Rockets, Communists, and the Dewey Decimal System - S1-E2
Other mistake: As Young Sheldon is a prequel series to Big Bang Theory, this episode is at odds with episode 2-13 of Big Bang Theory, "The Friendship Algorithm," in which Sheldon is unfamiliar with books like "How to Make Friends and Influence People," which he reads in this episode of Young Sheldon, produced nine years later but taking place twenty years earlier.
Rockets, Communists, and the Dewey Decimal System - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Tam mentions the Ku Klux Klan, Mary has nothing on her fork. When the shot changes, she's suddenly got some food on her fork. (00:15:40)
Answer: It's as simple as money is tight, it's not "George's money", it's the family's money so the expenditure was selfish.
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