Meanwhile, while pulling out the VCR for Sheldon, Howard and Bernadette find an old tape of Howard auditioning for the Magic Castle, and Bernie decides Howard should finish that audition and become a real magician so she can tell her kids that her father never gave up on his dreams. His father’s words inspire Sheldon to keep trying, and he and Amy realize that their theory may not be entirely wrong, and they get back to work, with Sheldon stopping briefly to thank his father for his words of wisdom. So you can spend the next half feeling sorry for yourselves, or you can get out there and give them hell.” You learn as much about who you are and what you’re made of from failing as you do from success.
And if we do lose, you need to know that doesn’t make you losers. In fact, we’re definitely not going to win this one. If I’m being honest with you, we’re probably not going to win this one. Then, the video cuts to the locker room where Sheldon’s father gives a speech to his players about not giving up even though they are losing, a speech I’ll write out here as I thought it was particularly well written for the show: Later that night, Sheldon awakens to find Amy watching the tape to see if there might be any more of young Sheldon’s speech after the football game, and Sheldon assures her he already knows everything he said (he does have that perfect memory after all), but he just wishes he could have heard it from himself. Sheldon agrees to the idea only because the idea came from Leonard’s mom (and not Leonard), and they have a Viking funeral in the bathtub, which of course goes awry when the flame catches the curtains on fire.
So Penny and Leonard reach out to Leonard’s psychologist mother, who is too busy to help until they mention it is for Sheldon, and she suggests that Sheldon is grieving, and having some kind of funeral might help. Sadly though, when Amy and Sheldon sit down to watch the tape, they only get through the first minute or so before it is cut off, as Sheldon’s father borrowed the tape to record one of the games he was coaching, leaving Sheldon even more down. Leonard remembers that Sheldon has a tape of his younger self giving himself a pep-talk that is only to be taken out in case of an emergency, which this is, and he finds the tape and asks Howard if they can borrow his old VCR. Jumping right in, Sheldon and Amy are still reeling over the disastrous debunking of their paper from last episode, with Sheldon taking it particularly hard. And after the Thanksgiving hiatus, it seems like ‘The Big Bang Theory’ has managed to deliver at least one solid episode before the Winter Break with this week’s ‘The VCR Illumination.’ With the help of some guest stars from ‘Young Sheldon,’ this week’s outing provided solid laughs, story-lines, and emotion, and will be held as one of the best of the season so far, in my opinion of course.
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