Billy even makes it to high school.

319
00:13:51,248 --> 00:13:52,628
Don't take this away from me.

320
00:13:54,460 --> 00:13:56,712
Missy is gonna look so cute
in that tiara!

321
00:13:56,713 --> 00:13:57,712
Yes, she is!

322
00:13:57,713 --> 00:13:59,173
That's the Fresh Prince.

323
00:13:59,423 --> 00:14:02,092
He's from West Philadelphia,
born and raised.

324
00:14:03,116 --> 00:14:06,804
[adult Sheldon] It was past my bedtime,

325
00:14:06,805 --> 00:14:08,725
but who could sleep with a page-turner

326
00:14:08,807 --> 00:14:11,810
like Meditations on First Philosophy
by Ren� Descartes.

327
00:14:11,894 --> 00:14:14,124
Descartes was more
than just a philosopher.

328
00:14:14,146 --> 00:14:18,108
He was also the mathematician
who invented the Cartesian plane.

329
00:14:18,192 --> 00:14:22,154
If you've ever enjoyed thatX squared
plus Y squared equals K is a circle,

330
00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:24,947
you can say, "Merci beaucoup"
to Monsieur Descartes.

331
00:14:32,122 --> 00:14:33,172
Hello.

332
00:14:33,332 --> 00:14:34,833
Bonjour, Sheldon.

333
00:14:35,084 --> 00:14:36,710
Bonjour, Ren� Descartes.

334
00:14:36,794 --> 00:14:37,961
Please, sit.

335
00:14:42,508 --> 00:14:45,302
I see you're reading a book
on philosophy by Aristotle.

336
00:14:45,386 --> 00:14:46,436
I am.

337
00:14:47,179 --> 00:14:48,889
And it is garbage!

338
00:14:49,264 --> 00:14:52,893
Aristotle is, how you say... a punk!

339
00:14:53,544 --> 00:14:59,023
I'm also having trouble
with my philosophy professor.

340
00:14:59,024 --> 00:15:01,652
She says that we don't know
if science is true.

341
00:15:01,735 --> 00:15:02,820
Mon Dieu!

342
00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:06,031
Without science, we know nothing.

343
00:15:06,323 --> 00:15:09,827
No different than the dogs and kitties
in the street

344
00:15:09,910 --> 00:15:14,790
wandering around in a fog of ignorance
with the woofings and the meowing.

345
00:15:14,791 --> 00:15:17,708
So how do I get her to understand
that science can form true beliefs

346
00:15:17,709 --> 00:15:19,670
about reality as it really is?

347
00:15:19,753 --> 00:15:25,509
Ah, young man, you're asking,
"What is the foundation of knowledge?"

348
00:15:25,510 --> 00:15:27,260
Yes.

349
00:15:27,261 --> 00:15:29,305
Well, hold on to your chapeau!

350
00:15:29,306 --> 00:15:30,596
I'm not wearing a chapeau.

351
00:15:30,597 --> 00:15:32,307
It is just an expression.

352
00:15:32,391 --> 00:15:33,441
Sorry.

353
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:38,605
All knowledge must rest on a foundation
that we can never doubt,

354
00:15:39,273 --> 00:15:40,482
and that is...

355
00:15:42,109 --> 00:15:43,159
Of course!

356
00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,486
So we've learned
that the theory of knowledge

357
00:15:45,487 --> 00:15:47,698
poses some very serious problems.

358
00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:49,700
Excuse me, Professor Ericson.

359
00:15:49,701 --> 00:15:52,743
I've done a little reading
since last we spoke,

360
00:15:52,744 --> 00:15:54,036
and I'm prepared to show you that

361
00:15:54,037 --> 00:15:56,206
everything we know
about science is true.

362
00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:58,090
Well, I'm all ears.

363
00:15:58,667 --> 00:16:03,255
You said I couldn't truly know anything,
but there's one thing that I do know.

364
00:16:03,714 --> 00:16:07,009
If I question, I must think.
If I think, I must exist.

365
00:16:07,843 --> 00:16:10,012
Cogito, ergo sum.

366
00:16:10,095 --> 00:16:13,390
"I think, therefore I am."

367
00:16:14,802 --> 00:16:16,851
You're right.

368
00:16:16,852 --> 00:16:18,604
You're darn right I'm right.

369
00:16:19,271 --> 00:16:21,523
Guys, give it up for Sheldon.

370
00:16:21,857 --> 00:16:22,907
[all applauding]

371
00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,945
Now for a job well done,

372
00:16:28,655 --> 00:16:30,741
here is a flower full of sweet nectar.

373
00:16:30,824 --> 00:16:32,367
Why would I want that?

374
00:16:32,368 --> 00:16:35,328
Because you're a butterfly
and this is just your dream.

375
00:16:35,329 --> 00:16:36,997
I'm not a butterfly.

376
00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,207
Are you sure?

377
00:16:38,665 --> 00:16:39,715
[laughing]

378
00:16:42,127 --> 00:16:43,177
[gasps]

379
00:16:44,588 --> 00:16:45,714
It was a dream.

380
00:16:47,257 --> 00:16:48,307
Oh, no.

381
00:16:50,135 --> 00:16:52,471
Help! I'm a butterfly.

382
00:16:52,554 --> 00:16:55,474
Nothing I know is real.
Everything is a dream!

383
00:16:55,557 --> 00:16:56,850
Missy, help!

384
00:16:59,895 --> 00:17:01,230
No...

385
00:17:01,897 --> 00:17:02,947
[gasps]

386
00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,153
Missy, am I awake or is this a dream?

387
00:17:08,779 --> 00:17:10,155
Shut up, dingus.

388
00:17:10,739 --> 00:17:11,789
Okay, I'm awake.

389
00:17:17,579 --> 00:17:19,748
Shelly, you feeling all right?

390
00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,090
Yes.

391
00:17:21,250 --> 00:17:22,690
How come you're not dressed?

392
00:17:22,834 --> 00:17:24,044
Why should I?

393
00:17:24,045 --> 00:17:26,629
Because you're going
to be late for school.

394
00:17:26,630 --> 00:17:28,257
I'm not going to school.

395
00:17:28,340 --> 00:17:29,390
Why not?

396
00:17:29,633 --> 00:17:31,301
Because I don't know what's real.

397
00:17:31,385 --> 00:17:32,469
What does that mean?

398
00:17:32,844 --> 00:17:34,304
Dreaming and waking.

399
00:17:34,388 --> 00:17:35,514
Life and death.

400
00:17:35,597 --> 00:17:37,641
Philosophers and butterflies.

401
00:17:38,183 --> 00:17:39,268
They're all the same.

402
00:17:40,852 --> 00:17:41,902
Nothing matters.

403
00:17:43,063 --> 00:17:46,066
That's... an interesting way
of looking at things.

404
00:17:47,025 --> 00:17:48,075
George?

405
00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:56,451
[theme music playing]

406
00:17:56,501 --> 00:18:01,051
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