Leonard Hofstadter

Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, also known as Leonard Hofstadter, Lenny, Honey, Speed of Light Leonard, Ricardo Shilly-Shally and Sockmouth, is ostensibly the main protagonist from The Big Bang Theory series.
== Charactah Account ==
Leonard is the most normal of the guys by having no outlandish quirks and generally operates as the only sane man. He (and his friends) work at Cal Tech, his field being in Experimental Physics. He has lived with Sheldon since late 2002 and is his best friend, though Sheldon's quirks annoy him to no end. He instantly gained a crush on Penny when she moved into the apartment across the hall and much of the show is about how they both change from interacting with each other.
Although Leonard feels at home with his geek colleagues, he is reluctant to let others know about his recreational activities (such as Klingon Boggle), as he does not like to be seen as a geek and wants to be more social. Sweet, thoughtful, kind, intelligent, mature, sardonic and socially awkward but well-meaning, Leonard also seems to be the most well-adjusted and sensible one of the group, and is quick to try new things apart from his geek friends.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* LoliRock Season 2
=== TV Series ===
* The Big Bang Theory
* The Big Bang Theory Season 2
* The Big Bang Theory Season 3
* The Big Bang Theory Season 4
* The Big Bang Theory Season 5
* The Big Bang Theory Season 6
* The Big Bang Theory Season 7
* The Big Bang Theory Season 8
* The Big Bang Theory Season 9
* The Big Bang Theory Season 10
* The Big Bang Theory Season 11
* The Big Bang Theory Season 12
== Trivia ==
* Sheldon has more popularity than Leonard with the fans; however, in his world, people like him more than they like Sheldon, which is understandable considering their personalities. Leonard and Sheldon are like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
* Leonard wants to achieve a Nobel Prize someday.
* Leonard's Skeptical of loop quantum gravity.
* While Leonard's IQ is never directly stated in the show, he states in the "Pilot" that he and Sheldon have a combined IQ of 360. Sheldon states that his IQ is 187, so therefore Leonard must have an IQ of 173. Sheldon also states his intellect cannot be accurately measured by a "regular" IQ test.
** IQ scores are an expression of what percentage of the population a person is "smarter" (achieved higher result) than. An IQ of 100 is assigned to the mean population score ("average intelligence") and a point of IQ is defined so that one standard deviation of the sample corresponds to 15 points (on modern tests; older tests like the classic Stanford-Binet Test had 16 points per st. deviation). Tabulation of IQ score rarity is available online; using that, an IQ of 173 occurs approximately once in 1.75 million individuals (assuming the score comes from a modern SD-15 test), and there are therefore some 4,150 people in the world (assuming a world population of 7.25 billion) at least as smart as Leonard (or in other words, Leonard is smarter than all but 4,150 people in the world). If instead Leonard scored 173 on an SD-16 test, then his intelligence is about 1 in 400,000, i.e. there are some 18,000 people in the world at least as smart as him.
** On the other hand, it is true that all current IQ tests are imprecise for very high (or very low) scores—this is because there are very few people with such scores, rather than being due to bad design of the tests themselves.
* Leonard Got his PhD at age 24.
* Leonard is 5 ft. 5 in. (1.65 m) tall [1] – the height of Johnny Galecki. In "The Egg Salad Equivalency", Sheldon states his "short, bespectacled colleague" is "... strutting around like he’s five-foot-six," which implies that Leonard is shorter than this measurement. (Refer to the Trivia of "The Decoupling Fluctuation".)
** Despite being short, Leonard states he is "too tall to be a jockey" (Though to Sheldon's amusement he's the perfect person for the sport).
** Leonard's 1 1/4 Inch taller than Howard.
** By later seasons, Leonard's height doesn't appear to be too much of an issue for him anymore, given that he's now been shown to be taller than Amy and roughly the same height as Penny.
* In "The Alien Parasite Hypothesis", which aired in 2010, Leonard says, "12 years after high school, and I’m still at the nerd table." This fact implies he was born in 1980, the same year as Sheldon, provided the following assumption that he graduated at the usual age of 18-years-old is supported by him having had a senior prom, which is mentioned in "The Peanut Reaction".
* Leonard Has a grandmother with Alzheimer's that came to Thanksgiving and stripped naked, carving the turkey prior to the pilot.
* Leonard Is the only one of himself, Sheldon and Howard who's child's name has yet to be mentioned.
* Leonard Wears boxer shorts rather than underpants or trunks.
* Leonard Always wears neutral colored sweat jackets.
* Despite his lactose-intolerance; however, Leonard can actually process small amounts of non-fat ice-cream without farting (according to Sheldon).
