Top 10 Times Penny Was the Smartest Character on The Big Bang Theory
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- Turns out Penny was the smartest all along. For this list, we’ll be looking at times this girl next door was the most savvy person in the room. Our countdown includes Penny talks finances, winning game night, her emotional intelligence, and more! Do YOU think Penny was the real genius of the group? Let us know in the comments!
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10:06 My favourite bit.
Yep. Her genius was in emotional intelligence (which was off the charts) as she handled Sheldon like no one else could.
Can you do a Top 10/20 Dragons from Animated Movies?
@@nathansheldahl My opinion is the guys other than Stuart and the latter 2 girls were the main smart ones. However, the girls all knew better than the guys Wil Wheaton would invite and trust Stuart more than them.
Surely, Penny is a smart street genius
She is definitely street smart which has saved the gang hundreds of times throughout the seasons.
Nothing like hundreds of times. Probably not even ten.
Car breaks down:
The guys *call Penny*
Howard needs to learn how to fish:
The guys *call Penny*
Leonard's car breaks down:
The guys *call Penny*
Sheldon gets his stuff stolen:
The guys *call Penny*
Need I go on?
@@rachelmartin5187but she ignores the check engine light. 😅
@@austinysla6331 Yeah. We saw how that ended 😅
@@davidz3879 if she like to study , she will get good gradesss
I love how Penny calls each of the gang “sweetie” or “honey”
She gives off a motherly/older sister vibe
Yeah, right. She has that hot, sexy Aunt thing going.
She's practically like an older sister to the guys
@@OMartinez91 even though she is 5-10 years younger in the show.
Well that's because socially They're like innocent children almost, At least compared to Amy's experience.
Not so much motherly, more like an older sister or a cool aunt.
Penny becoming a pharmaceuticals rep was the best part of her arc. Despite how she got the job and her mixed feelings for it, she was shown to be shockingly competent at it, takes it completely seriously, most importantly it turned out to be her true calling.
I don't think it was her true calling, she told Leonard she's not happy with the job
@@kokkoSk but she continued to keep the job because she was so great at it, became their number one sales rep in only a few months, and she took way more seriously than her job as a waitress. Even if it didn't truly make her completely happy it was certainly the best career choice she made. She also later got promoted and was offered positions by other companies that improved her confidence.
@@maxxymrice6200also made more money than Leonard. That's a win.
@@kokkoSk Surprise surprise most of the people is not happy with the job, cause it's a "job".
I wish that made scenes with her on her sales visits.
Sheldon and Penny's BFF relationship is one of the best things of the whole show. Always brought a smile to my face.
Soft kitty
Me too ❤
Penny is a lot smarter than she's letting on and that's why we love her.
Also, I think that Missy said it best about Sheldon. "He's both really smart and really dumb at the same time!"
What did Burt Reynolds say to Frog, sitting in his black Trans Am? Something the effect of ..."how smart or dumb you are depends on what part of the country you're in."
Penny got Leonard out of his shell, Leonard got Penny out of her misery of being a failure at her profession. They both look after Sheldon, Sheldon saved their relationship and marriage. Penny got Howard her wife leading to Bernadette being a part of their circle and getting Penny a job later. Penny cures Raj, Raj helps Howard and Bernie with their marriage and kids. Being friends with Penny helps Amy get closer to Sheldon and they win a Nobel.
All the characters complement each other and Penny was the start of the Bing Bang in their lives.
thats freaking beautiful! never thought of it like that. penny was the big bang. thats incredible
@@jaycekibler1897 Big Bang was a chain of reactions and in the show's context, Penny moving in that apartment and into their lives was the start of the chain.
Bing Bang Boom. :) heh. Bing bang.
That makes Leonards first time with Penny "The Big Bang"
And, as always, rock crushes scissors.
I love how Penny slowly becomes more familiar with geeky pop culture topics. Even though she's not traditionally book smart, she still demonstrates great people skills and emotional intelligence, similar to Sheldon's twin, Missy.
Missy doesn't make anything of her life though.
@@davidz3879I mean that's not true
@@laurenpatrick4609 What are Missy's achievements?
@@davidz3879she's a mother
@@steppy3736 You're saying that all mothers are inherently high achievers? All mothers, even if they live in poverty, have no qualifications etc. are achievers?!
Penny really brought the guys out of their shells, and they brought out her intelligence.
Watching Your video, I remembered one VERY overlooked moment: When *PENNY MADE SHELDON APOLOGIZE, BY BRINGING IN MS COOPER!* 🙌 😂
But that was off a suggestion made by Leonard so it doesn't count.
@@daverhoden445 also known I believe as the nuclear option.
