The Big Bang Theory (TV Series)

The Recombination Hypothesis (2012)

Kaley Cuoco: Penny

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• Leonard Hofstadter : So, uh, do they have a name for a first date with someone you used to go out with?

  Penny : Oh, that's a good question. How about 'awkward'?

  Leonard Hofstadter : That sounds right. Hey, how about if we pretend we're actually on a first date? See how that goes.

  Penny : Okay.

  Leonard Hofstadter : So, Polly, tell me about yourself.

  Penny : It's Penny.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Oh sorry, yeah, awkward...

  Penny : Okay, uh, let's see, I'm from Nebraska, and ever since I was little girl I dreamed of moving to L.A. and becoming a movie star. Anyway, after four years of acting lessons and waiting tables, I've done a hemorrhoid commercial and a production of Anne Frank above a bowling alley. So, you know, dreams do come true! Your turn!

  Leonard Hofstadter : Ah, let's see. I am an experimental physicist at Caltech. Most of my research is with high-powered lasers and, oh, I've just gotten a big government grant to see if they can be used to knock out incoming ballistic missiles.

  Penny : Wow! Can they?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Oh, God no! The money's pretty good. And I use the equipment to make my own Bat Signal.

  Penny : Bat Signal? What are you, some kind of nerd?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Not "some *kind* of nerd". I am the king of nerds!

  Penny : What does that mean?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Well, it means if anyone displeases me, I don't help them set up their printer.

• Leonard Hofstadter : Penny, do you have plans for dinner tonight?

  Penny : Why? Are you guys going somewhere?

  Leonard Hofstadter : No, I mean, just you and me.

  Penny : You mean like a date?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Not "like a date", a date!

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Woooooooooo!

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Woooooooooo!

• Leonard Hofstadter : I don't know how you have a relationship without talking.

  Penny : I went out with this one guy, T.J., for eight months, we never talked. To this day, I don't even know what T.J. stands for.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Wait, if you guys didn't talk, then... Never mind, stupid question.

• Penny : [enters from closet wearing a low-cut green dress]  Too much?

  Bernadette Rostenkowski : Yes.

  Amy Farrah Fowler : [Simultaneously with Bernadette]  No.

  Penny : Okay, just hang on.

  [Goes back into closet] 

  Amy Farrah Fowler : [to Bernadette]  You just can't handle her raw sexuality, can you?

• Penny : [after Leonard asks her out for real]  Have you thought this through?

  Leonard Hofstadter : Yes, and I think we should go anyway.

• Penny : Do not overthink this!

• Leonard Hofstadter : Isn't sex after fighting kinda what we do now?

  Penny : Yeah, kinda, yeah.

• [last lines] 

  Reverend White : [Penny imagines her wedding to Leonard]  Do you, Penny, take Leonard to be your lawfully wedded husband?

  [Penny turns around, revealing she's pregnant] 

  Penny : Well, it's a little late for me to start saying no, isn't it.

  [Back to reality] 

  Amy Farrah Fowler : Penny.

  Penny : Sorry. Just remembered, I have *got* to stop by the drug store.

• Penny : You are so funny.

  Leonard Hofstadter : Good. Remember that when I take my shirt off.