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S01.E08: Diet Crap

chitowngirl

By chitowngirl
in Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage

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Dimity

Dimity

Are they deliberately trying to mirror the tension that used to exist between Mary and George over Sheldon?  Because I gotta say there's a huge difference between conflicts over raising a child/teenager with the kinds of challenges Sheldon has as opposed to having an adult living in your home and apparently not in school and not working or otherwise contributing to supporting himself.

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shura

shura

On 1/29/2025 at 8:22 PM, Dimity said:

Are they deliberately trying to mirror the tension that used to exist between Mary and George over Sheldon?  Because I gotta say there's a huge difference between conflicts over raising a child/teenager with the kinds of challenges Sheldon has as opposed to having an adult living in your home and apparently not in school and not working or otherwise contributing to supporting himself.

Apparently not, they are not trying to do that.  I liked what they did with Connor here.  Yes, he can do all these things, but if someone else is doing them for him and nobody asks him to do them, why would he?  It’s just common sense.  And if he is asked, there is no drama, just “sure, I’ll do it. Done.”  I don’t think I’ve seen this before.

And wow, Audrey coming off as a reasonable person?  That’s new too.  It helped that Mandy was being unreasonably unreasonable, of course.  But still, go Audrey!  Totally, those overweight Texans aren’t buying diet products not because nobody tries to sell them any, it is because they don’t care to buy them.

Loved seeing the librarian lady.

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ProudMary

ProudMary

1 hour ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I thought the way they presented her here was different than her YS personality, more seriously bitter and self-deprecatingly bitter.

Yes. I was pleased to see the character, but not the way she was being portrayed. That was disappointing. 

The episode was okay.  For a character being mouthy about having a communications degree, Mandy sure did fall for scammy advertising quickly.

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AD35

AD35

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30 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

Didn't Penny on TBBT have a similar gig for a bit?

Pharmaceutical sales rep, and pretty successful at it too for like the 2nd half of the show's run. And long before that, very early during the BBT run there was an episode devoted her entrepreneurial potential ("The Work Song Nanocluster"). But that seemed to play into Penny's strengths. This particular development on the other hand doesn't seem to play on Mandy's particular strengths, whatever they are, or at least her original approach.

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Dimity

Dimity

2 hours ago, Magnumfangirl said:

Mandy's whining about not making more money than Georgie was stupid.  Plenty of people without degrees make more money than those with degrees.  🙄

True but on the other hand she's 30 something and he's 19 and doesn't even have a high school diploma.  I can see her not being happy about this but it's hardly Georgie's fault. 

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Dimity

Dimity

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Mixed feelings on this one.  I agree with others that they seemed to have calmed Audrey down so that's a plus, but otherwise I didn't find this episode particularly funny.   I remember when Young Sheldon came out I really didn't think it would work, but the first few seasons especially, were must see TV for me.  Not with this show.  It's not bad.  But it's not all that good either. 

ETA: Ghosts follows this show and I just finished watching this week's episode.  It may have been a mistake because now I think this episode was actually pretty bad.  In future assuming I keep watching it won't be back to back with Ghosts!

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Driad

Driad

3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

would like this show a lot more if Mandy got a job as a weather person on TV again.

She said she had been a "weather girl."  AIUI, that is an attractive young woman who dresses provocatively and reads the forecast (written by an actual meteorologist) off the teleprompter.  I don't think I have ever seen one; the TV stations I watch emphasize the meteorology credentials of their people who present the forecasts. 

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Yeah No

Yeah No

1 hour ago, Driad said:

She said she had been a "weather girl."  AIUI, that is an attractive young woman who dresses provocatively and reads the forecast (written by an actual meteorologist) off the teleprompter.  I don't think I have ever seen one; the TV stations I watch emphasize the meteorology credentials of their people who present the forecasts. 

Perhaps there weren't as many female meteorologists 30 years ago as there are today.

Yeah No

Yeah No

2 hours ago, Dimity said:

Mixed feelings on this one.  I agree with others that they seemed to have calmed Audrey down so that's a plus, but otherwise I didn't find this episode particularly funny.   I remember when Young Sheldon came out I really didn't think it would work, but the first few seasons especially, were must see TV for me.  Not with this show.  It's not bad.  But it's not all that good either. 

Yeah, I agree completely. It's not bad enough to stop watching and I do enjoy the characters but it's still not all that funny, especially this episode.

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Magnumfangirl

Magnumfangirl

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14 hours ago, Driad said:

I don't think I have ever seen one; the TV stations I watch emphasize the meteorology credentials of their people who present the forecasts. 

Real meteorologists doing the weather on local TV is relatively new.  There was one in my market in the mid-90s.  I remember because it was a huge deal that the station bragged about constantly (and we had one of the worst tornado outbreaks in state history).  Now every TV station has real meteorologists giving the weather.  

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shapeshifter

shapeshifter

4 hours ago, Magnumfangirl said:

Real meteorologists doing the weather on local TV is relatively new.  There was one in my market in the mid-90s.  I remember because it was a huge deal that the station bragged about constantly (and we had one of the worst tornado outbreaks in state history).  Now every TV station has real meteorologists giving the weather.  

I would love to see Mandy get a meteorology degree. In the 90s I was able to get a BS by "attending" classes at a state university via a TV hook-up in a room at the local community college in a rural area. It was possible to get advanced degrees the same way.

Maybe the riddle of "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" will be that they need to divorce so she can get financial aid for college.

They didn't mention her credit card debt for nothing either in this episode. I'm not sure how that's going to play out plot-wise in the future, but it could also lead to a divorce of convenience.  

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Yeah No

Yeah No

22 hours ago, Magnumfangirl said:

Real meteorologists doing the weather on local TV is relatively new.  There was one in my market in the mid-90s.  I remember because it was a huge deal that the station bragged about constantly (and we had one of the worst tornado outbreaks in state history).  Now every TV station has real meteorologists giving the weather.  

That's the long version of what I said above.

Dimity

Dimity

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18 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I would love to see Mandy get a meteorology degree.

Has she ever really expressed an interest in this area though? My impression was she wanted to be on TV and this was the way it happened for her.  I feel bad for Mandy because she's 30, married to a teenager, living with her parents and stuck doing jobs she feels are beneath her.   She's got a university degree there has to be something she can do with that but I guess the writers aren't going to give her a good job as long as they can make this all about Georgie being successful and Mandy, not so much.

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iarwain

iarwain

6 hours ago, Dimity said:

 She's got a university degree there has to be something she can do with that but I guess the writers aren't going to give her a good job as long as they can make this all about Georgie being successful and Mandy, not so much.

Sounds like a Chuck Lorre formula, although at some point on Big Bang Theory they reversed it, with Penny and Bernadette out-earning their husbands.  Problem was, they took it a little too far, and started portraying Leonard and Howard as paupers.  They seem to think there is some sort of comedy to be found in financial imbalances.

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anna0852

anna0852

23 hours ago, Dimity said: I feel bad for Mandy because she's 30, married to a teenager, living with her parents and stuck doing jobs she feels are beneath her.   She's got a university degree there has to be something she can do with that but I guess the writers aren't going to give her a good job as long as they can make this all about Georgie being successful and Mandy, not so much.

I don’t feel that bad for her. She’s in a situation of her own making. Georgie too. Georgie at least is trying to make the best of it. Mandy on the other hand, simply seems content to whine about it and fight with her mother. So we are rapidly devolving into a typical Chuck Lorre show.

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