Need to hear one thing wild? The man who sings “Mighty Little Man,” the theme music 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 lots of info 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 music 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 guess I might be your hero / I’m a mighty little man.” Because it seems, this music 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 function on “Younger Sheldon,” however you most likely know him greatest 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 exhibits up within the season 3 episode “A Reside Hen, a Fried Hen 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 exhibits up every so often 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 Observe on File” (the place he and Sheldon commerce comedian books), and the season 7 installment “A New House and a Conventional Texas Torture,” the place Nathan strikes to Pasadena and Grownup Sheldon’s voice-over (performed 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 sequence “Blue’s Clues” from 1996 till 2002, at which level he handed over the reins to Donovan Patton (who, not like 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 sequence of movies that present a secure area for grown-up followers of “Blue’s Clues” who could be having a tough time on this tumultuous world.
Based on a 2024 interview with At the moment, Burns first checked in along with his now-adult followers on X (previously often known as Twitter) in 2021, and ever since, he is been making TikTok movies that simply principally function a psychological well being break for viewers (Burns normally asks how the viewer is doing and does not say rather a lot, simply offering just a little help).
“The philosophy of ‘Blue’s Clues’ was all the time about respect, and all the time about speaking with the house viewer from a spot of understanding and with out condescension,” Burns instructed the outlet. “Again within the day, that meant speaking about shapes and colours and graham crackers, however for those who merely scale that up, now we’re speaking concerning the pandemic and scholar loans and adulting. We’re speaking about how tough it’s to maneuver by this life as an grownup particular person, but additionally how great it’s.” That is an extremely candy gesture from Burns, and in addition, now you already know he sang the theme music for “Younger Sheldon” besides.
“Younger Sheldon” is obtainable to stream on each Max and Netflix.