The next day, the boys are eating at the cafeteria, when Leslie comes by and mocks Sheldon again. Worse than normal? So Leonard went over to Penny's and tries to reason with her, and, after failing to do that in person, he tries doing it in the Age of Conan game world, but Penny's character chops off Leonard's character's head so he won't bother her. He has exhausted all his methods in getting Penny to leave him alone, so he turns to Leonard and claims that he will be in a foul mood if Leonard doesn't succeed. Sheldon returns home frustrated by Penny. Because of this call, Sheldon lost his argument with Leslie. It was Penny calling, and she proceeded to ask for Sheldon's advice on the game again. But then, Penny suddenly calls his cell phone, in which he refused to answer. The next morning, Sheldon confronts Eric Gablehauser to mediate his problem with Leslie Winkle. Penny's obsession for the game grows as she interrupts Sheldon again, this time in the middle of his sleep to ask him for advice. The boys are having some fun with a simple Non-Newtonian fluid (corn starch and water mixture) when Penny interrupts them to seek Sheldon's advice on the game. By Leonard's request, Sheldon catches Leonard up on how Penny got there. When he enters his apartment, he sees Penny, now obsessed with Age of Conan, and Sheldon who is helping her. Leonard comes back to see a cat eating Penny's ice cream outside her apartment from her groceries that got dumped after her grocery bag broke open. Penny notices Sheldon playing his game and curiously inquires. When Sheldon, who has no understanding of sarcasm, takes Penny's comment literally and turns around to go back inside, a frustrated Penny, who does not know of Sheldon's lack of understanding of sarcasm, storms into his apartment. Penny sarcastically refuses, saying she would rather sit and wait in the hallway while sobbing like a three-year-old. Sheldon invites her into his apartment to wait until the locksmith arrives to open her door. This accident proves the final straw as she breaks down and begins to cry. He learns that Penny is frustrated by her failures in life, as she complains about not getting into any of the parts in plays she's tried out for, not having sex for six months, not receiving a raise at work and on her way up the stairs, she swallowed a fly, before the bottom of her grocery bag falls out and spills her groceries on the floor.
Sheldon becomes distracted from playing Age of Conan by Penny, who accidentally tried to use her car key to open her apartment door. Penny frustrated and crying in the hallway. Penny is at a low point in her life and goes geeky when Sheldon gets her addicted to online gaming.