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Penny (The Big Bang Theory)

March 03, 2023

Penelope "Penny" Hofstadter is a fictional character from the American CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actress Kaley Cuoco. She is the primary female character in the series, befriending her neighbors Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), two physicists employed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Penny's lack of advanced education sets her apart from the group, and her outgoing personality and social aptitude drastically contrast with the personalities of the primary male characters in the series. She is the primary love interest of Leonard, who briefly dates her during the third season. This relationship is later resumed in the fifth season and culminates in their engagement at the end of the seventh season and their wedding at the start of season nine.[1]

Penny Hofstadter
The Big Bang Theory / Young Sheldon character
Kaley Cuoco as Penny
First appearance
Last appearance
Created by
Portrayed by
In-universe information
GenderFemale
Occupation
  • Waitress (seasons 1–7)
  • Actress (seasons 1–7)
  • Pharmaceutical sales representative (seasons 8–12)
Spouses
OriginNebraska
NationalityAmerican

Development

In the original, unaired pilot of The Big Bang Theory, the conception of the female lead was very different. She was called Katie, and was envisioned as "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior". Sheldon and Leonard would "approach her with honesty, to draw the real, sensitive Katie out".[2] The role was played by Amanda Walsh.[3] However, the test audiences reacted to the character negatively, seeing her as too mean. Because of this, the character was changed, and the role was recast.[2] Marisa Tomei, Tara Reid, Elizabeth Berkley, and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe were considered.[4]

In the shows early seasons, Penny was portrayed as a dim, but beautiful young woman who was out of Leonard's league. But the character developed into a more complex individual with high emotional intelligence, social skills, and work ethic.[5]

Characterization

Personality

Penny is originally from a small town outside of Omaha, Nebraska.[6]

She is a Sagittarius, born on December 2.[7][relevant?] She has full confidence in pseudoscientific concepts such as horoscopes, psychics, and Voodoo, which has led to repeated mocking from both Sheldon and Leonard along with criticisms of their accuracy.[6][7]

In contrast to the rest of the group, Penny is neither well-educated nor savvy in a specific field and is generally somewhat dim-witted, but she has great social skills and is more streetwise than her neighbors.[citation needed] She is knowledgeable about popular culture.[8] She is messy and disorganized.[9]

Having dropped out of community college prior to the start of the series, she is the only regular character with less education than Howard Wolowitz, who has a master's degree.[episode needed] In season six, she returns to college, taking a history class and hiding it from the rest of the group. She initially performs terribly in her college classes.[clarification needed] It is revealed in later seasons that Penny has continued her education, taking both an acting and a psychology class.[episode needed]

When expressing feelings of anger or upset, other characters have compared her to The Hulk, a "rabid wolverine", and "killer robots".[10][11][episode needed]

Penny's poor driving ability and failure to maintain her vehicle are acknowledged throughout the series. She is known to ignore her check engine light[12][13] and has left her passenger side wing mirror in a parking lot somewhere in Hollywood after trying to park her car.[clarification needed][14] She has hit a Mercedes in a parking lot[15] and knocked the side-view mirror off of Bernadette's car; not leaving a note in either incident.[16] In season seven, her car engine fails and she receives a new car from Leonard.[17]

In the fifth-season episode "The Speckerman Recurrence", Penny is revealed to have unknowingly been a bully while in school.[clarification needed] She attempts to make amends with a classmate she tormented, and although she does her best, she sees little success.[18][vague]

Another recurring personality trait is her chronic alcoholism, specifically with wine. In "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition", while spending the evening with Bernadette and Amy, Penny observes that they have finished the bottle of wine, and when Bernadette and Amy point out that they consumed only half a glass and no wine at all, respectively, Penny snaps, "Okay, don't judge me! So, what do you want to do, go to the movies, go dancing, lay down for a little bit?" At the end of that episode, she passes out while the three of them play Twister, and when Bernadette initially fails to revive her, she says "Penny, we're out of wine", which manages to wake Penny. In "The Intimacy Acceleration", Sheldon asks her, "If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?" Penny replies, "Well, not to steal from the Bible, but turning water into wine sounds pretty good." Then, in "The Locomotive Manipulation", Leonard declines Amy's suggestion that the group spends a weekend in Napa Valley, leading to this exchange:

Leonard: "I'm not sure it's a great idea to take Penny to where wine comes from. (Looks at Penny) What? It's a joke. Oh, come on. We bust on each other. I wear dorky glasses, you might have a problem, it's all for laughs."
Penny: "That would really piss me off if I didn't have a buzz going on."

Nerd traits

A number of episodes depict Penny's assimilation of nerd culture through her time spent with the men, and has quoted some science fiction shows (like Star Trek) and movies (Star Wars). After Sheldon introduces her to the online role-playing game Age of Conan, Penny becomes addicted to the point of ignoring her friends, hygiene, general appearance and job, pestering Sheldon incessantly for gaming advice. This likely resulted from frustration with her life at that point, believing herself to be a failure in most aspects of her life. She overcomes her addiction when she realizes she has agreed to go on a virtual date within the game with Howard.[19] Penny has also displayed proficiency in playing Halo 3 and Fortnite despite being a complete newbie, annoying Sheldon (and Bernadette).

In season three, she asks Sheldon to teach her "a little physics" so she could talk to Leonard about his job (like Bernadette does). She manages to recite a brief summary (obviously written by Sheldon for her to memorize) of Leonard's experiment during dinner, which puzzles Leonard, Howard, and Raj.

In episodes such as "The Apology Insufficiency", "The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition", "The Wheaton Recurrence", and "The Love Car Displacement", she makes casual references to Star Trek.[20] In "The Bakersfield Expedition", Penny, Amy and Bernadette read some of the men's comics, believing there is nothing interesting in them, only to get into a heated argument about whether or not only Thor could wield his enchanted hammer Mjolnir.[21] In season seven's "The Proton Transmogrification", she alarms herself when she realizes that she understands Raj and Howard's corny Star Wars-related puns. In "The Werewolf Transformation", although a complete beginner, she has beaten Leonard in chess despite not knowing the names of the chess pieces. Leonard later expressed astonishment that his girlfriend plays like Bobby Fischer.

Penny sometimes references science and technology-related ideas. In "The Codpiece Topology", Penny, having previously learned of Schrödinger's cat in "The Tangerine Factor", is seen explaining that concept to her date. In "The Beta Test Initiation", Penny references beta testing when Leonard uses a software development analogy, to describe their attempt to start a romantic relationship again, although he points out he was technically talking about alpha testing. In "The Veracity Elasticity", she demonstrates fluency in Ubbi dubbi by having a secret conversation with Amy Farrah Fowler in front of Sheldon and Leonard when the guys are having their own secret conversation in Klingon.[relevant?]

Financial issues

A recurring theme throughout the series is Penny's ongoing financial problems and poverty. This is seen in "The Financial Permeability", when she finds herself behind on her bills, and borrows money from Sheldon, only to later become paranoid into thinking that he is pestering her for repayment, even though he makes no such indications of this – he misinterprets Penny's paranoia and even offers her more money, while Leonard points out that one of the few things about Sheldon that isn't insufferable is that he genuinely doesn't care about how long it will take to repay the money. Other references are seen in the fact that she once attempted to pay for her electric bill using a Starbucks gift card, an apology note and pictures of her in underwear.[22]

A subset of this trait is addressed by other characters is her freeloading. In the second-season episode "The Financial Permeability", when Penny is short on money, Leonard pays for her share of a group dinner, which causes Raj and Howard to joke that they would get free food too if they wore skintight jeans and a tank top. A recurring gag in the fourth season is Sheldon's frequent change of his and Leonard's Wi-Fi password to address Penny's use of their signal. In "The Thespian Catalyst", he changes the password to "Penny is a freeloader",[23] in "The Roommate Transmogrification" he has changed it to "Penny, get your own Wi-Fi",[24] and in the episode "The Speckerman Recurrence", he has changed it into "Penny already eats our food, she can pay for Wi-Fi". In the seventh season "The Convention Conundrum", when the women go out for drinks and ponder their own maturity, and Penny questions the significance of that trait, Bernadette replies that it would mean that their check would be split three ways.[16]

Penny's financial situation radically improves when she begins working as a sales representative at the pharmaceutical company that employs Bernadette, in the eighth-season episode "The Locomotion Interruption". By "The Expedition Approximation", she is making enough money to be financially self-sufficient, able to sell the automobile Leonard previously gave her, and gives him back the money for it—changing their dynamic and leading to discussions on whether her future financial windfalls may prove difficult for him, given his insecurities. This situation was later exacerbated when it was revealed that Penny was earning significantly more than Leonard.

