Young Sheldon stars Iain Armitage and Annie Potts choose their favorite scenes to film as Sheldon and Meemaw in all seven seasons of the show.
Iain Armitage and Annie Potts choose their favorite Sheldon and Meemaw scenes in Young Sheldon. Despite not being a core member of the Cooper family, Connie Tucker has been a mainstay in The Big Bang Theory prequel since it started. Considering Sheldon’s special relationship with his maternal grandmother, as established in the nerd-centric sitcom, Young Sheldon has often paired up the characters, resulting in no scarcity of memorable moments between the pair.
In light of Young Sheldon’s upcoming end, Armitage and Potts talk to Variety ahead of the much-anticipated finale. When asked about their favorite scenes to film for the hit CBS family comedy/drama, they each have different choices, but both of them involved each other. Read their picks below:
Potts : I loved it when they had me driving him to college and back because, as you do in life, when you get the kid in the backseat, it’s always good talk time. I really enjoyed those.
Armitage : Mine’s another one with Miss Annie. I love getting to play video games with her so much. I think it was ‘Quest of Adeera.’ They made up an entire fake video game that we got to play together, and it was just such a fun scene to film with Miss Annie. And then also, my grandmother — I hesitate even to say “real grandmother” because Miss Annie Potts feels like a real grandmother to me — but my biological grandmother was there on set that day, and she loved getting to see me and Annie do our thing. It was a lot of fun. I’ll always have fun memories of that, but honestly, I’ve had so much fun throughout the whole thing.
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Sheldon was close to Mary in The Big Bang Theory, but thanks to Penny finding their secret mail correspondences, it became clear that the socially-inept genius had a soft spot for Meemaw. This was confirmed when Meemaw visited Sheldon in Pasadena, California, to the point that he even gave up his spot on the couch for her. This was the basis of their relationship during the earliest years of Young Sheldon, but recently, the pair has somehow drifted apart because of external reasons. Before the prequel ends, however, this needs to be fixed.
There are several reasons for this, beginning with the fact that Sheldon has become irrelevant to Young Sheldon since starting college at East Texas Tech. Since he has always been away, the family hasn’t been able to spend as much time with him, including Meemaw. Meanwhile, Meemaw developed a close bond with Georgie and Mandy in season 5, when they were running the illegal gambling den. The physical separation between Sheldon and Connie has resulted in them barely having any memorable arcs during the latter seasons of the series, which is disappointing.
Somehow, Young Sheldon attempted to fix Sheldon and Meemaw’s plot hole on the heels of her arrest. However, that is not nearly enough to make up for how they have drifted away in recent memory. While it’s dubious if the show has enough time to fully make up for this, considering that there are only a few episodes left in the show, hopefully, Young Sheldon is able to team them up for a final adventure before the show ends.
