# The Big Bang Theory: What Will Penny's Last Name Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817 "2011-11-23T00:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/81 "2012-03-23T00:58:15Z")
At the rate we’re getting new episodes we may never find out. Fucking basketball. :mad: Hmmm, there’s an idea for a show: the guys remotely take over a network satellite and pre-empt a major sporting event for a rerun of Star Trek. Time for the slavering, slack-jawed, beer-swilling sports fans of the world to get a taste of their own medicine! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/82 "2012-03-23T01:14:45Z")
I still like Penny R. Quaid. or Penny R. Cade. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/83 "2012-03-23T01:23:12Z")
Hawking. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/84 "2012-03-23T01:41:56Z")
I knew of a draq queen in LA who went under the name of “Penny Slots - Miss Nevada” ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/85 "2012-03-23T07:01:16Z")
Some thing really Nebraskan. Penny Lincoln, or Penny Omaha, or Penny Councilbluffs. Or maybe Abbouresk. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/86 "2012-03-23T20:19:56Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Didn’t one of the Carradine brothers (Robert?) play Penny’s Dad? So Leonard would certainly have been introduced to him. It’s not reasonable to buy that Leonard does not know Penny and her Dad’s last name. Leonard addressed him as “Sir” a couple of times, then Daddy said “Oh, call me Wyatt.” Maybe her name is “Penny Wyatt.” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/87 "2012-03-24T14:47:28Z")
Baker-Finch \ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/88 "2012-03-24T16:36:56Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > We’ll learn that Penny _ **is** _ her last name Well, yeah; she’s repeatedly been addressed as Penny Penny Penny. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/89 "2012-03-24T20:50:44Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Well, yeah; she’s repeatedly been addressed as Penny Penny Penny. I was just thinking about this! I was considering “Penney” as a last name after Walter Penney, inventor of the Mathematically interesting game [Penney Ante](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney's_game). And from there it’s just one step to Penny Pennie (sp?) Penney. (I’ve met people with the same first and last name. Never a triple name AFAIK.) An “explanation” of how this can occur: Some people’s middle names are last names on the mother’s side. (As in the case **Mrs. FtG** ’s mother and grandmother.) It might be that there are "Penny"s on Penny’s mother’s side as well. That gives you the last two "Penny"s. And Wyatt would think naming her “Betty Penny Penny” would just sound stupid so … ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/90 "2012-03-26T23:45:40Z")
Would you think I’m a clown if I suggested her last name is Wise? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/91 "2012-03-27T12:39:43Z")
Pennypenny ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/92 "2012-03-27T13:47:11Z")
Penny Henny ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/93 "2012-03-27T14:31:02Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Some thing really Nebraskan. Penny Lincoln, or Penny Omaha, or Penny Councilbluffs. Or maybe Abbouresk. Nit: Council Bluffs is in Iowa. But same difference, I guess. Why not Penny Cosmo, a nod to the other “famous” name reveal that no one cared about? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/94 "2012-03-27T16:05:33Z")
I’m wracking my brain trying to think of one that goes with both Penney and Wyatt. Otherwise, why change his? But I can’t think of one. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/95 "2012-03-27T18:28:30Z")
Arcade. Penny Arcade. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/96 "2012-03-27T18:37:55Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I’m wracking my brain trying to think of one that goes with both Penney and Wyatt. Jacey. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/97 "2012-05-12T14:04:18Z")
Taking time to bump this, because if they revealed her last name I missed it. I guess we will have to wait at least until next fall. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/98 "2012-05-12T15:48:56Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Penny Lane, it’s got to be Penny Lane. This…at which point they’ll say she sounds like a Porn Star…completely and entirely missing the Beatles reference. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/99 "2012-05-12T17:56:04Z")
If I had my wicked way it’d be Penny L4L, but as thats slightly unlikely, I’m guessing midwestern Swedish of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817/100 "2012-05-12T19:58:51Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Jacey. Last name, first name… Jacey, Penny? I vote for Focker. Penny Martha Focker… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-what-will-pennys-last-name-be/603817.md?page=6)