A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer

I disagree with a previous reviewer - I don't think they are making the mother character of Mary Cooper unlikable at all. She's just like many mothers across the world who think the sun shines out of the backside of their son and will do anything to give them what they want.

I thought this was another very good episode of the show, and it's a credit to all involved that even at this early stage it seems to be taking on a life of its own and not needing a reference to the show that spawned it every two minutes.

It's not overly laugh out loud funny, but each episode provides some nice gentle laughs and a sense of genuine heart.

Sheldon sees a computer in Radio Shack and asks Mary to buy it for him. However, his mother tells him that she cannot afford to buy it. Later, Meemaw offers to lend the money to the family to buy the computer and George says no. But Mary decides to use her savings to buy the computer and George questions her, starting a serious argument in the family.

"A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer" is not an episode of "Young Sheldon" to laugh all the time, since involves an argument between parents that is not good for the children. Their perception is that the parents are going to divorce and they blame Sheldon that involuntarily caused the situation. Mary is a limited woman that does not work and lives in the fictional suburb of Medford, Texas. Therefore, she has the problem of women that do not work and need to save money from the shopping to have some of her own. Sad but reality in many families. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer"

The humour of Georgie is this episode is so good it could not be left without a positive review.

I wasn't born in 1989 yet, but I do know ELIZA. It's a textbook artificial intelligence dialogue system that's built on RULES, which means it matches specific patterns in your input, and returns rigid, pre-defined answers with segments of your inputs in them so that it appears to be intelligent and interactive. Back propagation was just discovered. Deep learning was non-existent. LSTM would be born eight years later. Transformer and GPT were thirty years away.

And as a genius, it seems unlikely that Sheldon didn't know that. I don't really expect him to predict the future, but I do expect him to know how ELIZA works. I guess the writers just don't feel like bothering themselves.