George Sr. Owes Everything to Young Sheldon’s Key Character (Not Sheldon, Of Course)
She’s the legend, she’s the icon, and she’s everyone’s favorite for one more reason.
Young Sheldon ’s final season may have shattered fans’ hearts once and for all with the death of a character that deserved such a fate less than anyone else, but at least the show finally gave a long-standing feud a closure that everyone had been waiting for years.
Ever since The Big Bang Theory ’s prequel introduced Sheldon’s family in season 1 episode 1, it’s been pretty clear that there was some bad blood between George Sr. and Mary’s mother Meemaw.
The characters have been constantly nagging at each other, every so often unveiling past grudges they still held against each other, yet Young Sheldon’s most disheartening episode ever was finally able to reconcile them, even though it was too late for it anyway.
Young Sheldon’s season 7 episode 12 titled A New Home and a Traditional Texas Torture came as a point of no return for both viewers and the Coopers since it revealed that George Sr. had suffered a fatal heart attack.
The next episode sees the entire family gathering in a local church to say goodbye to their patriarch, and Annie Potts’ character is the one to eventually deliver an emotional speech honoring her son-in-law despite all the issues they had in the past.
George Sr.’s funeral came as a major condemnation of everything that was said about him by adult Sheldon in the original show, yet all of it was disproved by Sheldon himself and then by Meemaw.
The latter’s revelations about how she really felt about George cemented the fact that Sheldon’s father was a loving parent and a caring husband, which is a total contradiction to the way he was described in The Big Bang Theory.
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Meemaw’s final homage to George once again proves that, despite all the merits that her son-in-law had, she was still the entire show’s best character.
Masterfully juggling her iconic humor and a bit unhinged behavior with the wisdom of a loving grandma, Meemaw got to be even better when she finally let all her grudges against George go (even though she had reasons to have them anyway) and recognised that he was the best husband for Mary no matter what Meemaw herself once thought of him.