Talk:Leonard and Penny/@comment-98.71.6.151-20150423014228

BBT has made two major mistakes by stopping two of the story lines that made it so successful. The first was making Leonard and Penny a couple because it ended the longing of Leonard for Penny while watching a parade of idiot boyfriends bed Penny across the hall.

The show began with Leonard being a hapless short nerd whose "girlfriends" consisted of a North Korean spy trying to steal information via Leonard. However, someone decided that Leonard should suddenly shed his hapless situation with girls into a mini-stud. He scored with the MD and Raj's sister, which stripped the show of a funny gag about his failures with women.

The second mistake was giving Howard a girlfriend/wife, which removed gag about his crude attempts to pick up women. Some of the best shows revolved around his failures with women.

The past two years has produced shows that are no longer funny because the story lines have to include Leonard/Penny and Howard/wife that are not funny. The show is too wedded the new relationships to undo them because Leonard longing for Penny would not work since he has been a relationship with her and the mystery is gone.

The show is doomed but it has a contract for two more years but it will probably shed viewers, which will lead to cancellation.