penny and leonard first got together at the recombination hypothesis.
penny and leonard first got together at the recombination hypothesis.
when do penny and leonard first get together?
the recombination hypothesis
on the spur of the moment in "the recombination hypothesis", leonard asks penny out on a date after he imagines what getting back with her might be like. in "the beta test initiation", their date goes well until leonard asks about the status of their relationship. this causes conflict, due to penny's subsequent admission that commitment frightens her, but they agree to take their relationship slowly. on a spur of the moment while having sex in "the launch acceleration", however, leonard accidentally proposes to her, causing penny great distress. after discussing the matter, penny declines his proposal, while affirming her feelings for him, and her desire to remain with him. in the season 6 episode "the date night variable", leonard wants a reluctant penny to define their relationship. in "the decoupling fluctuation", she wonders if she is really in love with him, but cannot bring herself to discuss it with leonard. in "the date night variable", raj shows up unannounced at a private dinner of penny and leonard's, and inserts himself into their discussion of where their relationship is headed. when leonard complains that penny has yet to say "i love you" to leonard, raj attempts to get her to say it, causing penny to eject him from the apartment.
penny (the big bang theory)
because he has lived with sheldon for several years, leonard knows him better than his other colleagues: this has led sheldon to believe (slightly erroneously) that leonard is his best friend. nevertheless, leonard often finds himself explaining sheldon's behavior or serving as a mediator between him and other people in many situations. for instance, when penny and sheldon engaged in a fierce dispute, leonard gave penny sheldon's mother's phone number so she would call her son and scold him for his behavior, thus ending the fight. "the staircase implementation" features a flashback to when leonard first moved in with sheldon. leonard explains to penny that he moved in despite the difficulty of living with sheldon because the rent was so reasonable. shortly after moving in, during a rocketry experiment leonard, raj and howard conducted, sheldon observed miscalculations leonard made in mixing the rocket fuel and managed to avert disaster by grabbing the fuel and placing it in their apartment building's elevator. the resulting explosion disabled the elevator, thus explaining why the elevator is out of order for the duration of the series. leonard explains that sheldon, despite his tendency to alienate others, kept quiet about leonard's destruction of the elevator. (leonard cites: "he didn't rat me out to the landlord, or the police... or homeland security.")
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