Young Sheldon (TV Series)

Poker, Faith and Eggs (2017)

Annie Potts: Meemaw

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Quotes 

• Pastor Jeff : Sometimes people say to me, "Pastor Jeff, how do you know there's a God?" And I say "It's simple math. God either exists or he doesn't." So let's be cynical. Worst-case scenario, there's a 50-50 chance, And I like those odds.

  Sheldon : [raising his hand]  That's wrong.

  Mary : [sotto voce]  Shelly, put your hand down.

  [to Pastor Jeff] 

  Mary : Sorry, Please continue.

  Pastor Jeff : That's okay, Mary. It's Sheldon, right?

  Sheldon : Yes, sir.

  Pastor Jeff : Well, Sheldon, why don't you come on up here and tell me why I'm wrong.

  Mary : No!

  Sheldon : Okay.

  [heads on up] 

  Pastor Jeff : Let's give him a hand, everybody.

  Missy : [waking up]  What's happening?

  Meemaw : [to Mary]  Shelly's gonna eat him alive.

  Pastor Jeff : So, you were saying?

  Sheldon : You've confused possibilities with probabilities. According to your analogy, when I go home I might find a million dollars on my bed or I might not. In what universe is that 50-50?

  Pastor Jeff : So, what do you think the odds are that God exists?

  Sheldon : I think they're zero. I believe in science.

  Pastor Jeff : So you don't think science and God can go hand in hand?

  Sheldon : Science is facts, religion is faith. I prefer facts

  Pastor Jeff : Mm. I understand that. Here's a cool fact for ya. A lot of famous scientists believed in God. Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, even Charles Darwin.

  Sheldon : So Darwin's right about God and wrong about evolution?

  Pastor Jeff : Now you're gettin' it. Let's give it up for Sheldon, everybody! What a good sport.

  Sheldon : [v.o]  But I wasn't a good sport. At that moment, I vowed to come back the following Sunday and destroy Pastor Jeff.

• Sheldon : [Sheldon and Meemaw are playing poker]  I bet a nickel.

  Meemaw : Hang on there a minute, moon pie. I want to teach you somethin'. Look at your cards

  [holds up hand mirror] 

  Meemaw : and then look in the mirror.

  Sheldon : Hey, I'm smiling.

  Meemaw : Uh-huh, and what does that tell me about your cards?

  Sheldon : That I like them?

  Meemaw : Attaboy. Now... look at my face. Tell me what you see.

  Sheldon : That you're old.

  Meemaw : It's a good thing I love you. I'm gonna look at my cards again.

  [Frowns] 

  Sheldon : You're unhappy.

  Meemaw : Which means...

  Sheldon : You don't have good cards.

  Meemaw : So... I'm gonna see your nickel and raise you a quarter.

  Sheldon : Quarter?

  Meemaw : You can fold.

  Sheldon : No, I have good cards, you have bad cards. I'm in. Nines and fives.

  Meemaw : Mm, that's too bad. Three queens. You lose.

  Sheldon : What? But you weren't happy.

  Meemaw : I made you think I was unhappy.

  Sheldon : But that's lying. You lied to your moon pie.

  Meemaw : I bluffed my moon pie.

  Sheldon : Do people know about this?

  Meemaw : Sheldon, what's on a person's face is not always what's in their heart.

  Sheldon : Well, this changes everything. How do you know who to trust?

  Meemaw : You don't. That's what makes life interesting.

  Sheldon : [v.o]  Meemaw liked to teach me things that kept me awake at night.

• Pastor Jeff : I thought I'd talk this morning about how it all began. Now, everybody knows how on the first day of creation God said "Let there be light." And there was light. And when God saw that light, he knew that it was good.

  Meemaw : [Sees Sheldon raise his hand]  Oh, here we go.

  Pastor Jeff : Yes, Sheldon?

  Sheldon : You said he didn't create the sun until day four.

  Pastor Jeff : Yeah.

  Sheldon : So how could there be light the first three days?

  Pastor Jeff : God is light.

  Sheldon : So God's a photon?

  Pastor Jeff : God's what made photons possible.

  Sheldon : And what day did he do that?

  Pastor Jeff : I would think day one.

  George Sr. : [softly, to Mary]  If I grab my chest and keel over, maybe we can get out of here.

  Mary : [softly to George Sr]  That's a terrible thing to say.

  Pastor Jeff : ...because the first day had just begun.

  Sheldon : So, before the Big Bang?

  Pastor Jeff : There was no Big Bang. There was only the Word.

  Sheldon : Was the word "kaboom"?

  Mary : [softly to George Sr]  Okay, do it.

  [George Sr. feigns chest pains] 

  Mary : We gotta go.

• Meemaw : [Pulls bottle of rose from refrigerator]  What kind of Texan drinks pink wine?