Let me start with a confession: as someone who’s watched The Big Bang Theory more times than I care to admit (yes, I quote Sheldon at brunch), and followed Young Sheldon like it’s my personal family drama, this theory absolutely shook me.
We all know that Young Sheldon has filled in many blanks about Sheldon Cooper’s Texas upbringing. But one character who has quietly stolen the show? Meemaw—Sheldon’s no-nonsense, wisecracking grandmother.
Her on-again, off-again relationship with Dale Ballard, the sporting goods store owner, has been one of the more grounded and surprisingly tender arcs in the series.
Now, after Young Sheldon’s final season and the renewed interest in how its stories align with The Big Bang Theory timeline, fans are taking a second look at a blink-and-you-miss-it moment from Season 9 of TBBT—and it might just change everything we thought we knew about Meemaw’s future.
In The Big Bang Theory Season 9, Episode 14 ("The Meemaw Materialization"), Meemaw makes her long-awaited entrance into Sheldon’s adult life. During a slightly awkward dinner with Sheldon and Amy, Meemaw drops a line that seemed pretty throwaway at the time:
“I know how to handle a stubborn, egotistical man… because I was married to one.
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