The Big Bang Theory: 8 Reasons To Be Excited About Season 8
3. Pennys Mother Could Have A Very Familiar Face
One of the central themes of season eight is bound to be the consequences of Penny and Leonards engagement: everything from Sheldons continued disavowal of any form of change in their living arrangements, to nerves and cold feet on the part of the bride-to-be (presumably Leonard is fine with it), to actually planning the wedding. Maybe well even find out what Pennys last name is, after all this time. Weve already met Pennys father Wyatt, played with avuncular gusto by Keith Carradine, and Leonards mother, the drily calculating Beverley (the brilliant Christine Baranski). Leonards own father could easily be introduced at some point an anthropologist, he may well work at Princeton University, as he apparently had an affair with a waitress at the cafeteria there, but thats pretty much all we know about him. Pennys been on the phone to her mother a couple of times during the show, but we dont know much about her either, aside from the usual white trash jokes about her upbringing in working-class Nebraska. However, Kaley Cuoco has made it very clear that shes lobbying for Lisa Kudrow to play her. Famous, of course, for playing the oddball hippy Phoebe Buffay in Friends, Kudrow might seem too young to play the mother of a woman in her late twenties, but is actually 51 years old she was over 30 when Friends premiered in 1994. Shes also by far the most talented of the female cast of the classic sitcom, and bringing her in for a guest appearance (or even an extended role) would be a serious coup for the show.
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