Why George Cooper’s Young Sheldon’s Funeral episode had to be re-edited

Sometimes a TV show will begin to change throughout its run, transforming into something new when the writers and producers can decide what works best for the characters and story. Often the most obvious and common changes are the tone of the show, where initial ideas are toned down or sharpened and things become more complex. Just look at Great political satire “Veep”, Which starts out as a corny dark comedy but eventually becomes frustratingly true in its satire, with a largely black final season. The hit CBS comedy “Young Sheldon” had a slightly lighter twist, but it was no less dramatic. Indeed, it is quite different from its predecessor, “The Big Bang Theory,” in simple ways Using a single camera format without a studio audience“Young Sheldon” has further transformed over its seven seasons into a heartfelt family drama.

In the series’ later seasons, showrunners Stephen Molaro and Steve Holland combined drama and comedy in just the right amounts to deliver a show that has as many truly heartfelt moments as it does hilarious ones, though there was one episode where they really had to change things up. Things are a little. In the series’ penultimate episode, “Funeral,” the Cooper family patriarch, George Sr. (Lance Barber), is commemorated, and the jokes are nowhere to be found. This is intentional, but the result of some re-editing that the creators felt was necessary to make the episode really sing.

In an interview with processionHolland revealed that although the original plan for the episode had a record amount of interspersed jokes when they saw it during editing, they realized the humor was really misplaced:

“We wanted to be very respectful of George’s character and what his death meant to this family. I think we realized we could give ourselves permission to be more serious and have more weight in this moment, which felt very nice.” Real to us, we could treat it as realistically as we wanted, and we didn’t feel the need to make jokes because it was a comedy show.

The result was A A truly heartbreaking episode and the best episode of the series, according to IMDband the lack of jokes allowed the characters to truly show their emotional depth during one of the most difficult times in their lives. The loss of George Sr. will have major repercussions that will reverberate through not only “The Big Bang Theory” but also… Young Sheldon spin-off, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage, And it’s great that the show’s creators are taking this moment seriously.

When Young Sheldon begins, Sheldon and his siblings are very young, with Sheldon and his twin sister Missy (Regan Revord) starting the series at the age of nine, and their older brother Georgie (Montana Jordan) at 14. They were the same age, which is too young to handle some of the heavier themes in later seasons, but as they get older, the show can mature with them.

Holland said that they “knew at this point that the kids were going to knock this out of the park” and that they put some of their genuine feelings of sadness about the show’s end into their performances. They’re all great (Revord is devastating) and they are Make George’s loss the real idiot father. I feel like this is more realistic. It’s great stuff even if it’s not at all funny for what is usually a sitcom, although there is at least one joke: George’s actor, Lance Barber, has a secret role as one of the funeral attendees. Even in life’s darkest moments, there can be a little lightness.