Why does leonard always look up

This incident also lead to the destruction of the elevator, as Sheldon had just enough time to put the explosive contents of the container into the elevator before it exploded. Leonard also, more than all of Sheldon's other friends understands him the most, as viewed in many scenes where when all hopes failed to get Sheldon to participate in something, Leonard will be the last resort to come up with something successful. When Penny and Sheldon had a spat due to Penny sitting in his spot and touching his food and later refused to apologize to him, which resulted her being banished from the apartment, Penny came up with her own set of revenge, including banishing Sheldon from the Cheesecake Factory and messing up with Sheldon's Laundry Night.

When things got really ugly between the two, a fed up Leonard secretly gave Penny Sheldon's mother's number, telling her it is Sheldon's Kryptonite. The feud ended after that, with Sheldon, clueless to the fact that it was Leonard who helped Penny, told Penny that she played well.

Another instance was when Penny tried her hands at opening her own business by selling Penny Blossoms. When they had to stay awake all night to help Penny meet her order, a sleepy Sheldon refused coffee and decided to head to bed instead, leaving the rest to finish up by themselves.

A frustrated Penny looked on to Leonard to do something and Leonard did, by saying to Sheldon that without his insight and leadership this entire enterprise will surely fail, which prompted Sheldon to change his mind and drink coffee. In " The Septum Deviation ", Sheldon objects to him have elective nasal surgery due to the risks of surgery indicating that he really cares for Leonard despite his condescension.

Sheldon and Leonard have co-authored at least two scientific papers together. After a tearful period thinking about them him moving out, Sheldon lets him go one night a week to stay at Penny's. Sheldon still sleeps on her couch that night. They can't so Sheldon rushes the gate, gets caught by being tased and almost gets the two of them arrested. Leonard is mad, but still calls it an adventure. In " The Approximation ", Leonard finally moves out to live with his wife Penny; however, in the end Penny agrees that they will spend at least half their night back in Leonard's old room.

In " The Convergence-Convergence ", Sheldon's mother and Leonard's father find a connection, may have spent the night together and Leonard could end up Sheldon's step-brother. In " The Matrimonial Metric ", Sheldon and Amy test their friends for positions in their wedding party.

The gang gets pissed and no one wants to be in their wedding. Later Leonard tells him that his best man is his own choice and Sheldon choses him. He is also happy that Sheldon was now legally Amy's problem, but Sheldon says that that is not going to stop him from being his problem.

After the wedding ceremony is delayed, Leonard checks up on them and finds Sheldon and Amy inventing Super-Asymmetry which also gets Leonard fascinated and involved. Penny has to come and get the three of them to start the wedding. In " The Citation Negation ", Leonard helps Sheldon with the footnotes in his Super-Asymmetry paper and finds an old untranslated Russian paper that states that Super-Asymmetry is not worth pursuing.

Howard meets Leonard in a flashback in " The Staircase Implementation " and they are best friends. Howard told Penny that both he and Raj liked Leonard, not Sheldon. Leonard has helped him quite often, and Howard faced an allergic reaction partly to provide Leonard's first birthday party.

Though, Howard finds Leonard's worries over Penny humorous sometimes, and they like to post embarrassing things about each other on YouTube and Twitter. The two of them made a pact that if either one of them ever got a girlfriend, the other one would set up the single guy with one of her girlfriends. When it comes to agreements and women, they frequently fight.

Leonard does enjoy poking fun at Howard's height, although he is only a quarter of an inch taller "and don't you forget it! In " The Conference Valuation ", Leonard spends the weekend at Wolowitz's playing board games and conducting development tests on Howard's kids. Leonard has some deja vu because he sees that Sheldon treats the kids the same way Beverly treated him, testing him all the time.

Leonard and Rajesh Koothrappali meet at the University in a flashback in " The Staircase Implementation " and they are best friends. Though, Raj takes delight in Leonard's problems with Penny and becomes somewhat adversarial with him when he dates his sister, Priya.

Despite his tendency to tease Leonard about his girlfriend issues, he is supportive of his and Penny's relationship and frequently attempts to get him to break up with Priya sometimes employing subtle manipulative techniques, such as feeding his paranoia about the two women comparing notes about his sex life.

Raj feels jealous when Leonard and Howard use his ideas for fun and exclude him. Raj has said that Leonard only hangs out with him if he has no other options, and has missed him " The Spaghetti Catalyst ". They normally try to help each other. In " The Cooper Extraction ", Amy points out to the gang that most of them would not know each other if Sheldon had not been part of their lives.

Since Leonard is not in Apartment 4A, Raj envisions them living together; however, Leonard is fat due to Raj's cooking and Leonard's loneliness. Leonard and Bernadette have a warm relationship. They became friends shortly after Penny introduced her to Howard. She became interested in Leonard's experiments, but they are only best friends, as Howard and Bernadette are in a relationship even though Howard felt threatened. Leonard is impressed how she can get Sheldon to do things such as go to bed, but then her mother ran an illegal daycare center and she was used to dealing with stubborn children " The Einstein Approximation ".

