In the moment, Jim Parsons recalled that the director of the episode, Jimmy Burrows, had given him a very specific direction, which helped him really refine the moment. “And when Penny is sitting instead of Sheldon, I will never forget the words that Jimmy Burrows told me, who were:” When she sits in this place, I want you like a cat! As Meow! As in, Oh no you don’t do it! And this note, this direction, launched this whole section for me, “said Parsons to Jessica Radloff.” Once I knew that was what he wanted my reaction to be, everything else takes place. “”

“The public was unleashed at that time,” said Chuck Lorre, remembering what he saw as the cast shot in front of a live studio audience. “They were in love with Sheldon’s neuroses. I stand on stage, and I watch Jimmy Burrows […] And Jimmy looks at me, and we both look at each other with these big smiles. We knew it worked. It was one of those moments of goosebumps you never forget. We understood correctly. “”

As Bill Prady noted, Sheldon does not launch an adjustment or shouts in Penny and does not force it to move; He explains rather politely to Penny that he always Choose the same place on the sofa and why. “In winter, this seat is close enough to the radiator to stay hot and yet not as close as to cause perspiration,” clarifies Sheldon in Penny. “In summer, it is directly on the way to a cross breeze created by open windows there. It faces television at an angle which is neither direct, thus discouraging the conversation, nor so far to create a distortion of parallax.”

As soon as Penny, crying about an ex-girlfriend, gets up to find a fabric, Sheldon stimulates RIGHT In his usual place without missing a beat, but it is clear that the situation led him to a wall before an unconscious penny moves away from the sofa. It’s a Perfect Resolution of the problem, and for the rest of the series, this “spot” belongs to Sheldon and Sheldon alone, even when the character comes out of the apartment later.