Need to hear one thing wild? The man who sings “Mighty Little Man,” the theme track for “Younger Sheldon” — the primary main spin-off of “The Massive Bang Principle” that stars Iain Armitage as a younger model of Jim Parsons’ grown-up genius — additionally seems on the present, and he is the man from “Blue’s Clues.”
That is quite a lot of data I simply threw at you, so let’s again up. “Younger Sheldon,” which ran from 2017 to 2024 and was created by authentic “Massive Bang Principle” head honcho Chuck Lorre and one other veteran of the unique sitcom, Steve Molaro, opens every episode with a track referred to as “Mighty Little Man” with lyrics like, “I’m a mighty little man / No person else is stronger than I’m / Yesterday I moved a mountain / I wager I could possibly be your hero / I’m a mighty little man.” Because it seems, this track is an authentic creation by Steve Burns, an actor and musician who included it on his 2003 album “Songs for Dustmites.” Burns additionally performs a small position on “Younger Sheldon,” however you in all probability know him finest as a fictional model of himself from “Blue’s Clues.” Enable me to interrupt this all down.
Who’s Nathan on Younger Sheldon?
So who precisely does Steve Burns even play in “Younger Sheldon”? Throughout 4 episodes of the present, he performs a man named Nathan, who lives in the identical city as Sheldon and the Cooper household and in addition occurs to be actually into comedian books. He first reveals up within the season 3 episode “A Reside Rooster, a Fried Rooster and Holy Matrimony,” the place Meemaw (Annie Potts) finds him watching one thing with Sheldon within the Cooper family — particularly, “Star Trek,” which Sheldon has been making an attempt to seek out to no avail.
Nathan reveals up once in a while in “Younger Sheldon,” together with within the season 5 episode “A Pink Cadillac and a Wonderful Tribal Dance” (the place he finally ends up becoming a member of Sheldon for a comic book ebook conference), the season 6 episode “A Harder Nut and a Notice on File” (the place he and Sheldon commerce comedian books), and the season 7 installment “A New Residence and a Conventional Texas Torture,” the place Nathan strikes to Pasadena and Grownup Sheldon’s voice-over (executed by Jim Parsons) says he by no means encountered Nathan once more.
The place have you ever seen Nathan’s actor Steve Burns earlier than?
So far as Steve Burns goes, for the umpteenth time, he hosted the Nickelodeon collection “Blue’s Clues” from 1996 till 2002, at which level he handed over the reins to Donovan Patton (who, in contrast to Burns, did not use his actual first identify for his character, preferring to make use of the identify “Joe”). Burns’ time on “Blue’s Clues” was marked by his light and affected person internet hosting gig as Steve, Blue’s “proprietor” … and years after he left the present, he labored on “Younger Sheldon” and began a collection of movies that present a protected house for grown-up followers of “Blue’s Clues” who may be having a tough time on this tumultuous world.
In line with a 2024 interview with In the present day, Burns first checked in along with his now-adult followers on X (previously generally known as Twitter) in 2021, and ever since, he is been making TikTok movies that simply mainly function a psychological well being break for viewers (Burns normally asks how the viewer is doing and does not say quite a bit, simply offering just a little assist).
“The philosophy of ‘Blue’s Clues’ was at all times about respect, and at all times about speaking with the house viewer from a spot of understanding and with out condescension,” Burns informed the outlet. “Again within the day, that meant speaking about shapes and colours and graham crackers, however in the event you merely scale that up, now we’re speaking in regards to the pandemic and scholar loans and adulting. We’re speaking about how troublesome it’s to maneuver by way of this life as an grownup particular person, but additionally how fantastic it’s.” That is an extremely candy gesture from Burns, and in addition, now you understand he sang the theme track for “Younger Sheldon” in addition.
“Younger Sheldon” is obtainable to stream on each Max and Netflix.
