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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 Sheldon Cooper ( Jim Parsons ) and Leonard Hofstadter ( Johnny Galecki ), two physicists employed at the California ...
Sheldon and Penny, or Shenny (the name given for the hypothetical relationship between Sheldon and Penny). Though a romantic/sexual relationship between the two characters has never been pursued on the show and has never been hinted at, many fans still ponder over the possibility.
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"Leonard standing here with you in front of our family and friends is bringing up a lot of feelings. Like what a good idea it was to elope the first time. But also how incredibly happy you make me. Thank you for marrying me. Hopefully for the last time"
―Penny,
Penelope "Penny" Hofstadter, is the tritagonist of the American CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actress Kaley Cuoco. She is the primary female character in the series. She lives in Apartment 4A with her husband Leonard Hofstadter across the hall from Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler who live in apartment 4B where Penny moved and used to live in "Pilot" and Leonard first met and smitten with her.
Her full first name is possibly "Penelope" as implied by "The Barbarian Sublimation", as her username was "Queen Penelope." She was unknowingly married to her ex-boyfriend Zack Johnson for three years, so her name could include "Johnson." That marriage was finally annulled in "The Thanksgiving Decoupling".
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An aspiring, but mostly unsuccessful actress, she was born on a farm near Omaha, Nebraska, and worked at The Cheesecake Factory as a waitress until she quit in "The Occupation Recalibration" (S7E13) to take up acting full-time. Penny was the original female lead in the show before being joined by Bernadette Rostenkowski and Amy Farrah Fowler and in season 8 started working at the same company as did Bernadette. She had her fifteen minutes of fame in "Serial Ape-ist 2: Monkey See, Monkey Kill". She has always been Leonard's love interest since the Pilot, with the two dating briefly in the over the first season/second season break, for most of the third season, and they rekindled their romance in "The Recombination Hypothesis". As of "The Gorilla Dissolution", she and Leonard became engaged and were married at the start of season 9 in "The Matrimonial Momentum", followed by a vow renewal at the start of season 10 in "The Conjugal Conjecture". As of the series finale "The Stockholm Syndrome", they are currently expecting their first child (2019). Even though she is considered part of the guys' group, she represents the "dumb blonde" for viewer context in the series with a lot of street smarts and communication skills to compensate for her lack of academic knowledge and common sense. As the series progresses, her knowledge of geeky subjects such as Doctor Who even surprises her. To Penny, everyone (though mainly Sheldon) is "Sweetie".
Early Life (Before the show)
Penny was born on December 2, 1985, in Nebraska, a small town outside of Omaha to Wyatt and Susan. She also has one sister named Lisa and one brother named Randall. During her childhood, Penny had issues with her father who wanted a boy and he treated Penny like one (until she developed breasts), like making her play catch, calling her 'Slugger' etc. When Penny was 12, she rebuilt a tractor engine all by herself ("The Big Bran Hypothesis") (S1E2), started dating at the age of 14 ("The Robotic Manipulation"), nearly became pregnant ("The Staircase Implementation") and had an active sex life that she defines as being popular. She also stole a horse one time while drunk in high school. Her boyfriends used to crawl in and out of her window. Most were very dumb according to her father.
Later Life (After the show)
Not much is known about Penny after TBBT, some things about her were revealed in Young Sheldon, she attended Sheldon and Amy's son, Leonard Cooper's graduation party. In "Memoir", she babysat Sheldon and Amy's daughter and convinced her to take acting classes alongside Sheldon.
