Episode 10 – The Loobenfeld Decay (110)
Penny was given a part in Rent, though after hearing her sing “Out Tonight” extremely off-key (“What the hell is that?” “I don’t know, but if cats could sing…they’d hate it too.”) Leonard lies to avoid seeing her performance so he won’t hurt her feelings. Sheldon becomes paranoid that Leonard’s lie was ‘laughably transparent’ and eventually creates an intricate lie about his non-existent drug addicted cousin Leo (DJ Qualls), who was in need of an intervention (and thus why they could not see the play). Sheldon becomes so obsessed he actually has a fellow physicist (who double majored in theatre) play the cousin to convince Penny that the lie is true. In the end, Leonard still has to see the tape of Penny’s performance, thus the lie did him no good at all.
The title refers to the name of the physicist/actor, which was Toby Loobenfeld.
Directed by Mark Cendrowski.
Written by Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn based on a story by Chuck Lorre.
Originally aired on March 24, 2008.
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