"Your ken can kiss my Barbie " this gets me everytime 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉😂
🤣😂
For me, one of Penny's best "smart moments" was when she was Sheldon's teammate during the scavenger hunt! She figured out the puzzle long before he did and in the geology lab, where the blue was "leave no stone unturned" she found the next four under a Rolling Stones posted hanging on the door 💔💖💖
Leave no tern unstoned.
I don't know if this is an example of Penny being smart but she showed how important she was going to become to the group in season 1 when she got back Sheldon's stuff. But... she was able to get back Sheldon's stuff after the guys failed.
I always thought that Howard's card trick was a conspiracy between the others to frustrate Sheldon.
i. e. There was no trick, everyone just agreed that Howard got it right everytime and Penny's ah ha moment of how the trick was done and Howard's agreement was the topping on the prank cake, and no one was ever going to tell Sheldon.
Well ..... YEAH!!!
No, initially it was genuine that Howard was doing a card trick, but then it turned into the inside joke of keeping Sheldon out of the loop and watch his frustration in amusement.
Yep
Um.... Did you not see the credits scene?
It was visible from the first episodes that Penny is intelligent. She's not cultured and educated, but she's definitely smart.
I always thought that this series was the meeting of several types of intelligence, those who had the chance to cultivate this intelligence and those who did not have this possibility.
Each being, at the start, except Sheldon, of course, of equivalent intelligence.
“That’s right! My phone is just as smart as you guys!” 💀😂
Beating Leonard at chess, nice.
Beating Sheldon at chess would have been epic.
This is the first time ever that I’ve understood what Penny said Leonard and Amy as she’s walking away doing that giggling thing. I always heard cheese not sheets.😂
Love this show! Penny literally was the ultimate girl next door! If it wasn't for Penny, the guys would've never changed honestly.
Sheldon and Penny had one of best friendship arcs
My sister and I are like them. I’m all smart and academic and she has the street smarts of a Tom Cat. We survived homelessness and many other tragedies due to her street smarts. My book smarts helped in the long run being able to get a really good job, but her smarts are something I have mad respect for and I think are much more important in life. I’m an introvert and she can make friends with a fence post! She has beauty, wit, personality, and resilience. Sounds like Penny to me. I never once thought penny was stupid. I saw exactly what she was going to be bringing to the table.
🙌🏽
You're like my brother and I'm like your sister. My brother is incredibly intelligent, he can get lost in his own mind. I've lived through a lot of tough things and always seem to land on my feet.
Missed one. On the subject of shrodenger's cat she says, " where I come from, you don't have to open the box to know if there is all kinds of dead cat in there. "
I actually think Penny's friendship with them and her version of intelligence is the whole point of the show.
Big Bang Theory is primarily evolution. They start off with the stereotypical nerds/geeks who learns to shed the socially awkwardness - with Sheldon's biggest character development - simply by befriending a very street smart, social, and beautiful woman, the stereotpical of woman all stereotypical nerds wanted. Penny rounds them out by showing the importance of emotional intelligence and street smarts and in turn, they introduce her into a world she never thought she'd be interested in. Everyone evolves in this show.
And, by contrast, her eyes are opened to the world around her by the guys. While she makes things less socially awkward for them, they're out there in the world doing interesting things and making an impact on the world. Something Penny low-key wants but doesn't know how to get.
One of my favorite shows..clever, funny , great chemistry between the characters .
Penny was never stupid. Her Intelligence is probably average… But her Wisdom is probably a 16 or better. Contrast that to the guys whose Intelligence is probably between a 16 (Howard) and 20 (Sheldon), but whose Wisdom scores are probably all below 10.
I always loved the part where she explained she was helping Sheldon solve string theory and the look on Leonard's face when she explained you could have knots if strings were sheets.
Actually, I just loved the entire show.
How about when Penny taught Howard how to fish because neither Leonard or Raj knew how?
Penny helping Sheldon have a breakthrough was such an amazing detail. Now, everyone who made fun of Penny about her smarts can suck it lol
She didn't come up with anything.
@@vanindallas She did actually. She gave Sheldon an idea to improve his theory, so she really did come up with anything.
@@daphnexlove98All she said was strings get tangled up in knots. Sheldon already knew that. She just happened to be in the room when he had an insight, nothing more.
@@vanindallas no, even if he knew that, he didn’t think from that angle, therefore Penny helped him think like that so that he could solve it. She just pushed him to think simpler which is amazing. Please don’t deny that.
@@daphnexlove98 so she said something completely incorrect and he explained why she was wrong and you want to give her credit for that?? LOL
There is also this one scene when Raj is in risk of getting deported because his job met a dead end and Penny simply states "Why doesn't he just get another job?"
Practical, smart, fast thinking and no one else came up with that idea
Penny is a friend that I never had. Helpful, caring and fun loving personal and ubiquity of her influence has ingrained in everyone's around her.
