Penny (The Secret World of Og)

Penny is a character from the ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og". She was voiced by Noelle North.
== About Penny ==
Penny is the oldest of three sisters, the others being Pamela and Patsy, as well as the oldest of five siblings overall, her younger brothers being Peter and Pollywog. 
Penny is a slender, Caucasian, 14-year old teenaged girl with curly, red hair and blue eyes. She wears a light salmon shirt with a folded collar, lapel, side slits, and two pockets; space blue jeans; pale pink socks, and magenta penny loafers. Although she tries her best to be responsible for the younger siblings and get them to obey her, that doesn't quite work out so well. She is persistent, as when she is faced with a difficult situation, she doesn't let that deter her. Like her siblings, she spends some of her free time getting lost in her imagination and enjoys reading Lucy Lawless comics. Being such a fan, she idolizes the character very much.
One Saturday, after her mom asks whether she's seen a pair of missing scissors and took them, Penny denies taking them. After Peter alerts their mom about Patsy falling in the river, as she often does, she and Penny go outside to see for themselves. Subsequently telling Patsy to dry off and change, Mother chides Penny for not doing enough to help keep an eye on her siblings for her and she should do that rather than spending so much time reading the Lucy Lawless comics. Penny insists they never obey her when she does try to take authority. Penny paints a playhouse with Patsy. Penny notices that Patsy overpainted the playhouse by painting much of the only window and lets her know about it. In confusion, Patsy said Penny told her to paint the entire playhouse. Penny explains that she meant to paint every part of it except the window. After Mother discovers Pollywog escaped from his crib and went outdoors again, she has the other siblings look after him for a while. While the kids are in the playhouse, Penny is reading a Lucy Lawless comic. She and Patsy talk about it as Patsy keeps thinking that Penny was reading some different issue in the series and wonders how she keeps them all straight. As Penny explains, Pamela notices a little green man with pointy ears emerging from a trap door in the playhouse. Next, the siblings prepare to play a game of "Cowboy", to which Patsy objects. After they go outside, Pollywog and the family's pet cat, Earless, are left alone inside the playhouse. The little green man, whose name is later revealed to be Og, returns and spots Earless, attempting to snatch him away. Pollywog tries to prevent the cat-napping, but ends up getting whisked away too. When the other siblings reenter, they find that they're gone. They wonder where they could've gone and when Pamela mentions seeing the little green man earlier, Penny asks about him quizzically, then thinks that Pamela just has an overactive imagination, which is why Pamela didn't mention anything before, doubting the others would believe her. After Peter finds the trap door, the siblings decide to venture underneath it to search for Pollywog and Earless. Penny tells the others to stick together and calls out for their baby brother, and cat. After Peter alerts the others to a river that goes through an opening he found, they enter it and carry on their search. When Patsy gets into some water once again, Penny dives in to look for and retrieve her, and tells the others to help. Patsy reveals herself to be fine all along and Penny gets annoyed with her. Patsy tells the others they should take the next way farther in their search. Patsy doubts they'll find them, but Penny, holding on to hope, tells her they must press on. As they go further, they find a city, which is inhabited by other, little, green people. After they happen to run into the first little, green man again, they hold him captive. When they try talking to him, it seems that he can say nothing but "og". Penny decides to continue further into the city alone while the other siblings and their dog, Yukie, stay behind and leaves Pamela in charge of the others. 
As Penny looks around, she notices several items that look familiar and that were not only stolen from the family, but other people as well. Unbeknownst to her at first, two little, green men follow her. When she finds them, she flees and they chase after her before she's captured by being roped up, and brought to the little, green man who is the sheriff. It seems that their vocabulary is limited to "og", as well. She wonders how they understand one another and, frustrated, asks whether anyone there can say anything besides "og". Penny reluctantly goes along with him and as she does, they come to a butcher shop where she finds Earless. She tells the sheriff that's the family's cat and objects to him being sold like a leg of lamb. But the sheriff just urges her to go on to a jail cell, where she finds Pollywog. She's glad to see him, but tells the sheriff that she can't be kept prisoner, due to her rights, and demands one phone call. The sheriff hands her a toy phone, which is useless to her, and she throws it aside towards Pollywog, who picks up the receiver. The sheriff, suddenly speaking more than one word, tells them about the predicament the two siblings got themselves into and as Penny answers, she pauses for a moment when she realizes he speaks English. He tells her learned it from reading Wyatt Earp comics and doesn't usually say more than "og", because he finds that easier. Penny tells him that the siblings can't be held as prisoners, he says he can, due to that's the way it's done in the comics. When Penny tries to explain about that, he takes a nap. While the other siblings look for them, Penny sees that Pollywog managed to escape yet again and comes across some keys. She encourages him to get them and unlock the cell door so they'll be freed. Once that's done, Penny tricks the sheriff into switching places and he goes into the cell. He asks her how she learned to do that and tells him it's from one of the Lucy Lawless comics called "Lucy Lawless and The Roundup Rustlers". Impressed, he says he's got to read those. Penny literally runs into Peter and they're glad to have found each other. Penny comes up with a plan to disguise Peter, who is already disguised by being painted green to blend in with the other green people, even more. They steal the sheriff's clothes, which Peter wears.
