Georgie and Mandy’s first wedding co-creator Steve Holland details why Meemaw and Dale didn’t join the rest of the Cooper family in the Thanksgiving special’s key emotional moment. The sitcom is a spin-off of The Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldonexploring Georgie’s (Montana Jordan) early life with his wife Mandy (Emily Osment) after Young Sheldon he concluded, as they started their own family. In Georgie and Mandy’s first weddingIn the first Thanksgiving special, aptly titled “Thanksgiving,” most of the Cooper family comes together to celebrate their first Thanksgiving without George Sr. (Lance Barber) after his passing.
The Netherlands opens up to TV line about why two family members weren’t present in the scene where “Thanksgiving” ends with Georgie, Missy (Raegon Revord) and Mary (Zoe Perry) sharing a personal seasonal moment near George Sr.’s grave after much discussion , Holland and the team chose the final three characters in the scene to capture the important players in the story.
We were talking about who should definitely be at the tomb, and it seemed like the nucleus of the family should be there. That [storyline] it was really about Mary and Georgie, more specifically, and Missy, and about the loss of George. Meemaw is certainly part of that, but it really felt like just having the main family there was the most important look.
Additionally, Holland felt that leaving Meemaw (Annie Potts) and Dale (Craig T. Nelson) at the McAllister home could provide much-needed humor to the plot.
And it also helped make up for the joke when you got back to the McAllister house. It seemed funny that this random group of people had just been left there – like, Dale and MeeMaw were kind of, you know, stuck at Thanksgiving dinner without their family.
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While Georgie and Mandy’s first weddingThe first pivotal emotional moment of Thanksgiving didn’t feature two of the most notable members of the Texas Cooper family, they weren’t the only family members absent from the scene. Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) didn’t return to Texas joining his family on their first Thanksgiving without their father, with Holland feeling that this represented a realistic depiction of the effect of loss on a family that aligned with the direction each character would find themselves in The Big Bang Theory.
In The Big Bang TheoryGeorgie is left with a strained relationship with her younger brother as he has always taken precedence and as he ultimately feels he has been left to keep the family together while his brother goes off to study. As such, Georgie and Mandy’s first weddingThe focus of this core group of characters emphasizes how family dynamics will change, for better and for worse, uniting the two eras of the sitcom’s shared universe.
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Meemaw’s absence may be in line with her own experience
While it’s no secret that Meemaw and George Sr. had a mixed relationship in Young Sheldonwith the pair often exchanging insults while she initially dismissed his relationship with Mary, she had an overall good impression of him and was proud to call him her son-in-law. As such, many may feel that Meemaw not joining her family may be a missed opportunity to show her softer side towards George.
However, it has been established that Meemaw herself is a widow, having lost Mary’s father and refusing to remarry even after finding herself in new relationships. As such, her being absent from the Thanksgiving moment at the Cooper family graveside in Georgie and Mandy’s first wedding it could also be characterized as her giving her daughter and grandchildren the time they needed to process this milestone, having experienced the same pain they felt before.
Source: TV line