Bernadette is hoping for a Leonard and Penny reconciliation so that she and Howard will have someone to double date with...a thought that Amy is offended by since the offer is never extended to her and Sheldon. Penny, stressing about what to wear, asks if a skin tight, satin green dress is too much. Bernadette says yes, Amy says no thinking Bernadette just can't handle Penny's raw sexuality. Penny goes the opposite direction into a frumpy outfit which Bernadette approves of and Amy rejects. They inquire to Penny whether sex was going to happen that night. Penny assures them it won't and stops making a big deal out of the whole thing even if she is really nervous.
Sheldon, Raj and Howard play an intense game of the Settlers of Qatar. Sheldon repeatedly asks the boys if they have any wood which ensues giggle fits from the both of them.
Leonard is ready for the date and the boys ask if he knows what he's doing and advise him to proceed with caution. Sheldon offers his unsolicited advice that Leonard is fixated on Penny because she's the opposite of his mother. He got the theory from her latest book "Needy Baby, Greedy Baby." But anyone, back to the wood...Sheldon doesn't understand why they're making it so hard.
At dinner, it's a tad awkward but Penny and Leonard are able to pretend that it's actually their first date. Penny tells him all about her failed acting career. Leonard tells Penny about his career as a physicist and he makes good money. She asks if he's a nerd. "I'm not some kind of nerd, I am the King of nerds," he proclaims. Everything is going well and then Leonard drops the bombshell wondering if they're getting back together. Penny says she'll always have feelings for him but Leonard stops her, she used the dreaded word 'always.' She tells him he ALWAYS over thinks things. This escalates into a full blown argument and the date is over.
Leonard arrives home and Sheldon is ready to begin the erection of his settlement. Howard and Raj are beside themselves. They assume that the date didn't go well. In the middle of the night Leonard gets a text from Penny to meet him in the hall. She tells him not to over think things and kisses him. She leads him into her bedroom where they have sex. They come to an agreement that maybe that can just secretly work on things but not tell anyone they're back together. Leonard is satisfied for many reasons, only one of which is that she still has one of his asthma inhalers so he can breathe again.
Leonard sneaks back in to his apartment but is immediately caught by Sheldon. He goes into a detailed lie of having to go to the bathroom at the gas station across the street since Sheldon was in theirs. But being the morally upstanding person he is, Sheldon makes him go back to the gas station and buy something so he didn't just use their facilities for free.
At the cheesecake factory with the gang, Penny waits on them and pretends there is nothing going on until a very real argument starts with Leonard. Bernadette doesn't know how she could be friends with Howard if they broke up as she's a very "vengeful person with an access to weaponized Small Pox."
Again, Leonard receives a text from Penny and they argue in the hall. He proceeds into her house since having sex after arguing is what they do now. Penny can't disagree and complies. But Leonard over thinks everything and can't go through with it...end day dream. We are back to the beginning while Leonard is standing in the hallway with Sheldon bitching about his Zachary Quinto cardboard cutout. He's dreamed out the scenario of he and Penny getting back together and it ends badly. It's obvious what he should do, just let it go.
Instead he marches into Penny's and asks her out. She asks if he's thought it through. He assures he has but he wants to do it anyway. She agrees. :)
Penny has her own daydream of her and Leonard's wedding day where she is a pregnant bride. In reality, it reminds her she needs to stop by the drug store before their date.
No comments:
Post a Comment