S01.E17: Two Idiots on a Dirt Bike

[chitowngirl]

Georgie's attempt to break up Missy and her new boyfriend backfires.
 

Airdate April 17, 2025 on CBS

Edited April 15 by chitowngirl

[crowceilidh]

Hmmm.  Zero replies. WTW?  

I was a big fan of Mandy understanding that Georgie had Romeo and Julietted Missy.  Nothing much else to say.

 

 

[SoMuchTV]

20 minutes ago, crowceilidh said:

Hmmm.  Zero replies. WTW?  

I was a big fan of Mandy understanding that Georgie had Romeo and Julietted Missy.  Nothing much else to say.

?? It doesn’t air for me unless this evening. Are you outside the US?  Is it available earlier in some places?

[crowceilidh]

I'm in Canada.  Saw it last night.  That's odd - we're usually in lockstep.

 

[SoMuchTV]

On 4/10/2025 at 8:35 PM, SoMuchTV said:

I still enjoy this show more than apparently a lot of you do, but i have to call foul on one thing. The Coopers’ kitchen phone wouldn’t have had the neatly coiled short cord we saw, it would have had a stretched out, straggly, extra long cord that had been dragged by years of teenagers into the nearest closet!

And now, one episode later, Mary is in (I think) that same kitchen, but now talking on a cordless phone. (See, @crowceilidh , someone’s watching!)

But seriously, I still get a couple chuckles out of this, which is more than I can say about most of the other recent new sitcoms. 

[Pepper the Cat]

4 hours ago, crowceilidh said:

I'm in Canada.  Saw it last night.  That's odd - we're usually in lockstep.

 

The leadership debate made a lot of stations change times and or days of shows.

Edited April 18 by Pepper the Cat

[highway61]

A very funny episode for me, all around. Good to see that both Mary and Audrey can recognize when they're over the top! And always great to see Missy, and yeah, her story made sense.

Question: did anyone else think that Mandy's diner co-worker Beth (Missy's boyfriend's mom) really resembles adult Missy (Courtney Henggeler)? Actually makes a lot of Oedipal sense if you overthink it too much!

And the other thing that applies to every episode - my favorite scene is always when Georgie drives his dad's truck - that gets me every time.

[UsernameFatigue]

I really enjoyed this episode.  I loved the scene where Missy tried to get sympathy from Mary as she had just lost the "love of her life", and Mary was having none of it.  Well acted episode from all the actors.

I wonder if the next season will bring more episodes with the old YS cast, now that the show has had a season to establish Georgie and Mandy as leads, and also given the viewers a year to grieve the loss of George? 

[possibilities]

I don't enjoy the antagonism between Mary and Audrey.

[EtheltoTillie]

I liked the episode. What bad luck for Georgie and Mandy.  Why didn’t that gas station clerk tell them the kids were fighting and broke up?  Then they were going to keep driving in the wrong direction and run out of gas.   The whole scene was about what did we do before we had cell phones.  

Edited April 19 by EtheltoTillie

[ams1001]

2 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I liked the episode. What bad luck for Georgie and Mandy.  Why didn’t that gas station clerk tell them the kids were fighting and broke up? 

Or why didn't they ask if he saw which way they went?

[appositival]

I guess Georgie and Mandy missed the dirt bike going in the opposite direction?

[EtheltoTillie]

31 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

Or why didn't they ask if he saw which way they went?

yeah, but they were assuming they were going to Mexico. 

[Browncoat]

1 hour ago, appositival said:

I guess Georgie and Mandy missed the dirt bike going in the opposite direction?

They were probably stopped at a different gas station when the dirt bike went the other direction.

[MollyMelrose]

Fun episode! Dumbass-ery abounding.

Enjoy Mary and Audrey doing their kind words/angry tones thing.

Georgie and Mandy - remember to ask the follow up question.

Overpriced circus peanuts saved your behind, Todd. Right now, Missy is as mean as an angry rattlesnake ... without the charm. Fortunately, looks like a developing Big Bang Mary will be dealing with her.

[Tom Holmberg]

I kind of had the feeling that they are trying to turn Missy into another Paige.

[MollyMelrose]

22 minutes ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I kind of had the feeling that they are trying to turn Missy into another Paige.

EXACTLY! Channeling her hurt into anger and wretched decision-making. 

[StaceyNotStacie]

43 minutes ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I kind of had the feeling that they are trying to turn Missy into another Paige.

I like Georgie, but I would have preferred a Paige and Missy spinoff where they share an apartment or go to college together once they’re 18. 
 

At least she didn’t run off with Billy (who I think would have willingly gone along to keep an eye on her). 

[Tom Holmberg]

Yes, I would have liked a Missy/Paige spinoff - if the writers did not make them into ball-busting sluts (which is always a possibility with a Lorre show).  But I'd also like a Dr Tire show with Georgie.

Edited April 18 by Tom Holmberg
Did NOT

[HyeChaps]

Great title

[Chit Chat]

9 hours ago, MollyMelrose said:

Georgie and Mandy - remember to ask the follow up question.

 

Exactly!  They were so busy yapping that they didn't bother to ask the clerk anything else, and being a typical man, he didn't bother to fill them in on what he did know, as in, 'they didn't ask, so I didn't tell them.'

I've always been disappointed in the direction they took Missy's character.  Sure, it's true to life and not everyone is going to be squeaky clean, but she was such a cute & likeable kid.  I always wanted better for her.  Missy angst?  Blarg.  ☹️

Also, Missy always had street smarts.  It seemed out of character for her to run off with her boyfriend without a plan.  Then she yells at him for not bringing enough money.  That was dumb. 

