Young Sheldon EP Steve Molaro on George’s Fall From Grace in Finale: ‘Sometimes Life Gets Complicated’
Young Sheldon‘s Season 4 finale marked a turning point for the Big Bang Theory prequel, which has set the deck — or in this case, racked the pool table — for George Sr.’s downfall. [pmc_inline_gallery]
In “The Wild and Woolly World of Nonlinear Dynamics,” which aired Thursday, Missy’s first heartbreak triggered a series of events that led the Cooper family to the brink… and George to the recently separated Brenda Sparks.
During a heated argument with Mary, Sheldon’s father acknowledged that he was unhappy with how his life turned out. When Mary proclaimed that her husband’s entire existence has been about doing what he wanted to do, the man erupted.
“Oh really? Did I want to get stuck coaching high school football?” he asked. “Did I want to live across the street from your mother? Did I want to spend my evening getting yelled at by my daughter, and my son, and my wife?”
“I’m sorry,” Mary retorted, with a tinge of sarcasm in her voice. “I didn’t realize you were so unhappy.”
“Because you never bother to ask,” George responded. Mary had no response. Neither did Georgie, who stood between his parents as they fought.
Rather than continue their conversation, George grabbed his car keys and left. The next time we saw him, he was at a bar, where a newly single Brenda approached him and asked if he’d like some company. “Sure,” he answered, before the episode cut to black.
In the wake of Thursday’s unsettling cliffhanger, series co-creator Steve Molaro put out the following statement:
“Big Bang fans have heard Sheldon tell stories about his dad for years. We try to honor those stories but also like to find unexpected ways for them to play out. As we’ve learned in the first four seasons of Young Sheldon, these stories Adult Sheldon is telling us come from a new perspective — one he has gained after becoming a father himself. Sometimes life gets complicated, but we’re excited to explore these new chapters in the lives of the Coopers.”
George’s adultery was predestined. In a Season 10 episode of Big Bang, Sheldon confided in Penny that the reason he always knocked three times before entering a room was because he walked in on his father with another woman when he was 13 year old. (In Young Sheldon Season 4, the boy genius is 11.)
The George Sr. cliffhanger comes just one week after Young Sheldon confirmed that a childhood tragedy is on the not-so-far-off horizon. As the May 6 episode drew to a close, Adult Sheldon — voiced by Jim Parsons, who has narrated the Big Bang offshoot since Season 1 — acknowledged the untimely death of his father. (Watch the moment here.)
What did you think of Young Sheldon‘s Season 4 finale? Are you shocked/saddened that the Big Bang prequel will presumably go there with George Sr.? Grade the episode via the following poll, then hit the comments with your reactions.
I keep waiting for Young Sheldon to catch up with the stories from TBBT. The original made it seem like Sheldon’s parents were constantly fighting. I guess they’re finally setting it all up?
There are so many flaws in this otherwise delightful prequel. There is no logical sequel of events. Why is there sudden marital discord? Previous trivial episodes are not atypical of lots of marriages. Why are prepubescent twins still sharing a bedroom. Why is the nasty neighbor suddenly a vamp? Everything should have been gradual in several episodes.
We’ve seen the marital discord build up over the seasons, including George constantly being insulted by his mother-in-law. It’s a common trope in television shows, including “The Flintstones” but now there are consequences.
I doubt if Brenda the Neighbor was the Other Woman. Adult Sheldon said the OW was a barmaid. The twins are still sharing a room because Mary won’t admit that they are growing up and George doesn’t have the money to add to the house. Georgie will likely be moving out soon (hinted at with him staying the night in the van) and Sheldon will take his room.
1. There’s been a lot of martial discord.
2. If you have 3 bedrooms and 3 kids, where are they all supposed to go? Yeah, at this point it might be time to move the boys together, but Cheerio is probably right they’re just waiting for Georgie to move out.
3. Was she a vamp for saying hi, how you doing? No one has done anything, yet. The rest is just projection.
I don’t think he’s going to have an affair – I believe the theory that Sheldon walks in on his parents but with Mary wearing a blond wig or something to spice up the marriage after getting jealous or trying to fix/save it – she’ll prob see the neighbor flirting and realize she took George for granted
Mp, I LOVE your theory!
Omg they take each other for granted what is wrong with you people
It’s a tv show. It’s all made up. Don’t over think it. If you enjoy the show, watch it. Don’t go getting all worked up over inconsistencies.
Some folks just don’t have a Life of their own and live it through television viewing is my diagnosis…
Is paying attention to real life fascinating. Real life is so full of disappointment and there is no way to stop it.