Being smart isn't always about how intelligent you are.
Penny was almost too cute to look at! Absolutely adorable!!!!
Seriously her emotional intelligence is what says the guys most of the time.
I love the part where they all thought during the scavenger hunt she would be a liability but instead proceeded to solve more than half of the puzzles before everyone. The worst part is they never mentioned it and kept saying she was a liability.
The real smartest person in tbt is actually amy because she has what Sheldon was missing. The ability to understand people.
*Still* miss that show, man. Good times.
Personally I like how she got the guys’ toys back from the nerd who stole them, with a swift kick to the groin.
Penny is has always been my favorite character in the show
LOL, for some reason I started randomly watching the Big Bang theory last night .. and then this pops up - is it the season or something? 😅
Penny had common sense. That rates right up there with intelligence
Sheldon and Penny came from similar backgrounds - rural, conservative regions.
The world overvalues mental intelligence, when the world was built on emotional intelligence. Penny isn't brain smart (like the guys), but she is heart smart, which the boys ALWAYS undermine and dismiss because they're clearly so much more brilliant. She's also amazing at her pharm job which is not easy, knowing every single drug, when to take it, how to take it, what's better, what's worse, symptoms, doses, and all that?? That's literally part of a pharmacists' job! But because she's not a doctor she is view as the pretty dumb one. They don't hide it either. They give Howard a hard time for it all the time.
I never understood the Penny hate train when Priya repeatedly cheated on him, Joyce used him for government information, Stephanie was obsessed and stalkerish, and Leslie just wanted him to have a baby. Penny at least was honest with her emotions and her feelings towards Leonard. She never hid things and when she did it didn't take her long to confess. Penny is probably the strongest characters and is the reason for EVERY DEVELOPMENT in the show. Bernie and Howard? Penny. Sheldon adopting more human-like characteristics? Penny. Amy's character development? Penny. Loenard's leaps and bounds of development? Penny!
Hating pretty women who love having sex and being a young 20-something, who transform into a happily married woman is not the edgy take you think it is.
(I clearly have a lot of emotions about this lol)
Just to clarify, she's not a pharmacist, shes a pharma rep - those are the people who sell medication to hospitals. It's still a great job for her!!
such a good take.
She was a pharmaceutical representative, meaning she sold drugs that companies made. Think marketing. She had to find ways to get people to buy the things her company was making. That's it, and because she's got excellent people skills, naturally she excelled in this field. Also, I've never heard of anyone hating Penny....the character seems to be pretty well liked by everyone, and everyone seems to understand her importance in the other characters' lives. Oh, and the world was absolutely not built on emotional intelligence lol. We have survived and thrived due to actual intelligence and figuring things out to make our lives better and last longer.
If you ever need major surgery get someone who barely graduated medical school but has great emotional intelligence. LOL
@@jaycekibler1897Exactly
This was a sweet recap =) Thanks, I enjoyed it
I don't know how to translate this in English but she's the character that makes the topic rolls. No one would be interested in four nerds with no social life unless there's a counterpart who represents what they are not. She's not the main character but is the one character the theme couldn't go without.
In Spanish is named "el quinto en discordia".
In English, that kind of character is known as a "foil."
This series wouldn't have made it without Kaylee playing penny.
Heck yeah she's the smartest she help Sheldon solve string theory using basic analogies
Einstein did say "if you can't explain it to a 6 year old, you yourself don't understand it". The fact Penny could simplify it shows she did understand what sheldon was saying.
He didn't solve string theory and she didn't contribute anything.
Penny's intellect was never cultivated until she befriended this group of geniuses.
I love, love, love Penny!
Penny and Leonard are my favorite characters and my favorite couple in this show.
She has more common sense than rest of them put together, except maybe Bernadette.
Bernadette can't even work out contraception, having two kids accidentally.
@@davidz3879contraception doesn always work.
@@laurenpatrick4609 True, but the vast majority of unplanned pregnancies are due to not using contraception or to not using it regularly & properly. Bernadette makes it clear that she was careless both times, which is far from typical of the highly-educated.
And she is not mean
6:59 BEST EPISODE PICTIONATY 😂😂😂😂
You cut off before "I tot I taw a... Romulan."
Best part. 😆
I'll beat you both with a bag of oranges 🤣
All of the people here questioning Penny's helping Sheldon with his string theory problem, they had physics experts as consultants who checked everything said, written on boards, etc. that the material was correct.
I love her so so much
I being binging tbbt its weird shes sometimes simultaneously the dumbest and smartest character
4:53 savage comment from Sheldon but she knew it before you 🎉🎉🎉
Lets be honest penny made the word "molecules" hotter💅👁️👄👁️💅
You know, if Leonard didn't try to rewrite the essay, maybe Penny would've found out it was terrible the normal way and maybe, actually, learn something.
