It's feels like George Sr really existed and really died. The creators must be proud of themselves that they managed to create such a bond with the viewers
I always assumed he would die off screen, after the series and maybe referenced in the narration of the final episode. They pulled at every heart string that watches this show and did an amazing job. I watch with my 12 year old daughter and, after this episode, she gave me the biggest hug and "I love you" before bedtime.
Okay. I’m tearing up reading this. You’re bringing up a fine young lady.
Well...she's more like Missy right now. :)
Ha. I get it.
I'm a young adult and still hugged my father and told him I love him after this. Especially with both of us knowing how it feels to lose a mother and a wife. You're doing a good job with your daughter, you're on your way.
Exactly! I didn’t know I was so attached. I just watched it and I’m sobbing 😭
Exactly. I was at the point questioning if it was ever going to happen.
I genuinly cried when i saw his friends at the door before they even said anything, and i cried through out the entire second last episode and a little in the beginning of the last episode.
I didn't realize that this episode existed today as I seemed to somehow have skipped this one. I thought that the announcement of his death at the front door went directly to "27 days later." I have never cried this much. My wife Chris died after we were together for only two years. I contacted chicken pox and couldn't go to her funeral. I constantly think of the last things we said, or what I could have done differently to keep her from taking her own life.
I’m so very sorry for your loss
I am so sorry. There was nothing that you could've done to keep her from doing what she did. I am assuming that she was depressed. I was near to where she was. I was fortunate to survive. I feel bad for her (and you) but I understand her pain. Just know that she is okay now, regrets her choice, and still looks over you. Look for signs from her. People who commit suicide DO NOT go to Hell. God understands their pain.
We mismarried our baby and had the baby physically removed from her womb. I told the doctors that she was depressed, and every doctor said I didn't know what I was talking about. In the 80s Postpartum depression wasn't a real thing.
My first husband committed suicide when our son was 5. It was beyond description but you know how it felt. In time I learned to accept the fact people who do that are suffering pain we can’t understand and can’t fix ( despite lots of counseling and meds). They didn’t mean to hurt us. Take care.
I was once asked if I could would I want my wife brought back to life? I had to say no. Being brought back to suffer through the events and the emotional state that brought her to the point of taking her own life, would have been cruel and inhuman.
I rarely cry when watching tv shows, but there were a couple of instances where I did (or come close.) Young Sheldon was one of them! I was shocked when they delivered the news.
I rarely cry anyway and still sobbed during Sheldon's faux speech
Same here, I cired on both BBT finale and young sheldon finale ...
Out of all the characters, he was my favorite. Movies and TV shows don’t usually make me cry but this got me
Agreed, I loved George as a character
I didn’t expect to cry but damn I just cried and cried
I'm crying again just reading the sub!
he was honestly one of my fav tv dads 😭💙
A real-world dad!! Flawed and awesome. Flawsome!!
With a billion viewing options in 2024 its really a credit to the writers and actors of YS to create a narrative and character death that's impacted so many people.
Each character was so well developed. I really want to see Raegan, Annie, and Zoe in Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage.
How many views did it have?
It's been 12 hours since i watched he finale and i get sad everytime i think about george
I felt moved when George Jr. Step ups and his speech was so heartfelt.
I think because he was made out to look so bad in TBBT, but then the reality in YS was so different, endeared him more to the viewers
Plus, this was adult Sheldon writing his memoir. As we get older we, hopefully, see things differently. Sheldon was able to redeem his dad in his writings.
I agree. It drove home that everything in TBBT was told by grieving family. I feel really sad about Mary. Her grief coupled with her religious convictions turned her into a bitter woman who felt the only way to reunite her family was to make sure they were all baptized.
It makes perfect sense that when we see Sheldon in season 1 of Big Bang, he's barely able to function socially. He regressed hard from going catatonic with shock over the loss of his father. Leonard is the first friend he probably made in the 5-6 years since.
Omg I cried sooo much! Been a while since I've gotten so emotional watching a TV series. George was a great character.
It was so true to life. That's how it happens. The shock and the grief. Then the funeral. The mundane things that are different, like dinner without them and the dry cleaners. And everyone grieving differently. The writers should be very proud of their work.
Georgie wanting/not wanting to blurt out that the suit was for his dad's funeral. That was a fine and heartbreaking moment of subtle acting.
