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Last year we (JonRocket) received an email and phone call from someone who works on the 'Young Sheldon" TV series. She was looking for a model rocket kit from the time period portrayed in the show. We had a couple of OOP kits in stock from that era.
That was on a Friday and she asked us to mail the kits so that they would arrive on Monday morning.
She thanked us and told us that if what we sent wasn't used as a prop, she would make sure they showed up as set dressing.
So, we packaged the kits along with a couple of rockets that we quickly assembled and sent them out by FedEx.
That Monday, "Young Sheldon" shut down production for several months due to the COVID precautions.
Skip ahead a few more months and a new episode of "Young Sheldon" airs. We watched it closely and didn't see a rocket. But, later I saw the commercial for that episode and it has a slightly longer clip of one scene from the show. At the end of the clip you get a very quick glimpse of Sheldon opening a present which appears to be a model rocket. But, it appears to be a kit in a box instead of one of the bagged kits we sent.
Since then we have been looking to spot one of "our" rockets in the background. We have spotted some rockets in Sheldon's workshop area, but not one of the ones we sent.
That Astrocam was introduced in 1993, what year is the episode set in?So, guess what showed up in the final episode of "Young Sheldon."
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I didn’t see where this was answered. Yeah old post.As an aside, there's the curious case of the Tripoli Rocketry Association credit in The Naked Gun.
-- Roger
On the show's opening theme in the early Mike years, while they're singing "they shot him into space", I looked and said "But a V2 couldn't have got him into orbit!" (Yes, I know, it's just a show...)On the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 series, they made some pretty good model rocket cracks here and there. For example, during the launch sequence in the Space Travelers (Apollo-esque movie with Gregory Peck) episode.
Thanks! A little Googling revealed that he also works with the XPrize and once worked for the American Rocket Company.I didn’t see where this was answered. Yeah old post.
The producer, Robert K. Weiss, was a Tripoli member. Funniest person I ever met. He did it because he could.
He was at an LDRS at Black Rock.
I used to have the phone number he actually answered.
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