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May 21, 2024 · The reason why Mary was full of hatred towards George in The Big Bang Theory is finally revealed in the Young Sheldon series finale. With Young Sheldon officially retconning George's cheating scandal, Sheldon's father was officially exonerated from his supposed biggest crime.
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May 17, 2024 · Young Sheldon's Raegan Revord and executive producer on what happens to Mary and Missy Cooper after series finale on 'Big Bang Theory.'
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Mary Cooper (née Tucker) is the mother of Sheldon Cooper, George Cooper Jr., and Missy Cooper and widow of George Cooper Sr.. She is a devout born-again Christian from East Texas. She was married for 20 years prior to her husband's passing in 1994, at least near 13 years before The Big Bang Theory began in September 2007. She is also the grandmothe...
In "TBBT", Mary is an attractive, older woman with brown hair and blue eyes. She often wears dresses and necklaces in her appearances.
In "Young Sheldon", she still maintains the same look from TBBT, but with longer hair.
"I have no illusions about my mother. She is a kind, loving, religiously fanatical right-wing Texan with a slightly out-of-scale head and a mild Dr. Pepper addiction."
―Sheldon Cooper,
Mary is very wise, intelligent, caring, kind, friendly, loving, and sweet-natured: she is very religious and at times, can be unwittingly bigoted - something Leonard occasionally has to point out to her. She appears to be an extremely good mother and is the only one who has ever been able to control Sheldon. Leonard describes her as Sheldon's "kryptonite." Sheldon describes Mary as being a "kind, loving, religiously fanatical, right-wing Texan, with a slightly out of scale head and a mild Dr. Pepper addiction." Sheldon also uses his mother to exact the point that he isn't crazy, as she had had him tested. Mary later confirmed the story, although with the caveat that she wished she'd "followed up with that specialist in Houston." It is shown in "The Rhinitis Revelation" that all of the gang like her very much, as she provides the attention and wisdom they did not receive from their own mothers (especially Leonard's mother).
She is called upon by both Leonard and Penny when Sheldon gets particularly difficult to handle.
She is also the complete opposite of Leonard's unpopular mother Beverly Hofstadter, who is narcissistic, unfriendly, unloving, unaffectionate, uncaring and does completely crazy things, like gluing electrodes to people's heads to measure their brain waves while potty training, and their parenting strategies are very different from each other's (Mary having unconditional love for Sheldon, and Beverly raising Leonard as a science experiment and having him try to achieve and having to make him earn her love and affection until after Beverly talks with Sheldon) that their respective sons prefer to have each other's mother for a mother, and the two women don't see eye-to-eye with anything and truly don't like each other.
She is also extremely wise and has handled situations with Sheldon. During her first meeting with Beverly, she was able to successfully pawn her and make her realize that her parenting skills are crap, which later got Beverly to realize that there is more than one way to raise a child and to make her shower Leonard with unconditional love.
"He gets his temper from his daddy. He’s got my eyes. All that science stuff, oh that comes from Jesus."
―Referring to Sheldon, The Luminous Fish Effect "I love the boy to death, but he has been difficult since he fell out of me at the Kmart."
―Referring to Sheldon, The Luminous Fish Effect "I made chicken. I hope that isn't one of the animals that you people think is magic."
―Talking to Raj, The Luminous Fish Effect "Oh, we will, you have to take your time with Sheldon. His father, God rest his soul, used to say to me, Mary, you have to take your time with Sheldon."
―Referring to Sheldon, The Luminous Fish Effect "Oh, [he was] not so wise. He once tried to fight a bobcat for some licorice."
―Talking about Sheldon's deceased father, The Luminous Fish Effect "You know how your daddy used to say that you could only fish for so long before you gotta throw a stick of dynamite in the water? Well I'm done fishin'!"
•Husband: George Cooper Sr.