In the ninth-season episode "The Big Bear Precipitation", Penny reveals she hates her job as a representative but sticks with it because she still has large debts to pay and also does not want to go back to waitressing or acting.

Work

Penny initially moves to California in the hopes of becoming an actress.[episode needed]

Until the seventh season, Penny works mainly as a waitress at her local The Cheesecake Factory, although in the first-season episode "The Grasshopper Experiment" she trained as a bartender. It seemed that she occasionally picked up the bartending shift in the restaurant. In 2010, when actress Kaley Cuoco broke her leg, Penny was shown working as a bartender in several fourth-season episodes to hide the cast on her leg.[25]

Her work at The Cheesecake Factory was initially meant to be a temporary job for her desired profession as an actress,[citation needed] although her expectations are somewhat high and naive at the beginning. She admits in season two that her plan was to be a waitress for six months and then become a movie star, and her backup plan was to become a TV star. She regularly goes to castings but is most often unsuccessful or finds the role to be quite different from what she expected, as when a cat food commercial audition was actually for a pornographic film. In the season one episode "The Loobenfeld Decay", she is cast in a production of Rent, and in "The Terminator Decoupling" she refers to another of her roles as "Anne Frank in a theater above a bowling alley". Frustrated with her acting career, in the fifth-season premiere, she briefly considers returning to Nebraska until landing a part in a commercial for hemorrhoid cream. In "The Monster Isolation", Penny is seen performing the role of Blanche DuBois in her acting class's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In this episode, Sheldon, who attended the show along with Leonard and Amy, is impressed with Penny's ability to memorize lines despite not remembering customers' orders as a waitress. In the seventh-season premiere, she was revealed to have had a topless shower scene in a low-budget horror film named "Serial Apeist" when she first moved to California, which she did not realise had been uploaded to the internet until Sheldon revealed it was available online and that the gang saw it on the day they met her.

In the season seven episode "The Hesitation Ramification", Penny believes she found stardom when she lands a brief role in NCIS. She is devastated when her scene is cut, but later decides it is time to focus solely on acting; she quits her job at The Cheesecake Factory to devote herself to becoming an actress.

Despite usually going to her neighbors for technical assistance when she has problems with her computer, Penny does have some mechanical skills of her own. When she was a child, she rebuilt a tractor engine on the farm where she grew up[9] and competed in a junior rodeo.[26]

During season eight, Penny abandons acting and takes a job as a salesperson at Bernadette's pharmaceutical company. The following season, Penny admits that she hates flirting with her customers for sales. In season ten, she almost changed her job when her ex-boyfriend Zack (Brian Thomas Smith) offers her a position at his menu company. Leonard reluctantly supports her but when she called Zack to accept the job, Zack informs her that his fiancée does not like the idea of Penny working with Zack (given their history). In season twelve, Bernadette gets Penny to head the sales team to promote her new drug in "The Confirmation Polarization". After a competitor tries to recruit Penny in "The Conference Valuation", Bernadette assures Penny that she is great at her job, elevating Penny's sense of self-worth.

Relationships

 
Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki (who portrays Leonard) at PaleyFest

Unlike the rest of the main characters, Penny is an extrovert. She is very outgoing and assertive, and has many sexual relationships over the course of the series. She often dates, and in one way or another all the men have gone to her for dating advice. In the fourth season opener, Sheldon estimates that Penny has dated 193 men, and had sex with 31 of them. Penny strenuously denies it was ever that many. Amy asks Penny in the same conversation if, in light of her sex partners, she considers herself a "slut", Penny responds uncertainly, "No. No. ... No?"[12]

In the series premiere, Penny moves in across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon because of her recent split from her boyfriend, Kurt, after living together for four years. She says she still loves him, even though he cheated on her.[6] Kurt makes two more appearances in the series.[27][28]

From the beginning,[6] Leonard's infatuation with Penny becomes a major force that drives the series. Howard also shows interest in her (primarily sexual), but he is always rejected abruptly due to his unsettling approaches. Although Penny occasionally teases Raj for his inability to speak to her, she is sympathetic and kind towards him and, as with Sheldon, she almost always overlooks his idiosyncrasies and appreciates that his intentions are good.

In the first-season episode "The Fuzzy Boots Corollary", Penny describes her approach after a failed relationship: she picks up an attractive man to have rebound sex with over the course of a 36-hour weekend, then leaves him.[29]

In the first-season finale, Penny breaks up with her boyfriend after he posts intimate details about their private life on his blog. This gives Leonard the opportunity to ask her on a first official date.[30] Although the date is successful, Penny becomes worried after she lies to Leonard about graduating from community college (it is mentioned in a later episode, "The Cohabitation Formulation", that she was enrolled in one, but dropped out). When Sheldon asks her why she lied, she indicates that she is self-conscious about their comparative level of education. Leonard eventually learns the truth, but makes matters worse when he tries to encourage Penny to enroll in Pasadena City College, as Penny interprets his suggestion as an insult to her intelligence, and rebuffs him.[31]

In "The Maternal Capacitance", Penny's introduction to Leonard's mother, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, causes Penny and Leonard to seek comfort in each other. They nearly have sex, but when Leonard comments in bed that she was attracted to him because of a psychological need to be closer to her father, her revulsion at this causes her to rebuff him.[32]

Afterwards, Penny dates Stuart, from the comic book store, but their dates do not lead to a relationship. The first time, Penny and Stuart are interrupted by Sheldon, who argues at length with Stuart over whether Dick Grayson or Jason Todd should be Batman's successor, while Penny falls asleep.[11] Their dating ends in "The Classified Materials Turbulence", when Penny and Stuart are kissing, and Penny mistakenly calls him "Leonard".[33]

In the second-season finale Penny shows strong romantic feelings for Leonard. When she discovers that Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj will be spending three months at the magnetic North Pole for a scientific experiment, she becomes sad and gives Leonard a Snuggie and a long hug, that Leonard perceives as unusually long. Although Penny dismisses the meaning into which Leonard reads the gift and the hug, she later admits to herself that it meant that she did not want him to leave.[34]

In the third-season premiere, after the men returned from the expedition, Penny kisses Leonard immediately upon his return, having missed him immensely.[35] Initially, Leonard and Penny feel uncomfortable with their new relationship, and they agree to remain only friends, but are unable to maintain this resolution and began a stable relationship.[36] Their relationship sours, however, when Leonard tells Penny he loves her for the first time, and an unsure Penny simply replies, "Thank you." The resulting tension eventually leads to Penny tearfully breaking up with Leonard during a bowling match.[37] However, they remain friends and sleep together once after Penny gets drunk following a bad date with Zack Johnson, after she realizes Leonard ruined her ability to tolerate and date unintelligent men.[38]

In the fourth season, Penny reveals to her friends Bernadette Rostenkowski and Amy Farrah Fowler during a "Truth or Dare?" game that she has still not moved on from Leonard. This is further implied in "The Justice League Recombination" when she indicates to Leonard that her reunion with Zack, and Zack's decision to have the two of them join the men in dressing up as the Justice League for New Year's Eve costume party at Stuart's comic shop is made difficult by her history with Leonard. In "The Love Car Displacement", Penny and the rest of the cast attend an academic conference in Big Sur. She and Leonard share the same hotel room for the night and they almost have sex until Raj walks in on them. The next day, bored with the conference, Penny accepts a ride back to Los Angeles from Professor Glenn, Bernadette's tall and attractive ex-boyfriend. When Raj's sister, Priya, returns in the episode "The Cohabitation Formulation", Priya and Leonard begin a romantic relationship. Penny appears to be initially accepting of their relationship, but is later discovered by Amy to be heartbroken over it.

