Bernadette sat down on the old, worn couch in her living room with her morning coffee and muffin, just as she did every other morning. She looked at the couch from tattered arm rest to the other.
I wonder if I should spend some of the money I'm making off the website on some new furniture?
she thought to herself. She curled her lip and shook her head. "Nah."
She pointed the remote at the TV and it flicked on just in time for her favorite morning program.
"Good morning, Pasadena!" came the perky voice of the pretty, blonde host who filled the TV screen. "I'm your host, Lysa Lychten. We've got a great show for you this morning! We've got a local talent who's really lighting up the internet. Please welcome Penny of Penny's Playhouse fame."
Bernadette spit her coffee across the room when the camera panned back, revealing a beaming Penny and a frowning Leonard. "What...what the hell?!"
The set was made up of three chairs side-by-side in a semi-circle. Lysa was seated in the far left chair, Penny in the center, and Leonard in the furthest right chair.
Penny had added quite a bit of content to her website and it was growing quickly. She wasn't getting the number of clicks Bernadette was getting, but Penny had a mind for marketing. Not to mention she wasn't trying to hide it from her partner the way Bernadette was doing her best to keep Howard in the dark about her online presence.
"Good morning, Lysa! Happy to be here!" Penny was dressed in a blue plaid shirt that was tied just underneath her breast with not a button buttoned, revealing plenty of cleavage and the tan curves of her breasts. She had a pair of painted on Daisy Dukes along with a pair of well-worn Western boots. The camera loved her.
"And you've brought the executive producer of your films and website along, as well."
"Sure did! This is Leonard Hofstadter, the brains of the outfit."
Leonard sat uncomfortably squirming in his chair. The bright lights of the studio only accentuated his pale skin. "And her boyfriend! I'm her boyfriend, too."
Penny shot him a look and whispered, "The website will get more clicks if they think I'm available!"
"Really? Her boyfriend?" Lysa asked.
"Well-ll-ll," Penny chuckled. "He's not exactly my
boyfriend
. We have sex a lot, but I wouldn't say boyfriend." She tapped him on the hand. "Isn't that right, Sweetie?"
Leonard bowed his head. "Yeah. Sure. Whatever."
"So, Penny, what prompted you to do a sexually explicit website? Have you had sex on film before? Are you a sex addict?"
The vein on Bernadette's forehead was throbbing. "HOWARD! Get down here!"
Penny began to give Lysa and the viewing audience her life story. Born and raised in Nebraska, was a member of the Corn Queen's Court in high school, and moved to California to be an actress.
"So, I've been waitressing at The Cheesecake Factory in the meantime just, you know, waiting for my big break," Penny said with a smile.
Lysa was obviously bored to tears with her life history, then snapped to life when Penny finished her story. "Wow, that's fascinating. So, no film credits to speak of?"
Penny shook her head. "No, not really."
"Well, you did that hemorrhoid commercial," Leonard offered.
Penny looked at Leonard out the corner of her eye. "Oh. Yeah. Um, there was that."
"And the Ape movies." This time she snapped her head around and shot him a look.
"Ape movies? As in, beastiality?" Lysa asked uncomfortably.
Penny waived a dismissive hand at Lysa and chuckled nervously. "No-ho-ho, nothing like that. It...they..." Penny gulped. "
Serial Ape-ist
and its sequel,
Serial Ape-ist II,
Monkey See, Monkey Kill
. They're about a genetically cloned ape that rapes and kills." She gulped again. "It's got quite the cult following."
This peaked Lysa's interest. "And you were the ape? A rapist? Someone who got raped? The killer?"
Penny sat silent. Finally, Leonard said, "Yes."
Lysa's eyebrows raised. "Yes? You were all of them?!"
Penny squirmed in her seat. "Well, uh, yeah, I guess, at one time or another."
Leonard pointed at Penny. "And don't forget the porn flicks."
Lysa's eyes grew wide. "Porn flicks?"
Penny glared at Leonard. "Well, uh, yeah. To pay the bills, you know?"
"How many of them? What are their titles?" Lysa asked.
"Well, uh,
Penny Loves Cum
,
Penny Loves Cock
, and, um,
Penny Loves Anal
. They're kind of a set."
"So you have had sex on film before! Would you say you're an exhibitionist?"
Leonard nodded his head. "Yes."
"Well, I, uh, I don't know if I'd say I'm an
exhibitionist
, per se..."
"But you show clips of yourself having sex with different men on your website, correct? And have made several porn movies. Wouldn't that be the definition of an exhibitionist?"
"Well, I, uh..."
"Maybe 'slut'? Would you consider yourself a slut, Penny? How 'bout it, Leonard?"
Penny's voice raised. "Slut?!"
*****
"YES!" Bernadette screamed in her living room.
*****
"Well, uh, slut's a very strong word with a lot of derogatory overtones, Lysa. I don't think I would say she's a slut," Leonard offered.
Not to her face, anyway!
"I'd say 'popular'. That's how I would describe myself, Lysa. Popular," Penny said with pride.
Lysa scratched her chin. "Popular. Hmmmmm..."
Penny nodded. "Very!" The marketer in Penny kicked in. "And we're going to have a store up and running on the website soon, too, aren't we Leonard?" Leonard nodded his head. "I've got some 'I Fucked Penny' t-shirts..." She gasped and covered her mouth. "Oops. Can I say that?"
"The censors will bleep it out," Lysa assured her.
"Oh good!" She looked into the camera. "And guys..." She turned her hip to the camera, reached into the waistband of her shorts, and pulled out a thin, powder blue string. "This thong will be on there for sale as soon as it's up and running! Signed or unsigned, whatever you want."
"Fascinating," Lysa said dead pan. She looked straight into the camera. "Let's take a break. Next we'll hear more about Penny's website and talk to her producer. Stay tuned."