I would agree–it is only a television show. I tune in (as I did to the late, great Frasier) for the laughs. I’m assuming the writers set up the characters in their situations as comedic devices. For example, there’s more opportunity for laughs in Mary-as-church-employee than Mary-as-only housewife. The writers, unfortunately, gradually “dramatized” the show, and with the more dramatic dialog and scenes, many of the comedic elements were lost. They should have left the drama and caustic remarks to Mary’s mother, Connie.
Continuity is needed. Otherwise stories wouldn’t be good and capture imaginations.
If you were told about Shakespearean plays then went to see a Shakespearean play and it was completely different from what you were told I think you would be a bit let down and then fall out of interest.
I’m with you Tom O
I felt the same way when this episode opened up with reviews from the previous episode. Too many forkin’ plot holes that need to be filled in.
They have a problem with Missy being a little more grown up than Sheldon. It is not even close and even they joked about in the show with the one inch taller crack one of them made to the other. She doesn’t want him in her bedroom and he is totally oblivious about it. 3 more years she will be a full fledged teen temptress and he will be building model plans still.
All your questions can be answered by actually watching the show and putting about 30 seconds of thought into it.
I guess I am just upset that it is Brenda. How she could do that to Mary is awful.
Because Mary herself is beyond awfull?
Mary would screw the pastor half a chance. Young Sheldon Mary and the big bang Mary to different.
Fun fact – mother on Big Bang is the real life mother of young Sheldon mother. Huge fan of both and the show
She’s on the Conners as well Marci
She is Jackie on the Conner’s.
Lol what are you even talking about. This is young sheldon not your weird wet dream about pastors.
Can’t even believe this version of Mary turning into a slut that sleeps around.
I can imagine it , but not believe it.
If they’re really going to stick to older Sheldon’s stories of his parents and family the show is really about to go to the extreme, like Jerry Springer extreme.
First off, they are not making Mary into a slut. Not sure where you’re getting that. And in one episode – i can’t remember the name – Mary & Penny are in the laundry room with Sheldon. Penny asked Mary if she could help with an outfit for a date. Mary said something to the effect of “honey,, at your age, you could have had me for a cheap bottle of strawberry wine.” And also, If I recall, Mary & George had to get married because she was pregnant. NOT THAT ANY OF THAT MAKES YOU A SLUT (before anyone jumps down my throat), but it shows she wasn’t always the church going woman she is now. She was “born again.”
A, there’s nothing wrong with being a slut. All men are sluts. Dick isn’t even wholesale, it’s free, you can’t give it away it’s so free.
Men only called women sluts because a man can’t get sex anytime he wants like a woman can. So he calls her slut for being just as viral as a man wants to be.
2, marry cooper had slept with 3 men in her very limited amount of time on TBBT. Sheldon boss, Leonard’s dad, and some guy Sheldon saw through the window on a surprise visit, that blew his mind apart.
Clearly you have some unresolved issues with women. George and mary are equally stupid at times. Mary needs to lay off when George is trying his best with his kids and george needs to stop blaming mary for his own life choices not leading to what he wanted.
That’s what I said as soon as she showed up in the final scene. You’d think Adult Sheldon’s voice overs during Brenda scenes over the last four season would have suggested that she wasn’t such a good friend to the family. Her being the other woman seems like an after-thought. Hoping for another twist. Maybe George does reject her, she rejects him, or nothing even happens, but it does put the idea that there are other women out there in George’s mind…
really dont think they are cheating. it seems like a conversation.
I know George is no prize himself, but it seems like he’d have to do better than Brenda to cross the line and cheat. I know, sympathetic ear and all that, but she’s really pretty awful in every way.
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Not that Mary is any prize herself, as M1N4 points out.
George and Brenda never had an affair and it is not official. George and Brenda talked and George and Mary are almost got divorced in the near future and lead to his death. George didn’t have an affair until Sheldon junior year in college and George Jr is out of the house.
Hopefully it’s a misleading scene and it isn’t her because I agree that’s terrible. It’s such a messed up thing to do to a neighbor but it’s especially bad as mary made a point of making friends with brenda after hershel left, and brenda inquired if mary was worried about her own marriage, which mary confirmed. Sleeping with someone who is married is one thing but taking advantage of a friends confidence to sleep with their husband is a whole different ball game.
I hope it is but I doubt it unfortunately. The way she looks at him, then goes to the pool table is a little suspicious. I think they will be about to but stop themselves.
