“It’s not a crime,” Sheldon said. “It’s preservation . When the streaming services renegotiate licensing, this episode could vanish. Then where would future scholars turn for insights into my childhood?”

Connie snorted. “Probably to your actual childhood, which is happening right now , two feet from my sweet tea.”

“Mary,” he said gravely, “the Lord told me someone in this zip code was pirating intellectual property. I felt a disturbance in the Holy Spirit. Also, your neighbor Brenda called because Sheldon’s laptop was visible through the window, and the screen showed something called ‘torrentleech.’”

Sheldon turned, deadpan. “Normalcy is a statistical construct, Meemaw. Also, the broadcast version compresses the chroma subsampling to 4:2:0. The BluRay offers 4:4:4. The difference is visible .”