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Pastor Jeff determined to usher in a youth pastor for the Sunday School youngsters on CBS's 'Young Sheldon.' You've most probably seen Youth Pastor Rob prior to.

Television — each primetime and streaming-based — is jam-packed with derivative after by-product. Among the gathering is The Big Bang Theory's prequel by-product, Young Sheldon. Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro's sitcom, which is blessedly void of fun monitor, follows the adventures of 9-year-old genius Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) as he attends high school with his older brother in 1989. Those aware of TBBT know Sheldon Cooper — exquisitely played via Jim Parsons — as the matter-of-fact theoretical physicist completely lacking other folks talents.

InYoung Sheldon's first season, inflexible Texas Baptist mom Mary Cooper (Zoe Perry) caught Sheldon and his buddies innocently enjoying Dungeons and Dragons. But because the iconic game involves magic, devils, and "monsters who don't wear pants," Mary was appalled. She right away sent Sheldon to Sunday School. Not these days, Satan.

Come Season 5, Pastor Jeff (Matt Hobby) brings in a youth pastor, hoping he'll higher connect with the kiddos. TV addicts and moviegoers alike have almost certainly seen the actor sooner than.

Who plays the youth pastor on 'Young Sheldon'?

Youth Pastor Rob is assigned to help with Sunday School, as Pastor Jeff struggles to inform the tales of the Bible in an interesting, kid-friendly approach. On the opposite, Youth Pastor Rob is an authorized cool dude, and he gets how youngsters's minds paintings. From losing Bibles on the ground, to calling Judas his favorite apostle, to hearing kids out for questioning the Bible, Youth Pastor Rob simply hits different. He's played by means of actor Dan Byrd.

Where have we seen Dan Byrd before?

Appearing in nostalgic cult-favorite motion pictures like 2004's A Cinderella Story and 2010's Easy A (the latter being much better than the previous), Dan Byrd is a rom-com veteran. In the aforementioned movies, Dan performed the sidekick pal along Hilary Duff after which Emma Stone, respectively.

The mid-2000s generation of Dan's acting profession also noticed him play 17-year-old Bobby Carter in Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes remake in 2006, which gained meh opinions. It was his 2d horror movie, proper after touchdown the lead in 2005's zombie movie Mortuary, which holds a dreadful Rotten Tomatoes target audience rating of 18 p.c.

Arguably, Dan's most famed function so far was as Travis Cobb in the ABC-turned-TBS sitcom Cougar Town, which began in 2009 and starred Courteney Cox. Travis is the quick-witted son of divorced oldsters Jules (Courtenay) and Bobby Cobb (Brian Van Holt). As sons often do, Travis hated it when males hit on his mom. What are we able to say, Monica Geller's good appears have stayed intact.

In early 2011, he talked to PopSugar concerning the film blunders forever stamped on his résumé. Fresh off of Easy A, he was asked if he'd pursue extra motion pictures. "Yeah, if something cool came up, then I definitely would. I've been in a few movies that I really wish I hadn't been in, so to avoid doing that again. It's hard because it's sort of an age where there's not a lot of stuff out there. Not a lot of material, and the material there is skewed toward raunchy comedy," mentioned Dan, who used to be 25 on the time.

We'll have to wait and notice what Youth Pastor Rob (who was once first introduced in Season 5, Episode 2) has in store. He's very much giving us "Hot Priest" in Fleabag. If you know, you understand.

Season 5 episodes of Young Sheldon air Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. EST on CBS.

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