Penny

Penelope "Penny" Hutchinson (née Teller), is a character on the British sitcom The Sidemen. She is the primary female character in the series. She lives in Apartment 4A with her husband Lewis Hutchinson across the hall from Thomas Carter and Amira Moore who live in apartment 4B where Penny used to live.
Her full first name is possibly "Penelope" as implied by "The Barbarian Sublimation", as her username was "Queen Penelope." She was unknowingly married to her ex-boyfriend Zack Johnson for three years, so her name could include "Johnson." That marriage was finally annulled in "The Thanksgiving Decoupling".
== History ==
=== Pre-pharmaceutical sales represent ===
An aspiring, but mostly unsuccessful actress, she was born in Leeds of Northern Yorkshire and her family moved to to a farm in Yorkshire Dales she was age 8. She worked at The Cheesecake Factory as a waitress until she quit in "The Occupation Recalibration" (S7E13) to take up acting full-time. Penny was the original female lead in the show before being joined by Talia Mar, Faith Kelly, Katie Leech, Bernadette Rostenkowski and Amira Moore and in season 8 started working at the same company as did Bernadette. 
She has always been Lewis's love interest since the Pilot, with the two dating briefly in the over the first season/second season break, for most of the third season, and they rekindled their romance in "The Recombination Hypothesis". As of "The Gorilla Dissolution", she and Lewis became engaged and were married at the start of season 9 in "The Matrimonial Momentum", followed by a vow renewal at the start of season 10 in "The Conjugal Conjecture". As of the series finale, they are currently expecting their first child (2027).
Even though she is considered part of the Sidemen, she represents the "dumb blonde" for viewer context in the series with a lot of street smarts and communication skills to compensate for her lack of academic knowledge and common sense. As the series progresses, her knowledge of geeky subjects such as Doctor Who even surprises her.
To Penny, everyone (though mainly Thomas) is "Sweetie".
== Biography ==
=== Early Years ===
Penny was born on February 3, 1997, in Leeds a small a town outside of Yorkshire. Her family moved into a farm in Dales hen she was 8 years old. also has one sister named Lisa and one brother named Randall. During her childhood, Penny had issues with her father who wanted a boy and he treated Penny like one (until she developed breasts), like making her play catch, calling her 'Slugger' etc. When Penny was 12, she rebuilt a tractor engine all by herself, started dating at the age of 14 ("The Robotic Manipulation"), nearly became pregnant and had an active sex life that she defines as being popular. She also stole a horse one time while drunk in high school. Her boyfriends used to crawl in and out of her window. Most were very dumb according to her father.
=== Season 1 ===
=== Season 2 ===
=== Season 3 ===
=== Season 4 ===
=== Season 5 ===
=== Season 6 ===
=== Season 7 ===
=== Season 8 ===
=== Season 9 ===
=== Season 10 ===
=== Season 11 ===
=== Season 12 ===
== Background ==
When she first met the guys in the Pilot, Penny was writing a screenplay about a girl from Leeds, Yorkshire who travels to London at the age of 16 to become an actress, but ends up working at The Cheesecake Factory instead. When Lewis asks if the screenplay was autobiographical, she replies that it isn't, because she is from a small town outside of Omaha, Nebraska.
Penny moved into the apartment building because she split with Kurt, her boyfriend for 2 years. She says she still loved him, and insinuates he cheated on her. The shower in her apartment was broken at the time, so the boys offered her theirs. Her apartment is sloppy and disorganized, but Penny appears to like it that way.
She is either oblivious to or completely aware of her effect on the boys, because within minutes of meeting him, she asked Leonard to retrieve her television set from Kurt's apartment, which he immediately set out to do. Penny is aware of Lewis's crush on her, and it is hinted throughout the series that some of the feelings are reciprocated. At the end of season one, Penny goes on a date with Lewis. Lewis is nervous, and Penny slightly withdrawn, but they share a kiss.
In season two, there was some initial enthusiasm between Penny and Lewis; however, they later develop insecurities concerning their relationship. Penny was worried that she was not smart enough for Lewis, and lied about graduating from community college because she thought it would make Lewis respect her. The relationship quickly deteriorated and she goes back to dating different guys. Lewis showed Penny some literature on London City College and she interpreted it as him wanting a woman with more education and they break up.
