Being Penny
( from the Big Bang Theory)
It's 10:20am, I get up in my pyjamas, 50 steps into the living room, lay down on the couch and put on the TV, yeay, the 500th rerun of episode xy of The Big Bang Theory is on! Great scientific dialogues between Sheldon and Leonard. Penny opens the door and breaks all the intelligence by asking for coffee and putting on her naive labradoodle face while listening to the two lovely physicists. I can identifie with her quite well, not being one of the great brains, jobbing in a restaurant and trying to grab some small roles in adverts or even musicals. Imagine me being in a situation like her: a demanding job, dealing with pay-rent problems, not the best dating experience and unfullfilled dreams of a hollywood carreer. I would probably be as unhappy as I am now - having some kind of a stable relationship, but no job, former student who never made it to the second term, every morning taking my blue-green capsules and putting up a happy face when going to one of the super-dooper funny parties of my ex-classmates. But visualizing me as Penny in the fancy sitcom world I can only say: I desire to be her right now.
Here are the reasons and also the bitter truth:
( from the Big Bang Theory)
It's 10:20am, I get up in my pyjamas, 50 steps into the living room, lay down on the couch and put on the TV, yeay, the 500th rerun of episode xy of The Big Bang Theory is on! Great scientific dialogues between Sheldon and Leonard. Penny opens the door and breaks all the intelligence by asking for coffee and putting on her naive labradoodle face while listening to the two lovely physicists. I can identifie with her quite well, not being one of the great brains, jobbing in a restaurant and trying to grab some small roles in adverts or even musicals. Imagine me being in a situation like her: a demanding job, dealing with pay-rent problems, not the best dating experience and unfullfilled dreams of a hollywood carreer. I would probably be as unhappy as I am now - having some kind of a stable relationship, but no job, former student who never made it to the second term, every morning taking my blue-green capsules and putting up a happy face when going to one of the super-dooper funny parties of my ex-classmates. But visualizing me as Penny in the fancy sitcom world I can only say: I desire to be her right now.
Here are the reasons and also the bitter truth:
- In the series you can say that Penny has got an average waitress income and still can afford a two-room apartment like this. (She may have financial issues but apparently she comes to terms with it.)
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| spacious apartment with a great view |
- In real life it would probably look like this:
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| studio affordable for an average waitress in Pasadena |
- Her friends are outstanding scientists in their midtwenties with a lack of social intelligence but still glad to have her
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| superbrains and girl next door happily together |
- This is what it would look like in our world:
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| average girl in the middle of doctors and masters feeling so stupid |
- In Sitcoms every crisis - even if it is caused by such a deep childhood-trauma that you cannot even remember because your conscience is trying to protect you from a total breakdown - goes up in smoke after the 25 minutes of one episode are over.
- In real life you can be glad to lead a halfway normal life after two years of regular couch-meetings and Kleenex consumption of 190 kgs (but still taking the blue-green pills for the rest of your life).
- Penny has got the perfect living situation. She can either enjoy the cosy atmosphere of flat sharing with the boys across the floor (because she is ALWAYS welcome); or when she has enough of the nerdy talks she just gets back into her empire and minds her own girly business.
- Real life: I mean - come on?! - the average neighbour is over 60, filled with bitterness and calling the police every time you turn on the radio!
... I guess I have no further ideas of ruining everyone's sitcom dream so I'm gonna stop writing right now.
But at last I have to say: This is not ruining my dream of eventually living a life like Penny, it's just what my pessimist ego is thinking. ;)
So thanks for reading and pitying me for my difficult way to an unwanted truth.
But at last I have to say: This is not ruining my dream of eventually living a life like Penny, it's just what my pessimist ego is thinking. ;)
So thanks for reading and pitying me for my difficult way to an unwanted truth.