In the fourth-season finale, Penny reveals to Raj that she made a huge mistake by breaking up with Leonard. However, even though she and Raj both agree to be friends, they get drunk and wake up in bed together, apparently both naked, the next morning. Leonard, Sheldon, and Howard discover Penny leaving the apartment, deducing that they just had sex. In the fifth-season premiere, Raj confides to her that they had not consummated their encounter and instead just fell asleep, prompting Penny to refer to Raj as "Quickdraw" because of that. She spends the rest of the episode with Amy, avoiding the men due to her embarrassment over her encounter with Raj.

In "The Ornithophobia Diffusion" Leonard and Penny go on a platonic date as friends, but after Leonard decides that he does not have to pay for everything or defer to her because they are not a couple, they end up bickering and sabotaging each other's attempts to socialize with members of the opposite sex. Penny realizes that she finds Leonard's more assertive demeanor attractive, but when he regresses to groveling in order to have sex with her, she rebuffs him.

On the spur of the moment in "The Recombination Hypothesis", Leonard asks Penny out on a date after he imagines what getting back with her might be like. In "The Beta Test Initiation", their date goes well until Leonard asks about the status of their relationship. This causes conflict, due to Penny's subsequent admission that commitment frightens her, but they agree to take their relationship slowly. While having sex in "The Launch Acceleration", however, Leonard accidentally proposes to her, causing Penny great distress. After discussing the matter, Penny declines his proposal, while affirming her feelings for him, and her desire to remain with him. In the sixth-season episode "The Date Night Variable", Leonard wants a reluctant Penny to define their relationship. In "The Decoupling Fluctuation", she wonders if she is really in love with him, but cannot bring herself to discuss it with Leonard. In "The Date Night Variable", Raj shows up unannounced at a private dinner of Penny and Leonard's, and inserts himself into their discussion of where their relationship is headed. When Leonard complains that Penny has yet to say "I love you" to Leonard, Raj attempts to get her to say it, causing Penny to eject him from the apartment.

In the "Higgs Boson Observation", Sheldon hires grad student Alex Jensen to review his childhood journals for any potential ideas that might win him a Nobel Prize. After Amy and Penny observes Alex and Leonard in the Caltech cafeteria talking, Penny, although having reservations with her relationship with Leonard, is bothered with the thought of him with another woman. Later that day, Alex comes home with Sheldon to work in his apartment where Leonard and Penny are. Penny introduces herself to Alex (subtly implying that Leonard is hers) and drags Leonard to her apartment to have sex. In "The 43 Peculiarity", Leonard becomes jealous of Penny's classmate, an attractive Englishman. At the end of the episode, Penny and Leonard discuss this, during which Penny casually mentions that she loves him, which Leonard notes is the first time she has said this to him. In "The Egg Salad Equivalency" Penny learns that Sheldon's attractive assistant Alex asked Leonard out to dinner and eventually admits to Leonard her own insecurity about their relationship. After a major argument with Sheldon, Leonard suggests moving in with Penny in "The Spoiler Alert Segmentation", but she indicates that she is not ready for this. In "The Tangible Affection Proof", upon seeing her ex-boyfriend propose to the woman he cheated on her with during a Valentine's Day dinner date, Leonard again tries to propose to Penny, but she expresses that she is not ready for this, and is unnerved by that level of commitment. They resolve that when she is ready to get married, she can propose to him. In "The Bon Voyage Reaction", Penny copes with Leonard leaving for a summer science assignment in Europe, resolving that they are more secure in their relationship.

In "The Hesitation Ramification", Penny, inebriated and frustrated over the state of her acting career, proposes to Leonard, who is hesitant to answer, given the circumstances. Though this further frustrates Penny, she admits in the following episode, "The Occupation Recalibration", that Leonard did the right thing.

By season five, Penny has formed strong friendships with Doctors Amy Farrah Fowler and Bernadette Rostenkowski, and the three are often seen spending time together. However, Amy and Bernadette occasionally prefer to meet without Penny, and often tease her.

In the seventh-season episode "The Thanksgiving Decoupling", it was revealed that Penny had married Zack in Las Vegas in what they thought as a "fake" wedding. This revelation causes tension between her and Leonard who has repeatedly proposed to Penny but was always rejected. They managed to annul the wedding by getting Zack to sign the annulment papers. In the penultimate episode of season seven, "The Gorilla Dissolution", she and Leonard become engaged, after Penny realizes that it is not fame she wants out of life, but happiness with Leonard. Throughout season eight, a running gag is their reluctance to decide upon a wedding date. In the eighth-season finale, Penny asks Leonard to marry her that night in Las Vegas. Leonard happily accepts, but during the journey, after Penny expresses happiness that they will get married while knowing everything about each other, Leonard confesses to having shared a drunken kiss with another woman while on the boat in Europe, though he adds that the woman started it and he rejected her. Penny becomes hurt by the revelation, and even though she claims to forgive Leonard, there is clearly tension between them, leaving the season ending in a cliffhanger as to whether or not they will go through with the wedding.

At the beginning of season nine, Leonard and Penny marry, although not without some initial problems. They both reveal that they were subconsciously trying to sabotage their relationship, feeling unworthy of the other. Upon addressing this topic, they both agree to stop being scared of losing the other and embrace their happiness together. After an aborted attempt for Leonard to move into Penny's apartment and live with his wife, Sheldon forces them to spend most of the nights a week in Leonard's old room. Although CBS now refers to the character with the married name Penny Hofstadter, it has not been explicitly indicated in series whether she took Leonard's surname.[39] By the ninth-season finale, Penny and Leonard decide to have a second small, unofficial wedding ceremony for their family and friends to make up for eloping. In season ten, Sheldon moves into Penny's old apartment with Amy, allowing Penny and Leonard to live on their own as husband and wife.

In season eleven, Leonard, Howard and Raj are trying to recover the bitcoin they mined years ago (now worth thousands of dollars). It is revealed that the bitcoin is in Leonard's old laptop which he gave to Penny while they were dating in season three. Penny then said that she gave the laptop to Zack after her breakup with Leonard. After retrieving the laptop, Zack shows the couple a video in the laptop that Penny made after her breakup with Leonard showing a drunk Penny apologizing to Leonard and regrets breaking up with him. Leonard is touched by the video and realizes that Penny genuinely loves him and not just out of desperation or pity.

In season twelve, Penny announces that she does not want to have any children which Leonard somewhat reluctantly supports her decision. Later, Zack and his wife Marissa wants Leonard to be a surrogate father to their kid since Zack is infertile. Penny reluctantly agrees to let Leonard donate his sperm. However, Penny tries to seduce Leonard despite knowing he has to be abstinent for a few days. Her visiting father, Wyatt, points out to Penny that her own actions suggest she is more conflicted over having kids than she lets on, to which she admits she feels bad about letting him and Leonard down if she goes through with never having children. He says that despite her flaws, parenthood is the best thing that ever happened to him and he does not want her to miss out, but he says he will support her no matter what she decides. Leonard finally changes his mind about donating his sperm to Zack, not wanting a child in the world that he cannot raise. In the series finale, Penny reveals to her friends that she is pregnant with Leonard's baby, and changes her mind about not wanting children.

Sheldon

A staple of the series' humor is Penny's awkward interactions with Sheldon, as they are almost polar opposites in terms of intellect and social aptitude. Throughout the series Sheldon often insults Penny's level of formal education, but appreciates her advice when navigating social situations.

In one episode, Sheldon tries to "improve" Penny, rewarding her with chocolate for what he considers "correct behavior", as in operant conditioning of lab rats. Leonard noticed it and accused Sheldon of training her like Pavlov's dogs.[40] Although the two characters sometimes clash, and Penny is frequently irritated by Sheldon's obstinacy and lack of social awareness, she developed a conspicuous soft spot for him as the series progressed. She and Leonard occasionally talk and behave as if Sheldon were their child (alluded to earlier in the third-season episode "The Spaghetti Catalyst" during the final seven minutes [see next paragraph], and in the eleventh-season episode "The Collaboration Contamination" when Penny actually uses a parenting book of Bernadette's on Sheldon). Penny is delighted whenever Sheldon acts affectionately towards her, recognising that such behaviour is highly unusual for him. Penny often calls Sheldon "sweetie", a term of endearment she frequently uses with other characters (a fact that Sheldon himself points out in one episode), and Penny and Amy are the only principal characters who ever openly demonstrate their genuine fondness for Sheldon.