Season 1
Penny first moved into Apartment 4B across from Apartment 4A where Leonard and Sheldon live. Penny had broken up with her boyfriend Kurt because he cheated on her. She met the guys and asked them for a favor to go get her TV from his apartment, but he steals their pants and Penny apologizes for everything and later the three go out to dinner with Howard and Raj (Pilot). Sheldon and Leonard clean Penny's messy apartment, which infuriates Penny and she talks to Raj. Raj nods his head and confirms she should still trust Leonard and Sheldon. She forgives the guys and admits she's happy with her cleaner apartment. (The Big Bran Hypothesis) Penny throws a Halloween party where her ex-boyfriend Kurt joins and is confronted by Leonard. This leads to a fight with the two that scares Sheldon and causes a tipsy Penny to get tearful. She and Leonard talk and kiss, to which Leonard taunts Kurt and shuts the door on him. (The Middle-Earth Paradigm) Penny comes back from Nebraska where her whole family got sick, scaring the germaphobe Sheldon into running and demanding info regarding the illness. He starts panicking and the next morning finds out he got sick. Leonard runs from Sheldon and leaves him with Penny, who misses work and makes the rules of no sponge baths or enemas. Sheldon agrees with Penny's rules, though annoys her, making her mad at Leonard for leaving him with her and she has him take care of Sheldon instead. Leonard says he thinks Penny will never see them now that Leonard's made her mad and Sheldon made her miss work, leaving the two geniuses to suffer from an illness and a concussion, which Leonard got hoping to join Penny. (The Pancake Batter Anomaly)
Originally, two different female leads were written for the Pilot episode. The unaired pilot episode had an alternate version of the female lead named Katie. Katie was bitter and snide and was received by audiences to be too mean to Sheldon and Leonard. Kaley Cuoco did not portray this alternate version of the female lead, but instead was hired to do the second version filmed after the unaired pilot, which was sociable and nice and was the one that the producers decided was the more interesting and appealing out of the two.
Some of Penny's comedic role in the series is rooted in her ability to execute practical and simple solutions to problems of which the guys try to solve through complicated or scientific means. For example, in the episode "The Pants Alternative", Sheldon reveals that in spite of his ability to talk excessively to people in small groups, he has a severe case of stage fright, and wouldn't be able to accept an award. While Leonard tries to get to the root of his problem through a psych evaluation, and Raj attempts to use meditation, Penny solves the problem by having him buy a new suit and getting him intoxicated right before he makes his speech.
When she first met the guys in the Pilot, Penny was writing a screenplay about a girl from Lincoln, Nebraska who travels to Los Angeles at the age of 18 to become an actress, but ends up working at The Cheesecake Factory instead. When Leonard asks if the screenplay was autobiographical, she replies that it isn't, because she is from a small town outside of Omaha, Nebraska.
Penny moved into the apartment building because she split with Kurt, her boyfriend for 4 years. She says she still loved him, and insinuates he cheated on her. The shower in her apartment was broken at the time, so the boys offered her theirs. Her apartment is sloppy and disorganized, but Penny appears to like it that way.
She is either oblivious to or completely aware of her effect on the boys, because within minutes of meeting him, she asked Leonard to retrieve her television set from Kurt's apartment, which he immediately set out to do. Penny is aware of Leonard's crush on her, and it is hinted throughout the series that some of the feelings are reciprocated. At the end of season one, Penny goes on a date with Leonard. Leonard is nervous, and Penny slightly withdrawn, but they share a kiss.
In season two, there was some initial enthusiasm between Penny and Leonard; however, they later develop insecurities concerning their relationship. Penny was worried that she was not smart enough for Leonard, and lied about graduating from community college because she thought it would make Leonard respect her. The relationship quickly deteriorated and she goes back to dating different guys. Leonard showed Penny some literature on Pasadena City College and she interpreted it as him wanting a woman with more education and they break up.
She gives relationship advice to Sheldon and Leonard fairly often: Leonard, when he has problems with Priya or Stephanie, and Sheldon when he's with Amy. She also starts to become geekier through the guys. She makes inadvertent references to Star Trek, and, thanks to Sheldon, becomes addicted to Age of Conan. She also dates Stuart, who runs the Comic Book Store. However, when Penny and Stuart are making out, she accidentally calls him Leonard, and as a result, they stop seeing each other.
When she learns that the guys are going on an Arctic expedition, she is visibly upset, buys Leonard a farewell gift, and tells herself, after speaking with him, that she wishes he wasn't going.
Penny is somewhat naïve and not thoroughly educated, but has a lot of common sense (which she does not always use, particularly regarding her car's condition, her spending habits and her drinking) and street smarts. Her dream is to become a famous actress, a goal she never seems to waver from until season 8. She is very kindhearted and empathetic toward people, though she can blow up when made mad, which prompted Leonard to refer to her as "The Incredible Hulk" after she went off on Howard. She believes most guys are nice and has been hurt a lot. When someone shocks her, she tends to bat her eyes at them while she is considering her response. She also storms off in frustration when dealing with people like Sheldon (who, for example, she initially does not know has no concept or understanding of sarcasm, causing her to get frustrated when he takes her sarcastic barbs literally) or situations she can't believe or understand. She knows how to throw out wise cracks and is very loyal to her man as long as she is not betrayed. She also has a tendency to deny doing things that are embarrassing or that she suddenly realizes are embarrassing. When she has had arguments with Leonard, she also has a tendency to make assumptions about what he says, twists his comments out of context, and puts words in his mouth that he never said (e.g., when Leonard points out that something Penny did was stupid or foolish, and Penny jumps to conclusions and assumes that Leonard said she was "stupid").