* Leonard has Darth Vader 'No More Tears' shampoo and Luke Skywalker hair conditioner.
* Leonard's A huge Superman fan, so much so that he owns all of the Superman films and more than 2600 Superman comics, as well as Superman underwear. He also has an unseen Superman costume with new boots that adds three inches to his height, which he wore at the comic book store's annual New Year's Eve party when the group went as the Justice League. Sheldon says he is their weak point, and he got replaced by Penny's friend Zack at a later party. He also uses Superman's birth name, Kal-El, as password to almost all his login credentials.
* Many of Leonard's shirts are scientifically inspired, such as in episode 1x03 where he can be seen wearing a shirt with a "Paradox" molecule.
* Leonard And Sheldon own Dell XPS computers. After "The Bozeman Reaction," he owned a Dell Adamo XPS.
* Leonard's Favorite TV shows are Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Leonard Can play the cello, mirroring Johnny Galecki's own talent of playing the instrument.
** Leonard Used to get stuffed in his own cello case.
* Leonard And Sheldon are named after actor and producer Sheldon Leonard.
* Leonard's Unaccustomed to observing birthdays, by choice of his mother's views on psychiatry. He had never had a birthday party before moving to Pasadena.
* Leonard's Parents both formerly lived in New Jersey. His father now lives in New York after his divorce.
* Leonard Drove a silver Volkswagen Touareg with a luggage rack on top early on in the show.
* Leonard Plays lead guitar on Rock Band.
* Leonard Plays Age of Conan with the guys and is probably an Assassin (his character can be seen when he is checking on Penny via the game).
* Leonard has sleep apnea.
* Leonard gets carsick unless he sits in the front.
* Leonard has trouble making eye contact, only being able to do so with Penny and the rest of his friends, which could be indicative of Asperger's Syndrome, ADD, or simply social anxiety.
* Leonard is the group's (not including Penny) Wii bowling 'Team Captain'.
* Leonard's last name (Hofstadter) is in honor of Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Robert Hofstadter, who worked at Stanford University in the field of Nuclear Physics.
* Leonard dislikes his name since it has "Nerd" in it, saying he prefers the name Angelo as it has "angel" and "Jello" in it, although he was high at the time.
* Leonard claimed he could hear Penny flushing her toilet from his apartment.
* Leonard tried to get the nickname "Duncan" by carrying around a Duncan brand yo-yo. This only resulted in bullies stealing the yo-yo and stuffing their socks into his mouth, making him "Sockmouth".
* Leonard was his school's debate club president.
* Leonard believes he is the "King of foreplay", as he used to do lengthy shows for Penny before they had sex.
* Leonard gets asthma attacks when he has panic attacks.
* He is the only male main character who wear glasses.
** Leonard tried wearing contacts in 7th grade, but could never get used to them.
** Leonard wears black framed glasses (he originally wore tortoise shell glasses eight years ago), even if in costume.
* He is the only character who has had five girlfriends Joyce Kim, Leslie Winkle, Penny, Stephanie Barnett and Priya Koothrappali), followed by Howard with four girlfriends (Christy Vanderbel, Leslie Winkle (friends with benefits), Lisa and Bernadette Rostenkowski) unless there are others that are not referred to.
* He's afraid of horses.
* Leonard always wears shorts when he goes to Kurt's apartment for Penny's errands.
* Leonard is usually wearing a t-shirt when he is in bed with Penny though not the first time. Also, til "The Colonization Application", he kept his socks on.
* Like Sheldon, Penny, Raj, and Amy, Leonard became a reverend to marry Howard and Bernadette.
* Bernadette, Raj, Leonard, Penny And Amy are the only members of the social group/main cast whose parents have both been seen on-camera - Sheldon's father died when Sheldon was a child, Howard's father abandoned him and his mother when Howard was eleven, Stuart's mother and father have been mentioned and are both alive, Emily's father has been mentioned and it is not known if he is dead or alive and there has been no appearance or mention of Emily's mother or Leslie's mother and father to date.
* Leonard's great-great-grandmother was half-Cherokee (as stated in "The Irish Pub Formulation"). This statement makes Leonard 1/32nd Cherokee.
* Estimated by Howard; Leonard's ideal mate is a short, low self-esteemed woman scientist living in a government facility in
* Throughout his childhood, his mother constantly conducted tests on him.
* As he stated in "The Contractual Obligation Implementation," when he was in middle school he wanted to be a rap star like Snoop Dogg, but with "a healthy respect for the police." He states his parents pushed him into becoming a scientist.