Evidence of Penny's affection for Sheldon is apparent in various episodes. Penny takes care of Sheldon while he is ill[41] and lets him stay at her apartment when he is locked out of his, has a bad dream or is feeling unsafe;[42] Sheldon lent her money when she needed it[27] and takes care of her when she dislocates her shoulder.[14] Despite not being as well versed as the men in geek culture, Penny has shown attention to what each of her friends likes, although she still remains dismissive of them: during a Christmas episode, Sheldon is overwhelmed when Penny gives him a napkin autographed by Leonard Nimoy. In return, Sheldon gives Penny several baskets of bath products and then a long hug, to both her and Leonard's surprise – Leonard claims it to be "a Saturnalian miracle". When Sheldon's World of Warcraft account is hacked and the four men all back down from the much larger hacker who also steals Sheldon's Klingon Bat'leth, Penny kicks the hacker in the groin. Following her breakup with Leonard, Penny takes Sheldon along when she and some friends from work went to Disneyland, for which he is thankful. In the same episode, "The Spaghetti Catalyst", she notes that she takes Sheldon shopping for his linens. (This episode shows Leonard and Penny speaking to each other in the manner of a divorced couple arguing over Sheldon as though he were their child.) She has also helped Sheldon resolve conflicts with Amy, as in "The Shiny Trinket Manoeuvre".

In "The Panty Pinata Polarization" Penny has a fight with Sheldon as he banishes her from his apartment and using their Wi-Fi as she got "three strikes". She defends herself by refusing to take down his order at the restaurant (later suggesting that she tampered with his food after being forced to take Sheldon's order after he complained to her manager) and then ruins his weekly Saturday laundry night. In response he puts Penny's underwear on the outside telephone wire. After having a heated argument with his mother over his actions he apologises to Penny and they make amends with one another.

On one occasion, when Penny knocks on the door to Apartment 4A in the same manner as Sheldon as a joke, she admitted to Sheldon that it started to "feel good"; Sheldon swiftly advises her not to do it again as she would be "doing it for the rest of her life".

Sheldon has acknowledged that he likes Penny, although claims he was forced to because Leonard "made him", and that Sheldon liking her was a "hard row to hoe",[43] although in "The Intimacy Acceleration" Sheldon has admitted that he considers Penny a sisterly or motherly figure. By the series finale, Penny and Leonard admit to each other that Sheldon was "sort of our practice kid", whereas Sheldon himself calls Penny and Leonard "my two dearest friends in the world" during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Family

In "The Maternal Capacitance", when first meeting Leonard's Mother, Penny reveals that her father Wyatt (Keith Carradine)[44] tried to raise her like a boy, which is a source of pain for her, leading her to have father issues. When she and Leonard begin dating, Wyatt comes to appreciate that she is dating an accomplished academic, rather than an uneducated hick, so much so that when he visits Penny in the fourth-season episode "The Boyfriend Complexity" following her and Leonard's breakup, it is revealed that she has not revealed the breakup to her father. When she later informs Wyatt of the breakup, Wyatt secretly encourages Leonard to not give up on her.

In an early episode, Penny talked to Raj about her sister having shot her brother-in-law.[9] In another episode, Penny accompanied the men to the comic book store to shop for a gift for her 13-year-old nephew.[11] In "The Boyfriend Complexity" (4–9), Wyatt (Penny's father) tells Leonard he wants grandchildren one day, "and I want them to grow up on a house without wheels".[44] In "The Dumpling Paradox", Penny has an unwanted guest, Christy, staying with her who had slept with her brother while being engaged to her cousin, saying, "she's kind of family". Christy knows Penny from back in Omaha and, according to Penny, she slept with nearly every man in the city, earning her the nickname "Whore of Omaha". While staying with Penny, Christy sleeps with Howard.[45]

In the fifth-season episode "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", after Penny quickly grabs and eats the last dumpling of a group dinner after a brief disagreement over who should get it, Sheldon makes the sarcastic comment, "I've seen pictures of your mother. Keep eating", a reference to Penny's mother's weight, that clearly unsettles her. In "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition", Penny confesses to Bernadette that her mother smoked pot while she was pregnant with her.

Penny has mentioned having a sister who appears to be the mother of her 13-year-old nephew mentioned in season two. In the sixth-season episode "The Parking Spot Escalation" Penny mentions to Bernadette and Amy that her sister gave her her first ever bikini wax using melted crayolas and duct tape. In "The Bachelor Party Corrosion", Penny tells Bernadette, Amy and viewers that at her sister's wedding she was heavily pregnant since she and their father started a father-daughter dance and then her water broke.

Penny has mentioned having a brother on parole, who she says is "kind of a chemist". In "The Rhinitis Revelation" (5–6), she is more explicit in revealing that he is in the practice of cooking crystal meth.[46] She mentions that he is back in prison for 12–18 months, depending on his behavior, in the seventh-season finale, "The Status Quo Combustion".

Penny's mother Susan, who Penny has occasionally spoken with on the phone in prior episodes (usually about other family members), first appears in the tenth-season premiere "The Conjugal Conjecture", portrayed by Katey Sagal (who previously played Cuoco's mother in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules). She is shown to be very embarrassed by her family's shortcomings: her son's criminal record and jailing, Wyatt's drinking, and their overall humble existence as a farming family. Although she has previously met Leonard and likes him, she is uncomfortable about meeting his academic parents, not wanting them to think of her family as "white trash". She goes to great lengths to present them in the best possible light, including buying dental implants for her son.

In a 2019 episode, the names of Penny's siblings are said to be Randall and Lisa.[47]

Full name

Penny's full name is never officially revealed. In 2009, Co-creator Bill Prady stated that Penny's last name would be revealed eventually.[2] In 2014, executive producer Steve Molaro stated that her last name would remain a secret.[48] Nevertheless, clues to her full name had already been revealed in Season 2.

In the second-season episode "The Barbarian Sublimation", when she becomes addicted to online gaming, she uses the gamertag "Queen Penelope", though whether Penelope is her actual full first name is never confirmed in the series.[49] In the second-season episode "The Work Song Nanocluster", Penny receives a package addressed to "Penny Teller", an apparent reference to magicians Penn and Teller.[50] The name on the address label is just barely (and fleetingly) visible, and is not referenced in dialogue. The producers of the show approved the name "Penny Teller" for use on the package, mistakenly believing it would not be visible in the finished episode. Producer Bill Prady maintains that the last name "Teller" is "not canon".[51] Warner Bros. have referred to her as Penny Teller on social media, however.[52]

Following her marriage to Leonard, Penny is occasionally referred to or addressed with the last name Hofstadter.[53][54][55]

Reception

Tom Jicha of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel praised Cuoco's portrayal of Penny, stating: "Her character had the potential to be a bimbo, but she [Cuoco] has developed it into a fully fleshed-out woman, who isn't as book-smart as the other characters but is wiser in so many ways. She's also a great straight person, who can get off zingers of her own".[56]

