Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage EP Confirms the One Young Sheldon Easter Egg You Might’ve Missed
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage has been hiding its largest Easter egg in plain sight: In the Young Sheldon spinoff, Georgie Cooper drives a Ford F-150 — the same Ford F-150 that belonged to his late father, George Sr.
“There’s some real weight to that if viewers caught it,” series co-creator Steve Holland expresses to TVLine, three weeks out from the truck’s initial appearance in Episode 2. “We didn’t really want to make it a big deal, but when Young Sheldon was ending and we were starting this show, the transportation department [at Warner Bros.] was asking us, ‘Do you want us to keep this truck or get rid of it?’ And we were, like, ‘No, we should definitely keep it.’ And it makes sense that Georgie would drive that truck. It’s his dad’s truck, and he has an emotional connection to it, so it just seemed like that was the right thing to do.”
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Of course, the car is far from the only Easter egg. While sets from Young Sheldon have had to be reconstructed, Georgie & Mandy in recent weeks has visited several familiar joints, including the Mexican restaurant where the titular couple shared their first date; the Bluebell Diner, where Mandy has worked off and on as a waitress since Young Sheldon Season 5; and Nate’s Roadhouse — aka George Sr.’s favorite watering hole. Meanwhile, Thursday’s highly anticipated Thanksgiving episode (CBS, 8/7c) features scenes set in Dale’s house and Mary’s church.
“There are pieces of [each set] that are original, but they did have to be redesigned to work for multi-cam,” Holland reveals. “Obviously, in Young Sheldon, it was a complete, four-wall set. We even had to redesign the McAllister living room because of where the [front] door was…. It hadn’t been that long since Big Bang — it had only been five years — but being, like, ‘Oh, that’s right, everything has to play in a proscenium now’ was interesting. We had to figure out these sets [from Young Sheldon] and make them feel like they’re the same sets.”
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