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* [[Between My Legs]]: This shot is used with Penny's legs framing a remote control car with a camera that's trying to see... well, between her legs.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Bernadette, several times in Season 5. In "The Skank Reflex Analysis," when she snaps on Raj, after Leonard reveals to the group Raj's crush on her. Bernadette flips out and angrily confronts Raj, berating him to tell Howard that nothing is going on between the two of them. This is somewhat Lampshaded in the scene.

** Bernadette, when pushed far enough (which doesn't take much due to her short temper), screams/talks in the same manner as [[The Unseen|Howards's mother]]; he finds this sexy. Although Bernadette is more of a [[Cute and Psycho|Yangire]] than an actual nice one.

** Penny assumes her friend Emily is automatically nice because she's deaf, and people with disabilities can't afford not to be kind to everyone. Not quite.

'''Raj''': That's disgusting, dude! }}

* [[California University]]: Averted; Caltech is of course a real (and well-known) university in Pasadena, CA. In a strange variation though, given the ages of each character it is unlikely they would have stayed with the same university as long as they have, at least since about 2002. It's largely just practical for the purposes of a show but it could also be that they are just comfortable with the [[Status Quo Is God|current status of their careers]].

** In the fourth season Penny gave Leonard a surprise kiss in front of her father, trying to placate him by pretending her and Leonard were together. Leonard stumbled back into his apartment and explained what happened to the guys, and they started joking over Leonard pining after Penny again, with Raj making a direct quote from the pilot episode as a Leonard classic "Our children will be smart ''[[Nerds Are Sexy|and]]'' beautiful."

** In season 1, a sick Sheldon asks Penny, who is nursing him, to sing him a song his mother use to sing to him when has sick, "Soft Kitty." The next season, Sheldon was homesick after being locked out of his apartment and asks Penny to sing the song to him, seeing homesick as a type of sick. The following season, after Sheldon is betrayed by the guys, Penny attempts to console him with "Soft Kitty," but is interrupted by Sheldon since 'Sad is not sick.' Again in the third season, when Sheldon is taking care of Penny after she dislocated her shoulder and was doped up on pain medication, she asks him to sing the song to her.

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: In it's own way, this is what Penny is to all of the guys and especially Leonard. The guys are generally happy in their own closed-off world of science, sci-fi and comics and Penny encourages them to expand their social horizons a little. In a reversal, Leonard (and Sheldon to a similar degree) have introduced Penny into a different world of higher thinking and education. In "The Ornithophobia Diffusion" Leonard and Penny argued over how they hated the things they do together (Leonard hated doing karaoke at 2AM or going on hikes, Penny hated watching a documentary on dams), only to later use those same things when talking to other people about their "hobbies" to make themselves seem more interesting.

* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: Before Leonard openly admitted his feelings to Penny (she was well aware of his crush beforehand) she had given him several mouth kisses, once [[Accidental Kiss|when drunk]] and once as a "happy birthday" thing. But it also shows this trope depends largely on interpretation as Leonard went into a mental maze analyzing Penny's reaction to a brief relationship he had with Leslie. He wasn't certain if it was "Genuinely happy you're with someone" or "Too bad you're taken now" and (post breakup) "Genuinely sorry it didn't work out" or "Glad you're now available."

* [[Meaningful Name]]:

** The names Sheldon and Leonard are a [[Shout-Out]] to television writer [[wikipedia:Sheldon Leonard|Sheldon Leonard]].

* [[Second Episode Introduction]]: A variation. While Raj met Penny in the pilot, it took him until getting drunk in the ''eighth'' episode before he could actually ''[[Cannot Talk to Women|talk to her]]'' and properly introduce himself;

{{quote|'''Raj''': I am talking to you?! *''Shakes hand''* Hello Penny! How are you?!}}

* [[Self-Induced Allergic Reaction]]: Howard eats a nut bar to stall Leonard so they could set up Leonard's surprise birthday party. And because Penny was going to hook him up with her easy girlfriends.

** This is ''after'' he fakes an allergic reaction to the same thing for the same cause, only to realize the group wouldn't have enough time. And well...

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