Contains spoilers for “Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage” Season 2, Episode 1 — “A Tie Breaker and a Huge Mistake”
It’s a throwaway line that wouldn’t garner much attention otherwise, but thanks to comments from “Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage” co-creator Steve Holland, something Georgie (Montana Jordan) said during “A Tie Breaker and a Huge Mistake” might have a big impact on the show at large.
When asked by TVLine if Georgie (Montana Jordan) telling Reuben (Jessie Prez) that he has a plan in mind for expanding McAllister Auto & Tire across five years means that the show itself might run five years, Holland responded, “In a very casual way, yeah. It’s a fun nod. We’d love to still be around five or six years from now — or longer — telling this story. We know a few points we have to hit along the way, but we don’t have a strict timeline. Eventually Georgie becomes a success and Dr. Tire comes into existence, but we don’t know exactly when, which gives us plenty of leeway for stories in between.”
That sounds like a maybe, which definitely means that simple line might shape the whole future of the sitcom. But fans of “The Big Bang Theory” already know where Georgie is going — and how complicated his life is.
Someday in the future, Georgie Cooper (Jerry O’Connell) will become Dr. Tire, head of the most successful tire chain in all of Texas. He will have at least two ex-wives, which means his marriage to Mandy (Emily Osment) may be doomed. He will also be estranged from his brilliant younger brother Sheldon (Jim Parsons) due to his bitterness over having to support their sister Missy (Raegan Revord) and mom Mary (Zoe Perry) in the years after his dad’s death. Sheldon’s expensive academic career also forces Georgie to build Dr. Tire from scratch, which also might mean something happens to the business he bought from father-in-law Jim (Will Sasso).
The joy of watching “Georgie and Mandy” is that while the audience knows we’ll get there somehow, we don’t know how. Whether it takes five seasons or more, the future is up in the air. It helps the audience relate to how unsettled Georgie and Mandy themselves feel. How long will it take for things to break down between our titular hero and heroine? That’s for the future to reveal.