In a daydream of Raj in " The Thespian Catalyst ", Leonard comforts Bernadette after he and Raj hear about Howard's accident when he was on his scooter and hit by a truck and she started crying. In " The Scavenger Vortex ", Leonard and Bernadette are matched in their scavenger hunt and she keeps pushing him around because she is very competitive. But despite problems, Bernadette and Leonard truly love and care for each other, and Bernadette even shows her love for Leonard in " The Conjugal Conjecture " where she officiates Leonard and Penny's re-wedding ceremony when she says "The love we have for them" with the 'we' referring to herself and the guests and the 'them' referring to Leonard and Penny.

Amy and Leonard did not get on very well at first, but now they are best friends, with Leonard finding her judgmental and obnoxious like Sheldon and Amy seemed to always look down on him.

Leonard slowly warmed to Amy, though they rarely hang out alone. Leonard found it odd when Amy stayed late at the apartment, even after Sheldon had left, oblivious to the fact Leonard would have preferred to be alone.

Their relationship improved gradually. Finally, in " The Pulled Groin Extrapolation ", Amy invited Leonard as her date to a wedding she was about to attend, explaining that Sheldon was a terrible guest at a previous wedding because there were no physicists his age there.

They ended up enjoying each other at the wedding and Leonard commented that Amy really knows how to make a guy loosen up and have a good time. When Amy called Sheldon while drunk in " The Isolation Permutation ", Leonard and Sheldon went to see her at the liquor store parking lot at Leonard's insistence.

Leonard ended up being the person helping Amy up and walked with her as they made their way to send her back to her apartment. Amy giggled when she said that he had found "second base". In " The Status Quo Combustion ", Leonard lets Sheldon go on his train trip and Amy explodes, hitting him with a pillow for letting him go.

When Leonard stayed with Amy and Bernadette at a bar after they had lied to Sheldon and Penny, Leonard wondered why he and Amy didn't hang out together more often. Amy said it was weird when they did. In " The Celebration Experimentation ", Sheldon ran into the bathroom after being overwhelmed by the birthday party they were throwing him. Leonard and Amy argue over who knew him better to talk to him.

Leonard has known him longer, but Amy and Sheldon have seen each other naked. Penny goes instead. In " The Solo Oscillation ", Sheldon throws Amy out of the apartment so he can have some quiet time to work. She hangs out in Leonard and Penny's apartment and starts to bond with Leonard. They were both spelling bee champions and they bore Penny with a night of them trying to stump each other with spelling words.

The next night they start reenacting old high school science projects like creating hot ice and building a wave front out of Popsicle sticks. Leonard and Stuart are very friendly with each other and Leonard regularly visits him at the comic book store. Stuart has also invited Leonard over to his store for parties. Stuart went on two dates with Penny, which of course irritated Leonard to no end even though she and Leonard were not currently in a relationship. The first date was in " The Hofstadter Isotope ".

Leonard tried to avoid giving him advice but finally broke down. The advice, however, turned out to be exactly how Leonard had been trying to woo Penny for the last two years - thinking that if it didn't work for him; it wouldn't for Stuart. After the date, Leonard felt really bad and finally caught up with Stuart to apologize when Stuart actually appreciated the advice and it worked great right up until they were making out and he said, "Oh Penny!

While acting sorrowful for Stuart, Leonard was overjoyed that Penny still liked him. Throughout the rest of the series, Leonard has been shown to be very close and friendly with Stuart. In the series finale, Leonard expresses concern when Bernadette's father accidentally broke one of Stuart's ribs while hugging him.

Wyatt is Penny's father and Leonard's father-in-law. Wyatt is very fond of Leonard. He sees him as the first smart boyfriend Penny has dated, while all her other boyfriends Wyatt considered losers, while Leonard is seen by Wyatt as a friendly, caring person and a successful accomplished academic. They first bond over playing Wii fishing and he begs Leonard to get back with Penny.

Susan is Penny's mother and Leonard's mother-in-law. Like her husband, Susan is very fond of Leonard. Based on her mature, kind, caring and loving nature, Mary Cooper , Sheldon's mother, appears to be Leonard's female equivalent. Leonard always likes Mary and looks up to her as he always finds his mother to be pathetic. She is the mother Leonard wished he had. In " The Convergence-Convergence ", Mary says that she has always had a special place in her heart for Leonard, taking care of Sheldon for years.

It is likely she could end up becoming his stepmother because in that same episode she appears to have hooked up with his father. However, nothing happened between Alfred and Mary, much to Leonard and Sheldon's relief. Though everyone is disturbed at the thought of them still planning to maintain a friendship. In " The Geology Methodology ", Bert asks Sheldon to collaborate with him on a dark matter project involving meteorites which Sheldon likes, but is embarrassed to tell others about.

