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Young Sheldon Season 5 Episode 16 review: Sheldon becoming a love guru with a 'fake Amy' is disappointing

The episode 'A Suitcase Full of Cash and a Yellow Clown Car' focuses on relationships supposedly and is narrated by older Sheldon and his wife, Amy from The Big Bang Theory. However, the makers have got a 'fake Amy' to narrate the show with him. They probably couldn't afford to get Mayim Bialik to do the bit.

1.5/5
Akhila Damodaran
Mar 12, 2022
Young Sheldon Season 5 Episode 16 review: Sheldon becoming a love guru with a 'fake Amy' is disappointing

Young Sheldon Season 5 

Young Sheldon

Story:

The new episode from Season 5 of Young Sheldon focuses on relationships. Hence, it's more about Meemaw and her breakup, while Sheldon is also seen wisely investing his money in Radioshack and bugging the board members with ideas to expand the business. They finally accept his idea but later run out of business.

Review:

The episode is based on 'relationships' and Sheldon is seen becoming a love guru. To the fan's dismay, he gets Amy to narrate with him. But the unacceptable thing about the episode is getting somebody else to voice-act as Amy Farrah Fowler. Though the artist has tried her level best to match up to the levels of Mayim Bialik and the discrepancy is caught on right away. It looks like the makers have lost all budget and couldn't afford to have Bialik on the show for a few minutes. The way the story is presented, it looks like the writers are struggling to take the story ahead.

The episode 'A Suitcase Full of Cash and a Yellow Clown Car' however, focuses more on the relationship of Meemaw and how she breaks up with her boyfriend as the two are in different places in life. The drama begins with Sheldon and a 'fake Amy' to talk about what could possibly be the reasons for a romantic relationship to end. The makers seem to have also messed up with the writing. Since the episode is about relationships, the writers could have added the bits about the relationship of Georgie and his older girlfriend Mandy. But the idea for the episode must have originated after the last episode and they couldn't use the story since they had already told it.

The story follows Meemaw and her getting all worried about a bag full of cash that she earned, running an illegal gambling room behind her laundromat store. She pays a hundred dollars to Sheldon and Missy. I am not sure why Georgie was left out and he didn't seem to mind about it. Sheldon decides to invest the money in his favourite place on Earth, Radioshack and Missy starts a cotton candy business. Both run out of business very soon. The idea of using money is to tell how, if so, it can affect a relationship but it fails miserably. Meemaw buys a brand new yellow car and enjoys the ride in it. When her boyfriend asks to get serious and take things slow, considering their age, she refuses and the two call it off.

The episode also shows George trying to find a new job and admitting to Sheldon's college president that the teenager can be a pain in the a**. That's perhaps the only best thing in the episode.

Verdict:

The episode only makes an opinion of a viewer stronger that the series should end. It barely gives any chuckles and appears to have become a pain in the a**, just like what everyone at the university calls him.

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