other pandora's box. may i ask you a question before i give it to you? [ laughter ] >> of course. >> why are we saying give it to you like that? >> at the beginning, sheldon is an outcast and intellectual, a geek. by the end, he's found his soulmate. he has friends, he's won a nobel prize. >> i have been encouraged, sustained, inspired, and tolerated not only by my wife but by the greatest group of friends anyone ever had. >> this show stayed on forever. it's huge. and they're nerds. >> we started to see articles written about how young people were going into s.t.e.m. fields in school because "the big bang theory" made it look cool. >> i need to get to here. >> what's there? >> the earliest estimate of the