She gives relationship advice to Thomas and Lewis fairly often: Leonard, when he has problems with Priya or Stephanie, and Thomas when he's with Amira. She also starts to become geekier through the guys. She makes inadvertent references to Star Trek, and, thanks to Thomas, becomes addicted to Age of Conan. She also dates Stuart, who runs the comic book store. However, when Penny and Stuart are making out, she accidentally calls him Lewis, and as a result, they stop seeing each other.
When she learns that the guys are going on an Arctic expedition, she is visibly upset, buys Lewis a farewell gift, and tells herself, after speaking with him, that she wishes he wasn't going.
In season three, when the boys get back from the expedition, Penny kisses Leonard the second she sees him; however, Leonard and Penny's relationship has a rocky start because they have some trouble getting used to being more than friends, but they eventually start a relatively stable relationship.
It is possible, though not by any means proven, that Penny is at least mildly dyslexic. This is supported not only by her general lack of successes in any kind of education, but also by two separate instances: one time, it took her a lot of time to read a comic book which Talia, Faith, Katie. Amira and Bernadette read much faster, and another time, when she mentions that she doesn't remember how to spell her husband's last name: "I know there's a "d" in there, but it keeps moving every time a try to right it". However, all this may also be explained by her not being academically intelligent.
== Personality ==
Penny is somewhat naïve and not thoroughly educated, but has a lot of common sense (which she does not always use, particularly regarding her car's condition, her spending habits and her drinking) and street smarts. Her dream is to become a famous actress, a goal she never seems to waver from until season 8. She is very kind-hearted and empathetic toward people though she can blow up when made mad, which prompted Lewis to refer to her as "The Incredible Hulk" after she went off on James. She believes most guys are nice and has been hurt a lot. When someone shocks her, she tends to bat her eyes at them while she is considering her response. She also storms off in frustration when dealing with people like Thomas (who, for example, she initially does not know has no concept or understanding of sarcasm, causing her to get frustrated when he takes her sarcastic barbs literally) or situations she can't believe or understand. She knows how to throw out wise-cracks and is very loyal to her man as long as she is not betrayed. She also has a tendency to deny doing things that are embarrassing or she suddenly realizes are embarrassing. When she has had arguments with Lewis, she also has a tendency to make assumptions about what he says, twists his comments out of context and puts words in his mouth that he never said (e.g. when Lewis points out that something Penny did was stupid or foolish and Penny jumps to conclusions and assumes that Lewis said she was "stupid"). She is also incredibly seductive in her behaviour, quite capable of easily charming men around her (as displayed with the other Sidemen members in her first appearance in the series but with none more so than Lewis Hutchinson himself, her eventual boyfriend and later husband). 
In the first season she seemed very naïve, but has appeared smarter (though not always) in later seasons and more complicated in situations with her female friends. She also has a habit of being selfish and throwing her friends under the bus. For example, she sold Sheldon out to the court officials for running a red light, despite the fact he had done it to help her after she had dislocated her shoulder, simply because she didn't want the ticket. As demonstrated throughout her relationship with Leonard, Penny has a fear of commitment, which eventually diminished as time passed. Meanwhile, during Season 10, Penny appears to have become ungrateful as she seems to forget all about the great things Leonard did for her in the past few years and believes that he's taking her for granted, when it's actually the other way around. In addition, she also has turned ignorant to everything in her life, thinking that her marriage to Leonard hasn't taken her anywhere, when in reality, a lot of fortune has come her way since then. She is also somewhat of a hypocrite as in The Vert Elasticity, she takes pretty much everything out of Leonard's bedroom simply because she doesn't like the style and completely redoes the entire style without his consent. Despite her bad attitude and selfish acts, Penny is deep down a good person and truly loves Leonard and their friends. Not much is said about her politics, though she does appear naïve about some issues like diversity and had been seen wearing a "Hillary (Clinton) 2008" t-shirt long after that election occurred.
A recurring gag in the series is Penny's fondness for alcohol. Although not technically an alcoholic, she really loves it and appears to drink more than anyone else in the series, which leads to her being the victim of jokes for this. According to Penny, she drinks a lot as a result of picking up the habit from her father ("The Conjugal Conjecture") who still drinks less than her. In the series finale "The Stockholm Syndrome", Penny temporarily goes sober and abstains from alcohol, due to being pregnant.