Penny, Peter and Earless are now looking for Pamela and Patsy when a green man who is the mayor rushes towards them. Mistaking Peter for the sheriff, the mayor tells him that yet another little green man, who is dressed like a sea captain and goes by Long John Silver, has taken Pamela as prisoner in a game of "Pirate" and says that he's needed to partake in a duel. Peter says that sounds fair. Penny disagrees, but reluctantly relents as that may be the only way Pamela will be freed and they can return home. Peter accepts the duel and obliges. Once the duel is over, Pamela is released and she, and Penny, tell each other they're happy to see each before laughing heartily. They then attempt to make their escape by sailing the ship, but run into trouble when they're about to crash into a rock formation. They try with all their might to steer the ship away to avoid hitting it, but then the ship begins to sink. The siblings jump ship and dive into the water, swimming ashore before emerging on land. The green goblin-like creatures give a round of applause for the performance. Having no idea just what is going on exactly, Penny asks if anybody can explain this. The mayor tells her and the others that the whole thing was just a game and that playing games, and enacting out their imaginations is something that he, and his fellow green people, do for entertainment. After Long John Silver tells Peter he couldn't get a toy gun to squirt water, Peter says that that's because it's not a water pistol but rather a toy gun that extends a couple of banners with the word "bang!" on each of them with the trigger is pulled. Long John Silver fakes being hit and plays dead. The other, little, green people are appalled at this and want Peter and his siblings punished. The siblings then flee and after the real sheriff arrives, the little, green people go after them. The siblings then come across Patsy, who is also being pursued by another group of green people who mistake her for one of the snake people, due to her seemingly producing her pet snake, Snavely, out of thin air when Snavely was really just pulled out of her jeans pocket. After the kids, their pets, and both groups of green people convene, and none of the green people are willing to face whoever the real snake person is when the mayor asks for volunteers, he tells the kids that they can visit the elder og, who knows all about that. The elder og tells the siblings a short story about him supposedly having an encounter with the snake person many years earlier. He says that they must be the ones to challenge the snake person. The kids accept the task, as that just may be their ticket to leaving once that's accomplished and going home. On the way to what might be the snake person's lair, the siblings have a couple mishaps when Penny loses her footing and begins to fall, she tries to grab onto a mushroom, but loses her grip and falls backwards into Pamela. Peter and Earless then fall into a pit. And because of that, the original Og thinks that he must be the snake person after all. The Elder Og arrives to check on the kids and shows them the snake person, who turns out to be just a character from another comic, as shown on the cover. Penny takes a look at it and says it's a really old comic that's worth a dime. She then tells the green folk that snake people aren't real and that the green people are just lost in their imaginations and comics once again. 
Once everything is settled and cleared up, Penny tells the green people that while using their imaginations and pretending is good, reality can be just as good as well. They learn that there's more to life than imagination and that there's more beyond it. The green people begin to understand better and they make a deal with the kids to stop stealing various things above ground as long as the kids promise never to reveal their secret world, both parties agree. Og escorts the kids and pets back home, leading the way. The kids emerge from the trap door in their playhouse. Penny reminds the other siblings to keep the promise they made and not reveal what they had been doing the whole time to their mom. Their mom calls the kids for supper and they head to the kitchen. She doesn't know how the kids could get so dirty. She tells them to wash up before they eat, but asks if any of them has seen her hat. They deny it, but she says to inform her if they do happen to come across it. Looking outside a window, the kids find Og to be the hat thief, as he walks off, wearing it.
 
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