Sheldon Cooper may be the most beloved pop culture figure but the physicist from The Big Bang Theory can get on everyone’s nerves with his antics. Sheldon is not just condescending, rude, and blunt but also suffers from a superiority complex as he thinks he’s better than all of his friends.
Despite his atrociousness, he is loved by all his friends and even the fans, and in almost every episode fans have felt sorry for him or have hated him, at times simultaneously. Shelton is known to toe the line between overly annoying and still lovable.
10 Hated Him: When He Was Ridiculously Jealous Of Raj
When Raj gets featured in the '30 Under 30' list for his planetary discovery, instead of celebrating his accomplishment, Sheldon questions the credentials of the jury who made the decision to honor Raj. Not only is Sheldon dismissive of Raj's breakthrough but he also doesn't make an effort to hide his derision.
To be fair, all of Raj’s friends including Leonard and Howard were also being incredibly ridiculous and petty about Raj’s success, Sheldon took things a step higher when he made fun of Raj’s career.
9 Felt Sorry: When His Friends Messed With His Experiment
The boys go to the North Pole as part of a special scientific project, to track down slow-moving magnetic monopoles at the North Pole. During their trip Leonard, Raj and Howard tamper with Sheldon’s experiment to make it look like a successful one because Sheldon was being utterly insufferable.
After they return home, Howard and Raj tell Sheldon that he cannot present his experiment because it is not authentic and they messed with the results. This was a big blow to Sheldon who couldn’t believe his friends would deceive him like this.
8 Hated Him: When He Was A Bad Boss To Raj
Though Sheldon stopped Raj from getting deported by giving him a job, he was quite atrocious to him as his boss. The fact that they were friends made no impact whatsoever in their professional relationship as Sheldon would constantly try to undermine Raj intellectually.
Sheldon was also not too comfortable with the idea of working together with him in a functional way because he wouldn’t let Raj get a table and wouldn’t let him work on his own theories and just wanted him to be his yes-man.
7 Felt Sorry: When He Suffered From Stage Fright
Sheldon had stage fright and as a result, had major anxiety before he could go up on stage to accept an academic award. His friends helped him get over some of his issues by guiding him through meditation, counseling him, and buying him some new clothes.
But anyone suffering from the same phobia would know that it’s quite deep-seated and can take years to heal. In the end, Sheldon drank some alcohol to take the edge off, and that made things substantially worse as he got totally drunk and made a fool of himself on stage.
6 Hated Him: When He Made Things Worse For Leonard And Stephanie
Granted Stephanie wasn’t the best choice of a partner for Leonard, but Sheldon truly did some terrible things to interfere with their relationship. Sheldon liked Stephanie and basically wanted to be in Leonard’s life but went about it the wrong way. He would crash their dates, manipulate situations to establish Leonard as the alpha, and would constantly ignore how uncomfortable it made them both.
To top it off, he even hacked into Leonard’s social media and announced to everyone that Leonard and Stephanie were in a relationship when they had only been going out for a few days.
5 Felt Sorry: When He Couldn’t Meet Stan Lee
Sheldon is perhaps the biggest comic book lover there can be, so naturally, he and his friends were beyond excited when they found out the king of comics, Stan Lee was coming to the comic book store.
But Sheldon finds out that the same day he has to accompany Penny to court for a traffic violation hearing. This upset Sheldon acutely because it is obviously his life long dream to meet Stan Lee. Moreover, he was only involved in a violation because he was trying to help Penny with a medical emergency.
4 Hated Him: Whenever He Ridiculed Howard
One of the running gags in the show is the fact that Howard doesn’t have a Ph.D. while all of his friends and even his girlfriend has one. Though this is not a big deal to anyone else, Sheldon makes it a point to mock Howard every time because he only has a master’s degree.
Sheldon is not just rude or funny, but actually comes up with crafty anecdotes to remind make Howard feel inadequate and it would seem like he has absolutely no admiration for who he is as a person.
3 Felt Sorry: When He Was Desperate To Meet Stephen Hawking
Sheldon considers Stephen Hawking to a god and a true originator and is perhaps the only living person who had Sheldon’s complete admiration. He has idolized Hawking since he was a kid so he has always wanted to work with him, or at least meet him.
When Howard tells his friends that he has been offered a job to work alongside Hawking, Sheldon is overjoyed since he thinks he can now get access to the famous scientist. But Howard takes advantage of this situation to make Sheldon perform some hilarious tasks just because Sheldon has always been so mean to him.
2 Hated Him: When He Got Raj And Leonard In Trouble
Sheldon often gets carried away when he’s devising a scheme and sometimes he takes his friends down with him. After he is humiliated by Kripke during his NPR interview, Sheldon makes up his mind to play a prank on Kripke. He basically rigs his office with a bucket of a concoction made of hydrogen peroxide, saturated potassium iodide, and dish soap which produces a foamy release if combined together.
He also sets up cameras to catch Kripke embarrass himself, but Kripke sadly walks in with the President of the university and the board of directors. And when they are all showered with foam, a voiceover plays in the background where Sheldon reveals that the prank was his idea and also names Raj and Leonard as his fellow perpetrators.
1 Felt Sorry: When No One Wanted To Run Errands With Him
Sheldon is totally dependent on Leonard and is basically his surrogate dad. When Leonard and Sheldon have a fallout, the latter has to ask his other friends to drive him around town to take him to buy essentials, to take him to the dentist, and to go to Ikea with him.
During dinner, he asks each of his friends who’d be interested in taking over Leonard’s duties, and no one offered because all his friends find Sheldon terrifyingly condescending. What’s worse is that even Sheldon’s girlfriend Amy didn’t offer to help him out.
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