[Dimity]

I liked this episode in that I found it funny, it moved fast and seeing Mary is always a positive.  That said I completely agree with you @Chit Chat I don't like what they've done with Missy and while I can see that she's hurting from the loss of her father and that may explain some of the acting out I don't like that they've dumbed her down.  

Throughout YS she was portrayed as the child who could 'read the room' and pick up emotional cues.  The idea that she would run off to get married at 15 while making for a great episode ( for a refreshing change!) just seemed unbelievable to me.

All that said if this means we're going to start getting the Mary from Big Bang then I'm here for it!

[iarwain]

19 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I liked the episode. What bad luck for Georgie and Mandy.  Why didn’t that gas station clerk tell them the kids were fighting and broke up?  Then they were going to keep driving in the wrong direction and run out of gas. 

Yeah, as things stood, if it weren't for the previews of the next episode, for all we knew Georgie and Mandy died of dehydration out in the desert.  

[Yeah No]

I generally liked this episode but yeah, Missy's been dumbed down and Georgie was insufferable. But otherwise it was a good one!

[MaryMitch]

They way Missy is acting makes sense to me. She went from a stable life with a mother, father, 2 brothers, and a Meemaw to being alone in a house with a grieving mother. Her world has turned upside down and on top of that she's a teenager.

[iarwain]

5 hours ago, MaryMitch said:

They way Missy is acting makes sense to me. She went from a stable life with a mother, father, 2 brothers, and a Meemaw to being alone in a house with a grieving mother. Her world has turned upside down and on top of that she's a teenager.

I think the way Mary is being portrayed is interesting.  With George gone, she seems to be more angry, more stressed, and taking more control.  That also seems like a natural step, and perhaps something more in the direction of her character in TBBT.  She was more passive in Young Sheldon.

[Dimity]

  Between Georgie wanting a second child when he can barely support the one he has and Missy thinking marrying a jobless high school student is a good idea that "dumb as soup" comment from Mary in BBT is making a lot of sense.

[Chit Chat]

6 hours ago, MaryMitch said:

They way Missy is acting makes sense to me. She went from a stable life with a mother, father, 2 brothers, and a Meemaw to being alone in a house with a grieving mother. Her world has turned upside down and on top of that she's a teenager.

She started acting out long before George died.  His death certainly didn't help things, but she started spiraling downward some time ago.  

[crowceilidh]

Also, it's probably her first time feeling like one does when overwhelmed by a crush.  Easiliy mistaken for lifelong love, especially the part where she just expects him to honour their "love" by taking off to get married.  Very teenager.  Romeo and Juliet.

[proserpina65]

On 4/18/2025 at 8:19 PM, Chit Chat said:

I've always been disappointed in the direction they took Missy's character.  Sure, it's true to life and not everyone is going to be squeaky clean, but she was such a cute & likeable kid.  I always wanted better for her.  Missy angst? 

I feel the opposite.  I think this is exactly the direction she'd go after her father died.  He was the one to whom she felt close, and she was already at odds with her mother most of the time, so her acting out now makes perfect sense.

On 4/19/2025 at 5:45 PM, Chit Chat said:

She started acting out long before George died.  His death certainly didn't help things, but she started spiraling downward some time ago.  

True, but his death, and Georgie's moving out too, I think, just hasten her move in that direction.

[Chit Chat]

2 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

He was the one to whom she felt close, and she was already at odds with her mother most of the time, so her acting out now makes perfect sense.

It makes sense, but my point has been and always will be that I wanted better for Missy since the beginning of the show!  Not every character can have a storybook ending, but my preference was to see her be happy and do well in life.  I don't enjoy watching her struggle.  ☹️

[Dimity]

21 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

He was the one to whom she felt close, and she was already at odds with her mother most of the time, so her acting out now makes perfect sense.

They did get close a few times but they closed that down pretty much once she stopped playing baseball.  The last year or two of YS she seemed to dislike both her parents pretty evenly - and actually on at least one or two occasions took her mother's side over her father.  

I don't really agree that the way she is acting out makes perfect sense.  If Lorre is trying to convince us that Missy is not very bright, than yeah, otherwise no.  I think it comes down to a show being written mainly by middle aged guys who have no idea how to write believable adolescents, especially adolescent girls.

Edited April 23 by Dimity

[proserpina65]

13 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I don't really agree that the way she is acting out makes perfect sense. 

And I disagree completely.  Having once been a teenaged girl, I'm pretty familiar with the type.  Wasn't quite so rebellious myself, but I had friends who were.

[iarwain]

On 4/20/2025 at 3:45 PM, crowceilidh said:

Also, it's probably her first time feeling like one does when overwhelmed by a crush.  Easiliy mistaken for lifelong love, especially the part where she just expects him to honour their "love" by taking off to get married.  Very teenager.  Romeo and Juliet.

And don't forget she has Georgie to look at as an example.  He got married as a teenager.  She probably thinks "Hey, it worked out for him".

[JamieLynn832002]

On 4/19/2025 at 10:25 AM, MaryMitch said:

They way Missy is acting makes sense to me. She went from a stable life with a mother, father, 2 brothers, and a Meemaw to being alone in a house with a grieving mother. Her world has turned upside down and on top of that she's a teenager.

And every day she goes to the school where her father died and probably sees the people who told her he was gone, one of whom now has his job. She faces daily reminders of his death in ways the other Coopers don't and that probably effects her at least  somewhat.

Edited April 25 by JamieLynn832002