See also

References

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American CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory portrayed by actress Kaley Cuoco She is the primary female character in the series befriending her neighbors Leonard Hofstadter Johnny Galecki and Sheldon Cooper Jim Parsons two physicists employed at the California Institute of Technology Caltech Penny s lack of advanced education sets her apart from the group and her outgoing personality and social aptitude drastically contrast with the personalities of the primary male characters in the series She is the primary love interest of Leonard who briefly dates her during the third season This relationship is later resumed in the fifth season and culminates in their engagement at the end of the seventh season and their wedding at the start of season nine 1 Penny HofstadterThe Big Bang Theory Young Sheldon characterKaley Cuoco as PennyFirst appearance Pilot 2007 The Big Bang Theory Last appearance A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast 2019 Young Sheldon Created byChuck Lorre Bill PradyPortrayed byKaley CuocoQuinn Aune Young Sheldon In universe informationGenderFemaleOccupationWaitress seasons 1 7 Actress seasons 1 7 Pharmaceutical sales representative seasons 8 12 SpousesLeonard HofstadterOriginNebraskaNationalityAmerican Contents 1 Development 2 Characterization 2 1 Personality 2 1 1 Nerd traits 2 2 Financial issues 2 3 Work 2 4 Relationships 2 4 1 Sheldon 2 4 2 Family 2 5 Full name 3 Reception 4 See also 5 ReferencesDevelopment EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2022 In the original unaired pilot of The Big Bang Theory the conception of the female lead was very different She was called Katie and was envisioned as a street hardened tough as nails woman with a vulnerable interior Sheldon and Leonard would approach her with honesty to draw the real sensitive Katie out 2 The role was played by Amanda Walsh 3 However the test audiences reacted to the character negatively seeing her as too mean Because of this the character was changed and the role was recast 2 Marisa Tomei Tara Reid Elizabeth Berkley and Jodi Lyn O Keefe were considered 4 In the shows early seasons Penny was portrayed as a dim but beautiful young woman who was out of Leonard s league But the character developed into a more complex individual with high emotional intelligence social skills and work ethic 5 Characterization EditPersonality Edit Penny is originally from a small town outside of Omaha Nebraska 6 She is a Sagittarius born on December 2 7 relevant She has full confidence in pseudoscientific concepts such as horoscopes psychics and Voodoo which has led to repeated mocking from both Sheldon and Leonard along with criticisms of their accuracy 6 7 In contrast to the rest of the group Penny is neither well educated nor savvy in a specific field and is generally somewhat dim witted but she has great social skills and is more streetwise than her neighbors citation needed She is knowledgeable about popular culture 8 She is messy and disorganized 9 Having dropped out of community college prior to the start of the series she is the only regular character with less education than Howard Wolowitz who has a master s degree episode needed In season six she returns to college taking a history class and hiding it from the rest of the group She initially performs terribly in her college classes clarification needed It is revealed in later seasons that Penny has continued her education taking both an acting and a psychology class episode needed When expressing feelings of anger or upset other characters have compared her to The Hulk a rabid wolverine and killer robots 10 11 episode needed Penny s poor driving ability and failure to maintain her vehicle are acknowledged throughout the series She is known to ignore her check engine light 12 13 and has left her passenger side wing mirror in a parking lot somewhere in Hollywood after trying to park her car clarification needed 14 She has hit a Mercedes in a parking lot 15 and knocked the side view mirror off of Bernadette s car not leaving a note in either incident 16 In season seven her car engine fails and she receives a new car from Leonard 17 In the fifth season episode The Speckerman Recurrence Penny is revealed to have unknowingly been a bully while in school clarification needed She attempts to make amends with a classmate she tormented and although she does her best she sees little success 18 vague Another recurring personality trait is her chronic alcoholism specifically with wine In The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition while spending the evening with Bernadette and Amy Penny observes that they have finished the bottle of wine and when Bernadette and Amy point out that they consumed only half a glass and no wine at all respectively Penny snaps Okay don t judge me So what do you want to do go to the movies go dancing lay down for a little bit At the end of that episode she passes out while the three of them play Twister and when Bernadette initially fails to revive her she says Penny we re out of wine which manages to wake Penny In The Intimacy Acceleration Sheldon asks her If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability what would it be Penny replies Well not to steal from the Bible but turning water into wine sounds pretty good Then in The Locomotive Manipulation Leonard declines Amy s suggestion that the group spends a weekend in Napa Valley leading to this exchange Leonard I m not sure it s a great idea to take Penny to where wine comes from Looks at Penny What It s a joke Oh come on We bust on each other I wear dorky glasses you might have a problem it s all for laughs Penny That would really piss me off if I didn t have a buzz going on Nerd traits Edit A number of episodes depict Penny s assimilation of nerd culture through her time spent with the men and has quoted some science fiction shows like Star Trek and movies Star Wars After Sheldon introduces her to the online role playing game Age of Conan Penny becomes addicted to the point of ignoring her friends hygiene general appearance and job pestering Sheldon incessantly for gaming advice This likely resulted from frustration with her life at that point believing herself to be a failure in most aspects of her life She overcomes her addiction when she realizes she has agreed to go on a virtual date within the game with Howard 19 Penny has also displayed proficiency in playing Halo 3 and Fortnite despite being a complete newbie annoying Sheldon and Bernadette In season three she asks Sheldon to teach her a little physics so she could talk to Leonard about his job like Bernadette does She manages to recite a brief summary obviously written by Sheldon for her to memorize of Leonard s experiment during dinner which puzzles Leonard Howard and Raj In episodes such as The Apology Insufficiency The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition The Wheaton Recurrence and The Love Car Displacement she makes casual references to Star Trek 20 In The Bakersfield Expedition Penny Amy and Bernadette read some of the men s comics believing there is nothing interesting in them only to get into a heated argument about whether or not only Thor could wield his enchanted hammer Mjolnir 21 In season seven s The Proton Transmogrification she alarms herself when she realizes that she understands Raj and Howard s corny Star Wars related puns In The Werewolf Transformation although a complete beginner she has beaten Leonard in chess despite not knowing the names of the chess pieces Leonard later expressed astonishment that his girlfriend plays like Bobby Fischer Penny sometimes references science and technology related ideas In The Codpiece Topology Penny having previously learned of Schrodinger s cat in The Tangerine Factor is seen explaining that concept to her date In The Beta Test Initiation Penny references beta testing when Leonard uses a software development analogy to describe their attempt to start a romantic relationship again although he points out he was technically talking about alpha testing In The Veracity Elasticity she demonstrates fluency in Ubbi dubbi by having a secret conversation with Amy Farrah Fowler in front of Sheldon and Leonard when the guys are having their own secret conversation in Klingon relevant Financial issues Edit A recurring theme throughout the series is Penny s ongoing financial problems and poverty This is seen in The Financial Permeability when she finds herself behind on her bills and borrows money from Sheldon only to later become paranoid into thinking that he is pestering her for repayment even though he makes no such indications of this he misinterprets Penny s paranoia and even offers her more money while Leonard points out that one of the few things about Sheldon that isn t insufferable is that he genuinely doesn t care about how long it will take to repay the money Other references are seen in the fact that she once attempted to pay for her electric bill using a Starbucks gift card an apology note and pictures of her in underwear 22 A subset of this trait is addressed by other characters is her freeloading In the second season episode The Financial Permeability when Penny is short on money Leonard pays for her share of a group dinner which causes Raj and Howard to joke that they would get free food too if they wore skintight jeans and a tank top A recurring gag in the fourth season is Sheldon s frequent change of his and Leonard s Wi Fi password to address Penny s use of their signal In The Thespian Catalyst he changes the password to Penny is a freeloader 23 in The Roommate Transmogrification he has changed it to Penny get your own Wi Fi 24 and in the episode The Speckerman Recurrence he has changed it into Penny already eats our food she can pay for Wi Fi In the seventh season The Convention Conundrum when the women go out for drinks and ponder their own maturity and Penny questions the significance of that trait Bernadette replies that it would mean that their check would be split three ways 16 Penny s financial situation radically improves when she begins working as a sales representative at the pharmaceutical company that employs Bernadette in the eighth season episode The Locomotion Interruption By The Expedition Approximation she is making enough money to be financially self sufficient able to sell the automobile Leonard previously gave her and gives him back the money for it changing their dynamic and leading to discussions on whether her future financial windfalls may prove difficult for