Dolomite, Apple Slices, and a Mystery Woman

"Dolomite, Apple Slices, and a Mystery Woman"[1] is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American sitcom Young Sheldon. The episode aired on March 8, 2018.

Summary

Sheldon makes friends with an upperclassman who introduces him to a new field of science. Also, Mary and George disagree on how to handle Sheldon's blossoming social life.[2]

Extended Plot

Sheldon and Tam befriend Libby, an 11th grade girl with an interest in geology. During one of their lunches at the library, Libby offers to drive the three of them to the Houston Museum of Natural Science to see an IMAX film and when Sheldon asks Mary if he can go, Mary doesn't allow him to go believing it to be dangerous to be in a car with a teenager driving and this makes Sheldon angry who channeled it by cleaning the house top to bottom and eventually Mary agrees to let him go only if she can meet Libby first. Libby and Tam come over and Mary asks her questions regarding if she had any driving violations and says no and says she's been babysitting kids for years and is very safe, this devastated Sheldon who thought Libby sees them as equals and ends their friendship.

While Sheldon resolves never to make any more friends, Mary assures him that he will be surrounded by a lot of them who are also smart. Tam and Libby end up going to Houston without Sheldon to see the film, where Tam's advances are rejected by Libby. Sheldon and Tam later revert to a two-man social group, where Sheldon reconsiders geology as "not a science" to the point where he considers it as more of a hobby.

Credits

Notes

  • Title Reference:
    • Apple Slices: Sheldon had apple slices for his first lunch with Libby.
    • A Mystery Woman: Sheldon calls Libby a 'mystery woman' the first time he sees her.
  • This episode was watched by xx.x million people with a rating of xx.xx (adults 18–49).
  • Total viewers including DVR users xx.x million.
  • Young Sheldon was ranked #x for the week ending xx March 2017.
  • This episode aired in Canada in March 2017.

Critics

To be entered.

Trivia

  • Despite Sheldon's fear of using the school restroom, he has done so in the second episode, "Rockets, Communists, and the Dewey Decimal System".
  • When Mary is comforting Sheldon, she says in the future he will be surrounded by lots of smart friends (a reference to Sheldon's friends in The Big Bang Theory).

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References


Episodes | Season 1
"Pilot (Young Sheldon)" • "Rockets, Communists, and the Dewey Decimal System" • "Poker, Faith, and Eggs" • "A Therapist, a Comic Book, and a Breakfast Sausage" • "A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader's Bosom" • "A Patch, a Modem, and a Zantac" • "A Brisket, Voodoo, and Cannonball Run" • "Cape Canaveral, Schrödinger's Cat, and Cyndi Lauper's Hair" • "Spock, Kirk, and Testicular Hernia" • "An Eagle Feather, a String Bean, and an Eskimo" • "Demons, Sunday School, and Prime Numbers" • "A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer" • "A Sneeze, Detention, and Sissy Spacek" • "Potato Salad, a Broomstick, and Dad's Whiskey" • "Dolomite, Apple Slices, and a Mystery Woman" • "Killer Asteroids, Oklahoma, and a Frizzy Hair Machine" • "Jiu-Jitsu, Bubble Wrap, and Yoo-hoo" • "A Mother, a Child, and a Blue Man's Backside" • "Gluons, Guacamole, and the Color Purple" • "A Dog, a Squirrel, and a Fish Named Fish" • "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza" • "Vanilla Ice Cream, Gentlemen Callers, and a Dinette Set"