Young Sheldon's Lance Barber to Reprise George Sr. on Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage — But How?
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is conjuring its first spirit.
Lance Barber, who for seven seasons starred as Cooper family patriarch George Sr. on CBS' Young Sheldon, will reprise his role in an upcoming episode of the hit spinoff.
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His return was confirmed by series co-creators Chuck Lorre, Steve Holland and Steven Molaro during a panel on set of the CBS sitcom Thursday. An airdate has not yet been announced.
Barber's beloved character was famously killed off in Young Sheldon's third-to-last episode. As foretold on The Big Bang Theory, George Sr. suffered a fatal heart attack, and his funeral factored heavily into the prequel's May 2024 series finale. So how, exactly, will George Sr. appear on Georgie & Mandy?
'His dad visits him in a dream,' Holland explained. 'George is thinking about his dad, and he's worried that his dad might be disappointed in him…. [The idea] came out of a conversation we'd had with Chuck, even early on, talking about the show. Chuck had said about his own father that he still dreams about him, he still visits him, so that was a thing we had thought about. And then when we were breaking this episode, it just seemed like a great opportunity to bring George back.'
Holland previously told TVLine that Georgie & Mandy would never erase the events of Young Sheldon, or bring George Sr. back from the dead. 'If we found the right sort of emotional reason for Georgie, and it didn't just feel like a stunt — like, here's George Sr. crawling his way out of the grave — and we treated it respectfully, it would be great to have Lance back on,' he said in November.
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