When his mother Mary tries to discuss the family’s anxiety over the new baby, Sheldon puts on headphones and activates the M4B. The audio book becomes a —replacing unpredictable human intonation with the measured cadence of a professor. The episode’s sound design deliberately contrasts the warm, ambient noise of the Cooper house with the cold, compressed audio of the M4B.
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