Young Sheldon Season 7’s Gambling Room Story Will End Badly
While Young Sheldon season 7 hasn’t revealed the source of Meemaw’s changed persona in The Big Bang Theory yet, the spinoff has hinted at one dark cause for this character shift. Although Young Sheldon is The Big Bang Theory’s prequel, the show’s depiction of events doesn’t always align with the canon of its predecessor. Sheldon’s mother Mary and Sheldon himself both wrote his late father off as a shiftless, thoughtless philandering drunk in the original series, but Young Sheldon has since revealed that George Sr was a surprisingly kind and agreeable everyman. Similarly, Meemaw’s character is completely different in the two shows.
In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon’s grandmother, Meemaw, is a lot like his mother, Mary. A traditional, stern matriarch, she can be as humorless and stubborn as Mary or Sheldon himself. However, in Young Sheldon, Meemaw is portrayed as a carefree, sardonic, risk-loving rebel. While Young Sheldon’s season 6 finale saw her lose her house in a tornado, season 7 of the spinoff has not brought Sheldon’s grandmother any closer to her eventual personality shift. If anything, her house’s destruction has made her even more reckless. Unfortunately, this could foreshadow the events that will lead to Meemaw’s eventual character change.
Young Sheldon Season 7’s Gambling Room Story Will End Badly
It is increasingly obvious why Sheldon’s grandmother is much less fun-loving and light-hearted in The Big Bang Theory since Young Sheldon season 7 is foreshadowing Meemaw’s downfall. In season 7, episode 2, “A Roulette Wheel and a Piano Playing Dog,” her grandson Georgie noted that adding a roulette wheel to their secret gambling room would take the enterprise from a legal grey area into a riskier, more blatantly illegal space. However, Meemaw’s understandable desperation to rebuild her house lead her to ignore Georgie and take this major risk, even convincing her grandson to man the table later in the episode.
While most of Young Sheldon’s cast of characters have attempted perilous schemes over the years. Meemaw’s escalation of her illegal business is a massive risk. Meemaw has already lost her home and her insurance didn’t cover tornadoes, meaning she can’t afford any potential court case that could arise from the gambling room. Not only that, but Pastor Jeff agreeing to ignore her gambling room means Meemaw is unlikely to be challenged by anyone other than the police. This could be a surprisingly bad thing as, while Pastor Jeff only threatened her with consequences, a police investigation could ruin her.
Young Sheldon’s Dark Season 7 Plot Foreshadows Meemaw’s TBBT Character Shift
If Meemaw is caught by the police and her gambling room is shut down for good, that would explain why she is a much more staid presence in The Big Bang Theory. It is also possible that Young Sheldon season 7’s impending George Sr death could be the catalyst that makes Meemaw a more serious, less fun-loving person, but this tragedy is unlikely to affect her as much as it impacts Mary. However, losing her business and facing legal troubles shortly after losing her house could turn Young Sheldon’s wild grandmother into The Big Bang Theory’s sedate Meemaw.