But what do I know? I never went to college.
Penny doesn't want to honestly gain qualifications, which is why she gets Amy & Bernadette to write it for her.
Thank you ! She is a genius!
Everyone in this show was genius in their own right/field. Penny's just happened to be street/main stream media smarts. They always discounted her for not have a book smart degree. For shame
Actually, they didn't. They mostly saw her as a mystery. When Leonard explained some principle of physics to Penny, he generally assumed she could comprehend. When Penny compared string theory to any other kind of lost love, Sheldon listened and fell back in love with it
not knowing part of the fun
is that your community college motto?
one of the most savage and funny lines in sitcom🤣
I love Penny, she's awesome!
Penny's my favorite honestly.
Street Smart is her key specialty
The game night scene is one of my favorites
I want her to play chess with sheldon
Imagine how frustrated he would be.😏
Very nice ❤❤❤❤
I AGREE WITH YOUR PICKS
Honorable Mention: Penny wearing glasses and saying "molecules" to Leonard. Shows she could pull off the genius look.
Sheldon: Perhaps, there's hope for you after all 😅😃😃😃
I think in some cases the issue with being highly intelligent is often these people overthink and ignore simple solutions to their embarrassment.....
The two that I remember are Leonard and Sheldon standing outside that security door trying to figure out how to get in when the cookie sellers walked up and pushed every button.,,,,And the second one was the ER receptionist when Howard has the robotic arm on his d*ck....and she pushes the reset on the computer.
Of course, intelligent people would probably think of these things in real life. However, these skits do highlight that sometimes intelligent people can be too clever for their own good.
Penny's role in the series is that knowing her turned all the other people in the group into better adjusted people....maybe not Bernadette.....Penny learned to stop hanging around with dropkicks.....her new friends were decent, genuine people who showed her the path to more rewarding relationships in her personal life.... and a better / more rewarding career.
Penny wasn't smarter, just more worldly.
Exactly. Can I recommend something to you that I think you’ll like?
Nah. Smarter. Hogs and rats are of the world but do not understand it. Penny understood.
I think you missed the Penny/Sheldon relationship key- Missy. Sheldon already had a similar relationship with a similar type person, his twin sister.
2:50 For anyone wondering why a bag of oranges. They don't leave a mark.
That's happened to me a few times, losing to 1st timers. In chess. But I was teaching them and giving them a chance. Lol😂
You can get tell young sheldon learned from tbbt, as they made missy, and arguably everyone except sheldon, like penny.
Now I wanna watch it all over again x3
Already doing it now...on season 3 lol
Its not hard to deal with people like Sheldon, you just dont coddle em. Penny knows that
Never liked that she went into Pharma sales tho
She's smart shes just wasn't interested.
I loved Penny & Sheldon’s relationship. Sheldon goes to Penny more than to Amy. Not saying Sheldon doesn’t love Amy. They just trust each other with serious things and she knows where to take them. To get ice cream
Penny is pretty and smart!! She was a favorite on the show 💯💯💯
PENNY (intimadatingly): You saying I'm not smart?!
AMY & BERNADETTE (frightened): You're smart!!
Interesting, considering who scared Penny became of Bernadette...!
With the original pilot having a different actor play Penny shows that it was the actors ability to play the subtlety of genius underneath the character that made the show, call it chemistry but the character needed to be far more complex than the sexy neighbor.
Penny is not *book smart* , but is *STREET SMART* . 🙌
She always was!
Miss this show!
Penny was the character worth watching the entire series, period!
I'm 100% love hugs including on my birthdays!
Love
Think of the group as a whole. Penny had the most common sense, hands down.
Lighthouse 😂
I like the one where she kicks the guy between the legs to get Sheldon's stuff back.
9:40 Sheldon twitching is cute
11:24 I like that penny
I love girl's night scenes. These actors earned their money. So didn't the Prop Master. In charge of producing every object used on the show including all the food. Sheldon's storage unit of shame? The Prop Master. The 3-D chess set was made. Not bought. Hail to the Prop Master.
Her eq is the highest in the film❤
The fact that she doesn't have a degree it doesn't meant that she's not smart
My only real problem with the game night episode is that Leonard and Penny would have done equally well paired up with each other as Amy and Penny... Infact Sheldon is the deficiet in the gaming group that night!
I live Penny
wooooow she is very smart
This video was SOOOO much better than the other penny one. In that one, the narrator would tel yhoul what penny was going to say then show the clip with the EXACT same words and then explain what she just said. Talk filler and fluff.
Great list for the show Buuttt every ~ one will allway ' s have there own list .