As soon as they’re in each other’s presence, it’s claws at throats, and Beverly doesn’t even have much vested interest in watching her son marry Penny.
Divorced parents arguing is a comedy trope that TV has always embraced, and The Big Bang Theory’s “The Conjugal Conjecture” was at the head of the class in that department.
For now, though, we’ll focus on Christine Baranski’s Beverly and Judd Hirsch’s Alfred, two people who would not both survive getting stuck on an elevator together.
In that respect, the show was almost too mean, especially when it carried on into the wedding.