In the first season she seemed very naïve, but has appeared smarter (though not always) in later seasons and more complicated in situations with her female friends. She also has a habit of being selfish and throwing her friends under the bus. For example, she sold Sheldon out to the court officials for running a red light, despite the fact he had done it to help her after she had dislocated her shoulder, simply because she didn't want the ticket. As demonstrated throughout her relationship with Leonard, Penny has a fear of commitment, which eventually diminished as time passed. Meanwhile, during Season 10, Penny appears to have become ungrateful as she seems to forget all about the great things Leonard did for her in the past few years and believes that he's taking her for granted, when it's actually the other way around. In addition, she also has turned ignorant to everything in her life, thinking that her marriage to Leonard hasn't taken her anywhere, when in reality, a lot of fortune has come her way since then. She is also somewhat of a hypocrite as in The Vert Elasticity, she takes pretty much everything out of Leonard's bedroom simply because she doesn't like the style and completely redoes the entire style without his consent. Despite her bad attitude and selfish acts, Penny is deep down a good person and truly loves Leonard and their friends. Not much is said about her politics, though she does appear naïve about some issues like diversity and had been seen wearing a "Hillary (Clinton) 2008" t-shirt long after that election occurred.
Penny is considered a very beautiful woman. She has layered blond hair when we first see her in Season 1, Episode 1 ("Pilot"). She is of average height and has a nice hourglass figure. She is thin but obviously works out, as can be seen by her triceps. She has green eyes with some brown flecks—according to Sheldon (Season 8, Episode 16). She is obv...
Penny's Sister Lisa is mentioned as having shot her husband while they were both intoxicated. Her name wasn't revealed until the last season.
It's known that she has a nephew who turned 13 in season two, likely the son of Lisa.
When Christy (Penny's friend from Omaha) comes into town, Penny reveals that she has a brother and at least one male cousin, as she claims that Christy slept with the former while being engaged to the latter.
Her brother, Randall, works in a meth lab. This fact is first hinted at in "The Pirate Solution" as Penny describes him as "kind of a chemist" and tells Leonard that he would like him. It is finally confirmed in "The Rhinitis Revelation" when she asks God to make her brother stop cooking meth, but without involving the authorities. In season 7 in "The Hesitation Ramification", Penny mentions that her Dad gathered all the relatives together to see her scene on NCIS, which included getting her brother a day out of rehab. They also bought a large sandwich to share. When her scene is cut, Penny mentions that the sandwich and her brother are gone and as far as she knows her brother is on the way to Mexico. She also mentioned wanting to postpone her wedding with Leonard until he gets paroled. Randall appeared on the series in "The Conjugal Conjecture" for his sister's vow renewal.
Sheldon implies Penny's mother, Susan, is overweight and in "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" says that her mother must have used cannabis when she was expectant with her. In "The Status Quo Combustion", Penny is discussing her engagement with her mother, tells her that she is NOT pregnant and that that is unusual in their family. She had lost the weight by Leonard and Penny's second wedding and vow renewal.
In season two, "The Maternal Capacitance", as Penny is explaining to Beverly that her father stopped playing catch with her when she developed breasts, she quotes her mother talking to her father, and suggests his name is "Bob", though it is later revealed in "The Boyfriend Complexity" to be Wyatt. Her father visits Penny and begs Leonard to get back with her because he wants grandchildren who don't live in a house on wheels. Her parents like Leonard because he is smarter than the dumb boys that Penny usually dated.
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Penny Hofstadter (simplemente Penny hasta la novena temporada) (Nebraska, 2 de diciembre de 1985) es un personaje ficticio de la serie televisiva The Big Bang Theory, emitida por la CBS. El personaje es interpretado por la actriz estadounidense Kaley Cuoco.
