Young Sheldon’s Funeral Scene Highlights Another Disheartening Detail About George
Seems like he never managed to make it right with his family.
Though The Big Bang Theory ’s long-standing fans definitely saw it coming, George’s death in Young Sheldon ’s final season still hit everyone hard. Season 7 episode 13, titled Funeral, captures every member of George’s family gathering in a church to say the last goodbye to the Coopers’ patriarch.
The sequence features all the main characters and some guests, including one lady looking suspiciously resembling George, though it’s still not what the show’s fans might have thought. With everyone in the church mourning the deceased character, only one person seems to be missing, and this is what makes George’s storyline even more heartbreaking.
Several times during their run, both The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon made it clear that George had a sister named Ruth. Though she never made any physical appearance in either of the shows, Ruth’s name is brought up by Sheldon in the original show when he complains about her visiting his family’s house in earlier years.
Then almost the same is mentioned in Young Sheldon, when Sheldon’s mother Mary invites Veronica Duncan to stay with them until the latter settles all the issues with her family.
Ruth thus appears to be one of George’s closest relatives from his original family, yet she’s nowhere to be seen during his funeral. The fact that she couldn’t even make it to say goodbye to her brother raises a thought whether there was in fact some big issue between George and the rest of his family.
Such a suggestion may be reinforced by George’s own confessions to his wife Mary about how frustrated he’d been for a long time in his life and how much his new family with Mary and kids meant to him.
By diving deep into his married life and focusing only on doing his best to make his wife and children as happy as possible, George, whether intentionally or not, completely separated himself from his original family, causing some of its members to entirely forget his existence, even when it came to the realization of his tragic death.