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* ASimplePlan : Leonard was just going to tell Penny that he was going to attend a symposium, but Sheldon finds that too transparent and comes up with something more elaborate.
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* ASimplePlan : ASimplePlan: Leonard was just going to tell Penny that he was going to attend a symposium, but Sheldon finds that too transparent and comes up with something more elaborate.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf : Penny's rendition of "Out Tonight." While her voice is passable, the part is beyond her singing ability.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf : HollywoodToneDeaf: Penny's rendition of "Out Tonight." While her voice is passable, the part is beyond her singing ability.
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* LargeHam : "Leo"'s performance, as he tells his melodramatic life story.
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* LargeHam : LargeHam: "Leo"'s performance, as he tells his melodramatic life story.
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* ShoutOut : To ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. The guys discuss why the robots would create a hot 17 year old Terminator.
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* ShoutOut : ShoutOut: To ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. The guys discuss why the robots would create a hot 17 year old Terminator.
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-->'''"Leo":''' The Philippines. 1992. The Subic Bay Naval Station. A young boy on the cusp of manhood. His only companions are mongrel dogs and malarial mosquitos. Desperate and alone, he reached out to a man who promised to introduce him to a merciful, loving God, but who instead introduced him to a gin pickled tongue shoved down his adolescent throat. ''What choice did he have but to drink, shoot and snort is pain away?''
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-->'''"Leo":''' The Philippines. 1992. The Subic Bay Naval Station. A young boy on the cusp of manhood. His only companions are mongrel dogs and malarial mosquitos. Desperate and alone, he reached out to a man who promised to introduce him to a merciful, loving God, but who instead introduced him to a gin pickled tongue shoved down his adolescent throat. ''What choice did he have but to drink, shoot and snort is his pain away?''
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* DugInDeeper: Leonard won't admit to Penny that she can't sing, and Sheldon's meddling just makes things worse.
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* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: The website socalphysicsgroup.org exists in real life. As of 2022, it redirects to the Warner Bros. website.
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!!! Plot
Penny gets the chance to perform in a workshop version of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. When the guys hear her sing, they decline her invitation, falsely telling her that they plan to go to a symposium on the same day. However, as Sheldon finds holes within their lie, he comes up with a new, more confusing lie that involves a drug intervention with Sheldon's fictional cousin Leopold and bringing in an actor to play the cousin.
Penny gets the chance to perform in a workshop version of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. When the guys hear her sing, they decline her invitation, falsely telling her that they plan to go to a symposium on the same day. However, as Sheldon finds holes within their lie, he comes up with a new, more confusing lie that involves a drug intervention with Sheldon's fictional cousin Leopold and bringing in an actor to play the cousin.
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Going up the stairs in the apartment building, Leonard and Sheldon are horrified to hear Penny
Sheldon
-> If she were to log on to [[http://www.socalphysicsgroup.org/activities/other www.socalphysicsgroup.org/activities/other]], click on upcoming events, scroll down to seminars, download the PDF schedule, and look for the seminar on molecular positronium, well then, bippidy-boppidy-boo, our pants are metaphorically on fire.
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Sheldon tells Penny that Leonard did not want to say all that to Penny. Instead of scrutinizing the new lie, Penny instead commends Leonard for being such a good friend, and
Once Penny leaves, Leonard and Sheldon explain to Howard and Raj that the symposium and the intervention were both lies to avoid going to Penny's showcase. Since there's no symposium tonight, Howard decides that the four of them might as well go to Long Beach for the sake of supporting the second lie.
Coming back from Long Beach, Sheldon spots another problem with the second lie: somehow Penny won't believe that Leopold agreed to go back to rehab. So Sheldon hires Toby Loobenfeld (Creator/DJQualls), who studied physics and theater at MIT, to play the
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In previous episodes, Sheldon knocks just once on someone's door, which is strange to someone who has seen the later seasons of this show and is now watching these early episodes for the first time. In this early episode, the way Sheldon knocks on Leonard's door is more in line with his more familiar three-knock pattern, but not quite: in one instance, he knocks four times.
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Penny gets the chance to perform in a workshop version of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. When the guys hear her sing, they decline her invitation, falsely telling her that they plan to go to a symposium on the same day. However, as Sheldon finds holes within their lie, he comes up with a new, more confusing lie that involves a drug intervention with Sheldon's fictional cousin Leopold.
Leopold and bringing in an actor to play the cousin.
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* DugInDeeper: Leonard won't admit to Penny that she can't sing, and Sheldon's meddling just makes things worse.
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-->'''"Leo":''' The Philippines. 1992. The Subic Bay Naval Station. A young boy on the cusp of manhood. His only companions are mongrel dogs and malarial mosquitos. Desperate and alone, he reached out to a man who promised to introduce him to a merciful, loving God, but who instead introduced him to a gin pickled tongue shoved down his adolescent throat. ''What choice did he have but to drink, shoot and snort is pain away?''
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
-->'''Penny:''' Do you have any idea what time it is ?\\
'''Sheldon:''' Of course I do. My watch is linked to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. It's accurate to one-tenth of a second. But as I'm saying this, it occurs to me that once again your question may have been rhetorical.
