Penny

Penny is Leonard and Sheldon's new neighbor across the hallway and is, as described by Wolowitz, a "cheesecake-scented goddess." This description is fairly accurate, considering Penny is a waitress at the local The Cheesecake Factory. She is also writing a movie about a girl from Lincoln, Nebraska, who travels to Los Angeles to become an actress but ends up working at the Cheesecake Factory instead. When Leonard asks if the movie is autobiographical, she replies no because she's from Omaha, Nebraska. The reason Penny is in the apartment building in the first place is because she recently split with her boyfriend of four years, Kurt, and was thrown out of their place. She says she still loves him but wants custody of their television set. The shower in her apartment is currently broken, much to Leonard and Sheldon's friends' delight (she now uses Leonard and Sheldon's shower and tends to wear nothing but a towel). She's either ignorant of or all too aware of her effect on the boys, because within minutes of meeting them, she asks Leonard to retrieve her television set from her ex-boyfriend's apartment, which he immediately sets out to do. It is not known if Penny returns Leonard's affections. She is messy and disorganized but appears to like it that way. Whenever Penny goes on a rebound relationship, she picks up an attractive man and then has 36 hours of meaningless sex over the course of a weekend; afterward, the relationship deteriorates.


 * Penny is a Sagittarius but most people think that she's a water sign.
 * Penny grew up on a farm and rebuilt an entire tractor engine by herself before she was 12.
 * Leonard and Sheldon's previous neighbor before Penny was a 200 pound transvestite named Louis/Louise with a skin condition.
 * Penny claims to be a vegetarian but will eat fish and "...the occasional steak. I love steak!"
 * Penny wears vanilla perfume or smells of vanilla cheesecake because she works at The Cheesecake Factory.
 * Penny has a sister, who once shot her husband.
 * Penny also has a brother, who slept with her friend Christy.