Young Sheldon: Emily Osment Upped to Series Regular for Season 6
Mandy McAllister is poised to remain in the Cooper family’s orbit — whether she likes it or not.
Emily Osment, who was introduced in Young Sheldon Season 5 as Georgie’s love interest (and eventual baby mama), has been elevated to series regular for Season 6, TVLine has learned.
Osment’s Mandy first appeared in the Jan. 13 episode, “A Lock-In, a Weather Girl and a Disgusting Habit,” wherein Sheldon’s 17-year-old brother struck up a relationship with the 29-year-old former weather girl. He lied about his age but came clean in the March 31 episode, “A Solo Peanut, a Social Butterfly and the Truth.” Shortly thereafter, Mandy revealed that she was pregnant.
In the April 21 episode, “A God-Fearin’ Baptist and a Hot Trophy Husband,” George and Mary invited the mother of their future grandbaby over for dinner, during which the deeply religious Mary argued that Georgie and Mandy should get married. (Per Big Bang Theory lore, Georgie first weds at 19 and has two ex wives by the time Sheldon and Amy win their Nobel Prize for Super Asymmetry.)
Osment previously starred on the long-running Freeform sitcom Young & Hungry and, more recently, the Netflix comedy Pretty Smart (which is not returning for Season 2). She’s also no stranger to the Chuck Lorre Extended Universe: In addition to her memorable turn as Jodi during Season 3 of CBS‘ Mom, Osment guest-starred in Season 10 of Two and a Half Men (as Ashley, daughter of Jaime Pressly’s Tammy) and recurred throughout all three seasons of Netflix’s The Kominsky Method (as Sandy’s pupil Theresa).
Young Sheldon, which wraps Season 5 on Thursday, May 19 (get finale details), was previously renewed through Season 7.
Guess this means Pretty Smart is done? Shame, I really enjoyed the show (not perfect, but fun), and I always got Rebecca Bunch vibes from her performance (in a delightful, non-musical, from the writers of Crazy Ex kinda way). Happy for her to have steady work, but also wish this show had more time.
My feelings exactly. It’s not impossible for her to do both but things aren’t looking good for Pretty Smart.
It has been cancelled: https://tvline.com/2022/04/27/pretty-smart-cancelled-season-2-netflix/
Billy Sparks was supposed to have a bigger role in season 5. We see were that prediction went.
Based on Georgie’s age (he’s turning 18 in a month according to last week’s episode,) they likely won’t be getting married right away.
Isaac Asnimov died April 6, 1992.
Geogie’s says his birthday is in March.
13th TBBT Wiki
11 month away!
Mary repeats the claim in the next last week’s episode.
Why are so many people so enamored with trying to make all the facts/dates/etc., fit perfectly into the stories told on TV? This is a television show, not a murder trial where jury members must prove facts before sending a person to life in poison or the death penalty.
Lighten up and just enjoy the show and go with the minor details they present. There are much bigger things on this earth to obsess over.
When I was younger, I was always bothered by these sorts of inconsistencies and how the “facts” of the show the presented didn’t always line up.
Maybe it’s a result of getting older, but I don’t mind anymore. We can have 11 years of MASH when the Korean war was only 3 years because things on TV don’t necessarily happen in real time.
The Goldbergs handles it by giving the date as “1980-something” and every season-ending narration noting something like “sometimes I get the dates wrong.”
MASH also existed in a time where shows did not think their shows would run on television in reruns for decades or eventually DVD, streaming. MASH is ripe with continuity errors if you know the show in and out, and its characters. Even if you ignore it was a 11 year old show, about a three year war. Character names changes, family histories and such. Today, you would think a show would be more into making sure the timeline fits for the storyline it is showing. They have dated Young Sheldon to be currently in April 1992. So, either Mandy found out very early or the show was not thinking straight when they had both Georgie and Mary cite Georgie’s current age, and when his birthday is.
M*A*S*H had 251 episodes, the Korean Police Action took place over 3 years. That’s 1095 days, ball park, so since each ep took place over a few days, there’s no inconsistency.
Seems you need to lighten up as he was just pointing out the inconsistencies, not obsessing over it.
