The Disappointing Child

Penny greets  Leonardafter a day of pyschology lessons and shows him her now book "The Disappointing Child" in The Raiders Minimization that his mother, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, wrote.

The Book
Leonard compalins when he sees that Penny bought his mother's book "The Disappointing Child" They talk about the chapter about Potty Training, Bed Wetting and Masturbation. Leonard says "If something came out of me she wrote about it."

Penny mentions The Breast Feeding Crisis. Leonard says it wasn't a crisis. He favoured the left one, she was lopsided. Penny shrieks in delight and says he still goes left.

In Pennys apartment she asks Leonard why a five year old boy put on his mother's make-up and put on "balloon boobs". Leonard denies they were Boobs, as oppose to muscles and the make-up was green because he was the Incredible Hulk. He wrote off the fact that he wore his Mum's bra because he didn't want the balloons to get saggy. He says he was the Hulk because he wanted to smash out of the house. One of the reasons he was so angry as a child was his mother designed an Easter Egg Hunt with no eggs to see how long he would keep looking for. He kept looking until June

Penny seduces Leonard to make him feel better so Leonard uses the book to get out of hanging out with Penny's friends and get takeout and watch The Hobbit on Blu-Ray with Commentary, have sex at work, watch a six part documentary on Monty Python and anything he could guilt trip her in to.

Leonard tells Howard about it in work, he tells Bernadette about it, she tells Penny who tells Leonard's Mother.

Penny tricks Leonard by dressing up provactively and suprises him with a webcam chat with his mother. She asks him why he's been whining about his childhood and why he continues to involve her in his sex life.

She says she wants to talk about when  he was 6 and walked in on his parent having sex and she was swatting his bottom with his "Brand new ping-pong paddle" and asks how it made him feel. Leonard calls Penny to come back because he's "sad for real".

Trivia
Leonard's mother also wrote "Needy Baby, Greedy Baby"

Raj suggests that if they ever make the movie of her books, Sandra Bullock should play his mother

Howardtries the same thing with  Bernadette about how lonely his childhood was.