him given his insecurities This situation was later exacerbated when it was revealed that Penny was earning significantly more than Leonard In the ninth season episode The Big Bear Precipitation Penny reveals she hates her job as a representative but sticks with it because she still has large debts to pay and also does not want to go back to waitressing or acting Work Edit Penny initially moves to California in the hopes of becoming an actress episode needed Until the seventh season Penny works mainly as a waitress at her local The Cheesecake Factory although in the first season episode The Grasshopper Experiment she trained as a bartender It seemed that she occasionally picked up the bartending shift in the restaurant In 2010 when actress Kaley Cuoco broke her leg Penny was shown working as a bartender in several fourth season episodes to hide the cast on her leg 25 Her work at The Cheesecake Factory was initially meant to be a temporary job for her desired profession as an actress citation needed although her expectations are somewhat high and naive at the beginning She admits in season two that her plan was to be a waitress for six months and then become a movie star and her backup plan was to become a TV star She regularly goes to castings but is most often unsuccessful or finds the role to be quite different from what she expected as when a cat food commercial audition was actually for a pornographic film In the season one episode The Loobenfeld Decay she is cast in a production of Rent and in The Terminator Decoupling she refers to another of her roles as Anne Frank in a theater above a bowling alley Frustrated with her acting career in the fifth season premiere she briefly considers returning to Nebraska until landing a part in a commercial for hemorrhoid cream In The Monster Isolation Penny is seen performing the role of Blanche DuBois in her acting class s production of A Streetcar Named Desire In this episode Sheldon who attended the show along with Leonard and Amy is impressed with Penny s ability to memorize lines despite not remembering customers orders as a waitress In the seventh season premiere she was revealed to have had a topless shower scene in a low budget horror film named Serial Apeist when she first moved to California which she did not realise had been uploaded to the internet until Sheldon revealed it was available online and that the gang saw it on the day they met her In the season seven episode The Hesitation Ramification Penny believes she found stardom when she lands a brief role in NCIS She is devastated when her scene is cut but later decides it is time to focus solely on acting she quits her job at The Cheesecake Factory to devote herself to becoming an actress Despite usually going to her neighbors for technical assistance when she has problems with her computer Penny does have some mechanical skills of her own When she was a child she rebuilt a tractor engine on the farm where she grew up 9 and competed in a junior rodeo 26 During season eight Penny abandons acting and takes a job as a salesperson at Bernadette s pharmaceutical company The following season Penny admits that she hates flirting with her customers for sales In season ten she almost changed her job when her ex boyfriend Zack Brian Thomas Smith offers her a position at his menu company Leonard reluctantly supports her but when she called Zack to accept the job Zack informs her that his fiancee does not like the idea of Penny working with Zack given their history In season twelve Bernadette gets Penny to head the sales team to promote her new drug in The Confirmation Polarization After a competitor tries to recruit Penny in The Conference Valuation Bernadette assures Penny that she is great at her job elevating Penny s sense of self worth Relationships Edit Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki who portrays Leonard at PaleyFest Unlike the rest of the main characters Penny is an extrovert She is very outgoing and assertive and has many sexual relationships over the course of the series She often dates and in one way or another all the men have gone to her for dating advice In the fourth season opener Sheldon estimates that Penny has dated 193 men and had sex with 31 of them Penny strenuously denies it was ever that many Amy asks Penny in the same conversation if in light of her sex partners she considers herself a slut Penny responds uncertainly No No No 12 In the series premiere Penny moves in across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon because of her recent split from her boyfriend Kurt after living together for four years She says she still loves him even though he cheated on her 6 Kurt makes two more appearances in the series 27 28 From the beginning 6 Leonard s infatuation with Penny becomes a major force that drives the series Howard also shows interest in her primarily sexual but he is always rejected abruptly due to his unsettling approaches Although Penny occasionally teases Raj for his inability to speak to her she is sympathetic and kind towards him and as with Sheldon she almost always overlooks his idiosyncrasies and appreciates that his intentions are good In the first season episode The Fuzzy Boots Corollary Penny describes her approach after a failed relationship she picks up an attractive man to have rebound sex with over the course of a 36 hour weekend then leaves him 29 In the first season finale Penny breaks up with her boyfriend after he posts intimate details about their private life on his blog This gives Leonard the opportunity to ask her on a first official date 30 Although the date is successful Penny becomes worried after she lies to Leonard about graduating from community college it is mentioned in a later episode The Cohabitation Formulation that she was enrolled in one but dropped out When Sheldon asks her why she lied she indicates that she is self conscious about their comparative level of education Leonard eventually learns the truth but makes matters worse when he tries to encourage Penny to enroll in Pasadena City College as Penny interprets his suggestion as an insult to her intelligence and rebuffs him 31 In The Maternal Capacitance Penny s introduction to Leonard s mother Dr Beverly Hofstadter causes Penny and Leonard to seek comfort in each other They nearly have sex but when Leonard comments in bed that she was attracted to him because of a psychological need to be closer to her father her revulsion at this causes her to rebuff him 32 Afterwards Penny dates Stuart from the comic book store but their dates do not lead to a relationship The first time Penny and Stuart are interrupted by Sheldon who argues at length with Stuart over whether Dick Grayson or Jason Todd should be Batman s successor while Penny falls asleep 11 Their dating ends in The Classified Materials Turbulence when Penny and Stuart are kissing and Penny mistakenly calls him Leonard 33 In the second season finale Penny shows strong romantic feelings for Leonard When she discovers that Leonard Sheldon Howard and Raj will be spending three months at the magnetic North Pole for a scientific experiment she becomes sad and gives Leonard a Snuggie and a long hug that Leonard perceives as unusually long Although Penny dismisses the meaning into which Leonard reads the gift and the hug she later admits to herself that it meant that she did not want him to leave 34 In the third season premiere after the men returned from the expedition Penny kisses Leonard immediately upon his return having missed him immensely 35 Initially Leonard and Penny feel uncomfortable with their new relationship and they agree to remain only friends but are unable to maintain this resolution and began a stable relationship 36 Their relationship sours however when Leonard tells Penny he loves her for the first time and an unsure Penny simply replies Thank you The resulting tension eventually leads to Penny tearfully breaking up with Leonard during a bowling match 37 However they remain friends and sleep together once after Penny gets drunk following a bad date with Zack Johnson after she realizes Leonard ruined her ability to tolerate and date unintelligent men 38 In the fourth season Penny reveals to her friends Bernadette Rostenkowski and Amy Farrah Fowler during a Truth or Dare game that she has still not moved on from Leonard This is further implied in The Justice League Recombination when she indicates to Leonard that her reunion with Zack and Zack s decision to have the two of them join the men in dressing up as the Justice League for New Year s Eve costume party at Stuart s comic shop is made difficult by her history with Leonard In The Love Car Displacement Penny and the rest of the cast attend an academic conference in Big Sur She and Leonard share the same hotel room for the night and they almost have sex until Raj walks in on them The next day bored with the conference Penny accepts a ride back to Los Angeles from Professor Glenn Bernadette s tall and attractive ex boyfriend When Raj s sister Priya returns in the episode The Cohabitation Formulation Priya and Leonard begin a romantic relationship Penny appears to be initially accepting of their relationship but is later discovered by Amy to be heartbroken over it In the fourth season finale Penny reveals to Raj that she made a huge mistake by breaking up with Leonard However even though she and Raj both agree to be friends they get drunk and wake up in bed together apparently both naked the next morning Leonard Sheldon and Howard discover Penny leaving the apartment deducing that they just had sex In the fifth season premiere Raj confides to her that they had not consummated their encounter and instead just fell asleep prompting Penny to refer to Raj as Quickdraw because of that She spends the rest of the episode with Amy avoiding the men due to her embarrassment over her encounter with Raj In The Ornithophobia Diffusion Leonard and Penny go on a platonic date as friends but after Leonard decides that he does not have to pay for everything or defer to her because they are not a couple they end up bickering and sabotaging each other s attempts to socialize with members of the opposite sex Penny realizes that she finds Leonard s more assertive demeanor attractive but when he regresses to groveling in order to have sex with her she rebuffs him On the spur of the moment in The Recombination Hypothesis Leonard asks Penny out on a date after he imagines what getting back with her might be like In The Beta Test Initiation their date goes well until Leonard asks about the status of their relationship This causes