The third season of Young Sheldon premiered on September 26, 2019, and concluded on April 30, 2020.
Premise[]
11 year old Sheldon finishing out his senior year in high school.
Cast[]
- Iain Armitage as Sheldon Cooper (21/21)
- Zoe Perry as Mary Cooper (21/21)
- Lance Barber as George Cooper Sr. (21/21)
- Montana Jordan as George Cooper Jr. (21/21)
- Raegan Revord as Missy Cooper (21/21)
- Annie Potts as Meemaw (21/21)
- Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper (voice only) (19/21)
- Matt Hobby as Jeff Difford (15/21)
Recurring[]
- Ryan Phuong as Tam Nguyen
- Wallace Shawn as John Sturgis
- Craig T. Nelson as Dale Ballard
- Melissa Peterman as Brenda Sparks
- Wyatt McClure as Billy Sparks
- Valerie Mahaffey as Victoria McElroy
- Rex Linn as Tom Petersen
- Sarah Baker as Sheryl Hutchins
- Nancy Linehan Charles as Peg
- Mary Grill as Officer Robin
- Ed Begley Jr. as Dr. Linkletter
- Brian Stepanek as Mr. Hubert Givens
- Doc Farrow as Coach Wilkins
- Ava Allan as Jana
- Isabel May as Veronica Duncan
Trivia[]
- The season was renewed on February 22, 2019, along with the fourth season.[2]
- Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the season was shortened to 21 episodes.
- This season takes place in the beginning of 1991.
Episodes[]
Episode (Season/Ep#) | Title | Original Air Date | Directed By | Description |
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301 | Quirky Eggheads and Texas Snow Globes | September 26, 2019 | Jaffar Mahmood | Following Dr. Sturgis's hospitalization in a mental hospital, Mary worries something similar may happen to Sheldon. With Mary being indirect in trying to evaluate Sheldon's mental state, her questions cause Sheldon to be concerned about her mental health. This is resolved at the psychologist's office once Mary reveals the reason for her questioning. Meanwhile, Georgie discovers that a local gift shop is going out of business, and is selling snow globes for $1 each. He asks George for money to purchase a large quantity of snow globes with the intent of selling them at $5 each. His father dismisses the idea. Georgie initially fails with his plan until he figures out a way to play on the locals' nostalgia for snow in Texas to sell the snow globes. |
302 | A Broom Closet and Satan's Monopoly Board | October 3, 2019 | Alex Reid | Believing he is not being challenged enough in school, Sheldon decides to skip his classes and study independently in a broom closet within the school library. Once discovered, George and Mary disagree on whose responsibility it is to resolve the matter. During one argument, Connie offers a suggestion to have Sheldon audit Dr. Linkletter's physics course while Dr. Sturgis is hospitalized. Although the problem with Sheldon is solved, George is disturbed by his fight with Mary, and with the advice of Assistant Coach Wilkins, George invites Mary for date night. Meanwhile, Pastor Jeff tries to ward off his desires for intimacy with his girlfriend, Officer Robin, and Mary assists him with that. Pastor Jeff calls Mary's home for assistance while she is out on her date night with George, but with Mary being out, he speaks to Missy instead. Missy lies to Pastor Jeff about her and Georgie's experimentation with an Ouija board. Missy then fears that the lie it will land her in hell, so she calls Pastor Jeff back to confess. The call back occurs just as Pastor Jeff was about to get intimate with his girlfriend, which he interpreted as a sign from God to cease. In response, Officer Robin asks Pastor Jeff to marry her. |
303 | An Entrepreneurialist and a Swat on the Bottom | October 10, 2019 | Mark Cendrowski | Dr. Linkletter, wanting to create additional opportunities to meet with Connie, invites Sheldon to a robotics lecture. Connie feels uncomfortable, and refuses to take Sheldon to the lecture. Sheldon accuses Connie of being selfish, so she spanks him (offscreen). His parents also refuse to drive him, hearing of his disrespect towards Connie. Sheldon also accuses his parents of being more selfish than Connie so they ground him for a month. Sheldon therefore decides to take a bus to visit Dr. Sturgis at the mental hospital. Before he is tracked down by the police, a seatmate on the bus convinces Sheldon that he was in the wrong. He then 'apologizes' to his parents and Connie by showing them an episode of Star Trek that conveys his feelings, but they don't quite get it. Meanwhile, Georgie's latest get-rich-quick scheme nets him much money, which impresses his love interest, Veronica, but she rejects the expensive bracelet he buys her, so he buys her a cheap candy bracelet instead. |
