Denied: 7 Times Howard Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory was brutally turned down by Penny

Chuck Lorre’s The Big Bang Theory was a hit sitcom that premiered in September 2007 and became one of the most beloved shows over its 12-season run that ended in May 2019.

The show revolves around a group of socially-awkward but intelligent group of friends and their new neighbor, Penny, played by Kaley Cuoco. The four friends, namely, Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard, are all super smart but lack in terms of one or the other social norm.

For instance, Simon Helberg’s character, Howard Wolowitz, was often found flirting and making s*xual innuendos on the female characters, especially Penny, who sometimes had to brutally turn him down, which ended up becoming hilarious moments from the show.

In this article, we have listed 7 such times when Howard was brutally turned down by Penny in The Big Bang Theory.

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7 Times Howard Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory was brutally turned down by Penny

7) Season 1, episode 5

In this episode of The Big Bang Theory, titled The Hamburger Postulate, Leonard and his friends go to the Cheesecake Factory for the first time to have dinner. The awkward moment between Howard’s attempt to flirt and Penny rejecting it happens at the time when she tells Leonard that she didn’t know he plays the cello.

Howard includes himself in their conversation and tells Penny that he can beatbox. He says:

"If you're into music, I happen to be a human beatbox."

Penny asks if he really can beatbox, to which he shows his slightly unammusing attempt at beatboxing that does not impress Penny, and she says the following quote while rejecting him:

"I'm actually not that into music."

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6) Season 1, episode 6

The Big Bang Theory episode titled, The Middle-earth Paradigm has one of the early attempts of Howard flirting with Penny. When she invites them to attend a Halloween party, the boys reach her apartment on time, whereas no one else arrives.

Penny thinks Howard is Peter Pan, and Leonard tries to correct her that he is Robinhood, but Howard does not let him correct her and agrees that he is Peter Pan and says:

"I'm Peter Pan! And I’ve got a handful of pixie dust with your name on it."

Penny, not finding it amusing, replies:

"No, you don't."

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5) Season 1, episode 10

In The Big Bang Theory season 1 episode 10, titled The Loobenfeld Decay, Penny is about to perform in the stage production of Rent and will play the character of Mimi. She invites the boys, but after hearing her sing, Leonard quickly lies about attending a symposium that will prevent them from attending her show.

Penny hugs him before leaving, and Howard arrives and approaches to hug them, saying it is a group hug, but Penny quickly stops him from coming near her.

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4) Season 2, episode 4

The episode titled The Griffin Equivalency of The Big Bang Theory follows the story of Raj being included in People’s Magazine’s 30 under 30 visionaries list.

As their dinner arrives, Leonard begins distributing them to the others while announcing the food items, and Howard gets a chance to flirt with Penny, creating an awkward moment between them. Leonard asks who ordered the dumplings, to which Penny says that it would be her. Howard comments:

"Yes, you are."

Penny says it is creepy and wants him to sit somewhere else from her.

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3) Season 2, episode 19

In this episode of The Big Bang Theory, titled The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition, Penny helps Leanard and Sheldon by getting rid of the spider in their apartment and asks them to try to get rid of atleast the small spiders by themselves as she would take care o the big ones.

While she sits with them to have her dinner, Leonard tries to flirt with her by saying:

"Penny, let me take this opportunity to point out that you are looking particularly ravishing today!"

Penny savagely turns him down by commenting back:

"Not with a thousand condoms, Howard."

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2) Season 1, episode 7

In season 1, episode 7, titled The Dumpling Paradox, of The Big Bang Theory, Penny is visited by an old friend, Christy from Nebraska. While the boys are about to start their game night to play Halo, Penny goes on to visit them to complain about Christy.

As Penny comes into their apartment, Howard tries to flirt and quips:

"See a Penny, pick her up, and all the day you'll have good luck."

Penny, however, is not impressed by his innuendos and replies:

"No, you won't."

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1) Season 2, episode 12

In this episode titled, The Killer Robot Instability, Howard and his friends build a robot named M.O.N.T.E. to enter a killer robot contest. Howard invites Penny to join them in the post-competition dance but is brutally rejected by Penny as he describes her as the only ‘doable’ girl. She also calls him a pig and, after being fed up with his approaches, says:

"No woman is ever going to flirt with you! You're just going to grow old and die alone!"

Later in the episode, Penny visits Howard to apologise for being too harsh to him, where she consoles him after he tells him about his numerous crushes but could never impress any one of them. To console him, Penny tells him that he is a smart and cool guy, which prompts Howard to try to kiss her. Another rejection to Howard comes when Penny punches him for trying to do that.

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