conflict due to Penny s subsequent admission that commitment frightens her but they agree to take their relationship slowly While having sex in The Launch Acceleration however Leonard accidentally proposes to her causing Penny great distress After discussing the matter Penny declines his proposal while affirming her feelings for him and her desire to remain with him In the sixth season episode The Date Night Variable Leonard wants a reluctant Penny to define their relationship In The Decoupling Fluctuation she wonders if she is really in love with him but cannot bring herself to discuss it with Leonard In The Date Night Variable Raj shows up unannounced at a private dinner of Penny and Leonard s and inserts himself into their discussion of where their relationship is headed When Leonard complains that Penny has yet to say I love you to Leonard Raj attempts to get her to say it causing Penny to eject him from the apartment In the Higgs Boson Observation Sheldon hires grad student Alex Jensen to review his childhood journals for any potential ideas that might win him a Nobel Prize After Amy and Penny observes Alex and Leonard in the Caltech cafeteria talking Penny although having reservations with her relationship with Leonard is bothered with the thought of him with another woman Later that day Alex comes home with Sheldon to work in his apartment where Leonard and Penny are Penny introduces herself to Alex subtly implying that Leonard is hers and drags Leonard to her apartment to have sex In The 43 Peculiarity Leonard becomes jealous of Penny s classmate an attractive Englishman At the end of the episode Penny and Leonard discuss this during which Penny casually mentions that she loves him which Leonard notes is the first time she has said this to him In The Egg Salad Equivalency Penny learns that Sheldon s attractive assistant Alex asked Leonard out to dinner and eventually admits to Leonard her own insecurity about their relationship After a major argument with Sheldon Leonard suggests moving in with Penny in The Spoiler Alert Segmentation but she indicates that she is not ready for this In The Tangible Affection Proof upon seeing her ex boyfriend propose to the woman he cheated on her with during a Valentine s Day dinner date Leonard again tries to propose to Penny but she expresses that she is not ready for this and is unnerved by that level of commitment They resolve that when she is ready to get married she can propose to him In The Bon Voyage Reaction Penny copes with Leonard leaving for a summer science assignment in Europe resolving that they are more secure in their relationship In The Hesitation Ramification Penny inebriated and frustrated over the state of her acting career proposes to Leonard who is hesitant to answer given the circumstances Though this further frustrates Penny she admits in the following episode The Occupation Recalibration that Leonard did the right thing By season five Penny has formed strong friendships with Doctors Amy Farrah Fowler and Bernadette Rostenkowski and the three are often seen spending time together However Amy and Bernadette occasionally prefer to meet without Penny and often tease her In the seventh season episode The Thanksgiving Decoupling it was revealed that Penny had married Zack in Las Vegas in what they thought as a fake wedding This revelation causes tension between her and Leonard who has repeatedly proposed to Penny but was always rejected They managed to annul the wedding by getting Zack to sign the annulment papers In the penultimate episode of season seven The Gorilla Dissolution she and Leonard become engaged after Penny realizes that it is not fame she wants out of life but happiness with Leonard Throughout season eight a running gag is their reluctance to decide upon a wedding date In the eighth season finale Penny asks Leonard to marry her that night in Las Vegas Leonard happily accepts but during the journey after Penny expresses happiness that they will get married while knowing everything about each other Leonard confesses to having shared a drunken kiss with another woman while on the boat in Europe though he adds that the woman started it and he rejected her Penny becomes hurt by the revelation and even though she claims to forgive Leonard there is clearly tension between them leaving the season ending in a cliffhanger as to whether or not they will go through with the wedding At the beginning of season nine Leonard and Penny marry although not without some initial problems They both reveal that they were subconsciously trying to sabotage their relationship feeling unworthy of the other Upon addressing this topic they both agree to stop being scared of losing the other and embrace their happiness together After an aborted attempt for Leonard to move into Penny s apartment and live with his wife Sheldon forces them to spend most of the nights a week in Leonard s old room Although CBS now refers to the character with the married name Penny Hofstadter it has not been explicitly indicated in series whether she took Leonard s surname 39 By the ninth season finale Penny and Leonard decide to have a second small unofficial wedding ceremony for their family and friends to make up for eloping In season ten Sheldon moves into Penny s old apartment with Amy allowing Penny and Leonard to live on their own as husband and wife In season eleven Leonard Howard and Raj are trying to recover the bitcoin they mined years ago now worth thousands of dollars It is revealed that the bitcoin is in Leonard s old laptop which he gave to Penny while they were dating in season three Penny then said that she gave the laptop to Zack after her breakup with Leonard After retrieving the laptop Zack shows the couple a video in the laptop that Penny made after her breakup with Leonard showing a drunk Penny apologizing to Leonard and regrets breaking up with him Leonard is touched by the video and realizes that Penny genuinely loves him and not just out of desperation or pity In season twelve Penny announces that she does not want to have any children which Leonard somewhat reluctantly supports her decision Later Zack and his wife Marissa wants Leonard to be a surrogate father to their kid since Zack is infertile Penny reluctantly agrees to let Leonard donate his sperm However Penny tries to seduce Leonard despite knowing he has to be abstinent for a few days Her visiting father Wyatt points out to Penny that her own actions suggest she is more conflicted over having kids than she lets on to which she admits she feels bad about letting him and Leonard down if she goes through with never having children He says that despite her flaws parenthood is the best thing that ever happened to him and he does not want her to miss out but he says he will support her no matter what she decides Leonard finally changes his mind about donating his sperm to Zack not wanting a child in the world that he cannot raise In the series finale Penny reveals to her friends that she is pregnant with Leonard s baby and changes her mind about not wanting children Sheldon Edit A staple of the series humor is Penny s awkward interactions with Sheldon as they are almost polar opposites in terms of intellect and social aptitude Throughout the series Sheldon often insults Penny s level of formal education but appreciates her advice when navigating social situations In one episode Sheldon tries to improve Penny rewarding her with chocolate for what he considers correct behavior as in operant conditioning of lab rats Leonard noticed it and accused Sheldon of training her like Pavlov s dogs 40 Although the two characters sometimes clash and Penny is frequently irritated by Sheldon s obstinacy and lack of social awareness she developed a conspicuous soft spot for him as the series progressed She and Leonard occasionally talk and behave as if Sheldon were their child alluded to earlier in the third season episode The Spaghetti Catalyst during the final seven minutes see next paragraph and in the eleventh season episode The Collaboration Contamination when Penny actually uses a parenting book of Bernadette s on Sheldon Penny is delighted whenever Sheldon acts affectionately towards her recognising that such behaviour is highly unusual for him Penny often calls Sheldon sweetie a term of endearment she frequently uses with other characters a fact that Sheldon himself points out in one episode and Penny and Amy are the only principal characters who ever openly demonstrate their genuine fondness for Sheldon Evidence of Penny s affection for Sheldon is apparent in various episodes Penny takes care of Sheldon while he is ill 41 and lets him stay at her apartment when he is locked out of his has a bad dream or is feeling unsafe 42 Sheldon lent her money when she needed it 27 and takes care of her when she dislocates her shoulder 14 Despite not being as well versed as the men in geek culture Penny has shown attention to what each of her friends likes although she still remains dismissive of them during a Christmas episode Sheldon is overwhelmed when Penny gives him a napkin autographed by Leonard Nimoy In return Sheldon gives Penny several baskets of bath products and then a long hug to both her and Leonard s surprise Leonard claims it to be a Saturnalian miracle When Sheldon s World of Warcraft account is hacked and the four men all back down from the much larger hacker who also steals Sheldon s Klingon Bat leth Penny kicks the hacker in the groin Following her breakup with Leonard Penny takes Sheldon along when she and some friends from work went to Disneyland for which he is thankful In the same episode The Spaghetti Catalyst she notes that she takes Sheldon shopping for his linens This episode shows Leonard and Penny speaking to each other in the manner of a divorced couple arguing over Sheldon as though he were their child She has also helped Sheldon resolve conflicts with Amy as in The Shiny Trinket Manoeuvre In The Panty Pinata Polarization Penny has a fight with Sheldon as he banishes her from his apartment and using their Wi Fi as she got three strikes She defends herself by refusing to take down his order at the restaurant later suggesting that she tampered with his food after being forced to take Sheldon s order after he complained to her manager and then ruins his weekly Saturday laundry night In response he puts Penny s underwear on the outside telephone wire After having a heated argument with his mother over his actions he apologises to Penny and they make amends with one another On one occasion when Penny knocks on the door to Apartment 4A in the same manner