304 | Hobbitses, Physicses and a Ball with Zip | October 17, 2019 | Chris Koch | Sheldon becomes obsessed with solving the unified field theory, a problem Einstein couldn't solve. This worries Mary, so Sheldon (unsuccessfully) tries to distract himself with other activities. The school librarian suggests to Sheldon to do something that is the "opposite of science", leading Sheldon to conclude that reading fiction is the closest alternative. He starts reading Lord of the Rings, but becomes obsessed with figuring out discrepancies in the story-line. When Sheldon falls asleep, he dreams about a battle between "the Hobbitses" and "the Physicses" for his attention. With "the Physicses" winning, Sheldon goes back to focusing on physics after waking up. Meanwhile, Missy becomes infatuated with a boy who is into baseball. She therefore asks George to teach her how to throw and catch a baseball, and how to sound intelligent talking about baseball. The plan fails because the boy is interested in another girl, but the time spent with George helps Missy bond with him. George then teaches Missy how to throw a curveball, a skill that she uses to throw an apple at the boy who hurt her feelings. |
305 | A Pineapple and the Bosom of Male Friendship | October 24, 2019 | Jaffar Mahmood | Dr. Sturgis is released from the mental hospital, and comes together with Connie for dinner at the Cooper's home. After dinner, Dr. Sturgis breaks up with Connie, feeling that she deserves someone more mentally stable than himself. Connie, not used to being broken up with, gets upset, so Dr. Sturgis recommends to her to go back to dating her ex-boyfriend, Ira Rosenbloom. During the date with Rosenbloom, Connie confesses to him that she only called him for a revenge date, and it was at Sturgis' suggestion. In response, Rosenbloom rejects future dates with Connie. Meanwhile, Sheldon feels that it's not fair for him not to be friends with Dr. Sturgis just because Sturgis and Connie broke up, and convinces Mary to invite Sturgis for dinner. Sturgis arrives at the Coopers' home bringing a pineapple as a gift, which he explains is a symbol of hospitality. Mary does not like the dinner table conversation that is taking place, and asks George to take Dr. Sturgis to a bar. At the bar, Dr. Sturgis publicly toasts "the bosom of the male friendship" that he thinks he has developed with George. |
306 | A Parasol and a Hell of an Arm | November 7, 2019 | Chris Koch | The Coopers visit a church carnival, except for Connie who stays at home struggling with her breakup with Dr. Sturgis. Georgie volunteered at a stall in the carnival expecting to be working together with Veronica but she got sick and he has to work with Peg, Pastor Jeff's chain-smoking secretary, who bores him with her stories of disappointments in her love life. Missy scores seven consecutive successful throws at the carnival dunk tank thanks to her baseball practices with her dad, which makes her want to join a baseball team. George takes Missy to sign up for youth league but the Coach, Dale, refuses to accept a girl in the team. When Connie hears about her rejection, she gets off the couch and visits Dale herself, along with Missy, who finally gets to show her skills and is accepted into the team; and Connie gets a date with the coach. Meanwhile, Georgie, bored out of his wits by Peg and Connie's lamentations, pays a visit to Veronica with a "Get Well Soon" balloon, but she is at the doctor's and Georgie gets stuck with her grandmother who bores him all over again. |