When Bert learns this he stops working with Sheldon and replaces him with Leonard. Leonard wants to do it with his laser, but Bert declines. Leonard gets angry that he is left out. He dreams that he steals the meteorite, cuts it open turns into to a flesh eating zombie. Leonard helps them reconnect and George does come to the wedding.

Leonard also found out that George did for Sheldon a lot of the same things that Leonard does like explaining his behavior and driving him around. Leonard and George Jr bonded and become fast friends putting up with Sheldon. George Jr. Leonard is usually mildly shy around women, but unlike Sheldon , he actually cares about having a girlfriend. He is the most successful of the main four to get into relationships. Although, quite shy around women at first, not really the 'outgoing' type when it came to relationships, he soon got better with women over time.

Also he believed that he had to do anything the woman wanted to stay in the relationship until Penny set him straight. He is actually his most confident when he is in a relationship, examples include:. His relationship with Stephanie should have ended after twenty minutes Joyce Kim was one of Leonard's relationships that was widely talked about in his social circle, but was never seen until a flashback in " The Staircase Implementation ".

The relationship lasted only 27 days before Joyce defected back to North Korea. Leonard is instantly captivated by the presence of Penny during the " pilot episode ", and from that moment he sets his mission to date her. By the end of the pilot episode, he has already announced to Sheldon "our babies will be smart and beautiful.

His infatuation with Penny becomes the major force that drives the series during the first season. They did go out to dinner one night with Penny thinking that the other guys were going to join them and Leonard making excuses for them.

She asks later at her door if this night was a date; however, Leonard denies it though he doesn't mean it. At the season one finale, Leonard finally managed to ask Penny out, and they had their first date after Penny has a bad breakup.

Subsequently, they broke up because Penny felt she wasn't as smart as Leonard would like and that she'd need a college degree to date Leonard. On another occasion, during the visit of Leonard's mother, Leonard and Penny came very close to having sex, but he ruined the moment by talking about their childhood issues with his mother and her father, respectively.

In the second-season finale, when the guys were going on a 3-month scientific expedition, Penny finally showed strong interest in Leonard, but kept her feelings a secret. Out of hearing range, Penny admits to herself that she wishes for him to stay. In the third-season premiere, Leonard and Penny finally started a romantic relationship kissing him as soon as he returned and making love for the first time.

They remain to have a stable relationship and even had the blessing from his mother during her second appearance during the episode, " The Maternal Congruence ". The relationship eventually came to an end during " The Wheaton Recurrence " after Penny was not able to tell Leonard that she loved him as well Although, Penny had been manipulated by Wil Wheaton to end the relationship and rush out, forcing Sheldon's team to forfeit a bowling match.

Leonard and Penny decided during " The Spaghetti Catalyst " that they should stay friends even though they broke up for Sheldon's sake. Penny's father would later beg Leonard to "not give up on her". In " The Isolation Permutation ", Sheldon became angry when he had to spend the night consoling a heartbroken Amy from being left out of the bridesmaid dress shopping by Penny and Bernadette.

He told Howard and Leonard to keep their women in line. Leonard responded that he should not be the person to do that since he was no longer Penny's boyfriend. Sheldon responded that since Leonard was the person who invited Penny to lunch " Pilot " when she moved into the apartment, everything about her is on Leonard. In " The Ornithophobia Diffusion ", Leonard agreed to go out with Penny to a movie just as friends, their first attempt at going out alone together since they broke up.

The first half of the non-date went well, with the two watching a movie that Leonard picked, a documentary about building a dam on a river in South America. Penny actually had to pay for her own ticket after Leonard pointed out that they were not on a date and sex was off the table.

Later at Brady's Beer they start to argue and interfere with the people they are trying to flirt with. Back at home Leonard told that he did not think they were ready to go out as friends and apologized for his behavior.

Penny apologized too, but said that she liked the take-charge and cocky Leonard. On the spur of the moment in " The Recombination Hypothesis ", Leonard asks Penny out on a date after he imagined what getting back with her might be like. Their real date ends successfully and they agreed to take their relationship slow in " The Beta Test Initiation ", by treating it as a Beta test and present Bug reports to each other to settle any issues arising.

In " The Friendship Contraction ", things seem to move along well with their second attempt at a relationship. During a blackout at the apartment, Leonard decided to hang out at Penny's and they had wine, played with a bubble wrap, and attempted to make out before being interrupted by Sheldon.

In " The Werewolf Transformation ", Penny learns the game of chess and beats Leonard the first time she plays. They later picked Sheldon up from Amy's apartment after he went there at 3 a. In " The Weekend Vortex ", Leonard checks in with Penny whether she would be okay with him spending a whole weekend on a hour Star Wars online gaming marathon.