== Appearance ==
Penny is considered a very beautiful woman. She has layered blonde hair when we first see her in 2012. She is of average height around 5ft 6 (167.64 cm), and has a nice hourglass frame. She is thin, but obviously works out, as can be seen by her triceps. She has green eyes, with some brown flecks-according to Thomas. (Season 8, Episode 16) She obviously a catch because you see throughout the series that she dates a lot of handsome guys. She also frequently dyes her hair throughout the show. First, its almost a bleach blonde with some brown highlights, then transitions to a dirty blonde with way more brown and stays that way for a while. In season 4 you see that she dyed it back to a light blonde and that stays that way for a few seasons. Until Season 8, when she cuts her hair extremely short!
== Family ==
Penny's Sister Lisa is mentioned as having shot her husband while they were both intoxicated. Her name wasn't revealed until the last season. It is known that she has a nephew who turned 13 in season two, likely the son of Lisa.
When Christy (Penny's friend from Omaha) comes into town, Penny reveals that she has a brother and at least one male cousin, as she claims that Christy slept with the former while being engaged to the latter.
Her brother, Randall, works in a meth lab. This fact is first hinted at in "The Pirate Solution" as Penny describes him as "kind of a chemist" and tells Leonard that he would like him. It is finally confirmed in "The Rhinitis Revelation" when she asks God to make her brother stop cooking meth, but without involving the authorities. In season 7 in "The Hesitation Ramification", Penny mentions that her Dad gathered all the relatives together to see her scene on NCIS, which included getting her brother a day out of rehab. They also bought a large sandwich to share. When her scene is cut, Penny mentions that the sandwich and her brother are gone and as far as she knows her brother is on the way to Mexico. She also mentioned wanting to postpone her wedding with Leonard until he gets paroled. Randall appeared on the series in "The Conjugal Conjecture" for his sister's vow renewal.
Sheldon implies Penny's mother, Susan, is overweight and in "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" says that her mother must have used cannabis when she was expectant with her. In "The Status Quo Combustion", Penny is discussing her engagement with her mother, tells her that she is NOT pregnant and that that is unusual in their family. She had lost the weight by Leonard and Penny's second wedding and vow renewal.
In season two, "The Maternal Capacitance", as Penny is explaining to Beverly that her father stopped playing catch with her when she developed breasts, she quotes her mother talking to her father, and suggests his name is "Bob", though it is later revealed in "The Boyfriend Complexity" to be Wyatt. Her father visits Penny and begs Leonard to get back with her because he wants grandchildren who don't live in a house on wheels. Her parents like Leonard because he is smarter than the dumb boys that Penny usually dated.
In "The Conjugal Conjecture", Penny is happy to have her family visiting. She has a close relationship with her father and a little tenser one with her mother. She takes her brother with a smile and a joke. Later, she thinks about offering her brother Sheldon's old room after her father asks her to get him a job interview at her company.
When Penny says that she doesn't want any kids, her father probably learned this from Leonard and complains to Penny about not getting any more grandchildren. In "The Donation Oscillation", Wyatt visits LA and finds it strange that Leonard is donating sperm to Zack and that Penny doesn't want any kids. He is disappointed and Penny admits that she thinks that she is letting everyone down too. Wyatt tells her how great it is raising kids, but will support her choice.