307 | Pongo Pygmaeus and a Culture that Encourages Spitting | November 14, 2019 | Jaffar Mahmood | Sheldon buys a direct-connect 300 baud modem and uses it to post a wave function collapse theory on a physics newsgroup, which is met with disagreement from another user. Without the fear of physical retaliation, Sheldon resorts to name-calling. As the scientific argument escalates, Sheldon asks for advice from Dr. Sturgis, and eventually his opponent concedes, remarking that Sheldon's point "has some validity". Dale takes George out for a beer, where they connect over small talk, but George does not tell him anything that would worry Connie, who is dating him. Missy is taunted by other girls in her school for playing baseball, which makes Missy think of quitting baseball; but when Brenda Sparks calls Mary on the phone, calling Missy weird for playing baseball, Mary pressures Missy to stay on the team. At a baseball match, Missy beats up a pitcher who tried to hit her with the ball. A girl from Georgie's English class named Lisa flirts with Georgie in school, which produces mixed feelings in Veronica. |
308 | The Sin of Greed and a Chimichanga from Chi-Chi's | November 21, 2019 | Chris Koch | When Sheldon scores exceptionally well on his college exam, Dr. Sturgis suggests to George that he transfer to college full-time, suggesting that George take a better-paying job coaching college football in order to be near him: George considers the offer, while Principal Petersen provides them with various perks in order to keep them at Medford High to ensure Sheldon's high scores keep the school well-funded. Dale offers Georgie a job as a salesman at his sporting goods store; Georgie's new cash flow quickly goes to his head. Mary is concerned at the apparent 'selfishness' and 'greed' running rampant in her family and confiscates all symbols of excess until Connie explains her frustrations as being a relapse of empty nest syndrome. |
309 | A Party Invitation, Football Grapes and an Earth Chicken | December 5, 2019 | Jaffar Mahmood | When Missy receives an invitation to Billy's birthday party but Sheldon does not, Mary pressures the Sparks family into inviting Sheldon, even getting Pastor Jeff to deliver a sermon on neighborliness. However, Sheldon will only attend as Mr. Spock, complete with tricorder. Dr. Sturgis eventually manages to establish a friendship with Connie and George. Billy's mother complains that Billy wants to spend time in the hen house with Sheldon instead of being at the party. Mary acknowledges that she made a mistake insisting Sheldon be included, and explains to Brenda her worry about Sheldon not fitting in anywhere and her concern about what will happen when he grows up. This causes a rare moment of sympathy between the two moms as Brenda admits her own worries about Billy, and when Mary comments that this sort of thing bothers her far more than Sheldon, Brenda sympathetically agrees, saying "Doesn't make it any easier, does it?" Although Brenda agrees to let Billy and Sheldon just play with the chickens rather than rejoining the party, Sheldon immediately runs in screaming because a chicken pooped on him, causing Mary to take him home again. |
310 | Teenager Soup and a Little Ball of Fib | December 12, 2019 | Nikki Lorre | Sheldon pretends to be sick to get out of taking a swimming class at school, but the guilt over the lie traumatizes him; he attempts to actually get sick before confessing to Mary, and in the end does get sick. He even infects his friends, classmates, teachers, principal, mom, dad, Missy, Georgie, Meemaw and Dale. Meanwhile, Dr. Sturgis spies on Dale, and Connie starts defending him once Dale begins to disparage him. |
311 | A Live Chicken, a Fried Chicken and Holy Matrimony | January 9, 2020 | Alex Reid | |
312 | Body Glitter and a Mall Safety Kit | January 16, 2020 | Lea Thompson | |
313 | Contracts, Rules and a Little Bit of Pig Brains | January 30, 2020 | Jaffar Mahmood | |
314 | A Slump, a Cross and Roadside Gravel | February 6, 2020 | Howie Deutch | |
315 | A Boyfriend's Ex-Wife and a Good Luck Head Rub | February 13, 2020 | Jaffar Mahmood | |
316 | Pasadena | February 20, 2020 | Jaffar Mahmood | |
317 | An Academic Crime and a More Romantic Taco Bell | March 5, 2020 | Melissa Joan Hart | |
318 | A Couple Bruised Ribs and a Cereal Box Ghost Detector | March 12, 2020 | Chris Koch | |
319 | A House for Sale and Serious Woman Stuff | April 2, 2020 | Alex Reid | |
320 | A Baby Tooth and the Egyptian God of Knowledge | April 16, 2020 | Jaffar Mahmood | |
321 | A Secret Letter and a Lowly Disc of Processed Meat | April 30, 2020 | Alex Reid |