Young Sheldon Fixed This Disheartening TBBT Detail, but Fans Still Don’t Believe It

Throughout its seven-season run that ended just a few weeks ago, Young Sheldon had The Big Bang Theory fans glued to their screens, waiting for more mysteries from the original show to be unveiled in the prequel.

Following Sheldon Cooper’s earlier life in Texas before he met his best friend Leonard in California, the series was surely destined to explain at least some of numerous quirky habits that Sheldon was constantly demonstrating in The Big Bang Theory.

One of such things indeed got the creators’ attention and received a background story in Young Sheldon, though fans still don’t seem to be convinced by the prequel version.

In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon instantly makes it clear that no matter who he’s going to talk to, he’ll knock on their door exactly three times mixing it with calling that person by their name.

For years that the original show ran until it came to its end back in 2019, fans have been eager to know what affected Sheldon’s decision to develop such a habit while most of the show’s lovers were reassured that the prequel about the character’s childhood would definitely mention it sometime.

However, some fans were quicker than Young Sheldon and carried out their own investigation which proved that there was a disheartening reason behind Sheldon’s knock habit. Thus, some stated that, being a child, Sheldon once walked in on his father cheating on his mother and since then never entered any room without knocking on the door first.

This fan theory completely changed the character’s image for many others who then started seeing this quirky habit as Sheldon’s everyday reminder of that traumatic experience he had as a child.

Despite all that, Young Sheldon didn’t seem to be on the same page with fans about this matter and introduced a new, somewhat better version of that habit’s origin, though it still had a lot to do with the same trauma that in the prequel was transformed into some sort of delusion.

In Young Sheldon, the character appears to only believe that he saw his father cheating, but in reality he walked in on both his parents having an intimate role-playing moment when his mother was wearing a wig and speaking in a different accent.

This is yet another reason for longtime fans of the franchise to ponder over as neither of both shows doesn’t seem to give a somewhat clear answer given that the reputation of Sheldon’s father George varies drastically depending on which series we are talking about.

Still, those who had sleepless nights thinking about Sheldon’s childhood trauma may find peace with the more positive version and not have those tearful moments each time Sheldon knocks on someone’s door.