Warning: SPOILERS for Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 1, episode 22, "Big Decisions."

After the George Sr.’s death in Young Sheldon that it seems pretty far removed from anything the characters might go on to do as adults. But one detail complicates that notion.

In the season 1 finale, most of the Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage cast find themselves divided by whether Jim should sell the tire store. Fans of The Big Bang Theory might immediately see where this is going, since it’s known from the flagship series that Georgie buys his own store and turns it into a major franchise. And while the Georgie & Mandy season 1 finale does set Georgie on that path, there are a couple of details that don’t make sense considering what The Big Bang Theory already established about Georgie’s future.

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In what turns out to be a great deal for Jim and Audrey in Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage but a bum deal for the title characters, Jim spends most of the season 1 finale fighting himself over whether to sell his store to competitor Fred Fagenbacher. It seems obvious that Georgie will try to save the day by buying the store himself, but that recalls one of the primary reasons he gives for resenting his little brother when he’s first introduced in The Big Bang Theory.

Georgie resents Sheldon over numerous things, such as the fact that he always looked out for Sheldon in high school without receiving any gratitude. But one of his big sources of contention comes from the fact that the Cooper family spent so much sending Sheldon to Europe that Georgie was forced to save up for the tire store on his own. He only has two days in the finale to acquire the money, so it’s naturally fascinating to see how he’ll earn enough cheddar to buy a store in that time. Sadly, the Georgie & Mandy finale takes another route.

Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Season 1 Finale Contradicts Georgie’s TBBT Story

Mary Cooper Hardly Mentions Sheldon When Helping To Buy The Store

While casual viewers may consider the age difference between Georgie and Mandy to be one of the more problematic aspects of the show, long-time franchise buffs sometimes take far more issue with the sheer number of plot points from The Big Bang Theory that the spinoffs seem to forget. Georgie buying Dr. Tire out of pocket has actually been a plot hole since Young Sheldon sent the younger Cooper brother to , largely because it’s established that the family didn’t pay for his studies as claimed in Big Bang.

In Young Sheldon, the future physicist’s German studies are primarily financed by Grant Linkletter and Mary’s church. Mary does confess in the Georgie & Mandy season 1 finale that she often overlooks Georgie in favor of Sheldon, but she makes it up to Georgie by offering her house as collateral so Georgie and Ruben can buy Jim’s tire store together. Not only did Georgie not have to buy the store on his own, but he had the help of both family and a casual rival. In that light, the reasoning behind his animosity toward Sheldon makes little sense.

How Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Can Still Explain TBBT Plot Hole

There’s No Confirmation That Jim’s Store Becomes Dr. Tire

Since Pastor Jeff’s role in The Big Bang Theory is non-existent, it follows that the idea of Sheldon financing his German studies through the church wouldn’t have been in the pipeline when Georgie’s first appearance was written. However, the Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage season 1 finale could have adjusted the tire store plot to resolve the pre-existing plot hole. And, while it’s extraordinarily subtle, there’s actually a chance that they did just that.

When talking about the future, Georgie and Ruben discuss changing the store’s sign if they do enough business. But since The Big Bang Theory never mentions Georgie having a partner, it’s possible that Jim’s shop isn’t actually the storefront that becomes the first Dr. Tire at all. Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage could still have a long way to go before the elder Cooper sibling takes his first real steps toward living his dream as a franchise mogul with a tire-shaped pool. Jim’s store could just be the first step of many on the road to Georgie’s exceptionally bright future.

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