Wyatt

Wyatt (portrayed by Keith Carradine) is Penny's father.

Character Information
According to Penny in The Maternal Capacitance (when she claims his name is Bob),﻿ Wyatt originally wanted a boy, but got her instead. He called her "slugger" until she got her first training bra, at which point he also stopped playing catch with her. In The Maternal Congruence, Penny mentions that Wyatt sent her a catcher's glove and a baseball for Christmas. When he learned that Penny was seeing Leonard, he was overjoyed, having met her ex-boyfriends. He was actually devastated at learning that they had broken up. In The Boyfriend Complexity, he is first seen in person. He comes to visit Penny, who claims, in order to get him off her back, that she and Leonard got back together. As the episode progresses, the two carry on the ruse until Penny admits the truth to him. He is at first hurt that she felt a need to lie to him, but forgives her. When she is gone, Wyatt literally begs Leonard not to give up on her, as she is the best boyfriend she's ever had. He pretends to angrily throw Leonard out of the apartment as reverse psychology to get Penny's interest in him up. Leonard leaves, telling Wyatt that he will Friend him on Facebook.