=== Family Members ===
* Paternal Grandfather: Unnamed
* Paternal Grandmother: Unnamed
* Maternal Grandmother: Unnamed
* Maternal Grandfather: Unnamed
* Father: Wyatt
* Mother: Susan
* Brother: Randall
* Sister: Lisa
* Husband: Leonard Hofstadter
* Child: Unborn
* Brother-in-laws: Michael Hofstadter, Unnamed via Leonard's sister, Unnamed via Lisa
* Nephews: Neil, Jeffrey, Scott, William, Richard, Unnamed
* Unnamed Nieces/Nephews
* Uncle: Unnamed
* Cousin: Unnamed
* Pet Pig: Moondance (now deceased)
* Husband: Leonard Hofstadter
* Father-in-law: Alfred Hofstadter
* Mother-in-law: Beverly Hofstadter
* Sister-in-laws: Unnamed via Leonard, Unnamed via Michael
* Aunt-in-laws: Edna, Nancy, Unnamed
* Uncle-in-law: Floyd
* Cousin-in-laws: Unnamed
* Grandfather-in-law: Unnamed
* Grandmother-in-law: Unnamed
== Work Experience ==
Penny considers herself a waitress/actress though she has told Leonard that she is a "professional" actress despite her short acting resume. Her income is derived from working at the Pasadena Cheesecake Factory as a waitress and living off the guys in Apartment 4A. In "The Occupation Recalibration" (S7E13) she quits the job as a waitress and declares she would engage herself in the acting area full-time. Leonard never discourages Penny when she joins them for takeout meals, piggybacks on their Wi-Fi connection, paying for her movie tickets and other bills in spite of Sheldon's protests to get to her to stop. In a podcast interview with Wil Wheaton, director Kevin Smith told her that he thought she was talented, and would love for her to audition for "Clerks 3". Ultimately, Penny did try out, but felt that her audition stunk. Penny became a pharmaceutical representative/salesperson, at Bernadette's company Zangen and said that she was taking a break from acting. According to her boss Dan she is his third best salesperson though she admits to Leonard she doesn't like flirting with doctors just to make sales. At the beginning of season 10, she gets assigned a better sales territory. Season 11 found her doing some PR work that she'd like to get a permanent job in when she was escorting Bill Gates around. In "The Confirmation Polarization", Bernadette pushed Penny to head up her sales team for her new drug. Penny is reluctant since she doesn't have a college education like the other sales reps. She still meet the challenge sounding quite tough like her friend Bernadette. Later in "The Conference Valuation" Bernadette are at a convention pushing her drug. Penny can feels good about herself because another company offered her a position, though Bernadette won't let her know how much they think she's worth.
== Relationships ==
=== Platonic ===
==== Thomas ====
Penny and Sheldon constantly argue with each other, but are best friends. Sheldon is quick to take shots at Penny's intelligence, waitress job, and failing acting career (though he generally doesn't understand that these statements are detrimental) while Penny throws off his personal routines, such as during "The Panty Piñata Polarization" when Penny messes up Sheldon's laundry night. Despite their differences, Sheldon and Penny are very close, and are quick to help each other. They have taken care of each other on multiple occasions; oftentimes doing things they really don't want to do to make the other feel better. Penny has stated that they are friends.
Major examples of their personal care include when Penny takes care of Sheldon when he is sick, and when she lets him stay at her apartment when he gets locked out, even letting him sleep in her own bed. Sheldon was also quick to come to Penny's aid when she called for help after falling in the shower and dislocating her shoulder, going so far as to drive her to the hospital, despite not knowing how to drive.
Many of these occurrences end with Penny singing Soft Kitty to Sheldon to make him feel better or when he is sick; Sheldon sang it to her on one occasion as well. One of the biggest examples of their friendship is that despite his own rule of avoiding physical contact with people, Penny was the first person Sheldon hugged on the show.
Penny remains one of only four people he's hugged who aren't members of his family, the only others being Leonard, Wil Wheaton and Amy Farrah Fowler. To date, Sheldon and Penny have hugged in "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis", in "The Large Hadron Collision", in "The Bon Voyage Reaction", in "The Celebration Experimentation" and in "The Conjugal Conjecture". Sheldon also is in the habit of insulting Penny when he asks her for a favor.
In "The Werewolf Transformation", Penny convinces him to let her cut his hair since his barber is in a coma. She listed times she's taken care of him, saying that she's taken him to Disneyland, kicked a bully in the nuts for him, sings him Soft Kitty when he's sick, and that he's even seen her naked once. Sheldon eventually agrees to let Penny cut his hair.
In "The Closure Alternative", Penny decides that she is passionate about her friends and tells Sheldon that she is glad he is in her life.
In "The Bon Voyage Reaction", Leonard asked Penny to keep an eye on Sheldon while he's gone. They hung out together and Penny took him shopping, further developing their brother/sister relationship. In "The Hofstadter Insufficiency", they didn't even get on each other's nerves, and Penny played the games that Sheldon wanted to play or usually played with Leonard. Sheldon even tried to comfort a lonely Penny and let her hug him with very little objections. After Sheldon had a nightmare, he knocked on Penny's door early in the morning. He woke Penny up and all she did was ask what he wanted, she was neither mad nor disgusted by his intrusion, indicating a good, stable, friendly relationship.
