Young Sheldon — S02e01 Mpc

“I’m serious. There’s an electromagnetic oscillation at approximately 4.2 kilohertz emanating from somewhere between the living room and Missy’s side of the bedroom wall. It’s disrupting my thought patterns. I attempted to calculate the trajectory of a projectile under ideal conditions, and I kept factoring in the sound of a dying refrigerator.”

That afternoon, while Missy was at a friend’s house, Sheldon constructed a mesh enclosure out of copper wire and aluminum foil, meticulously grounding it to the radiator pipe. When Missy returned and gleefully powered up her machine, she pressed the microphone to her lips, belted out a few bars of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”—and heard nothing but a muffled, distant whisper. young sheldon s02e01 mpc

George Sr., shuffling in with a coffee mug the size of his head, grunted. “It’s probably the water heater. Or your imagination.” “I’m serious

“SEE?” he yelled over the noise. “That’s the sound of mediocrity winning!” I attempted to calculate the trajectory of a