'Young Sheldon' Season 4 Episode 2: Georgie discovers Mary's secret but can Sheldon get over losing his job?
Spoilers 'Young Sheldon' Season 4 Episode 2 'A Docent, A Little Lady and a Bouncer Named Dalton'
As always, there is never a dull moment when it comes to CBS's 'Young Sheldon' and this week's episode definitely brought the funny. The last episode 'Graduation' saw Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) graduate from high school and his twin sister Missy Cooper (Raegan Revord) graduate from middle school. In this episode, 'A Docent, A Little Lady, and a Bouncer Named Dalton' we see Missy become a young woman, Sheldon get a new job and Georgie Cooper (Montana Jordan) figures out his mother Mary's Cooper's (Zoe Perry) guilty pleasure.
Sheldon has a strange (yet healthy in its own right) obsession with trains, and after he finds that a local museum is looking for a docent, he decides to charm (annoy) his way into getting the job. He may be young, but he does have a high school diploma and knows more about trains than anyone – which is exactly what he told his mother. When he gets there, all suited up to start his summer job, he very quickly impresses his boss, but as you can pretty much predict, it didn't last too long. Sheldon in little doses is bearable, but in high doses, he makes you want to pull your hair out. In one day, poor Sheldon gets fired from his job because well, he continuously corrected his boss in front of people that came into the museum, would ring the bell "the right way" for way too long, and even spat facts about trains to a guy who was peeing in the stall. As you can imagine, Sheldon didn't take it too well – "He just took my Ask Me button! He didn't even ask! He just took it!", he told his grandmother. It seems he lacks coping skills simply because he didn't understand why knowing and speaking about facts was so wrong. Knowing Sheldon though, he will find something to occupy his time with, being bored is never an issue with him. In fact, if you watched the clip of next week's episode -- he learns (or tries to) to ride a bike!
His sister Missy on the other hand, is a bold young girl – opposite of how Sheldon is, in almost every way. On the way to her baseball game, she gets her period which results in her father George Cooper Sr. (Lance Barber) freaking out more than she does. With Mary nowhere near to help her out, she calms her father down so they can get to a drugstore – "breathe, we can get through this," she says. At the store, George, who doesn't know how to deal with anything ends up getting help from the sweet cashier Gretchen. In a way, he ends up being there for his daughter -- "that my little lady!" he tells another mom at the baseball game. This was a sweet father-daughter moment, that made a usually taboo topic to most, a hilarious one.
Let's not forget what Georgie discovered about his mother – her guilty pleasure was watching the R-rated film 'Roadhouse'! Mother and son ended up bonding quite a bit while talking about the movie -- scene fans were happy about. In fact, the ending gave us quite a laugh, when George Sr. tells Mary that Dalton (the protagonist in the movie) looks just like Georgie!
'Young Sheldon' airs Thursdays at 8 pm Est on CBS