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Penny is arrogant. Conceited. Immature. That's just for starters.

posted 11 years ago by Trioxin_Zombie
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Penny is as bad as the wife from My Family. Two-faced and stuck up. Trying to put up with her stinking spoiled brat attitude is grating on my nerves. Heaven knows how this show managed to gain popularity with a *beep* like her. She's not a strong female character. She gets under the skin is what she does. Writing characters like this is NOT talented or clever. It's foolish!.

"Trick or treat. You bald headed bastard!"

[–] NothingButTheBest 11 years ago

She was very spoilt and immature yet somehow she is still likeable I find. She is no where near as bad as a lot of women in real life. I think Vince is definitely the more likeable of the two but I think together they had great chemistry and you want them to be happy together.

The world is your lobster.

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

Penny and Vince made a good team though.

Its that man again!!

[–] SoBo-BettieRage 10 years ago

I'm glad someone else feels the say I do about Penny (and about Susan from My Family). I just started watching this the other day and have made it as far as the flashback Christmas episode. First, I thought she was bitter because he'd jilted her, but now that I see this, I cannot for the life of me understand what he has ever seen in her. She's beautiful, but she is a nutjob - like all the women on the show, as a matter of fact, including the woman who pushed him off the pier for jilting Penny, but would have totally understood if he'd just murdered her. Seriously?

[–] darmandom 9 years ago

John Sullivan was more renowned for worrying male characters . Penny was his first foray into whoring for a female lead character

[–] gtbarker 9 years ago

Well the character clearly went straight over your head

'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'

[–] jjparish 8 years ago

I loved it when penny was trying to convince vince that she was having affairs with lots of men and he was just laughing at her. Sums up the 2 characters nicely. She was uptight and he was easy going but they gelled very well. And considering the battleaxe of a mother penny had as an axample of womanhood growing up, i think she turned out alright.

[–] marktayloruk (2590) 3 years ago

John Sullivan- imagine them meeting the Trotters and others.