![]() decides to take him out to a divebar, while Meemaw is on a date with Ira. After Sheldon wants John to visit him, against Mary's will, John comes over later to see Sheldon. After Meemaw hangs up, she is still upset the next day. This leaves Meemaw upset and threatens to call Ira to call him for a date, in which John naively encourages. After dinner, at Meemaw's house, John reveals that he feels like they shouldn't continue their romantic relationship and would be happy if they remained friends. In the episode " A Pineapple and the Bosom of Male Friendship", John is discharged from the mental institution and visits the family shortly after. It's revealed at the beginning of Season 3 that he was placed in a mental institution following his breakdown and as a result Sheldon is no longer his student. Later, when Mary Cooper went to console Sheldon at his Nobel listening party (which no one came to), she told him that John wouldn't be there because "he's not feeling well." She was able to talk him down and took him inside, as he lamented the fact that he hadn't, and likely never would, win the Nobel Prize, but expressed confidence that Sheldon would do so one day. After missing a dinner date and finding out that he missed several of his classes, she found him on the roof of his apartment building in the middle of a psychotic episode, attempting to "become one" with quarks and neutrinos. He tried to commandeer the university's mainframe computer (and ran when discovered), and Meemaw found him outside her house late at night, plucking goosegrass out of the lawn one blade at a time. In the second season finale, " A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast," the impending Nobel Prize ceremony appeared to have triggered an episode of psychosis. John's eccentricity may be masking a more serious mental health issue. ![]() Also similar to Sheldon, he has a poster of Richard Feynman in his room and attempts to emulate the famed physicist's lifestyle, such as only having one flavor of ice cream for dessert over the past thirty-five years (in order to have one less decision in his life). Sturgis shares many characteristics with his little counterpart: comfort with rules attention to safety penchant for dispensing knowledge and confusion regarding social interactions. Meemaw describes him as "a brilliant, bicycle-riding teddy bear" and, further, has elucidated he is "smart as hell, gentle, and funny (not always on purpose)." Meanwhile, George Cooper Sr. He knows how to cook Szechuan cuisine using his travel wok, due to his biking through China. He is eccentric, wears a tweed jacket with elbow patches, and rides a Schwinn Speedster since he doesn't drive. Sturgis becomes one of Sheldon's advisors, securing him a position at Heidelberg University's summer research program for work on superstrings. He is part of the Experimental Cosmology Center team at East Texas Tech. Their relationship ends when he decides to shield her from his breaks from reality, after another stay at a mental institution.įor a time, Sturgis takes a job at a supercollider, forcing him to move to Waxahachie, Texas, followed by a brief hiatus from science. ![]() ![]() Sturgis shows what he believes to be 'machismo' when vying for the love of Meemaw against another suitor, which he wins, leading to the creation of young Sheldon's first relationship contract. John enthusiastically seeks romantic aid via the ever-prying Sheldon, who steps over bounds interfering with their courtship. ![]() Sturgis is instantly smitten with Sheldon's Meemaw and they begin dating, much to Sheldon's approval. Sturgis is initially a pen pal of Sheldon Cooper, before the child prodigy audits his quantum chromodynamics course. S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 John Burgess Whitney Sturgis, Ph.D, was a guest professor of physics at East Texas Tech in 1989, known for his work on radiocarbon dating. ![]()
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