Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage had an ideal first vacation episode, however that is the one one we will count on for the remainder of 2024. It is a bummer as somebody who puzzled if we would see Sheldon Cooper seem after he wasn’t at Thanksgiving, however after listening to why it is not taking place, I am content material with ready on that and different potential cameos to occur someplace on the 2025 TV schedule.
EP Steve Holland spoke to TV Insider concerning the CBS sitcom and what the standing of the Christmas episode was. Holland confirmed Season 1 won’t characteristic Georgie and Mandy celebrating Christmas collectively, and the Thanksgiving episode was a part of the rationale why. As he put it:
We’ve achieved the Thanksgiving episode, which was nice and it felt like going into Christmas…typically it’s exhausting to do these episodes and never have the entire household are available in.
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage introduced many relations to its Turkey Day affair, together with Craig T. Nelson’s Dale. Whereas the Cooper household and different characters from Younger Sheldon will sometimes be within the collection now and again, they are not collection regulars. As such, it was possible simpler to skip Christmas within the present quite than pulling an identical batch of actors proper again into the combo.
Positive, the writing employees may’ve concocted a cause why the Cooper household wasn’t totally reunited for the vacations that might’ve made sense and allowed the McAllisters plus Georgie to have a good time alone. Steve Holland defined why they did not go that route, and the way tackling each holidays throughout Season 1 may’ve harm the Thanksgiving episode on reflection, saying:
In case you’re gonna do Christmas, and it’s Cece’s [first] Christmas, how do you not have Mary and Meemaw as part of it? And we had simply had them in for Thanksgiving and it felt prefer it could be treading related floor thematically. So we selected Thanksgiving as a result of it was type of the primary massive vacation with out George Sr.
If I had to decide on between watching the Coopers eat Thanksgiving dinner at George Sr.’s grave or him making a cameo as a ghost in a Christmas episode, I might go along with the previous. Not that the latter was even an choice, however given every thing that Holland stated, it feels like doing a Christmas episode proper on the again of doing a Thanksgiving episode would’ve felt very related, which is why they opted out of it..
I may think about there might be different alternatives for the present to have a good time Christmas, as CBS gave Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage a full-season order after its first two episodes. Given the success of The Massive Bang Idea and Younger Sheldon, I’d think about we’ll all be watching this third entry within the franchise, be it on CBS or with a Paramount+ subscription, for a very long time.
Whereas it might be going simple on the vacation episodes, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage has given us loads of causes to take a position on why issues between these two finally fell aside. I’ve talked about struggles between the couple and Georgie’s potential falling out along with his father-in-law as potential components to date, and I count on to see much more causes by the top of Season 1.
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage airs on CBS on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET. I am unable to wait to see some new episodes after this break following the Thanksgiving episode, and whereas there aren’t any Christmas antics on the best way, I am positive I am going to nonetheless be entertained by what’s to return.