Leonard and Penny are the central couple of The Big Blindside Theory - and arguably, almost of the show revolves effectually their connection. Without Leonard and Penny dating, Penny would never accept ready Howard up with Bernadette, and Leonard wouldn't take moved out - assuasive Sheldon and Amy to movement in. In and then many means, The Big Bang Theory is really the Leonard and Penny theory, and fans loved watching their ups and downs.

Of course, they had more a few of those ups and downs along the way! Penny often struggled to date someone so different from her usual blazon, and Leonard struggled to be able to even ask Penny out for a lot of the show. Nonetheless, in the terminate, this is how their story played out.

12 Season One - Neighbors To First Appointment

They took a few large leaps in flavor one, from the moment they showtime met, in the airplane pilot, to their offset date in the season finale. For virtually of the season, Leonard was pining later Penny, and she was dating a string of very tall, very attractive men. However, they did accept a first kiss of sorts after Penny's Halloween political party, when she came to Leonard's flat to complain about never dating decent guys... and by the terminate of the flavour, when Leonard finally screwed upward the courage to ask her out, she said yes.

11 Flavor Two - Dating Apart, But Growing Closer

Later their first date at the finish of season one, Leonard and Penny don't have a second date, and go dorsum to beingness friends. This is in role because they just weren't sure, and in part because Leonard put his human foot in it when he found out that Penny was concerned virtually not being 'smart plenty' for him. Over the form of the season, they both appointment other people, but by the end of it, when Leonard leaves to work at the N Pole, Penny realizes just how much she will miss him, and that she may still have feelings for him.

10 Flavor 3 - Dating, And And then Breaking Upwardly Once again

After Leonard gets back from the North Pole, Penny has realized that she wants to be with him, and the two become together. For most of the season, they really manage a happy relationship (and even set Howard and Bernadette up along the way), simply it's too good to last.

In episode xix, Leonard tells Penny that he loves her, and she replies 'cheers'. It's the death knell of many a small-screen relationship, and it brings things to a close for these two... at least, for now.

9 Season Four  - Penny & Zack, Leonard & Priya

This flavor, not a whole lot happens between Penny and Leonard. They are yet broken upwardly, and seem to have found a happy medium as friends. In that location is a cursory menstruation where Penny's begetter is visiting, and Penny asks Leonard to convince her dad that they are still together, but it's an episode-long ruse. At various points, they are dating other people; Penny is with Zack and then sleeps with Raj, and Leonard and Priya first a serious human relationship.

8 Season Five - Restarting The Relationship

This flavour, Leonard and Penny reunite (once more), subsequently Leonard's relationship with Priya fails, and they realize that they may notwithstanding accept feelings for each other. Things actually manage to get well, too, and for virtually of the season, they are happily dating. At the cease of this season, Leonard proposes, and Penny turns him down, but thankfully they are mature plenty to recognize that they are both happy and go along to date at this betoken in time.

vii Flavour Six - Penny Finally Says I Dear You

After six seasons, Penny is finally able to actually admit how much she cares virtually Leonard this flavour, and their relationship really starts to move frontward. This is helped by the fact that Alex, a research assistant at Caltech, is striking on Leonard at work - something that makes Penny realize simply how much she loves him, and that she can be jealous besides. Past the end of the season, they are seriously talking about the futurity.

6 Flavor 7 - An Annulment & An Appointment

Leonard and Penny are still going strong in the flavor, even after the gang finds out that she is actually married! Turns out, Penny and Zack got irresponsibly married in Vegas, only idea it wasn't legal, and they now have to go their marriage annulled. However, this doesn't cause too much of an effect, because when Leonard proposes a second time, Penny accepts, and the two become officially engaged - much to everyone's excitement (except Sheldon)!

5 Flavor viii - Date & Financial Shifts

Leonard and Penny spend the whole of this season engaged, and not actually planning a wedding, either. They accept a few ups and downs, of course, merely Sheldon starts to understand that Leonard wants to spend more nights with Penny, and things seem to exist going well.

The one large event that they have this flavor comes when Penny leaves acting backside, and gets a job in pharmaceuticals - and one that pays well. For the first time, she makes more than than Leonard, simply while this throws them a little, they soon get past it... and the finale sees them driving to Vegas to get married.

iv Season ix - Married!

Season 9 picks upwardly where the finale of flavour 8 leaves off, with Penny and Leonard headed to Vegas to get married. Things do get off to a rocky get-go, after Leonard confesses to a drunken kiss with someone else that Penny didn't know about, only they still get married. The rest of the flavour sees them adjusting to married life - and dealing with the fact that their friends are none too pleased that they were left out of the entire wedding.

iii Season 10 - A Re-Do Ceremony & New Living Arrangements

Fans who were disappointed at the Vegas wedding in season 9 got the Leonard and Penny anniversary of their dreams in flavor x, when they decide to have a 'do over' to involve their friends and family. It'south a beautiful anniversary, with everyone present, and information technology's one of the all-time episodes in The Big Bang Theory as a effect. Post-obit that, the pair settle into married life, and eventually end up changing apartments. Later Amy has to move out thanks to water impairment, she and Sheldon move into Penny's old identify, and Penny and Leonard finally become Leonard'due south apartment to themselves every bit a married couple.

ii Season xi - Happy Marriage And No Baby Plans

Flavor xi sees a rare fourth dimension of peace and happiness for Leonard and Penny, every bit they navigate the usual ups and downs of a marriage. They practise also find an old video of Penny, talking about how much she does dearest Leonard, which helps him feel more than secure in the relationship. This is also the flavor that they start talking nigh kids, thanks largely to Howard and Bernadette, but they are decided confronting the idea of starting a family.

1 Season 12 - Looking Back & Getting Pregnant

Penny and Leonard have grown up a huge amount since they beginning met, and a lot of this season sees them thinking back to that offset yr, and their first 'official' osculation, and their future. Penny is happy in her work, now, and Leonard is finally starting to footstep up and become more of a leader and a confident professional as well. In improver to this happiness, the question of a babe comes up several times in this flavour, with Penny initially adamant that she doesn't want kids... but somewhen, in the finale learning that she is pregnant, and existence surprisingly happy virtually the thought of starting a family unit with Leonard.

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