Yes. Very subtle but brilliantly acted in the moment 💕
My dad is still alive, but has had health problems over the years. We almost lost him at some point. I had a lot of resentment towards him, but I kind of see now that I led the negative cloud my judgement. For example, my dad had opportunities to expand career wise , but didn't because we as a family didn't want to move. Same as George. There were other similarities. This last season I noticed my family mirrored the Coopers with the Ups and Downs and the love that was there. I was reading somewhere that their family dynamic was unrealistic, but I found it relatable.
I am not not sure who said their family dynamic was unreal. Minus a smarty-pants, that family dynamic is a lot like mine.
There was a whole post on here a few weeks ago. I can't find it
now go hug your dad while you still have the opportunity
I give a kiss on the cheek everytime I see him. Same with my mom. I'll hug them before I leave tomorrow. I'm visiting
It was like re-living my family members’ funerals, right down to a couple of things I said. “Thank you for everything” made me totally break down.
Now… George seemed so real to us. Lance Barber played an overweight man destined to die of a heart attack. There’s a pic of Barber at the craft table. He’s drinking a beer. RIP is spelled out—in sausage.
That pic is funny… until it isn’t. I want to see Lance drop that weight and continue to entertain us! I do not want that pic to be prophetic.
So often I would look t my two kids and think, ‘Their grandfather would have loved these kids ‘. That hit me when we heard that Sheldon’s son plays hockey. ‘Oh, their grandfather George would have been so happy to go to his games.’
I feel like it was one of the saddest character deaths I’ve seen and I even knew it was coming from the beginning
I thought you'd be happy about men dying.
Not this one. Wouldn’t complain if you did though. Going through my comment history is stalkerish behavior. Get some help buddy.
We frequent the same threads, unfortunately. I gotta be consistent in calling you out on your bad behaviors, despite your reluctance to take accountability.
I have nothing to take accountability for. I’m sure we totally frequent the same threads considering you called the shows I watch trashy.
You don’t need to lie. You can admit to being a stalker. Another thing your demographic is so good at.
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And kudos to Lance Barber too for giving his best to this role. He totally personified this character.
Emotionally attached.
Fr i am to emotionally attached to this show
I loved George.
The funeral episode was very emotional
But the actor being Leonard's bully in big bang theory really bugged me and took away a little off the connection for me
For me it was always seeing him as Pondy from it’s always sunny. Half expecting him at any time to take out a little baggie of delicious nose clams.
That didn't bother me because it's a different universe
I can’t focus like that. It’s the actor that does it for me since it was what I first saw him in.
Happens to me sometimes. Especially Daniel dae Kim for some reason, he was in lost for 5 years and Hawaii five 0 for 10 but when I see him he is still just Gavin from the 6 episodes of angel he was in
But yet he named his son Leonard!
What does that have to do with it
That episode was solid writing!!
Well done honestly, made my eyes watery
The funeral episode was so hard to watch for me super emotional they did such a awesome job going to miss one of, if not the best show on TV
It was like we all were at the funeral service. It hit hard for everybody.
Okay, 4 o'clock
Stoooooop 😭😭😭😭
It hurt so bad.
I balled my eyes out
I watched the last two epis with all my kiddos, they insisted. Their father even joined. These writers had a whole family here sobbing that whole funeral episode. I'm nearly crying just thinking about it again.
I could re-watch this show over and over, but I'm not sure I could watch that episode just based off the fact I'd probably cry the whole time AGAIN.
My dad died in Jan, this episode killed me.
Mine died over 30 yrs ago when I was Sheldon's age, and I was sobbing like it happened all over again. Hugs to you.
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I think a part of it is because most of the audience didn't know Lance before young Sheldon so it was easier to suspended your disbelief and see him as the character
Yea, my wife and I cried.
I was thinking the same thing. It really snuck up on me over the years, the bond with the characters. It was a gut punch when George died. I was also amazed how they used it to show Sheldon the importance of sacrificing for the family, when Amy said "You've been led to water. Now sip." I hadn't realized how connected I was with them all!
I honestly cried a little during the first part of the funeral episode, and because I’m a nerd like Sheldon, but much less smarter I understood what he was thinking. I actually envisioned him using scenes from the Superman mov with Christopher Reeves, where Lois Lane died and he made the Earth spin backwards or the Star Trek movie where they went back in time to get the whale. I’m sure if this was a longer program or more episodes, they could have made it happen. Like I said, I’m a nerd!