Thus far George has pretty much been portrayed as a regular dad (guy) albeit he does not seen to understand Sheldon but putting that aside, he seems to have tried his best.
Thus, it will have to go more slowly if the audience is going to buy into a transformation from good guy dad trying his best to bad guys dad with whom Mary was purported to have fought (argued) with numerous times.
To bring on and affair a free a couple of squabbles will ring false.
It is disheartening if the affair ends up being with Brenda to whom Mary had been so kind and supportive when Brenda’s marriage dissolved.
Not too blame the ‘other woman’ but it will reduce Brenda to a level as to be loathed and reviled and unable to be redeemed.
Watch because it made me laugh. It’s Moving into a drama show. See the future as probable no longer interested in watching.
i never found any jokes funny. its barely a comedy. a great story though.
I agree about not wanting to watch. If I wanted drama I’d watch something else but I don’t like dramas so I will quit wstching!!
Buh-bye!
Well if it follows Sheldon’s stories from Big bang theory it’s about to go all Jerry Springer.
I’d rather the father fall for a waitress then The neighbor next door. George is probably going to want to fall for somebody who doesn’t have kids.
Can’t imagine Sheldon’s mom turning into a sloot. Going all free love 60’s style.
I don’t think that the other woman is Brenda. Adult Sheldon said she was a barmaid. However, Brenda might be the one to introduce them to each other.
There might be multiple woman though (in general, not that Sheldon saw)
I agree. So far the biggest flaws in george and Mary’s relationship seem like they could be overcome. George can be kind of an ass (re teachers conference ep and always blaming mary for his life choices) and mary can be overbearing (not even acknowledging his efforts with the kids for example), but these seem like issues a few good conversations and some effort could resolve. However if we have two years f time based on sheldon’s age for them to get there I could see it eventually happening.
Also really hoping it isn’t brenda.
As someone who wasn’t that big a fan of TBBT but big fan of Young Sheldon I’m saddened that this is the route they’re taking. I wish YS could be it’s own thing.
I would have been more likely to watch if it was. Sheldon ended up such a misanthropic jerk that I can’t bring myself to watch such an origin story. I think I would like it, but it’s ruined knowing how Sheldon turns out and later treats people, especially women.
It was an excellent episode. And I know they have to go somewhere in the direction of George’s infidelity. It’s predestined. But it’s 2 years off. I was really hoping it would have been a one time or short thing.
It is tricky. Affairs aren’t usually one off’s. But is it an affair or cheating? Because if it’s the former it could go on for 2 years. But that would be a REALLY different show.
I totally agree, JD. Sheldon became my least favorite character on TBBT and watching his arrogant selfishness indulged on YS made me stop watching.
Thank God know more adult Sheldon!! Amy and Sheldon were the worst actors on TBBT
Right? That’s why they lasted for, how many seasons?
Sheldon really grew a lot by TBBT final seasons and he became a supportive husband to Amy and a good friend to Penny and in general treating people (both men and women) better
That story line will de-emphasized as it has no legs or any interest. The focus will soon be on Missy and her teen year exploits. Raegan Revord by 2026 will be a household name and and bigger than all your recent teen temptresses in popularity.
Can people stop calling her a teen temptress in the comments? It makes you all sound like pedophiles.
The producers didn’t expect her to become the focus of the show which she will be next season. Her fans base is already more than the rest of the cast members combined.
Sad to see a good family show ruined.
I’m not Suprised he strays -Mary is all about church and the kids especially Sheldon and Thers been a couple times I could see cracks in thier marriage-like the episode she got the job at the church and they argued about it.
Didn’t they say this season that Sheldons 12? I thought They did.
If you don’t like it, go watch Leave It to Beaver. Life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. Anyone familiar with Sheldon knows that his dad cheats on his mom. They’re just staying true to the character’s story.
Good family show? In what way? They have never been a family I would want to emulate.
We all know the family fates in the Big Bang Theory. That George Cooper Sr did have an affair in Sheldon’s junior year in college. Even when Sheldon built nuclear reactor and got a call from homeland security to stop in his junior year in college. It is unknown who the other woman is and why George Sr and Mary had a marriage problems and why Sheldon left for Caltech at 14.
I am surprised so many people are surprised by this. The Cooper’s marriage is about as toxic as a marriage can get. Neither is in a profession they want, neither feels secure financially, their sex life is portrayed as dispassionate and infrequent. George is not especially connected to any of the children and his best connection of the bunch Missy is just about to really begin adolescence where she will push away. Meanwhile Mary is trying to get what she is missing from her marriage from her codependent relationship with Sheldon. I just don’t get why people believe it is a surprise that the marriage would fall apart.
