History TheBigBangTheory / SeasonSeven

-->'''Leonard:''' ''Well what do you want?''\\
'''Penny:''' ''I want YOU, you stupid Pop Tart!"''

* WhatIf: "The Cooper Extraction", where the gang, inspired by ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', imagine what their lives would be like if they never met Sheldon.

* InsuranceFraud: Invoked in "The Status Quo Combustion". When [[spoiler:the comic book burns down]], everyone assumes that [[spoiler:Stuart]] did it for the insurance money, including the insurance company, the person's mother and Howard.

* InsuranceFraud: Invoked in "The Status Quo Combustion". When [[spoiler:the comic book burns down]], everyone assumes that [[spoiler:Stuart]] did it for the insurance money, including the insurance company.

** "The Gorilla Dissolultion" ends with [[spoiler:Penny and Leonard getting engaged]].

* AntiClimax: [[spoiler: Leonard and Penny's engagement was not nearly the big romantic gesture either of them were expecting or hoping for, it was at the tail end of an argument about what the other person wanted and they both eventually came to the conclusion of "Why not." Lampshaded by them, and then Leonard remembers a ring he kept in his wallet to bring it back around into something special]].

* AntiClimax: [[spoiler: Leonard and Penny's engagement was not nearly the big romantic gesture either of them were expecting or hoping for, it was at the tale end of an argument about what the other person wanted and they both eventually came to the conclusion of "Why not." Lampshaded by them, and then Leonard remembers a ring he kept in his wallet to bring it back around into something special]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Professor Proton]] in "The Proton Transmitter".

* NoodleImplement: In “The Relationship Diremption” Sheldon wonders why there is a Geology book in the apartment as there's no reason there should be.
Sheldon doesn't think it's a real science and Leonard has never shown any interest in it. [[spoiler:Of course Sheldon wakes up next to the book after a night of drinking See BedmateReveal above]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Penny gives Lucy a brutal one in "The Itchy Brain Simulation", mainly calling her out for bailing too easily in their relationship. She even flats out call her a bad person.

* NoodleImplement: In “The Relationship Diremption” Sheldon wonders why there is a Geology book in the apartment as there's no reason there should be. Sheldon doesn't think it's a real science and Leonard has never shown any interest in it. [[spoiler:Of course Sheldon wakes up next to the book after a night of drinking See BedmateReveal above]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "The Relationship Diremption", Sheldon treats giving up studying string theory like breaking up a relationship, as per Penny's suggestion. The analogy even extends to him having a regretable "one-night stand" with geology, which he considers "the [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians Kardashian]] of sciences".

* NoodleImplement: In “The Relationship Diremption” Sheldon wonders why there is a Geology book in the apartment as there's no reason there should be. Sheldon doesn't think it's a real science and Leonard has never shown any interest in it. Of course Sheldon wakes up next to the book after a night of drinking See BedmateReveal above.

* ThereIsNoBInMovie: Penny was in a B-movie called ''Serial Apist'', about a KillerGorilla. She later has to take a part in the sequel, where her character becomes a human-gorilla hybrid.

* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]"The Hesitation Ramification" has Sheldon trying to learn about humor, but his attempts at telling jokes fall flat, especially when Penny gets depressed after [[spoiler:her one scene on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' gets cut]].

* ShaggyDogStory: "The Itchy Brain Simulation" [[spoiler:The movie Leonard rented using Sheldon's card and didn't return had been paid for long ago. Sheldon never mentioned it because [[CrazyPrepared it might serve as a "teachable moment" down the road]]. Leonard had to run around in an itchy sweater for nothing.]]

* WhamEpisode: "The Hesitation Ramification". [[spoiler:Depressed at having lost a big acting job, a drunken Penny proposes to Leonard. Leonard just says "Um...", which Penny does not take well. The episode ends with them seemingly broken up for good.]]
** Followed by "The Occupation Recalibration," [[spoiler: Penny sobers up and is okay with the proposal incident. Although new problems are introduced because Penny had just ''quit her job'' so she can focus on her acting career. This causes different types of stress because the burden of keeping Penny afloat without a source of income falls on Leonard, who struggles to be genuinely supportive while thinking her actions were rash]].

** "The Locomotion Manipulation": [[spoiler:In a rant about being romantic Sheldon kisses Amy as an attempt to mock her, only to linger for a moment, suggesting he liked it better than he expected. While Amy has kissed him a few times over the years, this was the first instigated by Sheldon himself.]]
* WhatIf: "The Cooper Extraction", where the gang, inspired by ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', imagine what their lives would be like if they never met Sheldon. [[spoiler:In most of them, the characters wouldn't be as happy as they are now, wouldn't be as fit as they are now, and Howard would have gone Norman Bates on his mother]].

** Although probably she finds that arousing rather than funny.