Penny does not seem disturbed by it, which upsets Leonard a little. He kinda wanted Penny to be upset about it. Penny asks him what he expects her to say so Leonard tells her that he expects her to at least show that she is upset at the prospect of him being unavailable for the entire weekend.

Acting she get upset, then lets him do it realizing that he is a wild stallion that needs to run free. In " The Launch Acceleration ", Penny suggested that they move up their relationship and get intimate; however, Leonard ruins the mood when he asks her to marry him. They later meet and Penny does have the courage to tell him "no" and not break up with him as she did two years previously when he told her that he loved her. In " The Countdown Reflection ", there was some friction between the two of them about the proposal, but when Howard was being launched they were holding hands to comfort each other.

In " The Date Night Variable ", Raj, who was butting into their date, insisted that Penny tell Leonard how she felt, but she was not ready and she threw him out of the apartment. Leonard wants to talk to Penny about their relationship, but Penny says that she has had a hard day and wants to just hang out.

Penny is expressing doubts about her feelings for Leonard, though she claims to be happy with the relationship in " The Decoupling Fluctuation ". She almost tells Leonard about her doubts and then ends up sleeping with him after looking into his sad eyes. Sheldon's pretty new graduate assistant Alex Jensen flirts with Leonard in " The Higgs Boson Observation ", which he doesn't realize, but Penny does take note.

When Alex visits and mistake Penny for his lab assistant, Penny takes him back to her place and wants to pull his pants of with her teeth. She doesn't want Leonard to lose interest in her. In " The Holographic Excitation ", Penny revs up their relationship by becoming more acquainted with his work and seducing him in his lab more than once.

In " The 43 Peculiarity ", Penny is working with a fellow English student named Cole , who's working with her on an oral class project. Leonard is jealous and follows him down the apartment stairs and tells him to watch out for "Penny's boyfriend" since he was a mean gang member. Penny is upset with Leonard and the two later meet in the hallway and have an argument.

Penny tells him that she cannot believe that he cannot trust her and that he embarrassed her in front of Cole who knew who he was since his picture is on her refrigerator. Penny continues to tell him that he is the one she is with and accidentally mentions that he knows that she loves him. Leonard is stunned and tells her that that is the first she ever said that.

Penny rushes off to work before she starts crying. In " The Egg Salad Equivalency ", after Alex asks Leonard out to dinner and didn't tell Penny about it, she begins to feel really insecure about their relationship. Leonard apologizes by showing up at her door playing a little ditty on his cello. She decided instead of feeling bad, she would do something about it. First, she looks into science classes at college, but they sound boring.

Then she buys some geek glasses to look smart, which does have a positive effect on Leonard as he takes her into his bedroom. In " The Spoiler Alert Segmentation ", Sheldon really makes Leonard mad and he says that he wants to live with Penny and not some crazy person.

Leonard suggests to Penny that he move in to which Penny agrees only not to hurt his feelings and even tells Sheldon. She does try to get him admit that Sheldon can't get along without him. Amy plans to move in with Sheldon as roommates. When Amy confronts Penny since she can't move in with Sheldon, Leonard overhears the conversation. Penny tells him that he never asked her if she was ready.

Then Amy and Penny go off to drink and talk about their jerky boyfriends and Leonard ends up back in apartment 4A. Penny feels that all the efforts never meet the expectations and she will end up disappointed. At dinner, Penny sees an old boyfriend proposing to the girl that broke them up.

But I followed my gut and decided to see a specialist so we could identify his issues. Once Jacob was diagnosed, we were able to get supports and service in place for him. The algorithm includes a decision loop that tells him when he needs to compromise and do something the other person wants to do. The lesson I learned: My son needs direct coaching on how to connect with other kids and make friends. Like Sheldon, my son struggles to make and maintain friendships.

He also has a hard time learning to compromise and understand that friendship is a give and take. In this quote, he explains why to his confused friends. When Jacob was younger, it was overwhelming to feel like we had to plan every moment of every day to avoid meltdowns. I used to think Jacob was just being stubborn.

Then again, Leonard is very keen about Penny pursuing college and leaving acting to pursue a stable career. Sure, he brought her a car so she could get to auditions but he was also very happy when Penny decided on becoming a pharmaceutical rep, so how does he really feel? Leonard only seems to pursue other women when he sees his exes have moved on, and this has made fans question his real feelings towards relationships and meaningless flings.

He asks Leslie to embark on a relationship with him when he sees Penny is dating other men; he again goes to a bar to engage in a one night stand after he sees Penny going on a date. It is as if he only realizes the need to have a romantic life when he sees his crush having a life of her own. Leonard has always acknowledged the fact that he is not the kind of guy Penny usually goes for, and their relationship is founded on their strong friendship.

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