As for adultery making George Sr the bad guy, I think that is a black and white oversimplification. Affairs often grow because a spouse no longer gets their needs met. Neither George nor Mary are communicating their needs or getting them met. If she also cheated with a single male friend while Sr was cheating with Brenda would that make it better? People seek connection, when a relationship that is born of necessity (unplanned pregnancy,) is strained by time and lack of passion of course things will fall apart. Divorce was the only reasonable outcome to this toxic disaster of a marriage.
You’re making sense. A lot of the audience just watches TV to escape and things like this upset them when they come up. It doesn’t bother me. It’s good, consistent writing. No retconning because “it’s just a sitcom do who cares.”
“as toxic as a marriage can get”….are you serious with that statement?? Do you have any idea how many thousands upon thousands of marriages are rife with frequent verbal/physical abuse, repeated infidelity, serious substance abuse issues, just to name a few? Talk about the exaggeration of the year…
This is also for SundaySwami, I should add an obvious qualifier, as toxic as a marriage can get without domestic violence, sexual misconduct, or some form of traumatic victimization. The simple truth is two very different people were forced together by social convention (pregnancy leads to shotgun wedding,) and the added pressures of raising children stretch their already thin bond beyond the point of what can be called a healthy or functional marriage. They don’t even enjoy each other’s company, much less appreciate or satisfy each other.
As for the adultery issue, the rate at which it happens is too high for my taste but is unsurprising. Humans are simple creatures, we strive to get our needs met. When we don’t we try to change our circumstances until they get met. Sometimes that means they seek out emotional bonds elsewhere that develop into affairs, other times they compartmentalize and rationalize by saying to themselves I happy but for X so I can seek X elsewhere and protect the marriage or more often the children. Human psychology and anthropology are much to complex to be reduced to monogamy good everyone else bad.
No actually its really easy to boil it down to lying and cheating on any form is wrong/bad. That fact you want to rationalize and say oh well other things happened that someone didn’t like so it’s ok is ridiculous. Being in a bad situation doesn’t give you the ok to do whatever you want because your not happy.
Also no one but you is saying “monogamy good everyone else bad” when you enter into a monogamous marriage and vow to be faithful then its monogamy good everyone else bad because you’ve said you were going to be monogamous and then you lied, if you dont want to be monogamous then you either dont get married or that’s a conversation you agree to with your spouse.
Where do you draw the line. Is it kissing? Is sexual contact? Sexual intercourse? What about emotional cheating? What about when you become more in love with the person who understands you and comforts you than the person who married you? I don’t condone cheating, but from an anthropological standpoint is makes sense. Humans are not built for long term monogamy. When life expectancy was short and necessity forced family’s to work together to survive it was sustainable. But most relationships wear down over time, and if they are not tended too they will rot. This marriage was one of obligation not love. He let himself go and she retreated into her faith. When a person comes along who makes him felt valued and understood and eventually loved, is it any wonder he would stray?
“As for adultery making George Sr the bad guy, I think that is a black and white oversimplification. Affairs often grow because a spouse no longer gets their needs met”
I disagree entirely. If you cheat in life whether on your marriage, relationship or anything else, you are in the wrong and that’s black and white. To use reasoning/excuses to why you did it is laughable, if you dont get your needs met there are plenty of options for you from communication to divorce and everything in between that keeps you in the right but cheating is not 1 of those options.
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Beautiful answer you are 100% right before you cheat you’re supposed to solve your problem or get a divorce you right nothing but a low down excuse for cheating
What you say makes a lot of sense. They never had a lot of time to fall in love, and be in love with each other. It’s just a situation where they had to be together and were instant parents, no time for just the two of them.
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Also one of the points is he has been living across from his MiL who constantly insults him, with little defense from his wife. If she really loved him she’d be telling her to back off and mind her own business.
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I don’t think you were condoning cheating like some here accuse you of. I think you just realize sometimes people grow apart. And relationship is work, constant work, and no one in this relationship seems to have been putting any effort into it for ages.
“as for adultery making George the bad guy…”
Barf! Some people think they can talk their way out of anything.
This is just a set up for a potential plot two years from now. The Sheldon trading barbs with various professors has run its course already. Most end up speechless when taking on Sheldon. They also set up Missy their most valuable cast member for a plethora of future plot lines. She is far more interesting than Sheldon and many tune in for her weekly. She is an old 11 already. Of course she is really 13 but the will need those 2 extra years for the remainder of the series run.