as Sheldon as a joke she admitted to Sheldon that it started to feel good Sheldon swiftly advises her not to do it again as she would be doing it for the rest of her life Sheldon has acknowledged that he likes Penny although claims he was forced to because Leonard made him and that Sheldon liking her was a hard row to hoe 43 although in The Intimacy Acceleration Sheldon has admitted that he considers Penny a sisterly or motherly figure By the series finale Penny and Leonard admit to each other that Sheldon was sort of our practice kid whereas Sheldon himself calls Penny and Leonard my two dearest friends in the world during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Family Edit In The Maternal Capacitance when first meeting Leonard s Mother Penny reveals that her father Wyatt Keith Carradine 44 tried to raise her like a boy which is a source of pain for her leading her to have father issues When she and Leonard begin dating Wyatt comes to appreciate that she is dating an accomplished academic rather than an uneducated hick so much so that when he visits Penny in the fourth season episode The Boyfriend Complexity following her and Leonard s breakup it is revealed that she has not revealed the breakup to her father When she later informs Wyatt of the breakup Wyatt secretly encourages Leonard to not give up on her In an early episode Penny talked to Raj about her sister having shot her brother in law 9 In another episode Penny accompanied the men to the comic book store to shop for a gift for her 13 year old nephew 11 In The Boyfriend Complexity 4 9 Wyatt Penny s father tells Leonard he wants grandchildren one day and I want them to grow up on a house without wheels 44 In The Dumpling Paradox Penny has an unwanted guest Christy staying with her who had slept with her brother while being engaged to her cousin saying she s kind of family Christy knows Penny from back in Omaha and according to Penny she slept with nearly every man in the city earning her the nickname Whore of Omaha While staying with Penny Christy sleeps with Howard 45 In the fifth season episode The Pulled Groin Extrapolation after Penny quickly grabs and eats the last dumpling of a group dinner after a brief disagreement over who should get it Sheldon makes the sarcastic comment I ve seen pictures of your mother Keep eating a reference to Penny s mother s weight that clearly unsettles her In The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition Penny confesses to Bernadette that her mother smoked pot while she was pregnant with her Penny has mentioned having a sister who appears to be the mother of her 13 year old nephew mentioned in season two In the sixth season episode The Parking Spot Escalation Penny mentions to Bernadette and Amy that her sister gave her her first ever bikini wax using melted crayolas and duct tape In The Bachelor Party Corrosion Penny tells Bernadette Amy and viewers that at her sister s wedding she was heavily pregnant since she and their father started a father daughter dance and then her water broke Penny has mentioned having a brother on parole who she says is kind of a chemist In The Rhinitis Revelation 5 6 she is more explicit in revealing that he is in the practice of cooking crystal meth 46 She mentions that he is back in prison for 12 18 months depending on his behavior in the seventh season finale The Status Quo Combustion Penny s mother Susan who Penny has occasionally spoken with on the phone in prior episodes usually about other family members first appears in the tenth season premiere The Conjugal Conjecture portrayed by Katey Sagal who previously played Cuoco s mother in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules She is shown to be very embarrassed by her family s shortcomings her son s criminal record and jailing Wyatt s drinking and their overall humble existence as a farming family Although she has previously met Leonard and likes him she is uncomfortable about meeting his academic parents not wanting them to think of her family as white trash She goes to great lengths to present them in the best possible light including buying dental implants for her son In a 2019 episode the names of Penny s siblings are said to be Randall and Lisa 47 Full name Edit Penny s full name is never officially revealed In 2009 Co creator Bill Prady stated that Penny s last name would be revealed eventually 2 In 2014 executive producer Steve Molaro stated that her last name would remain a secret 48 Nevertheless clues to her full name had already been revealed in Season 2 In the second season episode The Barbarian Sublimation when she becomes addicted to online gaming she uses the gamertag Queen Penelope though whether Penelope is her actual full first name is never confirmed in the series 49 In the second season episode The Work Song Nanocluster Penny receives a package addressed to Penny Teller an apparent reference to magicians Penn and Teller 50 The name on the address label is just barely and fleetingly visible and is not referenced in dialogue The producers of the show approved the name Penny Teller for use on the package mistakenly believing it would not be visible in the finished episode Producer Bill Prady maintains that the last name Teller is not canon 51 Warner Bros have referred to her as Penny Teller on social media however 52 Following her marriage to Leonard Penny is occasionally referred to or addressed with the last name Hofstadter 53 54 55 Reception EditTom Jicha of the South Florida Sun Sentinel praised Cuoco s portrayal of Penny stating Her character had the potential to be a bimbo but she Cuoco has developed it into a fully fleshed out woman who isn t as book smart as the other characters but is wiser in so many ways She s also a great straight person who can get off zingers of her own 56 See also EditList of The Big Bang Theory characters List of The Big Bang Theory episodesReferences Edit Steinbeiser Andrew August 28 2015 Whether Leonard And Penny Get Married On The Big Bang Theory Season 9 Premiere Revealed Comicbook com Retrieved August 28 2015 a b c Big Bang Theory We didn t anticipate how protective the audience would feel about our guys Variety May 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October 20 2008 CBS a b The Adhesive Duck Deficiency The Big Bang Theory Season 3 Episode 8 November 16 2009 CBS The Vacation Solution The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 16 March 6 2014 CBS a b The Convention Conundrum The Big Bang Theory Season 7 Episode 14 January 30 2014 CBS The Friendship Turbulence The Big Bang Theory Season 7 Episode 17 March 6 2014 Event occurs at 16 40 CBS The Speckerman Recurrence The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 11 December 8 2011 CBS The Barbarian Sublimation The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 3 October 6 2008 CBS The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 19 March 30 2009 CBS The Bakersfield Expedition The Big Bang Theory Season 6 Episode 13 January 10 2013 CBS The Friendship Contraction The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 15 February 2 2012 Event occurs at 12 23 CBS The Thespian Catalyst The Big Bang Theory Season 4 Episode 14 February 3 2011 CBS The Roommate Transmogrification The Big Bang Theory Season 4 Episode 24 May 19 2011 CBS The Real Reason Penny Became a Bartender on The Big Bang Theory CBR November 25 2020 Retrieved November 25 2021 The Panty Pinata Polarization The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 7 November 10 2008 CBS a b The Financial Permeability The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 14 February 2 2009 CBS The Middle Earth Paradigm The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 6 October 29 2007 CBS The Fuzzy Boots Corollary The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 3 October 8 2007 CBS The Tangerine Factor The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 17 May 19 2008 CBS The Bad Fish Paradigm The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 1 September 22 2008 CBS The Maternal Capacitance The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 15 February 9 2009 CBS The Classified Materials Turbulence The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 22 May 4 2009 CBS The Monopolar Expedition The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 23 May 11 2009 CBS The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation The Big Bang Theory Season 3 Episode 1 September 21 2009 CBS The Jiminy Conjecture The Big Bang Theory Season 3 Episode 2 September 28 2009 CBS The Wheaton Recurrence The Big Bang Theory Season 3 Episode 19 April 12 2010 CBS The Lunar Excitation The Big Bang Theory Season 3 Episode 23 May 24 2010 CBS Penny Hofstadter The Big Bang Theory CBS Retrieved December 22 2015 The Gothowitz Deviation The Big Bang Theory Season 3 Episode 3 October 5 2009 CBS The Pancake Batter Anomaly The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 11 March 31 2008 CBS The Vegas Renormalization The Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 21 April 27 2009 CBS The Habitation Configuration The Big Bang Theory Season 6 Episode 7 November 8 2012 15 06 minutes in CBS a b The Boyfriend Complexity The Big Bang Theory Season 4 Episode 9 November 18 2010 CBS The Dumpling Paradox The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 7 November 5 2007 CBS The Rhinitis Revelation The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 6 October 11 2011 CBS The Donation Oscillation aired February 7 2019 Penny s Big Bang Theory Secret You ll Never Know Her Last Name Steve Molaro Says Huffington Post June 8 2013 Retrieved May 9 2014 MacRae Grace July 25 2019 The Big Bang Theory Penny Hofstadter s real name revealed in clue everyone missed Daily Express Dumarog Ana November 2 2021 The Big Bang Theory Secretly Revealed Penny s Surname Screenrant com Schwartz Ryan October 11 2022 Big Bang EPs Debunk Popular Internet Theory that Penny s Last Name was Revealed in this Season 2 Scene tvline com Retrieved December 15 2022 Warner Bros UK WarnerBrosUK From Penny Teller to Cassie Bowden Happy Birthday to TheBigBangTheory and TheFlightAttendant s Kaley Cuoco RETWEET to show her some love Directo Denny September 22 2014 6 Things You Didn t Know About Big Bang Theory Before the Season 8 Premiere Entertainment Tonight The Matrimonial Momentum The Big Bang Theory Season 9 Episode 1 September 21 2015 CBS Finally a Mrs Hofstadter who isn t disappointed with me The Separation Oscillation The Big Bang Theory Season 9 Episode 2 September 28 2015 CBS 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