No, The Huge Bang Principle was not hiding Penny’s final title in plain sight.
Within the Season 2 episode “The Work Track Nanocluster,” Kaley Cuoco’s Penny locations a package deal on her kitchen counter — and should you zoom in shut sufficient (on the three-minute mark), you may make out a primary and final title on the transport label: Penny Teller. However as producers reveal within the new oral historical past The Huge Bang Principle: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Sequence by Jessica Radloff (order it right here), the label was alleged to be illegible.
“Props needed to put a label on it and it occurred to be caught on digital camera,” government producer Steve Molaro explains. “We didn’t sanction it, we didn’t write it, and we didn’t deliberately put it there.”
As prop grasp Scott London goes on to disclose, it was sequence co-creator Invoice Prady who fed him the surname Teller — as in Penn & Teller — when he went to the producers for a moniker. “I needed to put a final title on the label,” London says. “I imply, you possibly can’t simply inform me to ship to Penny with no final title!” Provides Prady: “I had assurances it wasn’t going to be seen, that Scott simply wanted it for the visible form of the block of sort. However, emphatically, Penny’s final title is not Teller. I don’t know the way that picture of the transport label exists and followers have been in a position to see it and make it out.” However they did make it out, and display grabs circulated on-line.
“Her final title being Teller is totally not canon,” Molaro stresses. “The canon is that she doesn’t have a final title that we ever assigned to her… and we’re by no means going to make one. Even when she and Leonard received married, we made positive to edit round even listening to what her [last] title could be.”
At Huge Bang‘s 2019 wrap social gathering, Cuoco advised TVLine’s Michael Ausiello that she totally supported the producers’ determination to by no means disclose the title. “I form of adore it,” she stated on the time. “So many issues are revealed in the previous few episodes; you get plenty of satisfying moments. However I form of love that [we’ll never know her last name].” She expresses that very same sentiment within the ebook, including: “I form of love that it was simply Penny, after which Penny Hofstadter, which I believed was so cute.”
Humorous sufficient, Teller wasn’t the one maiden title assigned to Penny. “Very early on, I bear in mind trying on the mail in a scene and it stated Penny London,” Jim Parsons reveals. “All of us discovered it amusing in a captivating approach that the prop grasp had given her his final title.”
The oral historical past additionally reveals the 4 well-known actresses practically solid as Penny earlier than Cuoco received the half, which you’ll learn extra about right here.
