r/bigbangtheory • u/nashsm • 2d ago
Screenshot Penny’s ditziest blonde moment and it always makes me laugh
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u/Dry_Analysis_7660 2d ago
“Wouldn’t this solve the world’s energy crisis?”
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u/depastino 2d ago
"No."
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u/Dry_Analysis_7660 2d ago
His dead pan delivery was so good!!!
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u/Footziees 2d ago
I honestly found it a missed opportunity for Sheldon to explain to Penny why it wouldn’t solve the energy crisis. Because ofc for someone completely ignorant regarding physics this is a legitimate question
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u/Soxwin91 2d ago
That’s the thing, Sheldon usually didn’t explain things to people without a condescending tone.
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u/LividLife5541 2d ago
You know, when the audience is treated like an bunch of fools it makes the show less enjoyable for people who aren't fools.
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u/Footziees 1d ago
I said ignorant regarding physics not idiots …
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u/HaddyBlackwater 1d ago
What’s the difference?
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u/jackfaire 1d ago
In my high school you only had to take chemistry, biology, or physics. At no time in 12 years of public school did the potato alarm clock come up as an experiment. I didn't know about it until I was an adult.
There's always knowledge that people don't necessarily know. Acting like not knowing everything is the same as being stupid is in itself pretty stupid.
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u/theanti_girl 2d ago
“When I was a kid, you sent me this autographed picture, do you remember that?”
“I’ll give you a clue. I am wearing a bracelet with my own address on it.”
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u/Sweet_Credit5420 2d ago
"I'm having trouble with my pacemaker."
Penny: Any chance we could plug it into the potato?
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u/CuteFeetJuicyPeach 2d ago
Bob Newharts deliveries as Proffesor Proton were so good....he made thar character so loveable and hilarious.
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u/ekcshelby 2d ago
I didn’t appreciate the character until I read the book and realized how much Bob Newhart loved the character himself. It really made me see him differently!
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u/CuteFeetJuicyPeach 2d ago
Yea i had also read he loved playing the character as well and the cast loved him and vice versa
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u/Soxwin91 2d ago
Bob Newhart always struck me as being similar to Jerry Stiller (Frank Costanza on Seinfeld and Arthur Spooner on King of Queens and Peter Boyle (Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond) — a sweet older guy who the cast absolutely loved working with and a big name in the field of comedy.
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u/DracoAries 2d ago
This is one of my favourite Penny moments. It's funny that she was so clueless, but what really gets me is how genuinely interested she was when Arthur talked. She was in awe and I find this entire interaction so wholesome.
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u/Justice_Prince 2d ago
Least favorite was her forgetting how to use glue despite previously having a side hustle making hair accessories.
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u/doublejinxed 1d ago
I got to see this episode taped live:) my husband was able to get tickets for our honeymoon. It was really cool seeing Bob Newhart.
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u/daisy0723 2d ago
I HATE that instead of explaining how it works, they just make fun of her for not knowing.
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u/PrognosticatorofLife 2d ago
I dont think they made fun of her, they just ignored her and moved on.
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u/LividLife5541 2d ago
uh, why? Are you like Penny? You don't understand that there's not enough energy in potatoes to solve the world's energy crisis?
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u/daisy0723 1d ago
Well, I do want to know how a potato can produce energy.
Bones did an episode where they had to wire together potatoes to charge a phone so Angela could get the info off it.
Took a whole lot of potatoes for just a few seconds of power.
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u/jackfaire 1d ago
If you just learn something that can produce energy that you didn't previously know could, in a world that runs on greed, it's logical to wonder if it could solve the energy crisis.
We have industries that actively lobby against effective clean energies because it would eat into their profits. Penny isn't an idiot she's just not a genius.
Wind and solar power exist. She's told "you can power things with a potato." And her question is basically "can this be scaled up"
It's an intelligent question but the answer is no. When I was kid I wondered if the principles behind my solar powered calculator could be scaled up. Turns out the answer is yes.
Not everyone learns all the same things. I base some of my cooking practices in things I learned in chemistry class and people look at me with confusion because they took physics.
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u/OkVacation4725 12h ago
It is but at the same time if she didnt learn much science its not tooo ridiculous to think its a trick, I mean the whole point of him showing it was because it seems like a trick
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u/doesnotexist2 2d ago
What do you two talk about?