What was mildly cute as a small kid and “put up-able” as a quirky adult is going to get really annoying as a teenager. They’re going to have to be careful not to portray Sheldon as full on obnoxious. Adult occasionally had to step back to humanity a bit, but other than reverting to crying kid Young Sheldon really hasn’t.
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And you’re right, Missy is the hidden star of the show. What could have just been annoying sister has shown as much range and depth as any of them. If you couldn’t feel for her when she’s saying “you always take Sheldon’s side…” because, well, yeah, she’s right.
I think people are panicking for no reason. For one, the supposed affair is two years away. For two, they have said in the past that it is Sheldon’s view as a child that his father had an affair. He could see something and interpret it different than reality. Like kids who think they are responsible for their parents getting divorced. Sheldon in TBBT started out fairly naive. There is a huge possibility that he sees something upsetting and never talks to anyone about it. Or maybe George does have an affair. In two years.
I agree, and even though Sheldon has an identic memory he often misses social cues and what he walked in on might have been something that is not quite a full blown affair. And I hope it isn’t Brenda also. The Narrator Sheldon would have told the story differently if it was her.
I appreciated the Pool Ball analogy.
And the cliff hanger of George overshadowed Sheldon and Missy running away. Mary discovering they were gone should have been a part of the cliff hanger.
Everyone keeps saying the affair is two years away, but that’s not necessarily correct. He gets caught two years from now, but he could have been having an ongoing affair for years. So, people could be right to worry about it now.
i agree. isnt george supposed to die in 3 years though?
This raises a Question …
Has a Sitcom every run a prolonged story of a ‘regular’ character (and I’m assuming a recurring one) having an Affair ‘under the noses’ of the rest of the central characters…
– I think we’ve seen 2 regulars start a relationship w/o revealing it and of course the lecherous/ promiscuous friend, with a (often unseen) partner of the week who may or may not be cheating on their spouse, but I don’t know if any has depicted Infidelity long term…
I thought the same thing. Mary will totally freak out when she realizes that Sheldon and Missy are gone. I assume she does not notice until after George stormed out, so she can’t even immediately blame him for it. They didn’t have cell phones so she won’t even be able to get ahold of George to tell him.
I think it will be her and Georgie searching on foot or maybe by car, while Memaw talks to the police back at the house. Maybe when George gets home there are police cars outside. When he runs in asking what is going on, instead of blaming him and unleashing all of her pent up frustration on him, she will rush to him for comfort and the incident will actually pull them together – a wake up call for them to talk about their marriage, and the fact that Missy is becoming a young woman etc.
She probably won’t know. Used to get grounded so I could have some peace and sneak out and sneak back in they never knew
Pleeze don’t ruin this wholesome show with this horrible story. We need fun, happy & good on TV shows today. STOP…I BEG YOU!!!
I agree with your comment. After reading the spoiler I almost don’t want to see the episode. In these last year and half I want to escape all the turmoil of the the year we have had. I know they want continuity but Sheldon was a spoiled kid and a spoiled man. It had to be hard for George and to see his character go bad, well I don’t know if I want to follow this story line. As one other comment said, it was his perspective.
The rare VERY SPECIAL EPISODE that actually was a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE.
Correct me if am wrong here. But wasn’t sheldon the only one to used the word affair. And said on his parents room. Sheldon know for over reacting. Yes he said other guys. Try to buy his love. But he said he was 14 when he died couldn’t they still try when he visited. So the affair never broke them up. So could the whole affair be a kiss. And him not knowing why a guy with an wife kissing someone in secert was an affair. Pluses the dad might be the one that wants to explain so he may have told sheldon not to tell making him think it bigger than it really was.
That is just what I was thinking. A hug or a kiss could be easily misperceived by Sheldon. Mary Cooper once said on TBBT “You take notes, darling. The real way to get a man is with melted cheese and cream of mushroom soup. He’ll die at fifty, but his love will be true.”
“Suffered in silence” Does anybody remember when Sheldon ‘altered reality’ and told Leonard how he (Sheldon) suffered many of Penny’s social miscues? Sheldon is an unreliable narrator. He’s a mama’s boy and extremely close to his memaw. His relationship with his father was strained, at best. Is it really too hard to believe that he exaggerated the degree of his father’s adultery with another woman? Remember how he acted when he wanted a credit on a discovery? That he almost got Sturgis in trouble? For all we know his father got caught given another woman just a kiss. But that would be enough for Sheldon.
