I thought Penny was fired from the movie? The director said they had enough footage and could use a body double or someone else in the ape suit to finish. If she was fired before the movie was done filming, does she still get credit?
Sure, why not? It’s not like they could list the stunt double as the star. The cult fans of the first movie would be looking for Penny’s name.
I agree with Leonard on this one, however. A part in Clerks 3 isn’t the springboard to stardom you’d think. 
This absolutely describes our rep from one of our suppliers.
I think it’s been discussed that Leonard doesn’t make much money. Also, I personally know quite a large number of drug reps. Some of them, the ones that do really well, make a good amount of money. I’d guess they were north of 100K. I also know some that were probably making a more ‘normal’ salary. Probably more like 40-50K. I’d guess Penny is probably closer to that number only because she’s so new. But based on her looks and the fact that she learns very quickly and can rattle that information off like she knows what she’s talking about (which is a lot of what the job involves), she could be making a lot of money very soon.
I don’t find it odd that Leonard didn’t know exactly how much she was making, but I do find it odd that he didn’t know she ‘has a guy’ to help her invest it. That seems like something she would have told him…or asked for his advice about.
Option 3 - She told him over dinner one night and he totally ignored her because she was talking about her job, not his.
Remember the Billy Bob Thornton episode? Clearly Penny is excellent at the people side of sales.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Sheldon? Leonard doesn’t typically ignore Penny.
Yes he does. He just isn’t as obvious as Sheldon is. If she told Sheldon, not only would he remember it, he would have given her a 3 hour lecture on the math and several alternate investment suggestions.
My bet is that Penny overheard someone at work talking about investment strategies, got some contact information, and exercised her new-found financial freedom.
BTW, loved the Kevin Smith bits. He and Wil played off each other quite well.
i think there are continuity problems in relationships, especially LP.
they use whatever setup for the jokes.
Or…Sheldon literally would have said ‘this isn’t about me anymore, I’m not interested.’
It could go either way.
Depends on which would be least funny, at least this season.
I think Billy Bob in that role would make a great recurring character.
And don’t forget that Leonard has spent several years spending his disposable income on things like comic books (a hobby that I quit because it was getting too expensive, and that was 15 years ago!), action figures, Original Series Battlestar Galactica flight suits, Time Machines, convention tickets, and so forth. Not to mention all that damn take-out food! If he’s got money problems, he’s got no one but himself to blame.
Hijack, but is anyone familiar with the Pasadena real estate market? Any idea what Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment would rent for in the real world?
I think they prefer to think of it as moral flexibility, but they would, wouldn’t they?
I think there’s a pill to ensure the appropriate level of “moral flexibility.” The drug reps get a dose every two weeks.
Leonard never said he had money problems, he was just surprised that Penny was making twice as much as him.
I’m pretty sure that’s been discussed in these threads before, even coming down to someone finding the actual number (someone did that for Dexter as well), or as close as they could. I think it’s been stated that the apartment can’t exist based on landmarks they can see from their window and are within walking distance, or something like that. Part of that, in most shows, always has to do with the fact that the house/apartment needs to be big so that you can get all the characters in there and still have space for the crew and equipment.
The house on Roseanne was much more moderate. On Friends they used the excuse of it being rent locked and it actually came up a handful of times during the course of the series since they were technically living there illegally (for that monthly rent, if the landlord corrected it, they’d have to leave (which was the plot of an episode)).
But, anyways, it seems like on most shows people (at least on this board) always nitpick the living quarters as being too expensive for what the main character(s) is making. To which I say, it’s a TV show, watch it, enjoy it, move on.
There’s things that need to be nitpicked in a show. Taking a guess at what someone makes and taking a guess at what their rent/mortgage is and assuming that it doesn’t work out is just driving yourself crazy for no good reason.
I felt it was a good episode…a potential spring board for a number of different developments. It really opens a number of doors for Howard and Bernie interacting with brother/family. (The classic, “Which brother is better?”)
And I felt the fort thing was potentially charming but it never quite developed sufficient warmth.
As for the Leonard/Penny clash…Well, it kind of fell flat to me. Ricky and Lucy did it better. As did Jackie Gleason and Audrey Medows on the Honeymooners or even Fred Flintstone and Wilma over in Bedrock…It was just words for these two.
That’s true–although I think that he did say, at one point in this episode, “I don’t have any money,” that was probably hyperbole born out of frustration. In general, Leonard hasn’t been shown as being particularly poor. He was able to buy that car for Penny, and never seems to have trouble paying his bills. Still, I might suggest that a wiser man would concentrate on paying off his student loans before he buys a replica Game of Thrones sword as the inaugural piece in his Fantasy Sword Collection. 
I really enjoyed this episode and agree with a previous poster that it sets up lots of potential plots in the future. If the writers bother to remember the episode, of course. they seem to forget a lot of what’s happened in their own show.
tangent - a writer earlier mentioned Charles Lindbergh having secret families. thought it was a joke, but no! yet another reason he doesn’t deserve hero worship.