Basic Training
Max skips a grade and starts middle school; Ramona trains to defeat the reigning champ of a high-stakes sandwich-eating contest.
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"I'm just really happy this episode didn't stink. It could have been horrible. Looks like the writers are learning something. Max is skipping a grade and is moving straight to middle school. After a bad first day of being himself, he changes his style to be more like the popular kids. It's a shocker to everyone. DJ thinks she has failed as a parent, but who cares? This was a funny bit. A sandwich eating contest for Uncle Monty's is pretty trivial that I could not take seriously. But the actual eating is funny. Ramona turns out to be the best eater of the family. Can she be..."
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During his heart-to-heart with D.J. and Kimmy, Max confesses that his new classmates called him "an extra on 'Young Sheldon'". The actor who plays Max, Elias Harger, has a younger brother, Isaac Harger, who played 8-year-old Leonard Hofstadter on an episode of "Young Sheldon" A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast (2019).
📖 Synopsis
Max skips a grade and starts middle school; Ramona trains to defeat the reigning champ of a high-stakes sandwich-eating contest.