** Though, after watching Professor Proton, he eventually became inspired to follow through with science.
* One of Leonard's favorite fictional characters is Frodo Baggins from "The Lord of the Rings" (as stated by Sheldon in "The Large Hadron Collision").
* Leonard finds himself dating a married woman in "The Thanksgiving Decoupling".
** In Season 11, Raj would end up doing the same thing.
* The final proposal count to each other was Penny 3; Leonard 3.
* It has been suggested that the character of Leonard Hofstadter owes something to that of Professor Ponder Stibbons, a Research Wizard in Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. Ponder, in a university of Wizards devoted to magic, takes a minority view that Science is also important; he is to all intents and purposes a physicist. Leonard is a research physicist who enjoys fantasy works and plays games where he role-plays a Wizard. (Mystic Warlords of Ka'a). Both are geeky young men with glasses who affect clothing which is shapeless, baggy, neutrally colored and for preference has a hood. The Science of Discworld series, which are co-written with eminent British scientists who are well known in USA academia, use Pratchett's fantasy world as a means of explaining ongoing scientific thought to a lay audience. The Discworld story begins with a massive explosion of magical energy that has to be diverted down a safe path, in order to avert a seriously Big Bang. Ponder Stibbons discovers he has inadvertently created a whole Universe out of nothing. This cools and expands and passes through stages like drooling autotrophs (explicitly referenced) until, presumably, California and Caltech evolve. It is possible Terry Pratchett watches and enjoys TBBT, and/or that Chuck Lorre reads Discworld novels.
* Leonard's relationship with Penny is the only one on the show that isn't set up by someone. Howard and Bernadette were set up by Penny, Sheldon and Amy were set up by Howard and Raj through a dating website, and Raj met Emily on a dating site. Stuart actually hired met his girlfriend and assistant, Denise, to work in his store.
* Leonard and Sheldon are similar of the characters of "The Odd Couple". Leonard Hofstadter is similar to Oscar Madison. Leonard may not be a slob, but he is funny loving and nice. He is really cool and childlike.
* Leonard would just settle for being nominated for a Nobel Prize.
* Sheldon And Leonard drive up to Skywalker Ranch to see if they could get in. When they can't, Sheldon runs through the gate and almost gets the two of them arrested for trespassing. Despite not actually running with Sheldon, Leonard is permanently banned from Skywalker Ranch along with Sheldon and will be arrested if he ever comes back.
* Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj are the only characters of the current main cast who have appeared in every episode. If the unaired pilot counts, then only Leonard and Sheldon appear in all episodes.
* Leonard is right-handed.
* Before the episode "The Peanut Reaction", Leonard had never had a birthday party.
* Leonard's iPad password is his birthday, specifically 4 digits the month and day, according to him, and since Leonard's birthday is known for being May 17, that would make his iPad password 0517.
** Despite the fact that Leonard's password for everything is "Kal-el", according to Sheldon.
* Leonard's go to when he's in bed with a girl is "I'm sorry."
* In the episode "The Staircase Implementation", Leonard states that with Star Trek he prefers the original series over the next generation, but he prefers Picard over Kirk.
* He nicknamed his genitals "Alvin and the Chipmunks".
* It's rather obvious that Leonard resents Zack Johnson, as he is often seen glaring at Zack and has a strong hint of anger in his voice anytime he talks about or mentions him.
* He drives a Silver Saab Sedan 2002
* His life would be ruined if it wasn't for Sheldon as he could be end up in jail for leaking confidential information to Joyce Kim or lost his life from his rocket fuel experiment.
* Leonard shares some similarities with fictional character Sherlock Holmes in that while they are both geniuses, they are also the least intelligent person in their respective families. Also, they are both the middle child and have one brother and one sister.
* As evidenced in The Skank Reflex Analysis and The Ornithophobia Diffusion, Leonard has a taste for Newcastle Brown Ale.
* Things in common:
** They each have one brother and one sister.
** They are the second born child of their respective parents (possibly).
** They had issues with the opposite-gender parent while growing up.
** They are the love of each other's life
** Their careers are in some ways similar; While Leonard is a smart, brilliant and successful scientist and physicist and well-educated and accomplished academic, his work in experimental physics somehow appears to mirror Penny's average education status and her pharmaceutical sales career in which she has often had to flirt with doctors to make sales. This makes it similar due to Leonard's work being sometimes derivative and his friends having more accomplishments, as well as him being the least successful of his family.
* Amy and Sheldon's son Leonard Cooper is named after him in Graduation in Young Sheldon. Which hasn't been confirmed yet.
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== External Links ==
* Leonard Hofstadter at The Big Bang Theory Wiki
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