You’ve hit the nail on the head though with the trouble with Young Sheldon. He’s an unreliable narrator, but he shouldn’t be as we’ve long established that he has an eidetic memory.
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Billy is supposed to be Sheldon’s primary childhood bully, but he’s just the dumb kid next door we’re supposed to feel sorry for. For all his faults George is supposed to be a horrible father but we’ve seen that not the case, especially with Missy. Georgie and Sheldon don’t get along in TBBT but we’ve seen that he looks out for his younger siblings, especially Missy (I know that the real break between the 2 comes after George Sr’s death BTW).
More than that – Billy really likes and admires Sheldon. Aside from the chicken in the pilot, any bullying has been from Sheldon to Billy.
Sheldon could see a kiss that a woman gives George, Sheldon closes the door before George sees, George rejects the woman, Sheldon never tells anyone but thinks his dad had an affair. There are all kinds of ways they can do this. When I was 6 I saw my mom kissing a man. i’ve never talked to her about it and I’m 52.
I love TBBT and have watched all of the episodes multiple times, but honestly don’t recall the affair storyline at all. I recall the death of his father, but nothing more. They should have skipped this storyline and I don’t think anybody would have cared at all. It would have been better to skip it. It is a comedy, not a drama.
I’m not surprised he strays. Mary needs to lighten up on her holier then thou attitude
EXACTLY!!!! If Mary were true to her religion, wouldn’t she acquiesce for George to handle all decisions since he is the head of the household? He’s not even in the loop sometimes. By her being the sole devout Christian she is trying (from her POV) to save her family because she’s on the path. She loves her family, no doubt, BUT she’s also a stumbling block.
Yeah you so right, mary’s attitiude annoys me. She always has to be right about everything. She is always making george feel like a failure never letting him live his dreams like when he wanted to move and leave texas and take a better coaching job.
I was wishing that Sheldons memory somehow had been a misunderstanding, though his father passes away, he didn’t cheat.
Please dont ruin George. Reality in life is suspended all the time. I think Big Bang fans will be ok if this doesnt happen.
Not happy with that ending with Brenda. Please not be her. That’s just wrong!
Timeline doesn’t fit for George to have an affair yet. Sheldon is 11. It occurs when he is 13 and returns early from living at college. So this is probably just a tease. He will just talk with Brenda, but it introduces the potential for George to possibly stray in the near future.
It was a great episode last night for all the characters. I’m interested in Mee Maw’s other kids who no longer speak to her
Maybe they’re ending the show after next season.
Nope. I think it’s renewed for another 2 after this upcoming season. It was renewed through their season 7.
I think we are in the end game or for George Sr. I think he begins an affair with Brenda, stops when Sheldon catches him, spends most of season five trying to make up with Mary, and when he finally does he will pass away.
I guess you are right .
Everyone keeps saying the affair is still two years away. You are assuming the affair Sheldon witnesses is George’s only affair. What’s to say Brenda isn’t just the first affair in a series of affairs. Sheldon may only discover his father cheating two years from now.
I will probably not watch the next season. Although I was an avid fan of BB, I enjoyed how George has been portrayed in the previous season. I don’t feel the need to “feed into” Sheldon’s remembrance of his father and felt that George’s character really enhanced
I agree. Let YS do their own thing. Don’t mess it up to please BB ppl, which I was.
The show is a comedy, there was nothing funny about the show.
1st off who ever said Brenda and Mary were good friends? I think the episode was very good. We all knew something would happen at some point to tie the story line with TBBT. Maybe Sheldon isn’t fully correct on ages or what happened when or how. 2nd it’s a TV show not reality TV.
Omg living in Texas and for years in west Texas…this show is so very typical of the times! Husbands and wives often nit pick….even today…without physical abuse. Straight shooters, I find them relatable and love them both. Sure, she loves her Church as most Texans do, but GEORGE is typical as a football coach in a small town! Wishing for more…including a sexier wife….I think they love each other dearly and Sheldon is precious. I hope George’s death comes closer to end of series since I love this family and Memaw is spectacular…it’s light hearted and wonderful for ALL the family to watch since there are few cute shows on. Last nights episode, the teen anxiety and kindness of older son toward his momma says it all. The children in the show ALL need special awards they are such great actors. …just keep doing what you are doing…hate the season is already over!!
I feel this comedy, is something to make us smile and laugh, with the turn in the story line, we are now time to be sad and cry. Take those who been there, to a dark place.