•Sons: George Cooper Jr. and Sheldon Cooper
•Daughter: Missy Cooper
•Mother: Meemaw
•Father: Pop-Pop
•Brothers: Carl and Edward
Sheldon Cooper
Mary loves her son very much, and Sheldon loves his mother back, although Mary can become agitated by her son's rude behavior; she reprimanded Sheldon for hanging Penny's laundry on the telephone wires, scolded him for sexually condemning her. In "The Luminous Fish Effect", Mary said she loves Sheldon to death, but he had been difficult ever since he had fallen out of her at the K-mart. Her constant doting on him is likely the reason behind his antics, arrogance, selfishness and feeling to get whatever he wants. Mary did inherit some of Sheldon's antics like being controlling and hates change when he was younger. In Young Sheldon, Mary did favor Sheldon sometimes, but she doesn't cut him any slack and does punish him sometimes like the other siblings, In Young Sheldon her personality was a lot different than in The Big Bang Theory. In Young Sheldon, a little bit more about her is known. She is shown to have some of Sheldon's antics: Sometimes she is very controlling, hates change and can be mean. Mary also inherited some of more Sheldon's antics like being critical, thinking she is better than everyone else and sometimes she doesn't understand people's emotions.
George Cooper Sr.
Mary and her husband George, Sheldon's father, appeared to have had an imploding relationship and marriage. Sheldon claims that they fought all the time. It's revealed in the Season 10 episode "The Hot Tub Contamination" that George Sr. was cheating on her with another woman. Mary was well aware of this but did not seem to mind. In Young Sheldon, Mary and George are instead happily married, and fights are only brief and minor ones, which contradicts the cases in TBBT. In later seasons they have marital problems, they almost getting divorced but Mary was able to get them to spice things up in the bedroom. It also turns out her husband's supposed affair partner was actually her roleplaying.
Sheldon's Siblings
Mary's relationship with her other two children is somehow not very much explained. In "The Luminous Fish Effect," Mary describes the two of them to be "dumb as soup." It's possible that she may be on somewhat good terms with Missy as well as her husband and son. She and Missy seem to have a more tense relationship during "The Bow Tie Asymmetry"; however, she appears to not be on good terms with her other son George Jr. as in "The Matrimonial Momentum" as she calls him an idiot and calls his girlfriend a whore. Nevertheless, in "The Sibling Realignment", she told Sheldon that she would only be at his wedding if he invited his brother. George mentioned that even though he sacrificed for the family after his father died and he took care of the house, Mary is prouder of Sheldon than of him, even when he is also a successful businessman. But she still loves her son George Jr. and why she wants Sheldon to invite him to the wedding.
•Laurie Metcalf was a regular in the sitcom Roseanne, along with Johnny Galecki and Sara Gilbert. She played Sara's character's aunt.
•She looks down on Catholicism.
•She played Andy's mom in the Toy Story series which Leonard and Raj are a huge fans of. This creates a celebrity paradox; one of many to occur in this show.
•When Leonard and his friends go to Texas to convince Sheldon to come back home with them, Raj wonders why Howard is wearing a ridiculous-looking cowboy hat he bought at the airport souvenir shop. When Howard says he must blend in, Raj's response is "Blend into what, Toy Story?" Laurie Metcalf voiced Mrs. Davis, the mother of the protagonist toys' owner in that film.
•She also played a love interest for unworldly eccentric physics professor Dick Solomon in Third Rock From The Sun. Sheldon would not have approved: she was an English Literature professor and belonged firmly to the Inhumanities. Even worse than the religion...
•Zoe Perry, who plays the younger version of Mary Cooper on the prequel series Young Sheldon, is the daughter of Laurie Metcalf. By coincidence, Perry also played a younger version of her mother's character in an episode of Roseanne.
SIDELIGHTS: Mary Sheldon, the daughter of award-winning novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon, is herself the author of several novels and children's books. Sheldon's first work, the young-adult novel Perhaps I'll Dream of Darkness, appeared in 1981.
Jan 9, 2021 · Although the show often offers comic relief, there are some things about it that never fail to pull at the audience's heartstrings. Mary, in particular, is one character that viewers often feel sorry for on account of her unique traits and some of the things she does.
Mary Cooper is the mother of Sheldon, his twin sister Missy and brother George Jr., and the widow of George Sr. Mary Cooper is played by Laurie Metcalf.
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Sep 19, 2022 · Thankfully, Sheldon has the unwavering support of his mother, Mary. Played by actress Zoe Perry, Mary Cooper is a force to be reckoned with. Mary demands that Sheldon be treated like an...