Am i confused or when we first met Mandy, didnt she say was the new “Weather Person” at a local station? In the last episode, she was a waitress.
I agree with you! In TBBT, George Sr died when Sheldon was 13,14, ? I ,myself am NOT looking forward to that.. So let the times be off,
Agreed!!!
Lol I couldn’t agree more …sometimes I think of these timelines but I don’t obsess over them… it’s a TV show ….it’s comedy entertainment, it’s not Supposed to be that dire & serious!
I took it as an “inside joke.”
Also TV shows exist in “reelity” (a pun on movie reels) rather than reality.
Young Sheldon doesn’t have to follow TBBT story line, it could exist in an alternate universe.
Some episodes just don’t fit the timeline., for example the Noble Prize episode fits in real history in early October 1990 but is months later in the storyline.
I wonder if she is the first wife that Sheldon referred on BBT. But they do not get married right away, wait until he’s 19, but I like her, and I am curious where this story will go. She definitely is opinionated, and would be right at home in the Cooper family.
She’s very funny on Sheldon. I love when she and MeMaw talk.
I’ll be your trophy husband.
I laughed.
I like her. And I like that the pregnancy won’t end tragically and that the baby will be part of the future. Mary as a grandmother will be interesting to see. :)
Something still could go wrong so I hope nothing tragic happens. It’s bad enough to know George’s fate.
People care when the dad died to much. He doesn’t have to die. It doesn’t impact either show. So what if the writing for big bang didn’t say okay but what if they make a spin off that does 6 months a season so he does in season 8. But the show makes it past season 8? You can’t worry about what an writer said in October 27 2011 episode not lining up to an 2023 or 2024 prequel.
His death has already been mentioned by narrator Sheldon and YS producers have talked about how/when they’ll show it so it’s going to happen eventually. The exact moment is just TBD. Also, to say George Sr.’s death has no impact on the show or characters is false as a lot of how adult Sheldon in TBBT acted is likely influenced by his demise and adult Georgie said his death affected the entire family more than Sheldon ever knew.
Okay , fine we can go back and forth all day. On if an make believe show details can change or not. But both mean nothing. It the writers choice if he dies or not and if he a great fit for the show and they want to keep him they will. If not they won’t and they will always have it as an option.
I hope she gives Mary a hard time about the religion that Mary insists the baby will be.
Not everybody believes her nonsense. Hell, her own kid gives her a hard time about it.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I wish she had told Mary to bug off at the dinner table and that no religious beliefs would be inflicted on her baby.
She’s been good, hopefully they actually give her material though, as mentioned Billy (and also Pastor Jeff) are regulars but don’t get much to do.
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Shame as well that we probably won’t see Isabel May again, with Georgie having left school and her career taking off elsewhere
Given that Isabel May landed a lead role in The Wonder Twins she most likely will not have the time.
This is the moment when Young Sheldon leaped over the shark.
Good to add her. It’s life. And as they grow up we watch. Hope it doesn’t mess up the chemistry of the show though.
I’ve been watching the show since day one mainly because I was a Big Bang fan and the cast and promos looked fun but I really have enjoyed the show through the seasons and I like the direction this is taking with George. To have the son repeat the ‘sins’ of the father 😬 Plus it’s good to liven the storylines up as each character grows & changes. Emily is already proving to be a great addition to the show! And adding her family into the mix could be fun too! I think the show needed this change and it could add a few more seasons onto its lifespan! They might have to change the title to Teen Sheldon next.
The writers don’t have to go to extremes trying to hold true to TBBT Sheldon cuts people of once they do something wrong to him why can’t it be that when he saw his Dad with another woman he became dead in Sheldon’s mind his actions killed him in Sheldon’s mind. I can fix some of the other sticky widgets if they need me lol
Well, this is a different Lisa G than me in the comment further above. Surprised they allow duplicate user names.
Those streaming services royally suck. They only produce 6 or 12 episodes, run a year or two and then cancell them. Just enought to get people hooked and subscribe, than its the big kiss off. Happens every time!!!
I refuse to watch any exclusive streaming series because of this.