Georgie And Mandy's First Marriage Season 2 Episode 8 Makes A Huge Change To The Series

Contains spoilers for "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" Season 2, Episode 8 — "Bitin', Spankin' and a Load of Yankee Psychobabble" — and Episodes 9 and 10

Mandy McAllister's (Emily Osment) long-simmering feud with her mom Audrey (Rachel Bay Jones) finally reaches a boiling point in "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" Season 2, Episode 8, "Bitin', Spankin' and a Load of Yankee Psychobable." The episode sees little CeeCee take up the unfortunate habit of biting other kids on the playground. Audrey tries to train her out of it by biting her back — an action that horrifies Mandy. 

She and Georgie (Montana Jordan) are so angry with Audrey's disrespect of their parenting style that they move back into the Coopers' house. But change is in the wind: The episode ends with Mandy still furious with Audrey, and Georgie, Mandy and CeeCee still living with Mary (Zoe Perry) — in spite of the fact that Audrey is serenely confident of the family's eventual return, not to mention that Mandy and Mary are fighting.

This open-ended conclusion suggests that Georgie and Mandy might be cooling their heels at their original homebase for some time. But previews of the next couple of episodes hint that things will eventually be resolved between Mandy and her folks.

"Bitin', Spankin' and a Load of Yankee Psychobabble" ends with the Cooper and McAllister families yelling at each other over the phone, using a talk radio show as a proxy for their frustrations in a way that only adult fans of "Georgie and Mandy" will likely understand or notice. Yet publicity photos released for Episode 9, "Payback and a Partial Shebang," show Georgie and Mandy at the McAllisters' kitchen table. Even more interesting, photos for Episode 10 show the whole family taking Christmas vacation together in Miami Beach. So it's likely that the Coopers will reconcile with the McAllisters fully — and Georgie and Mandy will move back in — between episodes.

It's worth noting that the Coopers once again cannot get on the same page regarding disciplining their child. Georgie is much more flexible on the punishment issue than Mandy is — while she believes in timeouts and strong talking-tos, he thinks spanking his daughter is just fine. It upsets Mandy, and clearly helps form another rift between the young couple and perhaps provide a further clue as to why they breakup. 

Georgie is even willing to let bygones be bygones because there's only a single bathroom in the Cooper house, which has to be one of the most ridiculous reasons for the couple to jeopardize their marriage. It's a good thing that Mandy will probably end up reconciling with her mother — when the couple eventually divorces, she's going to need all of the support she can get, clashing parenting styles or not.