In "The Cooper Extraction", Amy points out to the gang that most of them would not know each other if Sheldon had not been part of their lives. Penny feels that Leonard would never have successfully asked her out at the Cheesecake Factory, while Leonard suggests that she would have ended up with Zack. In the Zack story, he spent all the rent money on some magic beans. Amy thinks that if Amy and Leonard were out of the picture, the lusty Penny would try and seduce her neighbor Sheldon much to Penny's disgust and the guys' amusement.
In "The Anything Can Happen Thursday Recurrence", Penny takes Sheldon to a psychic at a time when he can't decide what new problem of science to follow after string theory is disproved. The psychic knows that he has trouble with a girl and that following that relationship will give him the answers he seeks.
In "The Intimacy Acceleration", Penny and Sheldon conduct a psychological experiment which should result in the couple instantly falling in love. Sheldon wants to do it because he thinks its poppycock, and Penny does it because she gets to ask Sheldon a lot of personal questions that he has to answer honestly. They admit a lot of truth about themselves like Penny wishes she were as smart as the others and that she uses comedy to cover up insecurities. Finally, they stare into each other's eyes for four minutes and decide that they do have closer intimacy though just as a brother and sister.
In "The Separation Oscillation", Sheldon gives Penny and Leonard a wedding present - a trip to San Francisco for the three of them.
In "The 2003 Approximation", Leonard finally moves out to live with his wife Penny; however, in the end Penny agrees that they will spend at least half their nights back in Leonard's old room.
In "The Celebration Experimentation", Sheldon ran into the bathroom after overwhelmed by the birthday party they were throwing him. Penny went into talk to him claiming that it was okay if he wanted to be there. She would probably have tortured him along with his sister and friends at the birthday parties of his youth, but now that she knows him, he is one of her favorite people. Penny would be happy to spend his party in the bathroom with him. Sheldon doesn't want people think that that is weird. Penny explains that everyone things he is weird, but still loves him and came to his party anyway. Later at the party, Penny makes him hug her and he has upgraded his feeling toward hugs to mildly irritating.
In "The Viewing Party Combustion", Leonard gets tired of the quarterly Roommate Agreement meetings where nothing important is ever discussed. Penny who has signed the latest on as an occupant of the apartment and wants to attend since she gets to lead them in the pledge. Leonard sulks about attending the meeting which makes Penny mad driving her and Sheldon over to her apartment breaking the group into two separate camps. Leonard also points out the weird brother/sister relationship she and Sheldon have which Amy is also jealous of. Penny often takes Sheldon's side due to her sibling feelings for him.
In "The Conjugal Conjecture", Sheldon stands up during Leonard and Penny's vow renewal to tell them how much he loves them even though he often doesn't show it. He is also included in their hug after Bernadette pronounces them man and wife and the other weird guy that came with the apartment.
In "The Long Distance Dissonance", Penny has to explain to Sheldon that Ramona Nowitzki had a romantic interest in him despite Amy being his girlfriend.
In "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", Penny organizes picking up the relatives and is overloaded by Amy's mother's comments and personality in preparation for Shamy's wedding. When the wedding is delayed due to the absence of the bride and groom she explodes when she finds Sheldon, Leonard and Amy doing science instead of getting married. Sheldon agrees with Penny so the wedding starts. Penny is overwhelmed at the ceremony of her two best friends getting married.
Both Leonard and Penny give Sheldon advice as he gets used to being married to Amy.
In "The Change Constant", the Hofstadters and the Coopers are waiting for the Nobel Prize Committee to call from Sweden. Kripke gives then a fake phone call calling them suckers. Amy then gets the call and quietly says that they won. Sheldon can't believe her so Leonard slaps him and then they all shout excitedly and have a big hug together. Sheldon has a hard time dealing with the fame and attention from his colleagues and reporters. Then after Raj gives Amy a makeover and The Elevator is repaired; he runs off with Penny to The Cheesecake Factory cursed by all the changes. Penny reminds him how much he's changed in the last twelve years and that the fact of change is really the constant in his life. Sheldon accepts that.
==== Stuart ====
==== Simon ====
==== JJ ====
==== Ethan ====
==== Harry ====
==== James ====
==== Vik ====
==== Bernadette ====
==== Amira ====
==== Talia ====
==== Faith ====
==== Katie ====
==== Leslie ====
==== Priya ====
==== Ellie Harlow ====
==== Beverly Hutchinson ====
==== Alfred Hutchinson ====
=== Romantic ===
==== Lewis ====
==== Zack Johnson ====
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