However, he changed his mind when he saw that Penny was already dating another man. Early in the series, Leonard tried to get rid of his collectables to impress Penny with his maturity.
As seen in the season 1 episode " The Hamburger Postulate", he and Leslie Winkle have sex, after meeting to practice their instruments, which Leonard calls "a little musical foreplay".ĭespite his attempts not to appear to be a geek, Leonard owns, among other things, Star Wars hygiene products, a prop of the One Ring, Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation officers' uniforms, an expansive Superman comic book collection and a Battlestar Galactica Colonial warrior's flight suit. He claims that his parents made him take cello lessons when he was young. Leonard is also musically inclined, as he can play the cello. While certainly a geek by most definitions, he is far less socially inept than Sheldon (who is unable to grasp social norms and is often even dismissive of them), Raj (who was unable to talk to women unless he was under the influence of alcohol or anti-anxiety prescription drugs, and even after getting over his handicap still tended to speak inappropriately), and Howard (who was often seen as "creepy" when flirting with women, including Penny).
In early episodes, Leonard is reluctant to let Penny know about his recreational activities (such as Klingon Boggle), as he does not want her to see him as a geek. He is instantly captivated by Penny, and from the beginning sets out to date her. Of all the main characters, he is the one who has almost no difficulty interacting with "non-geek" individuals. His various girlfriends have tried to change his outfits: Penny had no success, while Stephanie got him to wear dress shirts and sweaters (which he found uncomfortable), and Priya got him to switch briefly to dress shirts, waistcoats and dark slacks he reverted to his original outfits after she left for India, but started eschewing his hoodies in favor of button-down shirts and non-hooded jackets towards the end of the seventh season a trend that continued into successive seasons.Īlthough Leonard feels at home with his geek colleagues, he wants to be more social. At night Leonard wears a white t-shirt, a maroon robe and white socks. jackets with integrated hoodies) or a combination of the two, brown or red trousers, or (less frequently) jeans and physics-themed T-shirts. He is usually seen wearing his characteristic black thick-framed glasses, low-cut black Converse All Stars sneakers, pastel hoodies or neutral-colored sweat jackets (i.e. Originally from New Jersey and a graduate of Princeton University, Leonard works as a Caltech experimental physicist, mainly working with lasers, and shares an apartment with colleague Sheldon Cooper in Pasadena, California. Leonard is one of four characters to appear in every episode of the series, along with Sheldon, Howard Wolowitz and Raj Koothrappali.Ĭharacterization Personality Johnny Galecki was originally asked to play the role of Sheldon Cooper, but thought he would be "better suited" for the character of Leonard. Penny's actions have some expected and unexpected consequences.Leonard is named after actor/producer Sheldon Leonard, and Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate Robert Hofstadter. Penny wants to stand up for Raj against Lucy, who broke up with Raj via email. Meanwhile, at the Cheesecake Factory with Penny and Bernadette, Amy recognizes another one of the customers: Raj's old girlfriend Lucy.
Still, Amy tries to figure out why Sheldon seems so calm about the situation. But Sheldon has in his possession some information that he knows will make it a little more difficult for Leonard to endure what Leonard believes will be an easy task. To prove a point, Leonard agrees to Sheldon's payback.
He makes Leonard do something that he knows will bother him until he returns the DVD, namely wear an ugly wool sweater against his bare skin, the sweater to which Leonard is probably allergic. On the contrary, Sheldon outwardly remains relatively calm, but he figures that Leonard needs figuratively to walk a mile in his shoes to understand how upset he really is about what Leonard did. Leonard never told Sheldon about it as he knew Sheldon would "overreact". After a good amount of time passed, Leonard figured to keep the DVD since nothing bad had happened. Out of circumstance, Leonard admits to Sheldon that he still has in his possession a DVD rental from seven years ago that was under Sheldon's name, and that Leonard was supposed to return.
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