The Young Sheldon Finale Solves A Huge Big Bang Theory Plot Hole

One of the problems with spinoffs and prequels is that it's hard to get everything to match perfectly. "Young Sheldon" was heading right towards that cliff, but managed to fix a major plot hole in the nick of time.

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Voiceover By: Krystle Futrell

[Looper]

Which show did you like more, "Young Sheldon" or "The Big Bang Theory?"

[davewong]

In TBBT, Sheldon once mentioned how the liquor store owner cried and cried for his father's passing, insinuating his dad was a major alcoholic. It would make a lot of sense for the owner to be his dad's friend and therefore cried during the funeral.

[scottmueller]

The inconsistencies in the way Sheldon portrayed his father is like witnessing a car accident. Different angles reveal different faults of those involved.

[TheGreenPig]

I think the combination of him being a child, having no social skills, and the way his mother reacted (anger against George) along with genuine care for his mother (to the point of going against his own beliefs) may have skewed his perception of who his father actually was.

[BeauTylerMakesMusic]

No one ever considered that Sheldon’s judgment of a person’s character has always been incredibly flawed? He doesn’t understand people well. It was never complicated.

[nikki]

He also needs his wife to point things out to him too. As he talks about how his father always did things he didn’t enjoy because Sheldon enjoyed them I just wanted to reach into the tv & knock on his head “Hello? Anyone home? That’s what you need to do for your kids!”.

[riaa-c]

Sheldon processed the loss with anger. If people recall episode of the bird he temporarily fostered, when it flew away, Sheldon screamed across the street, pissed, "Come back here so I can love you!. That's a piece of context how he handles his father's death.

[PassiveAgressive]

2 theories:-
1. Sheldon was writing his memoir as a public figure and therefore becomes the unreliable narrator. It could be that he romanticised his Dad for the public. It also fits how Mary remembers him in TBBT.

2. Sheldon is the type to get mad at a beloved dying in his formative years which causes resentment and skews how he remembers his Dad

[gwpattrick]

Kinda figured they were going to do that to the afair George had. I'm glad they did. The rest is no big deal. Most kids have their parents wrong. Intill they're parents themselves.

[edwarlock]

George doing the vulcan salute brought instant tears to my eyes. It was so heart breaking yet touchingly beautiful.

[demoth]

his perception about his family throughout was always skewed even in the big bang show. everyone who met his sister and brother acknowledge it was nothing like how he described them. even how he describe leonard and howard make it sound like they are idiots. so it not jus this dad, it just his perception is narcissistic and toward the end of the show is when he really grew up and admit his own flaws.

[KeyMasterX]

This is very much the theory I went with on the inconsistencies between Young Sheldon and TBBT. Now when it came to Mary's viewpoints in TBBT, it could be safe to say that she went through a similar form compartmentalizing her memories of George just as Sheldon did in order for her to cope with his death. It would give another deep connection between Sheldon and his mother and it also makes sense when you imagine the level of grief that Mary was going through when George died and dove even further into Christianity. Of course as we know most of the stories about George in TBBT do have some level of truth to them, from a certain point of view.

[tyguy]

I was not a huge big bang theory fan, so I really had no desire to watch young sheldon when I heard it was being made. I am so glad I gave it a chance. It has so much more soul than I thought it would. George and Mary are certainly among the best TV parents ever written

[ponchopalito]

Sheldon really describe he's dad in not a good way until he matured when he meet Amy and got married that's when we knew he's not the young Sheldon anymore 👍💯

[anhu]

I feel like the answer here is very obvious. When they wrote TBBT, they didn't know that there would be a spin-off about Sheldon's family and childhood. The way that Sheldon's dad is described in the series adds to the laughs, there's nothing deeper to it. When they were making Young Sheldon, though, they couldn't very well spend seven seasons with an unlikeable or even abusive father. That would give the show a very different tone. So they wrote him in a way that would work for Young Sheldon. There's nothing as deep as Sheldon's way of processing grief or him being an unreliable narrator. They just needed a likeable dad for YS. It's fiction after all.

[robertkoernke]

The finale of Young Sheldon was actually one of the best sitcom finale's ever. Even better than many drama series. It was incredible seeing him 'groundhog-day' that scene with his Dad play-out over and over again complete with the Star Trek: II overtones. I shed a tear a couple of times.

[brandanpalmer]

Tbh it makes perfect sense. Sheldon has always been unable to understand or interact well with “normal” people. And, let’s me honest, is often kinda a stuck up jerk. I just think this goes to show that Hseldon, as he became his father’s age, realized that he was unfair and wrong about his father. I know I sure see my father differently now than I did as a teenager.

[avs]

There is something that resolves a lot between TBBT and YS.
How can a character have 7 years of development and end up in the place of immaturity where he starts in TBTT? Through trauma. In 2 episodes they were able to make a clear difference that brings Sheldon closer to TBBT and away from YS. Bravo.

[themayhemofmadness]

Adult Sheldon on TBBT did actually show a couple of times how much he really did care about his dad.

The first was when Howard’s mom dies, he makes the point of saying that when his dad died, he didn’t have anyone to help him through it, but Howard has all of them.

The second was when he shared a beer with Bernadette’s dad while watching football on TV.

These two incidents show that Sheldon loved his dad a lot more than he had previously let on.

[Radin-Productions]

George Cooper, without a doubt my favorite character from the show