Big Bang Obsession - Cache 5 of 14 - Penny Traditional Cache

This series of 14 geocaches is dedicated to my favorite television comedy show - The Big Bang Theory. Created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, the series premiered on CBS in September of 2007. At the time of the construction of these geocaches, the series has just wrapped up it's 10th season and has all ready been renewed for two more! I am still hopeful that it will be picked up for an additional two years after that, so I decided to do a series of 14 caches bringing the 14 favorite characters to the forefront.

Now we come to our beloved Penny.  One odd "factoid" about Penny, is that her character never had a last name until she married Leonard in Season 9!

Penny is the series' first and always main female protagonist. She lives in Apartment 4A with her husband Leonard Hofstadter across the hall from Sheldon Cooper, and Amy Farrah Fowler, who live in apartment 4B where Penny used to live.  She unknowingly married her ex-boyfriend Zack Johnson and it lasted for three years. That marriage was finally annulled in "The Thanksgiving Decoupling".&

An aspiring, but mostly unsuccessful actress, she was born on a farm near Omaha, Nebraska, and worked at The Cheesecake Factory as a waitress until she quit to take up acting full time.  Penny was the original female lead in the show before being joined by Bernadette Rostenkowski and Amy Farrah Fowler and in season 8 started working at the same company as Bernadette.  She has always been Leonard's love interest since the pilot, with the two dating briefly in the first episode of the second season, for most of the third season, and they rekindled their romance in "The Recombination Hypothesis".  As of "The Gorilla Dissolution", she and Leonard became engaged and were married at the start of season 9 in "The Matrimonial Momentum", followed by a re-wedding (while still married) at the start of season 10 in "The Conjugal Conjecture".

Even though she is considered part of the guys' group, she represents the "dumb blond" for viewer context in the series with a lot of street smarts and communication skills to compensate for her lack of academic knowledge.  As the series progresses, her knowledge of geeky subjects even surprises her. She also is an avid shopper and seems to have an obsession with shoes.