I’ve heard some people complain about the last episode, not the funeral part but the part where older Sheldon was writing his memoir. I truly thought that the show wrapped up very well, granted NOW, I hope to see on the Georgie and Mandy show, at least the first season, how EVERYONE is doing, not just Georgie and Mandy, so I hope the remaining main cast has some air time
Cried like a freaking baby throughout the episodes. Well done
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Especially because we knew it was coming.
But none of us knew when
They did a great job to make it touching and yet they still remembered to add tiny touches like tissues up MeeMaw’s (Connie’s) sleeve.
Cried a lot last night watching the funeral, felt like the last episode was just ‘meh’ after that. They did an awesome job with George though. What a man
I think it's pretty sad in just a span of a month for the Cooper family that only Missy and Mary are in the same house together. I do hope if there is more story that it shows Missy getting some peace from her terrible experience.
After they came to the door and told the family George had died and I read the vanity card I was crying so much. My husband came in the room and said what’s wrong? I started telling him about what happened and for a minute, he thought the actor had died in real life! He couldn’t imagine me being so emotional over a character.
This episode hit hard, my mama died not long ago and I was relating to everything. This was so well done.
Lance Barber created the heart and soul of YT. George was my favorite character, thanks to his heartfelt performance. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.
So this is really how the show got spoiled for me
Yeah that was rough.
It's also sad that sheldon thinks his dad is a cheater till this day
I wondered about this. The show is from Sheldon’s perspective, so when we see that the ‘other woman” was just Mary dressed up in a German lady costume, I’m assuming that Sheldon later understood this, too.
I have to say that I was very glad that George never actually cheated on Mary.
He was just narrating those parts. He doesn't know about that.
Then who was the omniscient person showing the reality of the scene? This is Sheldon’s memoir
I agree. I cried SO MUCH. My husband had to calm me down.
For me George Sr was real and a lot like my dad. He was not perfect but was always there for his kids. I lost my dad 16 months ago. Seeing the commercial where George says “Good Bye” had me 😭 where I could not even bring myself to watch the episode.
I can only watch a few minutes at a time without crying 🥹
I was talking to my husband about this last night but this show is one of my few faves where I have no skips. No episodes I skip during rewatches, no seasons I skip either. All my other favourite shows have at the very least episodes I skip and at the most whole seasons
(I skip the pineapple episode + the Chinese episode in how I met your mother, I only watch season 1-7 of friends- sometimes 8 but never 9 + 10, I only watch seasons 1-3 of Gilmore girls) but with young Sheldon, I just started watching it a couple weeks ago and blasted the whole way through and am already rewatching.
I just love it. The people feel so real. Flawed in a human way, they grow without becoming caricatures of themselves, and their problems are the perfect balance of sitcom silly and real. I know people who have gone through these things. I've gone through some of them. It reminds me of 8 simple rules in how it just feels real. I haven't seen the death episode yet but I strongly feel like it will hit just as hard as the 8 simple rules ones did.
Never even watched the show and I got emotional because of the amount of TikTok clips I’ve seen
I didn’t watch the show, but I see tik toks all the time, George was the best character in the show
Sheldon replaying last time hurts my manners
I'm a little sad that we didn't see George died. It could have been an Emmy winning moment for Lance.
I wished they severed their connection to TBBT and kept him alive
The way Sheldon replayed his dad's death really got to me. I did the same thing about my dad when he passed.
We knew it happened because it was mentioned in BBT.
The shock is that they went through with it.
He was a fantastic character, and the actor really brought him to life.
started rewatching Young Sheldon, and am savoring every episode of when they were so young and adorable. all the characters are so well-written and how george responds to and deals with the kids - it’s the father i wish i’d had!! especially loved episode 2, where george has a heart attack and georgie “borrows” meemaw’s car - laugh out loud funny. little missy’s responses and sheldon’s looks on that little face are priceless! at times, he even sounds like jim parsons. great show!
Fuck you for spoiling shit like this. It’s not available in all countries yet asshole…
Then get off Reddit
Don’t come on here then?
The thing is, they didn’t need to kill him off. With the spin-off, it could have started with Georgie processing his father’s death. Young Sheldon could have had a happy ending.
It wouldn’t have been as great though. Plus his father’s death was impactful on Sheldon.
It’s really a testament to how great this show was. Most of us knew going in that he would die, but it didn’t soften the blow at all.