-->'''Penny:''' Do you have any idea what time it is ?\\
'''Sheldon:''' Of course I do. My watch is linked to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. It's accurate to one-tenth of a second. But as I'm saying this, it occurs to me that once again your question may have been rhetorical.
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* ShaggyDogStory[=/=]AllForNothing: Leonard successfully avoids seeing (and hearing) Penny in ''RENT'', but he ends up watching Penny's performance anyway because someone recorded it on the night.
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* ShaggyDogStory[=/=]AllForNothing: ShaggyDogStory: Leonard successfully avoids seeing (and hearing) Penny in ''RENT'', but he ends up watching Penny's performance anyway because someone recorded it on the night.night, making everything he went through AllForNothing.
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Penny gets the chance to perform in a workshop version of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. When the guys hear her sing, they decline her invitation.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Leonard successfully avoids seeing (and hearing) Penny in ''RENT'' but he ends up watching Penny's performance anyway because someone recorded it on the night.
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* ShaggyDogStory: ShaggyDogStory[=/=]AllForNothing: Leonard successfully avoids seeing (and hearing) Penny in ''RENT'' ''RENT'', but he ends up watching Penny's performance anyway because someone recorded it on the night.
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* SnowballLie: First, Sheldon changes their lie to tell Penny that Sheldon and Leonard are going to Long Beach to have a drug intervention with his cousin Leopold. The lie culminates in having one of the research assistants at the university (who is also a minor in acting) pretend to be Leopold and stay with Leonard and Sheldon for the next two weeks.
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* DreadfulMusician: Penny.
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* DreadfulMusician: Penny.Penny's singing is not pleasant sounding.
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* IdiotPlot: The 'cousin Leopold' lie would've been avoided had Sheldon stuck with [[ASimplePlan Leonard's lie of going to a symposium]].
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%% * LargeHam : "Leo"'s performance, as he tells his story.
*RelativelyFlimsyExcuse : LowCountGag: Penny's replacing a girl in a workshop production of ''RENT''. It's a one night showcase, but they invite a lot of casting people and agents, so she hopes for a big break. She's not a good singer though, and there is a low count joke about the audience.
-->'''Leonard:''' Why don’t you tell me about your showcase last night?\\
'''Penny:''' Oh, it was okay I guess, wasn’t a big turn out but they both really seemed to like it.\\
'''Leonard:''' There were only two people there?\\
'''Penny:''' By the end. Yeah.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Sheldon invents a drug-addicted cousin.
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-->'''Leonard:''' Why don’t you tell me about your showcase last night?\\
'''Penny:''' Oh, it was okay I guess, wasn’t a big turn out but they both really seemed to like it.\\
'''Leonard:''' There were only two people there?\\
'''Penny:''' By the end. Yeah.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Leonard ends up watching Penny's performance in Theatre/{{Rent}} anyway because someone recorded it on the night.
* ShoutOut : To ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. The guys discuss why the robots would create a hot 17 year old Terminator.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Leonard successfully avoids seeing (and hearing) Penny in ''RENT'' but he ends up watching Penny's performance in Theatre/{{Rent}} anyway because someone recorded it on the night.
* ShoutOut : To ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. The guys discuss why the robots would create a hot 17 year oldTerminator.Terminator.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Leonard ends up watching Penny's performance in Theatre/{{Rent}} anyway because someone recorded it on the night.
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* IdiotPlot: The 'cousin Leopold' lie would've been avoided had Sheldon stuck with [[ASimplePlan Leonard's lie of going to a symposium]].
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* RuleOfThree: Leonard utters "I don't know what to say" three times when his lie of going to a symposium is eventually railroaded onto Sheldon's lie of visiting his cousin Leopold on Long Beach.
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* ConsummateLiar: Sheldon tries to advance his abilities to lie in this episode.
* DreadfulMusician: Penny.
* DreadfulMusician: Penny.
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* InsultToRocks: "If cats could sing... they'd hate it too."
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* LargeHam : "Leo"'s performance, as he tells his story.
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!!! Plot
Penny gets the chance to perform in a workshop version of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. When the guys hear her sing, they decline her invitation.
!!! Tropes
* ASimplePlan : Starts out this way, but Sheldon finds ways to complicate it.
* HollywoodToneDeaf : Penny's rendition of "Out Tonight." While her voice is passable, the part is beyond her singing ability.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse : Sheldon invents a drug-addicted cousin.
* ShoutOut : To ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. The guys discuss why the robots would create a hot 17 year old Terminator.
Penny gets the chance to perform in a workshop version of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. When the guys hear her sing, they decline her invitation.
!!! Tropes
* ASimplePlan : Starts out this way, but Sheldon finds ways to complicate it.
* HollywoodToneDeaf : Penny's rendition of "Out Tonight." While her voice is passable, the part is beyond her singing ability.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse : Sheldon invents a drug-addicted cousin.
* ShoutOut : To ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. The guys discuss why the robots would create a hot 17 year old Terminator.
