For the uninitiated, FFmpeg operates via a rigorous, almost tyrannical syntax. A user cannot simply ask for a video; they must specify the input, the filters, the codecs, and the output. There is a distinct parallel here with Sheldon Cooper. In S04E14, Sheldon (Iain Armitage) attends his first philosophy class, expecting the hard certainties of science. Instead, he is confronted with the messy, unstructured variables of human existence.