🎒 Interesting fact: Young Sheldon (2017–2024) — Zoe Perry, who plays Sheldon’s mother Mary Cooper, is the real-life daughter of Laurie Metcalf, the actress who played the exact same character in The Big Bang Theory. To ensure the show’s scientific accuracy, the production team hired a real physics consultant, David Saltzberg, who wrote every single equation seen on Sheldon’s whiteboards. In a special Easter egg for fans, the phone number Sheldon gives out in one episode was actually a working l