Young Sheldon Is Trying Too Hard To Justify George’s Cheating Scandal
Warning! Spoiler ahead for Young Sheldon season 5, episode 5.
CBS' Young Sheldon is trying way too hard to justify George Cooper Sr. (Lance Barber) cheating on Mary in the TV show. Adult Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and his mom always poked fun at and criticized his father in The Big Bang Theory. George was always described as a no-good dad who was negligent and lazy. To make matters worse, Sheldon even revealed that he caught George having an affair behind his mom's back, which Young Sheldon has set up, leading to their divorce.
The revelation came while he explained to Penny (Kaley Cuoco) how he got his annoying habit of knocking three times. According to Sheldon, when he was 13 years old, he came home early from college. After hearing some noises, he barged into his parents' room and saw his dad cheating on Mary with another woman. He and George never properly discussed what went down, and just a year after, the Cooper patriarch died of a heart attack. Not much else has been revealed about this particular incident, or George's cheating. But ever since Young Sheldon premiered in 2017, people have wondered when the spinoff series would tackle this particularly dark storyline.
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The Young Sheldon season 4 finale laid the groundwork for this arc when George was propositioned by his newly-single neighbor, Brenda Sparks (Melissa Peterman), to come home with her. Before something could happen, however, he suffered an emergency health scare that saw him rushed to the hospital. Since then, the pair has maintained contact, and it's clear that there's some attraction between them, which could have led to George's cheating scandal on Young Sheldon.
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