But Penny has been cheated on, more than once. So it’s easy to understand why she would be upset. It’s happened to her before, and she probably thought Leonard was better than that (although why she would think so, it’s hard to imagine).
But when Leonard asked Penny for advice about dating/sleeping with the comic book writer while Priya was in India, Penny was pretty blase about it. She pointed out it was definitely cheating, but didn’t seem to think it was a huge moral failing to cheat.
That was because she hated Priya. If Sheldon had asked about cheating on Amy she would have had a much more…animated answer.
For the love of god, no! I don’t have strong feelings about the Leonard and Penny relationship, but I have very strong feelings opposing any hypothetical Penny and Sheldon relationship. They should never get together, under any circumstances.
In fact, while I think that Jim Parsons is a good enough actor, I hate the Sheldon Cooper character, and actively root (within the BBT universe) for everything bad in life to happen to him, and nobody else but him.
I love the Penny/Sheldon relationship–as it is now. They’re better friends than they think they are. I think they will end up better friends than any of the other characters in the show.
But no, I don’t think they should be romantically involved. I think trying to romantically involve Sheldon with anybody (including Amy) is just shoehorning his character into doing something that doesn’t work for it.
Wait, what? Having had sexual partners in the past means she shouldn’t care that she was cheated on?
Hence the break up.
I’ve only ever seen Parsons in BBT and a TV movie about AIDS… in which he basically played Gay Sheldon.
Wouldn’t mind seeing him tackle something else; I have no idea if he’s a good actor or not, really. Although it’s interesting watching the original pilot, in which he was secretly sleeping with Leonard’s off again on again girlfriend…
Someone here posted that they had seen him in the play Harvey, and that he made a very good Elwood P. Dowd.
In all the sketches in his SNL appearance, he was basically Sheldon again, too.
Is Parsons Sheldon or is Sheldon Parsons?
I saw that episode a while back, and realized that even that Stuart was pretty pathetic - Penny took his attitude as appealing modesty, but since he let himself get sidetracked into an interminable argument with Sheldon, instead of going to Penny’s room after their date, I think it’s clear that Stuart isn’t much of a smooth operator - he just lucked into a couple of dates with Penny, one of which was a limited success and the other of which ended in disaster.
From Sheldon’s perspective, he had an important commitment to consider, and he instinctively wanted to talk it over with Amy. He learned his lesson from the whole Mars debacle, but also actually wanted her input.
For him, to respect the mind of another human enough to want their input on any decision is just absolutely ginormous. I’m sure that’s the realization that led him to talk to his Mom and get the ring.
Well, yes. of course that’s what the writers would be going for. You need that familiarity to make a short sketch work.
I thought he was very good in “Home” although voice acting is not the same, he really sold the character, who wasgoofily well-meaning and sensitive.
I’m assuming you mean Leonard, and not Sheldon.
For clarification, are you saying that because Penny has had “dozens” of relationships, there is a certain amount of infidelity that she is required to tolerate?
I dont consider what Leonard did “infidelity”. And she was over-reacting.
Bat pucky. It most assuredly was infidelity, and she was not over-reacting in the least. It was an emotional betrayal that just goes to show what an asshole Leonard is.
Ok, let us go with your opinion. How does infidelity and emotional betrayal and being an asshole make the show* funny*?
My point was- this epi wasnt in any way funny (Ok, there were a couple of laughs) . It was dark and depressing. The writers *set up *Leonard to do that, and set him up to spill his guts, and *set up *Penny to over-react- and thus ruin what should have been a happy wedding. Instead the wedding was a sad, sad travesty.
Your previous comment doesn’t argue that a drunken kiss shouldn’t be considered infidelity (I disagree, but I don’t set your boundaries), it argues that because she has had dozens of previous relationships, she should be willing to accept Leonard’s behaviour. Conversely, if it was Amy, Leonard would have been out of line, as she has not had dozens of previous partners.
Kinda makes it sounds like Leonard’s culpability is dependent on what type of woman’s being cheated on.
The Meta-issue is that the elopement to Las Vegas wasn’t their idea. Sheldon sort of dared/challenged them into doing it.
Exactly. It wasn’t funny. The writers are fucktards.